With a 5-4 liberal Supreme Court and a Democrat controlled Congress, there won’t be alot of zealoting (hey, a new word!) being thrown around.

And yeah, you’re right — as much as I do genuinely like McCain, and as much as I do genuinely distrust Obama (I honestly just don’t “get” the whole cult of personality around him), if we still had a solidly Republican Congress after 8 years of all-Republican rule you can bet that I’d be voting Obama this time around.

It’s true that one term of one-party rule won’t bring the country down — any more than one term of McCain/Palin won’t bring the country down — but my larger concern is the long-term cycle of payback & retribution. When the R’s got all the power after so long, they abused that power. After 6 years of that abuse, followed by 2 years of a do-nothing D Congress that now has something to prove, you really think that the Dems won’t go nuts when they don’t have to work with R’s at all?

Which, as I said in my post, will lead inevitably to the Republicans again abusing power in retribution once they regain control, whenever that might be.

Also, that whole divided government thing is precisely why it’s *not* a problem for a religious zealot to be that close to the seat of power, because that power isn’t absolute, and the system of checks and balances can operate not only on the branches of government, but on the parties that control that government.

But, ultimately, I fear that there really aren’t a lot of “Davids” out there after all. And I do think that the Palin choice may end up turning off more independent voters than McCain can attract, much to my chagrin.

By the way, I love that this post is tagged with “ham sandwich”… wonder how many hits you’ll get for that?