Republicans Rush In (Washington Post)

[NYCGirl]

I haven't always agreed with Richard Cohen, but this is too good, and too brutal, to pass up:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090101715.html

One of the great sights of American political life -- a YouTube moment if ever there was one -- was to see the doughboy face of Newt Gingrich as he extolled the virtues of Sarah Palin, a sitcom of a vice presidential choice and a disaster movie if she moves up to the presidency: "She's the first journalist ever to be nominated, I think, for the president or vice president, and she was a sportscaster on local television," Gingrich said on the "Today" show. "So she has a lot of interesting background. And she has a lot of experience. Remember that, when people worry about how inexperienced she is, for two years she's been in charge of the Alaska National Guard."

It's a pity Gingrich was not around when the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known by his nickname Caligula, reputedly named Incitatus as a consul and a priest. Incitatus was his horse.

John McCain's selection of Palin, which I first viewed with horror, could now be seen in a different light. Based on various television interviews over the Labor Day weekend -- and a careful reading of the transcripts -- it is possible that this is McCain's attempt to make fools of his fellow Republicans. He has succeeded beyond all expectations.
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Gingrich's point about Palin being commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard has been echoed throughout the GOP. In fact, even Cindy McCain pointed out -- rightly enough -- that Alaska is across the Bering Strait from Russia and so Palin, by deduction, has been on the front lines of the Cold War . . . had it not ended in 1989.

Still, you have to admit that in all that time, especially since Palin became governor about two years ago, no Russian invasion force has come across the strait, maybe because she was in charge of the Guard, maybe because she herself is a hunter and an athlete. The record is unclear because no high-ranking Russian appeared on any of the weekend talk shows to say how they had considered an invasion of Alaska and then backed off when Sarah Palin became commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard. Who could blame them?

Just to show that he would not ask of others what he would not do himself, McCain came before Chris Wallace to sing Palin's praises. He said that he had "watched her record . . . for many, many years" which is, a prudent man might say, more years than she's had a record. McCain, as a fellow military man, did not mention Palin's tenure as the supreme commander of the entire Alaska National Guard, maybe because he thought it speaks for itself. If that's the case, he's right.


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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. I have to keep pinching myself to see if this is all real

and it is real!

:rofl:

[Daphne08]

2. Oh, that was brutal.

K & R :kick:

[DerekJ]

3. Ouchhhh ...N/T

[JBoy]

4. great article! n/t

[NYCGirl]

5. Kick

[vanderBeth]

6. OMG, Gingrich needs to go back on his meds.

:rofl:
Great article.

[bushisanidiot]

7. Ha! Good article!

McCondo, whether he's trying to or not, is making a fool out of the repuke pundits and followers who will follow him loyally off a cliff without asking any questions or objecting in any way whatsover.
They only walk in lock-step. They wouldn't know how to think on their own if their lives depended on it.