Bracing For The Vice Who Wears Go Go Boots

The GOP's futile attempts to say that Sarah Palin is more qualified than Barack Obama prove just how desperate they are. President Bush echoed the sentiment last night during the speech he gave via satellite. This has become a political grand ole party (no pun intended). In fact, some new juicy fruit has just arrived via AP. Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, Mike Murphy of McCain's 2000 campaign and NBC's Chuck Todd were caught on tape saying how Palin is a pick of political bullshit. Right on. They called it "gimmicky" and said in essence, this race is kaput. They elaborated that McCain could give a speech like his good express rider Joe Lieberman gave last night. Lieberman took so many shots at Obama calling him "young and eloquent but not ready to lead," you would have assumed he was still running to get the second slot on the ticket.

All day yesterday and all day today - every Republican who graced the television with their kooky antics have been trying to convince viewers that Palin is a courageous reformer who is a straight shooter like Johnny Mac. But I'm not buying it. And neither are the infamous Clinton women. They see this as insulting and political pandering. Pandering so low, it gets a 1.0 on the pander meter. And as more and more slime rolls out about Palin, the McCain campaign has taken the position that it is the media's fault for combing through the Alaskan governor's history. 

Johnny Mac even cancelled an interview with CNN's Larry King because he did not want to endure the barrage of questions that would be shot his way. This choice of McCain's will go down in history as moronic and pathetic. And if Noonan, Murphy and Todd are correct that this race is indeed over - then Palin's speech is not even worth watching.

That's too bad - I was hoping to hear more about salmonberry jam and her apparent infatuation with creationism being preached, ahem taught in schools. So much for the worry-free convention the GOP was hoping for. The party in St. Paul is far from it.