I am baffled by Randy Scheunemann's weird infatuation with Sarah Palin. Was it her winking that won over the bearded neo-con? Her utter lack of curiosity about foreign affairs, which probably could earn her an endowed chair at a right-wing think tank?
His efforts to cosset the vice presidential nominee broke down the McCain/Palin team into petty infighting, schoolyard-like backstabbing, and Scheunemann allegedly being fired. TNR reports he even holed himself up in a lavatory for 96 hours after it all went down. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Scheunemann always struck me as someone whose views of the world were too sketchy and scary to be taken seriously. It is fitting that he and Palin found each other. Both were plucked from obscurity and found themselves in way over their heads. Both have warped views of the world -- Palin from her perch looking across the Bering Straight at Russia -- far from the country of Africa -- and Scheunemann from his Beltway office conjuring up countries to invade (Iran, Syria, etc.). I feel further vindicated that Obama's nuanced reaction after Georgia bombed South Ossetia proved to be the right one, given the damning evidence against the Georgian military that has come to light in recent weeks. Scheunemann, like all neo-cons of his ilk, saw the conflict with Russia in black-and-white, good-versus-evil terms. Nothing could be further from the truth. Were Palin and company in the White House, U.S. troops would probably be occupying Tskhinvali right now.
Hopefully the former vice presidential nominee and Alaskan beauty queen has a position for her favorite foreign policy adviser up in her home state, where he can stare over at Russia, plotting his return to power.
I trust Nicole Wallace...
By the way, "It is fitting that him and Palin found each other" should read "he and Palin..."
She's an incurious blank slate who can be filled with one-sided "analysis" and will happily become a mouthpiece for the cause. (Ring a bell?)
She has demonstrated a stunningly inadequate knowledge of the world and its history (sound familiar?)
She is also quite thrilled to be the center of attention and loves being promoted as someone of importance (again, familiar?)
The Neo-cons are drooling -- the newest dupe has stepped up to the plate...
That's what EVERY PERSON with more that one functioning neuron should have seen from the very day she walked on that stage at the RNC:
BUSH in a skirt!!! (and a pretty expensive skirt, as it turns out!)
How do you know that? You dems say this about every Republican since Eisenhower. And your wrong about all of them.
But Sarah Palin? Please -- even if she does realize that Africa is a continent -- her interviews with the big 3 networks demonstrated that she lacks any capacity to think on her feet, and that speaks directly to her vacuity that is ever so appealing to the Neocons.
(and don't throw out that tired "liberal media gotcha" argument. The questions she was posed were fair. She clearly was out of her league.)