Ha Ha! Daniel Ruth's at it again. "Look! The Empress is wearing new clothes" [View All]

[madfloridian]

I don't alway read Daniel Ruth columns, his humor tends to be a little on the cruel side for me. But I don't mind at all when he goes after Sarah Palin. She is not qualifed to be running for VP of this country, and she is inciting to riot when she speaks.

In this column Daniel Ruth not only blasts Palin, but he takes some jabs at Hasselbeck and Britney Spears. It is good to see the right wing Tampa Tribune loosening up a little.

Look! The Empress Is Wearing New Clothes

Whew, if this sackcloth and ashes tour had gone on much longer, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would have shown up for her Tampa visit looking like Edith Bunker meets Ma Joad to try to convince everyone of her K-Mart blue light special tastes.

Well, with only seven days left in the campaign, it's entirely possible by the time we get to next Tuesday, Palin will be campaigning in a housecoat and slippers with curlers in her hair in a craven attempt to suck up to the mythical Joe Sixpack crowd.

It was probably just a teensy hint during her Sunday stop in Tampa that Palin, the GOP's answer to "What Not To Wear," was in something of a crisis management mode when she enlisted the help of Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who makes Britney Spears look like Sandra Day O'Conner, to introduce the Alaska governor. Hasselbeck is one of the chattering panelists on "The Spew," which offers all the intellectual stimulation of the Three Stooges eying a table filled with cream pies.

Donna Karan!

I like his ending paragraph.

No doubt if you are out of work, or living out of your car, or getting by on food stamps, Sarah Palin's only slightly used Fendi frocks will be an enormous comfort.

Ruth in an earlier column compared Palin to Florida's own daughter and crusader for the religious right movement. Her name is Ronda Storms. She once, perhaps unwittingly, tried to outlaw masturbation. Her bill did not pass.

Tampa Trib's Daniel Ruth compares Palin to FL Senator Ronda Storms

Role For Ronda?

In this community, it took a nanosecond after the announcement of Palin's veep pick for readers to start noting she was "...an Alaskan version of state Sen. Ronda Storms in every sense of the word," wrote hockeyray.

"Trying to pass Creationism in public schools, telling the local librarian either certain books need to be banned or the librarian gets fired, and there's also troopergate - very much like Ronda threatening the county staff to deny a permit to a bikini bar club she didn't like.

"Breaking the county charter meant nothing to Ronda as I'm sure the Constitution means about the same to Palin."

Who knows? If the McCain/Palin ticket gets elected, perhaps there would be a place in the new administration for Ronda Storms - Secretary of Pinched Harrumphing, perhaps?

You go, Daniel Ruth, these ladies deserve your calling them out. They are the type of the religious right that I fear will be causing a lot of problems in this country for decades or longer.