Day: September 30, 2008

I’m trying really hard to limit my Palin posts but every single time I say “That’s it. No more Palin posts for the night,” she says something else that makes you expect the camera to pan quickly to the right to a smoking Rod Serling telling us that we are indeed in The Twilight Zone. But Serling never appears. Something somewhere has gone wrong and we’re stuck watching as a woman who could possibly be president in a few weeks rattles on, mostly incoherently, mocking the age of the vice presidential candidate of the other party who is 6 years younger than her running mate who is the one trying to be elected President.

Hell, Saturday Night Live realized that they couldn’t write funnier lines than the answer that Palin gave to Couric and just had Fey say them verbatim. We’re 5 weeks away to electing Poe’s Law to the Vice Presidency of the U.S. of W.T.F.

Awesome.

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