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written by Playmaker on 11/19/2009
Dammit! Sarah Palin is back in the news, hitting the conservative talk show circuit with zeal. She is staying off of NPR and other liberal programing, of course, spending time preaching to the choir and piloting her shipwreck away from anyone who would call her out. Her intentions are obvious: the regular gal from Wasilla is pitching her candidacy for the nation's highest office.
When a Facebook buddy of mine posted her Hannity interview, I had to respond that I hope she is launching her campaign for President in 2012 -- doing so will assure Obama's re-election.
I have said a lot about Palin during the election, and will continue to beat that drum until the entitled and angry spokesmodel is run out on a rail. However, I do think that many of us are scared of Palin -- perhaps not so much scared of her, but scared of what she represents. She represents all that is bad about the Republican party, and none of the good. Most importantly, she represents their fear of government (an oxymoron considering that she is part of the corrupt establishment), and their belief that government has little or nothing to offer its constituents.
In that fear is so much contradiction, and yet her supporters go forward without even blinking. They say they are constitutionalists, but curse the constitutional government. They preach Christian values, but argue against helping the poor and infirm.
The Palinites just want to be left alone, they say. They do not want government to tell them that they cannot drive their assault weapons around in their SUV's, even when it is in the best interest of their friends and neighbors. They do not want government to collect taxes to pave the roads -- obviously they don't need roads since they are driving SUV's. They do not want government to collect taxes to pay for the war on terror -- wait, they do want pay for going to war, they just don't want to pay taxes that would help the sick and infirm soldiers, especially if they become homeless. Actually, I'm not sure what parts of their war they want to pay for.
So we liberals are scared of Sarah Palin. We are scared that she will rise to power and sling our country into a wasteland of lawless Christian zealots who are armed, and don't give a rats ass for anyone else but themselves. We are scared that this is what our country has come to, and that there is no more United States of America. We are afraid that Palin is the harbinger of death to our beloved Constitution, and will complete the work that Cheney/Bush started.
God help us all.
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¶By Playmaker
I wanted to add more about this write up. Sarah Palin actually continued to propigate the lie about death panels on the Nov. 19th Laura Ingram show (as reported by Media Matters).
INGRAHAM: What's your take?
PALIN: I think that you have been brilliant on this, because the mammogram recommendation -- this whole issue is demonstrating precisely what you've pointed out, the problem about the panels, the death panels of government bureaucrats, and I think you call it the hospice chuting, the -- but those panels of bureaucrats having more and more input into Americans' personal decisions, decisions, really, that belong between them and their doctors. And this is what rationed care is going to be about.
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