Just the Facts, Ma'am

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Just the Facts, Ma'am

by Charles Lemos, Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 04:48:08 AM EST


It is a pity that Sgt. Joe Friday of Dragnet fame wasn't asked to ghost write Sarah Palin's autobiography for surely he would have implored time and again, 'Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.' Perhaps then her autobiography, Going Rogue, wouldn't have to be stocked in the fiction section of the nation's bookstores. In this, however, Ms. Palin is true to her conservative DNA. Facts have long been elusive to conservatives. Theirs is a world based on blind faith and willful ignorance, a world where reality is obscured by dogma or wishful thinking.

It doesn't matter nor will it ever matter to her and her band of the merry moronic that her version of events is not only contradicted by the word of others but also by the more damning written record. To Sarah of the Tundra and the Palinites, truth is what they themselves make up. The rest is just details.

Since being plucked from obscurity for the Vice Presidential slot on the GOP ticket fifteen months ago, Sarah Palin has captivated and bemused the nation though not necessarily in a good way. To her fans she is Sarah, the second coming of Ronald Reagan which is grossly unfair since whatever his faults Reagan could at least speak in complete sentences using his training as an actor to muddle through whatever uncomfortable scene there was to perform or failing that resort to his charming self-deprecating humor. Palin is devoid of such talents. When challenged, she is nothing but a vindictive victim. That's the drama being played out now one serious lashing out at all things McCain.

When first picked by Senator McCain, he, like much of the nation, was enthralled with the former beauty queen that could bag a moose for dinner. "What a hoot," he declared. She certainly was fresh and her hockey mom routine worked until it became painfully obvious that she was not ready for prime time rather quickly becoming the fodder for late night. By mid-September, Palin was no longer a hoot and the McCain camp was ready to ship her back to Hooterville.

Hers is a fifteen month train wreck in the making but she is seemingly not done. Perhaps she thinks that she is capable of a resurrection. With the release of her gospel according to Sarah of the Delusions, the I can't be bothered to finish to my one term stint as Governor in Juneau descends upon the lower 48 where raptured and raucous crowds surely await her as she spouts inanities about death panels, free markets and pipelines to nowhere. While David Brooks is lucid enough to dismiss her as a joke, others on the intellectual side of the GOP equation, such the Weekly Standard's Matthew Continetti, seem to think that whatever Sarah's foibles in the past they are remediable. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Continetti assures us that if she can just win over a few percentage points among independents that they will be "serving moose burgers in the White House" come 2013.

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