[Palin] “had no attention span—with Sarah it was always ‘What’s the flavor of the day?’ ”; [she] was unable to take part meaningfully in conversations about budgets because she “does not understand math or accounting—she only knows buzzwords, like ‘balanced budget’ ”; and who clocked out after four hours on most days, delegating her duties to an aide—“but he’ll never talk to you, because he has a state job and doesn’t want to lose it.”
Even Cottle says she and her husband Rodney will “pay a price” for her words.
Gross claims at the beginning that he started out agnostic about The Sarah, but became hardened in his opinions about her as he dug deeper. I’ll take him at his word, but doubt his intelligent and skeptical nature if that is true. Signs are all over the place for the average outsider observer, much less the trained journalist.
The article leave us with no more information that we could have gleaned by ourselves just observing the abundant clues around her. How hard is it to figure that she doesn’t write her own speeches, Facebook entries, or even Tweets, or that she has no conception of politics, domestic or international affairs? Of course she doesn’t read and cannot think properly. Duh! She is merely a reflection of the wishes of those who project their starry-eyed hopes on her.
I’d take it even a step deeper – she has no deep and abiding faith, but rather carries with her that shrill version of Christianity that judges and proscribes without enlightening. She’s likely never thought deeply about faith or read the bible, new or old testament. She is of this life, this moment, never thinking much beyond.
Mark Moe, a teacher of thirty years, wrote about her personality type in a piece in the Denver Post last December:
It recently dawned on me that one of the most predominant types — especially among female students — has as its avatar a political celebrity who has made a raucous re-entry onto the national stage. Therefore, I’m calling it The Sarah.
The Sarah has three basic characteristics: a lack of self-evaluative skills; a tendency to parrot whatever she thinks her immediate audience wants or needs to hear to gain validation, and the mistaken belief that popularity implies importance.
Gross’s piece hit the recycle bin shortly after I finished. Nothing new there, no reason to want to know more. It’s all right in front of us. She is as she appears, shallow, phony, and mean as Michael Vick’s pit bull. She will never be president – even the slickest professional manager in the business would not be able to both manage her mercurial personality and keep her little dim bulb under a bushel basket for a full campaign.
The disconcerting thought is that so many people think she has the qualifications to sit at the helm. What the hell is wrong with us?
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