Menopause and Palin don't go together well

According to one website devoted to anxiety disorders: Hormone imbalances during menopause can create the environment where you are more susceptible to anxiety disorders, but, not everyone develops anxiety or panic attacks so other factors must come into play.

That factor, for me, is Sarah Palin or, rather, the reaction to Sarah Palin from the heavily manipulated masses.

Since her selection, whenever I wake up at night, she pops into my mind and mood-alerting hormones surge through my body. Anxiety takes over. Fear courses through my body. Sleep eludes me. Finally, I calm myself and go back to sleep. But, the cycle repeats three or four times a night.

It is not that Palin particularly bothers me as a human being. She seems pretty cool in a lot of ways. And I love Alaska and Alaskans! Of course, she is way to the right of me and I doubt that we would agree on most policy matters. But that is not why I am having panic attacks. The problem is, she hasn’t thought about most policy matters – foreign and domestic. At all! And, about half the country doesn’t even seem to care. At all! This is just horrifying to me. This is what keeps me up at night.

The prime example, of course, is that she has said that she hasn’t thought much about the Iraq war (even though her son is being deployed there this week) except that “it is a task from God” and that she hopes that “there is a plan”. If she hasn’t thought about Iraq – I think it should be quite evident that she has no meaningful thoughts about any foreign matters. Potentially, one heartbeat away and no meaningful thoughts about our relationship to the world!

To compare Palin with Obama (or Biden or Clinton) is to insult the intelligence of any thinking human being.

And, that is just what the McCain campaign is doing. And, an amazing number of people are buying it. They don’t seem insulted at all! Instead, they are insulted by people like me pointing out how deeply cynical and horrifying this pick really is on multiple levels. This anti-intellectual, anti-rational reaction to Palin makes me truly worry about the future of our nation.

And all these damn menopausal hormone imbalances aren’t helping either.