By The Wanderboy

Sarah Palin is in the news again – it seems she’s doing all she can these days to find the spotlight.  Too bad for her alleged presidential run it is typically for doing something more likely to be featured on TMZ than CNN.

Palin is attacking Family Guy, via Facebook no less, for a recent episode in which Chris dates a girl with Down syndrome.  The girl tells Chris that her mother is the “former governor of Alaska.”  How stupid are you Sarah?  Do you honestly think Family Guy gives a sh*t and is going to apologize?

I completely understand that Down syndrome is no laughing matter.  Should Family Guy have run that episode?  It doesn’t matter because that’s not the point.  They weren’t making fun of people with Down syndrome in general – they were making fun of Sarah Palin.  It just so happens that her son is affected by the disease.  Family Guy wanted a reaction and she hit it out of the park.  When is she going to learn that every little battle cannot be fought?  Where is your publicist Sarah?  Fire him/her!  The first thing they should do is close your Facebook account.  This is why Sarah Palin cannot ever be allowed to become anything more than the hockey mom “governor” of Alaska – she is entirely too volatile about…everything.

Think about the possibility of her in the White House?  It is terrifying.  Every little thing anyone says seems to set her off and she’s not only ignorant, but also belligerent.  What could she possibly have to say at UN meetings other than, “I just think we should go to war.”  Will she conduct meetings with Russia via Twitter?  I mean if she can see it from her house, surely those little beams of Twitter messaging can get there, right?

The more Palin reacts to these kinds of attacks, the more it is going to happen.  She has kids right?  At some point one would assume she has doled out the parental advice that goes something like, “Stop reacting to your older brother, it only makes him want to tease you more.”  The woman needs to take a lesson from parenting 101 and not only stop reacting to issues she clearly cannot control, but also to pick her battles.  That’s just good advice in general and I personally want her to pick her battles because I’m tired of hearing about her in the news.

If Palin had just left the issue alone, nobody would’ve cared.  She’s going to start a battle with Family Guy?  The show that runs once a week with millions of viewers and has proven that it can pretty much say whatever it wants with little censorship?  What is she going to do, lobby Fox to kick it off the air just because she’s a newly minted contributor?  Right because no other network would pick up that show in a heartbeat if Fox dropped it.

The real point is that, as someone who is toying with the notion of running for president, she should not recognize petty teasing from a show like Family Guy.  They punk everyone.  It’s like playing basketball against Lebron James: you know he’s going to score 30 points, so you give him his 30 points and guard everyone else.

Yet this is about something bigger.  Sarah Palin is her own worst enemy.  She cannot keep her mouth shut and when she opens it what comes out unfailingly undermines her position.  She has all these supporters that back her and whip up a frenzy, but when it comes time to deliver she shoots herself in the foot.  I know many republicans that stepped in the voting booth  during the last presidential election, looked at the McCain/Palin ticket and said, “I just cannot vote for her,” and either voted for Obama or did not vote at all.

Even George W. Bush was not as inept.  At the very least he grasped the fact that he was a buffoon and did not speak unless told to do so by his handlers.  I can see the first meeting between Bush, Cheney and Rove prominently featuring a lecture on the finer points of puppetry.  But Palin does not have a Rove and even if she did, I’m not sure he could stop her verbal /social media diarrhea.

This of course is a good thing.  If Palin does run for President, which would be tragic, her uncanny ability to make herself sound ignorant and tactless, as in the case of the Family Guy episode comments, will derail her.  Folks will still go to the voting booths and have to look at her name on the ballot at which point they will realize that for all the Hollywood-like drama and pettiness that captivates audiences, Sarah Palin is the star of a reality show rather than a viable presidential candidate.

Or maybe they won’t realize that, at which point I will be leaving the country.

-The Wanderboy

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Palin article link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_en_tv/us_palin_family_guy

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