Tonight, we await the humor of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. But there is something even funnier happening on Sunday.
Sarah Palin is going to have a rally in Roswell, New Mexico (h/t Ambinder)
For Immediate Release
Contact: Press Office
Saturday, October 18, 2008
703-650-5550
Sunday, October 19, 2008
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
Event: Governor Sarah Palin Participates in Road to Victory Rally
Location: Roswell Industrial Air Center
Great Southwest Aviation
Hangar 1531
100 Southwest Way
Roswell, NM
Having failed to associate Obama with terrorists, is Sarah Palin about to accuse Obama of "palling around with aliens?"
Humor aside, I mean no disrespect to the people of Roswell. The alleged UFO sighting brings in tourism dollars, of course. And New Mexico is a very important red state that we're going to turn blue.
But I have to say that a town beloved by conspiracy theorists is the perfect place to hold a Sarah Palin rally.
Why?
Because ridiculous fear and paranoia are all the GOP base has left these days after their hero George W Bush has run this country into a ditch and the hapless John McCain is their standard-bearer.
They're paranoid about Obama's religion. They believe in a conspiracy of an Islamic takeover of America.
They're paranoid about associations. If Obama has ever been in the same room as anybody bad, then Obama must be just as bad, if not worse.
They're paranoid about race. They think that Obama is going to go after white people in favor of black people.
They're paranoid about taxes. Even though most of them will do better under Obama's tax plan, they won't believe it because they only trust the word of those who give welfare to corporations who export their jobs. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me for a third term, call me a McCain voter.
They're paranoid about guns. They think the democrats will arrive in black helicopters to take away their hunting rifles.
They're paranoid about gay marriage. Maybe they think that marriage equality will unleash their inner Larry Craig or something. I don't get that.
They're paranoid about abortion. They really think Obama will kill liveborn babies while they ignore the fact that McCain will take health care away from babies here in the real world.
This is the base of the Republican Party. These are the people who love Sarah Palin even if she is unqualified and corrupt. How appropriate that a bunch of people who fear a manchurian candidate shall gather tomorrow at the place where conspiracy theorists allege a UFO cover-up.
You know that "GOP" stands for in 2008?
Greedy Or Paranoid.