September 08, 2008
Scratching Sarah Palin's Surface
We are still possessed by Sarah Palin, and it's no laughing matter. All of us here at Dakota are decidedly shrill on the subject of Sarah. None of us wants to have a beer with this woman, though we would consider dragging her to a PETA meeting.
Even Condi is lukewarm about Mrs. Pee.
Naomi Foner asks:
What kind of misplaced chivalry would keep the Democrats from calling Sarah Palin what she is? An ignorant, misinformed, inexperienced, bigoted fraud. And unless we find a way to do it, she will be running the country before we have time to turn around.This will not be easy........
We're going to have to frame the argument in the same way. Who is Sarah Palin? A woman for sure. The package is nice, but the content is out of date and spoiled. If she gets anywhere near power we can expect global warming, the destruction of the constitution, the end of Choice, and books banned in our libraries. And we've got to make people understand this. And even if we can frame it this way, the question remains, are there many Americans who would care? Enough to sustain the constitution? Life as we know it?
I am terribly afraid that we are counting on good sense, and decency and it has gone the way of the ten cent subway ride. We are not thinking about each other. We are thinking about ourselves. Why else would we even consider a woman who tried to get her brother in law fired from his job for daring to divorce her sister. Who tried to get a local librarian to remove books she disapproved of from the library.
Politeness is not in order. We need to be scared. Terribly scared. We need to pull out all the stops. She's not going to self destruct in front of an audience who likes these things about her. Who abhors the clarity and thoughtfulness of Obama. There is no drama in it. There's drama in teenage pregnancy, political scandal and moose hunting.
McCain seems to have known just what he was doing. Now the question remains, do we?
Hopefully Sarah will continue to display her ignorance publicly, or worse. Unfortunately low information voters might not notice.
Photo note: Don't believe the label - a metaphorophoto
Posted by Dakota at September 8, 2008 03:41 PM