Sarah Palin, Not So ‘Mavericky’
13 October 2008 11:11 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Sarah Palin has taken a “big blow to her credibility,” but also her “campaign promises,” stated Monegan, the man Palin fired who is at the center of “Troopergate.” So much for “the maverick.”
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin is ignoring the facts and the findings of the report, as is the McCain campaign, that found Palin violated ethics and abused her authority as governor. Others are not.
Christopher Hitchens, no fan of the Democrats, weighed in on McCain-Palin on “Morning Joe” last week. Today he does so in print, joining the cavalcade of conservatives to distance themselves from McCain, but particularly Sarah Palin.
Last week’s so-called town-hall event showed Sen. John McCain to be someone suffering from an increasingly obvious and embarrassing deficit, both cognitive and physical. And the only public events that have so far featured his absurd choice of running mate have shown her to be a deceiving and unscrupulous woman utterly unversed in any of the needful political discourses but easily trained to utter preposterous lies and to appeal to the basest element of her audience. …It turns out that none of her early claims to political courage was founded in fact, and it further turns out that some of the untested rumors about her—her vindictiveness in local quarrels, her bizarre religious and political affiliations—were very well-founded, indeed. Moreover, given the nasty and lowly task of stirring up the whack-job fringe of the party’s right wing and of recycling patent falsehoods about Obama’s position on Afghanistan, she has drawn upon the only talent that she apparently possesses.
But on Sarah Palin drones, oblivious to the fool she has made of herself, not to mention the disastrous professional damage she has done to herself by being ill-equipped, under qualified, and overly arrogant. People like Rush Limbaugh and many others continue to think Palin could be the future of the Republican Party. She’s got a lot of repairing to do of her personal image, as well as some serious studying, before that part of the wingnut dream can be realized.
