Darth Palin

I touched on this a couple of posts ago.

The question on everybody's lips wrt Mrs Palin is how good a president will she make if McCain fails to complete his first term. The more salient question that should be on everyone's mind is what kind of a Vice President will she make. The answer is Dick Cheney, with a vindictive streak and a Messiah complex.

Why? Well I've been trying to figure out why someone like Sarah Palin would accept the nomination, when she knows full well what her baggage looks like, and what national exposure would do to bring all that to light. After all, she's a Republican, and all she has to ask herself is what would she do if she were the press or the Democrats. From a normal perspective, there would be just too much downside if she didn't take time to prepare.

However, it's my opinion that she, and the rest of the Christian Right supporting her, feels that she's been selected, plucked out of thin air, to be an "Instrument of God" in order to perform some holy task.. Whether that's true or not, or what that holy task is (my guess is that it involves continuing to blow the shit out of a bunch of short brown people), you'd have to ask the Big Guy (who I technically don't believe in). But it is a mindset that permeates the whole right-wing end-times Christianist movement, that they are chosen, and the rest of us are damned. Remember, these are people who think that the Left Behind books are akin to a fifth gospel.

The danger comes from the fact that unlike Helen Chenowith, Mrs Palin doesn't come across as a fundamentalist nutcase when you see her on TV, but as a regular all-American gal, with 5.5 kids and a manly husband, a dog and a killer recipe for Moose stew. But make no mistake, she's someone who has already demonstrated an eager willingness to use the privileges of office to settle scores and reward supporters, and to promote her Christianist mindset, without a care as to who gets damaged in the process. She has also shown a talent for profligate spending, and the political nous to get substantial earmarks allocated to her town and state. There won't be any problem for her trying to fit in Washington, especially with the Republicans circling the wagons and protecting one of their own.

I'll say this, if John McCain gets elected, things could get bad. Sarah Palin, is Dobson's Trojan Horse, let in through the gates of Troy by McCain's Faustian deal with the Religious Right. And once you make a deal with the Devil, there's no turning back.

Say what you will about George W, but he only appropriated the language of that movement, and while he was actively sympathetic to their cause, he never let them actually drive the car. If I gave a rats ass for myself and the rest of the Human Race, this prospect would scare me, but I'm just here to watch, and roast my marshmellows in the fires. We'll get who we collectively deserve.

btw, if McCain does somehow get himself elected President, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts he won't last the first term. There's just too much temptation for the Rollers to pass up.