This is the type of widely audacious statements that parallel many of the remarks coming from the Republican candidates in the presidential race. It will take a polar bear uprising to break through the television media chatter about energy expertise to meander to the facts.
Every Republican politico on television has picked up the gauntlet from Senator McCain when on Face the Nation earlier this week. According to him or at least in that interview, their VP candidate is the most popular governor in the country, and an expert on energy. Guess they all forgot about Governor Bill Richardson from New Mexico. So what if he was actually head of the Department of Energy, and extraordinarily popular in voter turnout.
Ho hum, don't worry about the facts. They just get in the way of a story.
That is why we call on all Polar Bears to Unite, and get their provisional ballots ready to vote. They should qualify as residents of the United States, and be heard. Remember every vote is important
If Senator John McCain and Governor Palin are your friends stand up and be counted. If they are going to preserve your natural habitat in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, make noise. If they are going to make sure that you do not fall through the rapidly diminishing ice, then wave your paws (if you can get them out of the water).
Silly as this may seem, McCain seems to be an amnesiac on energy policy and all the pioneering work he did in the Senate and the legislation he co-authored. If he can be allowed to forget or change his mind, then we can write fiction too - like the March of the Penguins. Why not?
So on we go to create great stories about polar bears marching into voting booths, and real women drilling through ice, wearing work boots. This is the stuff of legends from the western pioneer women. They had wagon trains and maybe up north they have dogsleds.
Move that pipe. It's off to the White House we go. And if you believe any of this nonsense, then you must have been listening to television journalism this past week.
Polar bears do live in Alaska, right?