Yeah, well. This is a feature, not a bug. You think Dubya makes his own decisions? You think Reagan did? The same policy assholes who always make the decisions for the GOP president will keep doing it. You’ll see the same creeps and liars and profiteers in the background you always do, should she become president. And you’ll see them there should McCain do so, too. All GOP presidents are interchangeable. Some are just worse than others. But the policies stay the same: redistribute the wealth and power to themselves from everybody else.

Palin will do what she’s told, so it doesn’t really matter who she is. Meanwhile, guys like Gary and The Truth get to spend the next fifty years explaining that the chicks don’t need any “special rights” (like equal pay, or bodily autonomy) because hey, they’re totally equal now–as long as they stop acting like victims and work hard, just like Sarah, and the only reason anyone’s still whining about domestic violence is that the Democrat Party, who are the real misogynists here, are a bunch of sexism pimps.

I won’t say it’s a brilliant choice, because it all depends on them winning the election in the first place, but honestly I’m not sure they won’t. They’ve cheated and caged enough democrats out of their votes that they might actually win it.

Meanwhile, any attack on Palin, regardless of its merits, will leave the GOP and the media screaming about SEXISM! and don’t imagine the reams of material documenting their behavior towards Clinton will embarrass them at all on this score. If it gets commented on at all, it will be in a We’ve Learned Our Lesson way.

Famous last words: “Vetting? We don’t need no stinking vetting!”

It’s only a day or so, & Palin looks more & more like someone the DEMS selected for Johnny Wet-Start. Targets just don’t come much softer than pro-life nutters who take long jet flights while in labour (unless she was actually faking it to cover for her own daughter, which would be the political equivalent of Larry Craig’s “wide stance” for sheer deadliness), let alone ones currently under criminal investigation for abuse of power. Looks like the GOP has bought into another Spiro Agnew, minus the brains.

(Rightwingsnarkle @ 19:06)… Miss Alaska is a landmine.

The blowback from her idiotic support of Pat “Hitler was a real Mensch” Buchanan in Florida will be heinous – & even if Obama decides to stay “pure” the blogosphere will have no such scruples. I suspect the e-mails are already being sent as I type. Looks like McCrash-&-Burn just threw away Florida. Palin is a life-preserver for the Republicans – a life-preserver stuffed with anvils.

JD, Candy, and others know the truth – this is a great pick!

Just like you agreed with Rove’s “THE Math” in 2006? Or perhaps with “Mission Accomplished” a few years earlier? Thank you, o wise & sagacious The Trout – your enthusiasm for this twit is a warm comforting blanket on a cold night.

Yes, Sarah Palin is indeed a landmine … a friendly-fire landmine.

Listening to the right wing pundits on talk radio, you’d think that this was sheer brilliance. The Christian branch of the GOP has been stroked. This woman is so “pro-life” that she had a kid that she knew was afflicted with Down’s Syndrome. How wise and compassionate she must be to accept this “gift from God”. She’s accepted this beautiful presence in her life in such a self-sacrificing manner. It should be pointed out that anyone who makes the choice not to abort a fetus with such a severe disability is making a commitment to give of themselves in a way a parent of normally-functioning children can not ever truly understand. The amount of time and energy that the mother must invest are extraordinary*.

This Sarah Palin must truly be a noble soul, right? She’s going to prioritize the sanctity of life. She’s going to live up to her reputation as a crusader for “family values”. She must be absolutely inexhaustible. As governor of a state of such crucial importance to the rest of the nation, she must call upon her extensive education and experience to look out for the interests of all US citizens, and not just the tens of thousands who elected her to office. And that’s not all. Now she’s agreed to take on a bigger role of service to our country. She’s willing to accept the nomination to be our Vice President. Why is that? Well, as of the beginning of this month she didn’t even know. In her own words “I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?”

Well, in her case (should McCain win in November) she has to be prepared at any time to assume the duties of the presidency. If you’re not aware of the state of John McCain’s health, suffice it to say that the 72-year-old’s prognosis is not especially favorable. So Palin really ought to be boning up on her prospective duties in the number 1 spot as well, because she is not what anyone could call especially well-informed when it comes to federal government (in fact she’s never served in it). At the very least, she should spend some time studying Iraq. In an interview with Alaska Business Monthly in 2007, she was asked about the troop “surge” and she replied, “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”

Of course that’s a bit odd considering her oldest son is due for deployment to the Middle Eastern theater on September 11th of this year. But we’ve got to cut her some slack. She has a lot on her plate. I’m sure the investigation into her possibly unlawful dismissal of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan is eating into her moose-hunting time. The results of that inquiry will be released on October 30th. Furthermore, she’s going to be on the campaign trail for the next 60 odd days. In order for her to unleash her “Sarah Barracuda” persona on Joe Biden, she’s going to have to receive a basic introduction to national policy and government, which should sufficiently complement her prestigious bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Idaho.

And finally, the duties of motherhood never end. This will be a crucial time in the early development of her four-month-old disabled infant. And she’s got four other kids to nurture. Hopefully she can carry over some of the burnished luster from her “Miss Congeniality” days that allowed her to finish second in the Alaska Beauty Pageant. Maybe she can take few a sips from John McCain’s energy drink.

* Especially for a woman with four children who decides to have another at age 43, knowing that the risks of an abnormal pregnancy are dramatically heightened.

C’mon, don’t be stupid. Where’s the logic in that?

If us crazy fuckers didn’t like women, who’d we fuck? Who’d fuck us?

It makes no sense if you think it through. No sense at all.

Now go get me a beer.

The crazy fuckers also dislike women.

I think she was a good pick. They have to get more crazy fuckers out to vote than we get out sane people. Their polling has told them that they’re stuck in the 40s and there’s no way out.

No one who cares about this would be voting for McCain anyway. They are aiming her at the people who think all liberals are cancers.

When I say ‘a mine’, it was a cluster of mines, and she was blown to smitereens, rocketed up into the air, said something I couldn’t quite catch, totally incomprehensible to me, something like, ‘Tell him, his little chipmunk will love him forever’.

You put a half dozen B-List celebrities in a little cabin. 1000 meters away, there is a flag on a hill, clearly within sight. Working together, independently, or forming teams, they just need to figure out how to get to that flag first. They have 24 hours.

The thing is, there are mines, booby-traps, mantraps and all manner of lethal impediments scattered in the surrounding 1 klick radius. And they’re REAL devices. I mean, if there’s a renewable resource in America today, it’s B-List celebrities, isn’t it? So watching them killed horribly would truly qualify as entertainment.

Hell, it would be painless to edit that 24 hours into 12 hours of compelling TV, with triumph, heartbreak, courage, cowardice, loyalty and treason. And as there would be no requirements other than to try and win the game, the people left in the cabin as others venture out, only to hear the explosions and the cries of pain, perhaps with the dazed or even wounded survivors staggering back to the cabin, this would be one helluva “very special TV event”….

mikey

I think it shows McPOW’s real fear and desperation, and that he (again) makes decision on emotion rather than facts (by fully vetting her.) I think the gop propaganda machine was well briefed and oiled in advance, and have sound-bited her into a legendary figure to their base. I think it will energized people who had been under-impressed with McCain.

It is a real hail-mary, but if the base comes out they will represent significant numbers.

From Obama’s view, I think it is a real landmine. Factors outside his control (Gustav and troopergate) could make it blow-up in McPOW’s face. I think the most effective option is to have Hillary tie Palin’s “abuse of power” to Bush’s wiretaps, signing stmt’s, etc. More McSame.

Sadly, that argument would never be understood by my neighbors–bless their little red hearts. But hopefully it will connect with moderates still uncomfortable with voting for Hussein X.

The first woman VP – maybe even the first woman president – will be a Republican.

Maybe, but not this woman. As usual, mikey’s dead-on about the fundie Bible thumpers not voting for Obama anyway, so Palin’s Christianist nutbaggery doesn’t really bring a whole lot to the McCain campaign. Hell, he might even lose some votes, since Bible thumping knuckledraggers hate women, and just ’cause Palin is properly anti-woman and anti-choice doesn’t mean they’ll see her as an actual human.

She brigns absolutely nothing to the table, and honestly, the only reason I can see that McCain’s folks chose her (that old coot probably doesn’t have much say in the day-to-day decision making anymore) was solely to distract people from Obama’s remarkable acceptance speech, which it really didn’t. So, the McCain campain is stuck with this dead wood and they didn’t even accomplish the sole goal on the chosing.

I give her three weeks before she regretfully steps down, probably to pop out another regrettably named yard ape. Seriously, “Bristol”?

pithed frog on a stick