A Wal-Mart Mom?

One thing McCain undoubtedly had in mind was Obama’s failure to pick Hillary Clinton. As The Times’s Patrick Healy reported Friday, “If the election remains close, the next president could very well be picked by what Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist, calls ‘Wal-Mart Moms’ — white working women with children living in the exurbs and in rural parts of battleground states. ...”

McCain didn’t just pick a politician who could appeal to Wal-Mart Moms. He picked a Wal-Mart Mom. Indeed, he picked someone who, in 1999, as Wasilla mayor, presided over a wedding of two Wal-Mart associates at the local Wal-Mart. “It was so sweet,” said Palin, according to The Anchorage Daily News. “It was so Wasilla.”

A Wasilla Wal-Mart Mom a heartbeat away? I suspect most voters will say, No problem. And some — perhaps a decisive number — will say, It’s about time.

-- William Kristol for The New York Times

Yeah, but would Kristol be taking this happy line if we were talking abot a Wal-Mart who was pro-choice, and who was in favor of more governmentment money for public education and health care, as well as anti-Iraq war, not to mention raising the minimum wage? which are positions that I suspect are more common to these Wal-Mart moms. Yes, this is a rhetorical question.

A Wal-Mart Mom?

One thing McCain undoubtedly had in mind was Obama’s failure to pick Hillary Clinton. As The Times’s Patrick Healy reported Friday, “If the election remains close, the next president could very well be picked by what Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist, calls ‘Wal-Mart Moms’ — white working women with children living in the exurbs and in rural parts of battleground states. ...”

McCain didn’t just pick a politician who could appeal to Wal-Mart Moms. He picked a Wal-Mart Mom. Indeed, he picked someone who, in 1999, as Wasilla mayor, presided over a wedding of two Wal-Mart associates at the local Wal-Mart. “It was so sweet,” said Palin, according to The Anchorage Daily News. “It was so Wasilla.”

A Wasilla Wal-Mart Mom a heartbeat away? I suspect most voters will say, No problem. And some — perhaps a decisive number — will say, It’s about time.

-- William Kristol for The New York Times

Yeah, but would Kristol be taking this happy line if we were talking abot a Wal-Mart who was pro-choice, and who was in favor of more governmentment money for public education and health care, as well as anti-Iraq war, not to mention raising the minimum wage? which are positions that I suspect are more common to these Wal-Mart moms. Yes, this is a rhetorical question.