In defense of Palin

First of all, asking what the Vice President does every day is NOT a stupid question, unless I'm the last person to notice a long streak of votes in the Senate that ended in ties. If that were true, we'd be hearing about all the ties Cheney broke over the last eight years.

With that in mind, she'll probably have more time to raise her family as Vice President than she would as governor of Alaska.

Also, we owe her a debt of gratitude for distracting us before we got Obama fatigue.

fuckabee

Mike Huckabee told the story about the class with the missing desks, and how the children had to earn their desks, in order to teach them that it's the veterans that earned it for them. Fwd: Re: FW: Fwd: FW: LOL GLURGE!

If he were serious about the Republicans' small government message, Huckabee would know that the desk was actually "earned" through tax money taken from their parents.

Good speaker, despite the glurge. I'm glad he didn't get nominated, because he's the one who might have been able to keep up with Obama in oratory.

RNC post #2

Giuliani is the first speaker that's making me almost think a McCain presidency wouldn't be so bad, or rather that we're equally screwed either way.

At least until he started using Sarah Palin to mock Obama's imagined mockery.

And also, talking about completely different kinds of freedom than the kinds I'm interested in.

BRB dubyette.

Short, shameful confession #n+1

All this politics is making me a little scared. Even the political humor.

Whether you're trying to get elected, promoting a business, or even trying to attract a mate, it seems the most reliable ways are to instill deep feelings of dread in someone to make them exploitable.

Except, in the case of politics, there's another side to the dread; it's engineered to keep people quiet, or at least to turn their shouting into so much pissing in the wind.