Dude, Please drop this facade. It's really depressing. You guys are just saying this stuff as a big FU to everybody who is pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.
How about I am saying it because it is true.
New concept for you, but i have always been ahead of the curve.
Forgive me, but i have to get personal with you.
Remember when you asked me what public office was like because your wife was entertaining thoughts of running for the school board or some local office.
She's real, right? Mother of your kid, who is growing up nicely, and soulmate to you.
Would you think it OK for people to treat her anywhere as nasty as they are treating Palin?
Is that what the game has become? Disagree with someone politically, and disembowel them?
WTF kind of country has this become?
Do you not think that Palin has a Benjamin and a Brass and that she took a fork in the road and next thing you know she is running for
VP. That is right, she is not Obama's opponent.
Look. I have talked to a lot of people in elective office over the last few years. And the consistent answer as to why they ran is because they want to leave their city, county or state better than they found it.
This whole thing of politics as blood sport is nonsense. That's just crap from people who don't have alternate solutions to the issues. Present that, let the people decide instead of eviscerating your political opposites.