I'm still struggling to determine just what it is about Palin that conservatives (some) find so attractive. Not overly bright, not overly politically adept and not overly experienced.
What has she done that has made her as popular as she is?
You can't understand it if you pick apart the things that YOU (and I and most people on this forum) value = intelligence, forsight, a grasp on reality.
All these things are predominately absent with Palin. . . maybe it wasn't obvioius at first but we all know it, now.
However - there's one understandable reason why she's become the lesbian milf that she is, today, for many republican women:
She's a woman - regardless of people's general views of women in politics, this was a perk for many republican women (WOMEN - NO MEN. In the political-opinion world there might be a *few* men who like her but NOT many). Before Palin was brought onto the scene the Democrats had a lot of women in politics and the republicans had hardly any (that they knew of).
Now, referring to my first point, sure there are women and a lot of good ones, however, none were *known* ... you had to research to find out who they were. Not that googling terms such as "women in politics" or "female republicans" was very difficult - but many women, apparently, just didn't care enough to follow through and read up and FIND someone on their own to love.
So, she was ushered in - this shows that McCain can play the game, he might be old - but there's wisdom with those years.
Now - my beef with her is exactly those same things.
She's a woman ONLY ushered into the limelight by McCain as a campaign tactic. She didn't fight for her own way - if she wasn't so separated from us by the mighty Canada - we never, ever in a million years would have otherwise known about her.
She doesn't exactly exude intelligence and knowledge of the very political spectrum she's in. She's very cut off from reality and the goings-on.
Now - I will admit I loved her at first. I was, also, ecstatic about her being suddenly on the scene ... her acceptance speech was brilliant.
And that was it - it didn't take long, didn't even take Charlie's "gottcha" question for me to realize that, like beauty, her "intelligence" was skin thin - she didn't have any.
Sure, she can come up with some good one-liners. She has a stage-presence which stems from her *needing* to get attention based on her looks and words. However, take away the stage ... the whole stupid "rouge rogue" thing and she's just a flakey tart with whirled peas and like um, something, I don't know.
I hate her now. In fact, I'll say that her being brainlessly tossed into the game is the turning point in my political past - I realized that *just* because someone was a woman in politics didn't mean she belonged there, and McCain reaffirmed my dissent after Obama won and he said that even he wouldn't vote for her in 2012.
On top of that - slowly over the past year she's devolved into just an embarassment yet, however, she'll be in the history books and I only hope that the future is forgiving of this faux pas.
I no longer support "women in politics" based on gender-identity alone. I *use* to think that women in politics were always there because they earned their place. Palin, however, what a charm, she proved me wrong. They have to earn my respect lest they be an embarassment as she is.
