To quote that inimitable political prognosticator Paul McCartney about Palin’s chances come November 4th: “Get back to where you once belonged, Get back, Sarah.” Looks like we’ll be putting Sarah on ice, sending her back to the frozen tundra:
When likely voters were asked whom they would vote for in an expanded field that included several third-party candidates, Mr. Obama got the support of 52 percent of them, Mr. McCain 39 percent..
Though I presume she’ll have a glorious future addressing Federalist Society, American Enterprise Institute, Hudson and Manhattan Institutes, and Focus on the Family gatherings and raking in the speaker fees. This in turn will allow her to buy her own Nieman Marcus outfits so she won’t have to donate them, as she will the lovely frocks she’s been modeling for the American people. I wonder whether the RNC ever thought to do what Hollywood starlets do–allow fashion designers to dress her gratis. That would’ve saved that $150K so John could’ve spent it on furthering his hopeless media campaign.
There were a few other astonishing findings in the latest N.Y. Times poll:
President Bush’s approval rating remains at 22 percent, tied for the lowest presidential approval rating on record (which was President Harry S. Truman’s rating, recorded by the Gallup Poll in 1952).
And this racist jewel:
…14 percent still said most people they knew would not vote for a black presidential candidate…
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…14 percent still said most people they knew would not vote for a black presidential candidate…
I don’t believe this – I really don’t. If the presidential race pitted, say, Alan Keyes against Ted Kennedy, there’s no question that the right wing would turn out in droves for Keyes.
I think that 14% is real but will probably decrease if Obama is elected and people see him as a president. I recall in 1960 that there were some people who would not vote for JFK because he was Catholic. He was elected and nobody pays much attention to that issue anymore.
This is all very disappointing. I was so much looking for Americans to put Sarah Palin in the White House. Instead it looks like you’ve all gone and got serious and introspective, with no more John Wayne style lunatics running the show.
I take it Kirby’s comment is in jest.
If Obama wins, it will put an end to the most fun I’ve had in a campaign.
Whatever will websites like politicalsatire.com do?
And Stewart and Colbert?
Oh well…I guess I will forgo the humor in order not to have a mad woman in the White House.
[At least this election.]