Too Bad it's Not Michael Palin

I spent my afternoon tubing down a gorgeous river, with shorebirds, turtles, and yes, even an otter lining up to take turns showing off their adorableness. Quite a relaxing journey.

Then I come home to find out that John McCain has selected for his vice presidential running mate an anti-choice, anti-environment, pro-guns, anti-science, creationist, anti-gay rights, inexperienced nutbag...who just so happens to have a vajayjay.

I then spent the rest of the night fuming and developing horrible cramps and lingering gas. But that might have been all those figs I ate last night. Column A, column B?

I already distrusted McCain, but this is a major, MAJOR slap in the face to women everywhere. It's in line with all the conservative rhetoric about how women are incapable of making important choices for ourselves -- c.f. the decision the Roberts Supreme Court made last April to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Just like women might, in the rush of emotion, not be able to decide whether or not to terminate a pregnancy, women are also unable to differentiate between a progressive candidate with decidedly liberal politics, and a right-wing posterchild with absolutely nothing in common with the Hillary Rodham Clinton whose "disaffected supporters" the McCain campaign is so blatantly and infuriatingly trying to woo across the fence.

As a Reluctant Former Clinton Supporter, may I officially register my absolute outrage and insult over this disgusting farce, and over all the ridiculous party-line-towers who really should be just as outraged that their 72-year-old candidate has just selected a running mate with a mere 20 months of gubernatorial experience under her anti-feminist belt.

Did I mention she apparently opposes abortion even in the case of incest or rape? I didn't think people with daughters were capable of even pretending to hold this belief, but somehow Sarah Palin has proven me horribly, horribly wrong.

This election is now that much more important. I know I'm talking to myself here, but sometimes it's fun to pretend I'm on Feministing or someplace with an actual readership: Get out and talk about this. Write to HRC and tell her to take a stand against Sarah Palin. Don't allow the Republicans to turn Clinton's historic run into a disgrace. And don't let this dream team of human destruction make it to the White House.

Go Obama. Please, go, go, go.