Here and There

Sniff around a bit and the truth will come forth in the form of her children’s names: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig.

Call me a traditionalist, but no self-respecting mother names their kids such outlandish names. In naming a child, a parent should be thinking of the child, not their own delusions of grandeur.

These are among the clearest signs of the woman’s self-delusional, egotistical, and dim-witted being. You go, girl!

She left just about everyone baffled by her resignation as governor of Alaska on Friday, a good year-and-a-half before her first term ends.

Everyone and their mother has put forth one or more explanations, ranging from some lurking or existing scandal to political brilliance. I’ll let you google those.

I’d just like to add my $0.02 to the betting pool.

I think Sarah Palin resigned because she’s taking the advice of terrible advisors, those suggesting that in doing so, her supporters will solidify behind this maverick move, and those 40.1 percent extra she’ll need to win the presidency (in addition to the 10 percent who are still hanging on) in 2012 will be so excited by this “bold” move that they will rally behind her, too.

In other words, there’s no new scandal. She gets to use the excuse that the media are beating up on her family, and that she’s resigning to protect them. Never mind that running for president will put her even more front-and-center for the media spotlight. She gets to claim teh awesome of mother cub, then return as Momma Maverick in a couple of years in a formal run for the presidency.

My only response: Go Mitt! Go Mike!

If this story could somehow acquire legs, it would be the end of Sarah Palin, methinks. Apparently, Palin snubbed House Republicans, declining their invitation to a weekend retreat. “State business” was her excuse. That would imply Alaska business. Where was the good governor this weekend? In D.C., natch, four hours away.

I tell myself this on a nearly daily basis. Every time I encounter a headline, a snippet, anything concerning McCain’s failed VP running mate, I cringe. I want her to go away. But as much as I wish, pray, rub stones, or scratch my belly, that just won’t happen.

It occurred to me that from Sarah Palin’s perspective, a couple of motives could be at play that explain her continued level of presence.

To be fair, she probably genuinely feels shortchanged. It would come as no surprise to me if she lacked the introspection necessary to fully examine what happened between early September 2008 and Election Day. So, all she sees is that her idea were quashed by McCain’s henchmen, and because the ticket lost, that rejection, in her mind, has to be the cause.

Never mind anything she did do to bring about that quickest of honeymoons. John Cole enumerates just about all I care to remember in this post. No, to her unreflective mind, it’s all passive. It’s all about the things that were done to her, not by her.

As far as motives, though, another tactic at play, of course, is simply staying in the spotlight. She rode into town on semi-sensical sloganeering, and by god, she’s keeping at it. The word Palin showing up in headlines, in and of itself, ensures her place in the conversation.

Moving on to the effects that Palin fails to realize, well, perhaps it’s obvious to readers of this post, but it’s almost sad. Every word out of her mouth justifies the decision by those voters who would’ve otherwise voted for McCain to bail the ticket, not to vote, or to vote for Obama-Biden, if only McCain had chosen a viable running mate.

I wonder how much disarray the GOP would be in right now had McCain chosen someone like Hutchison or Snowe and lost on merit, not on embarrassment and the presence of a formidable opponent. I’m guessing it wouldn’t be as bad.

So, Sarah Palin, hats off. Here’s to you, honey. Keep doin’ what you’re doin’ (helping to keep the GOP fractured for the foreseeable future).

On the “socialism” farce, like only Rik knows how …

A Palin effigy that shows the VP candidate hung from a noose. Not cool. Not at all.

Let’s debate this on merits, people. Ideas, remember? Not lynch mobs.

For our first installment, I pose the simple question:

What’s scarier: The fact that Sarah Palin is running for vice president, however unlikely it is that she’ll win, or the fact that she’s currently, actually the governor of Alaska, however sparsely populated?

I vote the latter.

… can be like watching water boil. Therefore, I’m going to start ignoring all news about John McCain and Sarah Palin, unless (and as we saw earlier today, until) they involve violence. At that point, none of us can afford to ignore the freak show.

Sarah Palin reprimands one of her supporters, erroneously.

From Frank RIch’s New York Times column tomorrow:

Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers’s behavior 40 years ago, but at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the behavior of their own supporters in 2008.

Surprised? Stupid liberal bipartisan panel!

When CNN starts telling people to panic over the economy, well, it’s not lookin good here kids.

Luckily for us, we’re about to hire the most unintentionally funny person in Alaska (maybe even the world) for Vice President. We’ll be laughing all the way to the soup line. You know, maybe McCain/Palin can take another spin on the economy. Sticking to free markets and lower taxes is going to solve our obesity problems. Nobody will be able to afford food!

And when the sad reality begins to kick in and the twinkie junkies start going through withdrawal, out comes Palin with her flute:

And when the lies and distractions stop working, an interview with Sarah Palin puts us all at ease.

Q: How will you fix the economy?

A: The economy and putting it back on the side of the grade of problem that America has to be found here. Consumers and those who maybe came from a background of, you know, that has worked in Iraq that John McCain has a great plan to get caught up in this evil, in this one and who the good guys are the ones who say Israel is a stinking corpse and should be inherent in corporations who are spending, investing other people’s money, the abuse of that self-dealing and kind of that self-dealing and kind of grab it all and pretend like they have all the all the dealings within the party. Also.

There. I feel better now.

* The video is real. The quote was randomly generated from the site interviewpalin.com

- Scott

I’ve always hated stupid people acting smart. It bugs me. If you’re dumb, own it.

Smart acting stupid is annoying, but only mildly so.

It struck me, watching the following CNN clip of Sarah Palin doing her damnedest to answer a question about energy, supposedly her policy strong-suit, that Palin is a classic example of stupid-acting-smart:

For extra fun with Palin’s answer, see the comments on Obsidian Wings.

Sorry for the pedestrian headline, but my god, if McCain knew what he’s doing, he’d Fiorinize her, stat.