Posted by
Sgt Relic on Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:28:50 AM
Following the announcement by John McCain of his selection of Sarah Palin as his VP choice, this writer decided to take a peek at a comment thread running on CNN’s website. After reading some of the comments, three that stood out are listed below.
[Whoops! What happened to “you can have it all”?]
“What is she going to do with her 5 month old baby during the campaing? is she putting her career before her family? from what is been told by the media he is a baby with special needs. As a mother I question her decision specially with all the time she would need to spend away from home” – Sandra [sic]
[Do women still make coffee in the office?]
“I was one of those 18 million cracks and there is no way I would vote for McCain. He is wrong on all the issues. They just don't get it do they. I doubt they would let her have any real say in the debate anyway. She'll be making coffee in the white house” [sic]
[Remember this one. We’ll return to it later.]
“So, what exactly is the historic nature of her nomination? Ferraro was picked as a running mate for Mondale well over 2 decades ago. Oh I get it.. it's historic because she is historically the least qualified person to manage to get their name on a major party ticket. Congrats to Danny Quayle for finally moving down to the #2 spot.”
The thought occurred that it would be interesting to see what the real loony left was saying. With that objective in mind the solution was obvious, I needed to do a recon patrol.
I pause for the benefit of those not familiar with this kind of exercise. A successful recon is one that gathers information and DOES NOT result in a firefight. In and out with no one the wiser. Standard camouflage is inadequate in a virtual typographic environment so other individual protective measures must be employed. Cover and concealment take on a new meaning in this situation. I began to prepare by first reciting, “Bush lied, people died” over and over again. I made a quick trip to “Stuff White People Like” to sharpen my metrosexual rhetoric and lastly, did a rapid review of all the Starbucks jargon I could remember.
Thus prepared, this reporter ventured to the democratic underground site. So, brought to you at great personal risk, here are some of the themes we will be hearing for the next 66 days.
Troopergate: This seems to be a non-starter scandal but dems are trying to hang their hats on it.
No experience: This one will probably have legs but oddly it pits Obama rather than Biden against the GOP VP nominee using the “one heart beat away” argument.
Beauty Queen: This one was very popular and showed up frequently.
Trophy wife: McCain’s not Todd’s apparently.
Lastly, remember I said we’d come back to this one; she’s the second coming of Dan Quayle.
There of course will be more once the Obama people get their balance but these were early reactions and were already in evidence from the democrat talking heads during the O’Reilly Show last night. Whether this helps of hurts McAmnesty is anybody’s guess but in the end it’s the bloggers of the world who were real winners yesterday. Fodder for the cannons friends. Let the entertainment begin!