I'm making this known before the shit hits the proverbial fan. The day of reckoning is nigh.
After witnessing perhaps the greatest political speech in our lifetime on Thursday night; a call to reclaim the virtues and honor that have defined this nation since its inception; we have seen one of the most crass political miscalculations in the history of American presidential politics occurring within hours after that zenith.
Watch, look, and listen. Etch the names to your memory banks: Kristol, Barnes, Watkins, and all the others trying to sell the absurd notion that Sarah Palin is the pinnacle of John McCain's presidential judgment, once and for all proving he puts "country first" as his campaign states.
Sarah Palin, within the next 5 days, will become the new standard for miserable failure and mistaken judgment that our culture will echo for years to come. Her name will resonate like "Katrina" does now. Her name is likely to become the biggest symbol of American derision, namely a verb. "Palined" is a likely candidate for eternal status as something which looks pretty but goes tragically and horribly wrong. Barring a catastrophic unforeseen turn, John McCain just paved the way for a Barack Obama landslide victory come November 4th.
Here's why I say this: Not everyone in the GOP is insane. Many are going to recoil at the story of her both continuing a scheduled speech and flying after her water broke, potentially endangering both her and her child. They will question her emerging problems in Alaska and her connection to its disfunctional government. They will see she has little intellectual heft going up against two men who worked their way through higher education and who have rubbed shoulders with this planet's leaders, both political and cultural. They will tire of trying to explain just why McCain's snap-judgment was an example of "putting nation first" when even a person with no nose can smell the sheer political desperation involved in tapping her from obscurity.
Romney and Pawlenty won't stay quite forever, because McCain used their names for publicity sake, then threw them overboard at the 11th hour. Wanna see their ringing endorsements of Palin next week during the convention? Seen Joe Lieberman in the last 36 hours? Think he's going to declare Palin more qualified than Joe Biden for taking over the Presidency at a moment's notice? Think Traitor Joe is looking to be institutionalized if he does make such an idiotic claim?
Here's the bottom line: While McCain might be willing to place his entire political career on the line by placing his blind trust in Palin, just how many other GOPers are going to fall in line when the tragedy of her pick is merely hours from being exposed? They, unlike McCain, have far too much to lose, namely everything. John will just retire to one of his 12 houses.
