as a New Englander, I must correct the record...

Um, we actually lost the Superbowl. Gee, time really does heal...now I can say that without getting physically ill. Now if only we had our quarterback back...sigh...

Lizziebeth, I'm with you. I will spend tonight in the back bedroom with a good book, trying not to hear any of my husband's inadvertent signals as to whether the game is going well for the Sox...(hand clapping, "YES!" all good signs...cursing...not so much).

My theory is that it's because I only became a sports fan late in life. I blame DH. There was a time when I first met him that I had to be dragged to a baseball game, and then asked to leave early because it was "boring," right after a triple play and a grand slam in the same inning (true story).

Today I am rabid. My theory is that DH has been playing subminal tapes to me at night for fifteen years...("You LOVE baseball...it makes you happy...you want to see all of the games on television all season long...")

But I HATE playoff games. Too stressful!

all the polls are showing that negative crap is backfiring all over McCain...so here's some more?

Either his campaign staff are desperately stupid...or just desperate. As for "appealing to the base" (the excuse that's always given for the various atrocities committed by the perky little Alaskan hit girl), why are they so afraid they're going to lose that base?

Surely anyone who thinks Sarah Palin is worth voting for is never, EVER under any circumstances going to vote for Obama, anyway?

No logic here.

but I actually prefer it to Countdown. Sorry, Keith...

The night she eviscerated the churlish and bitchy David Frum with her razor-sharp reasoning without so much as breaking a sweat...goosebump time. Amazing!

Then night she called out Sarah Palin for LYING about the results of Troopergate, I stood up and cheered.

When so many "pundits" are just talking heads regurgitating talking points, and when so many TV hosts are just teleprompter-reading hacks, Ms. Maddow has been nothing short of revolutionary.

Bravo!

ClothingGate.

Every time Ms. Palin "rears her head" in public post-election, her wardrobe will be scrutinized...wasn't that one of the items they bought for her? I thought that was all being donated to charity?

This election can't be over soon enough.

throughout the campaign. Why start now?

It also has faint overtones of the "arrogant black man" theme song...get those racists to the polls, by God!

It's too late now...at least I so hope it is...but if these two clowns had spent half as much time telling the electorate what they have to offer as they have on attacking Obama, they just might be doing a whole lot better.

Knuckleheads.

Sorry, Joan, you're a really nice person, but your sympathy is wasted energy.

Let's put it this way...have you ever in your life applied for a job and not researched absolutely everything you could get your hands on before the interview? Didn't you try to understand the job description and the state of the company/industry for which you were applying?

Of course. Most thinking, intelligent people do exactly that. Instead, Sarah Palin has such a monstrous, sociopathic ego that she figures she can wink and bullshit her way through and that it doesn't matter.

She wants to be president of the United States. Commander-in-chief. Leader of the Free World. And this is a person who can't name a single newspaper that she reads?

Gimme a break.

And if you're still troubled, I offer the following: "I'm so pleased to have been completely cleared of any legal or ethical wrongdoing."

Wrong. She's the worst of Bush/Cheney in a shinier package. She'll say anything or do anything to get what she wants.

I can't wait until she's gone from the national scene.

personally, I believe it's entirely possible that the Palinite camp will view this as a positive for Sarah.

Remember, there's a big fat rift between the running mates. Her "know it all" wink could be perceived as exactly that. "He's a boob, but Sarah knows it all."

Look, I hate the woman with the heat of a thousand suns but if I put my old advertising copywriter hat on, this could be one of those ads that you could easily draw divergent conclusions based on your own bias.

Besides, I don't like Obama even acknowledging the woman's existence. He's done a marvelous job treating her as a non-entity, why start now?

really, really want to adopt Rachel Maddow. She's searingly bright, quick-witted, funny and kind. Anyone who can manage to get along with Pat Buchanan while he continues his fantasy love affair with Palin night after night has the patience of a saint, yet somehow Rachel stays respectful to him.

I didn't know anything about her until I wiki'd her. Apparently she's the first openly gay Rhodes scholar in history...and she got her DOCTORATE at Oxford.

That is one spectacular woman, for all of the right reasons. I can't even watch Keith any more because he's even madder than I am, which isn't at all good for my health, so I just watch Rachel instead.

She's the best part of this long, worrisome, wearisome election for us.