So anyone who caught Larry King earlier was in for a treat. I swear to Jeebus, I never thought I'd find myself sitting on the couch cheering on Michelle Laxalt and Kathleen Parker, but there I was, beer in hand, scaring the cats and hollerin' like James Carville in a bear trap.
Of course, Kat Parker and Michelle Laxalt were on the panel with Bay Buchanan, who frankly makes my two year old cry. But the more I watched, the more I noticed the difference between these women.
Kathleen Parker, whom we really had no reason to like, ever, wormed her way into our semi-good graces with this National Review article by saying things like
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
...and
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.
So she got a free pass for that one, but that in no way excuses her past idiocy. She came out more or less swinging against Mooselini tonight, along with Michelle Laxalt. Ms. Laxalt is a GOP strategist, and daughter of former Republican Senator Paul Laxalt. And holeeeeeee shit was she in a mood.
If this is a representation of how "true conservatives" feel about Caribou Barbie, and by proxy, John McCain, well y'all, I'll be willing to walk with less of a sense of desperate urgency, and more of a sense of confident pride when I canvas this weekend. Not that I haven't had the confident pride all along, far from it, but armed with the knowledge that (deep down, at least) anyone outside of the lunatic fringe realizes that their ticket is as useless as an asshole on an elbow. This just makes me want to work harder. This inspires me. This adds a lil' extra bass in my voice when I phone bank. I hope it does the same for you.
UPDATE: thanks to Agathena for linking this in the comments.