McCain’s Grand Slam Choosing Sarah Palin

With the selection of Governor Sarah Palin as his vice president, McCain slammed it out of the park. I could not be more pleased to be wrong. (I had predicted Governor Charlie Crist would be McCain’s V.P. pick.) I am also very relieved. McCain did not make the mistake of choosing a pro-choice candidate, a non-starter for many of us evangelical conservatives. Had he done that, I would have supported and voted for Bob Barr in protest. I have never and never will knowingly vote for a pro-choice politician.

Now, I can get on board the McCain Express as a conservative and a woman. Palin is a brilliant selection. She reassures on most all the points that make conservatives nervous: abortion, homosexual marriage, gun rights, taxes, and fiscal responsibility. With her, we can rest easy when she is a heart beat away from the Oval Office.

Palin will be a wondrous witness to women on that touchiest of issues, abortion. Unlike any man and most women politicians who are pro-life, Palin has faced the tough choices women confront when something goes wrong in a pregnancy. Palin made the toughest pro-life choice a woman can make. She knew she was going to bear a baby with Downs’ Syndrome, and she made the right and moral choice for life. No opponent will be able to accuse Palin that she does not know what it feels like to have a crisis pregnancy. She will be able to speak to these women with empathy and moral authority. On this, Palin is an answer to prayer.