Palin Jane

I just caught a bit of the Matt Lauer interview with Sarah Palin and wow, just wow. I realize that she was sequestered by the GOP for the past few months and must be anxious to talk now that she's allowed to. But wow, now I see why the GOP put the gag order on her during the election.

Palin is a very normal, average, next door neighbor type woman. She's not especially bright, intelligent, clever or funny. She's average, in every sense of the word. She would make a good next door neighbor.

But to think that this woman has or ever had any business running for Vice President of the United States of America. Again, wow, just wow. Governor of Alaska. OK, maybe. I mean, no one lives there anyway so how much damage can she do. But VP?

She is obviously attempting to "re-brand" herself after the disastrous (but not as disastrous as it would have been had they won) election. I understand her need to go out there and spin, do a little damage control, get her side of the story out there for public consumption. That's all well and good and she has every right to do that, and is actually smart to do it.

But the sad thing is her end game is obviously a run at President in 2012. As an unabashed liberal, I couldn't be more happy. Honestly, she's dumber than Bush. And that's really saying something. If the Republicans choose to get behind her and treat her as a serious candidate, then that is GOLD for the Democrats.

My gut tells me that she's well beyond her 15 minutes of fame and the GOP will soon realize that if they want to be relevant again anytime soon, they have to stop putting the most ignorant candidates on their ticket and actually find intelligent people who stand for something. At that point, she'll go back to her important work as a secessionist. If you can't run the country, the least you can do is try to secede from it.

Let's just come right out and say it, how bad does a political party have to fuck things up before a majority of Americans will say, "OK, I'll take the black dude"?

Bush + McCain + Palin = Obama.

How's that for new math?

And as an aside. That shotgun wedding between her pregnant daughter and the boyfriend/father? You heard it here first. Never gonna happen. Any talk of a wedding was strictly for political/show biz purposes. Now that they're back in Alaska, where they belong, there ain't gonna be no wedding. So to speak.