Yeah, I'm just mostly enjoying the hyperbole and spectacle, because I don't really thing any of this is going to make much of a difference in the election overall. People who are going to be turned away from the McCain campaign are being sufficiently turned away by her actual political positions and record and by the blatant pandering, rather than by any of the more out-there stuff; people who aren't turned away by that are unlikely to be moved by any of the rest of it anyway.

As long as McCain doesn't win, I'd be just as happy with a low Rep. turn-out / record high write-in votes (and large Congressional turnover) as I would an Obama landslide: we just need a strong message that the stuff the current Republican leaders are trying to pull is NOT OKAY. I like the Obama, but he still wouldn't have been my first choice.

Mind you, my primary vote went to that other batshit Alaskan (http://www.mikegravel.us/issues), so possibly I just have a weakness for rugged frontier individualist types. :D Hmm, Gravel on Palin (http://www.counterpunch.org/gravel09032008.html): "Sarah Has Issues." ...no duh, Mike.