A Hillary supporter ponders Palin (Idaho Mountain Express)

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By MISSY VOTEL
Writers On The Range

... Evidently, Palin's just a regular Wild West frontierswoman, who wears North Face and is ready to slay dinner at a moment's notice. But deep down, under that rawhide exterior, she's still savvy enough to put on lip-liner in the rear-view mirror, text simultaneously on two Blackberries and run the caribou slalom while driving herself to work in the dark. Talk about walking on water. This woman isn't just a fresh, new face, she's a modern-day Joan of the Arctic. I've always loved a multi-tasker.

So why am I so, so unconvinced? Sure, she can give a rousing speech with that "steely resolve" that I admire so much. But I can't help noticing a 300-pound elephant in the room (no, not Karl Rove.) Sarah Palin is a working mother with five kids, including an infant with special needs. If you throw in the grandbaby on the way, which will surely come under granny's care assuming her daughter plans on finishing high school, that makes six. And they're supposed to be raised by whom? Snowmo dad? I know he's the equivalent of some sort of Alaskan superhero, but not even Superman could fight his way out from underneath that much dirty laundry.

Although I am highly skeptical of how she'll juggle her personal and professional life, I wish her the best of luck. However, I do find the way she juggles her political views to be a bit troublesome. If she is such a champion of the modern woman, then why is she threatening to blast us back to the 1950s with out-dated, conservative ideologies? If she is such a supporter of family values, why is she willing to sacrifice our sons' lives for oil and veto our daughters' rights to choose when and whether to have a child? And if she truly loves her home state, why has she proposed plundering a wildlife refuge and delisting the poster child of global warming, the polar bear?

Something about her story just doesn't add up, and I'm not buying it. If you do, I've got a bridge in Alaska I'd like to sell you.

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