Taking the 25th
I was reading about Gerald Ford a few days ago. In hindsight it seems the primary purpose of his appointment was to pardon Nixon if needed, thus making the president appear to be above the law. We are paying the price today in blood and many years of delayed retirement for making the mba in chief above the law.
Apply that thought to Palin. Why pick a running mate already under the light of at least one very public official ethics investigation? Plus, she has proven to be a blithering idiot capable of nothing more than rote recitals of disconnected talking points. Why would she be picked? A colossal miscalculation? No. The opposite, I fear.
The republican machine is amazing in its capacity for duplicitous calculation against the constitution and the citizens it was intended to protect. Whether it be faking irritating robocalls from the opposition, caging and intimidating poor and minority voters, lavishly funding spoilers to the opposition, and on, and on, and on... I can't think that Palin was a big oopsy. They must be expecting and counting on the Agnew scenario, allowing the president to appoint a replacement they couldn't possibly elect. Cheney? Giuliani? Satan? It's becoming apparent that through mental, emotional, and/or physical breakdown and/or failure that McCain probably could not finish a four year term. Then we'd have another unelected president, and you can bet the republican machine doesn't want to go with another mostly inoffensive tool like Ford.
Of course, it appears there may be another miscalculation. The republicans are the last to realize changes in culture, and at the moment it seems the masses they market to have fallen out of love with Britney, Paris, etc. Vice President Nicole, er, Sarah just isn't garnering the long-term adoration they'd hoped. It appears even Alaska which like the other western states, doesn't much care what the rest of the country drones on about, is embarrassed. Kind of like we in Washington have been made to look like buffoons over Gorton, Ehrlichman, and the ultimate Abramoff/DeLay towel boy, doc Hastings.
So, there are the McCain moves to squelch the investigations. Why are they seemingly half-hearted? In the event we elect the dotard the last thing the gop wants is to have her in office for any length of time. Thus, only a token squelching is being done. This is not intended to stop the investigation, only to delay it. If the current trend reverses and we put neocons back in the white house, her investigation will grow even faster and she may not last the year. Then we'll have an obvious piece of trash like Cheney back in office, or a closet corporate imperialist like Roberts ushered in under the radar.
No, there won't be an intentionally incompetent prosecution for Palin, like what appears to be playing out for her fellow Alaskan and servant to Exxon, Stevens. Her show trial will be skewed the other direction.
Apply that thought to Palin. Why pick a running mate already under the light of at least one very public official ethics investigation? Plus, she has proven to be a blithering idiot capable of nothing more than rote recitals of disconnected talking points. Why would she be picked? A colossal miscalculation? No. The opposite, I fear.
The republican machine is amazing in its capacity for duplicitous calculation against the constitution and the citizens it was intended to protect. Whether it be faking irritating robocalls from the opposition, caging and intimidating poor and minority voters, lavishly funding spoilers to the opposition, and on, and on, and on... I can't think that Palin was a big oopsy. They must be expecting and counting on the Agnew scenario, allowing the president to appoint a replacement they couldn't possibly elect. Cheney? Giuliani? Satan? It's becoming apparent that through mental, emotional, and/or physical breakdown and/or failure that McCain probably could not finish a four year term. Then we'd have another unelected president, and you can bet the republican machine doesn't want to go with another mostly inoffensive tool like Ford.
Of course, it appears there may be another miscalculation. The republicans are the last to realize changes in culture, and at the moment it seems the masses they market to have fallen out of love with Britney, Paris, etc. Vice President Nicole, er, Sarah just isn't garnering the long-term adoration they'd hoped. It appears even Alaska which like the other western states, doesn't much care what the rest of the country drones on about, is embarrassed. Kind of like we in Washington have been made to look like buffoons over Gorton, Ehrlichman, and the ultimate Abramoff/DeLay towel boy, doc Hastings.
So, there are the McCain moves to squelch the investigations. Why are they seemingly half-hearted? In the event we elect the dotard the last thing the gop wants is to have her in office for any length of time. Thus, only a token squelching is being done. This is not intended to stop the investigation, only to delay it. If the current trend reverses and we put neocons back in the white house, her investigation will grow even faster and she may not last the year. Then we'll have an obvious piece of trash like Cheney back in office, or a closet corporate imperialist like Roberts ushered in under the radar.
No, there won't be an intentionally incompetent prosecution for Palin, like what appears to be playing out for her fellow Alaskan and servant to Exxon, Stevens. Her show trial will be skewed the other direction.
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