Feeling Uncharacteristically VINDICATED

When McCain introduced Palin, my first impression was "she is every self-serving, credit grabbing bitch I have ever worked for." The Martha Stewart of politics.

In truth I have only been exposed to her type two or three times in my long career. Yes, I am blessed. One was the owner of Marketing Dimensions in my home state. In my head I always called that place "Marketing Dementia". This woman denied our request to hire a talented photographer because he was black.

Her passive, sweet-natured husband was poster child for PW and her son was so pampered kids at his wealthy private school beat him up at Christmas and shat in his hat.

I'm NOT making this up.

Those of you who wonder at my rages against Palin ... I knew her when I saw her. Women are DEEPLY intuitive when it comes to other women.

Sometimes you just have to trust us.

Now the media is catching up with Palin. Check this out ... AdAge called it "brand suicide." Here's an excerpt.

"Over at Slate, for instance, Daniel Gross, in a piece titled "The Day McCain Lost the Election," zeroed in three gross media miscalculations: McCain's clueless Sept. 15 "fundamentals of our economy are strong" declaration; his faux "I'm suspending my campaign" announcement of Sept. 24; and, beginning on Oct. 15, during the third presidential debate, his decision to fixate on the boneheaded (and factually incorrect) economic insight of Joe the Plumber (even as Barack Obama was soberly huddling with the likes of Paul Volcker and Warren Buffett).

In hindsight, yep, those were flawed, self-destructive calls (as were other major and minor screw-ups, like lying to David Letterman), but surely we'll see increasing consensus that McCain's real moment of ruin was his impulsive selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate."

Here's a link to the whole article, it's worth reading. (Even if the heading is about the worst ever.)

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=132332

I Hate Bigots.

I live where someone actually posted this to a newspaper today:

"I AM SO PROUD TO BE A WHITE BLOND COUNTRY AMERICAN SOUTHERN WOMAN!! YOU ARE IGNORANT IF YOU DO NOT VOTE FOR YOUR OWN RACE!"

I went off.

Ultimately I was dogging two response boards in the Fort Myers News-Press,; I wrote this for one and liked it so much I posted it to the other:

"McCain is a war hero. I respect that. I do not respect the hateful tactics he has resorted to, his blatant disrespect of his opponent and his choice of Palin, who is allowed to fuel the fires of their mobs.

His supporters are mostly white - which is NOT what this country is. (Look around you and get over it.)

My choice treats his opponent with respect, his VP does not incite hatred and his loyal supporters do not send emails with dead and aborted babies. His supporters come in every color of the rainbow. And that is what this country is.

A vote for McCain is a vote for an old guy who cannot survive this level of stress. So then, imagine President Palin and the First Dude.

Does the world respect us now? Imagine what it would think of us with them in charge.

Get real. "

An hour later, not another peep out of either response board. It's a Friday ... maybe the bigots are belly-up at the tiki bars.