“I never really was super involved in politics much. I certainly had my own very strong ideas about how government should run and causes to which I devoted time and energy, but never felt a great deal of impetus to rally hard core for any one race/candidate.
However, four years ago, when GWB got re-elected as president, I fainted. I was honestly shocked that, after all of the madness in his politic, the people of America would vote him back into office!
Fast forward to now. I had been fairly certain that after *eight* years of Republican misguidance, and such a low approval rating for the current Commander in Chief, there would be no way on this green earth a Republican would scratch his or her way back into the White House. With Obama’s charisma and freshness, I figured there was no contest.
Then came some crazy woman from the arctic, with no real governance experience beyond Wallawalla Alaska. She’s a super conservative, anti-feminist, fundamentalist, rifle-toting nutbag with mental frostbite, and yet everyone seemed to latch onto her, as if she were the next Oprah. People love her, and I can’t figure out why.
“She stands for women!” No, she doesn’t. She stands against everything women have gained in their struggles since we first got the right to vote. “She has experience in foreign policy!” No, she can see Russia from some island near her house. “She’s going to bring about real change in the White House!” Not unless you mean she’s going to un-divide church and state or whittle away at Roe V. Wade.
Suddenly, I find myself freaking out over this. My faith in the American people slipping, I felt I should do even just a little something. At least, I wanted to use humor to state my feelings on the GOP superstar screw-up.”