Ecch!

I was thinking about writing how Palin had been ripping off the taxpayers of Alaska by charging travel per diem on those nights that she was in her own home, and how you just know the Republicans would blow that into a major scandal if she was a Democrat.

I was also thinking about writing how outraged the Republicans would have been if Obama had a 17 year old daughter who was pregnant and who had posted photographs of herself holding a bottle of liquor, or if he had a son who had to flee into the Army to allegedly avoid criminal charges.

I was thinking how much fury would be coming from the Wingnuts if Joe Biden's son was a director of a failing bank.

I remember how much scorn the Republicans heaped on John Kerry because he married a rich woman and how silent they are about McCain dumping his crippled first wife to marry a rich young heiress.

I remember how distainful the Right was about Kerry's all-too-frequent referrals to his military service, yet how they tolerate McCain's references to his service every fifteen nanoseconds.

I could write about how George H.W. Bush asked people to volunteer with their communites and get involved with his "thousand points of light" while the `08 GOP convention heaped scorn on someone who did just that.

I was going to write about how McCain decries partisanship while his surrogates engage in a nasty series of slashing attacks.

I was going to use all that as the basis for a rant about Republican hypocrisy. But reallly, writing about how two-faced and dishonest the GOP has become is sort of like complaining about a dog's shedding. It's what they do, it's who they are. And, at least for now, I am tired of it.

So go surf the blogroll for awhile. I'll be back in the game soon.