Consider the current election season.
We were all set for a boring, predictable slog between Hillary and Rudy, with many of us wishing they'd both just drop dead.
Then that Obama dude showed up. Look! Shiny! Suddenly the Shiny Thing was getting all the attention, and winning all the caucuses.
After a few months, with the shininess starting to wear a bit thin, McCain struck Shiny in Alaska. Suddenly Palin is the new Shiny Thing, getting all the attention - and, potentially, a lot of votes, if she doesn't get all tarnished in the next few weeks.
So what's Obama to do? Well, there's talk of Rusty Ol' Biden throwing himself under the bus for the good of the campaign. That would leave Obama free to pick a new Shiny Thing - younger, more famous, and genuinely unqualified for the veep slot. I refer of course to Paris Hilton, who's unqualified on grounds of having been born later than 20 Jan 1974. But who's going to quibble about technicalities? Maybe she can get a Chinese instant-aging treatment like those gymnasts got. That should make for lots of extra publicity.
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