After her speech at the Democratic National Convention last night, Sarah Palin has become an overnight Hollywood celebrity whose picture suddenly graces the covers of a whole slew of Hollywood magazines. Welcome to the Republican-created World of Obama, Sarah.
All of this is occurring even though earlier speaker Rudy Giuliani excluded Hollywood and the media from that well-known Republican-defined group of elite and powerful patriots called “the American people.”
In his polemic, anti-Obama tirade, which clearly establishes the Republican Party as off the grid of normal people, Rudy made it clear that he doesn’t plan to follow Obama’s lead even if he (Barack) is elected President of the United States.
That’s exactly the message contained in the Republican mantra that Obama isn’t qualified to be the commander in chief. “We will not follow an unqualified Democrat. We prefer an unqualified Republican.”
Aside from wishing to become the First Lady Moose Hunter of America, Sarah Palin clearly and heartily presented an image that transcends her suddenly acquired Hollywood star status.
Without reservation, she endorsed every single element of the Bush-McCain ideology. We now know with certainty that she is no agent of social change. She is merely another run-of-the mill right wing politician, better looking than your average bear but a run of-the-mill 19th Century adherent of a belligerent foreign policy and a non-existent domestic social policy. She is the antithesis of Hillary Clinton in every respect. Consider:
She, and now the entire Republican Party, enthusiastically endorse the concept of teen pregnancy without access to a medically supervised abortion, even if the pregnancy may have resulted from rape or incest.
In fact, Sarah opposes abortion even if a pregnancy ends with the birth of a child so deformed that it will require a lifetime of expensive care.
Imagine the financial burden of a poor, single teen mother who isn’t privileged to be the daughter of a governor or vice president. How is that teen mother to afford decent care for years to come?
Worse, Sarah Palin demonstrated last night that she is perfectly willing to hold up her own Down Syndrome child as an example of her anti-abortion ideology in an effort to gain votes.
The entire Republican Presidential Convention program last evening failed to include any mention of a single issue of importance to average American working men and women. No mention of health care, no mention of education, no mention of employment, no mention of medical care for the less-fortunate among us.
Just a steady polemic about Barack Obama, exemplified by that paragon of moral virtue, Rudy Giuliani, who seemed on the edge of an apoplectic collapse in his haste to spew his personal distaste of Obama above and beyond the hearty applause of his fellow “patriots.”
Yes, now we know. Last night a star was born. The third point of the Bush-McCain-Palin Axis.
Attack, belittle, deride, instill fear. That is the mantra of the far right. Remember 9/11! Evil is right outside our door, waiting to attack again! Fear, fear, fear! I for one am weary unto death of the fear mongering, of the attacks without substantiation. How about some solutions? Other than drill, drill, drill, that is–we know how much THAT is going to help this divided country.