Arkansas Blog: The diva

Amusing story here about tensions between John McCain's people and Sarah Palin. Caribou Barbie wants to speak for herself. Free Sarah, I say.

A second McCain source tells CNN she appears to now be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

Here's a good take on Palin, from Judith Warner of NY Times. As she notes, people have always said that women will have arrived when the mediocre among them can rise to the heights of mediocre men. Say no more.

Mediocrity, after all, is the privilege of those who have arrived.

Palin is a woman who has risen to national prominence without, apparently, even remotely being twice as good as her male competitors. On the contrary, her claim to fame lies in her repudiation of Clinton-type exceptionalism.

She speaks no better — and no worse — than many of her crowd-pleasing male peers, dropping her g’s, banishing “who” in favor of “that,” issuing verbal blunders that linger just long enough to make their mark in the public mind before they’re winked away in staged apologies.

She is a woman who is able to not only get by but also be quickly promoted on the kinds of attributes that were once the exclusive province of unremarkable white men: rapport, the right looks or connections, an easy sort of familiarity.

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The CNN headline says she's "going rogue," but it makes me wonder if she's "going commando." And how 'bout them hogs? Didn't capitalize the nickname on purpose.

Posted by: Louie | October 26, 2008 07:27 AM

It's fun to watch Palin & McCain talking together on talk shows these days. McCain watches her nervously like she's got a lizard in her mouth that might jump out from behind her teeth at any moment. Lately he looks like her words are weak acid burning his old cancerous skin. Wouldst that she were a ventriloquist's dummy with a string running down her expensively dressed back that old man McCain could fully control.

It brings back memories of my first wife. Bless her heart, in her last years a brain tumor killed the portion of her brain that controlled her judgment of what was right or wrong to say. Out of the blue she might call the preacher a MotherFK'er. Numerous times she'd announce to ultra-polite company that she had to shit bad. The C word would pop up now and then. I'm sure every time we were in public I looked at her talking like old man McCain looks at Palin...thinking ohmagod...what's fixin to come out of her pretty little mouth next? Bless her good good heart.

I don't think Palin has a brain tumor, she's just dumb. For the 10 millionth time, McCain didn't do his homework and now he's stuck with the 2008 version of a political Gracie Allen. John...when will you ever learn? Since her college days wearing that "I May Be Broke But I'm Not Flat Busted" sweatshirt, Sarah Palin has been learning. She may not know anything else about politics, but she's learned how to mine it like a gold mine. And I have to give her credit, figuring out how to turn a seat on the city council of a shit hole like Wasilla into a position in the VP race beat odds worse than the OK Lottery.

Just imagine where Huckabee might have wound up if he'd been half way attractive? But now that the handwriting is on the wall 5 states tall, Ms Palin is no doubt gunning for her own show on Fox... PALIN! So Huck better watch out...soon they'll be a new girl in town and she might just eat his ratings like they were so much moose meat on a plate.

But we've still got 9 days for Cheney-Bush to drum up a crisis to stop the election. Each midnight for the last month I've breathed a sigh of relief and thought to myself....well.....it didn't happen today. Catchy days like 4-11 or 7-7 or 10-10 scare me the most, since Americans like a short catchy date to help remember a national crisis. 9-12 wouldn't have rolled off the tongue like 9-11...Nine Eleven, now that just rolls off the tongue for a people too lazy to remember long markers like Remember the Alamo or Remember The Maine!

So....we're not out of the woods yet. You can bet soulless criminals like Cheney & Bush wouldn't think nothing of blowing up half the US to stay in power. Hopefully their tired of stealing and bullying and FK'ing everything up. That's our only real hope for a halfway honest election. I've never seen a whole nation cross its giant fingers....but we better be doing it now. Nine days to go...... gulp!

Posted by: Deathbyinches | October 26, 2008 12:56 PM

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