American Circus, Part 325

Was it really on September 1 that I last posted?  Has it been 5 days since I thought much about wine? 

I've been utterly mesmerized by the tawdry circus of American politics and media, by Sarah Palin (Lady Macbeth in mukluks), by a clearly failing John McCain (he looks awful, plus you can tell the guy loathes the choice he was forced to make), and the delirium of stupidity evinced by the conservative base of the Republican party ("We applaud that slut Bristol for keepin' her young un!"). 

Odd to think that I identified myself with that party as a youth.  I liked Ike.  I liked Nelson Rockefeller.  I even liked Christian Herter, but I was 8 -- what did I know?

Comunque.  We live in a lurid science-fiction future now, with religious irrationalism resting comfortably on a bed of technology.  To inoculate myself against this neo-medieval state of affairs, I've immersed myself in wonkette and Daily Kos, swimming around in their hilarious scurrility and astute commentary.  They even break real stories now and again; in fact, a rumor on Kos (Sarah didn't give birth to #5, it was her daughter's firstborn) seemed to have pressured the McCain campaign to announce that Bristol was now, indeed, five months pregnant.  Far more deplorable, in my eyes, is that Sarah* wouldn't even support the mayoral candidacy of her own mother-in-law, seemingly on the grounds that the elder Mrs. Palin wasn't a Republican or a fundamentalist.

*(Rhymes with witch.)

If I'd known then what I know now, I think (click here, damn you---->>>>) my fake interview with Palin -- who I truly believe will be dumped from the ticket as more dirty laundry is aired -- would have been far less kind.  I saw her then as profoundly parochial and craven lite.  I see now that she's more than a match for the corrupt sophoi moroi** who've been running this country into the ground for years.

** A George Will touch.  Or I could quote St. Augustine or Boethius, one of his favorite forms of rhetorical intimidation. 

Comments

[Sarah Newton]

Have to admit Terry, as a European, it's hard to watch! American politics can be cringesome at the best of times but this woman, well *shivers up the spine* and not in a good way!

I found Hillary cloying but Palin is unpalatable.

[Strappo]

I quote that great American poet and bard, Chuck Berry:

Bah! Too much monkey business
For me to be invo-olved in