Reply #7: Pick up that Newsweek magazine, Sarah, and look long and hard at the cover [View All]

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in hopes that you'll finally see yourself as too many others do.



I'm not talking about the visual of her in running shorts. I'm talking about the text on the cover which describes her as a "problem" that is "bad news for the GOP--and everybody else." Did it make her cry "Character assassination"? No, it made her cry "Sexism!" and "How DARE you not take me seriously?", which has me crying "Sociopath!"

Unfortunately, it's classic Palin priority-setting. What was more important: accepting the VP nomination or protecting her political party by protecting her pregnant teenage daughter? Giving birth to the healthiest Down's Syndrome baby possible or making a speech and taking a 12-hour flight after going into labor a month early? Buttressing her political credentials and credibility by completing her tenure as a state governor, or cashing in on the cheap notoriety of speaking fees, TV appearances and book advances? She didn't even have enough common sense to announce her resignation from where she could have been seen working out the details of the transition--she did it from a fishing boat instead.

I say that Newsweek has done Palin a favor by so expertly portraying her descent from political long shot to dead pundit walking to media irrelevance. Here's hoping she'll finally realize that the world is not one big demented beauty pageant where she is both the only contestant AND the only judge. It was inevitable that Sarah would hit a wall--lucky for her, it wasn't made of something harder than glossy 4-color stock paper.


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