Newsweek asks...

"Is Sarah Palin Over?"


Given the fact that Newsweek is a completely superfluous and anachronistic publication with a torpidity upgrade to it's journalistic acumen, we can deduce that Palin has been flat on her back for at least sixty days.
This wasn't always the case, a mere six months ago she bestrode the process like an angry soccer mom gawdess, vengeful and well...snarky.
Then of course she started running her mouth about Gabby Giffords and a host of other issues, with each tweet, press release and TV presser she appeared dumber and more self satisfied by the hour.
The public likes snark, but in controlled dosages, if its 100% of your act they get tired of it quickly and fade out the first time some exciting crosses the front pages.
Six months ago she was a front runner for the GOP Presidential nomination, perhaps even the candidate to beat now she is punchline a fading comet in short a loser.
Once the Prophet now Palin is angling to be Michele Bachmann's "Joan the Baptist" pretty big comedown if you asked me.
There is only yea so much any spin doctor can do with a candidate who delights in talking down to persons that are demonstrably smarter than she.

Idle Thought...

If Benito Mussolini had somehow faked his own death in 1945 and secretly to Beverly Hills to live comfortably & quietly until discovery, don't you think someone would reasonably think that the USA was "harboring" Il Duce, the notorious war criminal?

Just sayin'...

So Former State Senator Scott Brown wants

to do his Army National Guard training in Afghanistan this year?
Bluntly put he should not go.
Right now, the diplomatic winds are at our back in that part of the world, the situation is evolving hour to hour and we should not introduce into that theater of war a "high value target" who wants merely to "study the situation".
He sits on the Senate Armed Service Committee thats a nice peaceful billet from which to "study the situation" sez Humble Elias.
Moreover he has already gone tear-assing all over the nation for his damn book tour howzabout he stay at home for once and ohhh I dunno maybe call a press conference and explain his stance on the Ryan Budget in clear and concise language?
Enough of this grandstanding already, just do your damn job Scott.

Amidst all the hoopla

about Osama Bin Laden's death, comes the word that Mitt Romney is skipping the first GOP Presidential debate in South Carolina.
The reasons for this are simple and stark, at the moment and until a humanoid richer, more charismatic and less craven than Romney gets into the race, Willard is the de-facto front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.
His main declared rivals for said nomination are a matched pack of hacks, porch-climbers, teachables, sky grifters and dangerous utopian mystics..."why waste air time on them?" thinks Mitt.
So Romney's first serious decision of campaign 2012 is typically passive aggressive, "let the other guys fuss and whine while I float along looking Presidential and uttering baritonal nullities" is his thesis.
Disdaining the cheap acts has it's advantages, but ceding the first debate to them smacks of hubris. These are low angry people they could easily spend the entire debate jumping ugly on Mitt Romney forcing him to spend the rest of the weekend defending his positions on natural selection and polygamy.
And we all know how well Mitt Romney plays defense especially when he comes under pressure from the right.
Likely Romney will use the down time this week to poll and focus group trying to figure out what his thoughts should be about Osama Bin Laden's demise.
THAT will be a whole other process to watch and enjoy...

This is certainly a

"Raisuli Moment" for President Obama.
For a man given to soaring rhetoric he was remarkably plain spoken and direct in last's night's announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death in Pakistan.
Ya still think he is a ditherer?
And to crown all, Bin Laden was buried at sea, his dead ass fit only for shark chow.
Gruesome yet fitting.
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Perhaps now we can start to wind up our mission in Afghanistan, I think those troops are all due a good old fashioned victory parade.
And if any of those soldiers find their way to Arlington Mass, don't let that "Moonbat" smear fool you, we do up our parades with flair and care.
No one cheers louder, on that you can depend.
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And yet, my thoughts stray to all the younger veterans I see up at the Department of Veteran Affair's hospital in Bedford...some in wheelchairs, some missing limbs, some hurt in their very souls by their experiences.
If Bin Laden's sorry end brings those soldiers any solace at all, I count the action well worth it by far.

I think...

for a myriad of reasons, that today would be a very good day to display the National Ensign, if you have one.

I beg to differ...

Some people think President Obama's release of his full birth certificate last week represents unconscionable dithering in the face of a smear campaign.

To me, sitting back and doing nothing for a prolonged period did nothing but good for the President. It drew out the crazies onto what is a loser issue for them, and even furnished the tea partei right with a perfectly useless leader one Donald Trump.
This would be the same Donald Trump whose negatives are only slightly below that of infectious anthrax. Shit if I was President Obama I'd a held off releasing his birth certificate until the eve of the New Hampshire Primary.
By then the whole sick crazy GOP presidential stew would be boiling over, imagine the sort of hilarious inarticulate blather Mitt Romney would have emitted when cornered and asked if he thought the document was genuine?
Santorum, Gingrich, Trump, Romney, Bachmann and Pawlenty would have all been forced to express and defend an opinion about a topic about which the tea partei base of the GOP is not rational...advantage Obama sez Humble Elias.
True to form, Trump immediately and arrogantly claimed victory and went off shrieking obscenities at the Chinese...Class all the way Donald, Class all the way.
As it is President Obama has shown up the birther right's reckless obsession with trivial nonsense and made Donald Trump (a man with a shorter fuse than Bob Dole and shorter attention span than Sarah Palin if that is possible) his main interlocutor.
The birther smear is not sustainable, it only highlights the craziness & craveness of the President's key GOP opponents.