There is no progress in “breaking a glass ceiling” by appointing Clarence Thomas or Sarah Palin to anything.įor that matter where is Clinton? I read she will not attack Palin! WTF.
Next time ANYONE asks you to vote for identity, tells you that it is a great triumph to meet some quota, wrap it up real tight and burn the thing! She has all but endorsed the nut feom Alaska! In the mean time, the design is also at my website If they delivered in time, we will have button at DL Tuesday niGHT. 4 - they just might pull it oīill Morgan, a cartooning regular at DL, made cartoon of the new GOPist ticket and I have had it made up as a button. Given how little vetting McCain himself has received this year - and that only 58 days remain until Nov. Palin is a high-energy distraction from the top of the ticket, even if the provenance of her stardom is in itself a reflection of exactly what’s frightening about the top of the ticket.īy hurling charges of sexism and elitism at any easily cowed journalist who raises a question about Palin, McCain operatives are hoping to ensure that whatever happened in Alaska with Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. America loves nothing more than a new celebrity face, and the talking heads marched in lock step last week to proclaim her a star. That’s why the Palin choice was brilliant politics - not because it rallied the G.O.P.’s shrinking religious-right base. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically “a Google,” he wasn’t joking. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Nor did anyone talk to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. The Times found no evidence that a McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State Legislature or business community.
The McCain campaign’s claims of a “full vetting process” for Palin were as much a lie as the biographical details they’ve invented for her. background check,” we were told, and “the McCain camp had reviewed everything it could find on her.” After all, The Washington Post had cited McCain aides (including his campaign manager, Rick Davis) last weekend to assure us that Palin had a “full vetting process.” She had been subjected to “an F.B.I. McCain operatives and some of their press surrogates responded to this revelation by trying to discredit The Times article. As The New York Times reported last Tuesday, Palin was sloppily vetted, at best.
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