{"id":243,"date":"2008-09-02T23:32:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T03:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/09\/02\/bailin-on-palin\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T23:49:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T03:49:05","slug":"bailin-on-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/09\/02\/bailin-on-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailin&#8217; On Palin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How nice that John McCain is finally getting around to vetting his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/02\/us\/politics\/02vetting.html\">temper-tantrum-inspired, Lieberman\/Ridge-rebound\u00a0Veep pick.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/09\/the_palin_meltdown_in_slomo.php\">all the disqualifying details he&#8217;s\u00a0belatedly learning,<\/a>\u00a0McCain is unlikely to dump Sarah Palin from the ticket unless he&#8217;s forced to.\u00a0\u00a0Admitting a mistake in judgment?\u00a0 Not gonna happen. Unless,\u00a0maybe, it turns\u00a0out she shot an aging lawyer in the face &#8230; and probably not even then.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/08\/31\/cindy-palin-russia\/\">Palin&#8217;s an expert on Russia.<\/a>\u00a0 Which reminds me &#8212;\u00a0 I can&#8217;t help wondering if Condi feels foolish about wasting\u00a0 so much time studying up on Russia, when all she really had to do was\u00a0 move to Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s time for two limericks:<\/p>\n<p>It appears that McCain failed to vet<br \/>\nA woman he barely had met.<br \/>\nThen he named her for Veep<br \/>\nAnd\u00a0now he&#8217;s hip deep<br \/>\nIn\u00a0 her muck.\u00a0 Yet he feigns <em>no regret.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s allies are\u00a0 praisin&#8217; and hailin&#8217;<br \/>\nThe selection of\u00a0unprepared Palin.<br \/>\nBut will buyers&#8217; remorse<br \/>\nAttack them in force<br \/>\nIf McCain ever seems to be ailin&#8217;?[tags]Sarah Palin Limerick, John McCain Humor, Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Presidential Election 2008, Lieberman Verse, Tom Ridge Poem. Russian Expert, Alaska Governor, Condi Rice Humor, Vetting Candidates[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How nice that John McCain is finally getting around to vetting his temper-tantrum-inspired, Lieberman\/Ridge-rebound\u00a0Veep pick. However, despite all the disqualifying details he&#8217;s\u00a0belatedly learning,\u00a0McCain is unlikely to dump Sarah Palin from the ticket unless he&#8217;s forced to.\u00a0\u00a0Admitting a mistake in judgment?\u00a0 Not gonna happen. Unless,\u00a0maybe, it turns\u00a0out she shot an aging lawyer in the face &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,139,21,20,22,40,154,6,7,3,9,176],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}