"What's The Difference Between George W. Bush and Sarah Palin? Lipstick! "

September 8, 2008
McCain, Culverhouse and the Iran/Contra Gang
The Man Who Vetted Palin
By PAM MARTENS

The bold type headlines on newsstands last week with their titillating pronouncements of “dark secrets,” “scandal” and “lies,” have missed the real story by 23 years. And the insatiable pondering of how a proper vetting process of VP hopeful Sarah Palin could have overlooked an animal rights train wreck, an ongoing ethics investigation, a coziness with a secessionist group, and a potential foray into censoring library books in small town America also misses the mark.

The vetting process worked exactly as it was supposed to work: it delivered a Republican candidate with a heaping plate of character flaws and serial judgment lapses who thus wouldn’t wince at reading fiction from a TelePrompTer to 37 million Americans. (What’s the difference between George W. Bush and Sarah Palin? Lipstick.)

The man assigned to vet Sarah Palin is Arthur B. Culvahouse, currently Chairman of the giant corporate law firm, O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Could a man with the following credentials fail to sleuth out Palin’s character issues when most are readily available in newspaper and internet archives and the public domain? Mr. Culvahouse was a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Nuclear Failsafe and Risk Reduction; the Counterintelligence Advisory Panel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1989-1990); the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) and the President's Intelligence Oversight Board.

If there is anyone in the country who has access to high level intelligence, it is Arthur B. Culvahouse. So if he had this massive dossier of negative intel on Sarah Palin, why wasn’t she passed over as McCain’s running mate? Unless, of course, this was precisely the profile being sought.

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Democrat alive?

What's the difference between george w. bush and sarah palin? Lipstick.

BRILLIANT!!!

Repeat BECAUSE it's necessary.

That is a terrific line that tells the truth and sums up the reality of this election.

Let's pass it on in our e-mails, other discussion boards, etc.,

They can't be counted on, I'm afraid.

pick which one deserves/needs the lipstick the most IM0!

And that's a very possible outcome because of McCain's age and illnesses.

She's not running to be vice-president for 8 or 4 years. She's ambitious.