Oh my. What an...er...'objective'...piece of...er...'reporting'. Especially that meter-cracking reference to the "lamestream media". Oh, the lameness of the hypocrisy. And just look at the stir it's drummed up here in the Palin-watch forum.
Can't you people find a scarier boogy-bear than Palin to shake at us? We're getting bored here. Surely there's some commie bastard somewhere who dreams of slaughtering 20 million of us before imposing his sick version of a commie paradise? You know, something really scary. Not like a Christer governor running for president. Or threatening to run for president, or quitting in the middle of threatening to run for president, or whatever. I mean, I'm sure that scares the crap out of the average progressive academic whose overwrought imaginations turn to dreadful thoughts of The Palin Reich, but I'm just not feeling it, you know?
Because I'm a realist. I know that, even if she did somehow miraculously win the presidency, she would immediately receive "the briefings", just as all starry-eyed neophyte presidents do. You can be sure that, after that series of eye-opening, star-snuffing revelations (to which none of you will ever be privy), she would end up doing little more than perpetuating Obama's policies, just as Obama before her has ended up largely perpetuating the policies of Bush before him.
There are, undoubtedly, reasons for the general, oft-lamented continuity of White House policy, which continues, lightly embellished, almost irrespective of the Oval Office occupant. I've no doubt that many of those reasons are best left unknown to the faint of heart.
I don't know exactly what it is that puts that grey hair on the presidents' heads. But whatever it is, I'm sure it's more than enough to keep Mrs. Palin in line, even if your worst fears come to fruition.
There ain't gonna be no Palin Reich. No need to worry your pretty little heads, or try to worry mine. You see, if Palin turned out to be actually crazy enough to try to get down to it with the irrationally-feared Christo-Nazism, soldiers would cut her down. It's specified in the oath every member of the armed services swears, a Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all power-mongering politikers. This is something American politikers must live with. The final check and balance.
