Polemic®

Wonkette has the Sarah Palin “premature withdrawal” watch here.  As my sister put it, too bad the “fuckin’ redneck” didn’t prematurely withdraw with Bristol.

Intrade’s market had Joe Biden in the 90s before the announcement, and near 100 after it.  Palin? She’s still at 94.

So, now all of the Republicans want us to be nice to family members? They don’t want mean and they don’t want smears?  Hmph. You only have to go back a few weeks to John Edwards… nevermind.  The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

UPDATE: Who vetted Palin? Dobson and Norquist.

Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC’s spectacle in Denver, the country’s most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of theCouncil for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.

CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, “The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement.” This year, thanks to Sarah Palin’s selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

In other words, they either told McCain to pick her or they would be staying home… or they punk’d him. Tim LaHaye–what he writes books about the end of the world… fuck me. These people are crazy.

UPDATE: Wow. Just… Wow.  Damn, she’s kind of hot….. The only thing missing from this pic is some camel toe–or maybe “moose knuckle” since she’s from Aleyeska.