Old wife Old Too-old-for-her McGrabber VP2B
During the other night's ABC News
Gibson-Gabiditerod, VP nominee
Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) expressed her opinion that the widely distributed internet story about her wanting to ban
library books in Wasilla was just, and we quote here,
"an old wives tale."
What? Where is the feigned OUTRAGE?
Is she calling Democrats "OLD WIVES?" And what has she got against people who are old, to begin with? And WIVES? Doesn't she know there are literally hundreds -- maybe even thousands -- of older women across America who also just happen to be wives?
This is an insult not only to them, but to their husbands and families. Good people who sweat it out every day without complaint, in an effort to put food on their families and make their pies higher. You'd think the Republicans would somehow be able to rise above this kind of gutter politics. Has there not yet already been enough of this sexism and ageism interjected into the campaign?
Older Americans and married women represent a significant voting block -- including swing states. It's like a slap in the face to them as they ponder who they plan to vote for when they take time out of their busy days to trudge to the polls on November 4.
This on the heels of the McCain campaign’s embarrassing hissy fit over Sen. Obama’s use of a common, and completely acceptable analogy relating to the application of lip gloss on a representative of the porcine persuasion. And then to think they could get away with referring to the remark as barnyard language, simply because it involved reference to an animal frequently observed on occasion in a barnyard. And what about those family farms -- in states like, oh, Ohio and Pennsylvania—who have been forced to operate their barns without yards, thanks the Bush administration’s cozying up to big agribusiness.
Well, the Obama campaign needs to squat down and take notice of this stuff the opposition has been smearing all over both the barnyard and Americans of a certain age and gender. Fight back in kind at the slightest provocation – the slighter the better, because, well, that’s, uh, fun.
They should not take this lying down (especially in a barnyard) as they did after “lip-pig-gnu-and-Palin-too.” Sure the Obama team pointed out that McCain had employed the phrase himself (we believe, although don’t quote us on this), with regard to Mother Theresa, at the time nursing to lepers in India.
But they failed to twist the knife higher into the pie, as it were, with the additional observation that the phrase had also actually been the title of a 2006 book by the Senator’s own former press secretary, Torie Clarke. Lipstick-on-a-Pig
Had anybody in the Obama camp bothered to read that book, they would have known instinctively Pig-Stuck-on-a-Lib to be all over this like, well, like Proactiv Solution on a
javelina.
However, discretion must be exercised. Neither Obama nor Biden should demean themselves by lowering their discourse to the McCain/Palin level of barnyard epithet. Or even Keating 5 epithet, which America seems to have totally forgotten about, much less another Bridge-to-Nowhere epithet.
That's all moot. We now know that, wedded to a $58-million beer fortune -- in an age when alcoholism and Beer Pong remain a growing problem among young people (the future of our nation), Sen. McCain is unlikely to ever get caught reinserting himself into the pocket of a sleazy banker/developer as he was, at great embarrassment to himself (and our country) in the past. It was the first time that Congress itself would reprimand the Senator for his "poor judgement." (Also the last, but who's counting?)
Nooooo. Both Obama and Biden need to remain at arm's length on this one. We're better that that. But, without question, someone in "their campaign" ought to demand an APOLOGY right away! And then all this would be under the bridge, in the unlikely event that bridge would ever have been able to remain standing in the harsh Alaska weather, had it flip-flopped the way Gov. Palin has in support of it, followed by disingenuous denial on a technicality.
All that should be required would be an apology to the American people -- especially those in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, and other states -- who, you will be surprised to learn, have also never received from McCain's friend, disgraced, jailed lobbiest Jack Abramoff( whom he first embraced -- like others of that ilk -- then turned on when the man needed him most, after this got ugly. Don't let him tell you otherwise).
Or from that Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who carelessly put a woman's life in jeopardy, obviously at the behest of current VP Richard Cheney. A woman, who, no thanks to Gov. Palin, may now live to an age for which Palin continues to show such cavalier disrespect, if only through her silence on the matter. Even Cheney himself apologized in a full page paid advertisment in the NY Times, for shooting that lawyer in the face -- without provocation we might add. Oh wait, he didn't. Have these people no shame?
And if no apolgy is forthcoming, Governor Palin should seriously consider withdrawing from the race! Then as another meaningless gesture of solidarity with American women everywhere, Sen. McCain would be free to offer the VP spot on the GOP ticket to Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose only shortcoming may be that there is no record of her ever having dressed a moose, although she is rumored on perhaps at least one occasion to have dressed down a President. A woman for whom, we might add, Gov. Palin has expressed so much admiration -- albeit not until the Biden nomination. Contrary to the disdain Palin continues toexpress for other mature American women by her Faux-righteous indignation,
silence. C'mon Gov. Palin, show some character. don't leave Nome without it.
Other allegedly sidesplitting Post-Palin Pandering to our usual crowd over the past week or so. Because nothing gives us false confidence like talking amongst ourselves :
1. The difference between a hockey PLAYER and a pit bull: TEETH
2. SwiftSledding, FrozenWatergate and other Semi-Hillaryous Cheap Shots.
3. Charlie Gibson, bless your heart.
4. What I just learned from Nightline.