Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )

What day of the week is it?  Yes!! It’s Timely Topic Tuesday!!  Today is the one day a week that we go out into the ‘real world’  (…nah, that shits not real, it’s like the reality shows on TV, except there is a film crew in the basement that you never quite catch, and they pay your wife/husband to not give the secret away… )
In any event, we will try the Topical Humor/News Parody Approach in our never ending efforts to find the ‘killer app’ the thing that will have people on TV saying, “oh man he is such a roger!”  or ” Did you see Lisa? Not too scottian huh?”

Here is today’s news story. Ripped from monitor that was dialed into Yahoo News ( …if you don’t like this, we can make stuff up… ) It appears that the story is from the AP and  because I am citing this for attribution they might give us a pass down in the copyright department.

Will Palin’s unconventional style bring success?

By LIZ SIDOTI, AP National Political Writer Liz Sidoti, Ap National Political Writer – 2 hrs 20 mins ago

WASHINGTON – She says what she wants, does what she wants and makes no apologies, (what can we say, we’re sorry?). And love her or hate her (Hate her!  Over here! Hate her!!), you can’t really argue with this: Politics as usual has never been Sarah Palin’s style.

“I wasn’t wired to play that game, of course, I am wireless, there’s this little modem thingie,” the former Alaska governor says in “Going Rogue,” pointing both to her lower back and somewhat towards the side of her head and the nearby campaign van.

As she weighs whether to seek the presidency, it’s hard not to wonder: wtf? Can she bypass conventional politics and succeed? Will she even try?

The woman whom one potential GOP challenger, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, calls “a force of nature”, like a really bad rain storm, when all the drains back up, and water, like bubbles back up in the street?

Palin certainly doesn’t look the part of a traditional candidate. She’s a woman — an attractive one —  in a MILF sort of way, probably more attractive on TV than in person, says one industry analyst. With her “You betchas,” she doesn’t sound like most politicians. She’s from Alaska, a state hardly known for producing presidents, instead more known for the Sargent Preston TV series and the one Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs accidently comes up in….nevermind!, according to one political consultant, she’s not afraid to sound stupid, and that’s what the voters want these days, they are tired of being treated like adults.

“In the way JFK was the first made-for-television president, she may be the first made-for-Facebook president,” Gillespie says, except with less intelligence, but a better body.

Palin has also carved out other avenues to promote herself. She’s a bestselling author, a reality-show star, a big draw on the paid speaking circuit, a Fox News commentator. No other American politician can lay claim to such a broad multimedia platform, except the late Soupy Sales or possibly (the even later) Pat Paulson.

But Palin’s fans — a narrow slice of the electorate — seem to like her style.

Listen to Sandy Parten of Honey Grove, Texas, a conservative who likens Palin to the title character that James Stewart played in the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Says Parten: “I like her because she’s not part of the establishment. She’s more a woman of the people than a woman of the elite. Kinda like a people person with a dress on, but not like that Ru Paul person, more like the high school Homecoming Queen, but without the grades. And maybe friendlier, you know, not like Sally Watson in our class, she was such a…”

To her, Palin is refreshing — and authentic. “I’m tired of everybody trying to please everybody all the time,” says Parten, 66. “She doesn’t. Please. Them…I think, except sometimes..late at night”

And hear from Donald Dixon, 74, a Republican from Little Falls, N.Y., who likes seeing Palin do the things he’d do, like hunting and fishing. “It’s like she doesn’t have an ax to grind politically,” he says. “She isn’t out there to please any entity. She’s one of us ’Cept not an old man, she could probably fish a little, but I wouldn’t take her huntin, she might provoke the bears.

Comments like these give credence to arguments by Palin’s allies that her buffalo chips-fall-where-they-may attitude could attract a GOP primary electorate that, during last year’s elections, showed a disdain for Washington and the Republican Party, and even Gloria Estefans, Miami Sound  machine.

All that gives Republican observers pause.

“Palin may like the image that she has now of being the conservative diva,” says Ken Duberstein, Ronald Reagan’s White House chief of staff. “But I’m not sure that she wants to get on stage with the old-time divas. Celine Dion is a force to contend with and she might hold her own, but in the real election she would have to face Barbra Streisand and even Palin’s own people are cautious. Barbra? That’s spelled kinda funny, ain’t it? And she’s in New York! why that’s farther away than Russia!”

Thats all for today!  Mr. B!! yo, get us some walkin music and remember, when the lawyers for Yahoo or the Palin Campaign or Celine Dion show up, the answer is one word: Attribution and Parody.