Things are bad in politics when you get no respect.
Recently we've seen Palin get dunned by the press in a huge and negative manner. Even her recent UN visit has reportedly yielded yet one more GTFOOH moment - and this time she didn't even get to turn up.
Let's call this the failed re-make of "Moon Over Parador" as Mooned By Paraguay.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo had the opportunity to meet with wunderkind wingnut Palin during her (limited) photo-op whistlestop tour of UN leaders and mooches.
Things did not go well. In fact things did not go on at all.
Now aside from the surreal aspect of a land reformer like President Lugo meeting with an abuser of ANWR in waiting like Palin, there is the UN tete-a-tete that wasn't. Which is even more weird (and funny).
He met this head of state. . .and that head of state. . .and so on. . .
. . .but then the room went silent and then broke into subdued laughter when he confided that he was approached about meeting with GOP Vice Presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
President Lugo turned the meeting down.
When Paraguay disses the potential future Veep that should tell us all just how low the Republican ticket has fallen.
Joke.
Embarrassment.
Absurd.
The Press in this country has finally grown the pair they need to call a Palin an appalling pick - and despite the calls for her to go:
Whether from the mainstream - "Palin is Ready, Please" (Newsweek - Zakaria)
or from the right: Kathleen Parker (Palin Must Go - NRO)
I hold out hope that she will hold on, long enough to completely implode during the 10/2 VP debate.
Then she can go, back to Alaska to her daughter's pending shotgun wedding, back to her possible ouster because of ethics charges.
She can go having utterly undercut the top of the ticket and the McCain puppet-masters who insisted that Johnny choose their fresh-faced, moose-dressing, unqualified, and unjustifiable Veep-to-be (hopefully never to be).
She can go and never darken our political landscape, ever again.