The Fall of Rome

Stand back, people. We are witnessing the fall. Has anyone watched Idiocracy? Because I believe it may be coming to pass. The next reality tv show? Sarah Palin makes it to the White House. Who could have imagined this election would provide so much fodder for the Jerry Springer show? And did anybody get a load of that picture of the McCain and Palin families on the cover of People?

And how about this quote from the Huffington Post?

Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said that he had heard no discussion about removing Ms. Palin from the ticket. In fact, he said, he thought her daughter's pregnancy would not hurt her with voters.

(Wait for it - here's the good part!)

"People are looking for real," he said in an interview. "Real means blemishes, real means warts, real means real. These family imperfections make people say, 'That family isn't so different from my family.'"

Yep. That's what I'm looking for in the White House - just a regular Joe, like me.

Oh - and hey - where is the McCains' other daughter? The only picture I've seen her to date in this election was one in The Huffington Post. What's up with that? To give them the benefit of the doubt, I told myself that she must not be there - maybe she was away at school or something and they were strict about education. But there she is, right there at the convention. I wonder how she feels about that. I've seen a hundred pictures of Trig sleeping to this one picture of her - the first one I've ever seen, btw. And since I mentioned little Trig, did you know that babies sleep when they're over-stimulated? Yeah, the little guys just shut right down. Huh.