You Cannot Be Serious!

Why are we talking about this? Why is Sarah Palin's shopping spree even a campaign issue? Aren't there more substantive things we could and SHOULD be talking about?

The video footage is a segment on Hardball with Chris Matthews (who, like most people, is better as an SNL parody, and who I can barely stand in small doses). They devote, like, 11 minutes to this crap. Look, it comes down to this: If it's the party's money (NOT taxpayer money), then the party can spend it however they see fit.

The Republican party, I think, used to be masters of elevating trivial issues to the level of national priority. And I fault the Obama campaign for not saying, "This is such a trivial issue, that Sen. Obama will not even bother to spend one second of his time on it." Instead, they've allowed this to continue.

Anyway, enjoy the footage (if you stomach for more than 10 seconds).