Dear wOw kids!

This is the week that is and I have already prepared two different scripts for Fox Entertainment’s Lips & Ears. I had to project myself into the future to offer one version if McCain wins and another one if Obama wins. This could give a girl schizophrenia.

But what I want to do is show you something you may already have seen over America Online as of October 24: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, “Dancing With the Stars.” 

Honeys, stranger things could happen. Obama could implode. Sarah could fail to advance from veep to POTUS. Some day down the line both of them could be a bit behind the wave and all washed up. That’s when they’ll be perfect for “Dancing With the Stars,” and since both of them can really dance, it will be worth waiting for.

The Washington Post offers up a survey saying that generally Republicans are much happier than Democrats. We will see if that holds true after November 4. Meantime, don’t forget to vote. You might make Democrats happy. And if Republicans are already happy, then maybe they won’t mind so much because they have those excellent dispositions.

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All you Aquarians out there. Shelley Ackerman, a woman famed for horoscopes, says February’s kids are “plugged in and active on several fronts, and though your attention is divided, you can manage the impossible (like being in two places at once). With Venus in your 11th house of groups and friends, you’re buoyed by gatherings of like-minded allies and a team effort. But after the 22nd, career must come first. Be 100 percent present for yourself and your superiors. This Scorpio month will make or break you!”

That last sentence is the one that will keep me up at night.

But, generally, if you ask me – this kind of cliff-hanging advice could apply to all the other 11 signs of the zodiac. We’re all trying to be 100 percent “present.”  

Speaking of Gov. Sarah Palin – as we all are – there is no gainsaying that she has star quality and will be around long after this election is over. The other night I sat on a media and ethics symposium at NYU. The other VIPs were an editor from Time, a New York Times columnist, an adviser to Fox News and the attorney from The Washington Post/Newsweek.

High cotton? But we ended up just talking and arguing about Sarah Palin. Did the media go overboard reporting on her children or did she offer up her family to improve and enhance her image? Was her family fair game? Was the kind of “shotgun wedding” publicity they had to endure worth it?

By the time we finished we all agreed that media ethics is an oxymoron and we were all guilty.

Speaking of Gov. Palin (again!! And forever perhaps!!) I wonder how many of you read wOw’s offering recently by The Ectceterist when he said the GOP should simply have presented the $150,000 Neiman Marcus, Saks wardrobe for her campaigning as a plus and a positive effort for American retailing. 

Mr. Etc., one of the most plugged in of wOw’s many contributors, says we should all be buying clothes and supporting retail business. He noted a fascinating statistic – that fashion is the second-biggest business-generating sparkplug in New York.

And with Wall Street going down the drain, fashion, W, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and the Etceterist – the fashion business could become our No. 1 mainstay.

I don’t think the GOP managed the Sarah Palin wardrobe very cleverly. Why didn’t Cindy McCain just take the fall for buying her the stuff she needed? Mrs. McCain is a many-times millionaire, she dresses herself very well and with confidence and she could have just said: “I’m taking Sarah in hand and I will do her wardrobe.” I think everybody would have simply applauded and not thought anything more about it. 

Click here on this text to read my New York Post column.