Bush on Palin:
After Palin’s selection was announced, the same people who demanded I acknowledge the brilliance of McCain’s choice expected the president to join them in their high-fiving tizzy. It was clear, though, that the president, ever the skilled politician, had concerns about the choice of Palin, which he called “interesting.” That was the equivalent of calling a fireworks display “satisfactory.”

“I’m trying to remember if I’ve met her before. I’m sure I must have.” His eyes twinkled, then he asked, “What is she, the governor of Guam?”

Everyone in the room seemed to look at him in horror, their mouths agape. When Ed told him that conservatives were greeting the choice enthusiastically, he replied, “Look, I’m a team player, I’m on board.” He thought about it for a minute. “She’s interesting,” he said again. “You know, just wait a few days until the bloom is off the rose.” Then he made a very smart assessment.

“This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for,” he said. “She hasn’t spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let’s wait and see how she looks five days out.” It was a rare dose of reality in a White House that liked to believe every decision was great, every Republican was a genius, and McCain was the hope of the world because, well, because he chose to be a member of our party.

Watching this video…

I was pretty sure that I had done an different one of these things since this thing, but I can’t find it off-hand.  Ah de well.  Sanford, of course, is out.  The Kid was always a joke of a pick.  Joe The Plumber may finally have exhausted his 15 minutes well enough.  I’m thinking that Michael Steele may just be irrelevant enough.  And, to mull the GQ article is to mull whether we may as well end the door on George W Bush.

Though, Cheney continues to reverberate.

Fill those five seats with some Southern Senators, or a Rick Perry.  And, to mull that video and the Washington DC rally is to state this uncomfortable reality.

Dick Armey would have to fill a slot.  And, in consideration in particular of some of the questions floated out in the  Glen Beck would have to be slotted right in.

An impressive bunch?

Something swirling around my mind a bit, though.  I project somewhere between a small to a mildly large Democratic loss in 2010, and a good sized Obama victory in 2012.  Given that — and things can happen between now and 2010 or 2012, and given the activist Republican base’s projection on where America is with Obama — perhaps to be buoyed by partisan gains in 2010, and perhaps even with a spotted 40s approval rating here or there between now and 2012… and to turn on an am dial of the radio and roll across the dial is to hear one Republican bloviator after another that amplifys their projections on where America stands…

… What does the cognitive dissonance bring?  OR

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