The Humiliation of Sarah Palin

[Joanne98]

by Beltway Dem, Sat Sep 27, 2008 at 05:06:25 PM EST

Ed Schultz reports that insiders within the McCain camp consider Palin to be "clueless":


The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

They're embarrassed by her, and if I wasn't afraid for my country, I might succumb to a temptation to feel sorry for her. She is well on her way to becoming nothing more than a national joke, and some of the jokes are more than a little funny:


John McCain showed up without running mate Sarah Palin, which is a shame because she actually has a lot of experience with financial matters. You know, she lives right next to a bank.



I think Coates gets it right:


The Palin pick was the most crassest, most bigoted decision that I've seen in national electoral politics . . . . There can be no doubt that they picked Palin strictly as a stick to drum up the victimhood narrative--small town, hunters, big families and most importantly, women.

The Republicans don't care about people; they use them. She's in deep now, and there's no easy way out of this. In Palin, as Coates observed, McCain saw "breasts, hair and a lovely smile." She never understood what her new role would demand of her, and just as she didn't understand the demands of her new role, she didn't have the skills to assess her inherent limitations for that role. John McCain wanted to exploit a moment in history that afforded an opportunity to women, and because of a lack of judgment and caution, he has exposed this naif to national humiliation and the nation to the threat of her incapacity for the role she seeks.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/27/17626/3418

[Caria]

1. Which then becomes "proof" that women can't do the job

OTOH I always thought shrub humiliated himself in debates...

[ladjf]

2. I believe that the day will come when both Palin and McCain

will regret that they ever teamed up.

[Cleita]

3. The Palin pick was to me a sign that John McCain

is suffering from the onset of dementia. It doesn't matter that the RNC might have picked her first. If he were in full grasp of his mental faculties he would never have allowed it.

[crazy_vanilla]

4. bad for them, good for us

and it makes for a funny campaign!

[KaryninMiami]

7. Not so funny if they win this however- in fact, not funny at all.

And don't think for a minute that they won't pull this off because they are going to fight big time and they cheat big time. The rigging and disenfranchisement and caging have already begun. If this is not a landslide in the electronic voting machine swing states (such as Florida, PA, Ohio, etc), we're screwed.

[Bluebear]

5. 'The Republicans don't care about people; they use them.' - AMEN

[ShadowLiberal]

6. The only bad thing about what a disaster Palin is is the low expectations people have for her

I think Palin is gonna benefit in her debate with Biden from this enormous expectation most people in the media are going to have that Biden is going to murder her in the debate. That makes it so that all she has to do to 'win' in a lot of people's eyes is to not do 'too' bad.

[watrwefitinfor]

8. Any time, any one, feels a twinge of pity for Palin,

they need to summon up a picture in their mind of her as she was at the Republican Convention, shrieking foul, venomous, baseless sneering insults at every one, every thing, and every idea that most civilized people respect and/or hold dear. Get a firm hold of that image of her in St. Paul. Envision, again, that crowd eating it up and egging her own. Remember how she had all of them laughing and lapping it up and begging for more. Including the press. I'll never forget seeing old Bill Schieffer as the camera rolled over and past him, head thrown back just laughing his ass off at some particularly nasty poison dart she had just lobbed at Barack Obama.

Nay, save your pity for someone who deserves it, for she does not. All she deserves is whatever fiery pit in hell awaits her.

Wat