Hurricane Palin

It's been almost two weeks since John McCain picked a vp nominee who seemingly turned the race upside down overnight. This election has suddenly deteriorated into a junior high school cafeteria fight. "Obama was specifically talking about Gov. Palin when he used pig and lipstick in the same sentence. Really? Would you like a tissue?

Better yet, how about the cover of every tabloid newspaper in the country? No problem. All this over figure of speech that was taken out of context. McCain may have been strategically brilliant to have picked her. Someone in his camp realized toward the end of the Dem primary that some folks who were longtime Hillary haters began to at least empathize with her new underdog image and story. Mainly because she was a women (at least that's the way the press portrayed it). Now Obama is having to take shots at the Republican VP nominee, while McCain stays clearly out of focus and the campaign is no longer about an old guy trying beat a new political sensation.