Poor Sarah

by Mags

Poor Sarah. She has no clue about the definitions of words or the reality of the political world. Even though I have heard over and over how politically savvy she is, this woman from the hinterlands of the great frigid north is so isolated that she is not even aware that she is woefully ignorant. When you go to 6 colleges in order to get your journalism degree... well maybe you miss something essential in your education. When you are a big fish in a small pond, there is no way to measure yourself and your accomplishments against the mainstream. When you get to the lower 48, people will not be so supportive of you.

The other day Sarah and others on the right revealed their ignorance by criticizing Barack Obama calling the Constitution a document of “negative rights.” One must wonder why there was no one on the McCain band wagon who had even a smattering of knowledge regarding legal definitions. What the term means is that the Constitution tells us what the government may not do rather than to tell us exactly what our rights are. Pretty simple right? It would seem so, but for those who are helplessly lost in the right wing spin machine, it is muddy. They think that Obama was saying the Constitution was a negative. Never mind that Barack Obama is a Constitutional Scholar and that he taught Constitutional Law. Small detail? I think not.

Now comes Sarah Palin complaining that we must not call the smears she is slinging, the accusations of being a pal of terrorists and being a secret PLO lover, negative campaigning. If we do so, we might be violating her 1st Amendment rights. What? Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, why must you continually open your mouth to show just how ignorant you are? Seriously, I enjoy it since I have no respect for you as a person or as a woman, but it sets my brain on fire to think that someone who is so, may I say it, stupid to speak in public at venues that will be broadcast to the entire nation? Come on, what are we going to tell our children?

Sarah, negative campaigning means that you are campaigning by smearing your opponent rather than talking up the positives that you will achieve. Positive campaigning is telling people what you will do. It is selling your own plan. I realize people with pea sized brains and big egos such as your self cannot elevate themselves without getting into the gutter to take someone else down, but honey, it is possible to campaign and to have freedom of speech without lying. Ya, you betcha.

So often have you criticized the “gotcha media” that you cannot see yourself as the “gotcha” vice presidential dispenser of lies. If all of these pronouncements are your idea, then you are doubly repulsive, but if you are spewing these lies merely at the behest of campaign managers, then you are a mere actor reciting a script. Neither possibility explains the relish with which you seem to throw this red meat to the crowds. Nor does this recommend you as a public official. The look on your face is full of self-righteous self-serving satisfaction. These rallies are an exercise in self-gratification of the baser natures in us all, the baser natures which we fight to keep in check. This is self-indulgence at its worst. You hold all that is good in contempt. It is written on your face.

Your flaws are legion Sarah, but most of them you have revealed yourself. It makes an observant person shake their head in disbelief that you do not even understand how you undermine your own credibility. I mean really, it would make me embarrassed for you if I did not already despise all of your politics and your methods. Can you express yourself without being snide and attacking others? Is it possible? I doubt anyone of your belief system and your political persuasion can any longer make any meaningful statements in the public sphere. It is all attacks and hate.

Your bitter and snide nature is caught again and again in your facial expressions and in your tone. It is clear that you hold yourself in high regard, you think you are better than the rest of us. It is clear that you disrespect those who display integrity and intelligence.

Everything you say is meaningless and ill logical. If it is not obvious to you, it is obvious to us. This is the thing that has been making us crazy for 8 years. We know what is said again and again by the right wing does not make any sense, but night after night the media has on supposed experts to dissect the statements as if they made perfect sense.

Poor Sarah, you have begun to think this is about you. I am so sorry dear. This is not about you. This is not about how “cute” you are. Cute does not get real power Sarah, besides on camera and in the bedrooms of the GOP. Cute gets you nothing, but attention. The election is not about you. No one of any position takes you seriously. I am sorry that your illusions of a 2012 run for the presidency will end in flames, and trust me, they will. If you had not been a user and an opportunist for your whole life, I would be tempted to feel sorry for you. But, I don’t.

Here is the one thing for which American women can be grateful. We can be grateful that despite your celebrity status, your $11,000 per week make-up artist, and your $150,000 wardrobe that any of us who are intelligent and able to speak in well measured and cogent sentences might now be taken seriously in political circles. Your candidacy has made Hillary Clinton look like a lioness in comparison. Frankly, Sarah, I would make a better VP than you would, and I have never held public office. If nothing else, you helped us to appreciate the women in Congress who serve with intelligence and distinction that is well-earned.

As for you Sarah, poor Sarah, we hope you go back home. And, when you get there I hope the citizens of your own state will hold you accountable for your abuses of power, your lapses of judgment, and your deceptions in governing. You have shown us that women such as yourself are fully capable of being as corrupt and greedy as any man in any political office. Go home Sarah. Study the Constitution of these United States. It was never about you. It is about the country, America, first... remember?

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