OK...believe it or not, I'm actually going to be mature about this. I get why the Republicans picked Palin as their VP. She's so f-ing backward in her values that she's going to appeal to the nutjobs who think McCain is actually too progressive. This chick is nuts. She's the Alaskan Governor and she wants more drilling there. She believes in teaching creationism in science class. She's so anti-choice and, apparently, anti-sex ed, that her teenage daughter is knocked-up and is going to marry the baby daddy. Uh...that went great for my folks.

They're going to lose more potential voters than their going to hold onto by playing to their base. With this pick, the only people they're going to get is their base, and that's not how you win elections.

Palin's starting to make Dana Parino sexy again.

OK. Maybe I'm not that mature.

Oh...and I'm starting to hear stuff about Amy Goodman being arrested at the start of the Republican Convention. I'm not a huge fan of the guy, but the current mayor of my hometown used to be the police chief. And when hundreds of people were protesting the Iraq invasion (for my hometown, that's a buttload of people), he made sure that the police were there, but looked out for our safety. And nothing happened. When you show force against people executing their right of free speech...you're a fucking facist! And you create more discontent. Dumbasses...listen to Gandhi. If you keep ignoring them, they go away. That's what's threatening the Green Party right now...they continue to be ignored.