WWMBVF? Who would Murphy Brown vote for?

I did not watch the debates last night. I have already made up my mind. Even if Obama goes Pro-Life, or "freebases kittens in the lobby of the Hoover building"* nothing will make me vote for McCain.

The economy is now officially in the toilet, but honestly it has just been getting worse and worse for the past 4-8 years. Food prices, gas prices, medication....I know about inflation, prices always go up. But 10 years ago we had zero unemployment in this state. Or 1-2% which is basically zero for realistic purposes. Taco Bell was offering $30,00 a year for Managers to start and had no takers. Now even skilled people cannot find a job worth their while.

When I was a receptionist in 1997, I felt ELATED to get a job making $6.50/hr. Ten years later everything has doubled in price but receptionists make $8.50/hr. Houses that were worth a quarter million are listing at $175,000 -- 25% off, people! -- and those are the 'good' loans where people actually had the money to pay for it.

Yeah, then war and shit gas prices and lazy crooked contractors, and that was just inside OUR house. The country was also going to crap! I know, I know, every generation something something...















So let's go back even earlier in my awareness, to Bush I. Remember Dan Quayle? Anyone? He was roundly mocked by public and media alike. Some people thought he was "hot". Younger, attractive, dumb as a rock. Maybe we should ask Governor Palin how she feels about Murphy Brown. I am serious, what about the women that are making different choices? I would have to guess that the writers would make Ms. Brown a rabid Hillary supporter. But it may surprise us, like it surprises me to hear women around me -- strong, professional women-- say that Sarah Palin is a real "go-getter".
















I will not minimize Governor Palin's successes as a politician in Alaska, but I do not believe she is for women's rights in the grand meaning of the word. She is like the women I work with who have a full time high-pressure job, two kids, and a husband that is not only useless but abusive. They work three times as hard to cling tenuously to the edge of the glass ceiling. They kiss ass all day long. And what if they looked like poor Sheila Frahm instead of like Tina Faye? Trust me, they get overlooked.


Why? Well my opinion is because there are no cracks in the glass ceiling and they are not really trying to make them. How can you be pro-life, anti-welfare, anti-immigration, against gay rights, and still say you support women? How can you be for big business, against education funding, support actions and politicians that send our men AND WOMEN soldiers far away to die and leave their children parentless and still claim you want the best for your daughter? Force her to marry a thug and birth an unwanted baby because "God" says so?

My fear is that at the best we will have a White House divided, as Palin does not seem to be falling well in line with her party unless it is post-gaffe. At worst McCain could die at any moment and we would have Sarah Palin as the figurehead of our country. That makes me want to create the worst mixed metaphor even invented, something about a bull, a candy store, a kid, a china shop, and a prom dress. The mind boggles at how NOT GOOD "Palin for Prez" sounds.














But wait! What if she had a kind, motherly figure, strong and compassionate, experienced and emotive, not sexy but not Janet Reno, to guide her in her navigation of the most powerful office on earth? That's right. Palin/Cinton 2008! All the big cat families will be happy. It's just so crazy it just might work.

For now, check out the funny (by drew (toothpastefordinner.com) and natalie (nataliedee.com)):

http://mccaincomics.com/


*Thanks to commenter at passiveaggressive.com