
Note About This Post: I appologize for the confusion but this post was removed from a different blog since I had violated the blog rules. I am posting it here so that it can be said, and I have no hard feelings over the shift. I violated the rules. They didn't .. JC
I read the Going Rogue quickly the first week it was out. I wanted to see what was up with all of the hate that had been cast upon it, and found it to be rather innocuous. I mean it was interesting enough, and I had gone on record stating that most normal people would read the book and wish that she were their daughter, but aside from that there really wasn’t anything special in it. I mean I should probably explain that statement because there wasn’t anything special in it because her political and social beliefs weren’t any different than my own, and what little she actually said about the people she supposedly back stabbed or whatnot were already pretty obvious to me as well. Sorry to break it to any of the people trying to indoctrinate me, but the book itself was simply a reaffirmation to people and scenarios that my own common sense had weeded out on its own. Throw in some interesting facts about her upbringing and accomplishments, and it was just a good book, as opposed to a historic policy doctrine like Limbaugh would have you believe.
The sadistic part of the whole scenario as a whole was when I listened to the audiobook last week, and started getting a bit angry. Well actually I was starting to get really angry, in all honesty as I knew on the second go around that like in most cases, while fed to me from the mainstream media, this was a perfect example of lies and hate, not so much directed at Sarah Palin, but as usual at people like me. Unfortunately there were a few other things that I had caught onto on the second go around. I don’t think anyone who didn’t read the book, and quite a few that probably read the book, noticed that Sarah Palin was one of the few true believers in John McCain. I started getting a bit angry about the way she was cast off by the McCain camp, and like it or not, McCain himself. Sadly so, she never got around to blaming the person who really deserved the outing that others got in her book.
Well this is where I come in as I have never and will never drink at the trough of McCain Kool Aid. I’m happy for all the people running around like mind numb lunatics these days explaining how John McCain is one of us again. Lord knows at his age it’s about time he grew up, despite the outright impossibility of this. We all have had a 14 year old dog that we taught to chase its tail or fetch a ball, who had never done either before, right? This McCain monstrosity was perpetrated on us all, and now as Sarah Palin {who has shoulders like a bull elephant, when it comes to carrying bullshit heaped upon her} gets to carry all of the media hateraid, not just on behalf of the Liberal media, but the McCain media as well. The glaring example is her desperate attempt to explain away that handler that had gotten her involved in the whole Katie Couric fiasco as a misunderstanding as to why the McCain campaign would even have her involved?
The one thing Sarah Palin doesn’t get into and hasn’t to date {call it class call it naiveté} is that John McCain inevitable need to be drunk with his adoration by the mainstream media. She also never once explained the way that the McCain campaign NEVER had a chance. She would explain what she liked about him, and his campaign, and the ups and downs, and never once mired in the muck that was the John McCain campaign before and after her arrival. They like to heap the blame on her, but that is typical John McCain and not just typical of the campaign itself. To be honest with you, when I walked into my primary polling place here in New Hampshire where I again got to participate in that “First in the Nation” farce that NH perpetrates on the country every year I had a hard time deciding which pathetic loser candidate to vote for almost 2 years ago. McCain was the guaranteed no, followed by Romney, and that left me with several people who couldn’t run a campaign with their heads up their rears and Huckabee. Yeah I admit McCain and Romney were so bad that I held my nose and punched in Huckabee.
The secret here was that I knew the primary was in the bag for McCain ahead of time. How did I know this you may ask? Well in NH anybody can vote for anybody. You walk into your polling place, declare your party, and take a ballot. NH hardcore Democrats always walk in, proclaim Republican and then pick the weakest candidate, and pray it carries over to the rest of the primaries. McCain was the glaringly obvious of the weak candidates. Everyone knew that his name on the ballot would immediately eliminate 20% of the registered Republicans in the general, and the media had already invested enough to carry him to that primary victory he needed to torpedo the whole party. The amusing thing here is that if you think Obama runs the country badly, his campaign benefited immeasurably from a perfect disaster of a candidate running against him. If I had been running the Obama campaign I could have run McCain so far into the ground he would have had Perot like numbers. The Obama campaign simply coasted along on rock star status and that was all it needed.
I would have really pounded the Keating 5 at him myself. Could you picture the ad campaign with the little old woman, looks just like your grandmother, “That John Keating stole all my money, and John McCain helped him!,” she could do something to add to the depression factor, and then turn with watery eyes to the camera, “Then he went all 'maverick' and stole my right to talk about it with campaign finance reform,” again she could open a can of cat food or something and then end it off with, “Please don't let John McCain take what I have left,” and he would be FINISHED. It sounds mean, but even through the eyes of a Republican it is completely fair. He didn't even have to face anything like that. No, he simply let his only two completely right wing issues that were totally unpopular, either at the moment or in politics in general set his stage. His seemingly endless pro war plank and his unwavering pro life plank. Both of these things I happen to agree with, but that was no help because I had my eyes open when it comes to John McCain so he in general I didn't agree with. After I had convinced the elderly to either stay home or vote against McCain I would have battered him with both of those things, and Sarah Palin who was being set up as the fall gal for the McCain campaign was still believing in him.
These scenarios were the least of his issues, as I had said before, he was so in bed with the media that he would let them personally destroy his campaign from within. Years of selling out his own party so that he could get extra face time or the crew at MSNBC saying nice things about him, was nearly funny to watch as his own megalomania convinced him that they really did like him. The many thousands of people he had knocked over on his way to the nearest camera, weren't about to charge to his rescue either. Sure he had the Lindsey Grahams and Joe Leiberman's throwing down for him, but he had moments of sharing the spotlight with them along the way. Why should a Rush Limbaugh, or a Glenn Beck support McCain when he had made them into one stump speech after another to explain what was wrong with his party? Lap monkeys like Sean Vanity would be sucking up to him the second they needed a guest anyway, so he didn't have to give him any respect. His friends at MSNBC and CNN adored him for this and now he was living the brutal reality of what they had tried to tell him for years. They were using him as a “useful idiot” and in the end he was no more than a “used idiot.” You can't buy this type of loyalty outside of Hollywood and John McCain and the people that get their news from People magazine were the only people to fall for it. Well unfortunately Sarah Palin did too for a while.
Now comes the REAL rotten stuff that can spill out of my mouth sometimes, as I start on the glaring flaws. One of the few people that didn't realize McCain couldn't win {that being McCain} was simply doing God knows what. Palin had very accurately outlined this in her book, and forced me to say “forget about politics, I'm buying canned vegetables” because I saw his entire campaign committee start operation blame others. She also brought up EXACTLY what I was thinking, and the real John McCain started shining like YOUR house on fire. Every single issue that Sarah Palin was being torched for should have become front and center. If you can't win effect policy and change the next debate around! As a lifelong advocate for those with Downs Syndrome {12 years special Olympics service, three group homes I personally worked on, gym classes I teach for them now, I have credibility damnit!} it should have been an all out onslaught with his biggest sinking ship issue at the forefront. I credit McCain with the greatest answer ever given to the question “What would you do if your daughter came home wanting an abortion,” his brilliant off the cuff answer was “If my daughter came home saying she wanted to kill her grandmother I wouldn't talk to her about her feelings and then help her do it, I'd tell her that it is WRONG,” and heaven forbid he use that “political career killing issue” to change the “special needs” issue away from the left! No instead he let the other side control all of THAT debate and I think he just enjoyed having his VP nominee taking all pitchforks and torches. Anyone who reads Palin's book and doesn't completely relate to the “A child with Downs Syndrome has more love to give than the average child” has obviously never been around one. They could have pounded the walls of Utopia that the left lives in with contempt for ANYONE that would suggest a baby with Downs shouldn't be born, and they would have shifted the debate away from being a great MoveOnDotOrg joke. Bobby {a friend at the gym, thirty one years old, functional Downs} walks up to his mother at the gym and gives her big hugs and tells her that he loves her with the type of verve that you don't see in anyone past the age of 4, and his mother thinks she is the luckiest person in the world. DAMNIT SHE IS! Think about it?
The issue of political misogyny could have been highlighted like a torch against the looney left in this country, and changed the “women's issues” debate for a century, but did that get brought up? NO! From what I was looking at I saw a McCain campaign excited that Palin was treated like a bimbo, her husband treated like a gigolo, her daughter treated like a slut and McCain wasn't being treated like an ineffectual media whore dumped for the prettier girl at the prom! If the conservative movement hadn't taken to Sarah Palin with the type of vigor that they have I swear that meat head and the people he surrounded himself with could have set women against the Republican party for at least 50 years! This is a major reason why I am so grumpy about people treating McCain like the voice of the party again. There's more “I” in McCain than even Obama, and we all know that's saying something.
I really do worry, that despite the Tea Parties, and the 9/12 people and various other conservative to extreme right wing movements, that we are wasting our time trying only to stop the things we don't like happening. That idiot in the Whitehouse is our president because the American people elected him. In it's own sick way these socialisms that are being thrown down on us all are a wonderful way to keep everyone silent about the things we should have learned in that last presidential election. I spend a lot of my time trying to point out the things we ALSO need to work on so that we can get out from under the weight of BS perceptions that THEY labeled us with, and it's the conservatives, and the Republicans once again that are making me lose the will to fight these fights. Oh my blasphemy huh? I can't take all of the bumper sticker mentalities, and lack of real debate unless one of the cool kids told us we should talk about it, and as always I just like anyone else can feel swarmed under by the crap on both sides. I simply hope that everyone will forgive me when I work on the side agendas that really need to be worked on, because despite the fact that we have a bazillion things to stop, we still have a bazillion things to change ;8oD
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