is this for real?

i hope to wake up tomorrow morning and to discover that this has all been a complete and total joke, this palin nonsense. john mccain has got to be out of his mind to put this woman on national television, let alone on his freaking ticket as next in line to the presidency. hypothetically, we are entering into war with russia as soon as georgia enters nato? talk about alarmist; talk about fueling the fire. this woman is ruining foreign perception of the US as a vice presidential NOMINEE!? and the bush doctrine--his worldview?! weren't prepared for that one, were you, sarah?
my god.
beyond that she appeared to be completely and thoroughly rehearsed--whenever charlie went off her script she was shaken, but then spoke forcefully to cover it up. she's faking it, and it's all such a ploy engineered by old white men at the controls--to appear "maverick," to pick off female voters, to give people a good life story to relate to. and something like 65% of american men have a positive opinion of her...hmm. wonder why...
beyond that, mccain is brilliantly and maddeningly picking up on the dissolution of the feminist movement. where the f is NOW and other feminist groups? why aren't they forcefully saying NO to john mccain/gop's blatant, sickening sexist move? ahhh, there's the rub--we're in a post-feminist world, yet we still have to be careful about what we say (note to barack: just don't say anything else about lipstick--we'll all be thrown off course again for like, 3 days)...i mean, how could we not be in a post-feminist world, when it is actually VIABLE that this WOMAN is touted as the candidate for women, against equal pay legislation and against abortion in all cases, even incest and rape? whatever your position, if you are against abortion in those cases, you're in denial: women are still victims of sex crime every day--1 in 4 women during their time in college. heaven forbid a woman is a victim of incest or rape, she must have that choice because she never made any kind of choice to be impregnated in the first place.
anyway, i'm getting derailed. the mccain campaign is brutally capitalizing on any way they can perceive obama/the media/insert big bad person or institution here of sexism, and the way their accusations will speak to the millions of american women who have been "deer in the headlights" (deer, i'm sure, that palin would like to pick off with her f-ing gun) about a crucial question for much of their lives: "are you a feminist?" because the word connotes such bra-burnin, man-eatin, hell-raisin anger that maybe it's better just to go along with the way things are. but come on, american women: how could you not be a feminist? the right to make choices about your body--even if you WILL choose to or not (who are you to deny other people that choice)? receiving just as much compensation as a man for doing the same job? or just economic justice for that matter...? not every woman can take their children to work like sarah...what will she do for those women working long hours as a lawyer, or in a factory? please, please, will someone in the media ask her the simple question: what will she do for women? because there is no way that's on her script (the GOP could clearly give a flying f about women)--and good god, for her to be in that position as the first woman ever, she had BETTER do something for us. her answer would have to be "nothing."
someone said it best on a post i read earlier today: "i hope god has a plan that sarah palin is not the vice president nor the president..." i mean, doesn't the hypocrisy of it all just make you throw back your head and laugh?
for the record, f=ing hell yes i am a feminist, and this is an outrage. and i intend to raise hell about it wherever and whenever i can.