Raise your hand if you’re going to watch the Palin-Biden Debate tonight.  Now raise your hand if your going to a party to watch it. If you’ll be playing political drinking games at that party, lower your hands, hand over your keys and call a cab.   And know that you’re not alone.

Politics has become the newest National Sport of the United States.  Record numbers of people - especially in their early twenties - have registered to vote for the first time.  70 million people packed a football stadium to hear Obama’s nomination speech.  Sarah Palin look-alike contests are rampant.

Mitt Romney once said that he loved politics because it was like a sport.  This irritated me. I want my politicians to say what they believe in, not whatever will get them elected. This, in fact, is Romney’s downfall.  In Massachusetts he’s for abortion, in Ohio he’s against it.  etc etc.  He plays politics a little too much like a game.

But his statement highlighted the often times fierce competition between parties that spawns especially when things aren’t going so well.  The worse things are (and could the economy get any worse?), the more involved people become.

And the more involved people become, the less chance that rhetoric and bull$%$% will stand up when we call it a day on November 4th.

So, get those nachos made, and the beer cold, place your bets, and get ready for what looks to be a good fight tonight.  Oh, did I say fight?  I meant debate.

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