Sarah Palin? For Vice President? Seriously?

I'm certainly no expert, but I'm obsessed with reading articles, watching the CNN and Fox News channels as well as dozens of online news sources.

First of all, I think it's almost impossible to know who to vote for since both campaigns are full of misinformation, exaggerations and total distortions. I believe that both McCain and Obama think that they have the country's best interest at heart. Listening to people say that "Obama befriended terrorists" and "McCain wants to hurt middle America". Come on! Do people really believe that?

Sure, it's tough not to use the obvious attack approach since both candidates are now getting nasty with their advertising, but if you're going to vote, I hope you don't base it on hearsay and attack ads. Do some god damn research or stay the fuck home on election day.

I wish choosing a president was a black and white issue. Oh wait, it sort of is. But that's not what I mean.

Anyway, back to Sarah Palin. After everything I've read, what I can definitely tell you about her is that she is a gun toting, moose eating, caribou shooting, hypocritical, religious fanatic, crazy hockey mom.

A couple of quick points to justify some of those comments:

1) In almost all of her speeches she toots her own horn about being against the "Bridge to Nowhere", when in fact she was the largest contributor to the guy who spearheaded the whole thing. She only flip-flopped when it became politically beneficial and she was losing the support of the residents of Alaska.

2) She says that the only form of birth control that should be practiced is abstinence. She is against abortion even in the case of rape or the early knowledge that the child will be deformed or mentally handicapped. Even putting aside the fact that her teenage daughter is pregnant (yep, teaching abstinence at home worked out well for ya didn't it, Sarah), that's just plain stupid. Stupid I tell ya!

3) She has referred to her area of her state as the "Alaska Bible Belt". Like that's a good thing.

4)  After she became mayor, she inquired as to how to ban books from the library because of objectionable content. What the fuck!? I wonder if she ever read Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". Had I not been able to read "Catcher in the Rye" when I was an adolescent, I probably wouldn't have acquired a passion for reading or known about masturbation. :)

5) She's often talking about "less government" when her state is 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,423), and first in federal money received per resident ($13,950).

That's not to say that Obama doesn't distort his opponents' records and enhance his own, but Palin is scary. And I think John McCain chose her because he wanted to ruffle the feathers of the Republican party because they didn't want Joe Lieberman or that other governor guy as his vice presidential nominee. They wanted Mitt Romney. So McCain said, "Fuck you...I'm gonna choose this crazy Alaskan MILF."

That may seem to some like a true "maverick", but personally, I think it's lunatic.

It was fun watching the Republican Convention and seeing all of the party big shots talking to the press, trying to defend and justify McCain's choice, when you know that inside they were thinking that McCain had lost his mind.

It's amazing to me that these leaders of our government (on both sides) actually get on stage before a worldwide audience of millions, and just spew out bullshit.

Now, for what may be a shocker to anyone who knows me, I really like Mike Huckabee. I don't agree with a lot of his ideology, but I find him pretty damned articulate, funny and fair-minded (even when he espousing some of his right-wing views). But, he really blew it in his speech at the RNC. In that speech, he said that Sarah Palin received more votes as mayor of a small town in Alaska than Joe Biden received in his bid for the presidency.

The fact is, Sarah Palin received just over 1,500 votes TOTAL in BOTH of her elections as mayor. Joe Biden, even though he dropped out of the race right after the Iowa Caucus received about 80,000 votes for president.

I strongly encourage everyone, on both sides of the aisle, to frequently visit www.factcheck.org to clarify some of the bullshit flung by both parties.

But I digress...yet again. After Sarah Palin was first named as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate,  there was a surge in the polls for the Republicans, but now that we've had a little time to look at her and what she believes, she seems to nose-diving.

And of course there are the obvious criticisms of McCain for making this choice. He spent an awful lot of time criticizing Obama for his lack of experience, then he chooses a VP candidate who was mayor of a town with a smaller population than abandoned ghetto Eldorados in San Diego. (Yep, I too can be politically incorrect.)

What happened to McCain's straight talk? Let's just examine these facts which are circulating around the internet, then move on to the issues:

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School.
Palin attended five small colleges before graduating.

Obama spent three years as a community organizer, become the first African American President of the Harvard Law Review, created a voter registration drive that registered 150,000 new voters, spent 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, eight years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, became chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spent four years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people and sponsored 131 bills, and he served on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees.

Palin was a local weather girl, spent four years on the city council, six years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 residents and 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people.

Another fact that I found interesting is how McCain relentlessly criticized Obama early in the campaign for his desire to apply a windfall-profits tax on the big oil companies..yet he chose a running mate who has already  implemented that tax in Alaska.

Then, let's look at the celebrity issue. McCain ran some very negative (and rather absurd ads) equating Obama with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears...then picks a running mate who is quickly made into the biggest celebrity in the world.

All other issues aside, I' have much more confidence in Obama's choice in a running mate than in McCain's. Especially if they somehow end up with the big job.

I invite anyone to watch any of the (very) few interviews she's been allowed to give and tell me that you have confidence in her potentially being the leader of the free world. Seriously.

My favorite line from a celebrity was when Matt Damon said that this whole thing is like a bad Disney movie: "Hockey Mom Becomes President". I think Kurt Russell should play the First Man.

When it comes to McCain, he's starting to Palin comparison. (Pun intended.)

Now, forget all this crap and go visit Click On Comedy or Cell Phone Reality TV.