Posted on 07/18/2011 4:05:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There was a time when arriving at work with an eye the color of an overripe tomato would have been because I had a really good time the night before.
This one is all Sarah Palin's fault.
My very competent and nice eye doctor, Dr. Baxter, told me that a blood vessel burst in my left eye. It is something that can happen from a sudden increase in blood pressure, like what happens when you have a coughing fit.
Or when Sarah Palin makes the cover of Newsweek magazine.
"Ready to run," the cover reads.
Oh, spare me.
It is no coincidence that my vessel popped within hours after the issue arrived in my mailbox.
The former Governor of Alaska, who quit two years into her first term wouldn't win her home state in a Presidential election. I'm not making that up, it's from Policy Polling and their survey showed that only one of the Republican candidates could take their home state, and that's Gary Johnson in New Mexico. Palin, who isn't even an official candidate, rates just slightly above Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in the unpopular rankings. Both women have a favorability ranking of 33 percent. Yet a national magazine puts Palin on the cover. (I wasn't real happy about Newsweeks cover last week either, the one that showed a computer-aged Princess Diana walking along with Princess Kate. That was just sleazy.)
Putting Palin on the cover may be good for newsstand sales, but it plays havoc with my health.
And yes, before you ask, I DID read the article in the magazine.
Here's what frosts my pumpkin about the recent Sarah Palin cover. She is a private citizen, not a candidate for president. My profession, the "lamestream media," as she calls us, who provide fuel to whatever fire is in Sarah Palin's gut for fame and fortune are who should be held accountable for my bloody eye.
A co-worker and I have an informal wager going, because he insists Palin will run for President. I say no she won't. Why would she take the pay cut? She could win some primaries, where typically only the faithful bother to show up to vote. In 2008, during the Nebraska primary election on May 13, only 20 percent of registered voters went to the polls. And that's the Republicans. The next time you are at the local grocery store, take a minute to look at the first 10 people you see browsing in the potato chip aisle. Ask yourself if you would trust any two of them to decide who will be in charge of the country for four years, and see if you don't have an immediate impulse to build a bunker in your backyard or ask Canada if we can sleep on their couch. (Thank you, Stephen Colbert.)
I would be happy to loan you my copy of Newsweek, except that I used it under a bug bomb to prevent toxic drips landing on my carpet. I have to stay ahead of the ants.
I need to calm down here before I burst anything else. So I'm going to try and forget about Sarah Palin and politics and relax because it's my birthday.
By the time this appears in the newspaper, it will have come and gone, so let me thank all of you in advance for the lavish gifts and fuss you made. (Belated fussing will be tolerated.)
Now I am going to retreat to my ant-free abode and put an icepack on my eye.
Did you see the comment by: - Alan Stout wrote on Jul 17, 2011 10:33 PM:
He added five links to Free Republic threads!!
I didn’t see that one. Just as well.
PDS is hugh and series. Run Sarah run!
Yes. The kingmaking began in the wake of 2004. The Rats already started talking about closing the “God Gap”. That was what they saw to the secret to winning the mushy middle.
Except Barack is a secular humanist who does not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ or salvation through Jesus.
I'd venture to say it began earlier than that. Possibly in the wake of 2000. Certainly before the polls closed in 2004.
Certainly before the polls closed in 2004 since Obambi gave a speech that year at the convention.
There’s degeneration, there. But she has a conjunctival hemorrhage, a self limiting condition. People get them after barfing, as well as coughing. Maybe she shouldn’t drink until she’s sick.
I don’t wish anyone to die over this stuff
The next civil war is not quite here Yet
Who is Jim Tompson?
FR humor from a few years ago.
Some “journalist” published a stupid rant, and forgot Jim’s last name.
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