Ron’s Blog

Sarah Palin, unqualified nut job

(Yes, I assert both disambiguations of that title.)

Wow. What an amazing nut job.

• She’s a “charismatic christian” (you know, speaking in tongues, faith healing, and all that stuff).
• She’s an abstinence-only advocate whose 17-year-old went out and got knocked up. (But see below.)
• She thinks the Iraq war is a “task from God” (and the Alaska pipeline is “God’s will”).
• She thinks creationism should be taught in schools.
• She’s a book banner, asking the librarians in her town how to do it, and threatening their jobs for not cooperating.
• She’s an Alaska secessionist.
• She abused the power of the Governor’s Office to punish her former brother-in-law.
• And she may have faked a pregnancy in a pathetic attempt to avoid the embarrassment a pregnant teen daughter would cost her.

If Obama wins, she’ll have been the most ridiculously idiotic candidate from a major party ever, and we’ll have yuks about her for years. (Yes, I remember Dan Quayle; she makes Dan Quayle look like Daniel Patrick Moynihan.)

But if 72-year-old John McCain wins, it will not be funny at all. Not one little bit.