I'm sure most of us have been there. Pulling a semi or full all-nighter trying in vain to cram for a test we know we won't pass. We should've paid more attention in class, gone more to the class, done the reading, or something else. Sarah Palin is attempting no less of a stunt in advance of Thursday night's debate with Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. If this contest represents a college exam, not only did she not go to class, she couldn't even be admitted to this school, whose prerequisites include knowledge of the economy, foreign policy, history, diplomacy and world affairs. We know, without a TelePrompTer's help, she has no shot. The question isn't whether she'll lose to Joe Biden or by how much, it's to what degree of foolishness she'll appear to sink to, how incoherent she'll be and how much further she'll swing the election in Barack Obama's favor. Biden, even with his history of gaffes, could win this one even after downing a couple of bottles of Jack Daniel's.
Now comes this Agence France Presse report which further details how the Republican party has practically kidnapped Palin and sequestered her under armed guards while pumping talking points and factoids into her head the way torturers might inject sodium pentathol into a prisoner's veins to extract vital information.
The absurd and insulting thing is that the GOP is selling this to its supporters and the American public, thinking we're all gullible or soft-headed enough to believe this
will make her shine for an hour Thursday night or that it's perfectly OK to prop up a candidate who never deserved the position she's running for.
Come Thursday night, John McCain won't magically appear out of nowhere as he did in one question-and-answer session to intercept Katie Couric's perfectly reasonable questions about what the U.S. should do if its troops have the opportunity to enter Pakistan to take down suspected al-Qaeda operatives. McCain won't be able to decry reasonable impromptu questions from someone as "got'cha" journalism.
She's toast and he and everyone else in the GOP knows it.
Here's the story...
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