When I created this blog, I intended for it to be nothing more than an aggregation site, in hopes that helping to bring the news to people would encourage them to vote and enable them to become more educated. My political blogging itself was confined to Inspire Emotion, where I normally blog about anything but politics. Inspire Emotion temporarily became a political blog because John McCain chose a completely unvetted and unqualified candidate for vice president. I fought back in my own way on Inspire Emotion because I felt it was important, and because my search traffic was far more substantial than it could be on a brand new blog.
All that said, I am now doing my political blogging on this blog, rather than on Inspire Emotion. And, I made a decision to do this almost immediately after the election. Why am I continuing to focus on politics when my candidate won, and I have publicly said that politics is "not my thing"? And more importantly, why continue to pay attention to Sarah Palin? Because Sarah Palin still matters. Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic, said it much better than I could.
Some readers think my continuing attempt to expose all the lies and flim-flam and bizarre behavior of Sarah Palin is now moot. She's history - they argue. Move on. I think she probably is history. Even Bill Kristol and his minions in the McCain-Palin campaign may not be able to resuscitate her political viability now. But even if she is history, she is history that matters.
Let's be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. She was incapable of running a town in Alaska competently. The impulsive, unvetted selection of a total unknown, with no knowledge of or interest in the wider world, as a replacement president remains one of the most disturbing events in modern American history. That the press felt required to maintain a facade of normalcy for two months - and not to declare the whole thing a farce from start to finish - is a sign of their total loss of nerve. That the Palin absurdity should follow the two-term presidency of another individual utterly out of his depth[.........]
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