The Palin Misery Tour continues, and for sheer incoherence, personal pique and GOP exasperation it just can't be beat, with the possible exception of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign.
This, according to "reports," is what the embodiment of America's glory had to say yesterday, to no one in particular, since Palin's press and publicity tour operation won't speak to the press:
This isn’t a campaign bus. This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don’t need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what’s good about America.
Are we clear? What, I ask you, could be clearer? A diesel-guzzling heap of steel has enabled itself to "appreciate our foundation" -- right there, for instance; now that's the kind of patriotic clarity that is all too lacking in American civics -- and to remind us to restore the existing good. Got that?
Regrettably, Fox News may not. Greta Van Susteren, who's trying her best to physically tail this self-absorbed travail, conceded the following to Politico, with what I can only imagine was rather extraordinary embarrassment: "We were told to check their website for any information they are releasing. [T]hey don’t want the media following them, and that includes us."
Meanwhile, Karl Rove is fitting himself to be tied:
I bet you a dime to a dollar her visits to those [Northeast] areas are not proceeded by courtesy phone calls to the local Republican Party chairman and request they generate volunteers. She will announce her schedule and show up.
Bingo, Karl. Per Politico: "The lack of a heads-up has irked many GOP leaders in the states Palin plans to visit."
If there are any politics here, they may relate to a formal Tea Party creation down the road, certainly by 2016, perhaps by the intervening midterms. For what we're watching now is the customary kind of sharp thinking and precise planning that precede the creation of foreordained calamities of the third-party breed.
"If there are any politics here, they may relate to a formal Tea Party creation down the road, certainly by 2016, perhaps by the intervening midterms. For what we're watching now is the customary kind of sharp thinking and precise planning that precede the creation of foreordained calamities of the third-party breed."
Oh great. I suppose this means the Republican Party will blame Democrats for the Republican Party splitting its vote between a far-right-wing nominee and a really, really far right wing nominee.
Posted by: Bulworth | May 31, 2011 at 08:31 AM
"This isn’t a campaign bus. This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we're afraid of change"
It would have been more clear, and cut to the essense of it...
Posted by: Lovepolitics2008 | May 31, 2011 at 08:49 AM
And CNN sent John King to Gettysburg to await her arrival. hahahahaha
Posted by: ronalda | May 31, 2011 at 09:35 AM
"And CNN sent John King to Gettysburg to await her arrival. hahahahaha"
It could be new fantasy reality show: Where's Sarah?
Posted by: Bulworth | May 31, 2011 at 10:47 AM