I received an email today from a disaffected Hillary fan who plans to vote for McCain come November.

I am a died-in-the-wool Democrat, but when Obama turned his ass to Hillary and called her “sweetie,” I didn’t know what to do. I thought that I would write Hillary’s name in.

But McCain has given me a choice. While I disagree with most all of their policies (except for the honesty and integrity part), I’m voting for Sarah.

Can you start a women for Sarah group? That I’d like to join and work for!

Really. You cannot overestimate the negative effect that the naked sexism and disrespect shown towards Hillary during this campaign has had on women. I expect to be getting more emails like this as the sexism lands on Sarah Palin as well (and of course, it already has). Witness the comments over at John Cole’s Balloon Juice, a site where the reading comprehension is so great that the commenter who linked me there called me a Hillary voter. (Shyeah.)

Ninerdave Says:

She looks like a stripper in teachers garb. I keep expecting her to rip off her glasses and grab a pole.

And then there’s this charmer:

r€nato Says:

this pick just REEKS of desperation. I can’t wait to see Biden wipe the floor with her in the Veep debates.

And yes it is creepy to see old man McCain standing next to a cute chick 30 years his junior.

Even creepier when you remember that McCain’s second wife, Cindy Hensley McCain, is 18 years his junior.

I think the Obama campaign should definitely consider pushing an undercover ‘McCain digs chicks young enough to be his daughter’ meme.

I mean, great for the old guy that he can get young chicks… everyone else pretty much thinks it’s creepy.

Or this.

AkaDad Says:

When I think of Palin, I’m thinking “Drill Here Drill Now.”

You stay classy, progressive Democrats. And try to wonder why women are unhappy with your party these days.

You know, I always hated Cole’s site. This garbage reminds me why.

Jonathan Last points out the Battlestar Galactica angle on the Republican slate:

Watching Palin’s introduction it became immediately clear that she looks uncannily like a young Laura Roslin.* This can only bode well for Palin. But the parallels don’t stop at her looks. Like Roslin, Palin was basically a private citizen (Roslin was a teacher, Palin was a reporter) before being pulled into politics. Neither seems to have had any larger ambition, until events pulled them into prominence. And both were immediately discounted by outside observers as being unequal to the demands of their new positions.

Jonathan, you’re such a geek. (And I say that very fondly, as I have all of season four on my DVR and am going to use every wile I have to not let Comcast make me change DVRs when I move next week.)

Like Adama and Roslin, McCain and Palin should complement each other well. I eagerly await the moment in the VP debate when Palin is asked what she would do with Osama bin Laden if he were captured. One assumes her answer will be some variation of, “Put that thing out the airlock.”

It’s a slam-dunk.

I’m getting emails from Hillary supporters telling me they’re now going to vote for McCain. Now we can shoot for the SF fan base.

Hat tip: Chris H.

Rats. Just when I finally found the issue that gets people commenting (it is apparently politics, and not Israel or even—sigh—my enthralling cat and life posts), I have to do things like, gee, move.

I’m off for the entire next week, albeit not really, as I will be doing work in the evenings, probably. But I will be cleaning, packing, closing, painting, and moving into my new home. This is the last weekend I’ll be spending having to listen to noisy people in the parking lot at midnight, or cars coming by with their stereos literally shaking the walls to my apartment, or neighbors screaming at each other or partying.

I won’t be missing this place. Only its central location. But I’m not moving very far, just about ten miles west. It will add about 5-10 minutes to my trip to NorVA, but cut my time to just about everywhere else. Except going to Heidi and Sarah’s places. There are almost no direct routes between where I am and where they are. It’s slightly annoying.

The close is supposed to happen Tuesday morning at 11, but may be pushed back a few hours. I’m getting really excited. Moving into my own home. How cool is that?