The Rise and Fall of Sarah

[dtotire]

The Rise and Fall of Sarah

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/28019


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2008 – October. Sarah leads an attack on Obama as Mr. Teleprompter

2008 – November. McCain aides are petrified that Sarah will try to steal the microphone and be herself on live TV. McCain gracefully acknowledges de feet, de ankles, and de knees, as America elects its first president of color.

2009 – July .Tired of having to do real work, Sarah quits the governorship 18 months early, leaving a trashed economy, a destroyed budget process, and a squandered budget surplus (now a growing debt) so she can serve America.

2009 – September. Sarah is paid $150,000 to attend a business convention in Hong Kong, marking the second time that she has left the continental US. (Her illegal trips for Canadian medical care don’t count)

2009 – November. Sarah has a book ghost-written for her. Within 4 months, despite the best efforts of GOP conservative activists, the Koch Family, and most of Fox News, her book remains unread and is eventually relegated to the $2.00 book sale table.

2009 -November. Sarah embarks on a bus tour promoting her book. She and her closest aides travels by private luxury jet and meets her bus before each appearance.

2009 – Sarah’s entourage soon exceeds 30 people, including 19 armed personal security experts. Only SecState Clinton, VP Biden and President Obama have larger security details.

2010 – Sarah quits her book tour early. She begins demanding (and receiving) $100,000 or more for future appearances, plus a private plane, no interviews, prescreened questions by a selected few, bendy straws, and rooms for her entourage. Within a month, they descend like locusts, emptying a Hollywood designer’s bling room of all valuables. The term Trailer Trash is heard in the background.

2010 – February. Sarah is paid in excess of $150,000 to play the role of keynote tele-prompter “reader” for the Tea Bagger convention. This marks Sarah’s acme. She reaches the height of her popularity. Conversely, her support in Alaska falls to near 40% approval, and 54% disapproval in Alaska. Even local conservative GOPers want nothing to do with her and privately hope that she stays down under in the lower 48. The lower 48 slowly begin to follow Alaska’s lead in their disdain.

2010 – April. “Drill baby, Drill,” becomes Sarah’s new motto. In response to internal polls showing falling support for her, they taste test new labels for her, eventually deciding on “Grizzlie Momma.”

2010 – May. Sarah’s upcoming June appearance in Atlanta is so unpopular, that they cut ticket prices from $300 to $25. The event organizers blithely state that her popularity is so huge, that people simply don’t realize that so many tickets are still available.

2010 – May. The California University group who apparently paid her $150,000 to give a speech, finally admit that all the documents were not shredded, and agree to produce the Sarah Contract.

2010 – June. Sarah’s slush fund, Palin Defense Fund, is found to be illegal. Sarah must repay over $380,000. She plans to do just that when she returns the remaining wardrobe purchased with RNC funds.

2010 – June. Sarah’s support becomes the kiss of death. With the exception of South Carolina gubernatorial Candidate Haley, Sarah’s chosen seem to be on the losing end of most elections. Now, 37% of Americans would look cross-eyed at any candidate who seeks her support, and 60% view her unfavorably or very unfavorably. (Only 53% viewed her unfavorably in late 2009)

So how does our MSM respond? Fox News makes her a special correspondent. (I wonder if her correspondence is also ghost written) The Discovery Channel hires her to feature how to kill animals in Alaska. Bristol (her unwed daughter and mother of her grand-daughter) talks family values and starts her own slush fund.

Yet despite all these built in advantages, Americans are seeing the real Sarah, and what they see ain’t pretty. What will really put the final stake in the VAMPire from Alaska will not be political. Even she cannot be so ineffably stupid to try a run for president. It will be financial. Her entourage has grown, not gotten smaller. Her crowds grow ever smaller, as seen in Atlanta, a conservative center that should be in rapture. Rumor suggest that California is having troubles selling tickets for her July appearance.

The good news is that her 15 minutes of fame is finally coming to an end. The bad news is that her 15 minutes of fame is finally coming to an end. Even Billo found her to be ignorant, incomprehensible, and ineffably foolish. Of late, Wassilly Sarah has been doing more to energize the Democrats and the independent voters than anything our DNC, DSCC, DCCC or our White House could do. Oh, well. We knew it would not last

[abluelady]

1. Heard a Good Quote Yesterday

"His stupidity is dangerous." I thought of Sarah immediately. Wish everyone thought of stupid and dangerous when they think of Sarah. Will we ever get there?

[saltpoint]

2. Three hundred bucks to hear half an hour of rambling babble

from a woman who blows wolves out of the woods from a helicopter.

Damn.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I'll believe it when her appearances on Hannity and FOX dwindle to rarely.

[ixion]

4. Most talking heads don't write their own copy

they read what the producer's and/or copy editors have written for them to read.

[Scuba]

5. Well, thank goodness we have Joe Barton.

[blue sky at night]

6. this is the best news I have had in weeks!

thanks for a breath of fresh air.........I needed that. REc!

[nxylas]

7. I hope it's true

I never bought the "she's so stupid, she'd never be elected" argument - they said the same thing about Reagan and Bush Junior. So I'm very pleased that her star appears to be fading.

[Old Codger]

8. Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is

Her so called "entourage" are mostly people who are probably hanging on to see what stupidity may come next, if they hang on long enough they can write their own "tell all" book and retire....



— people at the bottom, if you show them what other people do, they don’t get it. They don’t realize that what those other people are doing is superior to what they’re doing

that is, her stupidity protects her from an awareness of her own stupidity.

Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” was published in 1999.<3>

when you’re incompetent, the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/











3. Justin Kruger and David Dunning, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. 1121-1134.

[skepticscott]

9. If it's even needed, she will be more fully exposed

if she actually tries to run for president. Don't forget, she was only in the last race for about 2 months, and then as a sidekick...McCain's people were doing all of the heavy lifting. She's utterly incapable of the organization and plain, slogging hard work that goes into running your own campaign for 18 months. She's too lazy, she can't stand being under the media microscope, and she will drive away most of the good people that she manages to get to work for her. Add to that the fact that she'll be competing against 6 or 8 old white men in dark suits in the Republican primary, and they will be tougher on her than Obama ever would be.