I have long brooded over the fact that Sarah Palin still grabs headlines over the most egregious comments. She wangs Michelle Obama for pushing for an end of obesity in the United States. She goes after Barbara Bush for being an elitist "blue-blood" for saying that Palin should stay in Alaska. She slams down moderate Republicans for agreeing to things like the stimulus legislation or the TARP program. She champions the Tea Party movement and supports such loopy candidates as Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and Sharron Angle in Nevada against her own party. She blames Katie Couric for her own interview inanities. She lambastes Senator Murkowski for daring to run against her handpicked candidate, Joe Miller, of Tea Party fame. She attacks Ben Bernacke for trying to reduce unemployment by expanding the money supply through actions by the Federal Reserve. She assails Obama for just about anything he does. But the trick she plays is to express her anger with a smile. Somehow this disguises the ugliness underneath. The trick has worn thin. Below the surface, she is a furious, even, at times, vicious individual, whose beatific expressions or fixed grins or "you betchas" can't disguise the nastiness and ignorance at work. But why does the media give her so much exposure? It bewilders me. Yet one curious result from the vast press coverage is that it has driven her unfavorable rating up to Paris Hilton levels among the American public. If she ever gains the Republican presidential nomination, she will bring ruin to the party. Maybe, after all, the free press is doing us a favor.
But I digress. I think the press are afraid of Palin's wrath. They are also afraid of the wrath of Beck and Limbaugh which would accompany Palin's if they ever had the temerity to expose her nastiness. But, in time she will be her own undoing. She can't help it, one day she will go too far and (pardon the mixed metaphor) shoot a sacred Republican cow.
You're the Queen of sinful sots,
Your heart's a de ad tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mrs Palin
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots!
(Sung to "Your a Mean One Mr.Grinch)
Palin's vindictiveness and pettiness are beyond belief. She can't let any criticism, real or perceived, go. She just can't and I think this will eventually catch up to her. Really, how many battle fronts can she keep fighting? The list keeps growing. Katie Couric, Barbara Bush. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and on and on. Palin is one nasty woman who never ever forgets.
She keeps bringing up Katie Couric trying to get in the last word. She's angry at Couric, not for asking a tough question, but for asking a softball question, that Palin couldn't answer. Palin flubbed it big time and we all caught a glimpse of the real Palin.
It makes me think of the southern thing (I'm from the south) wherein someone insults with a blessing. "Sarah Palin is just about the dumbest little baddie I've ever seen. Bless her heart.".
As for the press they may well be doing us a favor by covering her more often than the weather - I'll try looking at it that way if I can - but in truth I have another theory. Main Stream Media are rapidly ceasing to be journalists and are instead just in it for the revenue. (So much for those 1st Amendment protections that they're rapidly ceasing to deserve). And I have this thought when I'm fed up with it all that they actually have a marketing plan that was formulated in 2009. The white woman runs against the black president. How exciting! A real horse race. The Thrilla from Wasilla. Profit projections already drawn up. Advertising already lined up. Surely not, but would you be surprised? They seem determined to keep this con artist in the arena.