Palin Fatigue: Tired of Talking about Sarah

Am I the only one who is sick of hearing about Sarah Palin?

As a general rule, I am not a fan of bible-thumping, moose-hunting, gay-marriage and pro-choice-opposing, tough-question-dodging, maverick-emulating politicians. And I don't love the idea that this particular one could be our next vice president, because she certainly doesn't represent me and my interests.

But must we keep talking about her?

Why is it that the candidate who is the least deserving of attention is getting so much publicity? If we don't like her, then why are we giving her the ultimate gift of continuing to talk about her?

From the perspective of "who am I going to vote for", do I really care whether Trig is her child, versus her daughter's, as some like to posit? Do I really care about the way that she responds to questions about her foreign policy experience, as if we should really expect her to have any more foreign policy experience than any other state governor running for federal office? Do I really care how she proposes to be a good mother to her five (four?) children while working in Washington and traveling the globe as vice president of this country?

How is any of that my business? Maybe it was amusing at first, maybe it made for witty cocktail party conversation. But I'm over it.

Oh, and there's this: Is it really an insult to women that McCain chose a woman with what appear to be grossly inadequate credentials to be his running mate, as some women maintain? Frankly, I am of the opinion that calling it an insult to women is the real insult to women. Tearing Sarah Palin apart for her personal choices, skewering her for the same lack of experience that Bill Clinton had when he ran for president as the governor of Arkansas, mocking her hairstyle, Photoshopping her face onto bikini-clad bodies: this is an insult to women.

Is this how we treat men who run for office? Is this the sort of scrutiny to which male candidates are subject?

So, enough already. Can't we just agree to stick to the real issues?

Comments

[LOinAK]

Lauren, the only reason people keep talking about her is because everything about her, everything that spews out of her mouth is contradictory to reality or intelligence.
She has asked Stevens to resign, yet she has been proven to have violated AK ethics herself (and let's not even get into who paid to have her house built); she claims to be a fiscal conservative, then the RNC spends 150K on her wardrobe not to mention that ever expanding amount of AK's money she's pocketing from per diem to her kids' travel expenses; I'd go on further, but even I'm tired of this woman and her decietful ways.
My only regret on 4 Nov is that she's coming back to Alaska and now she thinks she's mightier than God himself. I guess it's better to inflict her on us than to have the whole world have to endure her reign though.
She is a hatemonger and the typical Republican fearmonger. Thank goodness King Frank (Murkowski) allowed the people of Alaska to decide by election who gets to fill vacant Senate seats by selecting his daughter to fill the last vacancy (we approved a ballot measure preventing this atrocity from happening again) becase if Sarah didn't pick herself, I'm sure she'd have placed her puppet master, Todd, in Uncle Teddy's spot.
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for Palin's impeachment after the McCain defeat.

[Jason404]

It's her polarising awfulness in contrast to Obama's decency that makes this election so fascinating for me.