Democracy for Vancouver

he had an actor do it for him. You can read Fred Thompson’s war porn speech from last night, or you can just watch Pulp Fiction and see Christopher Walken play the same role, only better:

The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.

Thompson, that lover of hyperbole, also called Sarah Palin “Governor of the largest state in the Union.” He neglected to mention that it has the fourth smallest population (about 680,000 - roughly the population of Fort Worth, or Memphis, or Charlotte, NC); has no state income tax or sales tax; and receives among the highest returns of federal tax dollars of any of the 50 states: $1.83 for every $1 Alaskans send to the federal treasury (only Mississippi and New Mexico get more). And Sarah Palin asked the indicted Ted Stevens for help in bringing almost $200 million in federal project money to Alaska - more, per capita, than any other state.

Yup, she’s a real anti-pork reformer.