Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust
The Look-Before-You-Leap presidential campaign is at it again: “Do as I say, not as I do.” It amuses and confuses me as I watch the Republican Party writhe and wriggle around in the mud. It’s not so much the Gulf Coast hurricane wreckage in which they’re mired, but in the dialogue (and probably their own wobbly and now-questionable convictions) that they’re trying to manipulate about Sarah Palin, their ”gently-vetted” VP nominee.
Um… WAS she vetted, at all, before her name was plucked from obscurity? Should the GOP have figured up advance evacuation plans for this swirling storm on their radar screens? They had disaster mechanisms in place for Hurricane Gustav, this time. What about for Hurricane Sarah?
A political party with such a powerful weathervane for conservative self-righteousness didn’t see and failed to predict the gale-force winds that now seem to be blowing around Palin. The family-values darling brings quite a storm front with her -- including a teenage daughter unmarried and five months pregnant. With her emergence onto the headlines a mere few days ago, she’s already got at least one *-gate” -- the abuse-of-power scandal called “Trooper-gate,” and who knows what else, dogging her heels.
And that’s just it. Who knows what else? What other baggage is this lady carrying? Did John McCain know? Did his staff do any kind of serious background check before catapulting her into the public eye, or did they stop merely when the ideology checked out? If he knew, was he hoping to keep it a secret? After all, a really good way to distract prying eyes from noticing a swollen young belly is to have that belly overshadowed by a four-month-old baby being carried in front of it, laid out on a very widespread receiving blanket. If McCain knew in advance, how long did he seriously believe it would be before the news leaked out? What does that say about his competence to make solid judgment calls if he didn’t know, or about the purity of his intentions if he did know? Did he really put country first and his own campaign or political ambitions second or was he just trying to pull a fast one? Or was he simply in too big a hurry to rain on Barack Obama’s parade the day after the DNC convention to care about making a critical executive decision in haste or shameless expedience?
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