Yesterday, it was reported that the press was being kept away from not only Caribou Barbie, but also her shrinking gaggle of deranged supporters. I guess this explains why [via John Cole]:
McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: “I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.”Worse, Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
Palin could have been a real contender in 2012 if she’d brushed up on, well, everything because, as much as I’m loathe to admit it, her folksy charm connects with a lot of Americans. There’s gotta come a point when even she (St. Palin) realizes that becoming the sneering, high-heel wearing, pin-up pitbull for the most wretched elements of the base of the Republican party won’t bode well for her political future. Or is she really as stupid as many of us have been saying?
Ya think?
