Where's McCain?

There has been broad speculation over why John McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The consensus holds that she was tapped in a “Hail Mary” effort to bolster a flagging campaign. Now, in the aftermath, “anonymous” GOP campaign staffers are leaking garbage about her over an asinine clothing issue. Talk about a double standard – would anything like this have been dredged up had the candidate been a man? Is this what the GOP has degenerated into – a basket-full of backbiting vipers? Take a good look guys, while you conduct your post-mortem, consider this: "You have met the enemy and he is you!"

And where is McCain? He picked her to run; she flew the mission and did a creditable job. Now, with the election lost, she’s limping home, taking hits and he’s nowhere to be found. As a former fighter pilot, he above all others knows this dictum: “You never leave your wingman.” That’s almost as old as aviation. Why isn’t he rolling in to defend her?

It would be the classy thing to do - the right thing to do. Could it be, perhaps, that the best man actually did win after all?

It's Over

It’s over. We have to live with the result. Been sitting here since last Tuesday night’s blowout in a state of shock, trying to write something – anything about the outcome.

My fiercely liberal in-laws have been sending smug emails regarding the election result, trumpeting the claim that a triumphant Obama will now lead us out of this current economic and political morass into the Promised Land.

I take small comfort in what I told them before the election: This new President and his Congress will be out to make sweeping changes. They will be coming after your wallet in short order. You won’t like the outcome. The difference between us will be that you voted for what's coming, and I, against it.