Media, Republicans Bash Sarah Palin
Is Sarahpalooza over yet? What with the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings beginning today, the slow-drip revelations about that highly classified CIA program Dick Cheney ordered to be kept secret, and whatever the hell is happening with health care, it's time for the press to get serious about a bunch of boring stuff that will actually affect our future, so they might as well have whatever fun is left to be had in gabbing about the outgoing governor of Alaska. Which they do!
"I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation," Palin told the Washington Times in yet another perfect demonstration of her manifest self-regard, considering that even members of her own party don't want her coming anywhere near their campaigns.
The LA Times looks at the reaction of fellow-Republicans in the wake of Palin's announcement that she would resign: Turns out that, except for the real crazies, none of them is particularly fond or enthusiastic about her. Reactions range from "not ready," "a political train-wreck," "shock and surprise… in a bad way," to "a stone-cold loser." A stone-cold loser. Damn, that is cold. Although Bay Buchanan thinks she's pretty, so there's that.
The New Yorker mocks the timing of her announcement, comparing Palin's desire for independence to the Founding Fathers'; Palin's rambling incoherent resignation speech is set alongside Jefferson's Declaration, which is, as you might expect, not exactly a favorable comparison.
Finally, the New York Times has a giant piece assessing the factors that resulted in Palin leaving office two years before the expiration of her current term. Here's the crux:
Almost as soon as she returned home, the once-popular governor was isolated from an increasingly critical Legislature. Lawmakers who had supported her signature effort to develop a natural gas pipeline turned into uncooperative critics.Ethics complaints mounted, and legal bills followed. At home Ms. Palin was dealing with a teenage daughter who had given birth to a son and broken up with the infant's father, a baby of her own with special needs and a national news media that was eager to cover it all.
Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.
Also she was disorganized, unwilling to listen to helpful advice, and chose at every turn to put her personal interests above those of the people who voted for her. But you knew that already.
At this point opinions on Palin have calcified so severely that it is unlikely anyone who supports her will change their mind about her, but reading the entire examination of the way in which her political career unraveled, even the most hardened Palin supporter would have to admit that this is a person who should not have been in any position to have possibly become President of the United States. I mean, honestly, it's one thing to be thin-skinned, but thin-haired? Forget it. Nobody wants to see that. If John McCain went door to door personally apologizing to every citizen of this country it still wouldn't be enough.
I'm going to read the post. Promise. Right after I stop hallucinating these ads I'm looking at.
Our ad/edit wall is IMPERVIOUS!
SarahPAC!…Now with 15 minutes more fart jokes!
So. You actually took money from these people to run their ads? And the joke is on whom?
What is everyone else seeing on their ad banner? I know mine is locale-specific because it's about black republican/former Oklahoma congressman JC Watts speaking at a church in Atlanta on July 19th.
I consider this an ideal demographic for that ad.
Oh I have the SarahPAC now! It is odd-looking!
So SarahPac is for funding hair extensions?
So is the Republic Governors Association buying ads on all political posts, or just on Palin post-mortem posts?
Sorry: so used to not seeing "Ads by Goooooogle" that I didn't see the "Ads by Gooooooogle". But those are some "Ads by Goooooooogle".
I'm concerned that the URL for the New Yorker piece contains the phrase "taco talk".
Sarah Barracuda, meet Sarah Alopecia.
Judging from the logo in those ads, SarahPAC's goal is to move Alaska into the center of the United States.
No wait, I take that back: Its apparent goal is to create a huge, Alaska-shaped hole in the center of the United States.
HAR —
Very nice. At first I thought the intent was to illustrate that the Real America ™ conforms to the boundaries of AK pretty much exactly, but somehow that excludes south carolina and georgia.
Do I need to write something about how advertising works? You can see, obviously, that our internal ads are served by Google. As they say. So I'm sure you can all figure out that ads are most likely keyword-based and location-sensitive. Hence why I am seeing Republican Governor Association anti-Corzine ads!
I don't mean to sound so fussy. I guess I should be happy that you all look at ads! Ha, that will make Sarah Palin happy.
Would you feel better if I clicked on it and donated something?
It probably wouldn't hurt to put that big Alaska-shaped hole in the Midwest anyway. There's nothing out there but a bunch of cornfields, and this country has entirely too much corn as it is. We're already burning the stuff in our car engines because we don't know what else to do with it!
and in one stroke, the Google ad server was proven as reliable as Fred Sanford's truck.
I think most of us know that you're not hand-picking a Palin ad. But it doesn't stop it from being a little Alanic!
It reminds me of the time Radar had Yes on 8 ads and everyone flipped out.
I bought my ad-savvy from Yahoo.
The image of Alaska laid over the continental US like that on the Palin ad looks like the blood-splatter on the wall behind a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the face. Just sayin'…
Alaska as Rorschach Test.
I thought Dick Cheney had more class than that.
Someday she will rise like Aslan (or Cthulhu) and lead her forces to victory on the plains and in the cities. Luckily the rest of us will be living in outer space by then and the Sun will be minutes from supernova.