He Can Wait To Introduce Her To Warshington

McCain looked at his Blackberry (the one he invented, btw) to find that the only available date he has to reschedule the Presidential debate is - OMFG, what a coincidence - the night of the VP debate! Oh garsh, friends, I think we're gonna have to cancel Sarah's big night. And sheesh...only a month til the election. I wonder if we'll even have time to reschedule it at all. Damn fat cats are ruining everything!

A funny thing happened on the way to forum. The people who are teaching Sarah Palin that the world isn't flat have been getting a little nervous. She's apparently not the quick study that Laura Bush claims she is. Witness the interview with Katie Couric. Governor Keepin'-An-Eye-On-Putin is not only ignorant, she actually might be downright dumb. What is it about Republicans that they will vote for a moron simply because that moron attends the same church? Haven't we had enough of this Quayle/Bush/Palin circus of schmucks for a generation or two? Do we honestly need four or eight more years of a full blown imbecile riding atop one of our missiles a-hootin' and a-hollerin' all the way to Armageddon?

Campbell Brown had it right this week when she called the McCain campaign sexist for locking Palin away. But it's more than that. Sarah Palin herself is inherently sexist. What I mean by that is the very concept of Palin is sexist. There are innumerable women out there who would have been as good or better than any man. But this is somehow the woman who should make history? This sitcom character? This beauty pageant contestant? Let's face it, Sarah Palin, the great leap forward for women, is a giant, embarrassing step back. Sarah Palin didn't earn her place at the top echelon of national and international conversation and debate. She didn't earn the right to be one step away from the single most powerful office on the planet. She was chosen because of her gender. And a decision based on gender is, by definition, sexist.

And who made that decision to shove this featherweight into a ring of heavyweight champs? That decision was made by a desperate old man who wants one last chance at greatness and is willing to sell everything that was ever great about him in order to get it.

Comments

[ched]

"I'll go find some and give 'em to ya!"

[BethGehring]

Thank you for this post. It's the only thing that's made me laugh all morning. This woman is an embarrassment. I hate saying that being well ....a woman. But if she's the true picture of the "American Woman 2008 " then I'm going to London for a few years. Geez.. what a trainwreck. She makes Dubya look like a scholar and Phyllis Schaffly like Mother Teresa.

[suhud]

Thanks for this post, Michael. I live in Europe, where it's hard holding one's American head up, with people everywhere shaking their heads in utter disbelief, calling Palin an "appallingly inappropriate" VP candidate, and McCain's desperate choice of her "nothing short of treasonous." At present, we're a laughing stock abroad. If this power-hungry, befuddled Dorian Grey and his trigger-happy Annie Oakley ("Where's that 'NUCULAR' button?") are elected, the joke's not only on America, but on the WORLD! Instead of McCain saying, "How dare you question Sarah Palin," we should be asking, "How dare you sell OUR souls? Isn't the devil satisfied with yours?"

[graycee]

You are soooooooo right on! Thank you for putting into words EXACTLY the way I feel!

[mommadona]

"That decision was made by a desperate old man who wants one last chance at greatness and is willing to sell everything that was ever great about him in order to get it."

Absolutely Faustian. Yup, yup.

[free2u]

Sara Palin's popularity is dropping,but incredibly there still are people who will vote for her.She has no business being anywhere near Washington DC. She is clueless!!!!!!!

[Scott Shrake - Huffpost Blogger]

Thank God someone else called out the weird way McCain pronounces "Washington." I thought he was a Navy brat who grew up here and there. But not an Appalachian...

[dontpanic23]

I'm a freakin' "Appalachian" (not sure where you were headed beyond that but let's stop it there, thanks) and I don't call it Warshington--I thought I was the only one he was driving insane with that pronunciation.

Don't get me started on the hillbilly verbal abuse thing. Really. We have feelings (and computers, and grammar lessons) too. We are not all a stereotype.

[duchessdorleans]

Fairly off topic but not...
During the whole Gustav madness I had to hear Bobby Jindal say DIST-ributed about 5000 times. Damnit, Bobby, its dis-TRI-buted.

[Dodge]

McCain can't wait to introduce Palin to Washington?

America can't wait for McCain to introduce Palin to the American voters / media!

Let Palin talk!
Let Palin talk!

[scrutiny1]

Someone should have told the Republicans that this was an actual election and not a farce.

[wandering girl]

I found it very telling that the photos which were allowed of the various "meetings with world leaders" she had this week, showed her as coy and flirtatious. now that's the ticket - let's just flirt our way out of nuclear war, eh?

[nglina]

Palin is an embarrassment for the woman executives.

[paulita]

Well like I said on my comment that wasn´t posted for some reason, because it was well within the guidelines.. but anyway I´ll say it again



WAKE UP AMERICA YOU ARE BEING USED!

[paulita]

I just can´t believe women and the American public are being made complete fools of, and a lot people can´t even see it because either they are stuck on racism and an unwillingness to accept a person of color as a leader, (personally I think that´s just pathetic, or they totallty buy into the facade of the folksy chicky whose just like us.

Yea, she is just like you, if you are dumb as a stone, with no in-depth thinking abilities or analysis!

I think the Senator McMaverick has demonstrated it over and over during this election..

WAKE UP AMERICA YOU´RE BEING USED!

[cmosio]

I agree with you. Americans are very ignorant. I can't even have this discussion with my family because they still live like they are Archie Bunker!!! My family actually adores Palin and they keep sending me emails/links about how wonderful she is. Does anyone read a newspaper and know the real facts about her? If you ask people 5 reasons why they would vote for McCain, they can't answer you.

[trishl127]

I wholeheartedly agree, he could have picked Olivia Snow, or Kay Bailey Hutchenson. These women, while they are complete opposites of me politically, have earned their stripes, are EXTREMELY intelligent, accomplished, admirable women who I would at least feel proud of as a woman. This woman is nothing but trailer park trash, who can't govern her own family (yes, I know this sounds sexist, but I was a 16 year old mother & I wouldn't want my mother as V.P. either & if you ask me I think she's a lot smarter then Palin) so why would I want to give her the opportunity to screw up my country.

B.T.W. when I told my mother I was pregnant (at 15) HER response was never "this is what you have to do" it was "here are your options, here are the responsibilities that come with these choices & here is what I would do if I was in your shoes & why I would do it, I love you & will stand behind you no matter what you decide" & 22 years later she is still right there anytime, day or night, & if you ask me that is what EVERY mother who is faced with that issue should say.

[blaqntelligence]

As the mother of two daughters, 20 and 14. that is exactly what I'd say if they became pregnant.
We've talked about that scenario and they already know while I may be disappointed, I will stand behind them 100%.

[chucklasker]

But we need Palin to save us!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chuck-lasker/its-a-crisis-we-need-pali_b_129089.html

[bwilder]

Tell it like it is Michael!!