Bloody hell! Sue's gone into Marathon overdrive on this topic! (It was a good exchange of ideas/complaints until Cheeseboy (Jostopheles) decided to waste electrons with his usual bullshit.)
Palin is cute, talks well, has some accomplishments that suggests a good platform for the rest of the campaign, but there's one small problem...
Insane McCain is still at the top of the ticket. She'd be the VP, while that cranky, insane Ultimate Washington Insider with a globe-sized chip on his shoulder would be President. He's got the nerve to steal Barack Hussein's "change" mantra for himself, but that's crazy talk!
I mean, just by herself, Palin is change from Washington business as usual. But would she wield the sort of power over Insane McCain the way people claim Dick Cheney lords it over George W.? Unlikely. Anyway, Limbaugh always states something like, "once those elected officials get to Washingon, something happens to them. They start having lunches with journalists, start rubbing elbows with certain activists, and soon they're unrecognisable." Palin's just sweet enough to be duped by the Insiders.
As for Barack Hussein, everything I said about Palin holds true, only he's in the top slot and already affected by the Insiders. He's in fact one of them, what with his charter membership with the CFI and other high-life drinking clubs in Washington.
His bullshit mantra of "change" got flushed to the four winds the moment he announced Biden as his running mate. Biden is to Washington what those statues are to the Charles Bridge in Prague (right, Johnny?)
So what the fuck's my alternative?
I'm looking at Libertarian candidate Bob Barr as my choice for President... I guess.
Notice my enthusiasm? Its because his campaign is a shambles, his own supporters are exclusively people as pissed as I am, devoid of true devotion to the candidate, and divided against the Libertarian Party, which itself is a club for philosophically challenged ideologues. (Picture that one!)
Still, he's got the best platform of the three, is smarter than the other two, and, as a lame-duck right from the moment he's sworn into office, the SAFEST President we'd have.
Unfortunately, his campaign reports about $800,000 in donations. That appears to be what Insane McCain and Barack Hussein get every single day.
Giant corporate and national interests seem to have no problem hyper-funding the two parties in spite of that scrap of paper called, what, The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform?
To quote Aretha Franklin in "The Blues Brothers:"
Shiiiiiiittttttt...
Jurched