I'll explain my title as I go here. See, I'm watching Candy Crowley in the CNN studio trying to nuance the whole "Palin says she will start a war with Russia" thing. Like it's her job to explain what a lady who could be President of the United States within a year... MEANT by what she said.
I GET IT! Okay? I get it! I DO NUANCE. I understand she was discussing a hypothetical situation involving a NATO country. VERY hypothetical, because nations with current border disputes cannot be accepted into the NATO alliance. It's in the NATO Charter, and for a good reason. It's so we don't start a thermonuclear fucking war by the very act of adding a country (like Georgia) to NATO.
You know who doesn't do nuance? Regular people don't do nuance. All the regular people in small-town America who have fallen in love with Sarah Palin? They don't do nuance. The wingers kept saying that Palin's great asset was her "plain talk" that "everyday people" could "relate to". So now, when she's too stupid to smoothly circumvent a hypothetical question with the words "WAR" and "RUSSIA" in it, that "plain talk" doesn't look too goddam good.
They're scared to death that "everyday people" will relate to thermonuclear WAR with RUSSIA. So now pundits who have their nose six inches up the collective GOP ass, like Candy Crowley, have to EXPLAIN WHAT A POTENTIAL PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.... MEANT!!!
You know who else doesn't do nuance? Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin doesn't do nuance. He's going to see three words out of a translation of this interview. War. With. Russia. How might he react? Well, Putin, unlike Sarah Palin, does his homework. He'll know who she is and what she represents. Let me tell you something: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has vetted Sarah Palin better than McCain has. He knows she belongs to a religion that believes in the biblical Armageddon. Putin is an atheist. He was brought up in an atheist system and thrived in it. I don't think he sees the upside to the End Times that Pentacosts do and he's not going to appreciate war with Russia being discussed hypothetically on American network television.
Putin will also see another statement in Palin's interview, clearly a gaff that American media have missed so far:
His [Putin's] mission, if it is to control energy supplies, also, coming from and through Russia, that's a dangerous position for our world to be in, if we were to allow that to happen.
I hope Candy Crowley will allow ME to explain what this means. It means that Sarah Palin won't allow Russia to control their own oil! Read it! Now Candy Crowley would explain that Palin MEANT she opposed Russia controlling energy supplies coming from and through GEORGIA. But Candy, that's not what she fucking said! And it's not what Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is fixing to read! Five words, Candy!
Leader Of The Free World!
So how might Vladimir Putin react? He might issue a statement (or have President Dmitry Medvedev issue a statement) saying that upon the inauguration of McCain/Palin, that day, that minute, Russia goes into Defcon одно (Defcon 1). If he calls President George W. Bush tonight (he will) and gets some snotty frat-boy-cowboy answer, he might go into Defcon одно now. Right now.
So... as to my title.
FROM: McCAIN/PALIN 08
TO: WIDE DISTRIBUTION -- ALL U.S. MEDIA
In that Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, in her very first interview this campaign season has started a WAR with goddam RUSSIA, further interviews are hereby out of the fucking question. All future questions directed to Sarah Palin will be submitted in writing.
This interview is a disaster for the GOP. Don't let anyone tell you different.