Palm Reading

The lights blaring, cameras from all the major networks on and buzzing like collections of beehives all pointed at one person; Sarah Palin, sitting with her hair more rambunctious than usual is seated opposite of a Fox News interviewer. The stage, the Tea Party Congregation. A friendly rally for conservatives and a opportunity for Palin to prove she isn't in fact a complete moron. Easy questions are lobbed up into the air like pop-fly baseballs by the interviewer in hopes that Palin can catch them and nail the answers. Unfortunately, the blaring lights and glistening eyes of all present looking on seemed to be too much for our lipstick-wearing pitbull; and her already lackluster speaking skills suffered from it. For at a moment of naive innocence, the wide eyed interviewer asks Palin "What are the 3 main things that must be done when the conservative party takes over the White House?" This pre-screened question must have taken her by suprise, or perhaps she was just at a loss for words (which seems to be the likely story), because at that moment Palin, like a 7th grader who didn't study for a test, consults "cheat-notes" she had jotted on her hand. She palm read her banal answer, which came out as superficial fluffy backtalk. In other words, in the heat of the moment she cheated, she dropped the ball, she fell off the bandwagon. In what should have been an easy assist, Palin falls farther still from the respectability of those who she is trying to reach. She lost sight of the ultimate goal of the rally, to not make yourself look like a bumbling idiot. She must have lost the memo or rather forgot to write it on her hand, because she has effectively ended any inkling of hope (which was essentially non-existent to begin with) harbored by myself and hopefully by the Republican Party. The fact that she still plans to run for office in 2012 is pure comedy to me, for if Palin is the strongest candidate for the Republicans, they might as well say "Goodbye White House, Hello hockey."