Mad Dog Palin

[katty]

EXCERPT/more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin

She totally reminds me of my cousin!" the delegate screeched. "She's a real woman! The real thing!"

I stared at her open-mouthed. In that moment, the rank cynicism of the whole sorry deal was laid bare. Here's the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason at all, saddle them with billions in debt year after congressional year while they spend their winters cheerfully watching game shows and football, pull the rug out from under their mortgages, and leave them living off their credit cards and their Wal-Mart salaries while you move their jobs to China and Bangalore.

And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some cutting-room-floor episode of Roseanne as part of your presidential ticket. And if she's a good enough likeness of a loudmouthed Middle American archetype, as Sarah Palin is, John Q. Public will drop his giant-size bag of Doritos in gratitude, wipe the Sizzlin' Picante dust from his lips and rush to the booth to vote for her. Not because it makes sense, or because it has a chance of improving his life or anyone else's, but simply because it appeals to the low-humming narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power

[TahitiNut]

1. "she's a new low in reptilian villainy" -- Sounds like a job for (trumpets) SwampRat!!

:rofl:

[katty]

4. 'reptilian villainy' - indeed!

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[TNOE]

3. Great Article!

Sums up my feelings quite nicely!


Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

5. In Construction since 1995

when Sarah Palin turned a friendly small-town mayoral competition into a national Repug machine-powered rout. The country's big politics came to Alaska that year, having found the raw clay that they would some day wield like a sword against the Left. I submit that Sarah Palin was hand-picked lo those many years ago.

[tigereye]

6. someone we never learn, do we?

:(