Inconceivable!!

One of the more curious aspects of the doomed McCain/Palin campaign occurred during its Election Night Celebration. Early on, as the Obama electoral vote count piled up, a programming change took place: the Jumbotron TV screens lining the rear of the hall switched from televised election news reports to instead play a loop of McCain campaign commercials.

Republican revelers were kept in the dark while the rest of the nation watched as a whole new era rolled from the east coast towards the west. Unless they were keeping tabs via cell phones or blackberries, partyers didn't have a clue until the lights went up and everyone was told to head out to the hotel lawn where McCain wanted to say a few words...

It all speaks to the strangeness of the McCain effort. If during the campaign we had the 2000 edition McCain, or the Election Concession Speech McCain, he might very well have carried the day. But he seemed so odd and conflicted through much of his appearances: grimacing, lurching about, teeth clenching and grinding, eyes rolling, just weird! It was like there were two people in his skin, trying to dominate each other. Now we know why:

Right Turn in July Put McCain on Unfamiliar Path - washingtonpost.com

And all's well that ends well,at least for now. Nothing good seems to be emerging from the backstory of Governor Sarah "One Heartbeat Away" Palin. Watch this stirring conversation between Fox News Blowhard Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Correspondent Carl Cameron, who had been following the Palin camp:

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Inconceivable! Africa is a country? Didn't know NAFTA partners? Didn't know the countries in North America? Didn't know "American Exceptionalism"? And still had the Hubris to wave off prep handlers before the Couric interview? Geez... If McCain had won, our nation would have been lighting daily candles praying for his continued good health.

So if Palin was crazy and McCain was conflicted, how did they manage to accrue 46% of the popular vote? Well, who knows? The Palin Doofus wing probably accounts for half of that amount. The other half seem to be a patchwork of educated, dedicated Republicans (whatever that means), skeptical Independents, a scattered number of PUMAs, and a bunch of Old White People. Here is how The Onion sees it:

Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress The Onion - America's Finest News Source

It's hard to argue with that. The Onion gets the last word.