Palin Chooses The Best Women for the Job

There was quite a bit of buzz about Palin's recent court pick. Personally I couldn't see how it hurt her too much. She didn't use a litmus test in her choice, and that undercuts the ill informed arguments that she was some type of religious extremist. She did what she thought was right, nuff said.

Via Let's Get it Right from the Daily Beast:

Palin's Smart Move

by Elaine Lafferty

.........So yesterday morning the BlackBerry started insistently vibrating across the nightstand, and this time it wasn’t the usual overnight Wall Street Journal alert that the Asian markets were collapsing. No, this was bigger. Gov. Sarah Palin had appointed Morgan Christen, a 47-year-old female judge, to the Alaska Supreme Court, only the second woman to be named to such a position in the 50 years of Alaska’s statehood. But wait! Ms. Christen’s appointment had been opposed by the right wing, opposed by the state’s social conservatives, because Christen was a liberal who had served on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood. The Alaska Daily News headline was “Palin Bucks Pressure in Supreme Court Appointment.”

What did this mean? Was Palin now pro-choice? Or becoming cynically centrist as she plotted her path for 2012? I loved hearing from writer Katha Pollitt, “Cynical and opportunistic is better than a die hard religious fanatic who sticks to her guns no matter what.”) Or Gloria Feldt, former president of Planned Parenthood, who wondered if we might be “witnessing the education of Sarah Palin” even as she doubted it.

So, of course Sarah Palin is not pro choice. But she is now, as governor of Alaska, what she was before the presidential campaign: a pragmatic conservative politician who largely governs from the center. She is opposed to abortion, but it does not inform every decision she makes. Done with playing the good soldier for McCain’s right wing on the campaign trail, she is back to being who she is.

I guarantee any attack on her for "pro-choice" leanings will be encouraged by the media as a means to divide the GOP. She did what was right and anyone who would use this against her in a primary should not be the nominee.