So, over the past few days, I have watched the Republican Convention. I'm not a Republican, but I wanted to see how the Evil Empire ... ahem ... other party does its business. Initially, the only thing that struck me was the politics as usual scene -- not much different from the Democratic Convention -- with one party striking out at another, boosting its own candidate, touting the party platform.
Then I watched the speech by Sarah Palin. And I saw the buttons. Here is a woman -- only the second woman in history to be nominated to a major party presidential ticket -- who seems to be smart, put together, and articulate. And what do the buttons of her party mates read? I'll quote from an article on the Indianapolis WTHR news website (http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=8946005):
"The Alaskan button reads, 'From the coldest state comes the hottest vice president." But Sen. Sue Landske and some fellow Hoosiers came up with a button of their own: 'Hoosiers for the hot chick'."
I'm pretty much rendered speechless.
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