Sarah Palin made me pay

I have only Gov. Sarah Palin to blame for loosening a whopping $10 from my wallet this morning, which I gave to the Obama campaign.

In almost 50 years, I've never done such a thing. Oh sure, I've rooted for my side of the fight, but with so many campaign millions, I never felt tempted to throw my pennies in such an overwhelming pot.

Until last night.

Nothing persuaded me that she and Sen. John McCain would extend the Bush term for another four years like Palin's debate performance last night.

Simply because the bar was set so low by her previous TV experiences, anything other than declaring war against Canada was guaranteed to be a wild success on her part.

I laughed out loud when, during halfway through a debate where neither her opponent nor the moderator had challenged one thing she said or directed one attack at her own bizarre career, she said she liked this kind of TV, where she gets to talk to "the people" without those pesky news folks making her explain herself.

You betchya. That's Sweet Polly Palin's kind of TV, where she can run roughshod over the facts and give it a wink and a smile.

Talk about more of the same. It's the same anti-intellectual smarmyism that George Bush brought to the table eight years ago. That man lowered the intelligence bar for president so low, that now Six-Pack Sarah looks like a vast improvement over the last GOP pick.
In looking at the polling from last night, I'm relieved that an overwhelming number of Americans could see that Sweet Polly Palin is no more ready to take the office of veep than she is to answer questions for real reporters. Still, unbelievably, a whopping one-third of those polled gave her high marks for her looks and personality. Like this is some kind of beauty pageant or TV talent show.

Oy!

Wake up, America. We don't need a bunch of GOP bowling buddies running the country. We don't need another four years of handing over the reins of the country to Big Oil and Big Insurance and Big Brother. We don't need someone who admits that she's only been at this darned ol' vice-presidential thing for five weeks, less time than it takes to make a batch of beer in the closet.

So, please, Sen. Obama, take my ten bucks and re-rerun parts of that debate where she says with a wink that she'd look into that global warming thing and get back to ya. Run the parts in the debate where she says Obama's push for diplomacy is "naive" and "dangerous." Run the parts where Palin winks and says she's gonna work on that rascally McCain and change his mind about drillin' for oil in what she considers to be just another vacant lot in Alaska that the rest of us call the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Notice how that last word is "REFUGE." Run the part of the debate where she doesn't even understand that she did in Alaska what Obama wants to do for all Americans, increase taxes on Big Oil so we can lower taxes for the middle class. Show America over and over, that she doesn't get, that she just doesn't get it — just like Poor George.

And for God's sake, teach Sweet Polly Palin to parrot something new or just give this odd bird a cracker.