It was observed here yesterday (and elsewhere, too) that circumstances might warrant a Comment every night between now and the election, but it would kinda put a crimp into my use of the term "Special."
Point taken. Thank you.
So tonight we introduce something new: the first Campaign Comment.
Not necessarily just monologues, either. Sound Bites now acceptable. Such as Governor Palin swinging and missing, for at least the fourth time, in an effort to answer the question (this time, read by a news reporter but submitted by an elementary school student): 'What does the Vice President do?'
Guess who is not 'Smarter Than A Third Grader?'
I'm not just stating the obvious point here, that it's embarrassing to listen to somebody run for national office without being able to factually define what the office is.
Governor, do you really think you'd be "in charge of the United States Senate?"
Do you really want to suggest that you think if you "want to"... you "can really get in there with the Senators and make a lot of good policy changes"?
We're just wrapping up eight years of a Vice President who had no clue what his damned job consisted of - couldn't even correctly find his governmental branch with both hands.
The last thing anybody in this country wants, Republican or Democrat, is another Buccaneer in there, making it up as they go along, and, in your case, presuming you can stride in to the Senate and change policy if you want to!
Besides which, Governor, exactly how on earth could you not have the correct answer... by now?
It's not like this is the first time you've been asked about the Vice Presidency and gone all Miss South Carolina on us.
So we'll go through the whole collection of Palin's wishful thinking about becoming Master of the Senate, and the delightful attempt to seize extra-constitutional power by acting dumb over a simple civics question.
More snark, less yelling (although there will be yelling).