Many thanks to JordanCornblog for allowing me to guest blog on her site!  I thought I’d make my first little post on two topics: first the Sarah Palin “Trigtroversy” which is spreading like wildfire — and eliciting emotional cries from every segment of the political spectrum.  Having read the opinions, “news” articles, many blogs, and after viewing a bunch of pictures I can only conclude: there’s nothing to suggest Sarah Palin lied about the birth of her son.  I’d prefer to think there was no big coverup about something like that, and I am far more likely to believe that a fundamentalist pro-lifer would be more likely to publicly support her teenage daughter’s motherhood than cover it up.

Having said that, why on Earth would you go and make it look like a coverup by pulling all of your family’s pictures off the internet?  I’d expect a hundred (tasteful) pictures of Sarah in maternity clothes, nursing, resting the hospital, etc. to quickly and permanently put that rumor to rest.  Maybe I’m wrong?

I’m far more concerned about the small-town, petty, abuse-of-power issue with “Troopergate” than whose son Trig might be.

Finally, this is a little story that in my mind sums up why we are where we are as a country: a friend of mine (one of my best friends from college) recently posted on his Facebook page that he had become a “Fan of Sarah Palin.”  I sent him a little zinger note stating I was totally disappointed in him.  His response made me alternately want to scream and cry:

“I was leaning towards huge tax increases, paying for everyone’s healthcare, weak foreign policy and letting every illegal immigrant that snuck into this country become US citizens…….. then I thought to myself. “Is this the “change” I wanted. Hmmmm. not really.”

The Rovian strategy has found startling success (although, not startling if you remember the last two elections).  Here is a great guy, a father of two young children, not wealthy, college educated — and ironically, a minority born of immigrant parents.  And he has swallowed gallons of the neo-con kool-aid.  The kool-aid no longer kills you, it warps your sense of reality into believing every dogmatic sound bite the so-called “conservatives” have been spewing for years.

How do you “win” against vast waves of people who don’t care what our country is doing abroad, don’t care about the economy or how much they are personally suffering economically, and don’t care about the debts we are saddling our children’s children with– but only that their President “looks like they do??”