I think her apparent decision to build her marketing campaign (we don’t know what, exactly, she is after, but she is definitely building her brand, definitely planning on a future before a national public) around the notion that she is a victim, some kind of little figure overcoming large obstacles. It has worked for her a few times, but it is, at is core, a negative approach.

Once she is out of public office, I predict, she will be able to control her public presentation. Remember how George W. would have scripted opportunities for citizens to ask questions but the questions had to be pre-screened and he only allowed himself to be asked questions that he was prepared to answer?

Sarah will get like that. Once she is removed from any obligation to be accountable to the public, to the citizenry, I think we’ll see her all over the conservative media talking inane talking points that still spark Joe-Sixpacks into liking her. She doesn’t really need to win over people like us, folks who follow AKM because Palin scares us.

It’s going to be kinda fun, watching her. But, man oh man, the phenomenon is wicked scary. I still haven’t quite accepted that the country re-elected George W., that millions and millions of Americans, after knowing that he lied us into war and broke endless laws under his twisted sense of executive privilege. . . real Americans still voted for him. Those are the people who might vote for Sarah Palin. And I believe her handlers understand how to reach that audience. They did it with George W. and they can do it with Sarah.

“That being said, I’ll be the first to say that Sarah has no emotional depth, no social perspective, and is blinded by her ambition. But blame it on her soul, not her eyesight.”
~~~~~~~~~~~
Amen to that.

I think she is being used. I think she freely allows herself to be used.

Sometimes, even though I despise her, I feel sorry for her.

I have read suggestions that George W. entered politics, sought the presidency and even invaded Iraq as part of an infantile, immature, dysfunctional attempt to one-up his father. It was like he was working out some kind of psychological complex rooted in his childhood. Heck, we are all working through childhood wounds. It is way scary when someone can play out their psychodramas, literally in the case of George W. on the world stage.

In a similar fashion, it seems to me that Sarah Palin is a little girl who feels like she never gets enough attention. That she, as a child, was never good enough, never smart enough and, doggonit, unless she was being pretty, nothing she ever did was enough to impress her tough old man.

So she has become this dysfunctional girl-woman, going around the world feeling a little wounded but instead of taking it on on her private life, the way most of us work through our childhood wounds, she is playing on a very public stage.

I sometimes feel sorry for her. I want to give her an extra scoop of ice cream and promise her some new jewelry and lots of money for pretty clothes and fancy vacations. There there, little Sarah, honey, you are a good girl, smart, not just pretty.

I don’t think this woman will ever feel like she has enough attention. It is like she is a bucket and there is a tiny leak in the bucket, a hole in the bucket. It is impossible to fill the bucket, impossible for little Sarah Heath to feel full, to feel recognized, to feel sated. There is a hole in her being and no amount of adulation is ever going to fill it. She is the only one who can help Sarah Heath Palin feel like she is good enough and smart enough.

I find myself wanting to tuck her in at night, read her happy stories, pat her on the head, kiss her on the forehead as I turn out the light.

I have a theory that we should send all people who have impulses to hurt others or impulses to control others, to impose their beliefs on others, to love camps. Love camps would be a bit similar to treatment for alcohol and drug addictions, or maybe residential mental health facilities but the ‘treatment’ would be unconditional love. We might place Sarah Palin in a love camp, give her tons and tons of resources to help her achieve self-realization. We would love her well. We would teach her that she is enough, just the way she is, help her come to love herself.

Because, in the end, I think Sarah Palin doesn’t really believe that who she is is good enough. It is not enough, in her worldview, for her to be a good mother, a good wife, an active good citizen, a good business person or even a good politician. She seems to think that only when she is being adulated by mostly unthinking crowds that she amounts to ’something’.

Sarah, honey lamb. You are a good person. Love yourself a little more and stop offloading your personal sense of inadequacy on the rest of us.

That being said, I’ll be the first to say that Sarah has no emotional depth, no social perspective, and is blinded by her ambition. But blame it on her soul, not her eyesight.

Both types would distort the appearance of the eye(s). $arah’s lenses don’t seem to distort her eyes at all.

Just sayin’…

btw, that last frame of thick-skinned palin as she stares into camera…STILL gives me the creeps!

And I agree with you, anon blogger #125