Well, you say "harmless", and I suppose it's technically so, but...
what's terrifying is that they - the Republican machine - were ready to go along with a VP candidate that was utterly, completely, unequivocally the wrong person for the job.
She's the wrong person to teach FOURTH GRADE.
She's someone who's coasted through her life on her looks* and her manufactured sass, and thank GOD America saw through it. Of any VP in my lifetime, Palin would be the most likely to have to take office, because McCain + melanoma = short life expectancy. (I'm still shocked the media didn't make more of this, because melanoma is some serious shit.)
Thank god we dodged THAT bullet (unlike all those poor worn-out copter-hunted wolves Palin's shot).
But you know, in her defense: about Africa? Some US Americans don't HAVE maps. Such as. For the children.
But she knows right where Russia is: out her kitchen window! You betcha.
*From today's Newsweek: "At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute," she said."
Say whatever you want about Hilary Clinton, but she never had to stoop to that kind of manipulative bullshit. Fancy pageant walkin', indeed.
Also, this:
"NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family-clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.
A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin."
The hatred. It burns. But I do like that "Wasilla hillbillies" quote. Quite a lot, actually.
what's terrifying is that they - the Republican machine - were ready to go along with a VP candidate that was utterly, completely, unequivocally the wrong person for the job.
She's the wrong person to teach FOURTH GRADE.
She's someone who's coasted through her life on her looks* and her manufactured sass, and thank GOD America saw through it. Of any VP in my lifetime, Palin would be the most likely to have to take office, because McCain + melanoma = short life expectancy. (I'm still shocked the media didn't make more of this, because melanoma is some serious shit.)
Thank god we dodged THAT bullet (unlike all those poor worn-out copter-hunted wolves Palin's shot).
But you know, in her defense: about Africa? Some US Americans don't HAVE maps. Such as. For the children.
But she knows right where Russia is: out her kitchen window! You betcha.
*From today's Newsweek: "At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute," she said."
Say whatever you want about Hilary Clinton, but she never had to stoop to that kind of manipulative bullshit. Fancy pageant walkin', indeed.
Also, this:
"NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family-clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.
A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin."
The hatred. It burns. But I do like that "Wasilla hillbillies" quote. Quite a lot, actually.
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