Palin: Not Ready For Prime Time
Despite having five months and change to select a vice presidential nominee, it looks for all the world as if the insane McCain campaign rushed Sarah Palin out into the limelight after a
sloppy, haphazard vetting process--or, possibly, none at all!--and before she was really ready. This, of course, speaks to the inherently faulty judgement of the man himself, since this was actually his first semi-executive decision which he apparently dilly-dallied around with until the last possible moment. (Did you know he was a POW in the Vietnam conflict? Didja? Didja?) So Chuck Todd of MSNBC announced that she'll be
going "into seclusion" to see her son off to Iraq.
This doesn't pass the smell test; something is rotten in Anchorage.
Is this woman ready for prime time or not? They keep talking about all her "experience." Well, she was the one-term mayor of a wide spot in the road called Wasilla, Alaska, population 6700 according to cityofwasilla.com. She left that tiny burg saddled with $20 million in debt from a land deal which she supervised...and botched. But she was the biggest earmark sucker in the country. She is the current governor of Alaska and apparently gave them
some of the highest per capita earmarks funding of any American state.
(When even the Moonie-owned
Washington Times is asking questions about her propensity toward earmarks, it's gotten REALLY out of hand!) She backed
the "Road to Nowhere" and
the "Bridge to Nowhere". Are THESE the traits we want in a woman who will be a heartbeat away from the presidency of a cranky old coot with a
predisposition to cancer??
You know that empty acceptance speech that nonetheless
had the media swooning? It was constructed by former special assistant to our current presidential embarrassment,
Matthew Scully, a long-time rightwad hack who's worked in the same capacity for Dan Quayle, Beelzebub Cheney and the late governor of Pennsylvania, Robert P. Casey. It had all the towering cynicism I've come to expect from the latter-day Republican Party, all the snotty scurrilous attacks, all the innuendo and outright intolerance that is their hallmark. Now, I didn't expect Palin to write her own words...only Barack Obama does THAT...but I sort of expected something of her in it. No such luck. She was
coached and the material was standard issue, nasty neocon propaganda with a healthy dash of vitriol.
What has thus far been revealed about her private life demonstrates that she's about as far to the right as she can go without becoming Attila the Hun. She's a
hard-bitten creationist and an
abortioNazi with the unshakable conviction that the
Iraq Oil invasion was "God's will." Oh, yeah, and that
gays can be converted, too. (Now
James Dobson LOVES her!) I'm sorry, but this woman scares the daylights out of me. She's
in favor of abstinence only sex education, yet her 17-year-old daughter is unmarried and just a little bit knocked up. Way to go with the "Family Values," lady.
In a recent fundraising solicitation, Palin blasted "Obama/Biden Democrats," claiming vicious personal attacks on herself and her family. When challenged, spokespeople for the campaign and the RNC
could only cite Mark Bubriski's claim that she supported Pat Buchanan...which, by the way,
is TRUE!
No...this wench is NOT ready for prime time.
Not even close.
Sarah Palin's drunken, pregnant daughter