Sarah Palin has sent her schmoozees at the Weekly Standard the following urgent message, mostly in a desperate effort to prevent further slippage into "Where-are-they-now" obscurity. If you're fluent in Palinese, you'll instantly recognize the wafting stench of abject vapidness with which only Palin herself can suffuse the English language. So you know it's authentic.
With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should "go rogue" and not hold back from telling the American people the true state of our economy and national security. They need to continue to find ways to break through the filter of the liberal media to communicate their message of reform.
What's striking about Palin's drivel--there's more, but it's just as empty--is how closely it parallels what the GOP's "intellectuals" are heaving in such rude, unsolicited ways at Romney/Ryan ... just ... just ... just get out there, rogue-ish-like, no holds barred, and lay it all on the line, boys. But ... lay what on the line? This, they never seem to get around to identifying, probably because the few specifics Romney/Ryan have offered have got them where they are (well, that, and their natural political magnetism and charm).
So here we are. 2012. And Sarah Palin can credibly match wits with the GOP's very "finest" strategic minds. That's how utterly wretched the party has become.
For the last two decades the toast in our house has been. "Confusion to the Republicans!" and it's starting to finally pay off. Irish voodoo.
Posted by: Daniel Loftus | September 22, 2012 at 07:01 PM
Yes, going rogue really worked out well for her in 2008. I predict that by 2016 hardly anyone will remember her. Like everything else she does, she is just trying to get her name out there as some kind of political celebrity. The specifics as to what would justify her name being worth paying any attention to are about as clear as Romney/Ryan's policies.
Posted by: AnneJ | September 22, 2012 at 08:22 PM
I still remember Danny Quayle. Why wouldn't I remember Sarah Palin? She's much more interesting than Dan.
Andrew Sullivan will never forget Sarah, and he'll never let us forget her either. She has all but joined the Immortals.
Posted by: Jim Milstein | September 22, 2012 at 10:17 PM
And, yippee, Ben Quayle won't be going back to Congress in January 2013, Jim!
I couldn't help myself. I posted exactly what PM said about Palin to my FB page with the comment: "IMO, no one quite skewers nonsense the way Professor PM Carpenter does!"
I want to give my "conservative" FB friends a little something to think about. It's high time they faced the fact that their party is a joke because they give credibility to know nothings and liars like Romney, Ryan, Palin, Bachmann, Cain, and others. These folks' main goal is to make money and advance their careers by exploiting the gullible, low-information Fox News viewers.
Posted by: majii | September 22, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Majii, you are so funny ha ha what a joke you are before you critique the republicans you better look at the liars in your own party......liberals. Their is no bigger liar than your president Obummer and the gaffer of the century...Biden he is a real clown an empty suit.
Posted by: Mil | September 23, 2012 at 03:43 PM
Ah Mil, it makes me inexpressibly sad to conclude that you probably belong among the current giants of the conservative intelligentsia. So sad.
Posted by: Peter G | September 23, 2012 at 06:53 PM
Mitt "laid it all on the line" in his speech at the aptly-named town of Boca Raton ('rat's mouth') last May. And we all know how that turned out.
Posted by: Marcia Smith | September 27, 2012 at 08:26 AM