(Miss Wasilla 1984, Sarah Palin)We've resisted following the party line and pointing out how dumb Sarah Palin is, it's just too easy and too predictable. It's more fun to listen to Bill Maher describe her as another "Dan Quayle bimbo". But after listening to her interview with Katie Couric, it has stopped being funny, now it's downright scary.
Bill Maher also loves to mention that as a people, "we're too dumb to vote". That's such a harsh assessment of the American people and not completely true. We were smart enough to see through the Right-Wing witch-hunt of Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal and continue supporting him. But in the case of this year's election, something else is going on. We still don't want to say that as Americans we're dumb, but we're definitely having a moment of temporary insanity.
Case in point: We've just suffered through eight years of the worst presidency on record, even worse than Ronald Reagan's, which is saying a lot, and yet, there are still folks out there who want to vote to put more Republicans in charge, even enthusiastic about it. When are we going to learn that Republicans don't know how to govern? They're great at getting elected, but they have no idea how to govern.
McCain is frightening enough, but Sarah Palin makes us want to f**king run for the bomb shelter. When Katie Couric asked her what newspapers and magazines she read, she fumbled around and finally said, "All of'em". Translation: None of'em. Remember the last time we had a president who didn't like to read? Oh, that's right, he's still in office.
Palin supporters are emailing into the talk shows making comments such as, "She's just like us, and we like that!" Holy shit, people, NO! We don't want someone like us, we want someone a whole lot smarter than us. We can't afford another president who's down at the local bar getting drunk with our stupid-asses, we need a president who's home in his room on a Saturday night, reading books on foreign policy and studying economics. We want a president who went out of town to the science convention while the rest of us stayed home, went to the high school dance and threw up on each others' prom dresses.
This morning, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", during a discussion of Sarah Palin, Joe asked Chystia Freeland, an economics expert, if she were offered a job as a phyics professor, (something totally out of her field of knowledge), wouldn't she be home studying like crazy to learn physics? Chrystia smiled and said, "No, Joe, I'd probably turn that job down." Bingo. Now if only Sarah Palin had had the wisdom of Miss Freeland.
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