I am not so patiently waiting for the day when the GOP realizes that it can’t criticize the democrats for holding it to a double standard when it holds itself to one.

Since Sarah Palin’s arrival on the national political scene, it’s all the Grand Old Party can do.

First, it was criticizing the fact that after it came out Palin’s underage daughter is knocked up she was called a bad mother.

They complained people had played the sexist card and said no man would ever be questioned in such a way, and, at the same time, used the fact that her daughter was pregnant as a political ploy to seem just like everyone else.

While Barack Obama took the high road and asked that his supporters keep their rhetoric off of Palin’s children, less than a week later, Palin used her own children and family life to rally the Republican Party at the convention.

Next, it was Joe Biden’s comment about special needs children. He simply stated that if people care so much about special needs children, they should look into supporting stem cell research.

Less than a week after Palin told her party that, as the mother of a special needs child, she would fight for the rights of others like her son, republicans argued Biden had reached a new low. How dare Biden say his party cares more about special needs children?

Most recently, Obama criticized McCain’s campaign for promising a new kind of politics and trying to sell Obama’s message of change as their own, even though McCain has sided with a majority of the current administration’s policies.

Obama then said you can’t just assume something is different because you say it is and that, “You know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”

Now he’s under fire for being sexist, his opponents saying it was a deliberate comment made to play on Palin’s, “The only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick,” comment.

They failed to mention the fact that McCain used the same phrase in an attack against Hillary Clinton.

Silly John McCain. You can’t accuse someone of playing the gender card when your vice presidential pick was doing just that.

While the comment might have been a little low, however unintentional, it was Palin who initially compared herself to a pit bull and made lipstick references.

In all honesty, I don’t understand how the Republican Party can continuously open doors, walk through them and then criticize their opponents for following them in.

You can’t drag your children into the public eye and get fussy when they aren’t received the way you want them to be. And you most certainly can’t complain when someone uses them against your policies when you turn them into one.

I understand why someone would say children should be off limits when it comes to politics, but I also don’t see how you can run as a proud mother of five, or father of two, and then accuse someone of bringing personal matters into the race.

The truth is, I want to stop hearing about hockey moms and pregnant daughters and hope and change.

I want to know how these people will deal with Iraq or how they will deal with global warming or what they will do about health care.

It’s time to put down the mud, boys and girls. Next time you take a conference call about how to attack the other team, let it be about policy and not about pettiness.