Supreme Parody: Biden versus Palin
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 1st, 2008 4:29 am by HL
Supreme Parody: Biden versus Palin
Want a preview of Thursday’s veepstakes debate between running mates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin? Pick up a copy of Christopher Buckley’s latest satirical novel, “Supreme Courtship,” that begins when a very unpopular American president decides to tweak Senate solons by nominating to the U.S. Supreme Court America’s most popular TV judge, the “sassy, flippant, sexy,” no-nonsense, gun-toting hottie from Texas, Pepper Cartwright. As the president explained, Cartwright was not a traditional pick, but “a hands-on, commonsense, workaday judge” who “calls them as she sees them.” Cartwright’s nemesis? Senate Judiciary Committee windbag Dexter Mitchell, whose “campaign ‘listening tours’ were occasions of mirth among political reporters, since it was the people he met who did the listening.”