Granted, my state competes with the 49th for alphabetical supremacy; but Arizona , the other ‘A’ state, has become a watershed in the strange career of Sarah Palin. First she endorsed John McCain, the establishment candidate fighting off an insurgent tea party talk-show host; now she’s declared that “we’re all Arizonans now“:
Jan Brewer and Palin blamed President Barack Obama for the state law, saying the measure is Arizona’s attempt to enforce immigration laws because the federal government won’t do it.
Really? Obama was able to reach back in time and convince Republican Senators to kill their own president’s immigration reform bill in 2007? What a feat!
I want to thank Keith Olbermann for bursting the bubble around the I-word. Sarah Palin defines the word “idiot,” and it’s long past time we all started calling her one. As Thomas Jefferson said, ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against an unintelligible proposition; Sarah being just chock-full of unintelligible propositions, ridicule is what she deserves.
Am I being unkind? Well, she believes in John Bircher lies and Third Wave nonsense; she tells lies on a regular basis (Teh Death Panelz™) and spreads fear. She brought the ugly teabagger element out during the 2008 campaign and panders to its worst instincts. As far as I’m concerned, she’s earned the derision.
