Can we use our brains for just a minute - those of us who have one?

The McCain campaign has done everything imaginable to get you to disengage your brain in this election. Actually, the Republicans do it every four years, but this time they upped the ante by nominating a total ignoramus as vice president (they did it once before with Quayle and I thought nobody could top him but at least he didn't say he was a foreign policy expert because you could see Canada from Indiana.).

I find myself completely gobsmacked by the enthusiasm for this empty-headed woman. Are we going to have to start telling dumb brunette jokes? Because she is a joke. She knows nothing about anything and we are supposed to think she's an appropriate candidate because she gave birth to a Down syndrome baby and has a pregnant, unmarried teenage daughter? Really? I mean really?

Here's two of her recent statements:

On earmarks:

If its something that Alaskans really want and support, which at this point they are not willing to support to such an extent that we'll pay for it ourselves, we better kill the project 'cause we know that the rest of the nation isn't going to pay for it.

On oil:

Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first... So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.

Huh? Neither of these statements makes any sense, even if you try really hard to figure them out. The woman is an empty vessel who uses fifty words to say something she could say, if she knew what she was talking about, in five. She reminds me of the saying "Shallow brooks are noisy."

I think Sarah Palin does not even realize what deep shit this country is in right now because of her party. She doesn't realize that we have spent nearly $1 trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) in Iraq and will spend the same on this bailout of the investment banks and AIG. She thinks she's running for Class president and she can make faces at and sling smears at her opponent just for the fun of it. The woman is not serious. There aren't enough descriptive words to explain how stupid she is.

John McCain, you should be defeated because you have insulted the intelligence of half of the American people. (The other half are not intelligent enough to be insulted.) But even if only half of the people are insulted, you should still be defeated, because those of us who have a brain do not deserve to be governed by two of the dumbest people on the planet.