between Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Feith, et al, and a hockey mom?
Lipstick.
Our initial reactions were wrong. Sarah Palin isn't on the ticket to garner disaffected Hillary backers. She's not there because she's a woman. She's not there because she's young. She's not there to lock in swing state Alaska or to make the case for drilling in ANWAR. All of those factors are but frosting on this cupcake.
Sarah Palin is on the ticket because of her ideology. It's not that McCain and the party didn't vet her. It's that they don't care. All of the revelations that have left us aghast are unimportant to them. She passed the one true test - ideology. She's the new face of the Republican party. She's their future and it scares the shit out of me. McCain is just a placeholder until Palin can be the 45th president.
Rather than launch into yet another litany of what's come out about Palin in the past few days, let's look at the ideology that drove those events.
- Don't take the truth too literally.
- Say or do anything to get elected.
- Use the power of your office to burn your perceived enemies.
- Embrace the most fundamentalist fascist positions.
- Fuck the people.
- Fuck the environment.
- I got mine.
This woman is the current administration cubed and comes packaged in a perky PTA hockey mom. She's even more McSame than McSame is. She is truly the Manchurian candidate.
I thought I had become outrage-proof with the Republicans, but with Sarah Palin they have unfurled the banners of full-out war. There is no longer even the pretense of appealing to sane, sentient beings.