By Zamboni
Thank you, anonymous McCain campaign people. Just when we cats were about to interrupt our election euphoria to be depressed for awhile over Tuesday's anti-gay votes in California, Arizona and Florida, your snarky, blame-pinning war against Sarah Palin has cheered us right back up.
While it's frightening to think that an ignoramus like Palin was even remotely close to being a heartbeat away, we are so entertained that McCain staffers and other Republicans are trashing the Alaska governor to the press, including FOX News.
In fact, it's gotten so bad that posters over at RedState.com have started the awkwardly named "Operation Leper" — a kind of informal GOP blacklist to punish those quislings who would dare attempt to figuratively assassinate their darling Sarah. Furious Palin fans are threatening to stiff any Republican who would hire nasty people like, say, Nicolle Wallace, and some are even declaring a boycott of FOX. What fun!
But, as always, these kerfuffles are never just about Palin. In the end, they're always about McCain. To us, the GOP civil war is just the latest evidence that one of Senator McCain's biggest mistakes in 2008 was sitting on his hands for five months after clinching the Republican nomination.
What on earth did McCain do all that time? Could he not have looked over his Vice Presidential possibilities and properly researched them between February and August — instead of rushing at the last minute to select a flashy but totally unqualified person whom he'd met only a few times? We are astounded, although obviously pleased, that the Republicans chose to spin their wheels while Senators Clinton and Obama continued to duke it out in the Democratic primaries.
At the risk of repeating ourselves, it just goes to show you: The Republicans were never smarter than we were. They just — until this year — had more money than we did.
In the meantime, we cats PURR. This feud is the ultimate GOP cat fight, and we just love it.
(Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times)
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