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The antipathy for Sarah Palin is a fine lens into motives of pundits and power brokers. My feeling about Mrs. Palin is that she will be like a Ross Perot – will give voice to a certain constituency, and then move offstage. Would I vote for her? Sadly, it has been a long time since I had the luxury of voting for a candidate. Usually, I have had to decide whom to vote against. However, it is fascinating to watch and listen as her fanatical enemies yank one chain after another to get anti-Palin propaganda in the news.


Her intelligence: Apparently she attended a couple of colleges and bolted together a college degree. Alas, these schools do not impress the east coast elite. Nor are these elite pleased with her choices of news outlets.

Her malapropisms: The elite will not tolerate her factual goofs or naïveté on certain policy issues. Odd how newspapers are respected for their “Clarifications and Corrections” columns, but it is their sole privilege to elucidate, rectify, retract, or explain why an error was made.

Her faith and family values: The conspiracy theories and Vanity Fair spreads have been guilty pleasures for her enemies. All of these have been calculated to discredit her as a slick marketing package. Dis is reeelly funny. Are not the pages of Vanity Fair and the ad slots of CNN replete with slick marketing packages? What’s not to like about a slick marketing package if it is your bread and butter?



It is beyond comprehension why all these commentators give a hoot about her. Why do they go to the trouble to elevate her into national focus as if she were a contender, and not the pretender they so confidently proclaim?

As an olive branch to Palin haters, let’s amend the Constitution, (Article Two, Section One):

a. No Person except graduates of exclusive colleges shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the average IQ or GPA of journalists, and been fourteen Years a public servant approved by the media within the United States.

b. The Media may determine the acceptable faith practices for Candidates, and the practices shall be the same throughout the United States.

c. Before entering upon the Execution of such Office, the President-elect will take the following Oath:--"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President, and will defend the Constitution, except that citizens persevering in support for candidates with inadequate intelligence, education, secularism, or newsfeeds, shall be denied 14th Amendment rights.”