Eye-popping, alright, but not integrity

[barking_iguana]

When you or your husband create a Wikipedia account to doctor the Wikipedia page on you to say you are "a politician with eye-popping integrity," you can only keep up the fakery until someone notices. Well, unless IOKIYAR (the media practice of It's OK if you're a Republican) rules the day. She (or Todd, or whoever signed up for the account with the name of her 4 month old son) also removed her endorsement of Ted Stevens and of Obama's energy plan.

EDIT: The edits almost certainly came from someone inside her circle or the McCain campaign. They started before the name got out and went on for 3.5 hours last night. But the user name is Young Trigg and her son's name is Trig, which makes it more likely that it wasn't her or Todd, but rather someone in McCain's office.

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Comments

[catwithbell.livejournal.com]

Um. While it's not on the list, I think she looks like the chick from Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" video. And has about the same qualifications for VP.

[chemoelectric.livejournal.com]

Harriet Miers was 100% a George W. Bush thing; she was a planet circling the Sun, who was Bush. It was Bush narcissism, done without any consideration of what ‘outside’ people would think.

Both Harriet Miers and Eagleton were have-to-withdraw situations, and I don’t think Palin is going to have to withdraw.

Ted Stevens thought the Internet was a series of tubes and said so in public as if he were teaching something. That’s pretty tough to compete with, even in the world of metaphors. It reminds me of Bush lecturing about ‘vampires’.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Another case of a politician getting skewered for something the media (traditional or in this case blogs) see as symbolizing a real problem but which is not in and of itself nearly as bad as the media presents. I expect that he had a briefing in which T3s and such were metaphorically and quite reasonably referred to as "pipes." I further suppose that Stevens fully understood that wires aren't quite the same thing as pipes, but in this case serve a similar function. And when searching for the right word, there's precious little difference between a pipe and a tube.

[chemoelectric.livejournal.com]

But what you are describing is exactly what I am talking about and what savvy people are laughing at. Like I said, it reminds me of Bush lecturing about ‘vampires’—trying to regurgitate a metaphor so as to appear tuned in.

[avram]

It was made worse by the rest of the rant, though. "I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially."

[freeko.livejournal.com]

This pick really proves that John McCain is insane in the brain.

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

McCain needed two things in his VP choice: a tip of the hat to Dobson, Norquist, and the rest of the wacko right-wing base to clean up his reputation as a past moderate, and a Ronald McDonald-style clown for people to make fun of so's the Democratic voters don't take his campaign seriously enough to beat it.

She's a Dan Quayle.

[chemoelectric.livejournal.com]

Spiro Agnew should have been on the list, I think.