Vanity Fair’s February Issue features a very interesting article called, “Oral History of the Bush White House” and an aide compared George W. Bush and Gov. Sarah Palin:
We had this confluence of characters–and I use that term very carefully–that included people like Powell, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, and so forth, which allowed one perception to be “the dream team.” It allowed everybody to believe that this Sarah Palin-like president–because, let’s face it, that’s what he was–was going to be protected by this national- security elite, tested in the cauldrons of fire. What in effect happened was that a very astute, probably the most astute, bureaucratic entrepreneur I’ve ever run into in my life became the vice president of the United States.
Could not agree more!! Can you imagine the sort of stories we will begin to hear on 01/21/2009. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and the self preservation and contrition has only just begun. A nation that elected GWB (twice!) is capable of doing something like this again.
So Alaska and the GOP, idolize Goddess Sarah all you want. Fawn over her rambling statements, embrace her ignorance, be uplifted by her Machiavellian philosophy and lack of ethics, revel in her right-wing social extremism and moral self-righteousness, just keep her the hell away from the lower 48.
