The Bush administration actually waited until their second term to pull what has come to be known as “a Harriet Myers.” In his supreme overconfidence that there was no political problem that couldn’t be solved with a condescending tone and an acronym, Sen. McCainface may have jumped the gun with Gov. Sarah Palin. See, he’s not actually in office yet. He isn’t The Decider, and if he can’t even be bothered to properly vet his potential vice president before selecting her, it chills the blood to imagine the man in charge of a world superpower.
Tonight Sarah Palin gives her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Even as the old, weary elephant of the GOP braces itself to stand up on its hind legs, Palin’s acceptance within her party is far from uniform. Although they dutifully reiterate their talking points when they know they’re on the air, candid moments reveal the right-wing noise machine think “it’s over,” and that McCain’s pick was nothing more than “political bullshit about narratives.” Is it any wonder that the candidate, who smugly assumed making his announcement the day after the Democratic National Convention would siphon off Obama’s favorable media narrative, is now hunkering down and blaming the media?
Didn’t they know they were supposed to do him a solid when the hard times came? He made those Ivy League whippersnappers ribs, goddammit!
