Spike goes a-courtin'

by: heath_harrison

Sat Mar 27, 2010 at 05:23:01 AM EDT

Disgraced Judge Elliott "Spike" Maynard has extended an invitation to reality TV star Sarah Palin, asking her to campaign for him in West Virginia - just one day after she posted violent imagery and rhetoric about the election on her Facebook page.

So never mind the fact that Maynard/Blankenship supporters told people like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Michael Brune, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Mike Roselle, Climate Ground Zero, Kathy Mattea and Ashley Judd to "go home" and leave issues to the locals.

Though, between Palin, Dick Morris and the various out-of-state Republican ad groups, it's beginning to seem like Maynard and Blankenship have no one in-state to speak for them.

Maynard's already dreaming up ways he and Palin can play dress-up and stage a carefully-orchestrated photo-op to hide the fact that he's an opponent of mine safety.

From a press release:

We would love to have Sarah showcase modern mining as a clean, safe and cheap way to produce energy," said Maynard. "She'll have to put on a hard hat, but I'm sure she won't mind."

It's only expected that the same local media that has endlessly touted as gospel the idea that Rep. Rahall is "vulnerable" and in the race of his political life (despite the lack of a single published poll on the matter), will be more than happy to regurgitate whatever narrative Maynard and Palin plan to sell to them.

Maynard thinks Palin is uniquely qualified to speak here:

"West Virginians love Sarah because she has the same values we have," said Maynard.

Yes, who better represents the values of West Virginia, a state founded by rejecting a confederate plan to break away from the United States, than a politician who backs an Alaskan secessionist movement (and is married to a member of the organization)?

As we know, Palin doesn't come cheap. She charged the national tea party convention $100,000 to hear her recite a speech.

It looks like someone's going have to break out his checkbook before the astroturf gets rolled out...