Overkill

The latest Sarah Palin "scandals" for your higher blood pressure.

***Gulp!  Now pornographic pictures of the Alaska chief executive have surfaced!

Well, no, that's just the vile photoshopping of hard-left bloggers, who'll stop at no wickedness in their never-ending fight against "EVIL" (which, in this case, stands for "Every Villian Is Lemons"). 

In related news....:

At the Democratic Underground, a highly trafficked liberal website raising money for Barack Obama, members held a contest to come up with nicknames and posters to slime GOP Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - and then to "spread [them] all over the 'Net." Among the nicer entries: "Cruella," "Gidget," "Governor Jesus Camp," "VPILF," [just to clarify, that stands for "Vice President I'd Like to Fuck," an acronym which, remarkably, has never arisen during, um, "Dick" Cheney's tenure] "Fertilla the Huntress," [Hey, at least that one is half-way clever] "Iditabroad" and "KILLER PYSCHO FUNDIE BITCH FROM HELL!!" [Okay, that one's just incoherent]

These are the jackoffs who call themselves "progressives," folks.

***Actually kinda-sorta taking a break from its fellow jackal pack-mates' imaginarily pimping Governor Palin and her daughters, the Washington Post tried to whack her with a kinda-sorta policy attack - about her "callous" refusal to unlimitedly subsidize teen promiscuity:

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her seventeen-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation - "SP" - Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20%, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers.

Hey!  Paul Kane, the WaPobama transcriber, figured out that the initals for "Sarah Palin" are "SP"!  Who says the Enemy Media's a bunch of brainless, reckless, feckless, fact-checkless morons?  Besides me, that is.

Incidentally, there's no "hypocrisy" charge to be lodged here, unless Governor Mom has given First Daughter Bristol special bureaucratic dispensation for welfare checks in perpetuity.  But then there's no story, here, either, because "PK" (which, in this case, should have the letters "R", "I," and "C" between them) employs the classic lib tactic that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich knows all too well of misrepresenting a modest reduction of a spending increase as a "slashing cut":

This is an increase over previous years. See prior funding.
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IRS Form 990
http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgive&npoId=332976

2006 REVENUE for Covenant House Alaska

Contributions $1,667,796
Government Grants $1,194,788
Program Services $0
Investments $67,947
Special Events $271,980
Sales $0
Other $11,139
Total Revenue $3,213,650

Governor Palin didn’t slash anything from anybody. In fact, it seems that cutting from $5.0MM (Proposed) to $3.9MM (actual) wasn’t too bad a deal for Covenant House Alaska, seeing that in 2006 their revenue from the govt was only $1.2MM. [emphasis added]

So reducing a fourfold funding INCREASE to a THREEfold funding INCREASE, put through the demented brain pouch of a WaPobamonoid, becomes - VOILA! - a "20% cut".  Oh, sorry, "slashing dismembering amputation with a rusty chainsaw."  Besides, the "Iditabroad" should have redirected all that funding to Planned Parenthood in order to compassionately counsel those unwed mothers to have their babies ripped from their abdomens and ground up into finger food for Georgetown high society dinner parties.  The cruel bitch.  Doesn't she know WaPobamanoids get hungry, too?

Those are the facts, not that Paul Kane would recognize such things.  But somehow I like LauraW's rendition better:

Check out the description right on the appropriation.

Covenant House Alaska- Covenant House Facility Expansion (HD-1732)

Emphasis me. The amount appropriated for EXPANSION was reduced.

Paul Kane. "Journalist" for the Washington Post.

You. Are. A Fucking. Retarded. Douchetool of an Obama Ball-gargling Cunt of a Hack of a Fake-ass journalistic dick.

Why do people like life insurance salesmen and carjackers better than they like journalists?

This.

My, doesn't that make you feel better, too?  I needed that like Bill Clinton would need an intern after the ten years of solitary confinement he deserves.

***But this one is the camel's-back-breaking-straw that got me to thinking last night....:

Barring a dramatic reversal, Sarah Palin will formally become the Republican vice presidential nominee Wednesday night. Since Friday, when the pick was announced, news surrounding Palin has been almost uniformly negative: the initial focus on her lack of experience quickly gave way to reports of her involvement in the Troopergate scandal, the “Bridge to Nowhere” earmark, an Alaskan separatist party, a 527 group organized by recently indicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, and, on Labor Day, her teenage daughter’s pregnancy.

Here in St. Paul, talk of Palin has dominated the Republican convention — even more so than cable news — and by Monday night discussion among Republican operatives and reporters had turned to whether Palin would survive or become the first running mate since Thomas Eagleton in 1972 to leave a major-party ticket. On Monday, the InTrade futures market opened trading on whether Palin would withdraw before the election. [emphasis added] 

Speaking of "bullshit narratives," I think this one actually qualifies.  I read this last night before turning in and got the same feeling as the partier who goes on a bender and wakes up in a hotel room he doesn't remember next to a woman he doesn't remember in a city he's never been to.  But enough about Bill Clinton....

These past few days have read like a Lifetime Channel movie, alright, but it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.  It's like the press is trying to write Legally Blonde III and Reese Witherspoon has other commitments and they can't find anybody to replace her so they've settled on a brunette woman twice her age who actually HAS a brain and knows how to use it.  It's like if James Cameron had cast Don Knotts as the Terminator instead of Arnold Schwartzeneggar.  They're frantically, frenetically, desperately constructing this gutteral template and frantically, frenetically, desperately trying to cram Governor Palin into it.  And now they're even conjuring up McCain and Republican impersonators from some Bizarro World parallel quantum dimension already pulling the plug on Barracuda without, you know, actually getting this from actual McCainiacs and actual Republicans.

Are we still in our universe of origin?  Or did somebody pull a switcheroo on me in my sleep?  In the reality I remember, McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate last Friday, and she's going to accept that nomination (and get her long-awaited turn in the PR batting cage) tonight.  In this other Enemy Media Twilight Zone, Sarah Palin has already been shipped back to Alaska in a FedEx crate to resume her life of trailer parks, pimping her girls (when their lush of a father isn't having his way with them), getting hammered on fermented moose drool, and all-around bitter clinging.

It gave me something of an epiphany (no, not THAT kind): This HAS to be about more than just Sarah Palin, and more than just one presidential election.  I've said it before and I'll say it again: people don't vote for the bottom of the ticket.  Even if she pans out, if she knocks her speech out of the park tonight, makes blowhard-meat out of Slow Joe in the veep debate, if she becomes the greatest vice presidential candidate in the history of the Republic, it's not going to impact the race all that much.  Certainly not to trigger this Gustav-sized red alert shitstorm.  There's got to be more to it.

I thought about it and I thought about it.  Then I slept on it.  When I rose this morning, I asked myself a, um, pregnant question: How many female major party presidential or veep candidates have there ever been?  Answer: one - and she wasn't named Hillary Clinton.  Nor did her ticket win, getting destroyed by Reagan-Bush in 1984.  So what would Sarah Palin be in the event that she and Darth Queeg tip over Rogaine Messiah?  The first female vice president in American history - and a conservative Republican.

Think THAT's a precedent the Left wants to live with?  Neither (I guess) does Peggy Noonan:

Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing - who is really one of them and who is not - and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.

She could become a transformative political presence.

So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick.

But what of the outcome the Enemy Media and other neoBolshevik bottom-suckers are blind to considering - what if they can't "kill" her, quick or otherwise?  A couple of non-demon-possessed lib bloggers behold the abyss:

How will the chattering classes of the blue states respond to the family saga of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin? Why, with the same flinty-eyed suspicion and close-mindedness that we profess to hate in the “God, gays, and guns” country of rural Americans. The Palin family background gives otherwise intelligent people the chance to indulge in the basest and most cartoonish of regional and rural stereotypes. …

And so the precious blue-state liberals reveal themselves to be the small-minded yokels suspicious of anything and everyone that’s different.

Hate is hate, gentles, and bigotry is bigotry.  Their targets can differ, but the template is always the same.

We surrendered all hope. We surrendered our shared dreams that our daughters would inherit a better world, a world of promise, equality, justice, fairness and honor.

We had dreamed of a world where our seventeen-year-old daughters wouldn’t be stripped naked and raped on the front page of the New York Times, above the fold.

We dreamed of a world where a candidate, man or woman, could run for the highest office in the land and not be “swiftboated” with sexual lies and slander so vicious, so cruel, so gross and destructive that they actually wither our very soul. …

So I thought the extremely bizarre story, so obvious a blatant lie, that somehow appeared in The Daily Kos, claiming Governor Sarah Palin had somehow faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her wayward teenage daughter would be laughed off and quickly vanish form the Kos pages like the trash it was. It was a joke, A sad, sick joke.

But instead of the aborted fetus it should have been, it was born full grown into the waiting arms of liberal bloggers and journalists, who quickly passed out cigars and congratulated themselves as proud mamas and papas. All this in spite of the fact that absolutely everyone knew the story was an absolute lie.

The only thing we aborted was the truth.

God willing, the epitaph on the tombstone of the Democrat Party, with Sarah Palin wielding the chisel.

UPDATE: Here's another epiphany: Consider McCain's age.  If he wins in November, he would be the oldest person ever to be elected president for the first time.  That makes the question of whether or not he'd seek a second term - usually a foregone conclusion - a legitimate possibility.

Now suppose, just suppose, that after a successful 2010 mid-term campaign in which Republicans maybe even managed to retake one house of Congress, President McCain announces that he will not seek re-election.

Guess who the instantaneous heir apparent and front-runner would be?

It would be abhorrent enough to the Left to have the first female vice president be a non-feminazi conservative Republican; but the first female president as well?  And have it be the same woman they couldn't "kill"?

This is bigger than Miguel Estrada on the federal appellate bench, bigger than Michael Steele in the U.S. Senate, bigger than Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court.  This is feminism's Armageddon.  This is the Lake of Fire of Donk identity politics.  This is Sarah Palin "stealing" Hillary Clinton's crown, throne, and queendom, but leaving her the upside-down legs.

No wonder the PUMAs aren't flocking to her.  They're jealous like Michael Moore is "pleasingly plump".