'If She Were a Democrat, It Would Be Banner Headlines Every Day'

While I realize the left resides mostly in an alternate universe, one would hope they at least stay in touch with the news on a regular basis. Here we have yet another totally out-of-touch Huffington Post screed essentially blaming every societal ill on John McCain while also working in the ritual trashing of Sarah Palin.

John McCain and the Republican Party simply hate regulation. Hate government oversight. Hate government protections. And what they've done has pushed America towards its ruin.

But it's not the economy or other regulation-free disasters you might think. Not Katrina, not collapsing bridges, not lead poisoning, Gitmo or wiretapping Americans. No, all these are all just symptoms of a larger lack of oversight, just precursors to something worse.

You see, when you've spent your entire life fighting regulation and oversight, in the end it can only lead to one ultimate disaster.

Sarah Palin.

First of all, it was McCain, among others who were calling for oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, only to be rebuffed by Democrats every step of the way. Second, how much longer do we need to hear about Hurricane Katrina? Now, since the bridge collapse in Minneapolis last summer, has another bridge collapsed anywhere in this country? Lead poisoning? Hello, this isn't China. And, of course, he has to work in Club Gitmo and the horrors of wiretapping terrorists.

But this author save his real hatred for Sarah Palin, naturally.

When John McCain recklessly nominates someone he doesn't know and doesn't care about checking into, the only possible result is yet another shiny package on the surface, but crisis underneath waiting to collapse.

You get someone who attended a convention to secede from the United States! Whose personal life is a disaster on almost every level. If she were a Democrat, it would be banner headlines every day.

Soak that part in: If she were a Democrat, it would be banner headlines every day.

Really? She's not headlines all day, every day right now? What planet did this guy just arrive from? It can't possibly have escaped him that she's been ripped to shreds in virtually every media outlet known to man around the globe. But if she were a Democrat it would be worse? Huh?

Palin isn't the one with terrorist friends. Palin isn't the one who sat blindly in a racist church for 20 years. A certain Democrat is. And funny, it wasn't until just this week that the name William Ayers started making headlines, though they're not exactly banner headlines.

Naturally, with everyone who trashes Palin, we find out how dangerous she is.

You get someone who is dangerously without any qualifications to be a heartbeat from becoming leader of the free world. And anyone who says otherwise is either lying to you or themselves.

And John McCain didn't care about any of this. He chose to put his country at risk. All the while knowing his age and his serious case of cancerous melanoma - for the sake of winning an election. Regardless of his noble past, this is an act of scathing dishonor.

Even the most heroic can fall from grace. So has John McCain fallen.

In three months, Sarah Palin could be sworn in as President of the United States.

Not the worst idea in the world, considering she's far more qualified than ACORN's community organizer.

But this is what happens when you're John McCain and don't care about oversight, due diligence or regulation. Don't fully investigate your choice to be vice president. Don't allow the press to fully question every, last detail of the person who could be a heartbeat from the presidency. Don't allow Americans to make a fully-informed choice about who to put in charge of their national security, their economy, their future. Don't let your full medical records be investigated. To hell with the country, you just want to win an election.

And you end up with Sarah Palin.

Nobody has given us every last detail of Sarah Palin?

Again, I ask, what planet did this guy just come in from?

The I realize, this must be satire. Just check his bio.

Born in Chicago, he attended Northwestern University and received his MFA from UCLA, where he was twice awarded the Lucille Ball Award for comedy screenwriting.

Problem is, this guy isn't funny.