Right On, Maureen

I applaud Maureen Dowd, in her column today, for expressing her eloquent disgust at what might be called "Wardrobegate," perhaps the most scandalous use of public funds since old William Seward's impetuous purchase of Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million. I refer, of course, to the Republican National Committee's outrageous expenditure of $150,ooo for clothing, purchased at bourgeois stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus, to outfit the newly nominated Governor Palin for the campaign trail. I am ashamed at my prior support for the Governor, for her complicity in this fiasco clearly shows her disdain for the common people whom she has so strongly championed. May she be reminded every day for the rest of her life, maybe even longer, of this ugly episode in our nation's history, how she dared to go along with this unabashed affront to all things decent and wholesome. May God have mercy on your soul, Governor.

Ms. Dowd has a choice of subject matter for her twice weekly columns, and good for her that she chose this national insult today. After all, she could have chosen any one of the following irrelevant matters:

• The Obama campaign's censoring of an Orlando TV news anchor named Barbara West (a former aide to Peter Jennings) for daring to ask Joe the Senator to justify a vote for Obama when Biden himself claimed that Obama may not be up to handling the international crisis certain to erupt within six months of his inauguration. She also quoted from Marx (not Groucho), noting a similarity with Obama's wealth spreading creed, and asked Biden if it's reasonable to consider Obama a Marxist. Ms. West's station, per order of Campaign Obama, will not be granted any more interviews with the candidates -- nothing newsworthy there, no predictor of an Obama policy toward dissenting views in the press, nothing at all to be concerned about.
• The ruthless and probably illegal digging into the private life of one Joe Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber), all because he happened to be standing in his driveway when The Anointed One came walking by, and raised a question which elicited the Senator's ear-popping "spread the wealth" response. On second thought, this worthless ingrate, this non-plumbing, tax-dodging, publicity-seeking Republican stooge should be made to pay for being home at the time. Right, Maureen?
• The 20-year association of Mr. Obama with one Reverend Jeremiah Wright who seemed to have a rather narrow, pointed opinion of this Great Satan we call America. I understand Maureen's reluctance to examine this. Why on earth would anyone seek to explore that relationship when it might illuminate the Senator's real feelings toward this country and thus jeopardize his ascension to the Presidency of it, the outcome all real Americans so joyously await?
• The coziness between Senator Obama and Bill the Bomber, a genuine piece of American garbage who should be rotting away in some rat-infested cell, but instead uses his undeserved freedom to mock the flag and spread his anti-American venom. But wait, once again you're right, Maureen, for ignoring this. William Ayers is merely a distraction, a "washed-up terrorist" as McCain said, just a guy in the neighborhood who took his love for firecrackers a little too far as a youngster. How silly of me to think otherwise.
  

I don't know why I even mention these, because they pale in comparison to Wardrobegate. Thanks again, Ms. Dowd, for focusing our attention on the real villains, the real enemies of this country who should be hounded, jeered, and stripped of their expensive clothing and jewelry to boot. I urge you to continue exposing these reprehensible Republican women -- let's throw in Cindy McCain too -- for what they really are: arrogant, out of touch, two-faced, stupid, and unfairly attractive. Why can't they spread the beauty around a bit?