McCain campaign unmuzzles Palin

By Libby

Palin reminds me of nothing so much as those fine "Christian ladies" I used to encounter back in the days I taught Sunday School. They were well dressed, perfectly coiffed and pillars of the church, mainly because they donated lots of money. Usually they had a stained glass window or at least a pew named after them with a little brass plaque. They were sugary sweet to everyone to their face, but would make oblique insults about parishioners they didn't like behind their backs, subtly mocking their clothes or their social status. They took their greatest delight in making themselves feel bigger by tearing others down. That's Palin in a nutshell, with her desperate attempts to resurrect the long dead meme of Obama's nonexistent 'terrorist pals' with its thinly veiled racist subtext.

And proving once again that the rabid right thrive on cognitive dissonance, Palin apparently garnered great applause by quoting a Starbucks coffee cup. Leaving aside that she couldn't even get a single sentence quote right, for eight years now I've been hearing the right whine about "limousine liberals" who drink Starbucks coffee. So how come it's suddenly acceptable and how does that fit the "hockey mom" image? I thought they only drink Dunkin Donuts coffee.

I also wonder how she would have played that line if Hillary was Obama's VP? Personally, one of the things I find most offensive about McCain's little snarling pit bull is her selfish co-opting of all the work Hillary did in cracking the ceiling that gave her this opportunity she doesn't at all deserve.