Tired of Palin

I shouldn't be surprised I guess that roughly half of America is taken with Palin. I suppose the Democrats having Obama and Hilary as the front runners compelled the Republicans to dig up someone who would further polarize our country. Great. Just what we needed.

I received a mass email from a neighbor recently. The topic was Gov. Palin. He had received an email from someone who supposedly lives in Alaska and wrote about how great Gov. Palin is without of course actually talking about who she really is. My neighbor was so happy with it he felt compelled to share it with everyone he knows. Lucky me. So who is this neighbor X? Mr. John Q. Suburbanite with his 1 acre lawn which he gets sprayed with pesticides 7 times a year, his 2 children and his 3 vehicles. His 4 years of college and his wife with 1 to 3 years of college - white of course. Now in case you didn't know it dear reader people with 1 to 4 years of college are approximately 55% Republic. That number changes to Democrat however as you go beyond 4 years all the way to about 70% Democrat for those with a PhD. It always struck me as odd that no one seems to talk about this little gem of a fact, i.e. the more educated someone is the more likely they are to vote Democrat - seems meaningful to me. But my neighbor is a 4 year state school man and so he's a Republican and very proud of it too I might add. Now don't get me wrong I'm not an education snob. For the record I don't have a graduate degree although I do have graduate study but I don't think that grants me the position of being a snob. And also for the record I have known a few educated people who never went to college - but back to my neighbor. I think of him as a sort of idiot savant. He's great at making money but is otherwise a drain on the planet. In his 16 years of schooling he learned to make money but not to think. He believes in low taxes regardless of what that really means (he never stops to question that issue or any other). He thinks the oxygen he breaths is manufactured in a factory in Crawford, Texas. He thinks war is good for business. He and his wife think their children will turn out fine as long they take them to little league, Disneyland and vacationing at the shore. Global Warming isn't an issue to be concerned with nor are the toxins in his children's environment. His sons will go to college and be captains of industry and everything will be hunky dory as long at the government stays off his back. What a prince. He's the man who elected our current leader and he will be the man who elects President Palin.