If getting vomit out of a Honda Odyssey and making baby formula less than five seconds with her eyes closed while shooting a polar bear cub with her ruby-red assault rifle makes you eligible to assume the presidency, then Sarah Palin is a shoe-in.
Ha! I can’t wait to see the “hockey mom” PTA leader debate Joe Biden. This is why the Repugs have truly lost their mojo, and not just because their anointed leader is ED: they are ignoring their own captious criticisms of Obama’s lacking experience in national security by selecting someone not eligible to be class president. Moreover, McCain is going with someone with elementary experience at best as a pointless pander to the 18 million disenfranchised Hillary supporters, and it aint working!
Once they learn that Sarah Palin opposes rape and incest exceptions for women seeking abortion, they completely write her off. Sarah Palin is to the movement for women’s equality what Steven Segal is to acting. She’s an extremist and an enemy to the cause that has been fought on her behalf. What confuses me beyond belief is if surface, cheerleading, nonthreatening appeal with shit for brains is what McCain was seeking, then he could’ve looked no further than his wife. You know she wasn’t properly vetted because they would’ve told McCain that he’s seeking a vice president, not a third piece of disposable eye candy.
How about that Cindy McCain? I swear she looked the Malibu Stacy patriotic collection. I still say that the award for most inadvertently funny speech goes to Mike Huckabee! All I heard was something about his Elvis and the electorate not deserving the right to carry desks around. All that was missing from that quintessentially southern nonsensical ramble was a park bench and a half eaten box of chocolates.
Now, her child’s accidental pregnancy shouldn’t be exploited–even though the Republicans thrive on opening up such non-issues–but I really wish they would stop saying that the Palins were ecstatic to hear the news. They were about as ecstatic when they heard the OJ verdict. Speaking of family values, a fellow blogger said that if your going to take on a super high power job…..maybe 5 kids isn’t the way to go. Her son may have down syndrome but she’s ****ing retarded. She is against abortion…. thus the Down Syndrome child that could have been detected in the first 6 weeks and spared this poor child an existence as a special needs kid with a mom who has better things to do.
As far as maverick and independent thinking goes, 2000 Senator McCain is dead. I believe I wrote about his slow descent to the lunatic fringe long ago when he embraced one time “agent of intolerance” Jerry Falwell. John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin was designed to pacify dyed-in-the-wool conservatives’ anxieties about many of McCain’s liberal impulses (campaign finance reform, immigration, etc.)and thus mobilize the Dobson, Bauer, and Buchanan crowd. In short, he swiftly threw the independent crowd under the cheap talk express and they aint coming back.
The NY Times already has an article of what really happened and why, according to sources in his campaign.
It pretty much alludes to the fact that the McCain camp was ready for Lieberman. Phil Graham was even pushing hard for this pick. But the judgment was finally made that the social conservative base would be outraged (the main issue being Lieberman is pro-choice) and their lack of support would too drastically undercut McCain’s chances.
She passed the crazy, conservative ideological litmus test with flying colors and that is why she’s there. The fact that she she’s hotter than Johnny’s temper, well, that’s what we call value-added.
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