WORLD NEWS TRUST: Hurricane Sarah (Mary Lyon)

[Tace]

Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust

The Look-Before-You-Leap presidential campaign is at it again: “Do as I say, not as I do.” It amuses and confuses me as I watch the Republican Party writhe and wriggle around in the mud. It’s not so much the Gulf Coast hurricane wreckage in which they’re mired, but in the dialogue (and probably their own wobbly and now-questionable convictions) that they’re trying to manipulate about Sarah Palin, their ”gently-vetted” VP nominee.

Um… WAS she vetted, at all, before her name was plucked from obscurity? Should the GOP have figured up advance evacuation plans for this swirling storm on their radar screens? They had disaster mechanisms in place for Hurricane Gustav, this time. What about for Hurricane Sarah?

A political party with such a powerful weathervane for conservative self-righteousness didn’t see and failed to predict the gale-force winds that now seem to be blowing around Palin. The family-values darling brings quite a storm front with her -- including a teenage daughter unmarried and five months pregnant. With her emergence onto the headlines a mere few days ago, she’s already got at least one *-gate” -- the abuse-of-power scandal called “Trooper-gate,” and who knows what else, dogging her heels.

And that’s just it. Who knows what else? What other baggage is this lady carrying? Did John McCain know? Did his staff do any kind of serious background check before catapulting her into the public eye, or did they stop merely when the ideology checked out? If he knew, was he hoping to keep it a secret? After all, a really good way to distract prying eyes from noticing a swollen young belly is to have that belly overshadowed by a four-month-old baby being carried in front of it, laid out on a very widespread receiving blanket. If McCain knew in advance, how long did he seriously believe it would be before the news leaked out? What does that say about his competence to make solid judgment calls if he didn’t know, or about the purity of his intentions if he did know? Did he really put country first and his own campaign or political ambitions second or was he just trying to pull a fast one? Or was he simply in too big a hurry to rain on Barack Obama’s parade the day after the DNC convention to care about making a critical executive decision in haste or shameless expedience?

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http://www.worldnewstrust.com/wnt-reports/commentary/hurricane-sarah-mary-lyon.html

[BattyDem]

1. "The Look-Before-You-Leap presidential campaign"

That sums it up perfectly! :)

[calimary]

4. There've been lots of great ones - especially here!

Baked Alaska - by Parche

Mrs. Mooseburger - by kestrel91316

Psst_Im_Not_Here - mcsame's "Brownie"

Papa Boule - Brokenwatergate

AND, rick schmidt his very self - with a WUNNNNNNderful Freudian slip: Governor Failin!

:toast:

[Hutzpa]

2. You guys have it wrong, its the

'Leap before you look campaign' they take the plunge and
then starts screaming from down below for help....how
intelligent is that????

[BattyDem]

3. LOL ... you're right.

:rofl: "Look before you leap" would be a GOOD thing, which is not the way McCain does things. I never realized the error when I read the article. :blush:

[calimary]

6. Naa, it was meant with a little sarcasm on the side.

As in - maybe they NEED to look before they leap.

Dry humor. Maybe a little parched.

:P

[calimary]

5. Thanks,Tace!

Hug!