I ALMOST feel sorry for Carly.
(Emphasis on ALMOST.)
As of this morning she has been taken off the front lines of the McCain-Palin team, relegated to grunt work, in the background. That is a damn shame. I was getting used to taking shots at her here on the blog. I am sure many other commentators feel similar regrets at her redeployment.
Now of course the irony (if Republicans lived in the sane world where up means up and down means down, and confusing the two is lying) is that she of course is not being redeployed for telling lies. Lies are part and parcel of the official script. She instead got busted for going off the script in a way that made the candidates look nearly as silly as the candidates do themselves, daily.
Can't have that, can we?
Sen. McCain can start off on Monday, repeating the disastrous Herbert Hoover line about the economy being fundamentally sound -- basically confirming the Obama-Biden message about being out of touch. But the fact he makes silly gaffes is something the campaign has to deal with.
McCain can't shut himself up. It doesn't work that way.
And Gov. Palin can repeat the two lies from her acceptance speech. Ok the first one about the plane is more an attempt to spin a technically correct fact into something unwarranted by reality -- a half lie of omission, perhaps is the better way to describe that one. The one about the bridge to nowhere, however is a bald faced lie. However those untruthful statements are part of the script. Gov. Palin's non scripted gaffes to date, however, have not been judged as bad enough to reconsider the ticket. Point is, McCain has sorta painted himself into a corner with the selection of Palin. The fwkup that causes McCain to cut her loose is going to have to be so severe that the alternative is to knowingly, to a mathematical probability, give up all hope of winning the election, if he doesn't.
I am still hoping for that.
Some in the media, and the pundits are speculating that Palin excitement has peaked, will die-down. Perhaps. I still rather see the opposition taken out of contention before the game is over. So I am still hoping there is a fat juicy barrel of scandal waiting to be opened, and hopefully soon. (Maybe it has been found already and is being saved for use at that right moment? A dem can only hope.)
Anyway, I was talking about poor Carly Carly Carly.
Well not so poor, as depending on who you are talking to, she walked away from that shipwreck of her stewardship of HP with anywhere from 20 to 40 million dollars.
But her pride is hurt, I am betting.
Wait. Wasn't it her elitist, corporate-class sense of superiority that got her in this mess?
Ahh . . . . so it is a fitting turn of events. Again. I am only almost sorry.
As of this morning she has been taken off the front lines of the McCain-Palin team, relegated to grunt work, in the background. That is a damn shame. I was getting used to taking shots at her here on the blog. I am sure many other commentators feel similar regrets at her redeployment.
Now of course the irony (if Republicans lived in the sane world where up means up and down means down, and confusing the two is lying) is that she of course is not being redeployed for telling lies. Lies are part and parcel of the official script. She instead got busted for going off the script in a way that made the candidates look nearly as silly as the candidates do themselves, daily.
Can't have that, can we?
Sen. McCain can start off on Monday, repeating the disastrous Herbert Hoover line about the economy being fundamentally sound -- basically confirming the Obama-Biden message about being out of touch. But the fact he makes silly gaffes is something the campaign has to deal with.
McCain can't shut himself up. It doesn't work that way.
And Gov. Palin can repeat the two lies from her acceptance speech. Ok the first one about the plane is more an attempt to spin a technically correct fact into something unwarranted by reality -- a half lie of omission, perhaps is the better way to describe that one. The one about the bridge to nowhere, however is a bald faced lie. However those untruthful statements are part of the script. Gov. Palin's non scripted gaffes to date, however, have not been judged as bad enough to reconsider the ticket. Point is, McCain has sorta painted himself into a corner with the selection of Palin. The fwkup that causes McCain to cut her loose is going to have to be so severe that the alternative is to knowingly, to a mathematical probability, give up all hope of winning the election, if he doesn't.
I am still hoping for that.
Some in the media, and the pundits are speculating that Palin excitement has peaked, will die-down. Perhaps. I still rather see the opposition taken out of contention before the game is over. So I am still hoping there is a fat juicy barrel of scandal waiting to be opened, and hopefully soon. (Maybe it has been found already and is being saved for use at that right moment? A dem can only hope.)
Anyway, I was talking about poor Carly Carly Carly.
Well not so poor, as depending on who you are talking to, she walked away from that shipwreck of her stewardship of HP with anywhere from 20 to 40 million dollars.
But her pride is hurt, I am betting.
Wait. Wasn't it her elitist, corporate-class sense of superiority that got her in this mess?
Ahh . . . . so it is a fitting turn of events. Again. I am only almost sorry.
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