Is Sarah Palin really this stupid?
Frankly, people who really are stupid should be offended by that statement because I remain convinced that Sarah Palin makes people with real mental disabilities look like rocket scientists. I don’t say that to be mean. I don’t say that to be condescending. I say it because other than simply reading off a teleprompter or notes, Governor Palin has no idea what she is talking about. In my 31 short years on this planet, I have never seen the bar set so low for a candidate for higher office. In an interview she agreed to have with CBS’s Katie Couric, Palin derided Joe Biden’s age while seeming to forget that John McCain is 2 years away from hitting the median life expentency for males in the USA. In addition to that, for all her conservative credentials, Palin’s only recollection of a Supreme Court Case during the same interview was Roe v. Wade, a decision that was handed down when Palin was 9 years old. Now its possible that Palin was attending Jesus Camp by then, but most other children were playing kickball. In what perhaps showed her complete level of stupidity, Palin couldn’t recite any of the partial birth abortion high court decisions such as Stenberg v. Carhart or Gonzales v. Carhart. My point is that while I normally dont consider SCOTUS decisions a make or break decision for most independent voters, conservatives voters should have been demonstrably upset over Palin’s lack of knowledge over one of the party’s major social causes.
I also had the pleasure of watching CNN’s coverage where they included live feeds from a focus group of undecided voters in Ohio. It was clear that based on the trends of men in particularly, that whenever
gosh darn’et Sarah spoke, they were clearly masturbating to her winking at them. It clearly resonated with men including me, who found myself handing the television $20 for a lap dance.
And while I no doubt give Palin points for being telegenic and folksy, she rambled through her answers and was unable to articulate her principal’s stances on major issues. In fact the only thing I kept hearing was about energy independence and the word maverick. Oddly enough, I think it would behoove most Americans to know that Governor Palin leads a welfare state that takes more money from the federal government than it pays in taxes. Last I checked, maverick fiscal conservatives and the welfare states they run shouldnt even be words uttered in the same sentence much less nominees for VPOTUS.
As far as her maverick status is concerned, its utter bullshit. Alaska has become as synonamous with political corruption as the state of Louisiana. As Governor, its becoming increasingly clear that Palin used her authority as Governor to seek retrobution on those that were critical of her, such as Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. This is conduct hardly deserving of the title maverick, particularly when Palin has failed to cooperate with an investigation that was approved by a GOP-led legislature.
While I wanted Palin to do well, she has indeed become a laughing stock. In fact, all Palin has proven is that SNL requires no writers to parse her own words. Comedians just have to repeat her words verbatim and the stupidity shines through on its own. That is not comedy, that is sad.
