Can we be over Palin now...?

Folks, it's over. Her moment in the sun, that is. She's being whisked back to Alaska, to be kept out of sight until they come up with another pre-scripted speech for her to deliver.

She'll make a few appearances on the campaign trail, deliver a few soundbites that'll make the evening news. But it's over. She'll never again be the "overnight sensation" she was yesterday. Strictly speaking, Palin-mania is "so 9/3."

The G.O.P. will get a convention bounce, like every convention has before and every convention will in the future. Some people will freak out about this (like the Chicken Littles on MyDD who proclaimed that, if McCain takes a three- to four-point lead in the tracking polls in the next few days, "it's over" and we've lost the election). The bounce will subside, just like every convention bounce has before. By the end of the day (i.e. mid-to-late September) the polls will likely be right around where they were before either convention began.

In the meantime, we have a campaign to run. Against John McCain. Not against a surrogate in high-heels, even if she does know how to dress a field moose, or however that goes.

The race is against John McCain. A candidate who stands for the continuation of the Bush administration. A candidate who offers nothing new. A candidate who, according to polls, is viewed as "out of touch" with and not caring about the average American. A candidate of a party whose president has a 28% approval rating.

And that race begins now.

:shrug:

One day is in.....
the next day, it's out.

Dud, Sarin, Ak-Ak, Pistol, Ammo, Sniper and Frag.

I don't want to go to Phoenix and bitch-slap McCain.

Juneau... I've got the tix already. :D

Oh...you mean that loon from Alaska?

I am so over her already.

What, just let her say whatever the fuck she wants? Let it go without challenge? Ignore the plethora of scandals that can damage her to the point of unelectability? Yeah. Let's get over all of that.

:wtf:

In that race, Obama wins. They are hoping to make Sarah the next big distraction for the next 60 days or so.

Don't let them!

Personally I don't think their plan will work. Her dumbass Bushco-written speech is going to fade day by day and the excuses for not facing the media will fade faster. She will rightfully assume her place as Dan Quayle, and they will lose, in a margin too big to steal it

We just have to keep our eyes on the ball. When the GOP is all jingling shiny keys in front of us (her family for example) they are just trying to distract from what a lousy candidate McCain is.

Six out of the top nine threads are about Sarahbou. Sigh...

I'm waiting for someone to thrust a microphone in her face and ask her some tough questions.

...the US and National Enquirer covers they don't particularly want her on.

That's pretty much the point of whisking her back out of sight. To cut off media access and try to dampen any further damage or investigation by the dem blogosphere. They've got a real mess and they know it.

Bill O'Reilly told me so.

At the risk of aging my self...."Gonna wash that bitch right out of my hair" jingle running in my head.