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Palin Rule #1: No whining! (Give the pig thing a rest)

September 9, 2008 - 6:57 pm - by Roger Kimball
Gerry
2008-09-10 07:22:20

“The leaps of illogic that some go through to allow themselves to believe what they do is astounding at times…it’s like a willful suspension of disbelief or something.”

I was thinking the same thing reading your post. Oh, here’s a good one.

“With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished,” Rove said. “I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa, or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town.

So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I’m concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?’”

Now replace Kaine with Palin and Richmond with Wasilla.