Sniffin' Palin

Andrew Sullivan needs to be a little more wary if he's gonna place his battle against Sarah Palin in the hands of a 19 year-old kid. I've said before, just because I'm pretty sure everything that comes out of her mouth is complete bullshit doesn't mean I should think everything that comes out of his mouth is the 100% god-honest truth. I mean, MAYBE it is; but Sully here is like a college football coach who, at the end of the day, puts his livelihood in the hands of kids. It is, to say the least, a bit of a gamble.

And he needs to calm down with the incessant hyper-ventilating over every lie. Yes, she lies her face off. Mostly, for no apparent reason. We know this. She is a serial liar, we know this is part of her character. We don't need to run to the microfiche to double-check and bleat every time she flip-flops on some nonsense she has spewed. I know he means well, and HE'S RIGHT, but it has a numbing effect.

An example is the numerous changes she has given to the story of how she told her family about getting the call from McCain. She told them, the McCain camp told them, she asked them to vote, she sent a telegram, who the fuck knows, the story changes every time. Who really gives a shit? First of all, I'm embarrassed I live in a country where we insist on having to hear "cutesy" stories from our potential leaders. I mean yeah it's asinine of Palin to paint some picture of her kids all sitting around on the bear-skinned couch eating homemade apple pie and actually "voting" on if Mommy should go off to Washington to save the world or not; but then, that's what we fucking ask for, isn't it?  We're absolute suckers for that "I put the decision in the hands of my kids" bullshit, aren't we? Every time. And then the story changes back and forth, but for fuck's sake. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that small events like this are forgotten in real time, and maybe she just got shit mixed up. But even if it's apocryphal, again, it's pretty embarrassing that this is what we expect people to do in these situations. Let her tell her star-spangled Rockwellian (Norman, not Sam) stories if it makes her feel good, and if you're somehow swayed by it one way or the other then you're part of the problem.

Yes, she's full of shit. We all get that. And it's fun to pounce on her lies, cause it gives us something to laugh at. But the fucking daily parsing of everything she says is exhausting. And, like I said yesterday, the more we jump on them the more she gives us, which is like rocket fuel to her. I mean, if you can't decide on whether or not she should be running the country based on the fact that she is pridefully anti-intellectual, quit her job as governor of Alaska so that she could become some C-list celebrity, thinks Jesus is gonna come back in her lifetime for the Rapture, knows nothing about actual domestic or foreign policy and isn't really interested in learning and is running entirely on the "Victim" platform, all on TOP of showing in general that she is almost incapable of telling the truth about anything, then whether or not she flips flops on home-spun, who-gives-a-shit stories shouldn't matter to you since you're probably an idiot too.

Of course, the next stupid thing she says I'll prolly pounce on too, cause I'm an idiot. But I sure wish we could flash-forward to the inevitable Playboy spread.

Sully does get one thing absolutely right: this shit's all on McCain.

He picked her so carelessly, and his thought process was so cynical, that he should stand in the dock of public opinion before Palin does. Her vanity led her to say yes to his crazy offer. But he gave her that chance. And in the end, she is his responsibility...If he had any sense of responsibility, he would resign. And if the Washington media had any sense of responsibility, it would never invite him on TV again without demanding he take responsibility for what he nearly did to the national security of this country. No one who put this person near the nuclear button should have a future in public life.