How peaceful Sarah Palin must have felt to see the tarmac in Anchorage last night, when for the prior 24 hours, her boss's handlers were tripping over each other to snipe at her and attempt to blame her for the election loss.
This is perhaps the most disgraceful and revolting spectacle of the campaign's end game -- even more so because it comes from the Republican inner circle. It is a reminder of how sordid national power politics is, has always been, and always will be. It is proof of how lost-in-the-wilderness the Republican Party is right now.
Carl Cameron of Fox News reported the anonymous leaks from the campaign, from high-level staffers who described her as a hopeless, spendthrift, shopaholic, ignorant rube who shocked them by appearing at her hotel door in a bathrobe, fresh out of the shower, when they came to collect her one morning for the day's activities. These anonymous, un-corroborated statements were picked up and amplified by ABC and others, without comment yet from Palin or her staff.
Shocking! Funny; they didn't mind photos of Cindy McCain in a bathrobe appearing in her daughter's campaign blog. Of course, anyone who's even traveled with an athletic team knows how silly this is. And one can only deduce from it that McCain's handlers are desperate not only to place the blame elsewhere, but also to destroy any possibility of Palin appearing on a national ticket again. In this, they are curiously aligned with their Democratic opposites.
Why?
Because these professional politicos are now unemployed and looking for re-employment in our political quagmire, and they know that if Palin does become a leader in the Republican Party, they will not get those "good jobs at good wages," as Mike Dukakis used to say. Heck, they might have to get real jobs where they are accountable for success or failure.
People to politicos: Deal with it. Get a life. And leave the woman alone.
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