Sarah Palin scares me. I mean that. I find her honestly frightening. The fact someone that deranged, misguided, and phony could get as close as she did to being the Vice President of the United States gives me nightmares. According to the book Game Change, it's likely that she actually hurt John McCain's chances of being elected more than she helped. Apparently, there were people who believed that Obama was a Communist Kenyan Muslim who still didn't vote for McCain because they were so concerned about the possibility of this bubblehead being able to Nuke Canada.
But her ignorance isn't what scares me, nor is her near complete political uselessness as a flag-waver. By far, the thing I find creepiest about Sarah Palin, is the fact that people insist on taking her seriously, on any scale and for any reason.
I understand there are people who think she nutter-butter, but pay attention to her because she "leads" a group, but, the reality is that she only leads the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party in the same way that the fastest lemming leads the pack*. If she substantially changed tack or course in such a way where she ceased to sound like she understood foreign, monetary, or legislative policy, she'd be tossed aside like the drivel-spewing geyser of stupid that she is.
I understand that tea-partiers tend to vote for the people whom she endorses and that people watch her on Fox News, but to think either of those is about her influence is to invert cause and effect. Tea-partiers vote with her because she's good at selecting for whom those folks vote; Fox News spends a lot of money for her appearances because she says exactly what Fox watchers want to hear.
*Yes, I understand lemmings don't really charge off of cliffs, but I'm speaking about metaphorical lemmings** here.
**Appologies to any lemmings offended by this parallel
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