So, the kids are off-limits but then Sarah Palin parades them around the Republican convention because it suits her agenda? A son going to Iraq, a special needs baby, etc. etc. Compelling stuff. And typical display of right-wing condescension and double-standards, complete with all the raw hamburger that constituents just looove to suck through their teeth.
But before we all start talking about what a surprising star she is, let’s remember that everything is carefully orchestrated. Her speech was written by a former Bush speech writer and all she had to do was read off the teleprompter, sound commanding and give good face. Not tough stuff for a former news/sports/weather/pitbull anchor with charisma and a hot bod. She was good tonight—in a smoke and mirrors kind of way (thanks, LilSass, for pointing out my lack of clarity here)—but there was no way she wasn’t going to be.
But like I said before, if you lower the bar so that it cannot be limboed, crawled or slithered under, it isn’t even possible not to exceed expectation. People: Don’t believe the hype. The Emperor still has no clothes. They’ve simply repackaged the same old lies.
Bring on the debates, bitches!
13 responses so far ↓
1 LilSass // Sep 3, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Honey, does “good” mean she’s literate? Cause I thought that speech was Tina Fey on quaaludes. Gag me with a spoon so bad!
2 Jenn @ Juggling Life // Sep 3, 2008 at 10:16 pm
The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. The only bright spot in my life is that it is such fodder for Jon Stewart.
3 Aaryn // Sep 3, 2008 at 10:28 pm
LilSass: Yes. Precisely! Good as in B-movie acting geared for the masses who are wooed by the simultaneous presence of ovaries and balls.
Jenn: Watching now. But it’s all about tomorrow night.
Anyway, people may have underestimated Palin but they’re also underestimating Obama. He’ll be okay. Visualize what we want!!!!!
4 Cheri @ Blog This Mom! // Sep 3, 2008 at 10:48 pm
So? I’m signing on to work on Obama’s campaign. Something I’ve never done before, but I feel strongly about this one.
And? Stop saying Palin’s hot. She’s not. And she needs to lose the Alice of The Brady Bunch hairdo too. Meeeeooow! Howza dat fo’ bein’ bitchy?
5 Raushan // Sep 4, 2008 at 3:38 am
Aaryn, I think I am in love with you…
6 Blondish // Sep 4, 2008 at 6:39 am
I spent some time yesterday reading up on the once-almost-prettiest woman in Alaska - but not about her beauty pageant history. About her alleged membership in an Alaska secessionist party; about her apparent confusion, just a few weeks ago, re: what exactly a vice president does, her questions about banning books in a Wasilla library. We don’t need to go after her pregnant teenage daughter. Homegirl’s gonna hoist herself by her own political petard. Gee, Sarah - I know it’s real tough to find time for issues like the continuing military occupation of Iraq or universal health care or the economy or the new cold war when you’re busy pushing a gleeful exchange of your state’s ecological value for sweet black gold. Her state has fewer people than Cambridge. Fewer people than Cape Cod. As for her foreign policy knowledge, I’d like to see hear what she plans to do about the nuclear non-proliferation treaties or hear her thoughtfully explain the difference between the social and political (or religious - since she’s all into it, anyway) values of the Sunnis and the Shiites or where the Green Line falls or how she plans to handle relations with Pakistan, and with Georgia, and with Russia.
But I ain’t holding my breath. I think we’ll probably hear more insights like, “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick!”
7 Pam // Sep 4, 2008 at 7:55 am
Aaryn-you know well my feelings about Sarah Palin but I have to admit, when little Piper licked her palm and smooshed down her baby brother’s hair, I melted a little. I just want to eat that girl up with a spoon! (Preferably not the one LilSass is gagging on.)
8 Martha // Sep 4, 2008 at 10:40 am
She is to McCain as Quayle was to Bush I.
9 Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy // Sep 4, 2008 at 11:40 am
I’m getting such an education. Love it!
10 tiffany // Sep 4, 2008 at 4:16 pm
This is the exact statements I said to my husband Mike last night.
11 Katie // Sep 4, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I was driving home listening to this on NPR and I thought, “All she has to keep talking about (along with the other speakers I caught throughout the night via the radio) is how she is a RED BLOODED AMERICAN JUST LIKE ALL OF US AND DID I MENTION SHE IS PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN?! GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Thank you. And thanks for all the Alaska rhetoric that really had nothing to do with the election whatsoever.
12 Scott // Sep 4, 2008 at 7:13 pm
It was a well-delivered speech, I thought. I don’t buy into her ideology or have the remotest intention of voting for her and the old man. But make no mistake, that speech was CPR for the Republican party. Those folks were dead on the operating table as recently as 24 hours earlier.
BTW, did anyone see this link? It’s of a young Sarah Palin (then Sarah Heath) delivering the sports report for KTUU in Anchorage. Coincidentally, I was a young writer at the Anchorage Times at the same time and even spent a few days at KTUU interviewing Maria Downey, who was a popular anchor at the time. Now I’m sifting through the cobwebs in my head to recall if I met a Sarah Heath in the newsroom (I met a lot of folks there).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-from-tv-sport_n_122676.html
I’m not a basher. It’s not in my nature. But there’s absolutely nothing in that clip that hints that young Sarah Heath would be running for Vice President of the United States. Amazing.
13 Brad // Sep 5, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Her pregnant daughter is not off limits if you are speaking to her support of abstinence only sex-ed. In that context she is a very significant point. Apart from that, well life happens, which is why kids need to know the basic facts.
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