Palin's a stalking horse who'll "bravely" withdraw because her daughter's being "persecuted" for her

[Czolgosz]

"pro-life" decision.

As with Harriet Myers, the Repubs with have their cake ("see, we picked a woman even when Obama refused to ...") and eat it too ("after the liberal media and bloggers attacked Palin, the other women we consulted were not willing to subject their families to those unfair attack so we needed Romney to clean up the mess because his kids are older and have signed onto the task ...").

They will use this to roll in Romney (or someone even worse).

[DangerousRhythm]

1. Heh, good call.

Watch out for this one, I say. Even still, if she withdraws, it'll look bad for them. I think any way they go, they are completely screwed.

[Kierkegaard]

2. Agreed,

Whether Palin stays or goes, McStain loses.

[zeemike]

3. Yep..they never make a mistake n/t

[LynneSin]

4. I just posted that same exact thing - my prediction is it will happen AFTER the VP debate

They want to get Biden out of the way.

[DFW]

5. I think either she's gone in ten days, or they keep her

The fundies like her, and they'll be pissed if she's dropped after a long build-up

[HeraldSquare212]

6. Or else it's McCain v. the right-wing - they wouldn't let him pick Lieberman,

so he picked one of their candidates, will let her crash and burn and then say, Told you so, now I'm picking Lieberman.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. I dunno- at least some of them don't care about her daughter's situation or thinks it HELPS them

The GOP panelists (I think that they were all Republicans or Republican-leaning, actually) on the Diane Rehm Show (NPR) this morning made the argument essentially that Bristol's pregnancy wasn't/shouldn't have been looked at as a disqualifying factor and that the situation may help "humanize" Palin because lots of other families are struggling with the same kind of situation (which makes me wonder why they don't consider the fact that so many families are going through the same situation to be something for them to worry about-like maybe, faith based "abstinence only" education might NOT really be working for our children?)

[Stop Cornyn]

8. Once Upon A Time, in a Deeply Republican Administration ...

Once Upon A Time, in a Deeply Republican Administration, the man in charge of the Republican Party had almost everything in place.

He had no energy policy, but he had a plan that would make the oil and gas companies very happy.

He had no plan to expand access to health care, but he had a plan to make the pharmaceutical companies very happy.

He had no plan to bring our troops home any time soon, but he had a plan to rebuild the damage in Iraq, and Halliburton was very happy.

But there was one thing which made the man in charge of the Republican Party feel his job was incomplete. The man could not help but noticed that he was much less popular with women voters than men, and this made the Republicans sad.

What to do?

Then someone had a splendid idea!

The man in charge of the Republican Party remembered: "We have a chance to choose someone for a very important position, and there are many people who think we ought to choose a woman."

Halliburton, and the oil and gas companies, and the pharmaceutical companies were skeptical, but the man in charge of the Republican Party said, "Hear me out!"

"What if we pick the most modestly qualified woman in all the land?" The man explained his plan further, "surely, the 'liberal media' will question her credentials, and most assuredly Joe Biden will make some comments which all the Democrats and pesky fact checkers will agree with, but those comments will not sit well with many Republicans."

The man in charge of the Republican Party then explained the climax of his plan: "We'll say that the 'liberal media' and the 'liberal bloggers' and Joe Biden were picking on our nominee because she's a woman and picking on her because of her beliefs. And our nominee with then withdraw her name from the nomination to shield her family from the nasty attacks from the Democrats and their 'liberal bloggers and media.'"

Suddenly, Halliburton, and the oil and gas companies, and the pharmaceutical companies were smiling again because they knew what the man in charge of the Republican Party was going to say next, and he didn't disappoint them: "After you let me get some credit for picking a woman, and after we say that the Democrats hounded her into withdrawing her application for service, I'll let you pick our replacement nominee, just like we usually do it."

And then Halliburton, and the oil and gas companies, and the pharmaceutical companies lived happily ever after.



























This used to be called "The Story of How Harriet Myers Helped John Roberts Onto The Supreme Court," but I'm reworking it into a sequel. Anyone have any thoughts on how we could rework this story?