One week after President Obama made a stop in the Peach state to speak to a disabled American veterans group, former governor Sarah Palin brought her celebrity crazed road show to Atlanta. Palin was campaigning for Karen Handel– one of the participants vying for the republican nomination for governor of Georgia. Jim Galloway gives us the lowdown on some odd imagery at the Palin event:
The crowd is packed in a ballroom of the Hotel Intercontinental in Buckhead – though the fire marshal hasn’t yet been summoned. Probably between 1,500 and 2,000. The Huckabee event for Deal drew about 700.
The Huckabee event probably did not include Huckabee impersonators. The Palin event does. There’s a woman here in a red suit, brown hair piled on top, with glasses.
The Huckabee event probably did not include Huckabee’s head on a stake, held aloft for all the crowd to see. The Palin event does, with wig and glasses.
What’s that? I asked. “A disembodied Sarah Palin head. In a good way,” said Handel spokesman Dan McLagan. “Maybe ‘disembodied’ isn’t the right word. A Sarah Palin head.”
Maybe disembodied is another one of those folksy terms like Mama Grizzly. I would imagine if this were an event for Barack Obama– and there were an image of an Obama floating head perched high atop a poll– that image and the event would immediately be castigated. Those with the head would face charges of idolatry, and Barack Obama would be eviscerated for tolerating idol worshiping. Not Palin. She continues to astonish all those who possess an ounce of intelligence, by her ability to hold no substantive views, yet accumulate plaudits for her unconventionality. Were I Karen Handel, I’d be very leery of the poison Palin endorsement– considering how well it work out for the last few she endorsed.
Maybe this time will be different. Perhaps the big, disembodied head just might swing the tide to Handel’s favor.
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