Politicked Off: Matt Misplays His Hand
I can't help but thinking that Sarah Palin is on her way to becoming the next Dan Quayle. Her recent speeches have either half truths (she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before being against it), complete mistakes (saying that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to be stopped because they were costing tax payers too much money, which makes no sense because they were never federally funded), or boast a down home way of life in spite of the fact that it cost her constituents millions. Really, who puts a plane on E-Bay? What's next? Defense contracts on cragislist? Even better, her way of side-stepping the "Will you be the VP candidate?" question was to plead ignorance.
The most upsetting thing though is that most liberals seem to be celebrating comments like Matt Damon's "It's like a bad Disney film" which, although true, come off as elitist and definitely off-putting for most of the country. As usual, it seems like the old saying is holding; Republicans and Democrats are fighting for voters whom the Republicans don't really care about and whom the Democrats don't really like.