I'm beginning to think that I have that wrong. I must have dropped into a coma last week. While I was unconscious John McCain appears to have disappeared in a puff of smoke, or something. In any case, he doesn't seem to have been heard from since Friday morning. And this Palin woman has stepped in as the nominee.
And now everyone is obsessed with how Obama will run against Palin.
Now why this is a concern for anyone, I don't know. After all, there are plenty of problems with her. For starters, there's the troopergate abuse of power scandal, which is echoed by her record as mayor of firing people because she just didn't like them. That's not the kind of record I look for in a "reformer." In fact, it looks a lot like what we have now. Not completely loyal to Palin? You're fired! I've seen that before.
She's being sold as a conservative, but leaving a small town with $20 million in debt (that's $3,000 per person) does not sound terribly conservative to me. Oh and then there's her extremist position on abortion. No exception for rape or incest? That's way outside the mainstream. Oh, and did I mention she has no clue what a vice president does?
All of these sound like rich veins to mine. If Obama was running against her. Which he isn't. His opponent is named John McCain.
Please get that people, John McCain is the one we must beat in November. Palin is a distraction. She is a nine day wonder. She won't deliver the election. She also won't cost the election.
John McCain will win or lose.
Barack Obama will win or lose.
America will win or lose.
If John McCain wins, we all lose. Because we will not have four more years of the Bush administration. Even they seem to have finally realized that they bit off more than they could chew in Iraq and are seeking ways to get out. Not John McCain.
Even the Bush administration has, so far, decided that it is fool-hardy to attack Iran. Not John McCain.
Even the Bush administration doesn't think that the wealthy need more tax cuts. Not John McCain.
So while the rest of you work yourself into a frenzy over Palin, I am going to follow the lead of Barack Obama and focus my energy on defeating John McCain. Because we can't afford for the next four years to be worse than the last eight.
Enough!