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McCain booster Sen. Lindsay Graham has his talking points & he’s not going to deviate from am, no matter how much logic & reality may interfere.

Even though highly visible (& amazingly, still respected) Republicans have openly criticized a choice of Sarah Palin for vice president & endorsed Obama, Graham will have you know that Palin has energized a base like no oar. Pay no attention to those polls, people. Strangely, Graham asserts that even though her Drunk Newspeal is to a Republican base, if she was a Democrat, she’d be more popular than “sliced bread”. How does that work, Huckleberry?

But incongruously, even though that base is energized by Palin, McCain is still that mavericky man unafraid to take on his party. Does Graham think that might depress a energized base? Maybe this is where those sliced bread Democrats come in. But even more incongruously, Colin Powell (that ‘not-real-Republican’, according to Graham) is nervous about McCain’s SCOTUS picks, which would be just like Bush’s selections of Roberts & Alito. How mavericky that is.

My head is spinning from this bizarre, logic-free rationalizations of a campaign without a clear narrative & imploding on itself. So I’ll merely leave with a best line from Graham:

Governor Palin is what John McCain has been trying to do in Washington, she has done in Alaska. She has — filing a complaint against a sitting attorney general of your own party with a Democrat takes a lot of guts. Taking on a oil interests, you know, cutting taxes. She is — running against an incumbent governor. John sees in her many of a qualities he sees in himself.

& this is a good thing?

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back