elfs | Squick!

I haven't been blogging about politics too much recently. It simply horrifies me that a man so completely without honor and dignity as Candidate McCain has shown himself to be is within striking distance of the White House. And now Chris Matthews, under the guise of "analysis" on Hardball this morning gave us this punchbowl-filler:

When you see the picture together of John McCain [and Sarah Palin] .. it's like they are offering themselves up as a kind of a political couple, almost like President and Senator Clinton. They offering themselves up to run as an alternative to Barack and Michelle Obama to go to the White House. This picture is appealing to traditional Americans. They go, yeah, that's a nice traditional formal, we've seen that picture before.

I'm not sure what's more foul and revolting: Chris Matthews depicting John McCain and Sarah Palin as some kind of May/December romance, or proposing that Barack and Michelle Obama aren't "appealing to traditional Americans."

What's not appealing about the marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama? When we look at them together, you know, first marriage, two delightful children, traditional home life, churchgoing couple-- what do we see that turns off "traditional Americans?" Inquiring minds want to know, Chris Matthews...