Guest Blogger of the Week

McCain and his lobbyist-heavy campaign team have lobbed the grenade named
Sarah Palin into this year’s political combat. While they will go to great
lengths to protect the young governor from close scrutiny by the press or
Obama/Biden, I think it will be hard to keep her leashed and on script. Her
extreme religious zealotry includes a righteous streak that is clear in her
record in Wasilla and Juneau, and even in the town halls with carefully selected
crowds, I expect she will define herself in ways that will drive up her
negatives in the polls.

But Palin is connecting with some Republicans who were lukewarm about
McCain. On a hot Saturday night, we made mojitos and BBQ for our neighbors Hank
and Gail, who define themselves as low-tax, small government Republicans; they
soured on Bush only in the last year or two, and have the fear of Dems and Libs
you get from regular exposure to Fox News and conservative talkradio. They buy
into the concoction the GOP served up in St. Paul—that McCain and Palin are
peacemongers and reformers, and that the liberal media will try to destroy her.

By GottaLaff

Garry Trudeau rocks:

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By GottaLaff

Elisabeth Hasselbeck takes a shot at Michelle Obama at an event for Cindy McCain in Minneapolis.

What is it with snide, sneering, nasty Republican women? Please feel free to say whatever you'd like in Comments. Paddy and I have done so privately in an IM... unrepeatable here.

By GottaLaff

"Last Blog Standing" starts riiight....now!

Yes, it's time to steal a few more jokes from my father-in-law. For those of you who might be new here, he used to write for Alan King, Milton Berle and Jonathan Winters, just to name a few. And all those Dean Martin Roasts, too: Don Rickles, Red Buttons, Phyllis Diller, Sammy Davis, Jr., etc.

A tiny respite from all the frustrating events of the day:
How will SARAH PALIN have time to do her job if elected Vice President. She's got a four-month-old of her own, she's about to become a grandmother and being partnered with JOHN McCAIN, how many diapers can one woman be expected to change?

You have to admit, she looked very comfortable on the podium. And why not? It was kind of like Alaska. She looked out on the convention floor and there was nothing but white as far as the eye could see.

During her speech we learned that MS. PALIN wants less government interference in our lives except, of course, for abortion, flag burning, immigration, library censorship and the stringing up environmentalists. If she's elected the "West Wing" will go directly to the RIGHT wing.

During her speech she mentioned foreign policy and we learned that everything about the POLICY is FOREIGN to her.

The Vice Presidential choice is now writing a book about how a politician can remain true to her ideals despite the temptation for political gain. It's her first attempt at science fiction.

Is being the Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska enough experience to become the second most powerful person in the world? After all, it's a very small town. The train only stops there once a week, just to laugh.

About freaking time.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton reacts to McCain's new ad repeating the Bridge to Nowhere claim:

Despite being discredited over and over again by numerous news organizations, the McCain campaign continues to repeat the lie that Sarah Palin stopped the Bridge to Nowhere. John McCain has voted with George Bush 90% of the time and he and Sarah Palin will continue Bush's economic policies, his health care policy, his education policy, his energy policy, and his foreign policy. McCain and Palin will say or do anything to make people believe that they will change something besides the person sitting in the Oval Office.

I'm telling you, there are women out there who find her insulting to qualified women.