You cannot be serious. Oh, wait. You are.

Didya hear?

The saying ‘lipstick on a pig’ is sexist.  Questioning the experience of a VP candidate is sexist if the candidate is female (and a Republican, just you hush up Geraldine Ferraro).  Sarah Palin told Congress to put their ‘bridge to nowhere’ money up their butt.  If you can see a foreign country from your state, you have foreign policy experience.

Well, did you know all of that?  John McCain said it, and he is a war hero so it must be true.  I could go into how ridiculous these statements are.  Or I could go on about how sad it is that our media thinks reporting lies and crap equals being balanced.  I could but this misses the point.  While we are talking about this crap, we are wasting our chance to examine the people running for the two tops jobs in the country.  We are in a war, our economy is tanking, the environment is a mess and we are talking about hockey moms. 

Every time I see a new headline about this stuff I have to ask, are these people serious?  The problem is that they are.  Very.  I look at this coverage and see it for what I think it is: the GOP playing the game the way they know how but there are people who buy into it. Their response is “Quit picking on good, decent, God-fearing Sarah.  She’s just as qualified as Obama.  Country first!”   If you really put the country first, you would vote for someone new.  Even if you don’t agree with Barack Obama on anything, can’t you at least admit that your side had a shot and now it is someone else’s turn. This is a democracy after all.

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