You know, I have dinner with my family, send my oldest son off back to his dorm, bathe and put my 6 year old daughter to bed, crash for the evening after taking in part of a baseball game and watching the 1st installment of the John Adams mini-series, get up, go to work and just before I get ready to leave, I turn to Salon and lo and behold your all still goin' at it! What fun!

Raise up, you're doing a yeoman's job of attempting to reason with our good friend Teleologicus who must be exasperated at our collective ignorance regarding his pet thesis regarding the regrettable nature of today's youth and their lack of -I'm getting lost here but I think he's talking about education and/or maturity?! All I know is that someone doesn't measure up and it's our fault for nominating Obama? Am I right? Not sure. I hope he continues his dissertation because I certainly do want to know how I don't measure up because really, our republic CANNOT continue if in fact it is populated by the likes of us!!!

Please oh, Teleologicus perhaps you and your good friend Wackus Maximus could but perhaps put your misgivings in layman's terms, so lofty is your rhetoric, so decorous is your language, so circuitous thine logic but yay, how I do praise your ability with Wikipedia and you have truly mastered the art of copy/paste.

I've heard a couple of pundits, (I assume as a kind of backhanded compliment), say that although "unqualified", Ms Palin would possibly be a political force to be reckoned with for years to come. Really? I know a lot of energy has been spent examining the Sarah phenomena and it's been fun but her brand is really, really fading as she becomes associated with a floundering campaign and her true worth (to McCain), comes into sharp relief. It seems that, removed from the dynamics of this political race, she's a nonentity. Consider her "Boy Howdy" charm outside the confines of a desperate campaign where she was essentailly used as a red herring, a trojan horse or an Obama doppelganger, ("See , we got our own minority right here!") Left to her own devices, on the sidelines, are we really gonna go to Ms Palin to hear her folksy take on, for instance, the situation in Darfur? Unless she's suddenly able to speak convincingly and at some length about a variety of important topics , I'm afraid that her folksy, wink-wink schtick will have suddenly a very short shelf-life indeed. I'm afraid her MILF appeal would just vanish if she suddenly became, dare I say, statesman-like in her bearing as she delivered dry policy speeches about her special topic, energy. Face it, as long as she's not seen as some kind of finger-in-the-eye- of-the democrats- game changer, she's pretty uninteresting fodder for discussion. And let's not forget her special appeal to the adolescent sexual appetite of the republican boy's club. What's she pushing, like 45? In 4-5 years her "freshness" quotient is gonna be down considerably. Perhaps she can become a reality show contestant- oh, that's right. She IS one. Didn't she win the "I can Be Persident, TOO!," sweepstakes? You know, I give the Palin Phenom a thumbs down overall. She is last week's news. She is the flavor of the month. She is Boooring!

Maybe when all is said and done she can make a reoccurring appearance on "Desperate Housewives". Todd can play the "Pool Boy". Then he can have an expanded role as more than a cardboard cutout standing behind John Mccain...

No taxes. Check.

No taxes. Got it.

oh, and no taxes. uh-huh.

...Because we don't want no socialist welfare state. Okay.

Anything else? Oh yeah support the troops.

By appealing to the most extreme ends of the base they have painted themselves into a corner where their candidates are caricatures and their platform nothing more than a series of wedge issues that promote the fake culture wars we think that we're "discussing" currently. They've become such a joke, their presidential candidates looked like the Seven Dwarves. Hint: McCain is Grumpy. But hey, now they've got Snow White!!!

and their PROMISING to raise my Taxes?? OmiGod! Sign me up!

It's on Daily Kos (a lefty site so beware-there may be subliminal terrorist messages hidden within).

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/21/164117/783/290/461422

right on. The whole Republican ethos boiled down to it's essence. 'nuff said.