Solon Economou

Ten reasons I like Sarah Palin

Ten reasons I like Sarah Palin:

10.  She's prettier than Barack Obama.

9.  She's a better shot than Dick Cheney.

8.  She's cuddlier than cute little Dennis Kucinich.

7.  She pronounces "nuclear" better than George W.

6.  She knows what "is" is better than Bill Clinton.

5.  She knows what and where ANWR is better than Al Gore.

4.  She has a better hair-do than Mitt Romney.

3.  She wears less makeup than John Edwards.

2.  Even as a pit-bull hockey mom, she's got a better disposition than Howard Dean.

And the biggest reason I like Sarah Palin:

1.  She's got better legs than Joe Biden.

Now, while you rabid ideologues from both the right and left may grumble and swear a little because I do not subscribe to your absolute nonsense of political correctness, let me give you some hard facts.

Only 64 percent of those Americans ages 18 and older went to the polls in the last presidential election, according to data released by the Census Bureau.  Only 64 percent!

Second-rate democracies have better voting records than we do! 

The agency also found that turnout rates were closely correlated to a voter's age. A little more than 73 percent of those between 65 and 74 said they voted, the highest rate for any age group. Those between the ages of 18 and 24 had the lowest, with 47 percent reported going to the polls.

It's ironic that those in the lower voting range probably make the most idealogical noise and blow the most ideological hot air, both in vociferous street protests and in mean-spirited static on the blogosphere.

November 4 is the date this year, my friends.  Write it down and do not plan to be anywhere that you can't cast a ballot, either in person or absentee.  

I don't want to hear you crying that your candidate lost because of hanging chads or because you were just hangin' loose.  I don't want to hear that your idiotic Aunt Susie cast her vote at the ATM thinking it was a voting machine and that she is therefore "disenfranchised."

Unless you vote, shut up.  I don't want to hear any more whining from bed-wetting pissants because your friggin' favorite lost the election!  I know for whom I'm voting.  Do you?  Decide by November 4 and do it.  VOTE. 

When the nation speaks (I would like to see a 98 percent turnout myself), then we know whom the nation is behind and we can all work together.  Don't you--a member of either party or an independent like myself--think it's about time?