ReTweet: “The Resignation”

By Ta-Nehisi Coates:

I wrote a long post on Sarah Palin, and then deleted it. I was overthinking. Here is what must be said– Sarah Palin is deeply ignorant. She actually sounded worse, unedited and uninterrupted, than when she was under the withering fire of Katie Couric. One need only go to the text:

Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me – sports… basketball. I use it because you’re naïve if you don’t see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket… and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN. And I’m doing that – keeping our eye on the ball that represents sound priorities – smaller government, energy independence, national security, freedom! And I know when it’s time to pass the ball – for victory.

This is not off-the-cuff. It was prepared in advance, and, on video, it actually managed to make it sound worse. I just don’t think there’s much going on here except a deep-seated pride in a deep-seated ignorance. I don’t know what else to say.

That’s about as good a synopsis I’ve seen of this resignation thing… and I agree completely, having watched the video of the speak he quotes here. I don’t think I’ll comment until the shoe drops on the real reason for this dumbfounding exit.

A radical conjecture

So… it’s going to be a light posting weekend. But… before I disappear into a flash of fireworks: I have a guess:

The Sarah Palin resignation scandal-to-be? She killed MJ. Trying for some damage control.

Happy 4th!

Know Fear… Palin 2012

I can’t believe that this could be a reality. DougJ’s got the scoop:

Newt Gingrich today on Palin 2012:

“If Sarah Palin seeks out a group of sophisticated policy advisers and spends time developing a series of fairly sophisticated positions,” Gingrich said during his 33rd visit to the Christian Science Monitor breakfast series, “she is very formidable.”

I’m not quite sure what sophisticated (even with the modifier “fairly) might mean here. Maybe it means she’ll be putting Prada on the RNC credit card instead of Saks this time around.

But Newt’s not alone in thinking that Sarah may be the future of the GOP (from Rasmussen):

the plurality of GOP voters (43%) say their party has been too moderate over the past eight years, and 55% think it should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the future…

Bear in mind that Scott Rasmussen is conservative pollster who likely has a hard-on for Palin in various senses of that expression. And I’ve underestimated the craziness of the Republican party before.

But, seriously, they’re not really going to do this, are they?

(My emphasis.) I sure hope not. I mean, if she was the nominee it’d be political suicide for the GOP …right? …Right?

Conservative of the Year

Congratulations Sarah Palin! John Cole summarizes this best:

HoYay! Or is it Les Yay? Whatever.

Seriously, the only people more excited about this than the Palin dead-enders are… every single Democrat in the country. Hold her close. Embrace the Palin. Show the country this is your vision for the future GOP.

Pretty please?