JOE McGINNISS

Oh, man, I was just on my way to bed when I saw Sarah-sites overdosing on her Hannity interview.

So I watched it. I figure that since I’m still writing my last chapter, I get paid to stay up late and do such things.

Some of it was (unintentionally) funny, such as:

I think one of my problems in this whole process is I don’t live for that game of the pundincy [sic] of the opining and speculating on who’s doing what …What I live for is fighting for family and faith and freedom in this country.

But I won’t go to sleep smiling over her later words:

I’m still not ready to make an announcement….I’m still seriously considering it and praying about it…I want to make sure that we have a candidate out there with Tea Party principles.

Perhaps scariest of all was Sarah’s Freudian slip at the start.

I realize that the Wasilla Assembly of God  taught Sarah that Sigmund Freud was Sigmund Fraud, and that she’s believed it ever since, but that doesn’t immunize her from what the rest of us might call a Freudian slip.  Speaking of Gingrich’s recent stumble out of the gate, Hannity asked her, in regard to 2012, “Is there going to be a different standard?” Meaning: will candidates be held accountable for their words?  Sarah said:

There’s gotta be the preparation on all the candidates’ parts for those gotchas. That’s what the lamestream media is known for nowadays is the gotcha, trip-up questions, and I just have to be prepared for it and overcome it. (emphasis added.)

Why would someone who did not intend to seek the Republican nomination say “I”?

If she weren’t planning to run–notwithstanding how she makes everything about herself–wouldn’t she have said “they?”

Dr. Fraud, where are you now that we need you?

I, for one, am going to need someone  to interpret the dreams/nightmares I’m about to have as I go to bed with Sarah’s mantra in my head:

“I just have to be prepared for it and overcome it.”

At least she’s got God helping her.    I’m all alone down here, trying to muddle through with nothing more than rationality, a modicum of decency, and whatever I learn from my reporting.

Anybody know a good Jungian shrink?  Because here’s what I’m afraid I’ll be seeing tonight:

UPDATE:

Alaskan pollster Ivan Moore says in Anchorage Press that it’s “Palin’s Perfect Storm.”

Here’s his lede:

Us pollsters don’t like making predictions. No really… we don’t. We can measure things at any given point in time, but we can’t, no matter how much others may want us to, see into the future. Today, however, I’m going to make an exception, because I’m absolutely certain of what I’m going to predict.

No ands, ifs or buts about it, Sarah Palin is going to run for president.

And so to bed.