Sarah Palin has challenged President Obama to a debate. She surely has a distorted view of her importance nationally. Why would any president agree to a debate with such a nonentity.

I saw the movie Game Change. I enjoyed it and did learn some things I didn’t know before. Steve Schmidt, McCain’s campaign manager, played in the movie by Woody Harrelson, has been on talk shows verifying the events in the movie. One of the most bizarre is that Palin expected to give her own concession speech after Obama won. She was told no by Schmidt, who informed her that only the presidential candiate concedes and it was "ever thus" and that the night wasn't "about you". Then she went over his head to McCain, who also said no, although with a good deal more grace because he hates to hurt people’s feelings. (Except, of course, for his first wife, whom he left after a car accident disfigured her, and married his younger, richer mistress.)

There are continued debates about how close the national election will be in November and the consensus is “very close” and I am wondering if they’ve got it wrong because are they forgetting how angry women are? I hope I am right in this.

Rush Limbaugh, meanwhile, has done the Democrats a great service by being so obviously despicable and obsessive about Sandra Fluke, the undergraduate he labeled a slut and a prostitute for seeking to have women’s health care continue to include contraception. Many advertisers have dropped the show and affiliates are also dropping him. Some stations will continue but they are owned by his bosses, Clear Channel. I was surprised to learn that Girl Scouts of America, who dropped their ads, were one of his sponsors. Good grief. What insanity is that? What organization dedicated to raising healthy young minds would seek to advertise on such a show? Are they nuts? I wrote them about it.

About Romney and his dog. This incident where he spoke of transporting his dog on a long trip in a cage on the roof of his car graphically illustrates not that Romney hates dogs, but that he is missing the empathy button – he can’t put himself in anyone else’s place. It’s a sociopathic trait. I would never transport any animal in a way where I could not monitor his condition on the road – is he hungry, thirsty, comfortable, lonely, holding his water, in any trouble at all, etc. Romney doesn’t know how to connect and I am also wondering about his marriage at this point.

Romney’s son, incidentally, was in Hawaii (Obama country for sure) and said on camera that he thought Obama “was great”. Was this political because he was in Hawaii, or does he really think so? In any case, I’ll bet his dad and handlers went ape.

I just signed another petition on abortion rights – choosing, of course, all the progressive-liberal positions, and they have a link to Facebook, so I clicked on that. The poll results all favor my positions. You’d have to be a Karen Santorum to vote any other way.

I have been wondering, since Rick Santorum believes sex should only be indulged in if you want to procreate, whether he and Karen will stop having relations now that she presumably is past child-bearing age. (Does she know this, or is she twisting slowly in the wind?) Totally ignoring the possible consequence of her pregnancy in her 50s,they went ahead and had that “change of life” baby and their infant daughter has a genetic disease and may never grow to adulthood. They thought more of their “moral” convictions than of the awful life this baby would lead if they went ahead. Perhaps they look at each other and say, "Look, the veggie is smiling, choke."

I am hoping the poll results will translate into votes for Obama nationwide. It’s time for the war against women to be put in its place. I think the push for regressive mandates about choice, contraception, and ultrasounds have nothing to do with religious freedom and everything to do with reducing the independence of women as they are achieving more and more in life. Women’s participation in all the advantages of an autonomous life is threatening to many conservative minds. Conservative women who buy into this, I am thinking, do not have the talent or ambition to do more than “serve” in the traditional way, and do not want to be outshown by their more talented and assertive sisters.

I think Santorum’s moral choices are at least, in part, dictated by his male hubris. He doesn’t see it that way, of course, being totally self-delusional. Let’s get him to see the light.

xx, Teal