Years ago, Milwaukee talk show host Charlie Sykes, a conservative, wrote a book about the dumbing down of America. He wrote about how the educational system is turning out a bunch of uneducated rubes who lack critical thinking skills, and whose world view revolves around the latest celebrity scandal.

Nothing proves that more than the reaction of America to the addition of Sarah Palin to the Repuglican ticket. As incredulous as it may seem, adding this illiterate hick to the ticket, one heartbeat away from the presidency, has actually helped McCain in the polls.

It doesn't surprise me that the right wing religious nut jobs are flocking to McCain/Palin. Those are genuinely stupid people who believe such things as Noah literally placed two of every species of animal and insect on his ark and repopulated the Earth. But, I am very surprised, and disappointed, in all the others.

These are the people who have run this country into the ground for the last eight years. And now, you want to give them another shot at it?