I'm Actually Going To Miss Her

In Wasilla, Alaska, to vote on Tuesday, Palin sounded like the old governor when asked by a reporter about her future role nationally.

“You know, if there is a role in national politics it won't be so much partisan,” Palin said. “My efforts have always been here in the state of Alaska to get everybody to unite and work together to progress this state ... it certainly would be a uniter type of role.”

Her campaigning was atrocious, even by Republican standards.  She mocked community service at a national convention that devoted an entire night to  community service.  She called her Barack Obama a socialist for proposing a 39% top marginal tax rate, as opposed to the 35% one she was supporting.  She accused Obama of palling around with terrorists.  She maligned a scholar and private citizen.  And she suggested that who you know, who lives in your neighborhood, who your kids go to school with, and what you hear should be considered part of your "record".

She hosted rallies where she happily stirred up such ugly sentiments that her supporters were shouting "kill him" and "traitor" and "treason" and "he's a nigger".  It was so out of hand, McCain had to try to put a lid on it. Even the secret service had to get involved.  Though, she never did.

She talked about "real" Americans.  As opposed to Democrats.

She was briefly and profoundly appalling.  

And she did all that to win an election.  She stirred up that kind of hate and race and class consciousness and divisiveness for purely partisan reasons.

And now she says, if she gets back into national politics, which she just got overwhelmingly kicked the fuck out of,  it'll be in a "uniter type of role".

Jesus Christ.  Can Katy Couric follow up with an exit interview and please ask the question we're all dying to hear the answer to:  "Governor Palin, people want to know:  are you out of your mind?  Do you even have a mind?"

And she doesn't!  Because after just getting thrashed in a national election in a large part because she was so offensive to so many people and because her ticket was rightly associated in so many voters' minds with George W. Bush, who ran as a "uniter" and then governed like he was single handedly trying to tear our great union into the tiniest pieces measurable by astro-physicists, she still thinks it's a good idea for another folksy, vicious, divisive, phony, disinterested, unqualified, incompetent, garble mouthed Republican Governor to run for national office as a "uniter".

Has she not noticed that the current version of that has a 20% approval rating and is likely to be remembered as the Worst President Ever?

If scientists can someday manage to harness the power of stupid, Sarah Palin may actually prove to be the one politician who can pave the way for energy independence for our entire nation.

All by herself.

Comments

[wintermute]

Astrophysicists deal with things a long way away, which means that the can only ever measure things which are quite large.

Maybe you meant quantum physicists?

[ricky]

Oh, I don't know. I think they study little tiny particles in great big laboratories underground in Geneva.

But if it makes a better rant for you...

[KitE]

I don't know, the "ass" part (as pronounced) means that astrophysics was a better choice, at least when you consider who was the topic of this perfect rant.

[Ellen]

I deeply bow to the almighty astro gods out there because they sent the smug bitch a long way away back to Alaska.

[electronic cigarette]

in your cup?