Sarah Palin and Glenn Rice

The insistence of some to characterize an active politician, viable GOP presidential candidate, leading speaker for the Tea Party and vice presidential candidate as a simple "private citizen" is even more amusing in its absurdity.

Do you really think Palin is just huntin' and fishin' as a retired pol and the evil left and their running dog media are just hounding the poor soul? Really? C'mon.
 
Well a lot of us thought she lacked the intellectual capacity to be a serious presidential contender, but last I looked at the Republican Presidential field that's not eactly a handicap. Even when she tells us Paul Revere was out warning the British, she sounds a helluva lot smarter than the current leader in the polls.
 
'She was horrified.'

Is it a fetish (which would suggest more than a single episode of the 'fever), or was she horrified?

This is a non-story. I wish Sarah would go away. She is not a person of substance or serious political ideas and yet, like these people who Nancy Grace keeps in the spotlight so she can profit from combing over their pitiful lives, we are daily bombarded with info about this vapid woman. It isn't even a left v right thing at this point, it is just tabloid entertainment.

Back when I was in college, say '85 or so, I attended a porn viewing being held by a frat some of my good friends had joined. There were trailers on the tape and one was for a 'movie' called 'White Chicks,' or something like that, which was apparently devoted to black guys ******* white women while screwing up their faces and saying **** like 'ooohhh, white ***** be good *****,' etc. Nothing hurried, you know, gentle and tasteful race-mixing. Anyway, I am in this room full of white guys -- the only person of color -- sitting right down front with my buds in a sort of stadium seating set up, and as soon as the trailer for 'White Chicks' started up the room erupted with an incredible amount of hooting and hollering -- almost everyone in the room had the same instantaneous response -- nothing else we watched elicited even half that ruckus. My friends smiled broadly but were visibly uncomfortable with the situation. They were embarrassed. I feel the same way about this stupid-assed Rice/Palin story. I am embarrassed for our culture.
 
"Never hurts to rumormonger."

— Sarah Palin, in an email musing on ways to prevent Alaska Senate President Lyda Green from being re-elected



"Flippin' unbelievable. Wouldn't you think they'd be afraid of being proved wrong when they rumor around the building like that?"

— Palin, in a subsequent email objecting to a (true) rumor that Bristol Palin was pregnant
 
Great post, Buckhorn. I'd say it was more of a fetish, just to see what it was like. But, even if she had/secretly has the fever, I don't see what the big deal is.
 
I really wish I hadn't made the OP. I admit that I occasionally read People Magazine at the Dentist Office, and I'm also an NBA fan, so I couldn't resist.

Palin is an interesting, but largely irrelevant, personality. I'm sick of her, so I regret bring this whole thing up. More importantly Glen Rice had a solid, but not spectacular, NBA career.
 
"Yes and an Ivy League education certainly did nothing to help our current POTUS without a clue."

Yeah, too bad Forrest Gump and Jethro Bodine are fictional characters or the GOP could have somebody REALLY opposite of an Ivy Leaguer.
 
Last 2 GOP Presidents were Ivy Leaguers. The best President of our time graduated from Eureka College. Now, I don't want an aggy president but what we have now is a disaster.
 
Outstanding post buckhorn. One sentence of yours sums it all up:

I am embarrassed for our culture.

My wife and I stopped watching practically all TV programming a few years ago, especially ‘news’ programs (which should be pronounced ‘noise’) because of the vacuous **** that passes for discourse and entertainment in this country. It sometimes seems as though ignorance is actively celebrated, as if democracy means that one person’s stupidity is just as good as another’s intelligence.
 
ShinerTX -- I think we agree that in itself an Ivy League education is not preparation to be a great president. Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman were great/very good presidents without college. But they were smart and well read. They didn't pan for votes by trying to sound as dumb as the guy on the adjacent bar stood. I don't think either would have every been so dumb or inarticulate as to have equated Social Security Administration, sadly enough the lifeblood of too many in this country, with a get rich scheme in which schemers defraud the greedy for the benefit, mostly, of the schemers.
 
The "Cousin Pookie" message doesn't resonate with me, but I don't think that's so bad at a campaign rally among true believers. I guess I like my presidential campaigns to be like a good editorial page at a local newspaper, a vehicle to reflect community values while at the same time uplifting them.
I'm wishing for something better than celebrity and an appeal to cynicism.
 
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