Sarah Palin, the classic schoolyard bully

[Kadie]

Sarah Palin, the classic schoolyard bully

Tuesday, October 07, 2008
By Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Those of us with vivid memories of middle school have seen Gov. Sarah Palin's type before. She was the girl who was always the first to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and the last to stop instigating fights in the cafeteria.

She was the girl who always had just enough self-awareness to know when the boys were paying more attention to her than to other girls. Her specialty was flattering the alpha boys around her. Terrified of losing her exalted place, she quickly perfected the art of saying nothing of consequence. She rambled because the boys thought it was cute. If she ever had an original thought in her head, she was discreet enough to keep it to herself. She was the conformist who fancied herself a leader.

From an early age, she knew the power of a strategically placed hand on the bicep of some jock. Girls like Sarah Palin knew how to secure a place with the "in crowd." After all, she was the girl with the iridescent smile who provided the laugh track for the meatheads roaming the halls pulling wedgies on those who would never qualify as "their kind of people."

Like a lot of bullies, Sarah Palin talks tough when she's surrounded by people of like mind and even less imagination; the more gullible the mob of admirers, the better. That has always been the case with demagogues. Sarah Palin subscribes to the same strain of American anti-intellectualism and fake populism as Huey Long, Spiro Agnew and other media-savvy scoundrels from the last century.

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[chatnoir]

1. Kick

Thx for posting.

[Unbowed]

2. Remember the movie, "Heathers?"

Palin reminds me of those nasty girls in the movie.

[barbtries]

6. i do remember that movie

why do we have to act like such bitches? you don't know?! because we CAN.

[Unbowed]

7. Exactly. Because she can (and also because she enjoys it).

Palin exudes malevolence with a knowing grin. She's got the look of someone who could gut you with a smile. I personally wouldn't want to put that theory to the test.

[madaboutharry]

3. This is what I have been saying since I first saw her

after she was selected as McCain's running mate. She is the classic Queen Bee. A mean girl who runs the clique of wannabees. The girl who controls the tables in the lunch room and starts the ugly rumors on the school bus. It makes me sick. I feel like I am having a flashback to my days at Pine Brook Junior High. This must be what a bad acid trip is like.

Erica Jong wrote a few days ago: "She's so doggone cute, she turns herself on."

I have never seen such narcissism in a public figure.

[sweetroxie]

4. Heaven help us

[young_at_heart]

5. As a former teacher, I believe you have described her exactly

Not only is she a bully, but an uneducated one who has an abnormal amount of self-esteem.

[katty]

8. Heathers and Mean Girls