That in and of itself is... difficult to put into words. But it gets even better. The current post on the Palintology BLOG, Finally! Some truth, even though it’s painful (for some), refers to what they describe as a must read posting on another BLOG in support of Palin by a "liberal homosexual in Portland, Oregon."
Who knew there were liberal homosexuals in Portland, Oregon? Crazy.
Anyway, according to Palintology "it's an absolute must-read, you can't buy support like this!"
Apparently sarcasm is lost on the writer(s) of Palintology. Which makes it even more wonderful. My personal favorite is:
"I'm not the kind of voters she's designed to attract, but I still find her attractive. Totally crazy, sure. But also a more complicated and original bit of political theater than anything Obama's offered us. Nothing short of a revelation that Barack Obama is actually a Nazi war criminal in hiding wearing a suit crafted by the geniuses behind all those Eddie Murphy fat person movies would convince me to even consider voting for McCain. And even then, it'd be a tough call. Still, the fact that even I (and many other liberals) found her smart, engaging, tough and funny is probably proof that she's far more dangerous than at least some liberals are willing to bet."
Well, he definitely go the last bit right... Sarah is very dangerous and the Obama campaign has been very disappointing to me in their response to her joining the McCain ticket. I think Joshua has done a very good job of summing up Sarah Palin.
Palin-tology
September 03, 2008
Is it wrong for me to love this woman so much?
Yes, it probably is. She's an insane conservative, after all. Worse yet, her selection for the VP slot is looking more and more like a stroke of genius almost by the minute. The choice of such a unique figure has left most of us liberals gaping and frothing and desperately trying to destroy her as quickly as possible.
But every revelation only seems to make her more attractive, both to the "base" and, I suspect, to all those ordinary, small-town voters that have trended Republican in recent years and that Obama has a chance of winning back.
Of course, it's a little pathetic when the liberal attack machine actually starts off with the most outlandish and unbelievable scandal: Palin faked her pregnancy to hide her daughter's pregnancy!
No one could seriously believe such a rumor. Well, perhaps they could in a world where so many people think Barack Obama is a Muslim. But such a baroque conspiracy is the kind of thing JFK-assassination aficionados would come up with, not a legitimate scandal.
And of course, Palin addresses those rumors by revealing what was potentially a real scandal. That 17-year-old girl who apparently gave birth to her "brother" in April? Oh, she's five months pregnant.
This, of course, sets liberals into a complete frenzy of jubilation! "Ha ha ha! So much for 'family values!'" Only, guess what, this scandal only makes her more sympathetic to the family values crowd. And so does her husband's DUI arrest 22 years ago.
Add to that all the sexism that Obama's supporters are throwing at her (it must've been totally awful to go a few months between Hillary and Sarah without a woman to sneer at, huh?) and Palin suddenly looks like the best choice McCain ever made.
And, yes, Palin benefits greatly from the vastly lowered expectations the Democrats handed her. Generally, smart political operations seek to increase expectations of their opponents to an unreachable level (think all that John Kerry as Cicero stuff in 2004) so as to disappoint the voters. But this year, Democrats have done Palin's job for her. They've made her out to be the bumbling virgin at our quadrennial political orgy, a dumb beauty queen with no experience about anything outside her igloo.
So when Sarah Palin got up on that stage and delivered a speech that, while hardly substantive, was nonetheless effective, raucous, pointed, piercing and, oddly enough, fun she rose so high above the expectations her enemies had set that she's being compared to Obama in 2004!
She knows what the real job of the Vice President is, better even than Joe Biden did last week. She'll attack ruthlessly but somehow sweetly, wrapped up in her mixture of dorky class president and sleek beauty queen.
And why not? Palin, like Michelle Obama, has blown the lid off the expectations of political women. And the problem is, no one really knows what to do about it. Obama's campaign is still run by men, after all. And even the women hanging around are more influenced by Hillary Clinton, whose feminism is a little older (and, let's face it, a little more masculine) than Obama's or Palin's.
I don't believe Palin demonstrated that she has what it takes to assume the Presidency if John McCain's goiter should explode. She almost certainly can't demonstrate that to me. But the actual abilities of a Vice Presidential nominee are only really important to voters at large when that nominee turns out to be entirely unsuited to the task.
Palin's speech tonight was supposed to be her Dan Quayle deer-in-headlights moment. And it wasn't. Despite being drowned in more media attention, personal and political, than she probably ever thought she'd endure, she looked utterly unfazed and completely up to the moment. Not so bad for a woman's who's a mere small town mayor, huh?
I'm not the kind of voters she's designed to attract, but I still find her attractive. Totally crazy, sure. But also a more complicated and original bit of political theater than anything Obama's offered us. Nothing short of a revelation that Barack Obama is actually a Nazi war criminal in hiding wearing a suit crafted by the geniuses behind all those Eddie Murphy fat person movies would convince me to even consider voting for McCain. And even then, it'd be a tough call. Still, the fact that even I (and many other liberals) found her smart, engaging, tough and funny is probably proof that she's far more dangerous than at least some liberals are willing to bet.
The real problem for the Obama campaign now is to figure how exactly to attack this woman. Obama supporters have tried the sleazy, bottom-of-the-barrel approach and failed. Obama's proxies have floated the "inexperience" balloon and found it not exactly effect [my favorite line of Palin's tonight was "I guess being a small town mayor is like being a 'community organizer' except you have actual responsibilities."] So how can they fight back?
Of course, in a sense they probably don't need to. I don't think Palin can turn McCain's campaign around single-handedly. Had she run her own campaign for President, she might well be the nominee, but she's not and so the Republicans are stuck with McCain. And there's only so much this Alaskan she-wolf can do for his fortunes. And thank God. Much as I love the woman, I don't want her (or her sugar daddy) anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
posted by Joshua at 11:54 PM
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