[IWE] What's missing from this election? Molly Ivins

[Ashton Brown]

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/10/03/molly_ivins/index.html?source=newsletter

> The late buckaroo populist and freedom fighter would have had a ball 
> with the insanity of this current news cycle.
>
> By Anne Lamott
>
> Oct. 3, 2008 | It breaks a girl's heart to know that Molly Ivins does 
> not get to have a go at the Republican slate this year. I can see that 
> big, rosy, sunflower face watching this all with astonishment and 
> roaring with laughter. Ivins -- the legendary buckaroo populist, 
> journalist, freelance hell-raiser and freedom fighter -- would be 
> pounding her fists on the arms of her easy chair, stomping her feet as 
> if listening to live bluegrass.
>
> She would have had such a ball with Sarah Palin -- the trooper 
> scandal, her love of moose (between buns), the flamboyantly botched 
> television interviews, the bravery of people who hunt wolves for 
> sport, from the air. Even though Molly was a Texan -- who would have 
> been on guard for the sneering tone of liberal criticism toward anyone 
> with a gun or a double-wide -- she still would have obliterated Palin 
> as a faux populist wingnut with a tanning bed instead of a heart. She 
> would have made great hay with the capacity of certain politicians to 
> reinvent themselves in entirely new realities, as newfound populist 
> Brotherman McCain has done, and his desperate, icky laugh of contempt 
> might have raised some worries for her.
>
> She would not have been happy with either McCain or Obama for opting 
> out of public finance: She would mention Phil Gramm at the drop of a 
> hat, McCain's chief financial guru, whom she always called the senator 
> from Enron

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..and Kurt V, George Carlin, H.L. Mencken