posted on October 5, 2008 11:53:28 AM newPitbull Palin Mauls McCain
Frank Rich has a column in the NYT on McCain's health and Palin's ambitions. These are some excerpts and the url to the full article is below with his disturbing final thought of flipping the ticket.
With a month to go, the 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race — about “the future,” as Palin kept saying Thursday night — and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain.
It’s against this backdrop that Palin’s public pronouncements, culminating with her debate performance, have been so striking. The standard take has it that she’s either speaking utter ignorant gibberish (as to Couric) or reciting highly polished, campaign-written sound bites that she’s memorized (as at the convention and the debate). But there’s a steady unnerving undertone to Palin’s utterances, a consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks she can be president, she thinks she will be president. And perhaps soon. She often sounds like someone who sees herself as half-a-heartbeat away from the presidency. Or who is seen that way by her own camp, the hard-right G.O.P. base that never liked McCain anyway and views him as, at best, a White House place holder.
After the debate, Republicans who had been bailing on Palin rushed back to the fold. They know her relentless ambition is the only hope for saving a ticket headed by a warrior who is out of juice and out of ideas. So what if she is preposterously unprepared to run the country in the midst of its greatest economic crisis in 70 years? She looks and sounds like a winner.
You can understand why they believe that. She has more testosterone than anyone else at the top of her party.
Looks like the Republican party is fractured, with a presidential candidate too old, sick and worn out to work full time bolstered only by an energetic but ignorant cheerleader who can't think or speak independently.
The fact that if elected, McCain may die and leave the country to be led by someone represented and elected by the Republican party's most ignorant faction is frightening to consider.
posted on October 6, 2008 09:17:54 AM new
Pixi,I just saw a clip of her in Florida attacking Obama and heard her high grating voice along with the "doggonit" and "y'all" country hick comments. She has no awareness of any of the issues or happenings except what she's been taught the last few weeks and has no solid platform to run on. It's still amazing to me that voters would crave someone even dumber than Bush but with the same agenda, or as Helen states it 'the most ignorant faction'. It's scary considering that the country may be going bankrupt and has lost respect worldwide mostly because of his leadership.
I'm hoping that the attacks backfire on her and enough people start to realize how much this bail out or possible future ones may be costing them and they will want some intelligent leadership and not some old man and bimbo at the helm. I know it sounds terrible but I'm wondering if the October surprise will be the whole economy crashing and Bush calling the election off so he can stay in power until he gets a chance to push the final button.
