Arkansas Blog

Well, that's a horrid thing to wake and see first thing in the morning.

Am having blueberries, strawberries and whipped cream while watching Wimbledon.
GO ANDY!

I've been pondering Louie's theory about Sarah Palin. To paraphrase, he posted that Sarah was coming to McNab to help fight the coal plant.

I think he may be close to being halfway on to something. Alaska being basically the jumping off place is too remote to be a good presidential bid headquarters. And, we all agree that her speech was weak and rambling and her delivery is grating.

I think she's moving to Hope. It worked for Bill and Mike. It's more centrally located in the contiguous states and she can soften up her delivery after she soaks up a little southern grace.

When she makes the move, bug, she will make the Duggars mad 'cause she and her five (6) kids will steal the spotlight, for various reasons, and Louie will help to present her as the Joan of Arc for SW Arkansas and the Red River basin.

And Bug, she'll not absorb Southern Grace and more than a bowl of rocks would absorb cereal milk. You have to be willing to learn to absorb anything.

I loved the lead on Gail Collins's NYT column on Palin's press conference. Just in case you missed it:

"Truly, Sarah Palin has come a long way. When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too."

I want to add, explicitly, that I do NOT think Sarah Palin is resigning because of any impending indictment! I would advise all to heed a warning from her attorney:

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

Click blue name, if interested.

I don't know, Perplexed, milk works good on Grape Nuts.

We will have to wait for the next shoe to drop to see what she's really up to. She is NOT turning tail. Millions of Americans look at her and her family and think to themselves "They're just like us (only better looking.)"

Lincoln will have a harder time than Brumett gives her some credit for. She has turned her back on too many Arkansans with her love of corporate subsidies. She is Corporate Welfare Queen, including agri-corp that benefits only a few disgustingly wealthy with their corporate buyout schemes that hurt small farmers. Come to think of it, there is also Marion Berry. How many millions do we taxpayers pay him not to farm?

All the "federal indictment" noise seems to be old noise. Now if we could get a Robert Starr clone on it . . .
I'm guessing she's going for the money. But if speaking engagements are to be her shtick for the next three years or so, she better get a lot better at it than she is now. Even right wingers, or at least some of 'em, can put up with only so much.
Lordie! Just imagine, she could have been that cliched heartbeat away!
And wants it ALL now?
The thing is, suppose she is elected president -- GAG! -- and decides a couple of years into her term, say for BIG, BIG bucks, to chuck it all and really go rolling in the dough.
Although, ya know, I would have prayed, and I'm not the praying type, for Georgie to quit but for his understudy waiting in the wings.
Although I'm not sure the understudy wasn't the power behind the . . .
Damn, can't come up with anything but cliches this morning. Political overload more than three years before the national elections. Somebody please gather up Palin, Huckabee, Romney, and anyone else publicly jockeying for position and drop them on their heads, er, rather, on some windswept and completely isolated and uninhabited south Atlantic island.
And forget them. Forever.

Makes me wonder how well a renewed and resurrected Nazi Party would do in the 2012 US elections? I know Brummett must earn his paycheck now and then, but really...to give any credibility to Mike Huckabee should be a firing offense. Right now as horrible as it is to even be a Republican, the janitor at the mall could be the Republican front runner for 2012. Makes me wonder which of the 7 Dwarfs might make a good president. Or what dead celebrity might look good on a campaign poster. Why not run Ronnie Reagan again? Even dead, Reagan would be a better president than Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee could be the very reason that Sarah quit Alaska. She's probably noticed he's making the big bucks at Fox and hardly having to lift a finger to do it. If a hillbilly DJ/preacher can make it out of Arkansas and into the lap of Fox luxury, then Sarah knows she can blow his doors off as soon as she gets rid of her pesky day job.

At the risk of a Palin law suit, I still say Todd & Sarah are heading for prison. I'm close enough to Oklahoma to know how dirty their local politics are and Alaska makes Oklahoma look like the "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations", damn near a whole state of elites! That a town of less than 6000 people would get a 12 million dollar sports complex is a dead giveaway. Add to that the same contractor that worked on Screaming Ted Steven's house just happened to build the sports complex while working on a new house for the Palins......yeah right....ain't no smoke coming from that fire....

But look.....Sarah is probably over her nervousness she displayed at the I Quit news conference. Someone has probably pointed out that no evil-doer except Bernie Madoff has ever gone to jail and sure as shooting no Republican has seen the inside of prison since the long forgotten Duke Cunningham went to the pokey. So what, Sarah & Todd have to spend a few Fox News millions to defend themselves for a year before being let off. It will just build Sarah's wingnut fan base who really can't rally around a hero unless they've hung from a cross.

But don't the rest of you think you can get away with a damn thing. Know your place! Us little people are here to work until we die and be smacked around at the will of those above us. Don't be thinking you'll ever get a Scooter Libby pardon! No sir......let yer grass get a little high and you're ass will be the grass. Sarah & Mike Huckbee clawed their way into that other America where the living is easy and the fish always bite. And why are you wasting your time reading Brummett. Get out there and get back to work!

DBI, thank you for Herbert's article. There is still some right thinking going on in the NYT. Sometimes, I wonder?

DBI, thank you for Herbert's article. There is still some right thinking going on in the NYT. Sometimes, I wonder?