By PATRICK ALCATRAZ
Special to The Tribune
PHOENIX - Not even the hollow silliness of Sarah Palin can help Republican John McCain. Already, the senior U.S. senator from Arizona is hearing a biting version of Las Golondrinas, traditionally a Mexican goodbye song. Say Adios, John.
Yesterday, campaign manager Shiree Verdone announced she is leaving Johnny to join a 2010 "Republican Victory" fundraising operation. Mike Hellon, a former Arizona Republican Party chairman who had a part-time role as deputy campaign manager, will join her there. According to The Arizona Republic, neither Verdone nor Hellon was fired, said Brian Rogers, McCain's campaign spokesman, who confirmed the staff changes.
It is the latest setback for McCain, a veteran lawmaker who has seen his career fall dizzily to the bottom of his own party's barrel. The 2008 party standard-bearer now plays second-banana to Palin, the resigned governor of Alaska who has turned her role as McCain's Veep in the last presidential race into a veritable gold mine, her life now defined by high-dollar appearances before some of the most insipid national zealots.
Speaking to staunch Republicans, Palin launched invectives against opponents of Arizona's new anti-immigrant law, saying, somewhat cryptically, "We are all Arizonans now." The cheap, low-brow comment is not being lost on Americans who do not adhere to her segregationist philosophy. In circles not her own, the phrase has been changed to: "We are all idiots now." Palin nonetheless keeps dancing a racist tune that plays well among the less-educated and the more-fearful.
For McCain, this political swansong has to be a bitter pill. He had his chances at being an honorable politicians with ethics and morals. Instead, he chose to play to the Palin crowd in seeking re-election. The thing is: Nothing can help Johnny now. Much of Politician McCain's early image came by way of sympathy expressed by his fellow Americans following his 5-year stint in a Hanoi prison during the Vietnam War. For that suffering, he got his due of national gratitude. But now, as they say in dissolved marriages, McCain is...Gone!...
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3 comments:
Sara Palin the woman with the tumbling thoughts, was with Sean Hannity on fox, about the only thing that moron has is a folksy slang that some people find cute.
She is a featherbrain, that can't speak or is unable to say a coherent sentence,without a tele-prompter.
Anyone, that takes that woman serious,has to have a loose screw in the brains.
The Palin woman believes that she has a very good chance of becoming the next President. With any luck, she'll be republican choice vs. Obama. I personally believe that would be a very interesting race. Cause I would love Obama to nail her to the dirt, where she belongs.
ANON: Sarah Palin will be an afterthought by 2012. We predict another Republican will win the nomination. Palin will be the decade's Dan Quayle... - Editor
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