We Americans have been frightened out of our wits by monster films where the gestation of a serious menace to the human race occurs within a fraction of time. The one that stills sends shivers down my spine is the Alien. With a simple infection, a horrible beast rips its way out of its host to devour all in its path. I can attribute to that film my aversion to all horrors flicks. But for those of us who have watched with amusement at the development of Sarah Palin maybe in for that moment when all hell breaks loose. Ms. Palin having been fed and incubated in bowels of the Republican Right is now gaining in strength and soon she will burst upon the American electorate. The Rovian accolades have been nurturing this creature and to their delight it is coming along just fine.
It is not too off base to conjecture, given the sad campaign McCain has waged, that this election cycle might just have been scripted so that a “true” neocon Republican could be groomed. What better stage to develop a rising star then a presidential election. Think about it! Your party is facing eight years of an administration so bankrupt that its favorable ratings have hit rock bottom. Take with that a Congress only two years out of office that was simply corrupt. Consider the national debt. Examine the abuses of power in nearly every executive office. Note the office of Vice President that had a criminal indictment and needed a presidential pardon. Realistically, how could the party get a new president elected? Now, find a candidate, a bull headed opinionated die hard cantankerous old man facing his last hurrah and sell him on the idea that now is his time. And give him the outdated apparatus that couldn't sell any candidate again. Now put besides him the hope of the future in a photogenic pliable parrot who will learn her lines and wink and nod and get the great middle class energized with her babble of god, country, real Americans and no taxes. Seems far fetched doesn't it? Or does it?
How else can you explain the gaffes in the McCain campaign? It would take a blooming idiot not to have recognize that something was amiss with the economy. So, who gave McCain that astute observation that the fundamentals were basically good? McCain certainly didn't think of that. Heck! He admitted he didn't know much about economics. Who would allow the candidate to move through the election cycle without a rudder only sparking when he stole the positions of Obama? Some operative must have known it would only reinforce the position of the opposition.
Seeing Ms. Palin now in the closing days of this campaign one can see she is in it for the long haul. I think that those who pulled strings on her selection knew she was going to be a detriment. But in the final accounting, it is the top of the ticket that will take the onus of defeat. As Palin so tellingly informed the public, “she isn't in this for naught.”
No, there is a bigger agenda here. I think McCain is getting his come uppence. He sold his soul, but like anyone who sells his soul, he is left without a shred of moral turpitude. What a most ingenious payback? Strip a man of all that he ever really prided himself of.
Palin has been hatched. Every applause, every shout, everyone who attends her rallies are the sustenance to grow her into a force. Unfortunately, this is a force without a moral underpinning. It is a force who gravitates towards power for it that which sustains her. She, like all infections, is opportunistic. She is in the fight for herself and she will survive. It is up to the electorate to discover the true force in this election cycle. She needs to be contained and shown for what she is. She speaks easily out of both sides of her mouth. She is coy and winsome and glib. She speaks of things for which she hasn't any knowledge and believe her when she says there are two Americas. Hers and those who need to be controlled. To really appreciate her you need to see her with her Dick Cheney and I do believe there are any number of them waiting in the wings.
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