The Presidential Campaign of Robert Preston and Charo
The Republican ticket has devolved into a sad, tired and ugly thing the likes of which I’ve never seen in 55 years.
When you take somebody fresh out of the PTA who can barely handle a promotion to mayor of Wasilla and was clearly over her head as governor, and launch her as high as she’s tried to soar, you’ve got to expect a graceless crash. The part of the Brian WIlliams interview that was aired tonight shows McCain and Palin as buffoonish.
There’s a dog and pony show quality to the pair that makes you realize how well most experienced politicians mask that taint, which must come naturally to most folks.
When they sarcastically called Obama “The One,”I doubt they ever anticipated they would be so disorganized, off-message and downright self-destructive just a few weeks later. Their remedies make their plight worse, its almost like resistance is futile. Maybe some of ‘em on the religion rich-right may be starting to think “The One” without the sarcasm.
In the interview, McCain had this nervous spunkiness that Robert Preston would be great at portraying. He was on a hot griddle, because next to him was a woman who was working without a net and not good at keeping her balance. There were moments that reminded me of the Couric interviews.
You could tell that she was being asked about things that raised questions she’d never even considered before. She was torn between trying to formulate an answer while simultaneously trying to grasp what was to her a new idea. Its cruel. No its fun, no its cruel.
And so sad. It would be fun if Robert Preston and Charo were playing the parts, and Blake Edwards was directing it for the screen. Everybody would get the joke and everybody could laugh. This is cruel because the more we learn about Sarah Palin the more the question becomes how could this woman even be considered for the job of being a heartbeat away.
That embarasses not just one woman, but a whole campaign, a whole party, and a whole nation. We should all be totally ashamed of ourselves.