Oh, whats he gone and done now?

Not good.

Apparently the lipstick-pig quote is an established rural metaphor, but of all the metaphors to choose, this was not the one. Since the RNC, the Democrat ticket has been in all-out-defensive mode, and the two ill-established impromptu speakers have performed as only a red-stater dared hope. I don't believe that Obama is necessarily sexist; rather, he has forgotten Orwell's dictum that common metaphors should be dispensed with. Surely a man as brilliant as The One could have concocted a different, benign metaphor, like "You can put a hat on a cow, but it's still a cow!" But he didn't, and time will tell why. If I had to guess, it's because he's under actual pressure. McCain was supposed to be the fall guy. He would lose, The One would be elected President of the Globe, and the seas would recede, the peoples of the world would beat their swords into ploughshares, and [insert calamity here] would be averted by the power of His will. But McCain decided to fight. And just as the Junior Senator from New York was able to pressure the One into telling remarkable tales of the fifty-seven states and the "bitter Americans who cling to their guns and religion," so now the Republican ticket, coming from the deepest canyons of nowhere, compels the same. We shall see how the Lord Messiah and the Chief Apostle hold up face to face with the two people driving them completely mad.