Some Helpful Advice From Ironicus Maximus

Full disclosure: We're not political consultants. Don't even play them on the tee vee. We hardly ever pay attention to the public mood, seldom read anything other than the sports page, haven't seen Meet The Press in years and couldn't tell you how a bill becomes a law if you put a gun to our heads.

Wait a minute, that makes us as qualified as Dick Morris.

Well, be that as it may, we're still not going to charge for this little piece of advice we'd like to pass along to the McCain campaign, specifically his running mate Sarah I-can-be-mean-to-you but-you-can't-be-mean-to-me Palin.

Now, in her speech at the republican convention she said :

"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,"

OK, see Sarah--may we call you Sarah, or would you prefer Mrs. Could-be-president-god-help-us-all? Yeah, simple is best. Now Sarah, the thing about making fun of Community Organizers is that you have to remember they like, organize things in their communities. And one of the things they organize is getting out the vote. So you see, ticking off people who can bring a lot of other people to the polls is not the smartest move you could make.

Now, you're probably thinking, so what if I alienate the very people who can mobilize voters for my opponent, this is the republican party, our voter suppression methods can not be defeated.

Yeah, well there is that, but here's the thing: suppressing absentee ballots overly emphasizes ballots cast by old people and they are the ones most likely to vote for you because...well...they're old and easily confused.

Hey, maybe we are qualified to be political consultants. Or candidates.