The more I look at Sarah Palin...

The more I see a political Mike Krzyzewski

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.

Yeah. It's hypocrisy. Yeah, it's a bullshit move. But you know what? The right eats this up. They're all hypocrites. Unprincipled, sleazy hypocrites, who will do anything for glory.

How else do you explain this?

McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000
September 01, 2008 8:46 PM

Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.

Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest.

John McCain's war service is to be commended, sure. But if I hear anybody call John McCain a Maverick from here on out? I will punch them squa in the nuts.

I believe that political points of view are malleable.

There are several events in a persons life where if fate just turned left instead of right? Their point of view would be different. I mean, me at 35 is different from me at 27 is different from me at 19. And you all know the Apocryphal quote from Churchill, am I right?

That being said, something came across the transom that if it comes true would break any chance of me ever voting Republican again if it comes to pass.

"Sen. McCain signaled he may give his acceptance speech via satellite from the disaster zone. [from Hurricane Gustav]."

Seriously. He wants to accept his nomination amidst the rubble of a very powerful Hurricane. In terms of dick moves? This is between sleeping with your brother or sister's spouse and stealing key resources from a charity.

This is thinly exploitative. This is trying to make your bones on the back of the frightened and the suffering. Bush wasn't stupid enough to pull this shit in 2004. And you know what? He pulled every other god damn trick in the book.

I once respected John McCain. Maybe I was young and stupid, but I did. But you know what? He's a weathervane. He goes where his instincts tell him politically. And he might actually do this.

He's going all-in for the Presidency, and if he gets in? We are fucked. Fucked fucked fucked.

Has McCain given up?

Conservatives seem to think so.

They hate the choice of Sarah Palin. Hate it with passion and fire of 1,000 suns. Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney feel used. His age has just become a factor again (a.k.a. It's someone who was mayor of a tiny Alaskan town not more than two years ago, and McCain has a 1 in 3 shot of not making it two terms). And you know what? The inexperience of Obama, such as it is also goes out the window. All politics is local, but the Mishagoes of South Ossetia are a whole other animal than Wasilla, Alaska.

But I'll call it like I see it. It's a cynical play to regain some of that Maverick luster that he once had. It would be an inspired choice, if she wasn't so flawed in the vetting process. And no, I'm not talking about inexperience. I'm not even talking about her James Dobson sort of Republicanism, which only an idiot Democrat would support.

It's been proven that she's attempted to use her political influence to fire an Alaskan State Trooper in a bitter custody fight with her sister.

An unethical Republican? I am shocked. SHOCKED!