And by now you've seen and heard lots about Sarah's quit snit. Most of us think she's doing it because she really isn't a fighter, can only feel validated with total adoration, and will probably make a bundle on the book and lecture circuit among her base, the fundamentalist southern "values" voters, who are about the only group that hasn't either left the Republican Party, at least in spirit.
Below is from the Huff Post about what Conservative journalist Peggy Noonan had to say about Sarah since Sarah's abandonment of Alaska's ship-of-state:
HUFFINGTON POST, JULY 10 2009:
One of the most refreshingly honest moments of the 2008 campaign came when Peggy Noonan, a columnist and former Republican speechwriter, was caught on a live mike calling the choice of Sarah Palin to run on the Republican ticket "political bullshit." She smoothed over her harsh remarks in a subsequent column, saying she liked Palin even if she wasn't sure the choice would be successful. But now that Palin has resigned as Alaska Governor, Noonan apparently feels free to speak openly.
Noonan wrote:
"In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. 'I'm not wired that way, I'm not a quitter,' 'I'm standing up for our values.' I'm, I'm, I'm."
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.
Friday, July 10, 2009
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