Sarah Palin has decided to launch her future Presidential campaign by promoting her new book, “Going Rogue.” It supposedly exposes the truth behind the McCain/Palin campaign in which she whines about how the media accurately showed her to be the idiot that she is. Palin’s right wing media allies will become all atwitter as they delve into the particularly embarrassing parts of her media tour and rhapsodize about how she was so viciously persecuted by the pro-Obama media (I suppose they forgot about the constant talk of Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers).
As if the incessant whining about how she was treated was not nauseating enough, the surprise ghostwriter behind the book will definitely make one disgusted (try to control your shock upon discovering that she did not write the book herself). She hired Lynn Vincent, who has a very bad history herself. She once said that homosexuality was a “deviance” and in 2007 co-authored the atrocious Democrat-bashing book “Donkey Cons,” with former anti-miscegenationist Washington Times editor Robert S. McCain, a lover of all things pro-confederate.
It should not surprise anyone that Palin had to dredge up an author from the lowest place possible so that she could find someone to write her pathetic life story. But I think it would now be appropriate to revisit some of the painful memories in which those terribly mean people took advantage of poor, poor Sarah.
Sarah Palin conducted her first of many embarrassing interviews with former anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” Charlie Gibson. As the grandfatherly newsman peered down toward Palin with his glasses resting on the brim of his nose, he asked, “Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?” The former Alaska Governor quizzically responded, “In what respect, Charlie?” Gibson then attempted to clarify as many times as possible, as if he were speaking in some kind of foreign language, until he eventually told her the answer and she was then able to cobble together an acceptable response. After she proceeded to humiliate herself, her supporters attempted to defend her by pointing out that there was no one version of the Bush Doctrine. They would be right: there is no one version of the Bush Doctrine.
Actually, Gibson was also wrong because he, like others, thought that it was the policy of making a preemptive strike against another nation that was thought to pose a threat. This practice has been done in the past before many times, but the difference in this case was that Bush was declaring a preventive war to avoid a potential conflict. However because Palin has such a deficit of basic intelligence, she could not even give a reasonable response -- even though it was a common era. This should have put the nail in her coffin, but there was more hilarious ignorance to come.
In her next set of interviews with CBS’s “Evening News” anchor Katie Couric, she proved that she could not even answer questions that were easier than the Bush Doctrine, which was a fairly easy question to begin with for one who follows political affairs (but then again how could I expect the former Governor of Alaska to pay attention to political affairs?). When Couric questioned Palin on John McCain’s record of supporting less regulation of the free market, the best answer that she was able to come up with was, “I’ll try to find you some and bring them to you.” Palin was then asked about why she repeatedly said that her state’s proximity to Russia was legitimate foreign policy experience. She was only able to say that trade missions coming through Alaska were sufficient experience.
Upon being asked about a Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with, she was not able to think of a single one (Griswold V. Connecticut, Texas V. Johnson?). The easiest question that she flopped on was when Couric asked what periodicals she read. It should not surprise anyone that Palin could not think of one periodical that she read. We already know that she does not read, but could she not have thought of the “Wall Street Journal,” “Washington Post” or even her state newspaper, “The Alaska Daily News.”
Palin has chosen to release this book with the pure intention of running for President of the United States. Her book tour is headlining towns in such battleground states as Michigan and Ohio. This book was written with the intentions of increasing her prospects for 2012 while taking a shot at some of the people who did not automatically bow down before her and who did not have the decency to cover up her ignorance. Practically every former member of the McCain campaign has repudiated what she has said.
Despite the book being absolutely absurd, it is most certainly destined to be a New York Times Bestseller, considering there are no policy proposals and it only consists of five chapters. I hope this success in giving speeches and selling books gives her the momentum that she needs in running for the Republican nomination. And if she is so fortunate to become the Republican nominee, she will then be demolished by Obama so we can no longer be subjected to her torturous presence.
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