Run Sarah Run

Has there ever been a better candidate to represent the Republicans in 2012 than Sarah Palin? A week ago she was welcomed by the Tea Party movement as their key note speaker. It became very apparent that she should be the nominee for the Republican Party in 2012.

From all of us with a brain used to reason with, there would be no better candidate to go up against than Sarah Palin. She has an impeccable resume starting out as the Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska with a population of 5469 in 2000 when the last census was taken. She was then thrust into the Governor’s mansion where she did not complete her full first term (just over 2 ½ years) before resigning. During her time in office she was chosen by then presidential candidate Senator John McCain in what now seems like a last act of desperation in trying to win the presidency. While not done completely single handedly she was a major contributor in helping him self-destruct. While spending a whole 90 days on the campaign trail she not only stole the spotlight from McCain, there were rumors that she was more concerned with her wardrobe than she for was preparing interviews with the national media who wanted to understand her where she stood on the issues in perhaps the most important election of our time. When asked by CBS’s Katie Couric as question as simple as can you tell me about some of the books and magazines you read she responded by saying that she would get back to her on that.

Jimmy Carter had his brother capitalizing on his brother political success by producing beer and occasionally getting himself into trouble in his home state. Ronald Reagan had his daughter and his son who questioned his ideology publically while in office. While Barak Obama seems to have a pretty quiet family, his adversary, Sarah Palin, is dogging him like a long lost illegitimate half sister.

What is just beyond comprehension is Sarah Palin’s view of reality. The first being that she is a relevant politician. She has held one major office, the Governorship of Alaska, and could not even complete that. She is nothing more than a pretty face, winning a former Miss Alaska pageant. Congratulations. She was a sportscaster in her home state reading off of a TelePrompTer yet she criticizes her half brother, Obama, for doing the same. Every President in the modern age has used a TelePrompTer to give speeches. Yet to her this must be some type of new invention because at every turn she seems to think that this device is some type of chief executive novelty. This was made even more evident during her time on the podium when rather than using a TelePrompTer; Palin used her hand as a speech making aid while speaking and during the question and answer session.

But while the issues of the Tea Party participants are very real, the horse they have hitched their wagon to is lame. Political celebrity Palin is clueless on the issues and full of glittering generalities offering no new ideas to help the most unfortunate who have been left behind by the Republican leadership during the past nine years. Yet, if you think Palin is really one of those who you can identify with as “one of us Tea Partiers,” she took $100,000 of your money to speak at your convention in an attempt to further her own ambitions. After resigning her position as governor in Alaska, few details emerged as to why. But one detail slipped though her PR machine: Sarah Palin was going to pen a book on her illustrious political career and 90 day run as a Vice Presidential candidate. That book and subsequent speaking engagements would make her an instant multi millionaire.

So you say that Sarah Palin is a smart, patriotic savvy politician and business woman. Do not tell that to Ms. Palin. She seems to have something against a good education; especially a higher education. Yet Palin herself attended four institutions of higher learning including private, public and junior colleges before getting a B.S. from the University of Idaho in 1987. While many in this country would aspire to attend a college but are prevented by in doing so by academic requirements or funding, Palin seems to think that people running this country should not be well educated. She seems to take swipes at our current president every chance she gets for completing a Harvard education and being a former professor at an institution of higher learning. Perhaps she forgets that the previous president, one from her own party was educated at another pretty good school, Yale. She also forgets that our current president worked in some of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago helping those who were the most desperate of the desperate.

Could you imagine President Palin going up again Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Hugo Chavez to name just a few of the crazies we deal with on a daily and weekly basis? Maybe just once we would match crazy with crazy; But maybe not. It would not be long before we would be speaking Farsi, Russian and Spanish. Palin to date has little or no foreign policy experience. McCain aids said that during debate preparation in 2008, Palin was completely uninterested and had little feel or interest for foreign policy subject matter. She had no idea of why we were in Afghanistan. She explained to her debate preparation team that she did not realize that Iraq and Sadam Hussein were not responsible for the holocaust on 911. While she does understand that Russia is not too far away from Alaska, her first speaking engagement after resigning as governor was to a group in Japan so that she could appear to become more internationally focused. Of course that speech was not open to the press.

While being coy about running for president in 2012 she is beefing up her conservative credentials by joining, “Fair and Balanced” Fox News as a contributor. In a fair and balanced analysis she called for Obama’s Chief of Staff to resign for calling Congress “retards” while excusing her patron saint Rush Limbaugh for using the same term to describe personnel in the White House. She called Limbaugh’s tirade “satire.” Sarah, it looks like you found a running mate. Yet when comedian David Letterman told a joke about her daughter in what clearly was satire she spent days in public forums demanding an apology from him. Rather than let the circus continue, Letterman finally apologized. Congratulations and good luck in 2012.