Sarah Palin is currently under an ethics investigation. It's not her first. This past week I've tried to nail down what it was about her that made me so fascinated with her, what she had that both riveted and appalled me--and then I got it.
She has self-involvement without self-awareness. When she's right, she just *is*, and the Lord spake from a bush, and that was that. You look like a potential troublemaker in Sarah's big plans for Wasilla? You could be out
http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510219.html --and if you won't enforce a book ban, her eyes are on you. That's brass, right there. Does it make her look like a little tinpot dictator? Ah, well. In that little town, all she could think about was being in charge of something bigger. All I've heard about is her lowering property taxes to get businesses in, while at the expense of residents, she raised sales taxes; and hiring that lobbyist to get more Fed money to grow the town more, but not to attend to stuff that might have been useful to the residents.
Like a sewage treatment plant--vs. all the trouble she went to for a sports complex. I understand the sports comlex is nice and is used a lot, but still. Style--not substance. She ran on being a Christian, not on potholes and PTA. When she neared the end of her term, she was already angling for onward & upward. Her spot on the energy comission that got her the reputation as a reformer seems to have come about because of a, well, *snit.* She go into it with someone, they pissed her off, and she hacked their computer. I'm not sure that's exactly how it went down--but sounds like it to me.
And then she's the same way as governor--line-item vetoing stuff pretending she's against gov't waste, that the state legislature has to put back in as being necessary, while she's behind over $500 million in porkbarrel "asks" like that Bridge to Nowhere. And starting beefs with Dept heads over personnel she has issues with, like her ex-brother-in-law.
You want to try and explain, after saying you vetted her, after asking her, after her saying yes, outing her kid's personal business (did McCain even know until the last minute? Seriously.) after she causes all this hype and got all this attention at the convention--that she should step down because come to find out she "isn't a good fit?"
Oh hell no, she wouldn't. Not this one. Here's an opportunity to do some real stuff, now that they explained to her what a VP can do. She will stick this out--drop out? "Thanks, but no thanks."
The ball would be back in McCain's court. You remember him--he's the Maverick who picked her. There's a couple of things we need to square away about him. First, he's kind of needing to reestablish his Maverick cred, because the "McSame" logic just might stick. Second, I think he doesn't like any better being told what to do than Palin does. And then, he's "old school." This is a Lady's Honor he's defending. Even better than the pitiful pearl clutching over the bastards who would demean his POW experience by implying that did not give him super-executive mad skills, would be the manly interpolation of his honorable self between the evil media, and the beset-upon-by-barbarians Sarah Palin. The damsel fair should be protected, for she is Conservative GOLD. No press--just fund-raisers.
(Caribou Barbie depreciates in value when you take her out of the box--don't you know.)
If he is made to say his campaign made a mistake, it could only be if some relevation so evilly scandalous like, I dunno, some Great Northern Slope Spouse Swap scenario swarmed up from the tabloid depths with anything like plausibility attached. Or, like, if she killed a guy. That would be bad, too. Otherwise, it would be going back on his word. And word is bond, yo, when you're old school like McCain. He'd have to go through some political stages of grief:
1) Denial. "She never was part of any such scandal. She's a fine person, so stop saying that."
2) Anger: "You journalists and especially you bloggers, don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry."
3) Bargaining, "Hey, maybe she and Joe Lieberman can take turns as VP--he's got enough sanctimony for two people!"
4)Depression: "People say I'm in a depression, but I say that's really just psychological."
5) Acceptance: "Now that the Secret Service have separated Sarah from my leg, and Joe Lieberman from my other leg, I am happy to announce that I am running with a card-board cut-out of Ronald Reagan, who is standing in for a Republican to be named later. May rhyme with 'bridge...' No? May rhyme with...."
6) Lather, rinse repeat: "This is an upstanding gentleman who has been supremely well-vetted and we all love the heck out of him, Newt Gingrich, everybody...." Crickets. "You can clap." Crickets. "What was it, the ex-wives or the crappy books? Help me out here...I'm running out of time! Is there a Dr. in the house?"
The McCain/Paul ticket, while weird, would get so much train-wreck gawker attention, that it would sweep into the White House just so people had the promise of a new reality show. It would only last one trm, because four years is about how long a reality show remains enjoyable. But that's politics.
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