The Train Wreck Factor

Everyman’s everyman Joe “Gumby Head” Scarborough, with help from Mika Brzezinski and Tucker Carlson, was just on MSNBC extolling the abundant virtues of Sarah Palin after viewing a live feed of her rally in Lakewood, Ohio.  She’s so smart, mismanaged and misunderstood, they opined; Scarborough gushing that she was a “political animal” and “the future of the Republican party” (woo hoo!—say it’s so, Joe!).  He then offered up the ratings she garnered on Saturday Night Live and during the vice presidential debate as proof that America loved her. No, you beady-eyed ignoramus, Americans love train wrecks. Gigantic, flaming train wrecks:

McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate doesn’t appear to be wearing well with most Americans. In the poll, 45% of registered voters rated the choice as “poor” and another 18% said it was “only fair,” while 19% called it “pretty good” and 16% excellent. [...]

Palin has a favorable-unfavorable rating of 42%-49%.

Compare that to the future of the Democratic party:

One more historic tidbit from the survey: Obama’s favorable rating is 62%—the highest that any presidential candidate has registered in Gallup’s final pre-election polls going back to 1992.

RELATED: I really wish someone would do a study regarding “train wreck traffic” for wingnut and PUMA blogs (I know, same thing).  I’d put money of the fact that at the very least 33% of their traffic is culled from snickering rubberneckers.

MORE: “Mac is back!”…

McCain addressed a small crowd in Tampa, estimated at about 1,100 people.

Local reporters pointed out that just before the 2004 election, President Bush drew about 15,000.

RELATED: As noted above, Tucker Carlson crawled out of whatever dank little hole MSNBC stuffs pundits with shitty ratings into to pump up Sarah Palin this morning.  At one point he raved that she didn’t even use a teleprompter during her rally in Lakewood.

Oops.

Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a rally in Lakewood, Ohio, Monday, Nov. 3, 2008.

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/03/08 at 09:35 AM • Permalink

What’s up with that sign? Ohio Victory In?

1,100 is a pathetically small crowd in Tampa. I went to an Obama rally there months ago (also during working hours), and there were about 15,000.

Good old Tucker, still bringing Teh Stupid

One of the talking points noodlebrains like Tucker and the PUMAs want to promote is that Obama is a media creation depending on teleprompters. Hence his pet name on Effluents, or whatever it’s called: Teleprompter Jesus.

So this picture would be what, Teleprompter Salome?

(this is one of their almost endearingly nonsensical attempts to slam Obama, because of its dottiness. It’s like trying to slam McCain for using a microphone. Ooohh, McMicrophone! What other piece of standard equipment can we mock you for using?)