There’s been so much neg­a­tivity sur­rounding Sarah Palin’s VP can­di­dacy, I thought I’d try and find some­thing to thank her for….
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Thank you, Sarah Palin
for taking women – and men -
back a few notches so fast
we all got whiplash.

Thank you Sarah Palin for proving fem­i­nism right;
For showing that men and women are truly equal.
That women can be just as stupid
as the stu­pidest of men.
Like the men run­ning the country
for most of the past decade.
And of course, Condi too.

Thank you Sarah Palin,
for flashing your girly smile,
and throwing back that silly Northern twang;
Your beauty queen charms warm the limp, lonely hearts
of Bill O’Reillys and Karl Roves every­where.
Thanks for being the pret­tiest beard
for frus­trated Republicans still in the closet.

Thanks Sarah Palin for charging rape vic­tims
for their own rape kits, while preaching to us all
the joys of cher­ishing our rape babies.
Because life is pre­cious -
until hunting season, that is.

Thank you Sarah Palin for helping intel­li­gent women
realize they are intel­li­gent first, women after.
Thanks for helping smart men appre­ciate
smart women more than ever before.

Thanks Sarah Palin for making George W. Bush
look edu­cated by com­par­ison.
Thanks for making Cheney look saner -
at least he shoots at things at close range and
doesn’t make couch covers from their bodies.

Thanks Sarah for not blaming us mor­tals for cli­mate change -
None of us was around 6,000 years ago
when you believe the Earth was cre­ated…
How could we know what caused cli­mate change?

Thanks Sarah.
For every­thing you do.
With every­thing you say,
you are a reminder
for every girl and every woman
of the choice inside each of us.
The choice…
to be a smart, savvy, self-aware human being
or to be
just another jackass, with lipstick.

~Kiran Mehdee, 1 October, 2008