"Executive Experience," a comedy. Act 1

Late to post this from Friday but, dayumm--this thing's un-spooling faster than a golfball in a blender.

1. She speaks admiringly of union membership right off the bat? Idolized John Glenn (D)? Thanks two democratic women for making her chance possible? This should be interesting.

2. Alaska? America's welfare state? $1.87 in fed funds for every $1.00 in taxes paid? Isn't the other 80% of their existence based on redistribution of taxes on Oil extraction? Every, man, woman and child gets $1000 $3,269 annually from the "Permanent Fund." Sounds great, let's do that in LA and WV, too if "the people" own the resources. And what Governor says no to 250 million bucks and gets re-elected? She was for it before she was against it. (Told the Ketchikans that they weren't "nowhere" to her. Awwww.)

And she kept the money even after the bridge concept died.

3. A VP pick designed to be an automatic celebrity. So much for the inexperienced lightweight celebrity named Hussein.

She has central-casting looks, a son bound for Iraq, another child with Down syndrome, 3 spare kids as yet unbranded[*], a skidoo-racing hubby, Scalia-fandom, her own gun, and a penchant for caribou burgers. It's the Bio of a woman who's music to the ears of Style-section Assignment Editors and People Magazine writers.

Yes, in his usual paper thin and many-foldable way, McCain the Maverick™ shows more like Ethan Edwards in the Searchers--erratic, troubling and blinkered. Maverick? That's someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action. The assumption is that *thought* actually happens. Forethought as well I suppose. Maybe some enterprising VP-candidate will point out that a synonym for Maverick is Loner?

UPDATE: * I said as-yet unbranded above. The oldest daughter is pregnant? Double-dayyum.

We count some pilots and Army and Navy "mavericks" at Thanksgiving dinners current and past around here, but somehow I don't think any of them would claim to be on John Sidney McCain's flight level.