The view from Sarah Palin's front window alone should be enough to remind you that she's just one of us, no different than you and I... wait, that's a pretty sweet (sweeping) view... I don't have one of those, and statistically speaking, neither do any of us but the scant few super-rich people who paid in to her campaign.
Alaska governor and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin refuses to go away, or change her already-failed tactics in aspiration for higher posts. She may be the future of the GOP ticket, and recent polls show that as many as 80% of self-described republican voters want to see her in such a role. Perhaps more surprising, as many as 103% of democrat voters agree (margin of error ± 3%.)
Sarah Palin is so unaccustomed to answering questions that when she was confronted with obviously deniable accusations like her inability to name the three countries in North America (even though she claims diplomatic relations with one, apparently lives in the second, and has visited the third) she didn't even have the fe-balls to deny the accusations. True to recent GOP form, she instead attacked the character of the alleged accusers, refusing to address the issue directly.
She said, "I don't like to address unfounded accusations," and "whoever said that are jerks," when she could have said, "that's completely untrue and I don’t know where you heard that, but whoever said it is not being honest with you." She didn't, and that sort of igrnoramorus is the sort of glorious pretendery we can hope to see more of as she tries in vein to not disappear from the spotlight.
When she was accused of not knowing that Africa is a continent, rather than a country, (and who would blame her, since we always hear about South Africa, and that sounds like just a part the other thing, much like how South Alaska is still just Alaska,) she didn't speak out against that either. It looks like the claim was untrue, but instead of saying so, her brilliant leadership instead told us that "what I say in debate preparations is not the same as what I say in debates."
And I say smart move to that.
As one who went to tremendous length to illegally vote Democrat in this election, I think it's great that Sarah Palin may become the future of the GOP, because as long as the right-wingers cling to her absurd lies and hard line stances, there's no chance in hell they're going to make a comeback in my lifetime.
As a republican-turned-democrat, it makes me sad that instead of trying to reinvent the party and come back to terms of what the people want from our leadership, this mental-midget is the best we can do. I mean, come on, her lies are obvious, her PR tactics smack of contrivance, and her double-speak doesn't even convince the mentally deficient (and I've polled enough of them to know… I'm not being insulting here, I mean I've literally polled the mentally deficient, and even they could tell she wasn't answering the questions.)
But as an American, I'm on the verge of weeping if this sad old woman is all we have to look forward to. She's been proven corrupt, she's lied about everything from how "average" she is to how much she abused what limited power she had (McCain drove home in his Toyota from the concession speech, while she had a full security detail, a dozen police motorcycles and her entourage in a parade of cars 10+ long headed to the airport, where a private jet awaited her,) and yet we're supposed to think she's one of us?
She has an airplane in front of her high-bank, waterfront home, which she admits she doesn't fly, and yet hubby Todd can't legally fly either (he doesn't have a pilot's license,) and if we've learned anything about her since the campaign, it's that her life is anything but middle-class.
Yes, her home is modest, just like the ones you or I might live in... sure, she's got 20' tall picture windows in the state with the greatest loss from window heat in the nation, but she's just regular folk, except with that extra something special... wealth from untold soucres.
She's done in-home interviews with Matt Lauer and Greta Van Susteren, in which we saw that her kitchen is bigger than most of our apartments, and that she has more windows in her living room than most of us have in our whole house… and this in a place where construction costs are far higher than the national average, and heating costs are the highest in the country (while the heat just seeps out through the windows.)
And this is to say nothing of Troopergate (already found guilty), her undisclosed Yahoo emails (uncovered, but the kid was arrested) and her lavish expenses at the cost of tax-payers and party donors alike… or her diva attitude… or her massively expanded taxation… or her decision to force rape victims to pay $1,200 to secure the evidence needed to actually prosecute a case.
The radical, religious right still has their claws in American politics, even though that ship has long-since sailed, but still they're putting her up, perhaps only by her own agent's assertion, as the future of America. If she's the future, it's really sad.
It's sad for the religious right because it's time to get moderate, and she's not a moderate figure.
It's sad for the Republican Party, because it's time to move to the center, and she's a far right figure.
It's sad for America, because until the Republicans get rid of her, this will be nothing but a left-party nation.
It's sad for Sarah Palin, because nobody seems to have the balls to tell her that that empress ain't wearing any clothes… and I've seen her Newsweek cover, that's no MILF for me, man. That's a haggard old washed up beauty queen, and without the mental chops to back it up, the "wanna-nail-ya" contingency still won't carry the vote… as has already been proven.
