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Palin keeps plowin’ along.

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by scott in political munglings

Sarah Palin’s publicity train just keeps on smoking along.

Saturday night was her biggest moment yet.  She was the ‘keynote’ speaker for a potential third-party gathering in Nashville (The Tea Party movement).  The message was all any of the paying customers there (a couple of hundred bucks each I understand) could have hoped for.

Cheers and jeers.  Cheers for her digs at the Obama administration and jeers for the lack of meaningful response she gave to the question of whether she intended to run in 2012.  That is just a sampling.

Sure enough she is a big star with the ultra-conservative right wing voters.  The kind of rising star that Barack Obama was three years ago (absent of course any meaningful legislative experience) with far-left liberals.

How big of a star?  Well, Sarah is now the type that can demand, and get, $100,000 for the one hour speech (and Q&A) she provided. That, my folks, is a whole LOT more that minimum wage!

Lots of good theater Saturday night,  too.  For example, pointing out the government’s supposed blunder with the latest ‘underwear’ airline bomber — giving him the rights we as citizens are entitled to.  I suppose she hadn’t heard yet that the A.G.’s approach of ‘Mirandizing’ him and bringing his family to the United States to appeal to him had led to huge dividends. A virtual download of credible intelligence.   That of course the opposite of the “treat him as a war criminal” approach she advocated.

Pretty, former Miss Wasilla, Sarah proved one thing to me: she is at least as good as some of the media favorites like O’Rielly, Beck, Maddow and Olberman. But NOT a bit smarter.

But, she did not change my opinion that she lacks the experience and basic common sense (which, by the way, can only come with adequate background knowledge — which she clearly lacks) to deal effectively with issues such as International affairs, domestic and international Economics, Defense of the homeland, and two wars on foreign soil.  Plus, she has a heck of a time reading from her own notes (while criticizing Obama’s addiction to teleprompters).

I have, in this very arena, noted that almost any average citizen could function at least as well as some of the ‘eggheads’ back in Washington.  It is true too.  Except for one caveat: those average citizens have to possess a basic knowledge of what is going on around us.

Sarah Palin does not.

I hope she limits her public service to blathering on the airwaves just like the aforementioned talk-show wonders.  I am convinced that know reasonable person puts much credence in their ideological blather.

One thing I know for absolute certain:  President Sarah Palin only works for me if it has reference to the local PTA.

Thanks to flickr’s chilinsuch1818 for the photo

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