Welmer

This is another one of those elections. They’ve all been lousy since I first voted in 1992, but this one just might take the cake. On the one hand, we have VAWA Joe Biden, who is “proud” of the sexist Violence Against Women Act on the Obama ticket, and on McCain’s side we have a woman who used her power in the governor’s office to push for the dismissal of her sister’s ex-husband, ultimately firing the public safety commissioner because he didn’t want to get involved in a subordinate’s marital affairs. Monegan, the fired commissioner, appears to have lost his job precisely because he held to a code of ethics. Both presidential candidates have made horrific VP choices, and I can’t in good conscience support either one.

Selecting Palin as VP was a stunt that appears to have gone horribly wrong for McCain. The bounce from Palin’s nomination is starting to look like a dead cat as people find that trash is not in fact a good substitute for class. At this point, many are beginning to question whether McCain actually wants to win. It doesn’t look like it to me, but who knows what goes on in the mind of a maverick?