Sep 24 2008
Sarah Palin’s the Punchline
This isn’t so much an attack on Sarah Palin as it is against the McCain campaign. The woman is getting way too much attention from everyone and the simple reason is that she’s a joke. She’s the end of a joke, a joke we’ve heard dozens of times already, a joke two fourth-graders tell each other on the playground but then shrug their shoulders as to why they aren’t laughing. “Sarah Palin” has become the equivalent of “your mom.”
When an interviewer asks her tough questions, he’s being condescending. When reporters head to her home state to learn more about the next possible leader of the United States, the liberal media is out to get her. But when she meets with foreign leaders to discuss how many children they have, she has foreign policy experience.
And then there’s the debates. For the vice-presidential debates, GI John’s goons pushed for shorter blocks of time for statements . A good ol’ fashioned soundbyte off. They said — and I’m not making this shit up — that they want everyone’s favorite hockey mom “to have opportunities to present Mr. McCain’s positions, rather than spending time talking about her experience or playing defense.” Afterall, it’s not like this is a debate.
Well, the joke’s over. We’re not fourth-graders, so stop trying to feed us bullshit stories about her devotion to her family or her experience as a reformer or her inability to blink. It’s time for her handlers to let her loose and answer the question on everybody’s minds: Governor Palin, why do you like to kill baby polar bears?
Stumble It!
