Short diary.
So, this morning I wake up, it's a federal Holiday, I play with the kids, go to the pool, hit the front yard with the cookout with the burgers and the beer, and I come in after the kids go to bed, check the old intertubes, and, hello! All holy Hell has broken loose with Sarah Palin's announcement.
Come with me over the fold for a very simple, very succinct call on the political realities of this:
Pre-emptively: Yes, I know that "this is not a diary."
Yes, I am aware that "this is just a comment."
But listen: This diary will tell you everything you need to know about this Palin thing.
Ignore the pundits on Fox talking about how this is a bold, game-changing strategy. How this sets her up for 2012. How this means she is a serious contender.
Ignore the mainstream media, which is going to have every single talking head offering up some half-baked idiocy informed only by whatever homespun tea-leaf reading they can dream up out of the Big Butt Book of Political Wisdom. It's, excuse me, horseshit.
You know what you need to know, and you know it better than any bobblehead paid to fill time on CNN, Meet The Press, Fox & Friends, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
And what you know is the truth, and it is this:
She's fucking crazy.
You know it. You know it.
She's a loon. A nutjob. Bam.
That's it. End of story.
That's all you need to know.
Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to have another beer or four.
Update -- Not my first time on the reclist, but thank you. This is a light diary, but it perfectly captures my feelings. I have strong feelings about short, uncited, non-newsworthy diaries making the rec list, because they push other worthy, well-researched diaries off the list.
But then again, it's Friday night before the 4th of July, it's a time for celebration, and in any event. . .
All the other diaries on the list are about the insanity of this nutjob anyway.