Palin's Hidden Agenda

Eureka! There it is, Sarah Palin's secret agenda.

No question that the Beauty Queen and the Old Geezer don't see eye to eye on a bunch of policies, they don't. Strangely enough, she hasn't backed down one inch to bring herself into line with the Geezer's thinking either.

So, what gives? I figured it out. Michigan is the dead giveaway.

McCain decided to cut his losses and drop Michigan from his campaign, write the whole thing off. Did he confer with his running mate on this fundamental shift? Not a chance.

Palin learned about it - get this - when she read it in a newspaper (see, she reads more than diner menus). From Associated Press:

In an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, the Alaska governor said she was disappointed that the McCain campaign decided to stop competing in Michigan. In an indication that the vice presidential candidate had not been part of the decision, she said she had "read that this morning and I fired off a quick e-mail" questioning the move.

Yeah, that's right, she fired off a quickie questioning the decision. No, she apparently didn't raise holy hell that she hadn't been consulted or even informed. You might have thought Johnny Boy would have remembered to give Palin the skinny before he spilled the beans to the press.

No she didn't complain about being kept out of the loop, she questioned the move and then - worst of all - told Fox News that she and Todd were ready and willing to carry on the campaign in Michigan that McCain had already shut down.

It doesn't get better than this folks. Sarah Palin just became Sarah Pain to her supposed boss, John McSame.

First, she admitted that he didn't even mention this change to her, showing just how much the Old Geezer values her input and - cough - partnership. Then she told Fox News that the guy who is her supposed boss, to whom she owes her fealty, was wrong, as in just plain nuts. And then she puts McCain even deeper in the dung by saying she and Todd would be happy to do what McCain can't, try to pull out a victory in Michigan.

I got it figured out. She's hoping that McCain wins. Then she consults a couple of shrinks expert on geriatric malfunction and gets the Old Bugger declared incompetent (as in "batshit crazy"). Out goes Johnny, slick as crap through a goose, and in comes Madam President Sarah and Vice-Regent Todd. They live happily ever after until she goes for the nukes and brings on the Rapture.

John, you crazy bastard, there's still time. Go for your guns! What were you thinking? Isn't this the same way she became mayor of Wasilla in the first place - by turning on the mayor who used his organization to get her on the council just a year before? She turned on the guy and turfed him out, running against the "Old Boy" network. Then she got to be governor of Alaska running against the "Old Boy" network. Now you've brought the Black Widow into your camp and, you dumb hump, who's the "Old Boy" now?

Postscript - It's bad enough that the Republican presidential nominee thinks his cynically-chosen running mate is such a Bimbo that he doesn't consult her - or even inform her - that he's abandoning the field in Michigan. It's ten times worse that he doesn't feed her a spin on it. Breathtaking, utterly breathtaking. She's left to admit - on their electronic media of choice no less, Fixed News, that she discovered it from reading a newspaper. Apparently not even one reporter could be bothered to ask her about it until the following day.

What possible reason could McCain have had to keep her in the dark? Res ipsa loquitor - the thing speaks for itself. He was afraid she'd blurt it out and bungle his already hapless explanation. He doesn't trust her. She sure as hell doesn't trust him. A marriage made in - what does she call that "special" place anyway?