In a silver lining way, it’s kind of nice, after all these years of McCain’s jokes about Mrs. Clinton’s being an ugly lesbian, to see the RNC suddenly discovering that she’s worth listening to. Also Republicans’ discovery of the phenomenon of sexism, now that they’re running a woman. I wonder if they’ll run a person of color someday and discover racism; I guess we saw some of that already when Jindal lost his first race in Louisiana and the folks at National Review were convinced it was due to racists who wouldn’t vote for a brown guy. (I guess all those racists in America have since become color-blind and no longer are something to worry about.)

Now, if CHENEY and McCain have never gotten along (I have no idea whether that’s true), then the revenge hypothesis makes a little more sense.

My Spidey-Sense has been SCREAMING for months now about this. Cheney isn’t planning on giving up control. He may be moving out of Washington, but he’s not leaving.

In particular, Jindal probably knows that the First Amendment does not protect public officials from being criticized by the press. This is why Palin’s mistakes are so much more worrying than Biden’s. Biden frequently makes verbal typos, like referring to Article I when he means Article II. Palin, on the other hand, says stuff that betrays an undeniable lack of understanding about the Constitution. Now, I’ve heard Republicans say that Biden should be held to a higher standard because he went to law school and lectures on constitutional law at Widener. But when I ask what they would hold Palin to a high standard of knowledge about, the only reply I get is, “Pipeline construction.”

So honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a big fuck you from Cheney.