The Republicans are like a bunch of fraternity boys hooping and hollering for their “babe” who is making fun of the other team.  It reminds me of my dad making fun of all the teams who would beat USC, because he was for USC and they were better.  It’s not really anything substantial except people feeling like they need to rag on the other team because they are winning.  It’s pathetic.  Watching bits of Sarah Palin’s speech, it was tough to watch.  As someone who tries to teach teenagers how to act civily and not make fun of each other and buy into stereotypes and use them to make fun of their enemies or their rivals, it is very disappointing to see this women get up and rile up a crowd and drop comments like those uttered by the teenager girls in Mean Girls (the movie) and have the crowd laugh and sneer and clap and boo and… oh it was just sad.

If McCain’s strategy to win this election is to make it into a popularity contest and see who can stir up enough emotion and who can drop the best verbal punch… then they must think that the country is a bunch of brainless sportsmen who only care about our team winning.  What’s even sadder than that thought - is that if they win, it just goes to show where we stand in America.  Getting excited by someone bashing on someone else, getting excited when we defend our mountain, our hill, our party, our people.  It’s sad if we’ve bought into only emotion, and lost touch of substance.  We will be digging ourselves into a deep hole if we stick with what seems to be like country club politics who think that only the RIGHT are IN, and the LEFT are OUT.  We both are in, both red and blue.  We both need each other.  Liberal is not a bad word.  Stop the hate.