The Politics of Palin, Mavericks, and The Opposite of Everything is True

"In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous." Robert H. Jackson (02/13/1892 –10/09/1954) US Supreme Court

This is the season of doublespeak, especially as we’ve watched John McCain, a guy we used to respect, morph into everything he used to detest. What with McCain’s recently outted leather queen chief of staff feeling up the family values camp and the Washington Post reporting on the $15,000 bucks a month McCain's campaign head was sucking out of the last gapping breath of Fannie Mae before all hell broke loose in September, there isn’t a shred of integrity left to the man's campaign.

Add in the not so widely reported closeted mess in Alabama, where the Attorney General, McCain’s MARRIED state campaign head, was busted in bed with a guy-dog gone it!

It must get so messy and exhausting when you run on morality and then morality runs over you...

Alabama’s version of Boys in the Band in Birmingham finished into a Ted Haggard like swan song. McCain had to scrub his web site and his staff; McCain being just one Larry Craig Scandal away from a repeat of the 2006 Republican morality fiasco. Really, how is it that Jame's Dobson's annointed ticket always seem to be surrounded by Log Cabin Republicans, both in and out of the Gay.com personal ads?

Listening to FOX news, lately the network’s coverage of all things shallow and unimportant-and their mockery of the integrity of “fair and balanced" keeps hitting new lows what with Sean Hannity’s courtship of anti Semites and Bill O Reilly’s temper tantrum all over Barney Frank when O Reilly got busted by Frank himself after "the factor's no spin zone" misfired, misquoting Frank, live, and on the air.

Fox is the primer for those who can’t think for themselves-or better yet, can’t do a little Google searching on their own. “We Report You Decide” has become the political pacifier of the current illiteratti set. Back in 2007, when the fine women on “The View” had the courage to mention Fox commentator O’ Reilly’s documented forays into walking on the wild side, O’ Reilly had such a hissy fit that ABC was forced to make nice with O’ Reilly and all further discussion of his penchant for butt sex was forbidden. Accept that the lawsuit was a public record although the reported several million dollar hush money settlement was not. http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/03/06/1427062.php )

When one has a sex scandal as provocative and abusive as Bill O’ Reilly’s (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html), and you’re an author of some of the most salacious sexual fantasy material to make it into print, such as the ending of O'Reilly's detective thriller, “Those Who Trespass”, featuring a shower scene that is almost identical to the one mentioned in the above lawsuit, isn’t it just a little bit-oh shall we say “hypocritical?” to be a moral authority on, well, anything? Watching O’ Reilly’s tantrums and faux outrage is about the same as imagining McCain's current Campaign Manager leading Concerned Women of American on a morality crusade through the Folsom Street Fair.

If outrage is to be levied, it starts and ends with George Bush, Senator Phil Graham and Senator McCain who own this mess. Think Derivatives, and Deregulate! Deregulate! Baby.

And then there’s Pussy Galore Palin standing beside the little maverick that couldn’t. She comes out of nowhere, filling a sort of Cabela's inspired James Bondesque heroine role. Faster than we could all say Tina Fey’s Uppity Updoo, Palin is the pit bull with a midwestern bark and a little too much lipstick. She, complete with her loaded shotgun, stands as the definition of a too big for her buckskins political opportunist if there ever was one.

Palin with her addiction to earmarks, her Ebaying but NOT Ebaying the Alaskan State Jet-instead later selling it to a supporter at a loss, and her just saying no after she said just said yes to a bridge to nowhere, is the quid pro quo of perma frosted fuzzy math.

Yet even her political ambitions have a limit-- as demonstrated when she put just a little too much pressure on her hometown librarian. Firing the good librarian after Wassila's civil liberties addicted bookworm failed to take the hint and remove certain books from the library, Palin saw her future political future evaporating before her eyes when the citizens rose up in the librarians' defense. The librarian was reinstated, the books on gay roommates stayed and Palin, like most good conservatives learned her lesson: Like Vice President Cheney, Palin decided if she was going to succeed, she’d need to stealthly outsource her maneuvering outside of the public eye.

Then the idiot chief executive of Alaska had the brilliant idea to reroute all her “private” government email onto an unsecured Yahoo Account--An easily hacked account, as best demonstrated by a 20 year old twirp from Tennessee.

How brilliant is that? Conducting state business in a manner in which “that which you don’t want anyone to know” can, with a few keystrokes, become “that which everyone knows”. Is it any wonder Palin thinks Putin has been rearing his head over Alaska? She probably got a National Lampoon misrouted email.

The Maverick McCain wanted this individual to be one heart beat away from the Presidency!

Poor Palin, she’s just a small time politician, launched into the spotlight by a small minded Presidential candidate, who mistakenly thought that in this election we all wanted a vice presidential candidate we could all go fishin’ with.

McCain must have thought Palin’s Fish and Stream Bio meant she could cast and spin with the best of them. That is until Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric proved that although Palin might distract us from the mess our country is in, she couldn't spin her way out of globally warmed igloo. But gosh darn, she did provide the basis for an entire season of Saturday Night Live Sketches and she now joins McCain in solidarity as they've both been disciplined on ethics charges stemming from bi partisan investigations.

Its not so pretty these days in the land of the opposite of everything is true, what with the stock market down 40% in less than a year’s time, the worlds banks dominoing, and all those Republican chickens coming home to roost. The voters are angry, and with each reckless Republican tactical campaign shift, the electorate’s hostilities become ever the more focused on the deciders, the distracters, and the old mavericks who got us into this unsavory mess.

The clowns on Fox keep hawking about Ayers, even while the voters don't seem to bite as they watch their 401k's evaporate.

The only choice left is for McCain and friends to blame the voters. Especially those fraudulent hundred or so newcomers registered by Acorn. Meanwhile foreclosed family after foreclosed family is quietly eliminated from the voters rolls all over the country by Republican operatives.

After all, stealing a third election might just be a charm. Or at least that’s how a maverick might see it in the land of the opposite of everything is true.