More thoughts on Governor Palin. After some criticism of the above thoughts when they first appeared on another location, I had to do some serious thinking. I don’t know what could have been going through my mind when I posted the comments above defending Senator McCain’s selection of Governor Palin.
First of all, she’s not a lawyer. No one has any business running for office if they haven’t gone through law school.
Second, she didn’t go to Harvard or Yale! Only a select few are intellectually capable of running this country, and every single one of them either attended Harvard or Yale. Where is the respect for tradition? These people just don’t know their place.
Thirdly, and most obviously, she was never a community organizer! How can anyone run this country without a brief period of teaching people different ways to get more money from the government? How else are the poor and disadvantaged expected to survive? Governor Palin has never organized a single community! She thinks the poor should get jobs! What kind of nonsense is that? Is it any different than slavery?
Fourthly, her husband isn’t a lawyer, either. He’s not even a college graduate! He makes a living as a union worker. The only thing that any working person is good for is to vote for lawyers, preferably those who graduated from Harvard or Yale. I don’t think there’s half a dozen Harvard or Yale lawyers in her entire state. Alaskans shouldn’t be allowed to vote without our kind of trustworthy people telling them how to think and what to believe.
Fifthly, this sort of thing has to be stopped. It’s crazy to appoint people to high office simply because they got elected governor, eliminated a lot of government corruption, have an ongoing 80-90% approval rating from a bunch of stupid hick voters, and have successfully reduced government spending. It is wrong, shallow, and short-sighted to take such things seriously.
Sixthly, I just can’t explain what’s gotten into John McCain. But, he never went to Harvard or Yale, either. Where do these people come from? Who do they think they are? Uppity, that’s what they are. Uppity, uppity, uppity.
Seventh, she seems to think global warming is a crock. A lot of important people have futures tied up in global warming. We have government grants, research budgets, careers in important agencies, stock offerings, and multi-billion dollar opportunities in subsidized windmills, biofuels, carbon credits, and solar panels.
If anyone dares to say that those things are all useless porkbarrels, we could lose money. She doesn’t even pretend to take global warming seriously, even after all we’ve done to make it seem undeniable. Damn those global temperatures! They keep dropping! So does solar output. I just wish we could get some windmills working, somewhere, but they just won’t generate enough electricity, no matter how hard we try. We’ve got to get some lawyers working on them. Those useless engineers just aren’t smart enough to repeal the simplest and most basic laws of physics. Where’s John Edwards when we need him?
Eighth: This Governor Palin is an attack on our kind of progressive democracy. We can’t have mere nobodies get elected to higher office. We’ve got to do something. I know, let’s tell people that she didn’t really have a baby, but that her daughter did, and she’s faked the pregnancy to cover up for her! Then, let’s tell people that she tried to have a state trooper fired when all he did was illegally shoot a moose in a game preserve, threaten to kill his father-in-law, and taser a ten year old boy. That’ll fix her!
Ninth: The worst thing she does is actually think problems can be solved. She thinks that by drilling for natural gas and oil, we can solve the problem of high energy prices! She and that awful McCain actually want more nuclear reactors to give families and businesses cheaper electricity! We can’t have that! We need to keep these problems alive and unsolved. How else can we get funding? How else can we make a living?
We have to stick together on this. We certainly can’t have ordinary Americans determining their own destinies when we can do a much better job of it for them. What else can we do?
