This screed attempts to analyze the meta reasons for the persistence of the Palin phenomena (erotic).
It roundly insults her, but in a charming and gentlemanly manner. It doesn't call her a whore.
It is, withal, a trenchant analysis of her existence.
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Sarah Palin impaled.
As living proof of the intellectual brainpower of the American electorate we have the phenomenon of Sarah Palin, surely an example of the flea with an erection crawling up the leg of the elephant.
Actually hornyness has much to do with Sarah. Her erectile desires for electoral success and her status as an erotic object for her –shall we call it -- constituency.
She is, of course, regardless of her erotic attractiveness, a nincompoop. Every time she opened her mouth in front of a semi-conscious reporter in the 2008 election she made a fool of herself. But her fans don’t care. They are not interested in competence in government. (As a matter of fact they believe passionately that government doesn’t work (except for their social security checks and Medicare) and they are willing to vote for politicians who can prove that thesis (Ronald Reagan, George Bush).
It is not her brains that make the right wing ideologues swoon and the Young Republican members breathe harder. It is her perceived identity as “one of them” – a lip-sticked manifestation of the hocky mom living their philosophy – bearing mentally defective children rather than aborting a fetus known to be defective. (A kind of sin against a person and against humanity.) So she is the embodiment of their dreams –erotic and political.
As George Lakoff said, it is identity politics, not rational policy initiatives. She is, in short today’s Cleopatra. The seductress queen of government whose primary function is to float down the Nile on a barge of nebulous perfumed rhetoric and turn dull Caesars out of power.
Or perhaps her appeal is that of Diana, the huntress. Diana or not her exploitation of hunting imagery has now, with the shooting of Gabriel Giffords come back to haunt her. She was more than willing to throw red meat (moose) to the red neck conservatives from the time she came on stage in 2008. But when she used a telescopic sight image to target Congresswoman Giffords it aroused in the brains (?) of Arizona rednecks an inchoate rage to resist the government of Obama the Muslim socialist and to do violence to its representatives.
Now in her latest rhetorical sortie she has once again revealed her ignorance -- of history, of words and concepts or rhetoric – by invoking the term “blood libel.” She accused the liberal press and blogosphere of “creating a blood libel” against her by inferring that she had a responsibility for the fraught atmosphere in Arizona which led (or didn’t lead –don’t want to be accused of blood libel) to the attempt on the Congresswoman’s life. It is really giving her too much credit to suppose that she knows what she is saying. The woman is incoherent and ignorant beyond belief. Quotations can be lifted at random from her recorded wisdom.
“We’ll keep clinging to our Constitution, our guns and our religion,” she has said earlier, “and you can keep the change.” One doesn’t know whether the change consisted of only silver, or bills. But of you stop for a moment you realize that she only has to say “Constitution” or “guns” or “religion” and her adherents will wave their tea bags and rush to tune in to Dancing with the Stars. Her pronouncements don’t have to make sense. She can leave out the verbs, and often does.
When Juan Williams was fired from NPR (the fair and balanced source for news) for unconsidered statements about Muslim plane passengers and the right wing bloviators started screaming for the cutoff of funding for NPR (they will cease any excuse to keep NPR from telling the truth because the truth always has a liberal bias) she said “This is what happens when our Constitution starts shaking her fist.”
She is a walking talking dancing agent provacateur and that is what tickles the rage button of the right wing and gets their blood pumping (not blood libel pumping). Blood libel refers to the medieval catholic libel that Jews kidnapped and killed Christian children drained their blood and used it to make matzoh. Needless to say the very term sets liberal, secular and Jewish teeth on edge.
Palin at this point is a political clown with her own circus – a circus which is entertained and enthralled by her wild woman from Borneo act.
But it won’t play with people who have graduated from grammar school and can distinguish shit from Shinola.