Sarah Palin

Again, the news has inspired me to engage in a tiny amount of political ranting.  This time, the subject is Sarah Palin, who has far exceeded her 15 minutes of fame.  Seriously, why is she still around?  Allow me to reiterate, first: I don't really have much of a political backbone, and I'll hold nothing against you if you disagree with me on political issues.  This is more of an issue with the fact that Sarah Palin is to politics as Paris Hilton is to life. 

Anyway, it appears that Sarah Palin has made herself into a hypocrite twice over this week.  The first incident involved her angry response to Rahm Emmanuel calling conservative Democrats "fucking retards" and then responding to Rush Limbaugh using the term "retards" to describe the same group defensively.  That's right - apparently the word can be dropped at will by ol' Rush, but not by Rahm Emmanuel.  Her justification... well let's not even go there, because I don't even think she realizes that it doesn't make sense.

Then, later, she made a speech to her fellow supporters of the Tea Party "Movement" in which she (quite "folksily") poked fun at Obama for using a teleprompter in so many of his speeches.  I almost laughed myself, what a comical observation.  I wonder where she got that from.  Oh, maybe it was the notes that she read from her fucking hand.  What is this, an algebra test?  (Go ahead, insert your own "Trig" joke)  There is really no way to describe that sort of behavior.  Hypocritical?  Yes.  Stupid?  Yes.  I guess the best way to describe this speech was that it was just... sad.  It was just sad.

Neither of these are very influential points on a political spectrum, I suppose.  Conservatives would probably jump on the opportunity to knock on Obama if he did either of those things, although they'd have the right to do it especially violently, because even they know that Obama isn't... well, he isn't a "fucking retard" like Palin.  How is it that she's still popular?  I can outwit her!  I don't give half a fuck about politics; all I know is that I don't want someone even more moronic than George Bush to be running the country.  How is it that people still support her, even though she has undeniably cemented her status as a moron into the history books?  I'm scared.

While I'm at it, did anyone else notice the trend for the right-wing, teabagging (haha, they still use that term) evangelicals to describe themselves as "True Americans"?  Yep, I laughed too.