Hey Sarah, All The Media In The World Won’t Make You Smart

tl;dr Palin is bullshit, and she scares me with her power. | Also, this is mostly unedited.

The title selection process for this post was just too much fun. After “Ralin’ Palin,” and others fell aside, I decided to make it honest as possible. Palin is a laughable fool. And with her new platform she is now a dangerous, laughable fool.

Let’s reweind back to the first night she hit the national spotlight, her nomination for the candidacy of the Vice Presidency of the United States. Personally, I was drinking beer and eating dinner with the Clicky crew when the news came. We had been kicking ideas back and forth as to who it was going to be all week. I was pulling for Ron Paul as a dark horse, being a Libertarian myself. Didn’t matter what I thought, somehow Palin got tapped.

She was the real dark horse. So dark, no one really looked under the hood before tossing her into the arena.

Jilted as my man was, the Palin train had just left a station that it was never going back to. Here we can mark the rise of the American Christian Party, and the coming tearing in two of the Republican party. Palin is a big damn deal. She is also an ignorant idiot. The two together scare me, and they should scare you

Before we can delve into what Palin has accomplished, to use that word loosely, we need to hear what an educated mind sees when Palin is viewed. Here we have public intellectual Christopher Hitchens tearing Palin a second:

That was in response to Palin mocking proposed research undertaken, I might be mistaken, with stimulus monies. Either way she was mocking it. Laughing at science to score a point, however clumsily, with her base. This is where we again pick up the trail of the new political right.

There was always an uneasy bridge between the fiscal conservatives and the social conservatives. Regressive morals and small government are not exactly perfect bedfellows. Palin has come in and given new voice to the moral regressionists (the moral “majority”),  and we now see the coming split between religious sheep and fiscal hawks.

With Palin’s rise to the candidacy of the Vice Presidency, these stultified dolts (the anti-evolution, creationist myth spewing, contra-science fools who think that a gay couple will explode their personal marriage and is to blame for hurricanes), have a voice. A big voice.

Palin appeared just as a well reasoned, well spoken, educated, and intelligent man was running for President. I did not vote for Mr. Obama, I voted for the Libertarian candidate, but you can see why Palin’s fans would hate him. We do not even need to find room for accusations of latent racism, Obama is just too smart and intellectual to be liked by the Palin masses.

Palin spoke right at the Southern Baptist circuit. She believes in a Deus ex Machina god, has no concept of modern morality, is a creationist, and from various reports believes that the Earth is around 6,000 years old. Bingo, nailed it.

Of course, once she was selected, the Republican ticket was over. The rest of the US population, say perhaps 75% saw her for what she was. The unwashed 25% latched to her like a leech to a Medival fever sufferer. Once she was picked, ran and lost, and then reemerged from the purgatory of quitting her job (under ethics questions), Sarah had found her crowd: the Tea Baggers.

We named them that, but you know what I am referring to. The Birthers, the people who pay hundreds of dollars to attend National “Tea Party” conventions. This pathetically zealous group of Bible thumping jerk-offs who actually think that they are a revolution are going to give rise to the end of the Republicans. The Republican party in its current form must end. The robotic opposistion of everything that Obama does is making them the obscructionist group of our day.

When the shit is broken, and all you say is no to new ideas, you get unelected.

What will happen is moderate current Republicans will split with the majority. Most likely the moderates will keep the GOP name, while the neo-Christians will form their own party. They already have the Tea Party fire to work with.

And guess what, they have a spokesperson in the wings, who already has national election experience: Palin.

Of course, with her new Fox day job Palin is busy, but you can see where all this is headed. Palin could, if she was smart enough to see the opening, promote the Tea Party movement across everything she does and then once it is launched be “surprised” when selected to be its leader.

Bam, that’s genius.

It still leaves the inherent Palin problem, however, she is just not that smart. All the media in the world couldn’t make Sarah smart again. Or ever, but that matters little.

So our little Alaskan with her new Fox News megaphone is sitting in the middle of the largest (potential) political repositioning in a lifetime. We might see three parties, and she could take us there. That level of power for that little brain? If she wins, I’m moving to Canada.-

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I thought up this line, but could not fit it in the actual piece, so here it is, apart, for your enjoyment:

Isn’t it comical that the most fervent of evolution deniers act and are the most ape-like? Perhaps they are merely ashamed.