Palin chicken watch in the OC

Buck, buck, bucccaw…. Sarah Palin cancels a two-day California campaign swing.

SFChron columnist Carla Marinucci says McCain-Palin is pulling the plug on competing in California, and this shows it, while the McCain-Palin campaign says this is just about scheduling issues.

Well, what if Marinucci’s wrong AND McC-P is lying?

Instead, what if, after the “stump the candidate” program had Mayor Whazzup hoist her own petard over AIG, Schmuck Talk decided to put her back on ice in Mat-Su?

I mean, c’mon, Carla. Was even McCain and his campaign staff dumb enough to think it could actually compete in California?

I say she’s back on ice. I mean, SoCal is the heart of electronic media, and a petard-hoisting there would have instant legs.

Update: Per this TPM individual blog, she’s scrubbed other fundraisers, too; my guess is she’s on ice until the Veep debate, given her disastrous last day or two.

Other suggestions are being floated at Huff Post and elsewhere. The most common is that, with the revelation about her massive per diems, it’s come to somebody’s attention that some of them may have been illegal to receive (her family members, not her own), or that she may have failed to report some of this as income on her 1040s.

Third option, besides debate cramming and 1040 amending, is Troopergate strategerizing. Now that Schmuck Talk Express™ has upped the monkeywrenching ante, the legal flak he’s flown into Anchorage probably need to sit down with Real Nowhere Gov and plot strategy.

Possiblity No. 4? Her own loose mouth on “Palin-McCain” rather than vice versa, may be getting her a trip to the woodshed and other straightening out.

And, these four possibilities aren’t mutually exclusive.

In either case, the usual Palin lies aside, and hubby First Dumbass’s claim about her “anointing” aside, it’s clear that she’s officially on ice at least through the end of this weekend.


There is a silver lining, though. Maybe, she can find Trig Palin’s birth certificate during her down time.