Who Cares?

Geraldine Ferraro. What Geraldine Ferraro has to say about anything is of absolutely no concern to me. There is nothing she could say that would make me vote one way or the other. Why, then, are the mainstream media and the blogosphere caterwauling endlessly about what she said? Could it be that it is easier to wring our collective hands over some insignificant slight said by someone no longer politically relevant than it is to break down candidates' policy differences in such a way that it can be easily digested by the average reader?