Divided Government

John McCain has been arguing, recently, that he should be elected in order to prevent one-party rule and preserve divided government. One-party rule, after all, didn't work so well for the first six years of the reign of the Tsar of the Baboons.

Normally, I would be sympathetic to that argument and I might have considered voting for him. But three words are enough to steel my resolve to vote for Barack Obama and those words are:

President Sarah Palin.

Not under any circumstances am I willing to repeat the experience of the past eight years of having a half-bright, incurious, uneducated (regardless of degrees or diplomas) president for whom ideology trumps reality. I am unwilling to have any part of another president for whom science is a mystery and who has no concept of how research is done. And I am totally unwilling to vote in any way for a president or vice-president who thinks that they can have a say in what I do with my own body.