PALINTOLOGY...The Study of Sarah: The Sequeal

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Here are a few thoughts about Sarah Palin. I know there are a lot of folks out there that think she ought to be President. That’s fine, what a boring world it would be if we all thought the same way. I don’t think so and here are some of the reasons I think she would be a terrible President.

Let’s look at her governing record. She was mayor of a small town (less than 10,000 people) and then Governor of Alaska, for half a term. SHE QUIT…..

Now let’s take a look at Alaska, the largest state in the union. Did you know it has the smallest population? Rhode Island which is the smallest state has about 350,000 thousand more people than Alaska does. There are over 60 cities in the US that have bigger populations than the entire state of Alaska. Sorry but there are many mayors in the country that govern with much larger budgets and have far more governing experience than Sarah. The bottom line is they completed their terms. SHE QUIT…..

She has the propensity to stick her foot in her mouth more often than Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden and that’s saying something. I was going to say she lies a lot but she’s a politician and they all lie a lot, so that’s moot. She is great at throwing out little sound bites and talking points that some hack has thought up in a lobbyist’s back room to keep from talking about real issues, but I have yet to hear her say anything that sounded like an original idea. Of course if you ask a Republican how to cure cancer, they will tell “Cut taxes.” It’s their only answer.

Now here is the real deal. Sarah doesn’t want to be President; she just wants you to want her to be President. She doesn’t want to be President for all the reasons above. Being President is a hard job and as her past shows, she can’t handle or doesn’t want to do the work. While she was Governor she commented quite often to close colleagues that she hated her job. Remember SHE QUIT.

She doesn’t even care much for her family except when the camera are rolling. During the campaign for governor she told one close aide to not confide in Todd, her husband, because he couldn’t be trusted.

Whether or not you agree with Sarah about Paul Revere or believe that she was technically right as a few historians have stated, you have admit she looked and sounded like she did not have a clue what she was talking about. In fact, the interviewer in Boston never asked her about Paul Revere, he asked her how the trip was going.

What she did was answer the wrong question. Can you imagine how screwed up things could get if a head of state asked her one question and she responded with her usual off-the-cuff rambling answer to a question that wasn’t even asked? I shudder to think of how dangerous our countries security could be affected because Sarah wants to play at being President.

She is just as ignorant of the history of Alaska. In her resignation speech she says, “We were purchased as a territory because of a member of President Abe Lincoln's cabinet, William Seward.” Of course President Lincoln had been dead for two years when this took place and Seward was a member of President Andrew Johnson cabinet. Sarah’s resignation speech was so incoherent that even her staff wasn’t sure what she said.

Don’t get me wrong, Sarah is not stupid; she just doesn’t know anything about governing, foreign policy, budgets, history, or public service. I think Sarah is a self-serving, cold calculating, narcissistic woman who will do or say anything to get what she wants. MONEY AND FAME. 

I could care less if Sarah makes a gazillion dollars selling books, doing TV shows or making self-serving speeches to who ever is willing to pay her. She can run her mouth as long as she wants. I just don’t want her running the country.


Today's good read is Blind Allegiance To Sarah Palin by Frank Bailey.  It is a fascinating look at Sarah's Campaign for Governor as told by one of her most trusted staff members. 





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