11/03/2008
McCain's SNL Skit Highlights Palin's 'Rogue' Status
I have to give it to John McCain for an SNL performance in which he came across as funny and human, and even managed to somehow humanize ice princess Cindy McCain. I was a bit astonished at McCain's complicity in the skit's basic admission that Sarah Palin has "gone rogue."
Watch the SNL skit, AFTER THE JUMP...
I don't remember ever seeing a VP candidate detaching themselves so clearly from a presidential campaign before election day has arrived. At a Palin rally in Polk County, Florida on Saturday, McCain's name WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND:
"Looking around the Fantasy of Flight aircraft hangar where the rally took place, one could see all the usual reminders that it was a pro-McCain event. There were two large “Country First” banners hung on the walls along with four enormous American flags meant to conjure the campaign’s underlying patriotic theme. Many of the men and women in the audience wore McCain hats and t-shirts. But on closer inspection, the GOP nominee’s name was literally nowhere to be found on any of the official campaign signage distributed to supporters at the event.
Posted 9:45 AM EST by Andy Towle in John McCain, News, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, SNL | Permalink
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Is there any hope that we can convince Florida Republicans to write-in Sarah Palin as the Presidential Candidate?
Posted by: Wheezy | Nov 3, 2008 10:00:40 AM
Is it my imagination or did Tina look kind of uncomfortable up there with him?
Posted by: lr | Nov 3, 2008 10:25:31 AM
This woman takes the O-R-Y out of 'Country First'.
Posted by: David D. | Nov 3, 2008 10:27:58 AM
('This woman' = Sarah Palin, not Tina Fey)
Posted by: David D. | Nov 3, 2008 10:29:41 AM
I give McCain points for being a good sport. Unlike Palin, who hasn't yet figured out that she's a joke, McCain is self-aware enough to do self-deprecation. He and Huckabee can be comic rivals after the election! What really struck me, tho, was how the skit was more appropriate for someone who'd already lost. I came close to feeling sorry for him.
Posted by: Ernie | Nov 3, 2008 10:43:33 AM
It's not the first time a VP candidate has put their own agenda first. How about when Joe Lieberman barely even bothered running with Al Gore and concentrated on his simultaneous senate run for Connecticut? That just smacked of non-commitment.
Posted by: MT | Nov 3, 2008 11:32:11 AM
I thought Florida was Rudy Country.
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/13/is-florida-rudy-country/
Posted by: Matt | Nov 3, 2008 3:27:00 PM