The Tragedy of Sarah Palin

[Joanne98]

The McCain Campaign is absolutely ruthless. These folks will use and abuse anyone necessary for a win at the polls. Caught up in this disaster of morality is Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska. Palin has to own some of the choices she makes - but the allure of power has distorted her powers of reason. The election will come and go - and Palin will have to live with herself. That day will be November 5, 2008

Palin’s credentials did not support McCain’s decision - so why did he choose her? Most people quickly get this - McCain wanted to shake up his faltering campaign. Choose a woman, a Governor, someone who’s lack of experience could be interpreted as being a reformer. McCain knew he could spin the wheel and keep the media off balance.

But here it is for this writer - McCain is using and abusing Palin. McCain uses Palin as a prop, a pretty face and a Joe six pack personality. Sarah Palin is not a part of the inner campaign circle. She is an accessory designed to gain appeal with particular demographics. Palin chooses to walk in the mud with the low flying campaign. And what happens when they lose?

On November 5, 2008, the McCain camp will be gone from Alaska. Sarah Palin will be dumped like a used pumpkin from Halloween. She will go home to Alaska, where she will temporarily be greeted as a heroin. Then the reality will sink in - her life, her family, will have been completely exposed. Palin’s dignity will have been stripped from her. No one will ever really trust her again - they know now that she will stoop to vicious lies and distortions.

Barack Obama’s Presidency will soar to heights of glory on the wings of hope and change. Palin’s lies about this man will live on. Palin’s distortions will haunt her. And there will be no McCain Camp around to shelter her. She will be left to her own devices.

Dan Quayle came from a rich newspaper family - his inheritance sheltered his disastrous public life from the country club golf course. Palin will not have that advantage. Over time her star power will fade. Memories of her atrocities will remain. She will call McCain for support on Alaskan earmarks, only to be told he is busy - and do not ever call here again. She will try to enter the national political arena - and they will not return her calls.

She will be alone. And her former supporters will be forever suspicious of her quest for power. She will live, but her fifteen minutes will have tainted her life. She chose to walk in the mud with McCain, and she will forever be defined by that moment when she sold her soul.

This writer does not want to believe that Joe Six Pack from Alaska is as mean spirited as is being represented by Governor Sarah Palin.

What great sadness modern politics brings into the lives of Joe Six Pack.

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/05/the-tragedy-of-sarah-palin/

[kikiek]

1. My belief also. I can't stand her anyway so I am relieved she showed up too soon.

Otherwise she might have grown into a more prominent role in national politics. She entered before she was capable, and I believe she will have blown her future by doing so. Thank you Sarah and McCain for showing such poor judgment.

[ncgrits]

2. My understanding of Palin's activities in Alaska is that she operates in exactly the same way.

She uses people to get ahead and then, when they are no longer of use, she kicks them to the curb. So I'm not sure I would categorize her treatment by McCain as a "tragedy"--more like justice.

(I don't mean to imply that the OP is necessarily agreeing with the content of the post. . . dontcha know.)

[sakabatou]

3. Wow... the article is gonna hurt

[SmokingJacket]

4. Hardly a tragedy, though.

It's a couple of blindly ambitious people using each other. When she made that weird statement about wanting to go to Michigan even though McCain had given it up, it was obvious to me that she's feeling a little bit bitter and used.

[enough]

5. It seems equally likely, given the reality of politics today, that she will go on

to have a brilliant career. She has national celebrity, total national media saturation and name recognition, which is about all you need these days. If she can find some serious money backers, she could be around for quite a while.

I wouldn't write her off.

[Puzzler]

6. "... where she will temporarily be greeted as a heroin..."

Heroin? Is that legal in Alaska? ;)

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. I can't find it in me to feel an ounce of sorrow for Sarah Palin.

She was all too willing to be used. She's a willing co-conspirator in her own cynical exploitation.

[nam78_two]

8. I think she will be fine

She seems like a nasty, mean-spirited, conniving person-what she lacks in experience and knowledge, she makes up for with her low cunning and mainpulative ways. She will be just fine...

[uppityperson]

9. It's working out well for AK though, showing off her nasty shit on national stage.

I don't feel sorry for her, feel she's ruthlessly addicted to obtaining power by whatever nasty means she can. I'm glad her tricks got shown in public so maybe AK can get a better gov now.

[madaboutharry]

10. It is hard to say what will happen.

She has burned a lot of bridges in Alaska and I do agree that she will face some new realities when she goes home.

(I think the author meant heroine, a female hero. Not heroin, which is something rather different. :) )