But this time around he outdoes himself in terms of self-contradictions, pompous platitudes, fatuous falsehoods, and Rovian ratbagness. It was almost like reading Sarah Palin rather than hearing her speak.
His central thesis (you can look that word up, Bill) is that, are you ready?, Sarah Palin will be the salvation of McCain's campaign. I'll wait while you stop laughing and compose yourselves. But only if she can free herself from the hands of those dastardly Karl Rove operatives who have taken control of her mind. That's right the real Sarah Palin has been replaced by a Rovian robot! Egad! That's because as little Billy tells us:
"McCain picked Sarah Palin in part because she’s a talented politician and communicator. He needs to free her to use her political talents and to communicate in her own voice."
Did he see the Couric interviews?
And as part of this "Free Palin" movement, McCain dispatched his two chief operatives Rick Davis (you know, the one who gets the 15 grand a month from AIG for just being a nice guy) and Steve Schmidt (the guy who rammed the Roberts and Alito nominations through the Senate for Cheney) to Philadelphia in order to:
"...(L)iberate Palin to go on the offensive as a combative conservative in the vice-presidential debate on Thursday."
Billy then drags out the oldest of old Repugnican talking points...the scary monster that is called "Liberalism". His advice to Palin's would-be rescuers is to imprint on her brain (I know, it's just a supposition on my part...that she has one) that every time she hears the name Obama, she immediately barks out the word liberal. Yeah, that's the ticket!
And just so we know that he hasn't lost touch with his inner racist, he gratuitously and incoherently injects Obama's ex-pastor into the piece:
"He (Obama) also has radical associates in his past...The most famous of these is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and I wonder if Obama may have inadvertently set the stage for the McCain team to reintroduce him to the American public."
Here's a thought, since Billy seems to have so much time on his hands (this Op-Ed couldn't have taken more than 5 minutes to write), maybe he could organize similarly-minded morons like himself to march on each of McCain's seven houses waving "Free Sarah Palin" placards. Ya never know.
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