Is The Foreign Press Correct in Branding Sarah Palin a Traitor?

I read Foreign Press Says What America's Won't: Sarah Palin is a Traitor and am in complete agreement with everything Sarah Jones, the author, writes. Even with such a well-reasoned and well-supported argument I knew there would be an attack by Sarah Palin's defenders. But these people are, by and large (and buying large but that's another post), ignorant, angry and intellectually dishonest. Whenever a point they have tried to make is shot down by the guns of reality, facts and common sense, they change tactics and try another avenue to discredit the article.

The comments, from Sarah and Jason, who runs the site, are strong and reasoned as are the many comments from other readers in the face of often moronic comments by the We Heart Sarah goon squad.

I try not to wade into political discussions because, in reality, they are akin to shouting at a brick wall. I have no illusions that all of the reasoned responses to the Palin trolls had any impact on their worship of her false idol. But I did comment and wanted to repost it here.

Top Ten Thoughts About Sarah Palin's Abrupt Resignation

1. She's tired of being a national punchline. Yes, she's pretty but she's as vapid and as stupid as your typical runway model.
2. She's gearing up for a run at the White House in 2012. Which would be fine. She may resonate with the people but she's a bad leader, inexperienced and as dumb as an Alaskan winter day is long.
3. Somewhere Tina Fey is breathing a sigh of relief.
4. There is, physically and realistically speaking, no possible way she could see Russia from her office nor would being able to see Russia in any possible way qualify her to have even the tiniest modicum of foreign policy experience.
5. We can, officially, lay to rest the phrase "lipstick on a pig".
6. Women everywhere can start rebuilding every bit of the equal rights mountain her idiocy and reliance on T&A blew apart.
7. Vegas bookies are putting together the odds on her winding up on Fox News within six months. Or The View.
8. If she wasn't so incredibly egotistical and stupid, she'd have realized months ago that silence can be alot more deafening than yet another lame press announcement.
9. Its hard to take someone who preaches about family values and abstinence for teens seriously when she can't even keep her own children from getting knocked up.
10. Now Hilary Clinton can go back to being the hot politician.

I have plenty more to say about Sarah Palin. From the whiners who think she got a raw deal by the big bad media wolf (hint, she gave fewer interviews than any vice presidential candidate in history and the one's she did give were absolute softball hand-picked BS affairs) to the people who voted for her solely because they'd like to fuck her (which is an incredibly poor way to choose who to vote for). Sarah Palin is an aggressive ignorant and arrogant fool with ambition that her brains just aren't quite enough of to fulfill.

She was in no way ready to the vice president and the McCain campaign made a colossal error in not vetting her more thoroughly. She was embroiled in an ethics investigation about her abuse of power to get her sister's ex-husband fired because she's a vindictive and grudge holding bitch. She had little to no grasp of national let alone international politics. She'd barely even stepped foot outside the USA in her life. She tried to charge rape victims for the kits used to generate evidence to convict rapists in courts.

The list goes on and on and on. She is, was and will remain the low water mark for vice presidential candidates. The only more annoying thing introduced by the 2008 campaign has been Joe the Fucking Plumber whose name isn't Joe and he's not a licensed plumber and the whole point of McCain invoking him (that his taxes would be raised under Obama) was later proven to be utter bullshit.

I'm almost sad to see Sarah go. She was a trainwreck from start to finish and the only thing that makes me sad about her is how many people across the country glommed on to her for all they were worth. Regardless of the patent fact that she had zero qualifications for the job she was running for.

And, last thought, if Sarah Palin had a stroke, she'd probably look alot like that photo above, just all the time. Yeah, I wrote that.

Happy Birthday America, so far our gift has been this freakshow's departure.

Sarah Palin: Pretty, Pretty Wrong and Pretty Mean

I watched enough of Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the RNC. I got to see her attempts at sarcastic humor, her factually incorrect jabs at Obama, her factually incorrect revisions of her own record and her general snide GOP-style meanness.

This was her first national coming out party and she did a decent job of it. But it doesn't change the facts stacked up behind her.

Sarah Palin is a bad choice and a downright scary VP given how extreme her religious beliefs are, her zero regard for a woman's right to choose, her desire to "teach" creationism alongside evolution in our schools, anti-environment, pro-gun and an earmarked funds flip flop once public opinion flared up and her Bridge to Nowhere project became a national mockery (she kept the money she'd already gotten, of course).

More than all of this, she's mean. She's got a nasty streak in her, one that enables her to fudge facts for dramatic effect. Plus, her speaking voice has some kind of nasal tone in it that's just annoying to listen to. Maybe its because her intonation is so heavily flecked with self-congratulatory sarcasm and unearned wit but either way, she reminds me of Mike Myers' character Linda Richman and Coffee Talk, too nasal.

On the plus side, her standing next to John McCain makes him look like he's almost fossilized. Or maybe he's been replaced with a Disney animatronic clone? Seriously, there are old people and then there are old old people and McCain is definitely one of them. The chances of Sarah Palin having to step in as president if their ticket somehow wins is pretty high.

And the thought of Sarah Palin as our president is downright scary. This nation needs to move away from the religiosity we've been overtly beat over the head with for the last 8 years.

And the calls for change were kind of bizarre. These people have had the White House for 8 years and they're talking about bringing massive change to America? Why? Because they have to, because they need to distance themselves from the rolling travesty that has been the Bush presidency. You think its a coincidence that Bush and Cheney aren't there? The GOP leaders don't want them there, they want distance because the nation, world and reality itself is sick and tired of the bad combination of venality, stupidity and cowboy posturing that is the Dubya administration. Oh yeah, and corruption, of course, can't forget about the corruption.

And, last thought, is it just me or does Rudi Guilliani look like he's just happy to have an audience to smirk at and with? I think I'm going to start calling him Gobliani because of that goofy look-at-me grin he gets when people clap for him.

By the way, yes, I'm well aware that I'm pretty much the only one who cares about these political posts and believe me when I say I post about one in five that I write. The thought of McCain/Palin taking over from Bush/Cheney is deeply unsettling both personally and for the country. They are the wrong prescription for this country and they will do nothing but continue the policies begun by Bush.

We need change, we need real change, we need leaders who lead, we need vision, we need a real plan not more smoke and mirrors and lies from the GOP. They've had their chance over the last eight years and they have failed miserably on almost every front. Its time for Obama/Biden to start to put our nation back on the path to honor, prosperity and unity.