No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Beyond the Palin

You might call it Northern Overexposure - Sarah Quaylin just won't go away. She deludedly basks in her sudden rise without a trace to rock star status with the religious right base (or as one would say in Arabic, al Qaeda), she coyly drops hints about running for president in 2012, she shows zero awareness about her own manifold shortcomings and her role in the landslide defeat of the Republican ticket, and she begs God to let her plough through doors as if she hasn't spend all her life demolishing doors that she had no business going anywhere near.

She has a certain entertainment value insofar as she exposes the growing rifts between the neocon corporatists and the lunatic anti-knowledge, anti-intelligence and anti-experience religious extreme right. And it's very likely that the rethugs will run her as a sacrificial offering against Obama four years from now, knowing that no Republican has a snowball's chance in hell and keeping their heavier guns in reserve until 2016. Still, she has way overstayed her 15 minutes of fame but gives no sign of going anywhere.

Most gag-inducing of all is that Palin still seems to believe her own bullshit about being a champion of reform standing alone against corrupt liberal powers-that-be who have a monopoly on extreme partisanship. Her mission is to keep Democrats honest? Those may have been the headline writer's words rather than Palin's, but the utter cluelessness of this protege of Ted Stevens, this Leona Helmsley of the Tundra, is not an attractive feature to say the least. Now she's even claiming that she said "Thanks but no thanks" to the $150,000-plus worth of Nieman Marcus duds for herself and her brood, and only went with the flow because of what pushy McCain aides told her to do. Yeah, that really inspires confidence in her fitness to lead the country.

While I look forward to Palin leading the rethugs into the political graveyard of irrelevancy, she is rapidly getting tedious. I wish she would consult her witch doctor from the country of Africa, and he would advise her to take a long walk on a short Bridge to Nowhere.