Reality Can Be a Real Killjoy

Driving myself mad drowning in this year's elections (local, state, presidential....) Love it!

I hope that you won't get suckered in to voting for a candidate just because of one or two policies and disregard real issues/policies that really matter to us as a whole. Don't believe the hype! Life does happen but this is our reality - "it will take to a war on two fronts, an economic crisis, failing infrastructure, the high cost of fuel then cascades down to increase the cost of food and consumer goods, a health care crisis where millions lack health insurance. The list can go on and on. . ." This is OUR problem. Reality bites back hard when it becomes a real killjoy. Stuff like your momma's second cousin preacher's pregnant daughter's sex life is not my problem.

Anyhow, I actually just wanted to share an article with everyone and not so much of the chump change above. hahaha Maureen Dowd is my fave NYT columnist! this has to be one of her best in a long time. Couldn't resist sharing. Enjoy!

`Marina


Life of Her Party

For many years, reality was out of vogue with Republicans. They ignored the reality of Iraq and Katrina, of Pakistan and Osama bin Laden.

When confronted with their colossal carelessness around the globe and here at home, their mantra was, as Rummy put it, “Stuff happens.”

Now reality, in all its messy, crazy, funky glory, has flooded the party, in the comely, crackling form of Sarah Palin.

Unable to stop the onslaught of wild soap opera storylines erupting from the Palin family and the Alaska wilderness, McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt offered caterwauling reporters a new mantra: “Life happens.”

Indeed, it does. Only four days into her reign as John McCain’s “soul mate,” or “Trophy Vice,” as some bloggers are calling her, on the ticket known as “Maverick Squared,” Palin, the governor of Alaska, has already accrued two gates (Troopergate and Broken-watergate), a lawyer (for Troopergate), a future son-in-law named Levi (a high school ice hockey player, described by New York magazine as “sex on skates”), and a National Enquirer headline about the “Teen Prego Crisis” with 17-year-old daughter Bristol.

It seems like a long time since Vice President Dan Quayle denounced Murphy Brown for having a baby out of wedlock, bemoaning a “poverty of values.” It also seems like a long time ­ and another McCain ago ­ that Republicans supporting W. smeared the old John McCain by spreading rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate black child.

This week, the anti-abortion forces celebrated the news of Bristol’s pregnancy, using it as further proof that their beloved Governor Palin ­ who will no more support sex education than polar bears ­ was committed to the cause.

Since John McCain played craps first and sent the vetters to Alaska afterward, Republicans have been defending Governor Palin by saying that, while she has no foreign policy experience ­ except, as Cindy McCain pointed out, that “Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia” ­ she has a lot of domestic policy experience as a supercharged P.T.A. and hockey mom.

As more and more titillating details spill out about the Palins, Republicans riposte by simply arguing that things like Todd’s old D.U.I. arrest or Sarah’s messy family vengeance story will just let them relate better to average Americans ­ unlike the lofty Obamas.

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