First off, I never created this blog to discuss politics. Myself, I believe that Americans take politics incredibly too personally. I have never dissolved a friendship because of opposing politics, but I know people who have. I hate hearing the personal attacks hurled at Republican/Democratic/Libertarian/Communist/Socialist/Catfishitarian candidates from the lunch tables of my workplace. I believe that if one is going to debate (notice I did not use the word "argue") politics, then the statements should be based in fact and reality, not speculation or personal feelings. Statements like "he's just evil" have no place in a rational marketplace of ideas. But we all seem to have a hard time staying away from those sort of things, so I tend to stay out of it.
But I would like just to say one thing. I REALLY REALLY wanted to like Sarah Palin. She was an unknown to me. I mean, I knew that Alaska had a governor, I just wasn't familiar with who it actually was. Come on, kids. It's Alaska. Who cares? Just wasn't on my radar. But when I found out a little more about her, I was intrigued. A maverick leader who ran on a ticket out to defeat corruption sounded okay by me. A hunter and fisherman, well, I could relate to that, having grown up in a culture of hunting and fishing (and not in a quaint, recreational way, nor a redneck, possum eating kind of way, either). I imagined a hippie libertarian with bold new ideas. Someone rather new to the political arena who might not have been brainwashed enough to just nod and smile and keep her mouth shut.
But I just can't like her. And not because her vetting has developed the appearance of a Saturday Night Live skit. That part, I actually love, proving that even politicians are human and that I have a depraved sense of humor. But because SHE seems so devoid of a sense of humor and greatly lacking in any good sense.
My $.02, for what it's worth.
Flame away. I'm sure I've got it coming.
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