When Governor Sarah Palin was nominated to be John McCain’s running mate, I mentioned to a friend that she would have every aspect of her life flyspecked.  He said that she had already been Governor, so there wasn’t much not known about her.  I said, “Wait and see, they will try to “bork” her.

I am absolutely certain that I do not want my last name to become a verb.  Robert Bork had been Solicitor General, Attorney General and a judge for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.  But when President Reagan nominated Bork to be a justice of the Supreme Court, the attack dogs came out.  You would have thought that President Reagan had nominated a Klansman.  Bork’s opposition went over every opinion he had ever written.  They reviewed his speeches.  They even checked on every movie he had ever rented!  I guess they didn’t mind violating his individual rights in order to protect theirs.

Bork’s credentials were unimpeachable,  but there were strong objections to his conservative views.  He was not confirmed by the Senate and thus, the verb, to bork, came into existence.

There was a strong attempt to “bork” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  He was accused of sexual harassment by a subordinate, Anita Hill.  In my opinion, neither his story, nor hers made a lot of sense.  He was in her apartment a number of times, but there was no allegation of wrongdoing on those occasions.  Plus, she followed him from one job to another, and even after she quit working for him, she still made personal calls to him.  Not the normal activity of someone who has been sexually harassed.  Thomas was confirmed by the Senate.

Now, it is Sarah’s turn.  In their effort to find something on Sarah, we’ve got “wardrobegate.”  Supposedly, $150,000 was spent on clothing for Sarah (really about a third of that amount).  Some staffer did it and went to stores she had been instructed not to go to, and now it is shame on Sarah.  It  all sounds kind of sexist to me, but I don’t expect the feminist movement to come out and support her.   But life’s not fair and I think Sarah already knows that.  She must have known they would try to “bork” her.

I got on the computer today to go to the Obama Tax Calculator.  This is supposed to tell me whether I will be better off under the Obama or McCain tax proposal (key word is proposal).  I found the page and put in all the financial information, but then they wanted my email address.  Why?  I thought the Democrats don’t believe people should have to show an ID to vote, so why do I have to give them my email address?  I saw in another place on the web page that if I gave them a donation I would receive a free gift.  It reminds me of the old joke, “Please write your name and address on the back of a twenty dollar bill and we will send you your free gift.”

I really didn’t need the tax calculator to know I would do better under the Obama proposal.  The politician who promised a chicken in every pot lost the election, because his opponent promised two chickens in every pot.  How do you think the chickens felt about all that?  Well, I feel like a chicken and I am hoping that next Tuesday, I don’t feel like I have been thrown into the pot.