Let’s look at Palin’s many ‘attributes’

Jill E. Thach, Las Vegas

Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 | 2:05 a.m.

Wow! Right-wing conservatives must be very proud these days.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain has become one of their own with his choice of the seemingly unvetted, ultraconservative Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. See him smile with glee at his success in finally gaining their approval with this spunky choice. He is a maverick and a conservative all at once.

Sarah Palin is obviously one of their own, as evidenced by her many conservative talents: She’s a beauty queen, a basketball player, a mother of five and a shooter of firearms. These qualities make her supremely competent to run our country. Remember that she could be but a heartbeat away from the big chair in the Oval Office.

Together these two have dragged into the national spotlight an unwed, pregnant teen. What a moral victory. What a right-wing feast. This high school girl is now the poster child for the neomoral majority, all the while proving the ineptitude of President Bush’s scholastic policy of teaching sexual abstinence rather than sexual education. We should all be so lucky.

Isn’t right-wing political conservatism wonderful?