So let me see if I can wrap my head around this:
Once and future White House hopeful Sarah Palin, speaking to an organized gathering of tea baggers (who clearly have enough disposable income in this economy to pay the hefty ticket price), follows former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo's blatant race-baiting by mocking Barack Obama's message of hope. Something about "How's that hope-y change-y stuff workin' out for ya" or what have you. All the while she has written on her hand a crib note: "lift American spirits".
Seriously, are she and/or her followers really that dense? Are they truly that irony free? Do they not recognize that vaguely queasy feeling in the pit of their collective stomach as cognitive dissonance?
Oh, simple Sarah, you Juneauan jughead, allow me to spell it out for you. On your palm, if need be. If nothing else, Barack Obama's "hope" message was intended to - wait for it - lift American spirits. And in the context of the election, it was wildly successful. Or were you too busy preparing the concession speech you weren't allowed to give to notice?
How exactly does Palin think one lifts American spirits? By tearing down the president's attempts to lift American spirits? That's quite a strategy. No wonder she needed a reminder.
I'm going to search Amazon and see if I can find her "Lifting American Spirits For Dummies". Or maybe she can just listen to a few of Barack Obama's inspiring teleprompter speeches. You know, the ones that won him a premature Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, I think we can all agree that Obama didn't win the prize based on any actual achievements thus far on the world stage. He won it because, well, like, I mean... he lifted the world's spirits. Which I suppose is an achievement of a certain sort. One that, apparently, Sarah Palin wants to emulate. But only after she makes fun of it.
I guess the real question is... are her followers really that stupid that they don't see past the silly buzzwords and empty rhetoric? The diametrically opposing viewpoints coming out of the same mouth? Or is it more like willful ignorance?
Maybe it's simply like being a rabid sports fan... even when you know your team sucks, you still desperately want them to win.
Or perhaps they're just writing it off as "satire".
All I know is, Sarah should realize that she's far better at being a polarizing figure, a mud slinger, a sower of discord, then she is being like Obama or even Reagan - either of whom could easily be described as a "charismatic guy with a teleprompter" who was elected in large part because of his successful appeals to hope and optimism and the American spirit. But I guess she didn't need a reminder on her palm to be a disgraceful hate monger whose every syntactically challenged utterance does a profound disservice to the teachings of Christ. I suppose that just comes naturally.
Which is fine, politics needs ditch diggers too, nothin' wrong with her playing to her strengths. But there is still an art to politics and ya gotta have some rhetorical consistency if ya ever expect to get past your fanatical base and win over an independent or two. So for Palin to deride a message of optimism on the one hand while literally scribbling on the other a "note to self" to try it...
... well, that's just fucking retarded.
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