Sarah Palin is easy.

I've been racking my brain to figure why the RNC would select Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate. Because it's obvious this woman is not a scholar. She's not a real politician. She's not eloquent, articulate, insightful, thoughtful, intriguing. She's none of those things. In fact, she's the exact opposite of Obama and his entire campaign. And that's just why they picked her. She's easy.

You don't have to think when she talks. You can relax, rest assured she's not going to use words you don't know, she's not going to make you feel guilty because you don't do anything besides what you absolutely have to. She's like an involuntary bodily function. Sarah doesn't make you go the extra mile. Hell, you don't even have to budge with her. She's not going anywhere.

I was reading Michelle Obama's blog...her latest entry. That's what inspired me to write this. After a few sentences, I said to myself, though not out loud, but I'll use quotes anyway, "I'll have to read this later. I'm not ready to focus on this now." When I came back to it, I realized what I'd done. I deferred to couch potato thinking, instead of allowing myself to be lifted to a higher level of thinking. Why? Because I wanted to be lazy. And lazy is not sexy. Lazy is why our country is in the situation we're in. It's much easier to do nothing than it is to concern ourselves about how our inactivity prevents all of us from being successful.

This morning I walked my dog. Always on a leash. I see a young woman get out of her car and let her dog out. He's not on a leash. She's unloading her car...I assume she wants to carry everything she has up to her apartment in one trip. Fine, I would probably do the same. But why not have the dog on a leash? At this point, I had a decision to make. I could change direction and avoid an unavoidable confrontation, or continue in the same direction, risking confrontation with the two dogs. I choose the latter(gawd, I miss East Cleveland sometimes). Her dog decided it needed to smell my dog, and my dog didn't like that idea. She grabs her dog by the collar and leads it away, fussing. I'm almost sure she had to have said she was sorry she didn't have it on a leash, since her dog so rudely approached my dog and interrupted our nice walk. I'm sure that's what she said.

So, what does this have to do with Ms. Palin? Everything. Our freedom, our right to say and believe what we choose, does have a price. We are responsible for one another. Regardless and in spite of race, religion or any other difference. Palin's platform doesn't reflect that value. She opens her mouth and lets the words fall out without regard for interpretation. She's not being responsible. Let's say Mr. Obama was in fact "palling around with terrorists." Has she offered any evidence of this? What does palling around mean? Why use the term "palling around?" Ayers and Obama worked on a committee together...how does that become palling around?

And unfortunately, there are too many of us lazy thinkers who let her get away with this ridiculous rant. It's not that I think she needs to be leashed. She needs to be muzzled and boarded away until she achieves balance.

In case ya didn't know, crazy is the new sane!