sarah palin

The election is two months from yesterday. We will soon be rid of the jackass who came into the presidency appointed by five supreme court justices. They made a mockery of the democratic system – stopped the recount and then ruled that it could have gone forward but alas, the deadline had passed.

This Palin woman makes me very nervous. Her picture with him on the official McCain website is the photo from her governor website – they didn’t even get a picture taken together. Leaning into the camera, she wears a beehive hairdo, tailored suits with cinched waists, rimless glasses with dark arms, and yes, she looks like a Tina Fey parody of someone. Her five children all under 19 are supposed to be attended to only on her terms (look, I have a big happy family) and not in any sense of reality (17 year old pregnant daughter not exactly a poster child for abstinence only sex ed in school). Her record is malicious – she fires, or has fired, anyone who gets in her way (including a state trooper who used to be married to her sister). She lies and twists facts, as do they all, about the things she brags about – yes she turned down the bridge to nowhere, but she kept the funding. She is a barracuda. But one problem is that in this misogynistic world it remains difficult to debate a woman. And Joe Biden has a big mouth. He will need special training and have to be exceptionally careful. It’s so easy to look like a bully, and she will milk that for everything she can. She is almost more frightening than McCain, if only because of her severely limited experience. No foreign policy experience, even though she is governor of the state closest to Russia – and you cannot run the state department like a small town in Alaska. I have, yes – literally , been having nightmares about her.