Why I love/hate politics

Sarah Palin showed America tonight that she's ready to join the battle. It's just a shame that she did so by continuing the belittlement of someone's experience as a community organizer in an extremely low income neighborhood of Chicago. I am the last person to use the "experience" argument on either side of this year's election. But to use rhetoric to disparage someone who did work within his community is more of the same for the Republicans. Each time an election rolls around, I try to convince myself that they won't use the same ridiculous tactics that they've used in every election I have followed. Instead, they continue to prey on the fears of Americans in trying to convince them that the Democrats either can't keep this country safe or don't even care about doing so.

That being said, the Democrats now have a wealth of ammunition to go at her and John McCain. You want to claim that being a mayor and a governor gives you more executive experience than Barack Obama? Then you have to admit that it also makes her more experienced than John McCain. You want to talk about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere? Be ready for the media to dispute every word that you've said on the subject (and they've already begun). You want to talk about taxes in a borderline intellectually dishonest way? Expect the terms "ethics investigation" and "Trooper-Gate" to pop up here and there. Joe Biden is probably foaming at the mouth as we speak waiting to respond to her criticisms and I know that Plouffe and Axelrod will be ready.

My friends, I have no personal issues with Sarah Palin. I disagree completely with some of her policies concerning homosexual marriage and a women's right to choose, but I don't think she is a bad person. Keep her family out of this as I couldn't care less about her 17 year old daughter. However, as I already said, she is a political Hail Mary and she will be defended as such. To use a football analogy, what are you supposed to do when a team throws up a Hail Mary? You knock the ball down. That's all I'm saying. Good night.