CHASING THE SARAH PALIN BRAND
PRE-DISASTER
Occasionally working backstage during a political campaign is a chance to see what really goes on during the war of words, unexplainable phrases, and scads and scads of spin, it’s enough to make a Whirling Dervish dizzy.
By the luck of the drawer, and the fact I live in Tampa Bay, I wound up following her Florida circuit and I was both possessed and fascinated by Sarah Palin.
We drove from Tampa to Orlando, West Palm and the official Republican Stop, the Village's, a huge manufactured home community (75,000 houses) designed for seniors that offers thirty- three golf courses and lots of entertainment. As long as it is Republican, Republican and Republican.
The crowd living there rarely gets anything from the outside. Book signing as long as it is anti-Democrat and easy applauding crowds. As long as you live there and are a Republican. If you are a Democrat and have an Obama sticker on your car , your car will get keyed and your house egged. This is because the villages are owned by one of the largest supporters of the Republican party. Eventually when the earth gets destroyed by a large asteroid, there is so much negative karma there, it would make a perfect target.
AWESTRUCK BY PALIN, WHO ME?
I got to be honest, I was awestruck at first. For her age and five kids she was drop dead gorgeous. Hollywood looks, her vibrant personality, and those sexy designer Bancroft trendy glasses, I really do not know how it affected others, but it worked for me. For about two minutes, I thought I had met a Goddess, and then she opened her mouth.
Besides the beautiful teeth, the screeching of chalk on the blackboard is the only way I would describe her combined with a rhetoric of complaint. All she does is complain, no answers, no solutions, just pick, pick, pick. Any normal human easily would pick her over Ron Paul, no contest, as long as they issued earphones.
Ron Paul has ideas, Sarah Palin has looks. That appeals to a lot of folks who judge based on that factor alone. But, if you dissect her words, you find a person so self-enamored she is happy saying anything, no matter how stupid just to get attention.
DO NOT CONFUSE HOCKEY MOM WITH A FEMALE PIT BULL = BITCH
Don't get the wrong idea that this is not a love story. She is one of the sharpest, most manipulative, and self sufficient individuals on the planet. The Republicans thought they knew her but she is most of all a survivor, opportunist and a lot smarter than some of them. Her only problem is she's not intelligent, shoots from the hip, bad writers and handlers and she pays no attention to them either.
She gets into something and it backfires. Like Marjuana. June 18, 2010, Palin calls marijuana use by adults a "minimal problem". When you have nothing to say that's intelligent, you say nothing and dodge the bullet.
In an appearance on Fox Business Sarah Palin expressed a somewhat lenient view on the enforcement of marijuana laws. "I'm not for the legalization of pot," said Palin. But "if somebody's going to smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at...." I guess the billions we spend on drug enforcement mean nothing.
THE WORST CAMPAIGNS IN HISTORY
They got killed in the election, her smart remarks got her notoriety, and the publics eye. And as things went on, she grew but not with the voters they needed. She played the far right too far and it started to become a 180 degree course and eventually a circle. In this whole facade we called an election, she came out on top, winning the big dollars for now. She walked around McCain without even a fight.
The crowds, admittedly pro right wingers Republican, all these speeches are nothing but preaching to the choir to get them excited, and she did. The chants were Sarah! Sarah!. The loved her and who was that guy on the stand next to her.
BITTER BACKFIRE FROM BAD CALLS
Anal-ists and monday morning quarterbacks credited McCains loss to one of the worst run campaigns in history. Against his own judgment, Sen. McCain’s handlers pushed him into, Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain had wanted some one like Joe Lieberman. Another severe case of not thinking. Lieberman had more flip-flops than Miami Beach during spring break. Nevertheless, voters originally applauded his choice of Palin and her qualifications.
Statements were made that she was fully vetted and qualified for the job. In her own words, a pit-bull with lipstick, a soccer mom and Apple Pie America all rolled into a cheerleaders figure and a pageant queens posture. The only thing missing it seems is intelligent use of the language, knowledge of the country she lives in and thought process.
NEANDERTHAL VETTING
These reports of vetting were produced by the Neanderthal University Team of Strategists or NUTS. She kinda looked good on paper, if it was an honest choice, but she looked better on camera. When the Chicago Tribune sent a team to Alaska to get the real story, things were different.
And McCain needed a shot in the arm. His mojo was failing, he had age, health, his branded maverick personna and individualism. He also needed something to offset what the Democrats had put up with the possibility of a woman in either position, Obamas youth and dynamic exuberance and that word "change". McCain was "old school" and worse, he was his own "old school". Do not get me wrong, he is a great American and I am proud of his service and devotion to this country but he is not the man for the job, there are issues with temperament and control you possibly do not know about.
THE STRATEGIUM PLANNER
In a page from the George Bush book on "strategium thinking" she was the much-needed VP attack pit bull with lipstick in the ring against Barack Obama.
It's hard to fight back against a woman and not be called a sexist. In battles with female candidates, the man will lose even if he's right. the Neanderthals were smarter, they did not argue, they used a club.
In addition she had youth to offset McCain's age. This opened the forum to the younger female voters and moms. And she draws the moms, in huge ensembles, who have like ideas and are mesmerized by her presence. Tell them what they want to hear, scare them into listening, and be entertaining. That's her secret, good assets.
Obviously good looking too, from her years as a model and pageant contender. A lot more appealing to men than some of the older, not as attractive ladies in the arena. Probably one of the few anyone had the lack of class to whistle at. And she could counteract Hillary’s supporters and popularity, possible run, and a create a gender free ticket for the White House.
Health, she offsets Mccain's aging and health issues. She's also a breeder and turns out kids like gerbils. Inspiring to the mothers of America. That group called “Soccer moms”. Though it was reported she did not participate in Soccer that much. Well, less than she claimed and the vetting was catching up.
Very religiously outspoken, way over the top, ad nauseam. Really wears it on the sleeve, and manages to draw the Evangelicals out of the toombs. That’s the group that can't separate religion and government. Her church, the third one in a town of 8,000 are thinkers, actors, and participants in some strange acts on occasion much like the Taliban who put religion ahead of state.
In fact, The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witch-hunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells in Wasilla and at one point had over two hundred followers harassing the woman which drove her out of town. Oh, those vetters from Chicago really started getting the news.
This is stuff you can't make up. See for yourself by searching for Palin-Muthree on Youtube and you personally will thank GOD for making sure she doesn't get within ten miles of the WhiteHouse unless they are looking for an upstairs chamber maid.
At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs. Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial election, the renouncing of the demonic woman and the police forced into shooting a snake, a large Python which was demonic, holding back 200 followers who who were going to stone the woman to death.
WAS SHE A CARL ROVE PLANT
I wonder to this day if Carl Rove, Bush's mastermind of Bush Wacked politics, was patting himself on the back with this brilliant plan. Rove quit the White House with six months to go and went to work as an advisor for McCain. His leaving the job came at a time when connections to Libby, aka Cheney's head ELF, and other policies he was involved with were under federal investigation while advising Bush.
He is still under indictment. Today Carl Rove is a senior correspondent on FOX news, Rupert Murdock's "Fairly Unbalanced Reporting" scheme and fundraiser for the GOP.
REAL VETTING
The real vetting took great investigative work by the Chicago Tribune Staff who separated the wheat from the perma-frost chaff. They ran down the real story. More spin than all the Dreidels on Hanukah. Much of what was said about her by herself and even the Senator was minimalized. The McCain team must of hired the best resume writers in the world to create her.
There is the truth in her profile, but not as lovely as the pundit spin when it came out. We were going to use the Politico Meter for truth but it hit the false side so much, the needle fell off the gauge.
NRA - LIFETIME MEMBER
I too am a proud fellow member of the NRA. In addition, I was a Competitive B Class IPSC Shooter and am a Certified IPSC Combat Range Officer. Lifetime membership means she paid her dues in one shot, filled out the forms and she gets the magazine.
In addition, she’ll now receive discounts on all re-mastered Charlton Heston movies. It certainly adds a lot to any resume, and in Politics means financial support from the NRA, one of if not the strongest lobby groups in Washington.
VOODOO PROTECTED
She is Faith-based three times over, after changing a few affiliations with the three or so churches in her hometown. The next time if she suddenly decides to go Jewish and turns up in my temple with Joe Lieberman, that's it for me.
Her last church managed to get her protected against Voodoo, clearly certified by an African guest minister dancing around her with the results on You Tube.
Good to know the prospective VP was Voodoo Proofed. There is even a Voodoo Sarah Palin Doll available on the web. complete with heels and assault rifle if you are afraid of Wolves in your neighborhood.
EXTERMINATOR of WOLVES
I understand cultural difference. Alaskans are frontier-minded survivalists. They hunt. She can shoot Wolves after a chase from a Helicopter or Light aircraft. So could I, after you have nearly run them to death. Wolves run down and exhausted by chopper are more like sitting ducks.
Having Sarah Palin do a TLC show on Alaska and Conservationism, green thinking and such is like having a forum after asking Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot and Stalin to explain crowd control.
It would nice to know whether state resources were to be used for this eradication process. You mean to tell me the largest state in the union with the smallest population can't relocate wolves to another more secluded area.
This is while the feds are paying for programs for Wolf survival in Yellowstone Park, a federal program is the long going latest attempt to save the top of the predator chain and the Wolves are doing fine.
Sarah Palin is no friend of any of God's creatures. “Noah would call her a subversive”. Several civic groups in Alaska do not agree with her. Search the web for Palin and Hunting. Wolves don't taste good; their main asset is their coat. So why kill them, just trap them and send them as unrelated breeding stock to Yellowstone.
SERVED ON A SCHOOL BOARD
She quoted all the fine things she did on the Wasilla school board. She belittled the President as never serving on a school board. Then the truth came out.
A Johns Hopkins University study named Wasilla High School as a “dropout factory”. Wasilla’s rate was 6.5 percent in 2006, a number that was much higher than most of the schools in the Mat-Su district. Only 58% of incoming freshman graduated as seniors. The schools there have a terrible graduation rate. No real improvements brought to the schools.
MAYOR OF WASILLA
She made big noise how she managed her city and gained experience. Mayor of a town with the population of my subdivision. Well, close 10,256 in 2008. Largo is 72,000. ALASKA's entire population is about 700,000. We have more people in the Tampa Bay area than all of ALASKA and as many unique problems as ALASKA.
Their budget so hailed by Palin as management qualified could be figured on the back of a paper grocery bag with a pencil and no calculator. That’s how my boss did it when I delivered groceries fifty-two years ago. Oh, he didn't have a calculator. He could count. You know adding things up.
Yet she claimed she had great management experience running Wasilla. Not what we heard. I would put her up against any of the those fifth graders on TV with nothing more than Monopoly experience. And guaranteed they would smoke her in head to head fifth grade questions.
FAMILY TREE
Family planning... her own daughter, remember this is the school board lady, needed a GED and while laden with child still went on the Alaskan Outback Family Values VP Campaign Tour with the prospective husband Levi holding hands.
Made great photo ops but he was smart enough to bail than join the Palin mob. Was he? They got plenty of money now and he could of had a free ticket. Unfortunately he bailed from the tour and the daughters life after dumping the daughter, indicating he wanted to dump the whole deal. The prospective father of her wedlock child didn't graduate either.
BUT he was sleeping in their house and obviously in her daughters bed every night and that’s how babies are made. The usual custody battle over the baby ensued, and it will probably get dirty as time goes on. I predict Bristol will win.
Family values are a Palin trademark. Which brings us to the In-Laws or is it Out-Laws. Good thing the wedding got called off. The future mother in law, Levi’s Mom, got caught for selling drugs (Oxycontins) and is in Jail. She did not pass GO and those get out of jail cards for free did not work in this town. And lately Levi has become a tell-all of her personal life, which doesn't exactly match her made up resume. There is bad blood there now.
THE FUTURE
Some have suggested a few things Sarah could be doing now that she lost the election. She did get involved with FOX news, thats a reality show framed around a news show and she better hope they don't turn against her.
They could do a remake of the "The Alaskan Hillbillies move to Washington". Or the The Hunting Channel will sponsor “Duck hunting on the Potomac”. a series with Martha Stewart in redecorate the Lincoln Bedroom. and becoming the spokeperson for the BASS-PRO shops who might build a new Superstore in the East wing of the White House.
“Let’s get behind this gal and put a Moose in every pot”, from the food channel. Country-fried sweetness aside, moose balls for dinner is not what we call mainstream, unless you are Andy in Funny Farm. Oh, that was sheep balls,” lamb fries”, the waitress called them.