The Leveller: A modern day regulator

May be unbelievable

Why Palin? Better than the many cannibals that haunt Congress. Take your pick venality or vanity?

John Ziegler, a Palin ally, said Schmidt “is trying to justify an incredibly, poorly run campaign on his part. His career has been greatly damaged in Republican circles. Why would anyone hire Steve Schmidt? He’s tried to torpedo the most popular Republican that there is after running a horrendous presidential campaign.”

Sure, I agree that Schmidt ran a poor campain and it is likely he torpedo’d his own career strikingly similar to Matlin in the aftermath of Bush’s ’92 campaign. But if this is true it really makes little sense for Schmidt to lie about these particular details. Remembering the Couric interview and other embarrassing moments for Palin last year the statements from Scmidt are entirely believable.

To me Palin speaks rather oddly, not sounding stupid like Bush in terms of pronunciation but more like rambling on. Her sentences fit together grammatically but its as if she puts it together just in time to make the whole sentence proper, barely appropriate, and, ahem, believable with the last string of words. Its an odd skill.

However, “[S]he still didn’t really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea, Heilemann told the program’s Anderson Cooper. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11.”

It’s harder to believe that Schmidt would fabricate these items.

Schmidt continues by saying, “I believe, had she not been on the ticket, our margin of defeat would’ve been greater than it would’ve been otherwise.”

Dumb but true statement by Schmidt but again he is merely telling his own opinion no doubt with the interviewer. But really, any Republican can’t lose by much more than McCain no matter how awful the campaign. However, if McCain would have picked Leiberman as I assumed, the campaign would have appeared a little more deliberate and avoid the embarrassing flaps the camp endured not exhausting so much energy and resources in getting Palin fit for prime-time in terms of image.

Now conservatives must be confusing her general population curiousity with real voter muscle. Conservatives seem to be expecting that they will be able to cash in not only dollars but votes with Palin. I doubt this will happen as time goes by and near the next major national elections as it did in 2008.

But the conservative support is still baffling. Is Sarah Palin really the best thing for the conservatives or Republican party?

Her ascendacy is a bit surreal and reminds of a movie called Idiocracy where an Army experiment gone wrong left the most average Joe in the world frozen for 500 years only to awaken to a world of idiots. He was considered a genius by the masses. It was silly but reminds of Palin who is painfully average in every way. Yet Republicans are acting extremely thrilled. I suspect there is some sexuality involved due to various comments that have surfaced from time to time but there is little motivation for such widespread support among conservatives on that basis alone.

It may be unbelievable but it happened just that way…therefore I nominate the Sleepy Rebels song for Palin and conservatives who are joined together in a most peculiar way. Good luck in 2012!