The Sarah Palin Show?

Many assumed the pit bull in lipstick’s bully pulpit would end with her resignation as Governor (she was too pretty for such a masculine title anyway), but it now appears Caribou Barbie may be donning headphones and gunning down callers.
Is there a market? You betcha. The Drilla from Wasilla’s campaign appearances drew huge crowds. Whether the photogenic point guard can handle the full-court press of a call-in show or will just layup a commentary now and then a la Paul Harvey remains to be seen, but there’s no questioning the enthusiasm she generates.
And why not? In a time when legislation is so convoluted, complex and circuitous that our elected representatives say there is no point in reading a law before they vote on it, a plainspoken Alaskan soccer mom’s commonsense rhetoric resonates among Republicans.
And let’s face it, she scares Democrats in and out of the media. Rarely has any novice to the national stage been so reviled, even by this revanchist political/media class. I, for one, will never forget nor forgive the way the jackals landed in Wasilla, nostrils flared for the scent of blood or scandal (even as they wagged their tails and rolled over in Chicago), nor the endless parade of frivolous ethics complaints, which together were enough to leave many with an impression that something must be wrong with Sarah Palin if so many people were complaining, no matter how little of it actually turned out to be true…
Godspeed, Sarahcuda.


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  1. cc Avatar
    cc

    ……. Yeah ,I think some people are going to regret how they treated her. The funny thing is that the over the top raving Anti-Palin folks kept her on the front page for months. The left made her what she is today. Liberals, always short sighted and always overreaching

  2. Tom Degan Avatar

    Perfect! A tip of the hat is in order for poor old Dan Quayle. Prior to Governor Palin’s nomination as vice-presidential candidate ten months ago, he was generally regarded as the very worst choice of a running mate in living memory. All that has changed. Compared to Sarah, Danny boy is starting to look like Albert Einstein.
    E=M.C. Hammer.
    I guess the time has come for all of us breathe a collective sigh of relief. But for the mysterious workings of fate, President McCain would at this minute be snoozing away in the White House and this idiotic woman would be a seventy-three-year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Regardless of one’s political viewpoint or party affiliation, it must be admitted that we really dodged a bullet with the defeat of the McCain/Unable ticket last November. Had these two been inaugurated on January 20, the law of averages virtually guaranteed that at some point between the years 2009 and 2013 this country would have been stuck with President Gidget von Braun.
    In his column a few days ago in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen suggested that John McCain’s judgement should be put into question for making such an abysmal choice when he chose Governor Palin. Much as I admire Cohen as a writer, his assessment isn’t quite fair. McCain’s first two choices were former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge or that doofus Joe Lieberman. It was the Right Wing extremists who control the Republican party that forced Sarah Palin down his throat.
    Instead of focusing a glare of condemnation toward John McCain, the real target of our collective wrath should be aimed at the “grand old party” itself. Think about that for a minute: So far down the ideological deep end has that party fallen, the prospect of a probable Sarah Palin presidency seemed to most of them a perfectly fine and dandy idea. A new Gallup poll has just been released: Seventy-one percent of registered Republicans would be “likely” to vote for her if she runs in 2012. Medications, please.
    What, you may well ask, is her motivation for committing political suicide by abandoning the office that the people of Alaska entrusted to her care two years ago? When NBC’s Andrea Mitchell suggested to her that after ten months in the national limelight, the comparative drudgery of her duties as governor might have started to seem boring, Sarah Palin responded in words that should be etched in granite at the base of Mount Rushmore:
    “The nitty-gritty, like, you mean the fish slime and the dirt under the fingernails and stuff that’s me?”
    Brilliant. Someone hand me my chisel.
    Why did she resign? She says that as a lame duck governor she won’t be as effective as she would like to be. The fact that she expects the voters of Alaska to swallow this nonsense without a chaser shows the utter contempt she must feel toward the people she was sworn to serve.
    Does she really believe that she has a shot at the nomination three years from now? The answer (unbelievably) is yes. Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News put it well: The woman has “delusions of adequacy”. The pundits (most of them anyway) are starting to compare her rambling press conference on July 3 to Dick Nixon’s infamous tirade when he lost the California governor’s race in 1962 (“You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore”). Some are even daring to suggest that, like Tricky Dick, she will ultimately be victorious. The only problem with that scenario is the fact that there are slightly over one-hundred things that separate Sarah Palin from Richard Milhaus Nixon: I.Q. points.
    What else were her motivations for quitting? Money. She knows damned well that there is a nice chunk of change to be made in the lower forty-eight and that getting from there to here is an expensive and time-consuming process that infringes upon her gubernatorial responsibilities. Were you aware that the distance between Fairbanks and Washington is almost as great as the distance between Washington and London? What to do? To hell with her constituents and head off to the land of the golden goose.
    When asked what her future plans were, she said that she will continue to work overtime for the people of Alaska. I’m willing to bet anyone that in the next twelve months, most – if not all of her time – will be spent in New York and Washington. Any takers?
    The next three years will find her cashing in on her status as a….uhh….well, whatever her status just might be. Count on her making a national speaking tour for at least one-hundred thousand dollars a pop. A radio talk show? Probably. A gig on FOX Noise? That’s almost inevitable. There is a fortune to be made here and she’s not about to let something as trivial as her oath of office prevent her from making it.
    Does she really have a shot at the nomination in three years? I sure hope so. That would be too good to be true.
    SA-RAH! SA-RAH!
    You go, girl!
    http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
    Tom Degan

  3. harleycowboy Avatar
    harleycowboy

    The inverse law of politics:
    If the socialists are praising something/somebody, there is something inherently wrong.
    If the socialists are beating down something/somebody, there must be something right.

  4. Veeshir Avatar
    Veeshir

    The inverse law of politics:
    And I think after the last two years that’s going to be obvious to anyone not a committed leftist.
    Most people, even as they talk about the Liberal Media, still basically trust them.
    I hope Minitru’s over the top lying and vicious attacks on anyone against their messiah has opened your average American’s eyes.
    But then, I’m an eternal optimist.

  5. Veeshir Avatar
    Veeshir

    The more I think about this radio program, the more I’m for it.
    If she shines (as I expect), I’ll have something to throw in the faces of various, GOP, Palin-bashers.
    It won’t shut them up, but it’ll make me feel better about voting “For” a politician.
    And if she doesn’t shine?
    Well, I’m always afraid of when I vote “For” a politician. It usually means I bought some line of BS that I should have known better than to buy
    In other words, if Peggy Noonan turns out to be right, seeing Palin explode on radio will save me from voting “for” the wrong politician.
    Again.
    And if she’s good, think of the sheer hilarity.
    To quote Allah
    ?Line one, we have Andrew from Provincetown. Andrew, I understand you want to know who really carried my son Trig to term.?
    Comedy gold.
    Which leads to….
    I would also love to see Dick Cheney get a show.
    That would be comedy gold…uhhhh..er.
    Or even better, a Cheney/Bolton duo.
    Comedy platinum.