You Can Dress ‘Em Up…
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Looks like there might be trouble in paradise.
Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign’s already-tense internal dynamics.
Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain’s camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain’s decline.
Of course, since it’s from the Politico, none of the leakers are named, just, you know, “Four Republicans close to Palin”, so it could be Piper, Willow, Track, and Toonces or whoever, but still, it’s kind of fun to imagine exactly what’s going on backstage with The Campaign that Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Apparently, America’s Next Top Trainwreck thinks that her plummeting poll numbers and skyrocketing negatives are all because mean ol’ Johnny Crash is trying to tell her what to say.
“She’s lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,” said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to “go rogue” in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.
“I think she’d like to go more rogue,” he said.
And:
“Her strategy was to be trustworthy and a team player during the convention and thereafter, but she felt completely mismanaged and mishandled and ill advised,” the person said. “Recently, she’s gone from relying on McCain advisers who were assigned to her to relying on her own instincts.”
Ooooh, one can only hope, cos as is clearly evidenced every time she goes off-script, her instincts are crap. This should make for some fascinating splatter patterns across the walls of the impending Republican electoral bloodbath. Governor Palin is a creepy, bloodthirsty, anti-intellectual rube, dumb as a box of farts, with a total tin ear for said public pronouncements and approximately zero interest in actual policy and its ramifications. No amount of fancy duds from Saks and Neiman’s nor overpriced makeup artists can cure her of her chronic case of Foot in Mouth disease because she’s just that stupid.
Palin’s “instincts,” on display in recent days, have had her opening up to the media, including a round of interviews on talk radio, cable and broadcast outlets, as well as chats with her traveling press and local reporters.
Reporters really began to notice the change last Sunday, when Palin strolled over to a local television crew in Colorado Springs.
“Get Tracey,” a staffer called out, according to The New York Times, summoning spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, who reportedly “tried several times to cut it off with a terse ‘Thank you!’ in between questions, to no avail.”
Yes, get Tracey! Get someone! Get us a ball-gag and a muzzle! She’s gonna blow!
“I say, you know, when is enough enough of taxpayer dollars being thrown into this bill out there?” she asked. “This next one of the Democrats being proposed should be very, very concerning to all Americans because to me it sends a message that $700 billion bailout, maybe that was just the tip of the iceberg. No, you know, we were told when we’ve got to be believing if we have enough elected officials who are going to be standing strong on fiscal conservative principles and free enterprise and we have to believe that there are enough of those elected officials to say, ‘No, OK, that’s enough.’”
And when we assessize the situationals we should extemporate the priorities that are free enterprizing the economicals! You betcha!
Would you like the dressing on the side of that word salad or should we just keep pouring it on?
If McCain loses, Palin’s allies say that the national Republican Party hasn’t seen the last of her.
Oh, goody! I can’t think of a single greater incentive for people to abandon the GOP permanently. She is the face of Republican implosion and will serve magnificently as a means of driving anyone with an even room temperature IQ away from the fold forever and ever, amen.
19 Responses to “You Can Dress ‘Em Up…”
By litbrit on Oct 25, 2008 1:32 pm |
This should make for some fascinating splatter patterns across the walls of the impending Republican electoral bloodbath.
Sentence of the Week!
Love, love, love that.
By StringonaStick on Oct 25, 2008 2:20 pm |
Ah yes, she can push the same idea of fiscal tightfistedness that caused the Great Depression to become truly Great.
The stock market crash of 1929 didn’t cause the Great Depression, the crash was one of the many results of the economic shitstorm of the times. Though it may be more of a cause for this recession/potential depression because there has been a huge increase in the percentage of people who own stocks. Companies don’t want to be responsible for pensions anymore so you have to compete with hedge funds to try to grow a retirement fund all by yourself; too bad if you fail.
This is one more reason to not let Palin anywhere near the levers of power; Fed chairman Bernacke made his academic bones studying the Federal Reserve policies of the 1920’s-30’s and how to avoid causing that disaster to happen again. One way is for federal spending to keep people working (replacing worn out infrastructure sounds like a great idea); easier to do if the government had some savings a la post-Clenis but still doable. We can either have a huge deficit due to spending like this, or we can have a huge deficit because no one is working a tax receipts have collapsed. Time to make a choice America…
By e on Oct 25, 2008 3:37 pm |
The below from the WaPo today
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102402698.html?nav=hcmodule
spells out, in loving numerical detail, the decline of Flailin Palin since those giddy days last August when even such, um, stalwart voices of progressive feminism as Joan Walsh and Jane Hamsher were gushing over her selection as a brilliant political move that was gonna like, totally fuck Obama over.
So when I was reading that this morning, I was visited with inspiration, that THIS would be the perfect hell for John McCain: an eternity spent reading that article, and other like the one T quotes above, over and over and over — with occasional breaks to watch, again and again, the Brian Williams and Katie Couric interviews and every other moronic word Hockey Whore utters between now and election day.
Because even if, as please God looks likely, he loses, he STILL deserves to suffer, for having been willing to sacrifice the whole world to that whims of that, yes, “creepy, bloodthirsty, anti-intellectual rube, dumb as a box of farts,” abomination of a woman.
By TL on Oct 25, 2008 5:18 pm |
Narcissists never blame themselves.
By punaise on Oct 25, 2008 5:20 pm |
heheh: Johnny Crash.
“Live at Fulsome Prism”
By punaise on Oct 25, 2008 5:26 pm |
“I think she’d like to go more rogue,” he said.
are we still yammering on about the make-up budget? ‘cuz more rouge just ain’t gonna cut it.
By punaise on Oct 25, 2008 5:39 pm |
goota love Steve Benen’s take on it:
… The Lord of the Flies climate at McCain campaign headquarters continues…
yeah, well sucks to your as-mar, Piggy McPalin!
By Melissa on Oct 25, 2008 6:39 pm |
The wheelscomeoffthe bus and go round and round, round and round, smack ‘em down! The wheelscomeoffthe bus and go round and round! Bye, bye McCain!
Next verse, the staffers start getting thrown under the bus.
By punaise on Oct 25, 2008 8:22 pm |
litbrit said
followed by as succint a description of Palin as you’re likely to read anywhere:
Governor Palin is a creepy, bloodthirsty, anti-intellectual rube, dumb as a box of farts, with a total tin ear for public pronouncements and approximately zero interest in actual policy and its ramifications.
vacuous, much?
By Bil on Oct 25, 2008 9:51 pm |
I felt sorry for the Old McCain in 2000 when Rove smeared him as a crazy POW, but then McCain hired the SAME people that slimed him and FAR too many Bush 2 croneys like that criminal Neocon Foreign Advisor Randy Schueneman.
McCain may not have been a crazy POW or too old 8 years ago, but now he IS.
By Matt on Oct 26, 2008 2:06 am |
What is really sickening to me is that Palin appears to believe she really deserves to be where she is; she truly believes in her own “specialness”. She’s a textbook case of blind narcissism.
By MR Bill on Oct 26, 2008 11:22 am |
Tex Avery, Honore Daumier, Wm. Hogarth, thou shoulds’t be living in this hour.
That image will haunt me forever.
By malie on Oct 26, 2008 3:04 pm |
the word salad comment was so funny I woke up my pup for laughing so loudly. Mahalo!
By e.c. on Oct 26, 2008 5:03 pm |
if johnny mcnasty really wants to fuck over palin he should grant her wish and let her off the leash entirely. set up a nice big press conference for her (and be sure to invite the entire progressive blogoshpere) and let her try to work her magic in front of people who don’t think she’s the long-lost daughter of saint ronnie.
By Ida on Oct 26, 2008 5:07 pm |
This is one more reason to not let Palin anywhere near the levers of power; Fed chairman Bernacke made his academic bones studying the Federal Reserve policies of the 1920’s-30’s and how to avoid causing that disaster to happen again.
By Steve T. on Oct 27, 2008 12:18 pm |
FYI, the Foot-In-Mouth phenomenon has a formal name:
Steve T. said
— Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh
By Scout on Oct 27, 2008 2:15 pm |
Ahhhh, classic TRex. I agree with Litbrit -
“This should make for some fascinating splatter patterns across the walls of the impending Republican electoral bloodbath.”
That was word ambrosia.
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