Sarah Palin is not the problem. The problem is the increasing incompetence of individuals we promote and elect to political office. John McCain was only questionable because of his advanced age. We are asking a candidate to take on the job with the least satisfaction and the highest pressure in this country and we seem to be willing to settle for individuals who are at best questionable. Palin was at the time of her campaign for Vice President under scrutiny for her service as Governor of the State of Alaska and for many minor things that when combined could have indicated a person with actual psychological problems which could affect judgment under pressure. Palin may or may not be a great person, but her verbal statements would tend to indicate that she had some problems.
For some time we have been electing celebrities. Surprisingly Ronald Reagan was not the first, but he was the first in a far more modern succession of people of dubious merit once in office. Also elected in various locations were actor Fred Grandy who portrayed "Gopher" on "The Love Boat", Nancy Kulp, long time character actress probably best known by character as "Jane Hathaway" in the original Beverly Hillbillies, Professional Wrestler Jesse Ventura and stand up comic Al Franken have also been elected. In California Sheila Kuehl has been on office for a long time. Sheila Kuehl was best known as actress Sheila James who portrayed a character on the 1950's television sit-com, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis/Dobie Gillis". We elect them not because of their qualifications, but because we remember them from their roles on the screen or the tube. People in New Mexico are currently trying to get Val Kilmer to run for Governor.
The next bunch we tend to elect by profession are "trial-lawyers". Currently in New Mexico we have this very annoying "ambulance chaser" advertising out of Albuquerque. The thought of his whiney voice and his attitude were he to run for office scares me. Yet at the same time if he were to run for office here, his face is well known and his commercials would in some manner constitute a political statement. Because he says: "I'll fight for you!" the man would probably get elected, and it does not mean he is qualified even to be a trial lawyer. The Bar ASsociation of New Mexico granted him a license. It does not mean he is competent or can do what he says even as a lawyer.
Why are we as a people so anxious to settle for what we are being given as candidates for office? Why do we settle for people with so few questions? Why don't we in truth really ask questions as to what makes these people feel that they can solve problems that their predecessors could not in many decades?
What we have right now is not the fault of Barak Obama, it was not the fault per se even of George W. Bush. It is the fault of every United States voter because it was all of us that managed by either turning out or not turning out to put that guy in office. It was our responsibility to dig into their virtues and faults before the election and it was our responsibility to cast our ballots not for the most popular, but for the most qualified individual who had actual experience and a proven track record that was good in the areas of financial management, negotiation, legislation, and the person who is best suited to represent this country in a world of many different countries with many different customs, languages, viewpoints, and backgrounds.
Sarah Palin is a charismatic imbecile. She has had her ten minutes of popularity and loves it in front of the camera. She is vocal because it gets her another 15 second again and again. Her vocal tirades against the many over the virtues of her daughter were not for her daughter but were self serving and to keep her own name out there. What surprises me is that there are many who think she would make a great President. Personally, though some would disagree I would not elect that woman to be President of the PTA. She is opportunistic, stubborn, self-centered, vengeful, inflammatory, ill-informed, arrogant, and very prone to putting her big mouth in gear before engaging her brain. She is also prone to stretching the truth to the breaking point.
When all of us give this woman press in any manner she moves closer and closer to office because the ill informed will go by the picture "painted" by other opportunists out to use her for their own gain. That is why she was on a Presidential ticket at all. She was a wild card. It was also thought that the Candidate that they were going up against was Hillary Clinton. When it became Barak Obama they should have dumped Palin instantly.
Palin becomes President I move to another Planet!
