Thank You, CGG. I agree completely. But how many of us felt we could say that on FR before this?
The problem with being ‘called by God’ is that people who genuinely ARE, usually say ‘yes’. If Palin got a call from God, she said no and hung up.
As a Republican woman, I never liked her. There was always something FAKE about her, shallowness. She’s ALWAYS had a FAMILY- what’s new about that? They didn’t stop her from running for VP-did they? Suddenly, NOW they matter more than politics? More like she milked it for attention as long as she could without having to actually Deliver anything.
I don’t think she has the gravitas to be President and she knows it. She enjoyed the media attention, played it out, collected campaign contributions( refunds coming?) and TEASED as long as she could. When the wall came, and it was ‘put up’ time. She SHUT UP. The desperate ‘spin’ being put on it is just sad- and fascinating. Since when are QUITTERS more effective, and more noble, than those who fight and take the pain? Why are so many so desperate to excuse in Palin what we vilify in general?
Don’t you see the similarities between the ‘Obama is the ONE’ types and the Palinistas? She is their ‘savior’- same attitude re. Palin with some on our side. That kind of blind devotion and worship scares me.
Palin is Obama-White.
A lot of us said it before this. I eventually quit visiting the Palin threads, because they all devolved into the same discussion, and nothing new was ever said by either side.
Hell even I feel cheated. I’d anticipated this day with glee. After realizing that she had no infrastructure in place, and betting that she wasn’t running, I had great “I told you so” posts all figured out in my head.
Turned out that her fans were so crushed that I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was reading what appeared to be a lot of genuinely sincere anguish from her defenders, and that just sucked. We can just hope that those who held her in super-human esteem have learned their lesson.