There they go again. The Republicans must be going through an identity crisis b/c the Party's Chair Michael Steele wants Sarah Palin to disappear for awhile. Go fishing, Sarah, please. Apparently some think Sarah has too many personal issues plaguing her right now. Others likely think she's too thin skinned for the foundry called national politics.
But our Guv Rick not only wants Sarah to hang around, he said he'd let her campaign with him. Look out Texas! We're in for a lot of crazy talk about nutty stuff. It'll be the pretty boy and pretty girl duo, lying and spinning tales about conservative voodoo make believe as they make their way through the state. They'll preen for the cameras and tell us all how great they. The moneyed fat cats will just love 'em. I wonder if Rick Perry will pick up the tab for Sarah's clothes? I guess that will be up to the fat cats who love Sarah.
If anyone gets an advance schedule of her arrival please do let me know when that woman from Alaska arrives so I can leave for saner ground.
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It seems that the GOP is in a deep bi-polar mode where Palin is concerned. But the Party has always had a large following of whacko looney tunes folks. Nothing is new there.
The McCain campaign staff apparently are pointing fingers and duking it out with Fox commentator Bill Kristol who worships Sarah Palin. Each is trying to blame the other for the campaign's appalling lack of judgment in choosing Palin as McCain's running mate.
Peggy Noonan, a former Republican speechwriter said Palin's performance during the campaign was horrifying.
In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity.
Ouch.
She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.
Shiver...Shudder....Doesn't all of that sound horrifyingly familiar?
That's easy to answer: They - we! - are afraid that Palin's distinctive combination of sex appeal, self-pity, and cultural resentment has a following in today's GOP. We are afraid that it is not utterly inconceivable that she could win the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, and we are afraid that if she did so she would lead the party to a 1964-style debacle, accompanied by unnecessary losses down the ballot.
We are afraid that even if Palin does not win the nomination, that she will still help to brand the Republican party in a very damaging way.
Other Republican governors are avoiding Palin like the plague. They want nothing to do with her while on their campaign trails this year.
Apparently Governor Perry doesn't share his colleagues concern about Palin. I guess he is about as batshit crazy as she is. It must be a secessionist yearning dysfunction that ails Rick and Sarah. That and money. It's always about the money where Republicans are concerned.
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