This is the most naked hunt for the dumbass vote I've ever seen, at least on the national stage. They're counting on voters going for the Hallmark Moment and forgetting everything about issues, character, and credibility. They're basically going all in on playing presidential politics as American Idol.

It's become clear now that that was the game plan all along and Palin, or somebody like her, was the inevitable choice. Look at McCain's campaign: all weepy hokum about his suffering and his barroom patriotism, coupled with hate attacks on "elitist liberals" and the rest, total conversion to the whiny theocrat right, and a small and transient sprinkling of vague references to policy. Palin ramps up the sentimental showbiz while she broadens the hate attacks to include environmentalists, science, gays, advocates of reproductive liberty, poor people, the well-educated, and of course "liberal elitists". For that, she doesn't need media interviews that she doesn't control. They would just distract from the pre-adolescent appeal they are building out of second-hand emotion and wishful thinking.

Suddenly the campaign plan all falls neatly into place. I wish I felt surer that it couldn't work, but Red Bull Gives You Wings.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

OK, finally got through on Alaska.gov site. Palin's biz partner divorce papers confidentiality request. Everything moves along to a final resolution and then sundry child-insurance mods. Inactive from May until September 3rd (lots of stuff before 4/3, including final dissolution decree). Then a move to remove from the public record. Yup, nothing fishy about that timing, I'm sure. Not an RNC lawyer in sight probably. Nothing to see here, move along.......

09/04/2008 Order Denying Motion Case Motion #3: Motion to Make Case File Confidential 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Scott Alan Richter (Petitioner); Case Motion #3 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion for Expedited Consideration of: Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Case Motion #2 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Notice to Employer Re: Children's Medical Insurance Deborah Marie Richter (Co-Petitioner); 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Cust/Spprt/Visit Modified. Case Closed. (no motion link) 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Order Granting Stipulation Case Motion #1: Standard Motion 0.00 0.00
04/03/2008 Stipulated Agreement for Child Support and Parenting Agreement Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Case Motion #1

"Sambo beat the bitch" - let's see if this gets any secondary confirmations.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

Why would it Epic Fail?

Rasmussen finds that people are loving her, and buying into the idea that attacks on her are unfair. I know they slant slightly Republican but even if you knock the numbers down a bit it's nothing good except that Obama leads HER on the experience question which I suppose is better than being behind.

Look I'm sorry that I constantly concern troll your posts, but the numbers right now are not encouraging of Epic Fail.

Marc Armbinder

Does Palin Need to Give Interviews?

04 Sep 2008 10:54 am

What harm would befall the McCain campaign if Palin sat for one major television interivew with, say, a gentle but probing Diane Sawyer... and then an interview with her local paper in Alaska... and then gave no press avails and held no press conferences.  The media would complain a lot. Would people care?

Doesn't Palin have to show up for the VP debates? Or have those been canceled?

The money raised between now and Nov. 4 will go to the Republican National Committee and state parties, which can buy advertising and conduct get-out-the-vote activities to support the ticket.

This is an end-run around the fact that McCain accepted public financing.  That money will be used to push McCain/Palin to the limits that the law allows.  Actually, since the FEC can't get a quorum to review complaints, it will be pushed beyond the limit that the law allows.  If McCain wins the election, it will be easy to pay off the fines that a fully-staffed FEC might (emphasis MIGHT) levy on him come next year.  If McCain loses, well, it's a gamble.  Maybe he'll need to sell a house or a pair of his wife's earrings to pay the fine off instead.

And the GOTV stuff will be crucial for the Republicans this year because the Dems are running a mean GOTV machine.

So I don't see this as a "I give up" move by McCain at all - this actually makes the pick make more sense than I thought a week ago.

(Keeping her out of the media spotlight might actually work - especially if they eventually let her out for a few softball interviews from Larry King or something.  The scandals, on the other hand, may prove to be a different story.)

The strategy is an insult to every American. And then there are those scandals up in Alaska. Trust me on this...Alaska will supply bad news for Palin every single day of this campaign.

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

I guess we are about to find out.  I hope you're right BooMan.  I hope you're right.

"I think generations pretty soon are going to start to thank this president for what he's done. This generation will."

Sarah Palin's approval rating is 58%, higher than either Obama's or McCain's.

Still feeling cocky and confident, BooMan?