Cranky or not after Thursday night’s debate between the Angry Housewife of Wisteria Street and Galloping Joe Biden the campaign will essentially be over. Unless Joe falls off the stage or calls her a vile name, the entire nation will just see the strange sight of a vapid, light-weight politico who apparently watches Russian planes fly over her desk.

I have a feeling that the debate will not come off as planned. Either there will be a hurricane or economic panic or some other event that will cause it to be postponed—indefinitely while Sarah Palin flies to the rescue on her magic carpet. The only chance McCain has is to dump her back in the frozen north and get someone who could really stand in for him if something untoward happened—and it’s to late for that. Thank goodness!

Good for Hillary. Now if she could just chain Bill to his dog house!

Years ago I thought that the electorate would never fall for someone as lame as George Bush. Well, color me stupid. Not once, but twice they put that jerk within stealing distance of the elections and he ripped them both off (with the help of the Supremes). Imagine what a different world we would be living in if Al Gore hadn't been sandbagged!

Now we have Grandpa Pettipoo running with Sarah Starburst and unless a lot of people get off their duffs and vote we will have worse than the same. McCain is behaving as if he’s lost his marbles! Sarah Palin is a scary Trojan Moose.

If you’re sitting around worried about your home or job you’d best get cracking and start working for real change. Four more years of this crew will have us solidly in a depression and endless war, and if you don’t go to a church on Sunday (an approved gathering) you may well find yourself burned at the stake.

Rebecca Traister nailed it!

Mrs. Palin is obviously intelligent, attractive in a kind of Ma Kettle way and she is forceful to the point of brazen. This does not automatically make her presidential material. America has millions of women with fantastic qualities, but also with education and experience much more suited to the job of running a nation in trouble.

I do not want a hockey mom or Joe Sixpack a heartbeat away from the presidency. I certainly do not want an *awe shucks* beauty contestant dealing with heads of foreign and sometime hostile governments. Heaven forbid this woman would ever be in a position to name Supreme Court justices. This woman who charges victims for rape kits!

Does anyone really think that Mrs. Palin is worthy to be second in line to a possible president with a history of medical problems? We’ve had eight years of Bush and his on the job training and look where it got us. Do any except GOP wanks think the American voters are stupid enough to want four more years of this? There is no swimsuit competition in an election, but Mrs. Palin has come close to adding one. What a travesty her elevation is.

It’s been said over and over again that tapping a shallow, uneducated person like Sarah Palin to be in one of the most important offices in the world shows John McCain’s cynicism and desperation. I think it shows more than that. I think his choice of a running mate brings into question his mental health. Do we want a mentally ill or senile president and Miss Congeniality running the nation when the very fabric of our culture is fraying? When people are wondering about their retirement investments? When we are in an endless war?

John McCain is honor bound (if he has any left) to release all of his health records or else he must be cast aside once and for all. His behavior of the past two months would seem to indicate some kind of personal disconnect. He is behaving like an action figure when what we really need is a plan and a certain amount of somber reflection. Sarah Palin is acting as if she just can’t wait to get John McCain out of the way.

It’s amazing how many people that write on these sites can barely hide their racism. They might use all sorts of code words or make comments about intellect or somebody’s church, or their hometown and neighborhood, even their name, but what it comes down to is pure unmitigated racism dressed up as discussion. I would have thought by now that all of that kind of hate would have been bred out of our society. Live in hope….

Scary Sarah is a big problem for McCain. I haven’t been as afraid of a woman since I saw “The Bride of Frankenstein” as a child. But even more alarming are the enormous questions of the state of McCain’s mental health. He appears addled, unpredictable and senile. The world is in a huge mess. I don’t want to take a chance on McCain/Palin to guide us in these troubled times or ever for that matter. Cold-blooded Sarah would gleefully step over McCain’s dead body to get into the Oval Office. Then what?

Sinclair Lewis said, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

Is fascism’s name Sarah Palin? Is she still speaking in tongues? Are there still witches in Silly, Alaska?

Now we see McCain for the empty suit, Keating Five creep he is and Palin for the mouthpiece who knows nothing about what she’s saying. McCain may be excused because he’s obviously senile. Sarah Palin is just another GOP liar who wants to win American Idol. It’s too bad that Joe and Jane Sixpack didn’t wake up before thousands were murdered in Iraq. It took reaching for their wallets to get their attention. Awake now? Lovin’ it?