Sarah Palin and the Argeo-nauts
By Margery Eagan

| Friday, November 7, 2008 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | 2008 Campaign
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I guess you didn’t like it when I called Sarah Palin “a whack job,” did you, Argeo Paul Cellucci?
Or compared her to Ann-Margret in “Kitten with a Whip.”
Or obsessed over Sister Sarah’s double piercings and $89.96 Naughty Monkey Double Dare red open-toed patent leather pumps.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Cellucci apparently thinks it’s too much to expect a would-be vice president to know what a vice president does.
In a State House News Service story Wednesday, Cellucci singled me (moi?) out among the national media types who slimed the new shining star of his beleaguered Republican party.
Well, excuuuuuse me.
I have no choice but to defend my moonbat self, especially after the latest from those cheerleaders for all things Republican at Fox News: Ms. Sarah thinks Africa is a country, not a continent.
She doesn’t know which countries comprise North America, either. She threw temper tantrums on the trail, hurled objets at staffers and, according to Newsweek, greeted McCain aides at her hotel room in a towel.
Ooooo la la!
So I caught up with Cellucci in a cab in Toronto yesterday, and he diagnosed my problem right away: “gender bias.”
“I saw it with Jane Swift and Hillary Clinton and now with Sarah Palin,” Cellucci told me.
So does that mean you don’t think the Alaska governor’s a whack job, I asked.
“No, I don’t,” he said.
And what about Africa - the continent?
“Look, she’s not an expert. But look at her record in Alaska,” said our former ambassador to Canada.
Tell me true, Mr. Ambassador, wouldn’t you be nervous knowing Sarah the Barracuda had her finger on the button?
“She’s got judgment and she’s tough,” he said. “I’d like to see how many people could’ve walked out and given that convention speech.”
I must point out here: Jane Swift - seven months pregnant with twins and a baby at home - was sworn in as acting governor the day before Cellucci left us for the Great White North.
Maybe he thinks Ms. You Betcha can run the country for the same reasons he thought Swift, with three kids under 3 and a six hour daily commute, could run the state. Women can do the impossible. Or anybody can govern anything. Which one, I cannot say.
I do know this. Sarah Palin accepted John McCain’s offer knowing full well she slept through Civics 101. And now the GOP’s already talking her up for 2012.
Sorry, Argeo, but I’d take Jane Swift over an affirmative action fraud like Sarah Palin any day.
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