I can't believe that Sarah Palin, with as little political experience as she has, might possibly run for President of the United States in 2012. I'm sure I don't have to remind you that she didn't even complete one entire term as Governor of Alaska. The fact that John McCain chose her to be his running mate during the 2008 election has me in awe to this day. I understand his mindset at the time. He believed that people who would have voted for Hillary Clinton would vote for him because he had a woman candidate for his Vice President. He HONESTLY believed that strong, independent, women that would have voted for Clinton because of her political views would have switched parties during the election due to the fact that his running mate was a woman. Silly, silly McCain.
Although I don't necessarily agree with where Sarah Palin is going with her reality tv show, I do believe it is an attempt at a political movement; however, I don't believe she will become successful politically by doing the tv show. Will people watch the show? Of course they will. Will people who care enough about politics to inform themselves about people who have the potential to govern Americia watch the show? I highly doubt it. Having this show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," will not urge people to go vote. Rather, it will urge people to change the channel to CNN, CSPAN, or (as much as I hate to admit it) Fox News. Many people that take politics seriously already take her as a joke because she appeared on Saturday Night Live. Having her own reality show and appearing on Entertainment Tonight will merely add to the joke that she has allowed herself to become.
Palin is certainly trying something different, you can say that. I think she is just carrying on the GOP logic of Reagan and W: dumb sells. In fact what else can you conclude from a party that dumbed on the one smart president it has had in most living memory? Ford and Bush Snr are outsiders, while the back of the class dullards Reagan and W (though the deny it now) were beloved. It is simple logic that if you want to make it as a Republican go dumb. And that is what Palin, or who ever is backing Palin, is trying.
ReplyDeleteI think she is the perfect post-Reagan Republican. She is the ultimate logic of a party which has kept a free market privileged class interest alive by playing to a grass root senses that it was under attack by something other than the current economic system.