So Why Does Sarah Palin Get a Free Pass?

I’m just wondering, shy does Sarah Palin get a free pass? All of the other candidates for president (admittedly, she was not among them) had been on the road for weeks, if not months. They had participated in town hall meeting, dabates and given countless interviews. Mrs. Palin has not. She is heavily packaged, sequestered and protected. She does not often answer questions. We have NEVER seen or heard her unscripted.

WHY IS THE MEDIA TOLERATING THIS? If the role of a free press is to seek the truth and protect our democracy, then how can the press allow this to go on without absolutely RANTING about it? Even the right wing media should care enough about the nation and our democracy to stand up to the Republican machine that has stood her up for office.

If Senator McCain should should fall ill or become incapacitated during the early months, or at any time during his presidency, can we really take the risk on having someone whom we know so little about assume the most important and powerful seat in the world?

To all those conservatives who talk about putting country first and talk about patriotism, “Is it really wise and/or patriotic to take such a risk for the sake of the party?” I agree with McCain on the idea of putting country first; so why don’t we do it?

A Word from the Author

In a way, I really admire Republicans. It NEVER ceases to amaze me how they manage year after year to get SO MANY Americans to vote against their own self-interests again and again. They are brilliant, though cynical. I am afraid they are on the verge of doing irreparable harm. In the name of patriotism, they want to dismantle our government. They have taken Ronald Reagan's words as gospel, believing that government is the casue of all of our problems and that can remedy none of them. They have politicized nearly every aspect of government, orchestrated assaults on the separation of church and state, science, attorneys, the courts, higher education and even the Constitution itself. We have allowed ourselves to fall victim to the propaganda that led to war in Iraq without a critical analysis of arguments in support of the decision. Global warming appears real and is worsening while we fail to act. Our economy is in shambles. The housing crisis deepens. Our currency has lost substantially in value, and our manufacturing base is a remnant of what is was only a decade ago, with our jobs leaving for foreign lands, while big business sits on billions of dollars and giant corporations in banking, oil and energy remain largely under-regulated. We seem to have surrendered our future to a political discourse that descends to the lowest common denominator, usually influenced by fear, personal attack and destruction, rather than dispassionate consideration of the merits. If we are going to thrive once again, something has got to change. Here is my small contribution to that end. I will try to respond to what I read in the news, but I am NOT a scholar. I leave it to others to fact check, follow up and support my points, but I refuse to continue to sit quietly while our demacracy is subverted and turned to the support of wealthy, powerful and cynical interests.