i'm not sure i can deal with this again

i'll be perfectly honest with you

i was totally cheering against sarah palin last night
for her to trip over her words and make an absolute
hash of her big night

not because i'm sexist
[for the record though i prefer obama i would have voted for clinton with great enthusiasm]

it's only 'cause i think she and her new friend
senator mccain are wrong about nearly everything
[she's always been wrong, he's taken eight years to evolve wrong positions, romney-style]

and frankly i'm tired of the fight we're all about to have

again

it'd have been so much easier if we weren't careening towards another 49-49
deadlock

teetering on the whims of some benighted constituency in a
backassward state like ohio or florida

but it's looking more likely that that'll happen
mccain shored up his own bona fides by hiring a bright-red-state
[smugly born again]
version of your mom

and it's no stretch to say that big parts of the country are going to eat that shit up
the same parts who thought george w bush was a cowboy fighter pilot

and it's going to be left to the despised elites in the cities
the people who pay all the taxes that build the roads and the schools in 'real america'
and get nothing but shit for it
to vote on issues that matter to us
to get us back to the same goddamn tie we've had in the past
because the rest of the country is going to vote for down-home charm (TM) and small-town values
and mom

it's sox-yanks baseball
a slugfest that leaves both sides exhausted and bruised

and don't get me wrong
experience isn't the issue here
intelligence is
intellect
obama [and hillary] and biden are just plain smarter than their opposition
[in my opinion born-again=dumb thank you good night]
experience matters fuck-all when the shit really hits the fan

do you think bush fucked everything up because he was less experienced than al gore
or do you think he was just dumber and listened to people that were
wrong or stupid or both

john mccain might have been a smart guy
might have even been the much-touted maverick once
but like mitt romney
he found his own glass ceiling in his party
and suddenly had to dress the part of a republican
to break through it

but this is all rantings
i'm pissed off at this
pissed off that it's going to come to the equivalent of a coin flip
when we should be talking about ideas
ideas that are provably wrong
ideas that have some merit
and ideas that are great
and seeing who has more of each

i'll leave my dear reader with some substance
i almost want to take time off and go door to door with that in
'real america'
and wait for people to tell me what's wrong with it