arah Palin is a black woman.   Needless to say: I am just making that up.  But let us suppose for a moment that is a black woman.  Then the Left would almost certainly not have much nasty to say against her.  Why?  Because there would be the specter of racism.  And as we now, the Left will trip over itself to avoid even the very possibility of appearing racist.  I should say here that this holds for the members of the Left who are white.  For while blacks have often had a field day criticizing this or that conservative blacks, such as Condoleezza Rice, most whites on the Left have kept their mouths shut. 

So if Sara Palin were black, there would be utter silence on the part of a great many who are on the Left with regard to whatever inadequacies she might have.  This silence has operated with Barack Obama, which the following example should marvelously illustrate.

It is unimaginable to me that the parents of my white students would think that I would make a suitable professor for their children if I had spent 20 years attending a church that spewed nothing but venom against whites.  Why, I would clearly be seen as bitter person full of hatred, and thus unfit to be a good mentor for their children.  And that assessment would strike me as absolutely correct.  This makes it an utter mystery to me that whites on the Left do not make precisely that assessment of Barack Obama with regard to whether or not he would make a good president of the United States.

If bitterness is an impediment to being a good professor, then it seems to me that it would be an impediment to being a good president.  And if a 20-year membership in a church that spewed nothing but venom against whites does not warrant the charge that one is a bitter person, then nothing does. 

So if Sarah Palin were black, the Left would be tripping over itself to extol her virtues.  Insofar as she was thought to lack sophistication, that would be seen as an asset.  Likewise, her lack of experience would be seen as an asset.  For her absence of sophistication and experience would be seen as serving as a conduit for a fresh perspective on issues, no matter what the issues might be. 

So while McCain clearly upset the apricot in choosing a woman for a running mate, it is obvious that he did not fully think this one through; for if he had chosen a black women to be his running mate, then the Left would clearly have abandoned Obama. 

Her qualifications or the lack thereof would have been simply irrelevant.  Why, she could have been a prostitute and the Left would have found a way to turn that into a virtue—a political asset even.  We know this because we know that the Left is convinced that Obama has more than enough experience to run the United States.   

It is not too late.  All Sarah Palin has to do is get a black ancestor and she can lay claim to blackness.  And that is not all that difficult to do.  And if she has trouble finding a black ancestor, then a Latino one will surely do.  I think that she ought to float the idea for no other reason than to mess with the mind of those on the Left.  This, of course, would be utterly mean and nasty.  But in this election, at any rate, the Left has made meanness and nastiness its raison d’être.