Matt Taibbi pegs Palin
The thing about Taibbi is he takes the feelings that I’m experiencing and turns them into words. I’ve been trying to verbalize what it is that I detest about Palin’s candidacy and I turn to page 42 of this week’s Rolling Stone and Matt has done it for me. So, I will highlight some key passages and pray that you follow the link to the whole article entitled (appropriately enough) Mad Dog Palin.
We watched the debate last week from our various, local debate parties and gnashed our teeth and pounded our heads against the wall as Sarah fed us her word salad, but did better than expected because she did not drool on herself. Since when do we bury the bar for our United State’s Vice Presidential candidates? And although a wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse, for a VP candidate, a nod is a modicum better than a wink.
From Matt Taibbi’s response to her speech at the RNC:
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she’s the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.
So, if this pair is elected, they will be elected by the consumers of this nation, not the citizens.
The truly disgusting thing about Sarah Palin isn’t that she’s totally unqualified, or a religious zealot, or married to a secessionist, or unable to educate her own daughter about sex, or a fake conservative who raised taxes and horked up earmark millions every chance she got. No, the most disgusting thing about her is what she says about us: that you can ram us in the ass for eight solid years, and we’ll not only thank you for your trouble, we’ll sign you up for eight more years, if only you promise to stroke us in the right spot for a few hours around election time.
To be a consumer is a passive existence, believing and craving everything which is spoon fed to us by the MSM, Walmart and Disney.
To be a citizen is to be active in your democracy. Not only to vote, but to engage others in learning and understanding and caring about the greater good. And then, encouraging them to use their vote as their voice and become citizens themselves.
Because, if the consumers out vote the citizens, we are seriously fu@*ed!
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