She scares me too
How Palin Responds To Factual Criticism
I fear her.
The indifference to reality, the cult-like connection with the gun-clingers, the charisma, the cunning, the fraud: this is like a second Bush utterly unleashed from any connection to the GOP’s more civil and expansive past, holding a view of presidential power that establishes a national security protectorate for the indefinite future, and total unseriousness with respect to the debt and defusing Islamist terror – rather than provoking it even further.
At least this time, we will have more than eight weeks to vet her. But when a politician believes she does not need to respond to the press, when in fact she now uses the fiction that she too is the press and should be asking questions of others, when the platform she has been given provides her with total immunity from direct criticism along with a megaphone for lies, we are in trouble as a democracy.
She is a symptom of a broken political and journalistic system. She is not a tabloid story. She is a threat.</em>
I’m with Andrew on this one. Installed by Murdoch on Fox, her book (also owned by Murdoch’s News Corp) of fantasy published and discussed as if by a serious person, all of this leads to Palin in the White House. Sure, we all know she’s an idiot- but the idiots don’t. Or they do, and they just hate Obama so intensely that they are willing to install a chattering imbecile in the highest office to show darkie his place. And we’re all going to sit around scoffing at her, at her legions of followers, until the day she announces a run at the top spot, and who’ll be laughing then?
Sarah Palin is the poster child for what Sullivan calls the “indifference to reality” that this nation has suffered from since Bush was installed by a corrupt Supreme Court in 2000. We broke from reality at that point, everyone knows it, and many of us are frankly terrified at the prospect that Palin, who proves that there are things worse than Bush, will smirk and wink her unqualified ass into a position of power. And at that point we’ll have a trash-talking idiot who I wouldn’t trust to run an Arbys attempting to represent her mythical America to the world? Frankly, I’d pray for a Chinese invasion at that point.
Laugh all you want, but Sarah Palin is being taken seriously by serious people. Now, I’m sure they know she’s a moron, but Bush was a moron too, and look at what they propped him up to do.
