This is Getting Ridiculous (Updated)
posted by
1970s Abraham Lincoln
posted
9/24/2008 1:19:21 PM
Via Politico:
From the pool report account of what happened after McCain and
Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli and
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:
McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to
welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin
(“Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?”) but McCain aide
Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room.
Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question,
to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say “No.”
No, I get it. You're a 72 year-old man with impulse control problems and you know you can't win if you put Lieberman or Lindsay Graham on the ticket, so you spend fifteen minutes with the sexy librarian and decide that she's enough of a distraction to flatten Obama's post-convention bounce. Yeah, that'll show 'em! Skirts are a monolithic voting block, right? And it totally worked - for two weeks - but now people are asking ridiculous questions, like "Governor Palin, can you please describe literally anything in your own words?"
So now you have to call James Baker (which you swore you wouldn't do) and beg him to come stage political Pygmalion. Two weeks should be enough, right? Baker is shaking his head 'no'.
Oh well, guess we'll
cancel the debates.
Update: Oh. My. God. Now we know why...
Tags: low-information voters, mccain, palin
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