Readings: There's No Bunny Like Snow Bunny

From the September 22, 2008 issue of The New Yorker, here is one of the funniest takes that I’ve seen on the bouffant Queen of Seward’s Folly:

Explaining how she felt when John McCain offered her the Vice-Presidential spot, my Vice-Presidential candidate, Governor Sarah Palin, said something very profound: “I answered him ‘Yes’ because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can’t blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we’re on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can’t blink. So I didn’t blink then even when asked to run as his running mate.”

Isn’t that so true? I know that many times, in my life, while living it, someone would come up and, because of I had good readiness, in terms of how I was wired, when they asked that—whatever they asked—I would just not blink, because, knowing that, if I did blink, or even wink, that is weakness, therefore you can’t, you just don’t. You could, but no—you aren’t.

That is just how I am.

One can see immediately that Queen Sarah is, indeed, a natural-born first-runner-up in that Beauty Contest that is American politics. You can read George Saunders’ whole piece here.