Sarah Palin is A POST TURTLE!

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working with cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually, the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to to be a heartbeat away from being President.
The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.
The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.”
The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain.
“You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.”

Between Bill and McSame, there are plenty of Grandpa Resentment types going around right now. Again, it makes me glad that the young whippersnapper on the ticket is consistently the one who seems to maintain an aura of control, rather than self-pitying entitlement.

If Clinton truly does think that helping McCain get in paves the way for Hillary to win in 2012, he’s really not the great politician he thinks he is. For one thing, he and the missus have probably (and deservedly) lost the trust of black voters, who were overwhelmingly loyal to them for years, forever. And for another, for whatever reason, the Democratic Party is harder on failed also-rans in primaries than the GOP. And an older Hillary Clinton with even more Senate votes to parse and attack would be more vulnerable than the one who ran this year.

And again I must point out: nobody knows what the fuck will happen in four years. Things change quickly in American politics. Case in point: a little over four years ago, how many people knew who the hell Barack Obama was, let alone would have bet on him to win the Democratic nomination? If he loses this year, he may not run again. But if Hillary runs again, her Clinton brand name will have even less surefire electoral power than it did this year.

And of course, there will be those of us who will be happy to point out that she and her husband went out of their way to praise the GOP candidate at the expense of their own party’s frontrunner and eventual nominee —“I’ve passed the commander-in-chief threshold [says WHO, lady?]. So has Senator McCain. Senator Obama has a speech he made.”

Or other repulsive words to that effect.

Yeah, yeah, I know we’re supposed to let it go and make nice. But I’m tired of making nice for people who think they can shit all over other people and then whine “If you don’t give me what I want, I’m taking my voters and going home!”

Seriously, can the Clintons and McCain just grow the fuck up already? These are serious times and they require people who can figure out that it’s not ALL ABOUT THEM!

Thank you to both turtlewatcher (god I needed a laugh AND that texas rancher {apocryphal or not} makes up for my niece who is rabidly pro-palin—what is WONG with kids today?!) and Kerry who expended the anger I didn’t have the energy to (though I think it’s WAY too late for the McCains and Clintons to grow up—their egos posses their souls),

Bill Clinton and John McCain are both shoddy, contemptible little men—they were made for each other.

One thing you can count on—When Bill Clinton is finally open, convincing, and uncompromising with his support of Barack Obama, it will be because Obama has an insurmountable lead. Clinton will then subtly and indirectly claim a lion’s share of the credit for getting Obama elected. It’s what unprincipled politicians do. And that is ALL Bill Clinton is.

LOVE the post turtle metaphor! Spot on.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think Palin is really the blithering idiot she appears to be now. I think she’s a provincial, theocratic hack who doesn’t know jackshit about national politics. But I’ve seen enough snippets of past interviews to believe that if the McCain campaign hadn’t scripted her to death, she could at least form mostly coherent sentences.

Thing is, the content of those sentences would be so bizarre that only seething Dobsonites and Pat Buchanan voters would be enthused about what she said, so McCain can’t afford to let that happen since he needs to pick up non-snake handler votes to pull this off. He really stepped on his dick this time.

I love the “non-snake handler” demographic being called out!

Seriously, I was just talking to my bro-in-law (a reformed Reaganite who has always hated the Bushes—father and son—and McCain). The subject of the witch-hunting pastor came up and he said “Imagine if you’re in France or England or Russia or anywhere else in the world watching that clip. Aren’t you gonna be thinking ‘What the hell is WRONG with Americans who would vote for somebody who still believes in witches?’”