I GOT SUMTHIN' TA SELL YA

Politicians and folks who are selling things will go on any talk show they can to get the message out. Never mind that Jay Leno called you Darth Vader for 20 years and told jokes about battery jumper cables and your heart... you've got a book to sell so "all is forgiven." You sit in the chair politely while the next guest, Carrot-Top, makes fun of you, your job, and your children. My favorite was when CT pulled out a pair of Redwing work boots with Swarovski encrusted high heels glued on the bottom and called them Dress shoes for Lesbians. Cheney's (ChEEney to his friends except his lawyer who can't pronounce the "E" because of the buckshot in his face) smile never went away. Maybe he goes to the same plastic surgeon that Nancy Pelosi goes to hence the trademark sneer.

You've got to have thick skin to be in politics. Takes a lickin' but keeps on tickin" like timex or..... Oh, I'm sorry, am I out of line here? (Jay Leno expression).

Anyhow, out of respect for the Vice President who told all in his tell-all book about who did what to whom and when and got us embroiled in a no win war or two, I will merely say that "Politics makes strange bedfellows." Some of the strangest were Anthony "look at my" Wiener, Eliot "bareback" Spitzer, and the guy who tap danced his way from a stall in a mens room to a one way ticket out of Congress. I am sure we will find out lots more about future presidential candidates, except the incumbent who is "transparent." Perhaps we will find out that Sarah Palin used to be a pole-dancer in a bar in Anchorage under the name of Bar-a-cutie, or Rick Perry was really Rico Perrico, a hit man for the Texas mob. The season is just beginning. Whatever happens, when they write their books, they will do whatever it takes to sit next to Jay Leno on late night TV.