The Palin "bounce" (so to speak) appears to have crested. Everybody who would or could ever support her did, for a couple of days.
The magic is wearing off.
People (enough people) are coming to their senses, as reality sets in.
She's beginning to embarass herself, and the McCain candidacy.
Even those who question Barack Obama's experience take him seriously; and in that regard, there is no comparison between the two of them.
McCain bet the house. Much like Kirk in The Galileo 7, he burned the rest of his rocket fuel to create a solar flare in hopes of getting noticed. He did, but now the orbit is beginning to decay.
Until the Palin selection and the Republican National Convention, I could still defend him somewhat, on some level. But no more. Oh, no more.
(McCain tangent)
Running an ad accusing Obama of teaching sex ed to Kindergarteners because he supported a bill to teach kindergarteners about inappropriate touching? You fuck. You fucking fuck. So - to be clear - the Republican Party is now the pro-molesting kids party. I mean, officially.
He has, in fact, NO HONOR. It has gone the way of his shame.
(back to Palin)
She scared the hell out of me; I'll admit it. But no more. Seven more weeks is a long time for her to avoid interviews and for not one of these percolating scandals and/or beyond-the-pales to catch fire.
Bill Clinton was right. Obama is about to take this fucker to the house.
Then, she will be a supremely confident, yet intellectually incurious, evangelical supermodel footnote in history.
Good fucking riddance, you awful, awful thing.
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I hope so. The statistical crest was anticipated and has completed.
What'll be interesting is what happens now. What we've been attending to for the past 1 1/2 years, the so-called "undecidids"... those who plan to vote but just haven't gotten around to thinking about it yet... are now becoming aware that the election is coming up.
I think if you've had your head up your ass this long, you should be forced to stay home. I know of no test for this, however, and technicaly it's unconstitutional.
The key seems to be the media developing a narrative about the MP campaign being a bunch of liars and repeating it over and over and over.
I've only seen bits and pieces of the Palin interview with Charles Gibson, but I'm certain I could have answered most of the questions more substantively.
She did come off like an undergraduate cramming for the mid-term. The NYT piece illustrated further that this is her general MO. She's too busy to do her homework.
This does fit the model of Republican "go with the gut"/anti-intellectual style.
I hope you are right. Her first VP debate is not until Oct. 2nd, or so. Her first truly LIVE event. Everything else, including Gibson - has been less than TOTALLY live - there was preparation - she does have until the VP debate to be "educated" by the republican boys on the issues she may not know enough about - I get Dan's ST analogy - though it was Spock, not Kirk
I just hope the fizzle doesn't have time now to reignite.
I may be susceptible to waves of overconfidence...but I think it's entirely possible that the next 8 weeks may see the end of the Republican party as we have known it.
My logic:
Evangelicals have been the backstop of the party for at least the last 8 years. They'll vote for anyone who blows their particular dog whistle, and will swoon if candidates profess their radical beliefs more openly. They are also very prone to developing cults of personality. W was seen as something short of the second coming of Jesus himself by the wackiest of them, and Palin may be some crazy combination of the Virgin Mary and Ronald Reagan in their eyes. They have latched onto her in a way that will be extremely difficult to dislodge.
They hate John McCain because he's not a religious person and has basically blown them off his entire career until this election. If John McCain (who was essentially the default choice in the primary of the average Republican voter) is responsible for destroying the future prospects of Palin, they are going to hold him responsible, and also the Republican power structure.
The hardcore evangelicals are not interested in winning at all costs the way that the Republican Party in general is, so they are far more likely to either stay home or mount their own third party going forward. We might see a lot of Mike Huckabee in 2012. And while they probably have enough members to get on the ballot, and into debates (15%) they scare the shit out of large swaths of America.
The Republican party is then left with the Main Street folks, whose entire existence is the lower taxes for themselves and their buddies, and the crazy Neocon military interventionists, who have lost most of the influence they had due to their pet project being such a disaster.
Without the combination of the Theocons, the Neocons, and the Corporate Cons, the Republican party is not strong enough to overcome the fractured but coherent Democratic Party.
I'm not sure it's good for our country to have one party rule, even if the party is the party I favor. But the R's have earned a long stay in the woodshed for the shit they've been up to for the last 14 years. They need to cleanse themselves of the evil that has permeated the breadth of their party and start over.
Palin is simply the culmination of everything that is wrong with the Republicans and she may be their undoing.
Then again, I've been wrong before...
You certainly have. And for size.
However - I catch your drift on the unholy alliance between the different factions of the GOP over the past couple of decades, and how it was a marriage purely of convenience.
I just always wonder about that small group of true, old-school economic conservatives. Ones that aren't particularly hawkish and are socially moderate, but simply believe in smaller government and free markets. Not necessarily positions I agree with but certainly legitimately defensible ones. But these poor folks have got to be going NUTS over what's been happening to their party over the past two decades.
But voting for it nonetheless.
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