Whos Running for President, McCain or Palin?
My one-week love affair with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, is officially over. She’s no longer charming. Her relentless sarcasm is derogatory and mean-spirited. And, she’s dangerous. The smart girl glasses are, like her, a sham, and that Fargo voice now sounds like nails on a chalkboard. To be honest, most of my previous adoration centered around my expectation that the appointment of this political lightweight would be a cancer to the ticket. Instead, I now believe she’s Sen. John McCain’s meal ticket. Incredibly, this election has become all about her, not him, and if Sen. Barack Obama and the Dems don’t get their shit together fast and strip away the layers of this vacuous onion, Palin just might be the reason McCain wins in November. Once again, Republicans are distracting voters away from the real issues–the war, Afghanistan, the economy, health care–and framing the entire campaign around the fact that Palin’s a small town, socially conservative,
