My rant is in no particular order, but here goes:

1. She did not WRITE A WORD OF THAT SPEECH. Matthew Scully who was a Bush Speechwriter, wrote it. Not her. She read it. She can read very, very well. Great. I’m glad she can read. Can everyone stop gushing about how well she can read. Really? Is that all it takes? The fact that she can enunciate and use proper tone during a speech she did not write at all makes her awesome? Really?

2. Can you imagine if there was a woman on the Dems ticket who went back to work 3 days after giving birth? Holy Christos! They didn’t like the fact that Hillary Clinton wore pants all the time!

3. What are ‘family values’ anyway?? I’m confused now. Can someone please tell me what it means to the Republicans because before I was sort of straight on it and now I’m not. I was on the phone today with a fairly prominent immigration attorney with whom I went to law school (who has a 7 month old baby) and we both wondered how SP does it. As career minded women, we know she can’t do it and hold it all together. No way, no how. Something has to give. And, clearly, what gives is her family. But still, I thought the Republicans thought that someone should be home raising the kids. Who’s home at Sarah’s house?

4. Clearly, she believes the only person qualified to run for President is someone who has been in a war. That is the difference between McCain and Obama. Let’s see if we can work this out logically: McCain – senator, no executive experience, in a war
Obama – senator, no executive experience
Palin – executive experience
Since Obama is unqualified to be president because he has no executive experience (according to Palin’s speech) and Palin is qualified to be Vice President DESPITE the fact that she is the only one with executive experience, that must mean that only those with war experience (the only one in this campaign who fought for our country, according to her magnificient speech that she didn’t write) are qualified to be President.

5. Since many are talking about why we hold SP to a different standard, let me ask this – did anyone see her blow a kiss to a gentleman in the audience during her speech? What do you think would have been the reaction if, say, Joe Biden had done that? Well, I can tell you this, they wouldn’t have done it because it’s not what you do while giving a speech as the VP nominee.

6. The RNC is a freak show, with the booing and the chanting and the stupid hats. Please people. I was undecided until I saw your horrible reality TV.

7. I hate Rudy Guiliani. I don’t think he knows how to tie his shoes. They should never, ever, under any circumstances let him speak in public again. He is an absolute moron and a man with no morals or scruples.

9. I honestly feel bad for McCain because I think he means it. I think he’s a decent fellow who has an honest love for his country. He’s taken some unpopular stands in his day. I think he made a horrible choice and will live long enough to regret it, but only long enough. And then SP will be president. And she will have no idea what to do. None. At all. When I was the administrative director of Schenectady 2000 I oversaw just about as many people as she did during her days as mayor of Wasilla. Hmm. . .now if only I were born in this country. . .

10. Cindy McCain is better looking that Sarah Palin. Why isn’t there a button that says “hottest first lady”?

11. Really? A button with SP’s picture that says “hottest VP”? This is what our country has come to? And I thought we were the laughingstocks before.

12. It really is true that anyone can be president. SP has a BA in journalism. She was a part-time sportscaster. She has no official law learning. I think maybe she learned how a bill becomes a law from Schoolhouse Rock.

Ahhh, you know, I wouldn’t feel this way maybe if everyone wasn’t so up her ass all the time. Yes, she is attractive, yes she is fiesty, but she isn’t a rocket scientist and it is absurd how crazy everyone is over a SPEECH SHE DIDN’T EVEN WRITE! And that’s where all of this began.