Perhaps the idiots will hold sway until they find themselves each financially destroyed. It may take a deep depression in which these people find themselves jobless, and homeless, before they finally grasp what their priorities should be and how much they are being manipulated because of their inability to employ critical thinking skills.

Like many others, I've been offended by the direction our country has taken under Bush. I held out some faith that given the entirety of the damage the republicans have wrought, there would be no question that your average citizen would embrace change with both hands during this election cycle. That it now seems likely they will not, given how low we've sunk, things are only going to get worse from here on out if McPalin wins. I'm sorry to see my country end up in the hands of thieves and idiots but that's what's likely in store.

Thank goodness I had the foresight to spend a good part of the past four years in the Netherlands. When McPalin wins, I will move there full-time, along with my money, and watch the final fall from a safe and comfortable distance.

If you are a "democratic feminist" I'm Bill Gates. Could you maybe be lying?

If you believe Palin has "experience" that Obama lacks because he wasn't Governor, what do you think about McCain, shares that same lack of "important executive" experience.

Tell me... would you have supported Lincoln? Did he have the required experience for the job?

Do you think Michell Obama is a "strong woman?"

Do you think Barack disrespects her?

Dominatrix? You're just making Palin all the more exciting. You people really don't get it, do you?

While the personality cult that so quickly enveloped Palin is worth analyzing on many levels, to me she is cut from the same mold as Anne Coulter, who I believe has made a career acting out a scripted part. Like Coulter's views, it would be far more worthwhile deconstructing Palin's words and deeds to expose her shallow thinking, dogmatic fundamentalism, and outright lies.

Her appeal to the male right wing really says more about them than about Palin.

Isn't it time for us to get back to the election of the PRESIDENT of the United State. Palin is a distraction from the real issues and strengths of the Democratic ticket. More of this kind of writing and we might as well just hand McCain the keys to the White House. WAKE UP! and get back on track. As long as we obsess on Palin we are letting the Right set the agenda and that will practically guarantee that Republicans will win this election. Yes, Palin has terrible positions, but it's much more important that John McCain does too, yet he is percieved by the public as a moderate. Let's focus people!

I am a ardent Democrat. I always thought Rush Limbaugh was the lowest of the low, not because of his point of view, but because of his sexism, meaness, willingness to say anthing about anyone to make his point, etc. etc. I haven't changed my mind. But I now christen Gary the Rush of the left.

I'll take old "zzzzz" Biden, and I was a Hillary supporter. Still am. Maybe, just maybe, she didn't think that VP was what she wanted. Maybe powerful Kennedy-esque senator's her favorite alternative. Whatever. I kind of LIKE the fact that no big personality issues swirl around Biden. He is smart and knowledgeable and liberal. A "happy" guy. Good enough for boring me. I simply want to get the Republicans the bleep out of the mess altogether. I thought Clinton had the best plans, given the choice of Obama and her. Her being a woman over forty was an added bonus to me. It's her mind I wanted in the office. Silly me. Maybe that makes me not a true feminist? We have a world of sexism and misogyny to address, but for now we have to deal with an election and our children's futures.

This article I don't think does anyone any good. It begs for more of the vitriolic nonsense. But people have the right to say what they choose. It beats screaming at one another and having fist fights.

I loathe Palin because of what she stands for--the Evangelical, ideologically rigid right. As if "small town" values are the only "values" that count? As if every small town is like another??? Republicans' tout America and the fight together. Democrats tout AmeriCANS and work together. At least in this election, there seems to be a clear difference between the two approaches. If anything, Palin clarifies the difference between the two parties. I don't CARE whether or not Obama should have chosen Clinton or whether she WANTED to be chosen. We are where we are and what I care about now is having the person in the oval office who seems to me to have a commitment to issues from a perspective I can support, who has a temperament I can more or less respect and who seems capable of learning and choosing wise counsel. Biden IS wise counsel whether or not he is everyone's preferred choice. I don't know whether he was the most electable choice.

Oh. But he isn't Obama's "Soul mate" so maybe that's a problem. EEEEWWW. The more print space we give to the psychology of the choice of Palin, the more we succomb to the Republican agenda--throw us off what counts.

Maybe it's time we simply stopped worrying about Sarah's womanness and look at her LIFE choices, her POLITICS, her two-faced agendas in Alaska-- which do NOT, by the way, reflect all Alaskans any more than they reflect ALL Republicans or ALL women's. Everybody, as my kids used to say, take a chill pill, and start thinking using our BRAINS.

Dear Author,

All you've told us (with admittedly more than one clever quip) is that you have no conception of how someone can have different views than your own. And of course the old mantle that anyone who votes differently from the truly enlightened (read democrat) must be stupid. Keep going, it's an election loser and we're ready!