I can quit any time! I do not have a problem!

[lolaraincoat]

Okay, so, I am powerless to control my need to read every bit and byte anywhere in the whole internet about Sarah Palin. It's not even about politics - she's like the most implausible fictional character ever, and the more I read, the less plausible she seems, and I'm fascinated.

So anyway, here are some of the my favorite random Vice-Presidential-candidate facts:

When her youngest child was born, she sent an email to her friends and family explaining that even though he has Down Syndrome, he is still "perfect." Nothing odd there, and yay for her for continuing the pregnancy and cherishing her child (pro-choice means pro-choice, not pro-eugenicist-decision-making, all right? Just my opinion of course.) It's just that Palin wrote the letter "in the voice of and signed it as 'Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father.'" according to this story in the Anchorage Daily News.

All her kids have appalling names! The youngest kid's middle name is Van because his parents are Van Halen fans! One of the others is named after an airplane! Another is named after a fishing port! And another is named after a city that never got built!

She modeled for Vogue - while pregnant!

She is more willing to throw her vulnerable family members under the national-media train than John Edwards ever was! (I don't even care about his screwing the videographer. He lost me when he decided to stay in the race while his wife went through chemo.) I think anyone likely to be morally offended by her daughter having premarital sex will be mollified by her daughter's marriage, while anyone worried by the possibility that the daughter is not making all her own reproductive and marital decisions with complete autonomy wasn't going to vote for McCain anyway. So it's a wash, politically. But what a story!

She had her ex-brother-in-law fired, and then she fired the guy who didn't fire the ex-brother-in-law fast enough! The ex-brother-in-law either did or did not use a taser on her nephew! She fired the only librarian in Wasilla, Alaska! She fired the Chief of Police too! She loves her family and she loves firing people!

She's just as confused as I am about what the Vice-President is supposed to do all day besides waiting around in case the President dies! And I'm not running for Vice President! But then, Dick Cheney was really sure what the Vice President should be doing, and look how that turned out.

She's very loyal to Wasilla, in the context of Alaskan politics, and to Alaska, now that she's on a national stage! This is great! We might end up with mid-twentieth-century-Mexican-style patria chica politics to go with our mid-twentieth-century-Mexican-style elections!

She only got a passport for the first time in 2007! eta: She used it to visit Kuwait! Thanks Heidi for that important info! /eta

She shoots polar bears! To save them from drowning because of global warming! It's mercy killing! (Okay, that last part, I made that up. She does hunt polar bears, but she does not believe that human interventions are changing the climate, and I'm guessing she would be anti-euthanasia as well, though she's pro-death-penalty so maybe not?)

eta:She may or may not have belonged to a very silly Alaska-secessionist-movement party at some point in her past! As someone who has signed on to more than one obscure and annoying-to-others political organization in my time, I say: She really is just like us! /eta

In sum, even if McCain loses, I think we can expect to see more of Sarah Palin and her family - either in national politics, or on the Jerry Springer Show. Or both.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

And she thinks the Founding Fathers drafted the Pledge of Allegiance. I'm sure even more delights like that lie in store for us in weeks to come.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

what about that awesome rumor that her baby is really her grandbaby?

[robriki.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the way late reminder, but could you post your fanaticize points ASAP, please?

Thanks!!

[djinnj.livejournal.com]

It's like watching a train wreck. I'm actually kind of getting grossed out by all the flailing at this point, because it's so focused (at least what I'm seeing) on her wife and mother aspects and losing sight of her professional OMG Unqualified aspects. Except that it's such a train wreck! The hypocrisy evident in her behavior even if everything she claims is true is just boggling on top of all the other boggling. I was glad to have found this today, however, as I like having all the boggling in one place.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy, you are just feeding my own obsession here. Vile enabler! Thanks for the links.

Her children's names bug the heck out of me. Isn't it sort of cruel to name your mentally disabled son after a branch of higher mathematics? Will future children be named Calc and Chem?

One of my Shibboleths of Adult Dating was to vet the names of any children of dating candidates. Non-names and kreativ spelinz are huge red flags to me.

[snegurochka_lee]

I am powerless to control my need to read every bit and byte anywhere in the whole internet about Sarah Palin. It's not even about politics - she's like the most implausible fictional character ever,

OMG I have been exactly the same way! *headdesk* It's the best summer movie yet. :)

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

It is a trainwreck and I have spent far too much time watching, too!

Gah!

Oh, and did you know that she was a member of the Alaska Independence Party, who are more or less pro-secession - or at least, pro-a-vote-in-Alaska-on-seccession?

To be fair, as I understand it she did go to Kuwait back in 2007, so she has been beyond the continent of North America. Once.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

This is what I think I should start calling the Latin Americanisation of US politics. That is to say, the continuing process whereby the script of US politics (or at any rate of the Partido Republicano) is written by Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Amado, Alejo Carpentier, and Mario Vargas Llosa, while under the influence of both Kafka and too much rum.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I feel exactly the same way. Maybe we need to start a support group.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

re: Palin--have you seen this yet?

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/

also OT but have you heard from La Sloth lately? She has vanished under the radar, and I am unsure as to where she is and what is going on with her.