Sarah Palin Book Week Will Be Rough Ride, With Gaffes, Blunders, Republican Remorse
When famed political reporter and writer Teddy White was crafting books about ‘The Making Of The President’, he could never have imagined the following line being written for prime time.
(She goes easy on Levi Johnston, and Levi thinks he knows why: “She knows what I got on her. It’s a smart move on her part,” Johnston said Thursday, at the Fleshbot awards. Yes, it is what you think it is. You absolutely, positively, cannot make this stuff up.)
Times sure have changed, and the squirrels are coming home to roost.
With Sarah Palin’s book release, and the series of interviews and appearances she has scheduled for the coming week one thing is assured; this is going to be a rich treasure trove of gaffes, blunders, and Republican remorse. Hang on, this is going to be a bumpy ride.
Get set: “The rollout for former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s highly anticipated and score-settling memoir began Thursday with all the orchestrated stagecraft, wild accusations, inconvenient leaks and media fascination that characterized her campaign as Sen. John McCain’s running mate during the 2008 presidential race,” Jason Horowitz and Michael D. Shear write in The Washington Post.
The responses from former McCain aides are mostly anonymous — so far: “John McCain offered her the opportunity of a lifetime, and during the campaign it seems that, for all of her mistakes, she is searching for people to blame,” said one former senior official in the McCain campaign. “We don’t need to go through this again.”
This breaks some china — and is specific enough for dispute: “She says that most of her legal bills were generated defending what she called frivolous ethics complaints, but she reveals that about $50,000 was a bill she received to pay for the McCain campaign vetting her for the VP nod,” the AP’s Richard T. Pienciak writes. “She said when she asked the McCain campaign if it would help her financially, she was told McCain’s camp would have paid all the bills if he’d won; since he lost, the vetting legal bills were her responsibility.”
And, cue: “To my knowledge, the campaign did not receive any bill from Gov. Palin for legal expenses connected to her vetting, nor did the campaign ask her to pay any vetting-related expenses,” Trevor Potter, a lawyer for the McCain presidential campaign, told USA Today’s Kathy Kiely.
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Not just you, but I think that we have all adopted Lewis Carroll instead of Merriam-Webster as the authority on how to use words.
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said…, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’ Lewis Carroll
This morning I am looking at page 1,670 of my Webster Unabridged Dictionary and find the following as one of the uses for the word ‘roost’.
“Come home to roost (of an action) revert or react unfavorably to the doer.; boomerang; an evil deed that came home to roost.”
I think the term was used correctly here in my post. I know that for 40 years my mom used the the term ‘roost’ in the way I used it in the post….not with squirrels, but then she never knew Sarah Palin…..LOL.
I might add that this topic of words and their uses is one that I love to share with others, and so your comment is highly appreciated. I think you might be the first to ever comment on such a word and the way it was used on my blog. I love it! Years ago when I traveled home to see the parents on Sunday I would listen to a NPR program on words and the way they are used, and I found it fascinating. That topic is one that often comes up here as James is a language professor of French and Spanish.
Thanks for talking about words, and have a great weekend.
I do thank you for your comment. ‘Roost’ does seem strange I admit, but ‘come to nest and stay’ is what I wanted to convey…yeah I admit it seems strange wording….but I think the word ‘roost’ can be used in the context here. I don’t think it has to be about birds when used. I have heard it often over the years in relation to people. (Such as relatives.)
“Times sure have changed, and the squirrels are coming home to roost.”
Say what? Squirrels? Roost?