Not the smoothest Campaign Kick Off move ever I must say when you've managed to get even Allan West to criticize your self-aggrandizing callousness.
Via TalkingpointsMemo.
Palin's arrival kicked off the Tea Party favorite's bus tour up the northeastern coast. It also overwhelmed Rolling Thunder's security capabilities and strained organizers' patience as photographers, journalists and admirers swarmed the former Alaska governor after she hopped off the back of a black bike in the parking lot of the Pentagon.
"I don't think any talk about Palin coming here is right here, the talk is about Memorial Day, the talk is about like I said those people who have given that ultimate sacrifice," West said.
West doesn't often make a lot of sense, for example arguing that those who've votedto swiftly end our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should get "shot at a few times", this he said after himself had to resign his commision from the Military to avoid being Court Martialed for mistreating a detainee, but just this one time there can be no doubt that he's absolutely correct.
And West wasn't he only one to complain...
"I'm very not appreciative of the way she came in here," Ted Shpak, Rolling Thunder's national legislative director, told Rachel Weiner of the Washington Post. "If she wanted to come on the ride, she should have come in the back." (Palin, instead, came in the front of the Pentagon's north parking lot, where event staff and press had gathered.)
And it's not like she wasn't warned since she wasn't even invited in the first place.
While Palin was making a spectacle and nuisance of herself at Rolling Thunder, our President was receiving a hearty "We Love You" welcome at the memorial for those who lost their lives and homes in the killer tornadoes of Joplin, Missouri.
Meanwhile we've got usual parade of Hate-publicans whining that he was "Chugging 40's" in Ireland, chewing gum during the service, or that it was only a "photo op", even though what he actually had to say was quite uplifting and fitting.
Certainly our President today showed a simple grace and calm in the face of adversity that Super-Thin-Skinned Sarah Word-Salad Palin could never hope to accomplish.
Yeah, because babbling endlessly about how "America is the Greatest Nation Ever" without lifting a finger to actually Make and Keep it Great and then obsessing on ridiculous trivia is exactly what those who suffered, died, and survived the Joplin tragedy deserve. Stay Classy GOP.
Vyan