Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in the summer of discontent for the MSM. Sarahs Magical Mystery Tour de force was highlighted today by a typically vacuous dinosaur-media headline: Palins much-hyped bus tour
Huh? She showed up. I dont recollect any pamphleteering or phone banks prior to the rollout. As I recall it, all was calm within the Beltway
A yuppie couple was strolling along pushing a pram down Massachusetts Ave. A handful of tourists from North Carolina were getting off a chartered bus in front of the Capital. Someone yelled, Its too hot here! Then, Bam!
Let the gnashing of teeth begin. George Will was the first of course, but Palins team quickly put the lie to his hyperbolic fulminating with a wonderful little clip featuring something George seems to avoid at all costs: the truth. See for yourself what Mr. Will should have known all about
www.youtube.com/watch? v=PkyzB2N9ng8
A.B. Culvahouse is not a gadfly for The Tea Party. Indeed, his gravitas far exceeds George Wills weekly fifteen minutes of tangled logic. Shall we stick with the facts? Culvahouse chairs OMelveny and Myers, an international law firm consisting of over 1,000 lawyers. (Talk about community organizing!)
From 73 to 76 he was Chief Legislative Assistant/Counsel to Howard Baker Jr. In 89 Reagan awarded Culvahouse the Presidential Citizens Medal. And most importantly for this discussion, Culvahouse served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Nuclear Failsafe and Risk Reduction.
Are you following this George? Culvahouse unquestionably knows more about the command and control of Americas nuclear arsenal than you. He trumps everything you ever heard from Colbert, Leno, Letterman, and all the rest, by a factor of ten.
That brings us directly to the instant question Mr. Will. Culvahouse was handpicked by Sen. John McCain to vet 26 prospective Vice Presidential candidates for him in 2008. Among those 26 was a very popular Alaskan Governor by name of Sarah Palin.
She didnt beat out 5, or 10, or even 20 others
She was picked out of list of 26 of the best and brightest the Republican Party had to offer, that were approved by A.B. Culvahouse.
She did so well answering the questionaire that Culvahouse was not only satisfied, he was thoroughly impressed.
Are you following me George? She didnt impress some pundit struggling to maintain his weekly libfest gig on a MSM television show that no one watches anymore, she impressed A.B. Culvahouse.
His determination wasnt that she got a passing grade, he said, quoting: She knocked it out of the park. (See the above video if you dont believe me George.)
And she didnt just do well on the nuclear question that seems to haunt your nights either George. She was also asked about her response to news that Osama had been located, and that a strike against him might kill innocent people. She didnt take 18 hours to think about it. Sarah Barracuda, no doubt thinking about the thousands of Americans killed, indicated that her response would be immediate and deadly.
I imagine that Culvahouse is less-surprised than you are that the American People seem to be rallying around the Palins working vacation. He actually sat down and talked to her before the MSM turned her into a caricature. He knows who she really is because his judgment about her isnt colored by ad infinitum late-night misrepresentations.
Sunshine conservatives are always quick to discard the latest conservative target George, but what you and the other RINOs cant ever seem to figure out is that the libs always know who the real enemy is, and they play you and your friends in the conga line for fools everytime.
Palin is hated by the MSM precisely because they know she still has the fortitude and courage Culvahouse discovered, and they know she will use it to dismantle the vast Federal Empire they worship.
Make no mistake, Obama knows too, and he wont have a teleprompter when he stands toe to toe with Palin, and he wont have much of a record either. Obama was never vetted like Palin was. His movement was not based on much more than a slogan that grew into a fad and culminated in a Hands Across America moment that left a littered highway and arenas full of empty promises in its wake.
Its now obvious for all to see now why he chose Biden the Gaffe Machine to be his Veep; he knew there were many days of fumbled toasts and teetering limos that lie in his future, and he needed a foil to deflect some of the detritis that would accumulate around him.
Does anyone believe Biden was vetted? If he was, and Obama chose him anyway, what does that say about his decision-making ability Georgie? And what, pray tell me, does your recent pronouncment about the mental stability of a true patriot say about yours?
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