Palin is a buffoon and should be ignored

 I’m not sure about you, but I remember a point in time where parents would  tell their kids to ignore someone who was making a buffoon of themselves, because paying attention would only encourage them to keep up their zany antics. On a related note, you have ex-Governor Sarah Palin, a woman whose political shenanigans and utter obliviousness to the very concept of reason itself, seem to defy this rule on an epic scale.
 

  In recent times, she’s stuck her folksy head in the headlines again to complain about a gag that Family Guy did this week because she and her family were the butt of a joke. Big surprise there, I wonder why the Beverly Hillbillies never complained about people who referenced them in a mocking manner? I’m sure Jethro didn’t take too kindly to being made out to be the stereotypically stupid, clueless country bumpkin. But while the Beverly Hillbillies were just a fictional television family that consisted of actors who behaved in a backwards manner on purpose for ratings — Palin’s family is a real backwards, dysfunctional family that puts itself in the spotlight for financial gain.

   I still can’t understand why people today from all walks of life are still infatuated with this sideshow, especially considering how time and time again she has proven herself to be the epitome of the fool over these past two years of media circus coverage. She’s an embarrassment to the political spectrum if there was such a thing, I would really feel ashamed if I had that moron representing my state and my people, Chuck Schumer’s pretty bad, but Palin is just a deplorable moron.

   I don’t even have to bring up the Katie Couric interview, but that’s a good place to start. I can’t say that I would have much faith in the guy making my sandwich at Subway, let alone someone running for the Vice Presidency, if they couldn’t even name a single news source where they got their information from. If that alone doesn’t point the mental compass towards the direction of polar brainlessness, then I don’t know what does. It’s kind of ironic that she was a journalism major and all, you’d figure that even if she didn’t read more than the side of a Captain Crunch cereal box in the morning, she’d still be able to make up a news source, “Uh ... Is USA Today still around Katie?”

   Then there was that whole charade where she made herself out to be the people’s champ on the campaign trail, while spending tens of thousands of dollars on clothes at the same time! I can assure you that she spent more money on clothes than the average Joe Six-pack makes in a year, that’s for sure. What really did it for me, beyond her stupid euphemisms, haughty outfit, and terrible interviews — what really got me to the point where I had to flat out say aloud, “This woman is an asinine imbecile, there’s just no two-ways about it” is when she made an absolute fool of herself at the Vice Presidential Debate in 2008. My God, she wasn’t even in the ballpark, I’m surprised she managed to find her way to the debate floor without special assistance. “I might not answer the question the way you want,” well if you’re just going to blow past every question that gets asked to you, then why the hell did you even show up, stupid? 

   After losing the race, Palin resigned from public office in 2009, citing financial reasons as the cause. I’m glad we dodged that bullet. Hell, if you can’t even manage your personal finances, why in the hell did you pretend that you could co-manage a nation? Let alone failing to fulfill her term of duty for the state of Alaska, one of the least populated state in the nation.

   The thing that really gets me is why people still pay attention to her, when they should’ve just ignored her like we all did when our former governor’s sex scandal got blown out of the water. And this goes for all those corrupt slimy bastards in recent times: if you’re a politician (and specifically, a governor) and you screw up big time and don’t even get charges brought against you, do the noble thing and just bow your head in shame and fade into ambiguity like our former governor and president did.

   I have to hand it to Eliot Spitzer, he really sets the bar for people like Mark Sanford, Rod Blagojevich, and Sarah pop-tart. Instead of scumbag-extraordinaire Mark Sanford practicing what he preached (he was one of the ringleaders of the Bill Clinton impeachment trial), he couldn’t shut his self-righteous trap after being caught in the act, and then he refused to leave office despite widespread condemnation and his family walking out on him. Instead of Rod Blagojevich lying low after trying to SELL THE PRESIDENT-ELECT’S SENATE SEAT on an unsecure telephone line, now he’s going to be a cast member on Celebrity Apprentice this season with federal corruption charges still pending. Now those are two classy fellows who really give Palin’s Family Circus a run for their money.

   There is something inherently wrong with our nation’s political literacy rate, when you have people who cater to deadbeat political hacks who can’t even maintain a level of competency and moral turpitude that you’d expect to find in an entry-level government intern. Sarah Palin is just an absolute hypocrite. If she didn’t have any issue with Rush Limbaugh using the word retard in a derogatory manner, she shouldn’t make a big deal about it when a vulgar television show that prides itself on the obscene and raunchy does the same thing, “it’s called the First Amendment, didn’t ya know?” (wink).