The Election Continues to Depress Me

I literally cried at my desk when McCain announced Palin as his running mate. She and McCain have been all over People Magazine and the rest of main stream media - which, let's face it, mainstream America follows. I'd like to think that the majority of people, especially women will focus on values as opposed to the fact that she is a woman but I'm starting to get discouraged. This morning I thought of writing Obama asking - begging - him to do a better job and show that he hasn't turned his back on women. Today, my friend S sent me a bunch of articles on Palin and a note on how incensed she is about the Republicans.

Excerpts from M. Dowd's editorial:
-What kind of budget-cutter makes a show of getting rid of the state plane, then turns around and bills taxpayers for the travel of her husband and kids between Juneau and Wasilla and sticks the state with a per-diem tab to stay in her own home?
-Why was Sarah for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against the Bridge to Nowhere, and why was she for earmarks before she was against them? And doesn't all this make her just as big a flip-flopper as John Kerry?
-What kind of fiscal conservative raises taxes and increases budgets in both her jobs - as mayor and as governor?
-When the phone rings at 3 a.m., will she call the Wasilla Assembly of God congregation and ask them to pray on a response, as she asked them to pray for a natural gas pipeline?
-Does she really think Adam, Eve, Satan and the dinosaurs mingled on the earth 5,000 years ago?
-Why put out a press release about her teenage daughter's pregnancy and then spend the next few days attacking the press for covering that press release?
-As Troopergate unfolds here - an inquiry into whether Palin inappropriately fired the commissioner of public safety for refusing to fire her ex-brother-in-law - it raises this question: Who else is on her enemies list and what might she do with the F.B.I.?
-Does she want a federal ban on trans fat in restaurants and a ban on abortion and Harry Potter? And which books exactly would have landed on the literature bonfire if she had had her way with that Wasilla librarian?
-Just how is it that Fannie and Freddie have cost taxpayers money (since they haven't yet)?
-Does she talk in tongues or just eat caribou tongues?
-What does she have against polar bears?