If you know what that means let me know....'cuz then there will be two of us.
As far as I know identity politics have never played a greater role in any election. John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin is an obvious attempt to balance out and steal from the "ground breaker" thunder that Barack Obama has claimed since he became a serious contender.
TANGENT TIME:
"They said this day would never come"
-Barack Obama, after winning Iowa primary
Obama failed to mention that "They" is some dude with a pronoun for a name, who is the president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, and indeed only member of the Des Moines KKK. Obama's victory proved him wrong.
Obama's failure to mention this makes for an insinuation that America was saying a black man could never be president. That makes the statement doubly wrong.
On the other hand I am making all of this nonsense up, which makes the statement Tripoli wrong.
END TANGENT TIME
After my shock that McCain passed up the MAN who was probably his first choice, Governor Pawlenty of Minnesota...and after hearing Palin's story...I realized what McCain is doing.....
The only thing he can to win this election....beat the perception that he is GWB part 3.
McCain's maverick status is one of the key ingredients to a "Republican fresh start bisque", but this clearly isn't enough, because it still tastes a bit bland and stale......well, what would you expect.....its been sitting on the shelf for 72 years.
So he picks a maverick in her own right in Palin, whose background and family history resembles the humility of Bill Clinton more than the privilege of the Bush family. This coupled with her likeablility make her like a chocolate covering that provides the only reason for ever eating a grasshopper....to turn something disgusting into an exotic delicacy.
That is what McCain is trying to push...without actually saying it...a fresh start. However, McCain simply McCan't spell that out because that would be an admission that the Republican Party has been a failure over the last 4 years and it (cough) is true (cough)
So now the race is on to prove who is the "fresher" start. You have sort of a ying yang situation going on:
Democrats: Top of the ticket is fresh, bottom is stale Washington
Republicans: Vice versa (I didn't want to take the above text and reverse it for the sake of saving time which is ironic since typing up this explanation is taking longer than if I just copied the above text, pasted it, and then reversed the order....maybe I really am a liberal since I seem to be good at making simple things so difficult....YAY! I'm nuanced!)
So the trick for the Democrats is this: Make sure both sides of the ticket represent a fresh start....here's how:
Joe Biden, MD...no he is not a medical doctor, but the MD details his medical condition known as MOUTH DIARRHEA.
Whenever he stops talking Democrats can triumphantly announce that Biden has provided a "fresh start" on finally getting something done.
Joe Biden's motormouth not only makes the Obama-Biden ticket a fresher start it helps Obama redeem himself with regard to the question "when does life begin?" Which he fumbled so very badly with Rick Warren at Saddleback Church, but now with Biden by his side Obama now has a legitimate answer:
"I don't know....(puts one arm around Biden while the other duct tapes his mouth shut) but I can tell you when it begins again."
