It is time to face the music. We tried for many days to refrain from going after the "wounded duck" because it was such an easy target. But c'mon folks…
We pose this question as a true and honest question, not as a question that is comical and/or rhetorical. Is there any American, who can explicitly identify what Mrs. Sarah Palin brings to the table?
We would really like to debate Mrs. Palin's merits…but has anyone…anyone… actually seen her do anything over the past year and a half? If you pose this question to your average red-blooded, "tea drinking" rebel, you'd get the following cursory responses.
Sarah Palin:
• Challenges President Barack Obama on his radical attempts to socialize America.
• Updates America with current affairs, positions and commentary via her very eloquent Facebook updates.
• Wrote a New York Times Best Selling book.
• Signed a contract to join her Uber-intelligent fair and balanced colleagues as a Fox News Channel commentator.
• Her nickname, Snooki, was given to her by her friends in middle school, and is based on the character "Snooki the cootchie crook" from the film Save the Last Dance because she was the first of her friends to make out with a boy.
• Has an exemplary stable of children.
• Commands an appearance fee of $100,000 per session.
• Signed a million dollar contract with Discovery Channel to host a "nature show".
• Was a candidate for Vice President of the United States. and
• ½ Term Governor of Alaska
In response, you average blue blooded "kool-aid drinking" rebel will retort with the following, on each point.
Yeah But:
• Her "in person" challenges usually include terms like "birther", "death panel", "Gee Golly Wolly", "Hopey-Changey-Thingy", and "You Betcha"
• …which contrast with her Facebook post which usually read with more clarity, such as: "recently the administration downgraded their call for "crippling" sanctions to sanctions that "bite." Shockingly, as we learned last week, these "biting" sanctions will no longer include actions that could actually change Iran's behavior, including limiting Iran's access to international capital markets and banking services or closing air space and waters to Iran's national air and shipping lines…" (wow..she's smart!!!)
• Sarah Palin wrote a book called "Going Rogue: An American Life," sales of the 400-page tome, which hit shelves in November, were through the roof. Palin's publishers announced boffo returns: more than 1.5 million copies of "Going Rogue" had reportedly been ordered. BUT…Sarah Palin's fundraising committee spent $63,000 buying copies of her memoir, "Going Rogue," in November and December of last year. Palin directed the committee to buy the books to send to donors. AND…Newsmax Magazine purchased thousands and thousands of Palin's books and offered it for sale at a discounted rate of $4.98 (compared to the actual rate of $24.00) which included a subscription to Newsmax magazine. End result, Sarah Palin sold nearly a million copies her book during a four month period in 2009, a stellar feat for a book that was written by Sara……..oh wait…….Lynn Vincent actually wrote that? But it has Palin's picture on it….I'm confused.
• Her selection to Fox News as a commentator was VERY surprising. If you look at it in the context that Don Ho was equally VERY surprised when he returned home to Hawaii after a long tour and learned that coconuts and pineapples were still available in his home town. On that note: thePoliticop will send a check, in the amount of $500.00 to anyone who can respond to this blog and add a link to a video of Sarah Palin actually offering her OWN commentary or insight on any current policy, procedure, principle or movie review as a Fox News Commentator.
• Okay, the Snookie comment was a funny, yet low blow. But in all seriousness, is there much difference between what Jersey Shores and Sarah Palin bring to the table? They are both very entertaining "Bubble Gum" (as in offering no nutritional value) television.
• Hats off to any parent in today's society. Hats off and a bow to the Palin family for their oldest son's service in the military. To quote Forrest Gump…. "That's all I have to say about thaa-at"
• In essence, Sarah Palin commands $100,000 for an hour of standing in front of a podium and reciting everything she heard on Conservative radio during her limo ride from the airport to the speaking engagement. The fact that she has convinced numerous associations to pay her for this means that she actually might be a little smarter and charismatic that we thought.
• The jury is still out on the contract with The Discovery Channel. Why would someone pay that much money for such a program? Then again, I'd like to redirect the jury's attention to Jersey Shores…Nothing further Your Honor.
• Sarah Palin's nomination for Vice President of the United States was a gimmick. With all due respect… Republicans were enamored with the reception Hillary Clinton was receiving as a female candidate. They raced to the bullpen to find their female representative and came up with Mrs. Palin. She was vetted "real quick" by two staffers sitting at Pinkberry that Tuesday during lunch hour and announced two days later. In this case, the Democrats were obviously the Joneses and the Republican's Female-to-Palin and Black-to-Steele experiments were about as successful as… The Flowbee.
• Do you really want to draw attention to her ½ term as governor? Really? For more on this, let's turn to SNLs Seth and Amy (Really)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/13828/saturday...We joke and comment in jest but there has to be a Grand Ole Explanation for the emergence of Sarah Palin into today's news cycles…right?
In keeping with our M.O. here is an explanation from thePoliticop…and remember folks, you heard it here first…
We predict that in November 2012, right before the next Presidential Election, you and your family will be sitting on your couch watching the crescendo of political mudslinging on the local news. Suddenly, the news will be interrupted by a BREAKING NEWS banner…. The voice will come on the television saying, "stand by for breaking news from Washington D.C., we are going to our field reporter in front of the White House now."
You'll change the channel and see that every television station on regular TV and Cable are tuning to their field reporters in front of the White House.
You'll call your family into the room and all of you will sit on the edge of your couch, clutching your bibles, your guns, and your disaster survival kits while waiting for the announcement of the "End of The World."
Cameras will zoom out and sirens will be audible from the interior of the White House. Then President Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Palin will walk out and onto the east lawn of the White House. The three will hold hands and take a Grand Finale Bow to the country. As they bow an enormous banner will unfurl from the top of the White House that reads, "Mission Accomplished…America Punk'd".
Now, it all makes sense!!! That's all we really want, isn't it?
Nothing More, Nothing Less.
And what will be most surprising….The role of Sarah Palin, was being played, all along by an aspiring and totally gifted actress named…Nicole Polizzi.
http://www.zimbio.com/Nicole+Polizzi/pic...