Why I hate her
Prompted by False Auntie, I did an unofficial survey of my 258 facebook friends and discovered that far more that I would have expected have “friended” Sarah Palin. I would be less than truthful if I said that this doesn’t bother me because I find that it does.
You think you know people, right?
Forget for a moment that Sarah Palin lacks intellectual curiosity or that she’s a pathological liar. Forget that she has, at best, a remedial understanding of the Constitution. Forget too that she hides behind staunch right-wing, evangelical Christian rhetoric that in any other circumstance would be categorized has hate speech to promote an agenda which is anti-women and anti-gay. Forget that her abstinence only stance on teenage sexuality surely contributed to the out-of-wedlock pregnancy of her own daughter. Forget that she’s eager to get into a pissing match with her would-be former son-in-law over her “real” reasons for abandoning her post as governor of Alaska. Hell, even forget that I’ve taught ESL students in Arlington who have a better command of the English language than Sarah Palin has.
Yet 7 out of 10 Republicans have said that they would vote for her in 2012.
They will vote for a woman who dishes out blame like too many spoiled salmon cakes.
From her rambling resignation speach, she managed to blame the press for propagating “the politics of destruction” and contributing to her financial hardship (since WHEN is a 7 figure book deal and 6 figure speaking engagement fees a financial hardship?) without once acknowledging that her political behavior didn’t merit some intense scrutiny.
From the August 2009 issue of Runner’s World, when asked, “If you go a day or a week without running, what do you learn about yourself ” she responded “Sweat is my sanity. A great frustration I had during the campaign was when the McCain staff wouldn’t care out time for me to go for a run.”
Are you kidding me? This is the same woman who wants the world to believe that she’s capable of running the free world but she won’t wake up 30 minutes earlier to log 3 miles on a treadmill?
To my Republican, God-lovin’, right-wing, pro-life, gun-totin’ build-a-bunker-in-your-basement friends: get yourself another conservative candidate. Get someone who can set aside his or her arrogance to build a platform that’s based on lowering taxes, smaller Government, free market enterprise. You deserve better. We all do.
If you’re going to be the President, it’s not OK to say that your faith and family come first (as Palin did in her resignation speech) when we expect the men and women in the armed services to put their country first.
Lest you think I’m a big Obama fan, I’m not. I’m a democrat, sure, but more than that, I’m an American who watched our civil liberties eradicated during the corruption that was the Bush administration.
As for Sarah Palin, I hope she stays in Alaska and becomes a distant memory.
But I don’t think I’m going to be that lucky.
You’ve said it all, and so well, that I have nothing to add but a shout of AMEN!!
I hope you don’t mind a little constructive criticism, but I feel that your worst writing is when you take on political subjects such as this. You simply repeat a bunch of leftist propoganda that really doesn’t add to the discussion in any real way. Your sentiments are hateful and reek of knee-jerk leftist dogma, so you’re basically just preaching to the leftist choir. It’s just masturbation (not that there’s anything wrong with that). f you could remove some of the hysterics and blind passion that really makes these things so much leftist blather, and resort instead to reasoned argument, it might go somewhere but it just doesn’t. It’s not worth reading.
You’re best writing is when you search your soul for real meaning in everyday things, that’s when your writing really shines. Let the political writers of the world take on the subjects like Sarah Palin or Obama’s fecklessness in foreign policy (sorry, had to squeeze that one off). I for one would rather you talk about your unique insights on ordinary aspects of modern life, rather than to just blast red-hot hatespeech of your own towards Sarah Palin or anyone else who doesn’t subscribe to your particular brand of politics. Just my two cents worth….
Republican Dude, I must disagree with you. I found JavaJennifer’s latest blog well-written and fact-filled. If you were to read The Anchorage Daily News on a regular basis, you would find that Sarah Palin is one of the most unethical politicians that state has ever had.
In addition, I was appalled that Gov. Palin would once again blame someone else for not being able to run as often as she would have liked during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Really? We are expected to believe that a governing executive of a state was so spineless that she couldn’t insist upon this time? Or, as JavaJennifer noted, get up a little earlier and use the hotel facilities to “run.” So ridiculous.
Gov. Palin has also stated that she hasn’t had time (since November of 2008) to open all the gifts that have been sent to her and report them as the law requires in Alaska. Really? Perhaps she should be concentrating on doing that rather than running around Alaska during this lame duck time “signing” resolutions. Plus, you can’t tell me that the two teenage daughters at home couldn’t spend just a little time opening these boxes. C’mon.
Alaska is also the only state to have the federal government step in because their state medical aid is in such a sorry state that their citizens are dying while they wait for care. And Gov. Palin has not addressed this in any way. Not a single word. And she’s known about this appalling state of affairs for nearly a year and has done nothing — not even when the federal ruling letter was sent in April.
I could go on and on, well beyond what JavaJennifer has written, about the many ills of Gov. Palin. I would LOVE to see a strong, independent, intelligent, articulate woman run for President of the United States. Sarah Palin is non of those.
As you can tell, you hit a hot button here!!
Jen,You have SO missed the boat here. I think that you’ve completely underestimated the Republican party. Here’s my take (now that I’ve successfully baited you…:)
)I think the RNC actually convinced her to resign, so they can “groom her for the 2012 ticket”. At least that’s what they are telling her. By my theory; the reality is that they have decided that it’s worth investing 4 more years of a Democrat in the White House in getting rid of her once and for all. They’ve conceded a 2nd term for Obama, and they are going to run her against him, in an election that will be so one-sided that it’ll completely torpedo her political career, they can sweep her under the rug forevermore, and they can finally run the candidate and campaign they want to run. There just isnt’ a mature enough candidate in the bullpen right now to make a LEGITIMATE run, so they are going to make the best of the situation and use it tactically. Yep. You betcha. For the record, I’m a Republican, so I can vote in their primaries, and because there are some conservative ideals that I do in fact hold dear. None of them involve mixing the church and the state, or overturning Roe, or recklessly invading other countries, mind you. If I could pick anyone, ever, real or fiction, to lead the country, it’d be Josiah Bartlet, or Arnold Vinick. (The West Wing, for those not scoring at home…) I voted for Obama, but I’m not entirely convinced he has his head aroudn the enormity of his responsibilities yet.Cheers,LLP.S. One editorial note; the word “remedial” in paragraph two might better have been “rudimentary”. Remedial implies that a remedy is in process. Not hardly likely. 
I’m no fan of the way that conservatives want to use the state to saddle us all with their tedious sense of neo-Puritan morality, and as such I have no use for Sarah Palin. Despite this, you lost me when you wrote, ”Forget that her abstinence only stance on teenage sexuality surely
contributed to the out-of-wedlock pregnancy of her own daughter.”What? Surely? How can you say that? I mean, are you friends with Bristol Palin? Have you ever even met her? I just find that it’s so easy to find legitimate criticism of Sarah Palin from the things she’s actually said and done that inserting your guesses about why her daughter makes the decisions she does is more damaging to your argument than supportive of it.