Sarah Palin, The Comic Book
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Sarah Palin The Comic Book
Sarah Palin is truly shake-your-head dumb. John McCain should apologize for potentially placing her a myocardial infarction away from the most vital job in the planet.
A number of us all realize folks in so far over their head they can’t see the top of the hole. That’s Sarah. As one McCain staffer put it, she doesn’t even know what she doesn’t know. Palin gives new meaning to the adage that connects “ignorance” to “bliss.”
That’s not to say she’s not really good at exactly what she does. As she did at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville for a reported $100,000, Palin repackages the prejudice, fears, scorn and anger of her groupies. She cloaks them in God and the flag and feeds them back as brainless sloganeering. It is empty rhetoric from a nice pair of legs.
I wish it were the case, but the planet is just not as simple as simple-minded members of Palin’s claque would like it to be. In sliming their particular favorite targets – intellectuals and the media – Palin is calling on every demagogue and snake oil purveyor through history to electrify her cataleptic foundation. She is the essence of every schoolyard bully who ever beat up the intelligent children for their lunch money.
But “smart” does count for something. Look, if you have a brain tumor, you want surgery by a skilled neurosurgeon, not a dermatology intern. If your air conditioner busts, you need a certified technician to repair it, not the youngster who cuts your lawn. If you expect responsible stock suggestions, you call a experienced broker, not your doofus brother-in-law.
So any time it comes to, let’s say, environment change, geopolitics, financial meltdowns, constitutional history or astrophysics, whada ya think? Should we at least hear what scientists, scholars, economists, historians and intellectuals have to say, or entirely disregard them in favor of those who dismiss global warming based on this winter’s cold snap; who are enraged about terrorism policies but can’t place Yemen on a world map; who are incensed by bailouts but have no clue about macroeconomics; who insist the Constitution is based mostly on the Ten Commandments, but whose understanding of the Revolution consists of a vaguely recalled illustration of Washington traversing some river in a boat; and who believe the Big Bang is a porno flick?
This is who Palin articulates to: People who aren’t inquisitive or insightful; which show no curiosity in conceptualization; who have no grasp of nuance of intricacy; who see complication as an intellectual conceit.
In any case, we now have her stuck to our shoes like doggy poop. Her incalculable limitations, terrible beliefs and incredibly bothersome elocution – “how’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out forya?” – make George W. Bush look like a savant.
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