Not Much Has Changed Since 1957

Look at this clip of Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957) starring Andy Griffith.

"Andy plays Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a vagrant with folksy charm who gets put on the radio and turns out to be a genius at using good ol' country hokum to manipulate his audience into supporting the politics he supports. He ends up remaking an uptight Republican candidate into a 'reg'lar fella' who hunts, sits around the cracker barrel talking politics, etc."

Seeing how the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Nanny State fearmongers who populate the Right Wing, you have to ask yourself: how much has changed in 50+ years of Republican rhetoric?

When Money Rules Your Life

Sarah Palin will make $115,000 for a speech at the Teabagger Convention next week, if it is still on.

She would have made $150,000 for a whole year as Alaskan Governor is she had not quit.

Republican principles. "Country First"? Ahhhhh, nice try.

Thank YOU, Sarah Palin

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Sarah Pain In Hiding

Sarah Palin is now in hiding. She has to learn about America, our government, the world. That should take about a day for the Republicans to be pleased. As for the sexism angle, could the Republicans be more insincere.

Palin: The Woman From Nowhere

Good article at The Economist website on Sarah Palin called "The Woman From Nowhere". Touches on the dangerous decision making process of McCain, the 15-minute vetting process of Palin, and the Right Wing's problem with appointing so many incompetents because they were sound on Roe v Wade.

"Mrs Palin’s elevation suggests that, far from breaking with Mr Bush, Mr McCain is repeating his mistakes."

Read article here.

Sarah Palin, From MILF To VP To?

Will trophy wife #2 Sarah Palin drop out of the VP nomination? Intrade, an online prediction trading website, has started a trading market for her. It's currently an 11% chance she will withdraw. Is this a Harriet Miers part 2 situation for John McCain?



Conservatives around the country must be wondering the same thing. Rule of thumb, if the Right strongly denies it, it will happen.

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From Cheney To A Chick

So When John McCain dies from old age in a few months, this is your next President? Thank you Republicans for picking a hot woman and yet another candidate that frightens your base. Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska for two years, will have her finger on the button when Grampy McSame takes a dirt nap. Do they even know one another? I guess when you have no choices for VP you might as well take a gamble, conservatives went with the "unknown chick who looks like Tina Fey" card. Well played.

Can't wait to hear all the experience flip flops the GOP will spit out. I guess their new approach is that you need absolutely no experience to be President, vis-à-vis McSame's imminent Viagra sponsored date with a six foot hole. Together, McCain and Palin will look like an old folks home brochure with Grampy and his hot bedside nurse asking for your vote. Or maybe Anna Nicole and the Texas billionaire she rode into the ground.

But big ups for choosing the first female Republican candidate for vice president. Desperation, not necessity, is the mother of invention. And thank you for kneecapping one of McCain campaign’s central arguments, their claim that Obama is too inexperienced to be president.

I also like the initial articles about the VP announcement that call her "relatively unknown". Was "completely unknown" or "complete stranger" too hard to print?

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