Commentary: Sarah Palin’s Pick as V.P. Shows that the GOP’s Just Fine with Selective Affirmative Action

By: Tonyaa Weathersbe

It’s hard to look at the Sarah Palin craze and not see racial hypocrisy.

Especially if you happen to be black.

Since John McCain plucked the 44-year-old Palin from the Alaska tundra to be his vice-presidential running mate, the party that has spent much of the past two decades building part of its platform on the bones of affirmative action seems to be trying to resurrect it for her.

But only for her.

Palin has been governor of Alaska for less than two years. Before that, she was mayor of a town where fewer than 9,000 people lived -- and which she left in debt. It took her five years and four schools to finally get a college degree.

And she and her aides continue to intimate that being able to see Russia from Alaska’s islands somehow magically imbues her with foreign policy insight

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