Sarah Palin gets more annoying and ignorant as time goes on
Dear Sarah Palin,
That was supposed to be it, the end, the finale, bye bye. Your humiliating stint as VP candidate in the Presidential election was supposed to send you a message about your suitability for being one of the most powerful people in the world. Not only are you refusing to give up on your Presidential ambitions, you’ve dragged your family so far into the media spotlight that more scandals, fallouts and distractions were almost inevitable. The breakdown of your 19-year-old daughter’s relationship with the father of her child is nothing to be proud of and I wonder how much blame should be attributed to you.
When it was announced during the Presidential campaign that your daughter Bristol was pregnant, the story became an instant media hit as you used her to exemplify your opposition to abortion. To prove the point, on camera, you paraded your pregnant daughter in front of a TV audience of millions at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. Bristol’s boyfriend, Levi Johnston, even sported a tattoo of the word “Bristol” on his ring finger. Just last month, in an interview with Fox News, Bristol denied that any pressure had been placed upon her by you to have the child and said that she and Levi - who she described as a “hands on dad” - were considering a summer wedding. Sadly, this tatoo will probably now have to be removed because Bristol and Levi have split up. All of a sudden, the consequences of you shoving your family into the limelight become clear. Levi’s sister is reported to have told a magazine that on top of the breakup Bristol was making it difficult for Levi to visit their baby on the grounds that “she doesn’t want [the baby] around ‘white trash’”, a view allegedly supported by you. Rather than denying it, Bristol merely claims that Levi is trying to “cash in” on the Palin name.
This is what I don’t get. Even when you have put your family under needless pressure and used them as a tool for improving your political credentials, you don’t seem that bothered. You increasingly moan about the treatment of your family in the US media and blame the coverage on a conspiracy of liberal pundits and bloggers. Talk about not taking responsibility for your own mistakes. Do you not understand what you’re doing to your children’s lives and futures by parading them around like this? What the hell is your daughter doing on national television talking about her boyfriend and setting herself up for the most horrific fall? Last month you launched a new campaigning group, SarahPac, declaring that ”America’s best days are ahead. The Republican party is at the threshold of an historic renaissance.” On Tuesday this week, a new “2012 Draft Sarah Palin Committee” held its first fundraising event and, although this group is not officially affiliated to you, the element of presumption is quite astonishing. Having recently said that God will show you the way to a potential White House run, I wonder whether God might have time to tell you to stop shoving your political ambitions in everyone’s faces when you almost single-handedly destroyed the hopes and aspirations of the last Republican Presidential candidate and to stop dealing with your children’s difficulties in the glaring eyes of journalists across the world.
Personally, I found Barack Obama’s decision to put his young children in front of a camera lens at every possible opportunity over the last year extremely distasteful, in the same way that Tony Blair shoving his children in front of cameras during the 1997 election campaign made me feel physically nauseous. When will you politicians learn that your children need protection from the media, not their own television slot. Once you’ve let the media into your family, you can never get them out again. I feel genuinely sorry for your children who have a mother that appears to care little for their best interests and instead chooses to make political capital out of their personal struggles.
Yours disrespectfully,
A.Tory
“That was supposed to be it, the end, the finale, bye bye.”
According to whom…?
I think she’s the perfect candidate for the anti-intellectual, pro-stupidity, Theocratic Christian Republican right. She properly exemplifies them and I hope they select her to fight Obama in 2012. It should destroy that Christian clique forever.
Julia, according to my wish for the entire world not to be destroyed by some unintelligent moronic religious nutcase.
Shaun, I think you’re right which is why Middle America will always reject her and she will never be elected to the White House. Mind you, that won’t stop her from ruining her kids’ lives in the process.
“Julia, according to my wish for the entire world not to be destroyed by some unintelligent moronic religious nutcase.”
Sorry, you’ve lost me. I thought we were talking about the Republican candidate for VP, Sarah Palin.
Now, I see you were talking about the media’s image of the threat to their chosen one.
I see we were talking at cross purposes.
Gov Palin isn’t going to be president. While much liked by most conservatives, until plucked from relative obscurity by Sen McCain, she was never going to be president. Well, okay, she would have been had Sen McCain won in November, and well, uh…
Her VP nomination was his attempt to boost his perceived weak standing among (especially religious) conservatives, without whom in vast numbers (in what nearly everyone sensed was to be a “Democratic year”), he had no chance of winning. Say this much for the choice, it caught nearly everyone out: it almost worked. Sen McCain made it closer than anyone had expected it would be. Had he chosen instead some middle of the road, bland, “conservative man,” Sen McCain probably would have been beaten as badly as was George McGovern.
The Republican presidential nominee in 2012? If he goes after it, probably Gov Romney. His VP? Not Gov Palin.
Perhaps, Robert. If Palin keeps using her family to gain publicity the voters will be so tired of her in three years time that she won’t stand a chance. Leadership contests are rarely won by a candidate who is leading the pack several years before the final decision is made.
“If Palin keeps using her family to gain publicity the voters will be so tired of her in three years time that she won’t stand a chance. Leadership contests are rarely won by a candidate who is leading the pack several years before the final decision is made.”
Now, that’s more like it!
Yes, I think overexposure at this late stage is probably a miscalculation. Better to let the spotlight stay on Obama and his increasingly hilarious trainwreck of a presidency…
I never doubted for a second how much you would be enjoying watching Obama pretend to be in control of things as the US economy melts away around him!
JuliaM.
Let him try. He may be wrong. He may be making huge mistakes. At least people support him. So its more of a joint decision to go down the fiscal stimulus route.
I don’t know what our plan here is. I have been told what it is but we don’t even listen to our guy anymore so I can’t recall it.
I don’t suppose she literally gets more ignorant as time goes by, it’s just that any media exposure serves to reveal the extent of her ignorance.
But I’m surprised she continues to annoy you so. Her ignorance is fortunately no longer a major concern for us.
@ Dave H
In fairness, if ‘ignorance’ is a vast disparity between the totality of human knowledge and what you personally know then as science extends our understanding ever more rapidly, we ALL become more ignorant, relatively, all the time…
But she keeps up less well than most!
Bill, I don’t think the Republicans would agree that it was a joint decision – they voted against the stimulus in large numbers.
Dave, she hasn’t annoyed me for weeks, if not months, after she fell off the political radar following McCain’s defeat. This was unexpected story!
“At least people support him.”
Actually, his poll numbers are heading downwards as fast as the economy…
And yes, only two Republicans (I think) voted with the stimulus bill. Still, never mind. Maybe he’ll pick up more than two on the next stimulus bil. ‘cos there’ll have to be one….
Unlike the UK Conservatives, at least the Republicans can say ‘I told you so’ if it all goes horribly wrong!
I think, LFAT, that if ‘if it all goes horribly wrong’ in the US, we’ll *all* be too busy grabbing the survival gear and heading to the woods to give a damn about ‘I told you so’. Look around, while we haemorrhage £30bn or so every couple of days for some new banking write off. As far as I can tell we stand right on the edge of systemic collapse; capitalism can only work on trust. Hell, even trade can only work on trust. These bankers no longer trust eachother, and not without justification as most of them were pretty dodgy so can only expect similar from their peers.
I have severe doubts about Stimulus but I KNOW that its a better idea than putting bad banks run by morons, greedy morons, on tax-assisted life support. Bah!
Mr Tory
You nailed her. Well said.
IMHO anyone who argues that Eve came from Adam’s rib needs to get out more – and should have a well thumbed passport to prove it.
By chance, I’ve been endulging in old public information films and came across this Why political cretins need to be kept well away from the red ‘overload’ button
How we came so close to a nuclear winter sounds so bizarre now but HMG thought it was worth making ten public information films about it then – whoa, that’s scarey.
It’s not as if the Repugs are a resoundingly successful oppoisition, is it? Even those who are critical of the stimulus are overwhelmingly staying with the least bad option.
Those who want Obama to fail had better lube themselves up for more of what they got in November.
It will be interesting to see if the Republicans can get organised quickly enough to become a proper opposition, though. The Conservative Party consigned themselves to years in the wilderness after 1997 with their poor strategy and inability to communicate with the voters. I wonder if the Republicans will fall into the same trap.
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/mar/09/00006// is quite interesting.
He has got some problems & a fair few people don’t like him. But I prefer someone of that stamp to the neocons & theocons.
We noticed some months ago that the GOP was imploding & the bottom is yet to be reached in my view, but maybe a libertarian/traditionalist revival will take place.
Although I myself would probably still be a Democrat, I have no massive objection to a Repub party which sheds its authoritarianism & support for a large state & reconciles itself to science & rationality.
If such a thing ever happens, which is questionable.
Isn’t it so true that that the people least suited to power are those who seek most desperately to acquire it?