Yesterday Charles Pierce alerted us to a bit of interesting news:
It's not an easy job being John McCain these days. After all, the country did not give him the presidency he deserved back in 2008 and, ever since, all he's been able to do is fuss and fume through his 45,978,700 television interviews, and hang out with Huckleberry Butchmeup and Kelly Ayotte, the Metternich of Manchester so they all can play War Hawk together and dream of bombings yet to come.
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And even with this, even with him inviting all his best buds over to cosplay Being President, he still has some problems with The Base, and, oh my heavenly tundra, what amazing problems they are.
The link is to a
New York Times article by Jeremy W. Peters published on Tuesday. The general topic of the article is where the wrath of the Tea Party will descend in response to the President's immigration initiative.
The politicians, intellectual leaders and activists who consider themselves part of the Tea Party have redirected their energy from advocating fiscal austerity and small government to stopping any changes that would legitimize people who are here illegally, through granting them either citizenship or legal status.
After noting the power of the Tea Party to punish the mighty in the person of Eric Cantor we get to the fun part:
At the top of their list of potential targets are politicians like Senator John McCain of Arizona, a proponent of an immigration overhaul. Their fantasy candidate: Sarah Palin, Mr. McCain’s former running mate, who now spends much of the year at her home in Scottsdale, Ariz. Two prominent conservative activists, who spoke anonymously to reveal private discussions, said leading Tea Party figures planned to reach out to Ms. Palin to see if she was interested in running against Mr. McCain.
Of course that last sentence marks the whole thing as wishful thinking. But
TBogg is up to the task of bringing out the fun implicit in the whole idea:
Second, it is awfully early to recruit Palin for 2016 now since she’ll probably quit the campaign before Valentines Day next February.
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Of course, the irony here is that McCain would be primaried by the woman he plucked from obscurity and made a national figure and now, oh no!, the killer is inside his own house.
Without John McCain, Palin would have eventually quit her job as one of America’s more obscure governors and devoted herself to raising her children, by which I mean holding their hair back while they vomit after a night of drinking and partying and brawling and getting pregnant. Again. Without John McCain’s Hail Mary pass, America would have been deprived of their K-Mart Kardashians.
I admit the hilarity would be delicious, but it does seem a bit much to hope for on such thin news. But it's a pleasant topic to think about on a holiday.