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Blow, Girl, Blow

Wed., Oct. 1, 2008 3:01 PM PDT by Ted Casablanca

You've seen it, right? The latest beauty-pageant flute action from veep candidate Sarah Palin? Certainly check it out if you haven't, dears, it's really great stuff, hardly Bill C. at the sax, giving it all, far more delicate and tentative and confused looking, kinda like she's attempting her first fellatio and isn't quite sure where to go from here.

But, our always reliable Desk DeeCee (a highly attached conduit to the current White House, no joke), is kind enough to us know where it looks like Palin is going now: "You would be surprised at how popular and well-received she is," Desk Dee surmises of Palin's reception within the inner Potomac circles, which ain't exactly high on Bush, so don't get any ideas these red folk are always happy with anybody Republican.

Our well established know-it-all continues: "Personally, I don't agree with any of her policies or positions, and I don't think she's qualified to be vice president." Me too, babycakes, please go on! "That said, she has energized the party's base, and she's made a lot of people sit up and take notice. The Katie Couric interview didn't and won't have that big an impact on Palin's numbers because people generally don't trust Couric, so it won't matter. Same with Charlie Gibson. And, the more the media favors Obama as blatantly as they have been (MSNBC, CNN, etc.) the better that is for McCain. The general American public doesn't trust the media, and they don't trust the talking heads. They vote with their gut."

Damn, Desk Dee, you really know how to chill a girl out. And I'm talkin' me here, not Palin.

Funny, I had a notion this very dynamic was at work the second I was guffawing at Fey doing Palin on SNL. Like, where's Biden in all this? Exactly. Forgotten. He's nowhere on folks minds, good or bad. It's all about Palin, Palin, Palin, and until Obama starts telling McCain to shove it and then some, this whole prez pic is going to become increasingly overshadowed by the endeared mutt 'n' big-hair show.