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The Top of the Mighty Ziggurat

Some people will recognize that phrase from The Right Stuff. It's Tom Wolfe's term for the top of the fighter jock/test pilot pecking order. I filch that phrase from time to time, to suit my own needs. If you're going to plagiarize, plagiarize something worthy, then give credit in penance, I say. As opposed to the greasy Joe Biden. Who just rips you the fuck off.

I was going to say I'm at the top of the ziggurat. Which I am, of course, but then I never define the particular pyramid I'm atop. Ususally one of mine own creation, frankly.

Which gets me to politics. Obviously. I seldom post about politics, because as immersed as I stay in it, it's preaching to the choir. I can find 500 blogs on both sides of the spectrum linking and quoting the same storylines. So fucking what?

Worse, I can find 3 dozen highly compensated pundits doing the same thing. That's the only thing that's ever enticed me about writing about politics. Editorial writing is 95% harumphing the writer's biases, as written by someone else. Hell, any fucking moron can do that. All you need to do is regurgitate the disgustingly quotidian narrative. What an easy pussy way to make money. Or should I say What an easy pussy way to make money, Creators Syndicate!

Which brings me to Palin. Few will remember, but I called her as the natural Veep choice at The Troll in Helen last year. Regardless of the eventual presidential nominee. I'd been checking out her bona fides, and liked what I saw. Key remembers, but I was actually telling Cat and, I think, Richard the Shallowhead, so no, my sources may lack credibility. Also, I believe I was referring to Palin as "Tits". For that I apologize. My bad, Tits.

My point is, I don't know whether Sarah Palin is the right person for the job. I honestly believe she was an inspired choice to put the paddles to the thorax of McCain's campaign. Can she withstand the scrutiny? Can she speak with authority? Can she go nose-to-nose with Biden in debate? Does she have the chops?

I don't know. But why can't she stand or fall on her own merits, without the left resorting to filthy smears and character assassination? I am outraged at the despicable libels and slanders hurled at her by the left, to wit:

1. Her Down Syndrome child is actually her daughter's.

2. She should be home with her children instead of being on the hustings.

3. She had an affair with her husband's best friend.

Just to name the latest. Oh, and when the media realized this shit was going sour they changed the meme to McCain didn't vet her! What horseshit. She was vetted for 5 months. And it was funny to see Alan Colmes still plying that crap, because he goes on at 9 PM, and the talking points change so fast he always ends up with the stale shit. Holding fetid talking points memos from DailyKos that virtually drip with obsolescence. The rage virus moves fast, Alan.

This type of attack is tolerated by the Obama campaign, if not sourced by it. It's a goddam sin against the American body politic, to me.

I don't even think I'm from the same species as today's leftist in general, and Democrat in particular. These people will employ any lie, any slander, any dissonance to their own professed beliefs to win. There is no excuse for these slimy fucking worms to behave this way. Except to win in Engels fashion.

My family ties to the Democratic Party run deep. The Senator did win his state senate seat as an Independent, but his subsequent races were of course as a Democrat in the Solid South of the 1950's and 1960's. He could pull the lever for Barry Goldwater with impunity, but he had to run as a Democrat. And he was still proud of that legacy.

That party is gone. It was hijacked in 1972, and the last vestiges walked away with Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman. These people are cunts of the most craven order. I'll tell you something else: corporate media (the so-called MSM, but I hate that term almost as much as blog) is dying of its own volition due to its inability to rein in its biases. They're dying of autoerotic asphyxia. They're choking their own chickens. While their shareholders shrug.

I wish Palin well, just as a person. I hope McCain doesn't collapse and drop her because of lie and innuendo. His campaign was reborn with conservatives with this choice. He better dance the last dance with the one he brung. If McCain throws her under the bus, like Obama does every inconvenient associate, his money, his support, and his shot at history will vanish in a fucking nanosecond. He'd better understand that, and fight hard. Sarah Palin, for better or worse, has struck a chord in the average American. If he shitcans her he'll be a footnote in history. He may stick with her and lose, but without her he'll be thrashed.

This is why I don't write about politics. I'm at the top of the ziggurat. My ziggurat. I'm right, and you're wrong, asshole. I could laboriously prove it, with facts and data and shit, but this will go a lot better if you just understand you're wrong, fuckface. That's better.

Anyway, Sarah Palin is at the top of her ziggurat. The other guys are smelly cowardly fucking pimps, for lack of a better word(s). Identity politicians who actually fear diversity. People who are, ultimately, I hope, ashamed of their own reflections.

Go get 'em, Tits. Sarah. I got your sweet heart-shaped ass six.