Sunday, July 5, 2009
Oh Sarah
Sarah Palin's announcement on Friday that she will resign as Governor of Alaska on July 26th is supposed to be some sort of strategy in her quest for becoming President in 2012, It seems nothing short of idiotic to me. We already know Sarah Palin isn't the brightest bulb. She proved that time and time again in her rare interviews the McCain camp allowed her to give give when she was his Vice-Presidential candidate. She also proved that she is judgemental (touting strict family values with a pregnant 17 year old daughter), a homophobe (attending a church that attempts to 'cure' gay people), a nepotist (firing people in her state that didn't agree with her & appointing friends with no direct experience for the job)), a liar (claiming to have stopped the 'bridge to nowhere' when she rallied for it only until it was clear it wasn't going to happen), a person of poor judgement (turning down national public funds for her state, saying there must be strings attached, when it was shown there were none (which was clearly done for her own personal gain if she ends up running against Obama in 2012)), and ethically bankrupt (charging the state for trips her family never took). With her announcement Friday she has now also shown us that she's also a quitter. Instead of fulfilling her duties of her first term as governor, which is fraught with allegations of wrongdoing and grumblings even within her own party, she'd rather just give up so she can focus on the being the power-hungry opportunist she so clearly showed herself to be during the last election.
This is apparently the 'smarter' of her choices (in her mind anyway). Instead of further miring herself as the Republican governor of a vastly Republican state, she has chosen to 'cut her losses' thinking they'll be less ammunition against her when she announces her run for President. By all accounts she has shown very little interest in her job since she returned to in November. It's apparently beneath her now. So, if Palin can't be bothered to do a good job as the governor of her state why should we believe she'll do a good job as President? Is it because it's a job she actually wants? Will that make her work harder? Will she be any more successful working with more Democrats than she has to now in her own state? I'm baffled.
I really hope Republicans are smarter than to buy this. I suppose that is expecting a lot, but c'mon... hasn't the woman shown us her true colors already? This should just be considered icing on the cake.
