McCain's Folly
Friday, August 29, 2008
Sarah Palin, the choice of the matriarchy?
Direct from our one-man rapid response team....
Alaska used to bring to mind the term "Seward's Folly." Today John McCain took Lincoln's right-hand man off the hook by selecting Alaska's neophyte governor, Sarah Palin, (rhymes with 'failin' and depending on how the Ted Stevens corruption scandal unwraps, 'jailin'' may not be far behind) as his running mate.
McCain, who has spent the past several months selling the idea that we need an experienced leader as president, has just made an assistant stock clerk second-in-line to the CEO. And face the facts, if this particular CEO wanted to buy life insurance, he'd be put in the assigned risk pool. Fortunately Whispering Johnny doesn't need to worry about leaving his wife financially secure because that's how he found her.
When McCain's father and grandfather were his age, they were already dead. As Casey Stengel would say, you could look it up. McCain's only connection to the environment these days comes from the fact that he's being stalked by the term "natural causes" yet he's has chosen a political neophyte/sleazebag prodigy as the person who could easily be president six months from today. It could be time for Barack Obama to borrow Hillary Clinton's fear-mongering machine.
It's 3 am and John McCain's left arm is feeling numb, just a few blocks away Sarah Palin is awake rehearsing her testimony for a deposition concerning her involvement in a plot to sell the drilling rights to her oily political cronies without informing them of the transaction. She has been advised by her attorney to "never answer the phone". If this a scene you want to see play out, America by all means vote for McCain/Palin on November Fourth.
And so a woman who makes Hay Bailey Hutchison look like Sojourner Truth is the #2 choice for the R's. In retrospect McCain may decide that it would have been better to let Obama have another few news cycles in the spotlight rather than to have made this move.
And women are supposed to be excited by the selection of this antichoice, pro-war lapdog of the patriarchy?
In the struggle between Mother Earth and Fatherland we know which team Palin plays for.
And we're supposed to think McCain has reasserted himself as a maverick because he allowed Karl Rove to shove this reactionary spear-carrier for the Religious Right down his throat? Good luck on that one.
McCain's a Maverick all right-- a Ford Maverick. One of the biggest lemons anyone ever attempted to foist on the American people.
She reminds McCain a lot of himself when he was her age. Had Palin been around back then McCain's convinced, she'd have made it the Keating Six.
Palin better hope global warming isn't for real because when the Alaskan ice melts an awful lot of Republican political skeletons are going to start turning up.
And she's calling herself a reformer but there are clouds hanging over her. I'd bet you anything something embarrassing will surface before the election. She's like Mitt Romney and the Salt Lake Olympics. She's not in charge of Alaska to reform it, she's in charge to limit the damage that is headed for all sorts of connected cronies who have been exposed as crooks. Can you name anyone who was held accountable for all the sleaze out in Salt Lake? Of course not. Romney did his job.
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COMMENT ON THIS
Lester MisérablesTuesday, September 2nd 2008 3:13PM
Greg, of course it makes no sense to any thinking adult.
At least those who occasionally think about politics while rubbing a couple of brain cells together.
Perhaps it is an attempt to get some new voters to the polls. The type that usually pay no attention whatsoever to politics, and during a State of the Union address will reflexively change channels on network TV, and will keep changing until they find a channel that's broadcasting ANYTHING but that.
I've heard the latest talking points, and I am aware that I might be in violation of party directives that the honchos have issued regarding discussions of Obama's opposition. Yes yes, I know what I am inferring is politically incorrect because of Palin's gender, and I am committing a thought crime by going where I am about to go. But I have to wonder, is Karl Rove taking lessons from Rupert Murdoch now, to get people's attention (and hopefully to the polls)? See link below.
Please don't yell at me like they yelled at those poor fellows over at KOS, I am just a soul whose intentions are good.
Greg S.Tuesday, September 2nd 2008 11:42AM
That choice for VP sounds like more McCainery to me. It makes no sense. At least not to any thinking adult.
Dirk DerangerMonday, September 1st 2008 5:00PM
Barry, I've been a fan of your writing for a while now, and your call-it-like-it is sense of justice.
I see the other day where you got slapped down by the Amen corner over at the Field blog for daring to raise some uncomfortable policy questions concerning the presidential election.
I like Al Giordano's blog, and follow it among others, but my sense is that some of the active commentators at the Field are wannabe blogger superstars or otherwise first stepping out into the world -- after remaining silent, afraid, cowering in their corners for years as we built to the eve of destruction we find ourselves at now, and feeling emboldened by numbers (and finally a loss of their own economic security, though they were likely content to ingnore injustice while it was happening to their neighbors previously) are now speaking out as though they always had been the ones pushing the boulder up the hill, when in reality they failed to stand for much of anything at all in the past.
In fact, I fear that with the emerging progressive movement that is clearly upon us, that is a seed of it's destruction down the road, as all new movements carry such seeds from their start.
Too often, in the blog world, the allowable frames of discussion are very narrow. I think a lot of new media spouting-holes are like high school cliques. If you dress funny or have a different gait, they'll either shun you or belittle you -- commie boy.
That's no reflection on Giordano's writing or insight. I think he offers a fresh perspective on the election. Though I don't always agree with his opinions, his analysis is generally spot-on.
And I'm not saying everyone is in the Amen corner over there; there are a few cool commentators, but for the most part, I find many of them, well, rather like the stooges of an Orwellian movement -- in a left sort of way.
"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome." — George Orwell
My bottom line, if Obama is elected, I refuse to wear a uniform or wave a sign as part of some "civil-society mandated" duty. I don't expect that will happen from Obama's end, but I do worry sometimes about some of his more zealous followers pushing for such things. Hopefully our society will improve slightly with an Obama presidency, as opposed to moving further toward catastrophe. That is the most we can expect, I think.
But most of all, I hope once we've captured the flag, the recently emerged Amen corner can go back to not caring about shit like they have done for the past two decades leading up to this point. (Cynical I know, but it beats wearing a government-issued T shirt.)
Just my two cents.
ADD YOUR COMMENT
uncle buckMonday, September 1st 2008 9:14AM
BC:
Good to have you back in the game pitching for our team.
Now, if only we could trade for that big bat in the middle of the lineup. And a left-handed starter. A decent closer would be nice, too. And a base-stealing threat....
Wait, are we talking Baseball or Politics here??
Roman OSunday, August 31st 2008 3:53PM
Good move McAsshole! With Palin, you've wrapped up the Ted Nugent vote!
Sean MulliganSaturday, August 30th 2008 12:00AM
I thought Todd Palin's wife was Sarah Palin? The wikipedia article about Palin paints her as a moderate Republican who opposes corruption.
Sean, Well goodness knows it's nearly impossible to manipulate Wikipedia so she must just be a "moderate Republican," which, I suppose, is something akin to an average case of the Bubonic Plague.
Barry
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tjwashFriday, August 29th 2008 6:05PM
Oh yeah, and she's married to Todd Palin who works for....British Petroleum! Oh-and his wife just happens to chair the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.
No conflict of interests there.
Looks like the oil men are gonna try like hell to keep one of their own in the oval office.
Bastards.