Polemic®

Think there wasn’t a major gaffe? I’m not sure how much people are going to like that she was nasty about Biden’s dead wife. Also, Alaska court refuses to stop Troopergate. Having said that, this will be the last Palin Deathwatch unless, like a zombie, I revive it yet again. If they didn’t off her [...]

SNL: Katie, I’d like to use a life line.

Fareed Zakaria calls for Palin’s ouster. Of course, he’s an America hating A-rab. (Inconveniently, though, he is right of center).

Bob Herbert at NYT. The McCain people have shown themselves predictably unpredictable. Pushing hard from all sides to remove Sarah Palin under normal circumstances would be a superb attack on McCain. The problem is, he might do it. I understand all the arguments for why he wouldn’t do that. But I only want to hear [...]

Kathleen Parker, conservative columnist, calls for her resignation.

It’s becoming fairly clear to me that McCain’s high-risk stunt this week was all about trying to delay Palin’s debate. It’s not even a question of a Bush/Gore/Kerry “expectations” game. She’s bound to just completely fuck up—and Biden can just answer and be polite, not attack, chuckle, do a Gore groan or anything. At this [...]