08/30/2008 (7:35 am)
And Now, Meet the Democrats’ Response to Sarah Palin
What a difference a day makes.
It’s Saturday, fa cryin’ out loud, and still the Democrats’ slime machine has been hard at work all night, producing pictures of downtown Wasilla, AK (a two-story frame beer joint and a tiny strip mall), digging the dirt on the scandal that’s rocking the governor’s administration in Alaska (it’s claimed that she and her husband tried really hard to get an ill-behaved state trooper fired who was divorcing her sister, and later she fired the Police Commissioner who didn’t fire the trooper), screeching “She supported Pat Buchanan!” (apparently because she politely stuck a “Buchanan” button on her lapel when Buchanan visited Alaska in 2000,) and making the point that I seriously can’t believe that they have the chutzpah to make, that she’s too inexperienced to be Vice President (but it’s not a problem that Barack Obama with even less experience wants to be President. Criminy.)
It’s not all “slime,” of course. There are reasons to examine McCain’s choice for Veep, given his age (but then again, his mother is in her mid-90s and is still tough as nails, so there’s some reason to predict he’ll handle two full terms and keep on sailing… but on the other hand, there’s his father…) and given our lack of familiarity with Governor Palin. So, we’ll all get to watch the soap opera play out for a few days, and that’s a pretty good thing.
If you’re still interested in reading about it, Doug Mataconis at Below the Beltway has some interesting background on how the choice was made, and Ramesh Ponnuru throws a little cold water on McCain’s Veep pick (not literally, that would just be rude) over at The Corner.
Two things are certain: 1) McCain’s strategy to get Obama’s convention speech out of the headlines worked really, really well (but at what cost?); and 2) this election season continues to entertain like no other.
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