This election has clearly turned into one where people no longer care for substance. My evidence? The selection and support of Governor Sarah Palin.

People– are you even LISTENING when she speaks? She talks in circles, she completely disregards questions she doesn’t understand and brings them back to topics that she has limited information on in the first place, and she is trying to sucker people in by using honky colloquialisms in her over-pronounced Alaskan accent that sounds even more folksy than it did at the RNC.

I won’t even begin to start on my rant about her “community organizer” statement from last month. I’ve never been more infuriated by a politician’s comment in my life. I will mention that I am more annoyed with Americans and their positive response to Sarah Palin by saying things like “she seems real” and “she tells me straight up.”

1) How are Joe Biden or Obama not “real” and not “telling you things straight up?”

2) Does the VP give weekly reports to the American people about the state of the country? Is this person running for Miss Congeniality? And how does one candidate seem real and the other doesn’t? Joe Biden comes from a similar background and made more of a success out of tragedy in his life. What’s more real about her?

The role of the Vice President is to preside over the Senate and take the place of President in case anything happens to that person. Lets be honest: I don’t want the President or VP to be “just like me.” I want them to be smarter and more saavy when it comes to the workings of our economy and our place in the global marketplace. I want these people to be persons I can look up to so I can improve my life, not someone who I see as an equal. You are the fucking President of the United States of the America, not Homecoming King in high school. You NEED to be better than I am. Otherwise, why am I not running this country?

Furthermore, I have no clue where this whole concept of Obama being an elitist came from. Is it because he went to Columbia and Harvard? I’m willing to bet 75% or more of our Presidents went to Ivy League schools, and our current one is the benefactor of years of privilege and elitism. Is it because he speaks intelligently? God forbid someone actually doesn’t dumb down everything for us. Is it because he was top of his class at Harvard, where John McCain was in the lowest 99% of his graduating class and Sarah Palin went to 6 colleges and changed schools for erratic reasons? Why is it bad to be someone who worked hard to get where they are despite being a minority in a country that believes you only succeeded because of affirmative action?

Someone please tell me how Obama is an elitist? Is it the whole owning one car and one house things versus not knowing how many you own? Is it growing up in a single-family biracial home with 2 strikes against you before you even worry about dealing with everyday matters? Is it not being old enough to be in war and having 2 young daughters who clearly couldn’t have enlisted yet? Is it having a wife who (dare I say) speak her mind and not be a lame-duck trophy First Wife?

Anyway- back to Sarah Palin. She is crazy. But I’m more saddened by the people who believe in her. That’s fine if you relate to her and think she’s awesome. She would probably make a good friend or role model for you. But give me CONCRETE EXAMPLES on how that makes her qualified to be the Vice President of our country. Don’t believe in her because you say “she’s re-energized our party.” How? Making snide remarks and ridiculing the democratic process at the RNC? That hardly counts.

I’ve always said if that you can defend your answers with examples, I will leave you alone. If you can say to me “I believe in her economic policy (whatever that may be), or her stance on gay marraige or her philosophy on drilling in the Artic Refuge”… then I will shut up. But don’t say you like her because she seems real.

Need I remind you George W. Bush ran on the notion of being real and telling us things straight up. And see what happened when we went for flavor over substance? Please don’t let it happen again.