Sarah Palin Resigns...Why Do I Care?

Now that the holiday weekend is over, there will be much buzz going on in the news about Gov. Sarah “Lame and Dull” Palin.

Sure, she resigned last Friday, which in the 24/7 cable news/talk show cycle is an eon ago, but it didn’t get in-depth coverage because she announced her resignation just hours before the kick-off to the July 4th celebrations.

Throughout the day on Monday, coverage of Palin on MSNBC, FOX News, and others, will be speculative and exhausting.

There are many questions to be answered in reference to her self-imposed termination…

Is she guilty of ethics violations? Did she give favors and kick backs to contractors? Is she the true mother of Michael Jackson’s children?

I have no answer, but those queries do bring another question to my mind. Why in the hell should I care?

Certainly blogs like, The Mudflats and blogger/commentators such as Shannyn Moore should care. After all, they cover Alaskan politics.

But as for me? Eh…To me, she is just a flash in the political pan who has demonstrated that with a wink, a smile, and a decent ass, mediocrity can rise to the top.

Palin claimed that she has been abused by the left-wing bloggers, the left-wing media and by folks like Shannyn Moore who had better silence their “libelous” attacks on her or run the risk of being sued.

Whatever Gov. China Doll…You tried to play with the big boys in the art of national politics and you got broken.

The thing of it is, Palin was the catalyst of her own shattering. She wasn’t ready for prime-time and it showed.

She will never be ready and yet she, for some insane reason, continues through her actions and statements to illuminate that fact.

One of her claims as to why she would make an effective leader is that she is just like the average Joe…just like the neighbor next door…just a hockey mom.

I don’t think that’s true. I believe her to be overly ambitious and intellectually challenged.

I find it abhorrent that she gladly struts her family and their difficulties onto the national stage and then feigns outrage when the press talks about said difficulties in a negative light.

Most of the average Joes, neighbors, and moms that I know wouldn’t put their ambitions and delusions of grandeur ahead of their families or their friends.

She is at best, average, and at worst, a woman who has suffered irreversible brain damage from too much Midnight Sun.

I don’t want a less than average leader and I sure as hell don’t want a quitter. We already have enough of those in government and she is both.

So, that takes me back to my initial question…Why do I and others outside of Alaska care about what is going on with Sarah Palin?

I think that when John McCain chose her as his running mate, he and Palin became different people.

John McCain became Bill Veeck in his years as owner of the St. Louis Browns baseball team and Palin became Eddie Gaedel whom Veeck hired to play for the Browns in 1951.

A 26 year old midget, wearing elf shoes, the number 1/8, and standing only 3’7” tall, Gaedel had one at bat. He walked, and was then replaced by a pinch runner.

Gov. Palin when on the national stage with the likes of Biden, Obama, McCain, Romney, and others, appears to be that same midget wearing elf shoes.

For much the same reason Veeck hired Gaedel, McCain hired Palin because she was a novelty.

And, I guess that is why I still follow the trials and tribulations of Palin. She’s a novelty. (And unintentionally funny)

Unfortunately, while Veeck, Gaedel, and McCain understood that a novelty is a short-lived and often, singular point in time, Palin does not.

From here on out and especially in 2012 the GOP cannot afford (not that I care) to have a pinch hitting midget stepping into the batter’s box against the hard throwing southpaw that is the Obama political machine.

The GOP needs a bona fide major leaguer who can swing at the fences with authority and hit left handed pitching…And, it ain’t Palin.

Cheers!!