et ready! She's coming to a home near you! And she won't be wearing a red-white-and-blue teddy with a golden lasso as an accessory at the ready! Well, maybe south of the Arctic Circle! No, more likely she'll be sporting cold-weather gear, waterproof Bibles and, of course, an adjustable set of morals unheard of since Mengele ticked off twins for experimentation at Nazi era concentration camps!

ho is this mystery woman? And how could she have the nation absolutely falling over her as though she had the intellect of an Einstein and the beauty of ... er ... an Einstein? She must be magical, mystical and, naturally, upstanding, decent, resourceful, kind, considerate, nurturing and ever vigilant of human rights and dignities as nobly protected by the United State Constitution!

o, no, nothing like that! It's merely Sarah Palin, that madcap governor of Alaska, who floated to her unlikely position after being a public official in a huge metropolis of... uh...roughly 9,000 souls! Without a doubt, this is a truly fascinating adventure that is uniquely American, wherein a less-than-average small-minded absentee mom whose hypocritical standards are smugly insulated from consideration by her personal invocation of privacy rights that are apparently not granted to her own fellow citizens, as if that mattered since she wanted Alaska to secede from the United States anyways, can rise, or sink, as the case may be, to the level of Republican nominee for Vice-President!

ell us this is just a dream, or, rather, a nightmare, Mr. Sandman! Can it be that a feeble-minded fool whose greatest world experience, to date, seems to be giving birth to damaged children, and who hails from the frozen tundras of Alaska, a state that boasts a total population significantly less than that of certain suburbs of Los Angeles, could become the President of the United States, given the unfortunate situation that a commander-in-chief John McCain, grudgingly freed forever from his campaign developed habit of checking out his Vice President's butt during public appearances, drifts into a deeper death than the one in which he currently resides?

f course, we at dirtcentral are resigned to the likelihood that this horror fantasy may, in fact, become reality. After all, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were two-term presidents! One still wonders why, with such American wisdom flowing like juices from a certain elderly Republican presidential nominee during his likely frequent toilet visits, My Mother the Car only lasted a single season! Lucky us, though! My Mother the Alaskan Who Preaches Abstinence But Still Has a Slut Daughter With a Bastard Child could last as long as the farces that were the administrations of Ronnie Reagan and Baby Bush!

o, mindful of the levels to which a President Palin, armed with the creationist knowledge that six thousand years of the universe's existence can provide, fully prepared to pressure public servants to do her rotten personal biddings or lose their jobs, and with the determination to protect the sacred institution of marriage, an understanding for which her own family seems to sorely lack, will inexorably lead this great nation, we grant to the children of America and their pitiable adult compatriots who might actually have to live under the rule of this nothing less than wicked bitch, the very first edition of a great tome, entitled...

John Be Nimble, Grandma's First Nursery Rightism