Thursday, September 18, 2008

What Do Sarah Palin & Amy Winehouse Have In Common?



Cancelled shows.

Excerpted from
SFGate.com:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was to star at two major California fundraisers and an Orange County rally for 15,000 next week, has canceled her two-day swing through the Golden State, campaign sources said.

The change is a shocker, because Palin's presence had electrified the GOP base in California. Party insiders were distributing 15,000 tickets to her Sept. 26 rally in Orange County -- and fundraisers reported an almost instantaneous sell-out of her two $1,000-a-head Sept. 25 fundraising events in Orange County and Santa Clara.

Both fundraisers had generated such high ticket sales that the OC Lincoln Club event was moved to the Orange County Performing Arts Center, and the Bay Area event was moved from the Woodside home of Tom Siebel to the huge Santa Clara Convention Center.

The change comes in the same week a new Field Poll showed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama still leads Republican presidential candidate John McCain in California by a whopping 16-point margin.

So Palin's pullout from her Western state swing is sure to ramp up chatter that the GOP ticket -- which has insisted it will compete here -- may be reassessing its Golden State presence. (Team McCain says it's just a scheduling issue.)

Doubtful.

The hype and preparation obvious from this report make that claim dubious at best.

But I'll give 'em the benefit of the doubt and ask:

Jeez, if "Team McCain" can't handle a routine "scheduling issue", how do they expect to run a country?

(BTW: I wonder if the "L'il Maverick" cancelled this California swing because "Papa Reform" claimed that he would "fire" the head of the S.E.C.--Orange County favorite son Christopher Cox--if he were Top Dog?)

McPalin would have a problem with that one, though; even the Top Dog doesn't have the authority to fire the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission under that pesky--and strict!--Constitution.

Sorry, tough guy.

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