Day Five of the Sarah Palin Meltdown

October 30, 2008 Maui Curmudgeon, National Election No Comments

Palin & McCain
Palin turning her back on her running mate.

Republican Ignorance vs. Loyalists’ Revulsion

By Maui Curmudgeon
Sarah Palin has taken off the gloves of pretense and admitted her baser instincts and long-term goals – not to mention abandoning her party and ticket partner. As ABC News reports:

“And while it is unusual for candidates to acknowledge the possibility of defeat, Republican running mate Sarah Palin said she intended to remain a national figure even if the ticket loses next week. “I’m not doin’ this for naught,” she told ABC News in an interview.”

It is indeed rare for any candidate to admit defeat before the polls close. This is especially true with Republicans, who follow, if the not the policies of fascist parties, definitely adhere to the brownshirt “loyal at any cost” mentality.

Time will tell if Palin’s appeal to the Republican Party’s conservative base of ignorance will be enough to overcome many party loyalists’ revulsion at her self-aggrandisement at the expense of her ticket.

The McMaverick Mutiny

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October 30, 2005
The body of Rosa Parks arrived at the U.S. Capitol, where the civil rights pioneer became the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda. More >

ISLAND NEWS – ARCHIVES
October 30, 1933
Hui Manu – a Honolulu-based organization that was formed to to introduce songbirds to the Hawaiian Islands – releases Mockingbirds on Maui, because, evidently, Maui doesn’t have enough birds which sing prettily. (Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, with about 17 species in three genera.) According to Robin Doughty in The Mockingbird: “Native birds, already buffeted by logging, agriculture (cane) and settlement, have had to cope with [introduced] alien species…. Since 1796, 170 bird species have been introduced to Hawaii, and many have succeeded in displacing endemic species.”x
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY – October 30
1270: The eighth and last Crusade is launched
1650: The members of the Society of Friends are first called Quakers when their founder, George Fox, testifies in a court case that members “quake and tremble at the word of God”
1925: The world’s first television transmission is seen in London England when John Baird succeeds in building a device in his attic from a tea chest, cardboard scanning discs, an empty biscuit box, old electric motors, darning needles, motorcycle lamp lenses, piano wire, glue, string and sealing wax
1938: Orson Welles panics a nation with his CBS radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” on the Mercury Radio Theater (the live drama uses fake news reports that panics listeners who believe its portrayal of a Martian invasion is true)
1944: Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1974: 32-year old Muhammad Ali KO’s George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire and reclaims the world heavyweight championship
1990: Three years after drilling began, the construction workers from both sides of the tunnel under the English Channel (aka the Chunnel) break through to each other.
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BORN ON THIS DAY – October 30
1735: John Adams, 2nd U.S. president
1871: Paul Valery, poet/essayist/critic
1885: Ezra Pound, poet
1893: Charles Atlas, body builder
1896: Ruth Gordon, actress
1932: Louis Malle, film director
1939: Grace Slick, rock vocalist
1945: Henry Winkler, actor
1946: Robert L “Hoot” Gibson, USN/astronaut
1951: Harry Hamlin, actor
1978: Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor (“The Motorcycle Diaries”)
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DIED ON THIS DAY – October 30
1626: Willebord van Roijen Dutch mathematician, dies at 35
1893: Sir John Abbott PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
1968 Pert Kelton actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61
1972: Alan Roth orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68
1984: June Duprez actress, dies at 66
1984: Mario Gallo actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61
1985 Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., Butte Mont, actor (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74
1991: William Shea (Shea Stadium namesake), dies at 84
2000: Steve Allen omedian, TV host, author and composer dies at age 78