Amused Cynic

That, my friends, from this piece, is the quote of the day.

What this is really all about is that she is the first everyday American in a generation, the first person who is not an Ivy League attorney, not a career Washington insider, not vetted by the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations and the CIA and Ellen Goodman, a person who works her husband’s fishing boat and drives her own car to work and buys her own groceries, to be given a shot at leading this nation.

And that appears to have a certain element of the political power structure terrified.

Why do you suppose that is?

Gov. Sarah Palin can’t save America all by herself. That’s the underlying absurdity of this near-religious frenzy to pick a new Guy On A White Horse every eight years.

But an America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself.

That’s why.

Because they know their guy’s already absurd claim to be the best and only available “agent of change” ran out when he tapped graying political plagiarist Joe Biden — and John McCain decided to roll the dice and go the other way.

Because the chances are now better than even that when Barack Obama awakens on Nov. 5, the song they’ll be playing is, “We used to love him, but it’s all over now.”