No, Really, This Next One Counts

I admit it... I hope to wake up and find out the vice-president thing was all a dream.

On the Republican side, I think John McCain's choosing of Sarah Palin as running-mate was not only very vindictive and 1st-grade (look at me, look at me!), but a major insult to women. If McCain has an IQ of more than 4, he knows that the local dogcatcher would have been more qualified to be vice-president of our country than Miss Moosejaw 2008. This means he is counting on women who supported Hillary to vote for him now just because a woman is on the ticket, even though she is against everything Hillary stood for. This, my friends, means John McCain thinks women are stupid as fuck. If Eva Braun were still alive, she'd be his running mate.

The jury is out on that where I'm concerned. I used to not think that at all, until I saw the women John McCain is counting on- the "since my gal didn't get in his gal will" idiots who were all over TV when Hillary first conceded. So there are indeed stupid ones. The difference is that McCain thinks most women are stupid. And most men too, for that matter. Do you really want to prove him right by voting for someone a 5-year-old can spot as a stunt? Does she really qualify as Vice President because she's likely to shoot someone in the face? Is that all it takes now? (And the Russia thing. I can see a bank from the end of my street, that doesn't make me a financial expert. That alone almost proves McCain's theory about women being stuuuuuupid, eh?) Regardless, there is no argument for voting out of spite that makes those doing so any less than traitors who should be sent directly to Guantanamo on Real Drowning Day.

My indignation would go down much smoother if it weren't for my own party's VP candidate. My theory, and stay with me on this, is time-related. If Joe Biden, or for that matter anyone else who's been in the Senate or House since the Declaration of Independence was signed, hasn't made a difference by now, he isn't going to. It is disgusting that there isn't a small panel overseeing the legislative branch to keep them from voting themselves outlandish raises, missing half their days at "work" (would your boss keep you if you did that?), getting better health care than Christ, or even losing term limits. No one should be that corrupt for that long if we expect to make it to the next century without modifying our flag to suit the people who take us over. Let's face it, though, Congress has already taken America over. Hasn't been ours for decades. Any oil or pharmaceutical lobbyist has more say in this country than the citizens do.

So okay, I'm sure it was fun, and we all had a good laugh. Now can the candidates go back and pick some real running-mates? America is a big enough joke to the rest of the world already, ya know...