Was There Any Good News Today? You Betcha!

Regarding my last post, it seems Sarah Palin does know how to make dough rise. Rich Lowry, the ageless, conservative boy wonder at NRO sounds like he beat himself numb after Sarah Palin started winking at the debate. Also, on Keith Olbermann's "worst persons" segment, he mentioned a couple of talk radio morons in Minnesota who had an on-air jerk-off session about her. Personally, I find Sarah Palin somewhat nauseating, though this has less to do with her physical traits than with her repellent conduct in the campaign; and the whole "you betcha," moose hunting, hockey mom persona ranks about as low as baseball and algebra on my libido scale. But there you have it, a bunch of conservatives are panting like fourteen year-olds who've discovered Dad's hidden Playboy collection in the garage. It proves that Sarah Palin is supremely qualified to be a calendar model for Budweiser or MacTools, not VP. It's also more encouraging evidence that the McCain campaign is slipping rapidly into rigor mortis. Really, is that all you guys got, a ditsy vice-presidential candidate whose only qualification for the job is that she titillates the Cro-Magnon base of the Republican party?

McCain has basically conceded Michigan. He's down in Virginia, North Carolina and Iowa, and he has to send Palin to campaign in friggin' Omaha a month before the election. That's a definite rearguard action that signals code red, blood red. And all they've got is Palin's dubious sex appeal and Obama's possible connection to who, what? The Weather Underground? What the fuck is that? Is that the group that starred Patty Hearst or Angela Davis? I can't recall because when they terrorized our country I was in elementary school, just like Obama. But trust me, the swelling legions of unemployed Americans want to know. It will give them something to discuss around the fire at night in their tent cities. Is there a word stronger than pathetic to describe the McCain campaign?

So despite this dismal day when civilization seems to be crumbling, there is something to be hopeful about. The American people just might be having one of those occasional outbreaks of good sense that dot our history. And let's hope so, because if we don't we may not ever have the opportunity again.