If Biden is sworn in, I wish him better health than he appears to have.

But only because it will be a horrible thing if the first woman president is someone who only has a political career because she slept with a guy and then only got on the ticket from rank tokenism. (“It will be a minority woman. Oh, there’s only a couple to choose from? Okay, that one.”)

The first woman president should be elected as president.

I should make it clear: I’d love to have a woman president, but it must be a Republican woman. The big problem is, we don’t have too many charismatic conservative women to choose from, and the ones that we do have don’t necessarily have that presidential quality. Consider: we may have only elected white men so far, but out of thousands of possible white men, there are only a few who are presidential. Thus, we need to have many more female Republicans if we’re going to find that diamond in the rough who could be President.

Democrats pretend to be all about the identity politics, but then they keep voting out our women and minorities. I was really hoping that the magnificent Kim Klacik would be joining the slate of new G.O.P. Congresswomen this next year, but she lost her race. Mia Love was charming as well, but she lost her Utah seat in the 2018 “we hate Trump” landslide.

I liked Sarah Palin even before 2008. She was one of the party’s up and comers. Palin appeared on Craig Ferguson’s show granting him U.S. Citizenship (not really) and he commented on her “sexy librarian” allure. For a long time, I’d regarded John McCain’s selection of her as his running mate as the only good decision he’d made as a politician.

(That’s a pretty good conservative detector right there: When she made her speech at the convention, we fired-up conservatives were asking, “Now, how can we flip the ticket and make McCain the veep?” Meanwhile, the Peggy Noonan milquetoast Republican crowd said, “Ugh, well, this campaign is over.”)

However, I was wrong. Not about Palin, about McCain. Had he not grabbed her so late in the game, she’d have had time to prep. Palin was middle class and had a big family, so she didn’t have a lot of fancy clothes for campaigning. (That’s why we kept seeing the same dress initially. Campaigning in Alaska involves a lot of hats and gloves and coats; not so much in the warmer climes.) Her buying a bunch of clothes right away was immediately used against her. Notice that no word was mentioned about Hillary Clinton’s clothes, given that she had decades to acquire them, and a First Ladyship and a rich, famous husband. And then that stumbling interview (hardly the gentle tongue bath the media would give a woman veep if she were a Democrat) where she was grilled about what newspapers and magazines she reads. Surprise! She reads the Internet and doesn’t really pay attention to which web site she’s on, like the rest of us. Of course, that doesn’t sit well with news broadcasters of a certain age.

Had McCain not plucked Palin before she was ripe, had she stayed on as Alaska governor another term or two, she’d have emerged as a Presidential candidate at the time and place of her choosing. Instead, she was tied to John McCain’s inept candidacy and then returned home only to find that the Democrats weren’t going to leave her alone but instead filed lawsuits against her. She finally quit as governor when she realized she couldn’t give the governorship the full attention it deserved, at which point Democrats harassed her for being a quitter. Typical bullies. They pick on you until you cry, and then they pick on you for crying.

This year, we’ve elected over a dozen new Republican women to Congress, including Colorado’s gunslinging Lauren Boebert.

That’s a start.

I know that the left thinks that Republicans don’t support female candidates. Ask ANY Republican if he’d rather have Joe Biden or an American-born Maggie Thatcher as our president.

FWIW: Kim Klacik should just run for President. Donald Trump proved you don’t need to be a lifelong politician (although he was a man of many accomplishments). Whatever she does, I sure hope she’s able to exploit her talents as a Republican somewhere, somehow. Breaks my heart that she isn’t representing Baltimore.