"McCain is ruining Palin!" What's not to love about this message from the right?

[jpgray]

Via Kristol and many other conservative pundits, we're hearing this in the run-up to the debate to explain the Gibson and Couric debacles. Why do I enjoy this? The GOP base, never sold on McCain, is not about to abandon their blog-anointed messiah. The ultimate vetting process of prima facie hero-worship has had its say. Absolute fealty has been pledged from mothers' basements and megachurch parking lots all over the land, based solely on pleasing cultural narratives and superficial image marketing. This is the component John McCain has always missed from the right-wing religious base, and the suspicions that have dogged him heretofore as a result will return tenfold to crucify him if Palin fails. The more spectacular the failure, the more fatal the resultant acrimony.

This, to me, is one of the most delicious aspects of a possible Palin implosion--it will deepen the widening fractures in the GOP electoral coalition. They will accuse John McCain and certain factions of the GOP of "ruining" her, solely because their beautiful idea of Palin will have been sullied by reality. Any alternate explanation will be preferred to the one which tells them the dreams imposed on her were false and contemptible, and if the "elite liberal media" will get its fair share of the fallout, so will John McCain.

[yardwork]

1. When cornered, rats sometimes eat one another.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. The brief Palin moment was the first CHARGE these people have had in years

To see that candle dim so quickly has caused serious delusions among many of them. meanwhile, a real conservative should be furious that this know-nothing has been foisted on the party in the middle of a Presidential election. It's a fucking disgrace. But they are seriously numbed by the Palin. They want that political orgasm back after years of Bush depression, and they thought they had it in Palin until she turned out to be a monumental dumbfuck.

[jpgray]

5. The "real conservatives," i.e. the money/ideological base, -are- furious

That's what makes it all the more delicious. When you have two prominent pillars of the GOP machine each calling the other treacherous and stupid, that's just music to my ears.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Yeah, her glory days didn't even last a full month--and that was with very little

exposure to media interviews and questions. They keep saying, "Let her be Sarah, the one who gave the speech"--but...that was a SPEECH. Written FOR her. She is a TV person, she knows how to deliver lines on camera, for God's sake. The "real" Sarah is the one in the interviews who knows nothing about national and world issues.

[YOY]

3. I do so hope that November 5th we can all laugh our asses at them

A campaign reminiscent of Mondale/Ferraro (84)after the Carter Presidency (80)...with the shoes on the right feet instead.

It's called comeuppance you bitches!

[jpgray]

4. Hailing from MN, that analogy hurts a bit

But as you say, the shoe of ridicule will at least be on an utterly deserving foot. How's that for a ridiculous metaphor? :D

[Monk06]

6. After Nov 5 Freepers will have to go back to jerking off into their socks while listening to Rush.

[jpgray]

7. Leave Geddy Lee out of this

:P

A face for radio, but no voice for it.

[Monk06]

8. So what U sayin? Tronta doesn't rock? Take this unbeliever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnRy4ks87Xg

[jpgray]

10. If only sheer numbers of drums were proportionate to my pleasure at hearing them played

:P

(They're talented fellows as musicians, but their style of music is far outside of my tastes. All snark is in fun!)

[Monk06]

12. Well Peart is a showboat on the drums I'll give you that. Only Pink Floyd

puts more superfluous percussion on stage

[DefenseLawyer]

11. I heard a variation of this on Matthews last night

With the one lady saying that obviously Palin was being "over prepared" because she just wasn't the same person who gave that great speech at the convention. Of course, as was pointed out, that was a speech, written by someone else, read off a teleprompter by a former tv sportscaster. That is like being shocked to learn what a poor baseball player Kevin Costner is after seeing him hit so many home runs in Bull Durham.

[jpgray]

13. The willful ignorance among their base is almost awe inspiring

I wonder if it will ever reach a final tipping point?