The Republican Convention. What a snooze!

So I am not even going to feign objectivity. While I am no longer a registered Democrat, I must say they do put on a better convention. While I am not professing to have watched the Dem convention in it's entirety, I must say their music was MUCH better than the Whiteys, oops I mean Republicans. And as far I have seen the only person of color is the black saxophonist playing jazz for the old white folks in the audience. Granted the cameras did pan to few young people, but by and large it was like a convention of albinos of the old and fat variety. Sorry, if I have offended any albinos out there!

Oh my gosh! I have just cited 2, count them, 2 black men who appear to be delegates. Thank God! That must mean they, the Republican, are not prejudiced at all. See they have a couple of black delegates.

This brings me to my rant. If I hear one more pundit say the Democrats have to tread lightly with Sarah Palin because they don't want come across as sexist, my head is going to explode. Wouldn't it be LESS sexist if they actually treated her as they would any other candidate. I mean her own party choosing her was sexist in and of itself, but come on, shouldn't she be ready for the fight? What I can't for the life of me understand is why with all the very qualified female Republicans McCain chose this particular neophyte. It seems he was blindfolded and played pin the elephant on the vice president. Furthermore, to even suggest that those "Hillary" supporters who were so angered when she was passed over would vote for Palin just because she is a woman is ludicrous and insulting. I don't care if she is a "hockey mom" or even that she is supposedly a reformer. I don't agree with her stand on many, many issues and I would not consider voting for her or MCain for that matter.
Another thing about this campaign that is chapping my ass is when they use the term "intellectually pretentious" when referring to Barack Obama. What the fuck! Since when is it a BAD thing to have a leader that is intelligent. We just spent the last 8 year with one of the biggest dumb shits on the planet as our President and that didn't go too well folks! God forbid we elect someone who is discerning and nuanced. Oh, silly me, it really is more important that he/she be able to burp the ABCs.