Keillor On Palin: Bush With Big Hair

Sept. 10, 2008 | So the Republicans have decided to run against themselves. The bums have tiptoed out the back door and circled around to the front and started yelling, "Throw the bums out!" They've been running Washington like a well-oiled machine to the point of inviting lobbyists into the back rooms to write the legislation, and now they are anti-establishment reformers dedicated to delivering us from themselves. And Mayor Giuliani is an advocate for small-town America. Bravo.

They are coming out for Small Efficient Government the very week that the feds are taking over Fannie and Freddie, those old cash cows, and in the course of a weekend 20 or 50 (or pick a number) billion go floating out the Treasury door. Hello? Do you see us out here? We are not fruit flies, we are voters, we can read and write, we didn't just fall off the coal truck.

It is a bold move on the Republicans' part -- forget about the past, it's only history, so write a new narrative and be who you want to be -- and if they succeed, I think I might declare myself a 24-year-old virgin named Lance and see what that might lead to. Paste a new face on my Facebook page, maybe become the Dauphin Louie the Thirty-Second, the rightful heir to the Throne of France, put on silk tights and pantaloons and a plumed hat and go on the sawdust circuit and sell souvenir hankies imprinted with the royal fleur-de-lis. They will cure neuralgia and gout and restore marital vigor.

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[wordvarc]

The Palin presidential campaign...

or

The McSame presidential campaign.

Which one is the RNC/GOP official campaign?.

[LeawoodKansas]

So then is GWB just Sarah with a bush?

[BluePride]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59mOukUZNUo

Everybody RUN...

HomeComing Queen Palin's got a GUN!

[ricitizen]

People if you want to know what's going on in Alaska, you should read their daily paper: It's headline "Abdication by Palin" and continues further....Is it too much to ask that Alaska's governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska's governor? Read on via link. http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/531725.html

[ricitizen]

From the The Anchorage Alaska Daily News: Headline Opinion

"Bush took America into Iraq to try to make them like us."

"...Bush's missionary-driven foreign policy includes imposing a free trade agreement on the Middle East, and the building of armies in Georgia along Russia's border. This represents a new colonialism that puts the United States on a collision course with anyone who is not-with-us. The Bush Doctrine is arrogant and morally unsound..." Read the full opinion: http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/530761.html

[Puller58]

Reminds me of a short lived sitcom, that had a female President. Her military operative advised bombing, as in "Why the Hell not?" That is likely to be our fate as Grandpa McCain ends up drooling on himself in the oval office.

[PJinIL]

Mr. Keillor, yet again you are spot on and speak - with that tight humor no one can duplicate - the truth. In our favorite city of Lake Wobegon these pablum spewers would never make the grade and Ms. Palin would be a relegated to a receptionist at the Powdermilk Biscuit company. Common sense has left much of the electorate and our pet-rock-purchasing society has taken us to the brink.

I think race is the real issue here and people would rather vote for anyone but a black man. I would bet if this was Clinton's first run McCain and Palin would be so behind in the polls, they'd spend their time planning for moose hunts and buying more houses instead of campaigning.

I am sickened by the behavior of McCain-Palin and the total ineptitude of Baby Bush. Can I come to Lake Wobegone? I fear the US is not the country I knew, nor are its citizens.

[Kindheart]

With what is going on in our country, can anybody persuade me that Sarah Palin could run our country, just in case, Ol' Johnny doesn't make it through his 4 years?????
Anybody???????????????

[cabbile]

I think she will make an excellent president.

[RadLeftVetPatriot]

Persuasive argument, I'm changing parties right away.

[Deluded]

You think! On the basis of what exactly. Go ahead convince me! List the atributes this women has that would justify Ur view.

[toochie50]

Electoral count 9/20/08:
fivethirtyeight.com
Obama: 303
Mcsame: 235 (read all about why Obama's numbers are much higher than expected due to cell phone polling)

Electoral-vote.com
Obama: 273
Mcsame: 265

Realclearpolitics.com (they refuse to update their electoral vote map - repub site)
so without "toss-ups"
Obama: 273
Mcsame: 265

Electoral votes are all that matters !

[kellygrrrl]

I'm going to make my WIKI entry now

I, kellygrrrl, discovered the Polio vaccine, invented the wheel and have the cure for cancer

just vote me into the White House and I will share it with all of you

[justobserve]

McCain is not only running against his party, he is running against himself, the McCain 2000!
"THANKS BUT NO THANKS, BUT YES WE KEPT THOSE 230 MILLIONS! McCAIN 2008 -PALIN: LIE WITHOUT BLINKING! Vote DEMOCRAT for HEALTH CARE, RENEWABLE ENERGY, EDUCATION REFORM, EQUAL PAY, VETS BENEFITS.

[marc1antony]

Palin has portrayed herself as a maverick and reformer, yet she seems to be far more like a combination of Bush and Cheney - She lies with such ease and still has NOT RELEASED her TAXES
She and her husband are both stonewalling in Alaska to the point that her once loyal constituents are now saying she has abdicated her position as Governor to the McCain camp, who speaks for her in all matters

[mysterygirl18]

Palin venting site: http://www.myspace.com/wakeupnowpeople

[PT6]

You have to love the idea of them running out the back door and then yelling at the front door. Great Keillor! you still have it. Why don't you get Minnesota to join Obama at say 65%?

Very Marks Brothers or the Three Stooges.

McSwitch is perfect to describe this phony transformation.

It is going to be hard for McSwitch to remember which ideology to use in the debates.

[robbor]

and now, let us pray........Dear Lord, protect us from ourselves

[kellygrrrl]

I have to wonder -- why would DearLord ever attempt to protect a people so hellbent of total world destruction.

I'd think he would want US to disappear