With apologies to Palin, let's put some lipstick on this blog

I have a good reason to be pissed off. I've been saying, "let's put some lipstick on this pig" for years, and now that's been taken away from me.

I think we've all heard about Obama's 'lipstick on a pig' comment and the subsequent uproar, including charges of sexism coming from the McCain/Palin camp.
Seriously, can we lay down some new ground rules? If every comment that questions or seems to question the entire party's ability to run this country is going to be interpreted as an attack against Palin, they need to let us know. I know that Palin made the absolutely hilarious comment that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit-bull is lipstick, a "joke" that references the tenacity of a hockey mom. Overbearing sports parents is a concept we should all be embracing, but setting that aside, is this what it has come down to?

If that's the case, then any statement that questions Obama's ability to lead the nation should be labeled as 'racist'. How dare anyone insinuate that a black man is incapable of being president. Makes just about as much sense.

If Obama's comment is going to be interpreted as an attack - and that's quite a stretch - then shouldn't McCain be the "pig" and Palin the "lipstick"? She's on the ticket now, but Mac is still a pig...seems like the more logical interpretation.

This constant attention that is being given to every little comment, every e-mail and every tiny insinuation that even remotely makes reference to Sarah Palin is further evidence that there is an unwillingness on the part of the Right to discuss anything of any real substance for this entire election period. While Barack Obama was forging his way into history, MaCain tried to force his way into history by choosing Palin as his running mate.

I don't hate Senator McCain, and I know that he is capable of talking about real issues and matters of substance, but the last couple of weeks has been a long uncomfortable detour away from what is real and towards what is petty, inconsequential and downright sublime.

After a convention that included Fred Thompson - sitting comfortably in a glass house with a satchel full of stones - alluding to Obama's celebrity status, Mike Huckabee referencing a Madonna wardrobe change after just finding out about the existence of Madonna 30 minutes prior, and Rudy Giuliani's night at the Republican Improv the enthusiasm of the Right has skyrocketed. The "Straight Talk Express" just ran off the side of a cliff and you know what happened? It sprouted wings and flew. After that shit-fest, McCain jumped well ahead of Obama in the polls and the media and general public have seemingly embraced the Republican ticket.

We'll see what happens. This type of euphoria typically does not last long, and when the Kool-aid runs out and everybody comes back to Mother Earth then, what?

I'll take a wait-and-see approach, but in the meantime I'm going to gather a group of concerned pit bulls that don't like being compared to upstart, moose-shooting, over spending governors of states with less than 75 people. Her comments were canine-ist, and we should all ignore what's of substance and be really, really concerned.