I had a scary dream the other night. Scary because it didn't seem all that far fetched.
It's the evening of the Vice Presidential debate. Joe Biden has been practicing all month to tone down his "bully" and still seem effective.
Sarah Palin has run out of invective and rhetoric. And she still hasn't been vetted by the press.
For it isn't the vetting that McCain's team "didn't do" that worries me. What worries me is that the press has never spoken to her. She is like a prophet, sitting on high, offering her sound bytes and speeches (written for her) and never has had to answer the tough questions on the spot.
There's something in the air that morning and all afternoon. A question has been raised. There's a rumor. Seems that Little Trig Palin, the Down's Baby of America, has come down with something. He's sick. Or there's a complication with Bristol's pregnancy. She has to be rushed to a hospital. Governor Palin can't make the debate, sorry, family comes first.
And the public eats it up.
This truly scares me:
The woman MUST be vetted. She must talk to the press. One on one. Not with a "pundant". But with actual press. She should be sitting down with Brokaw and Stewart, with whomever and asked the tough questions. Because the public needs to know who the hell she is. Not just what the Bush Speechwriters are giving her to say who she is.
I'm sorry. This is an amazing play out of the Rovian how-to-get-elected playbook. I shudder to think that the Obama camp hasn't divined this yet. But Dems find new ways to disappoint me every other year.
4 comments:
Who is that obnoxious woman? I don't watch enough of this crap to know all the players.
I dunno. She's an unapologetic religious extremist who bases her policies on her beliefs but McCain needs to appeal to the people he would lose to Obama - I don't think she's the thing that's going to do it. Instead, he's appealing to the fanatics who weren't going to vote for him.
Plus, the Republicans have a Nader this time named Ron Paul, who seems to deliver the same anti-Washington message but isn't talking out of his ass and seems to pick up plenty of people who are disenchanted with the GOP.
I guess we'll just see what happens.
The point is that this is the new ideology. Why vet someone when the propaganda and speechwriting can be played for the truth?
Never mind that they steal music.
Never mind that they had no permission to use the image of that middle school.
Never mind that no one has heard her speak beyond the empty rhetoric.
Never mind that they are now saying "More of the same!" in regards to Obama.
Never mind that they have appropriated the changed mantra.
Or that her husband is a secessionist.
Or that she has flip flopped on the bridge to nowhere.
She never has to answer to any of this because they have decided that the new politics is one where you just take what big brother tells you to.
This is scary scary shit because it's a tactic straight out of a german politicking handbook.
It's not just "politics as usual." It's terrifying.
As though they have decided all bets are off and there is no need for or attempt at integrity.
And the media is letting them do it.
And Obama is letting them do it.
case in point his appearance on O'Reilly.
O'reilly was smart. He used perspicacious in an attempt to describe his agreement with Obama's war view. His audience, as you astutely observed, have no idea what he was talking about. So they can't hold his feet to the fire, the word had more than two syllables.
Then he managed to get Obama to admit that the surge had a measure of success. Which, in turn, became raw meat for the lipstick pitbull today at a rally.
And why didn't Obama have a rally the day after? Why did he decide to let them have another day? They didn't afford us the same courtesy.
The gloves are off. The playing field has been leveled and the right has decided it can't win on merits or facts. (The president got 8 minutes as McCain attempts to divorce himself from the previous administration.) So they confiscate Obama's.
Rove is a smart guy. He knows that the way to destroy/defeat someone is not to point out their weaknesses but to disarm their strengths.
When it was said by, I think, Clark, that he wasn't sure how being shot down and held prisoner was an adequate proving ground for the presidency, not only was he right, but that is exactly the kind of bullet the right would have taken against us. In fact, they did! They made a war hero a zealot last time around.
If Michelle Obama had a baby out of wedlock do you think for one second they wouldn't be talking about it? She made one comment about being proud of her country for the "first time" and they practically rode her out of town on a rail, but the spouse of the Veep candidate can belong to a secessionist group!??!?
Country First? Are you kidding me?
She MUST be put under the microscope and these people must be shown to be the charlatans and thieves they are.
Oh, no, in my alarmist moments, which are many, I agree with everything you just said. And tonight I said to Jana that the prospect of having the GOP in power makes me feel more like this is East Germany than ever before. A one party system.
But even a nasty old atheist like me needs to have some hope, if only to get through the day. People probably are as stupid as I think they are, but I have to make myself wish different in order to get by.
As someone who doesn't even live in your country, I am frightened by the prospect of Palin being your president... she seems like Stillson from the Dead Zone...
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