The Palin Joke
September 14th 2008 20:29
Now that Sarah Palin in fully ensconced in her new role as vice-presidential candidate, let's examine the great joke that she is in this election. What we are faced with is a great pile of the politics of same from Grandpa McSame.
The Republicans are trying, so very hard, to tout Palin as some kind of progressive symbol. She isn't. They're trying to make her out to be a regular, down home mom. She isn't. They want her to be seen as the sign of change in republican politics. She isn't. Here's why.
Sarah Palin isn't progressive because there's nothing about how she operates politically to suggest any progressive. She's hard-core, right-wing, Republican politics as usual. She's not your regular mom because, let's face it here, most women do not have stay at home husbands to deal with their children. Most moms do not have a staff to which they can delegate responsibility. Most moms are responsible enough not to take transnational flights while in the last trimester of pregnancy. What she is can be summed up by the following: Sarah Palin is a politician, end of statement. Politics is her priority. It's what defines her. Her, not to mention Grandpa McSame's campaign team's, suggestion that she is somehow representative is ludicrous and insulting: to women, to mothers, to voters, and to America at large. The suggestion that all women should somehow be able to do what she has done is downright destructive. You're average women will never have the kind of support team that Sarah Palin has at her disposal. Period. As such, she and her cronies should stop trying to sell her as the second coming of the feminist ideal, dressed in anti-liberal clothing.
This is what happened at the McSame campaign team strategy meeting.
McSame: "We need to pick a vice-presidential running mate."
Flunkie #1: "Um, sir, every republican who might have been effective is so horrifically blasted and tarnished by the acid of neo-con religion that they're all anchors on a campaign."
Flunkie #2:: "We need someone young to offset that Obama guy."
McSame: "OK team, here's what we're gonna do. You need to go out and find someone that no one has ever heard of before today, someone with no connection to Bush, the war, or who has any hope of asserting any kind of real authority if we win. Fetch, boys, fetch!"
I give you, Sarah Palin.
The Republicans are trying, so very hard, to tout Palin as some kind of progressive symbol. She isn't. They're trying to make her out to be a regular, down home mom. She isn't. They want her to be seen as the sign of change in republican politics. She isn't. Here's why.
Sarah Palin isn't progressive because there's nothing about how she operates politically to suggest any progressive. She's hard-core, right-wing, Republican politics as usual. She's not your regular mom because, let's face it here, most women do not have stay at home husbands to deal with their children. Most moms do not have a staff to which they can delegate responsibility. Most moms are responsible enough not to take transnational flights while in the last trimester of pregnancy. What she is can be summed up by the following: Sarah Palin is a politician, end of statement. Politics is her priority. It's what defines her. Her, not to mention Grandpa McSame's campaign team's, suggestion that she is somehow representative is ludicrous and insulting: to women, to mothers, to voters, and to America at large. The suggestion that all women should somehow be able to do what she has done is downright destructive. You're average women will never have the kind of support team that Sarah Palin has at her disposal. Period. As such, she and her cronies should stop trying to sell her as the second coming of the feminist ideal, dressed in anti-liberal clothing.
McSame: "We need to pick a vice-presidential running mate."
Flunkie #2:: "We need someone young to offset that Obama guy."
McSame: "OK team, here's what we're gonna do. You need to go out and find someone that no one has ever heard of before today, someone with no connection to Bush, the war, or who has any hope of asserting any kind of real authority if we win. Fetch, boys, fetch!"
I give you, Sarah Palin.
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Anyway, spot on post! Couldn't agree with you more.