Those who pay attention immediately note the dichotomies,the untruths, the illogic and the naked appeal to our basest and most selfish instincts in every Palin speech.

Recently she bragged about the oil revenue monies every Alaskan receives ( about $3000/yr this last time out) and, without missing a beat went into a rant about how govt handouts are evil, sap ones lives and are not free at all. I kept waiting for the crowd to begin to mutter or scratch their heads in puzzlement. Of course they cheered her every word.

Only in the absence of investigative journalism, hard hitting editorial commentary, can a person this ignorant flourish.

On the one hand, I hope she is the Republican nominee in 2012.  It would be a nail in the coffin of the Republican party.  She’d sink it for good…

On the other hand, if she were the nominee - what would that say to the world about the intelligence of a large enough portion of the American population that gave her the nomination?  I mean, they nominated Bush and hoodwincked enough independants to vote for him.  But they would not be able to get independants to vote for her. 

I wish she would just go away.  I’m sick of her.  But, politically…  what a blessing to the Democrats if she were the nominee…

Maybe she’ll pose for playboy.

Gals of the GOP.

Palin is an idiot.  Therefore, her chances of being elected president are quite good.  The speech announcing her resignation as governor was the most bizarre I have ever heard.  Ever.  Her election will hasten the decline of the United States and insure another four years of bloodthirsty, incompetent, near dictatorial government. To paraphrase GWB, bring it on.

Ms. Palin is a very amusing woman. In her nasal, whining voice she called for the media (presumably the “Liberal Media” which doesn’t exist) for the sake of the military which currently occupies two sovereign nations it has invaded to, “stop makin’ stuff up”. I second that emotion: how about her cronies in the Republican party stop making stuff up about:
1. The war on terror
2. Abu Ghraib
3. Guantanamo Bay
4. Free market economics
5. Gun laws
6. Contraception
7. 9/11
8. The anthrax letters
9. The idea that Dick Cheney has a heart
10.The idea that George W. Bush has a functioning brain
11. The idea that Palin has now or ever will have the intellect or ethical standards to be allowed anywhere near the nuclear button and chemical and biological weapons
12. The fact that flight 93 was shot down
13. The fact that the 9/11 Commission didn’t investigate 9/11 and told numerous lies in its report
14. The idea that America has not only the right but the duty to rule the world
15. The idea that Christian fundamentalism can and should be used as a shield and a smokescreen for unimaginable evil.
16. Iraq
17. Afghanistan
18. Israeli ‘democracy’
19. Climate change
20. oil

The media should do the same.

Now that she’s had a taste of the Big Leagues how’re gonna keep her up in the frozen land of fish & oil?

OF COURSE she’s climbing the corporate ladder to the land of glory and gold in Washington.

It’s just too damn bad for the American people that she isn’t (a)intelligent and (b)talented but then to get into the inner circle you really don’t need those qualities… you just need to LOOK GOOD, SOUND GOOD, and be able to be BOUGHT - it doesn’t matter who’s pulling the strings.

I sure hope I’m wrong.

She resigned to ‘spare’ Alaskans having to support a dead weight, a lame duck, a blight on the great landscape of Alaska?  Well, if that was what she intended to be her last year and a half in office, thank god she resigned.  Of course she didn’t have to be that but apparently that’s what she would have chosen to be?  Or would she be forced to be that? 

I’m confused.

I know where I’d like her to go…

I wish she would just go away. We have enough haters with microphones, we don’t need anymore.

I admit, I can’t wait to see Ms. Palin in her “Hoveround” invented by “Tom Kruse” (lol), seriously…. it’s got a 4” foam seat with I believe it was a “interspring” mattress or seat rather… and is AS COMFORTABLE AS A RECLINER…...that’s what they said!  Yes, they did… and for God’s sake I believe ‘em.  I mean, why sit in a recliner when you can enjoy yourself so SO much more in a wheelchair.

And listen up…. “if you call them” medicare will pay for it…. (if this, that or the other thing applies).  I don’t know though…. I think the thing should come with a free set of ginsu knives or maybe one of those “put your hair in a bun” things that are so..oo..oo easy to use.

What does this have to do with Palin?  Hey, I’m not a psychoanalyst, just an observer.

I think Sara Palin was a poor choice for vice President.  But I think she is as qualified as George W Bush for the job.  I think she’s a fairly intelligent lady that knows as much about foreign policy as the average American.  That does not qualify her to be president.

She’s a beautiful woman that from what I can tell comes from a nice family.  Like other families, there will be problems.

I don’t follow the media talk so much that loves to drag people down over things that are unimportant.  I didn’t follow the Clinton / Monica Lewinski thing years ago.  I just didn’t find it very interesting.  For anybody who has heard about Italian President Berluscon’s sexual escapades he almost makes Bill Clinton look like a saint.  Thats interesting.  I’m waiting for the movie to come out.

I would never go into politics.  I would not deal well with how the press drags your name through the mud.  If I was Ms. Palin I would get out of that game.  She can make the occasional speech if she wishes, but who needs the anxiety.  If I was her husband I would want her home with me and try to convince her to quit.

Where will Palin go from here? I can think of one particular place certainly.

She is an aberration one hopes, someone who appeals to a mass of folks all out of proportion to her qualifications or her qualities. I believe her to be both an embarrassment to the American political system and to America’s intellectual capacity.

I suspect that she will go on to talk show fame, make a pile of money and fade slowly from the limelight, at least I really,truly hope she fades…..