Miscellaneous

McCain is Actually One Wily Bitch? (Floating a Theory)

I'm just going to put this out there because, in the unlikely event that it happens, I get to be one prescient motherfucker. But, is it too farfetched and too cynical to actually believe that the Palin disaster was all part of McCain's plan? After all, he's got a Karl Rove protégé running his campaign, so I wouldn't put elaborate, political scheming past him.

Here's a possibility: McCain taps Palin (hee-hee), knowing everything in her background, and also knowing that, ultimately, she'll be forced to resign from the ticket. But, having already named her, McCain has fired up the base and -- from what the pundits lead us to believe, anyway -- united the Republican party. But what if he wanted her to resign all along? What if he thought he could blame Obama and the Democrats for forcing her out? He plays the sympathy card, makes a martyr out of Palin, a woman-hating beast out of Obama, and then once he's got his base aligned, he chooses Joe Lieberman as his VP pick, finally pulling in all those Democrats now alienated by Obama's ghastly treatment of women? I can almost hear McCain's speech:

"Sarah Palin was a good woman, a great mother, and an amazing choice for Vice President. Unfortunately, Obama, the Democrats, and their friends in the media have made it impossible for Sarah Palin to remain on the ticket and be a good mother to her five children at the same time. Palin felt that it was in the best interest of her children to resign from my ticket. I firmly believed that we live in a country where you can't be a Mom and hold the second-highest office in the land. But we've still got a long way to go before we can encourage our political opponents to cut out the personal attacks of the families of candidates. Barack Obama said families were off limits. But his words didn't match his actions. Now, thanks to Barack Obama and his henchman, it's going to be at least another four years before that glass ceiling is shattered."

It just might work, too.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).