Whatever else you may, at this point, think of Sarah Palin, don’t, for a single second, concern yourself that she lacks the experience or savvy to play with the big boys in the NFL of politics.
Check this out.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin bolstered her fiscal-conservative credentials early in her term by putting her predecessor's state jet up for auction online.
"That luxury jet was over the top," she told Republican National Convention delegates when she accepted the party's vice presidential nomination Wednesday night. "I put it on eBay."
Since Palin was chosen as Arizona Sen. John McCain's running mate last week, the story has become a cornerstone of the Republican effort to paint Palin as a reformer who took on her own party establishment.
"How many saw her speech a couple of nights ago? Wasn't it fabulous?" McCain said Friday during a campaign stop in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. "You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was purchased by her predecessor and sold it on eBay — and made a profit."
But it turns out the twin-engine Westwind II was a tough sell on the Web — and the state eventually pulled it offline and sold it through an ordinary brick-and-mortar brokerage, for a loss, a spokeswoman said Friday.
"Governor Palin has been correct in saying that she put the plane on eBay," McCain campaign spokeswoman Maria Comella told CNN. "They did end up selling it for $2.1 million. but not on eBay."
When putting it on eBay failed, aircraft broker Rob Heckmann was called in to sell the jet. Businessman Larry Reynolds bought the five-passenger jet for sold for $2.1 million. And Reynolds is now seeking another $50,000 from the state for unexpected maintenance issues with the aircraft.
And, regardless of what friends, peers, family, etc, might think, given the “slant” of my writings and commentary, I honestly haven’t yet made up my mind as to whether the “better man” in the 60 day Freestyle to Pennsylvania Ave is McCain or Obama.
Tell you what, though.
In that ironic way that is uniquely American, I am relieved to know that Sarah is not, after all, just Dan Quayle with great legs.
She knows exactly how to play with the big boys.
Because the business of deftly blurring the line between the truth and the lie is practically page one in the big boy playbook.
And in an historic election where we have the first black man in a top slot, the first woman on a Republican ticket and the oldest man ever to run, it’s nice to know that regardless of race, creed, color or gender, everybody who wants an E ticket to WhiteHouseWorld this time out has the same level of ability.
They all know how to make shit up to fit the occasion.
Kind of warms the cockles to know that, at the end of the day, all men…and women…are created equal.
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