isany1listening

Since I started to kick writing my dissertation chapter into high gear, I have been left out of the loop in terms of politics for the past few days.  So you can imagine my surprise when I turned on the television and also browsed my favorite news sites and heard that on Fox news Sarah Palin was open to running for President in either four or eight years.  With this startling revelation, I could not help but ask this question: Sarah Palin, are you still here?  Seriously?

After watching her, well very few interviews, and feeling embarrassed for her, and now hearing those McCain aides dish about how stupid she really was, I thought she would have some self-respect and fade slowly back into the Alaskan shadows.  Clearly she was not ready for the national stage and may never be.  This is not to say that the woman is a total idiot.  On the contrary, I think Sarah Palin is very cunning and that requires at least half a brain.  But after what the world witnessed of her, seriously, she is not going gently into that good night?

My problems with Sarah Palin are her true politics: religious right-wing conservatism.  The same politics that once she became the GOP Vice Presidential nominee, she conveniently forgot to mention in her stump speeches around the country.  We saw traces when there were “real” parts of America, but still her love of Jesus did not play so prominent a role when asked about climate change, stem cell research, gay rights and abortion.  Her whole claim to being a maverick actually was rooted in her utter shedding of her political beliefs in order to get elected.  Frankly, I would have had more respect for her if she would have come out and said what she believed, even if it was entangled with hyper religious rhetoric, instead of letting it fall by the wayside so she could be a true politician.  There is nothing independent in Sarah Palin.  And to be fair, I don’t understand what she is saying half the time.  She cannot put words together and form coherent sentences.  If you cannot deliver a message on the simple grammatical level, then you have a problem.

After everything, Sarah Palin still has political aspirations.  I am not surprised, but she was a train wreck.  A disaster.  The GOP has begun to turn on itself.  The fact is, I want my President to be smarter than me.  I don’t want someone who I could out do at a spelling bee.  Hey Sarah, I can see Canada from where I live, do you think I can be VP too?  Do I have the foreign policy street cred that you do?  We live in a complex world and need people who can think complexly to deal with them.  Furthermore, we need people who can actually speak in clear sentences. People who can actually think.

Sarah Palin, please take the cue, see the writing on the wall, and just stop embarrassing yourself.  Let it go.  Not everyone is meant to be a politician on the national stage.  Not everyone is meant to be President, and I mean based solely on intelligence.  I know G.W. got your hopes up, but take a look around, nobody likes him and he is going down in history as the worst President in history.  It is not your turn and after this historic moment, and someone like Obama who is incredibly bright, there is no chance.  Stay in Alaska and do whatever it is that you do there.  We have seen you and we have heard you.  Now here is what the nation had to say: Thanks, but no thanks.  Seriously.

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