What’s the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom?

When pit bulls can’t control themselves, we are allowed to euthanize them.

Watch Palin’s recent interview with Couric.

My first reaction, besides wincing, was, “Wow, that looks like… someone’s mom trying to perform as a politician on the national scene.”

And then I realized that reaction shouldn’t surprise me at all.  Because that’s all she is.  Hell, that’s all she’s billed herself as: the mom of quite a lot of someones.  And soon, she’s be someone’s grandma.

I don’t know about you, but I only like my hot grandmas when they are in comedy films about virgins.

Enough jabs on Palin. (Oh, who am I kidding: there can never been enough jabs on Palin!! But I still have to move on to the rest of the post.)

I have been watching the pathetic drama on the McCain Campaign front the past few days, and they are really tiring themselves out with all this crazy campaign suspension and flying to Washington stuff!  Whew!  I wouldn’t have thought they had any need to panic like they are.  I thought the so called “Palin/McCain” ticket was riding high.

Oh, sure, Couric ripping Palin a new one might not change some die-hards who think having someone “real” in the campaign is just the cat’s pajamas (read: all those fundie God ‘n’ Guns freaks.)

But I’m hoping some people who are trying to make an informed decision will see that Palin lacks just that: information.

Now, on to the other side.  I tend to agree with Slate that Obama performance lately has been “gutless and vapid,” but it seems all of a sudden like there is some sense to his lack of movement in the face of the pathetic flutterings of Grandma and Grandpa.

I am not saying, mind you, that this was the strategy.  I really don’t give the Obama campaign advisors that much credit.  I think it is mostly turning out to be a happy accident.

But Obama might do well to keep on with with his zen-like “not-doing” for another week, and then hammer it home in October with some great events, and bring back a couple of great speeches he’s known for.  Let the other side’s last swings finish, and then one knock out punch to win.

(Oh, uhm, also, Pit Bulls are adorable and don’t frighten me deeply. And most importantly, you can spay them.)