Sarah Palin

I cannot get enough of Sarah Palin's cluelessness. I swear, it's just magic to me how she is lost in the happy-go-luckiness of her ignorance. Especially since she had just previously pardoned a frigging turkey at the same poultry farm.

As commenter teoleftfeet said over at Metafilter, "There's something very very surreal about government leaders sparing the life of a being and then ignoring the slaughter of others. Very very surreal."

Ignorance is indeed bliss. 

Yet what's really over the top and had me literally rolling on the floor with tears streaming down my face was that the guy in the background comes back to do the unspeakable behind her all over again.

That's what we call chutzpah.

For feminists and progressives it's really easy to criticize Sarah Palin. She has a horrid record of defending reproductive rights for women. She sees nothing wrong with abusing her power as governor of Alaska. She has a record of taking gifts and expensive favors from lobbyists and political allies.

What's worse : It's no secret she was not chosen for her knowledge of national domestic or foreign policy and politics. The woman was not vetted properly because she was not crowned the GOPs beauty queen for her knowledge or experience. She was chosen for being a good looking Christian Nationalist that would "turn on" the theocratic faction of the GOPs "base". And it doesn't hurt she actively sold herself to the neo-con hacks desperate to slap some lipstick on the ever ugly Republican Party pig.

Yet all those negatives were pushed aside by the GOP operatives, Bill Krystol included, who sold Sarah Palin as a viable Vice-President to John McCain. All those hacks squabbled over Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and McCain's own pick Joe Lieberman. They wouldn't have any of them.

After a less than 2 hour meeting, McCain and his campaign and party hacks chose her. No drama involved just a cold and calculated political decision. They had more experienced and better qualified women to go after the "Hillary Vote", yet they made her their political beauty queen as the last "Hail Mary" pass they had up their sleeve.

And it worked --at least for a little. McCain's announcement right after the DNC Convention and Obama's speech took all the thunder away from him. The media went ga-ga and so did the 70% of forlorn Republicans who didn't vote for McCain during the primaries he none the less won.

Then Katie Couric happened. Strike One : The woman was a disaster.

I see another Emmy in the The Daily Show's future.

"They found Sarah Palin in the wild, taught her everything, and set her loose, but they forgot one thing: she couldn't be contained." And what's most frightening? She can lay eggs by the hundreds. LOL!

And not in a good way at all :

A new study from the University of New Hampshire shows Hispanics now account for half of U.S. population growth, driving growth in major cities and rural communities.

The study from the Carsey Institute says "natural increase'" meaning more births than deaths, is now the major reason for the growth, replacing immigration.

Kenneth Johnson, the report author, said the trend will remake the social and cultural fabric of communities for decades.

The report said Hispanics are a major source of growth in rural America, accounting for 45.5 percent of population growth between 2000 and 2005.

For many rural communities, Hispanic gains represent the first population growth in decades.

Of course, the study uses the word "hispanic" which is meant to Europeanize and in turn "whitewash" black, indigenous and all other ancestries from everybody coming from Latin America. So in effect, these "hispanics" could be treated as replacement white people for the dwindling white Europeans.

Nevertheless, they're still a mostly Catholic and pagan bunch. Which is why it would probably freak out many "Christian Nationalists" like Sarah Palin.

ZAMBONI.

If she gets away with being invisibly pregnant a 6th time, her choice would be to call him or her after an ice resurfacing company.

Mmm'kay. 

In other news, the soccer mom gets $150, 000 clothes allowance from the RNC. That's about 3 times the median household income in the United States --which is, if you need to know  $50,233.00 (2007 Census numbers).

Please remember, Sarah Palin is not an elitist.

Frucking FAIR USE, FREE SPEECH hating TV networks!

Yet another 30-40 second clip that's being yanked from YouTube due to another stupidly greedy media company. AUGH! When will it end?

Anyhow ...

Check out what Stewie finds on the lapel of a Nazi officer in this spoof of Indiana Jones.

Oy vey!

Via Oh No They Didn't.

You will need brain bleach after watching "La pequeña Sarah Palin"; a parody made by a little Latina.

Sigh.

It's these things that make me want to deny my people.

LOL!

H/T to Lynn, who wanted me to know that the Latina little people community is on it!

I already ranted about Sarah Palin's appearance on SNL.

Let me throw some ponderous thoughts into the mix.

There's quite a lengthy article today at The New Yorker which explains how Palin got into the halls of Capitol Hill by way of their back doors. In "The Insiders : How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin", we have a shrewd and ambitious woman using every little stepping stone she can to get herself out of her "small town state" and into the big scene of Washington DC.

A feat that would have been all but impossible without the power the internet has in generating buzz.