Political Fan Clubs are Ruining America

The LAST topic that I ever want to post on is Sarah Palin – but, she is going to have the week of overexposure in the extreme.  As anyone who reads here knows, I am NOT a fan of Sarah Palin. And, I find her fan clubs especially annoying.

Her book debuts today, Tuesday, November 17.  In a few short months she has put together a 400+ page tome.  This week will be a flash of media attention with non-stop interviews with Barbara Walters and Oprah.  We will get to listen to her voice screech across the musical scale like an 8-year-old with a new violin.  Her non-musical giggling will assault our ears.  We will also get to hear gossip and folksy words and her complete inability to articulate in the English language.  Oh goodie!

Now, I am aware that giggly girls are a turn on for men – the dumb cheerleader routine and all – but, what happened to women’s brains?  These were the girls who wrecked your life in high school and giggled when they did it, and now you are acting like Britney Spears is your best friend despite the fact that she stole your boyfriend….

No one has ever heard a policy stance from Sarah Palin.  The mantra is “she’s a conservative” – based on what?  What is her policy on the economy, on the middle east, on Iraq, on Afghanistan, on judicial appointments?  You don’t know, because if she has any, she’s never said. She gave one rousing speech at the Republican Convention, then repeated the vapid thing over and over and over and over.

What do we know about Sarah Palin?  Not much.  I do know that she is given a pass for everything Obama-like she does, and they are more similar than you think – oops, you’re not thinking.

I am also not a fan of Obama.  In fact this entire Fan Club atmosphere around politicians, making them into celebrities, refusing to see them as human, is about as detrimental as it can get in America.  I want people who govern us to be analyzed and criticized.  We are currently living under a President who sees himself more as a dictator than as a President.  Sarah Palin is no different, and perhaps worse.  She whines about being the VP candidate in such a way that confirms that she had no clue what her role was. Lady, you were NOT on the top of the ticket.  VP candidates don’t give concession speeches, you idiot.

Gawd, this is going to be a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG week.