Palin Gettin' People Crazy

Like many of you I have had no choice but to keep up with the madness surrounding the GOP's pick for Vice President. At first I was interested. I of course watched her first speech after being picked, couldn't wait for the first big interview, researched Mrs. Palin online...but now I am plain sick of Sarah Palin.
Even when you want to look away, she is in your face. I easily predicted to friends that the opening sequence of the new season of Saturday Night Live would feature Tina Fey returning to the show to take on the obvious role of Palin. The clip of this has gotten more than 3 million combined hits...that's million, like, with an 'M', so I guess people are still interested.
I guess what interests me more now is why people are still so bat shit crazy for this lady. After watching her interview with Charles (Or "Churlee" as Palin called him...like 54 times in the interview) Gibson on ABC last week, I was thinking to myself, "Well the media is gonna finally take the kid gloves off and really take this gal to the cleaners."
How wrong I was. Palin's clear confusion when "Churlee" asked her about the Bush Doctrine was shockingly laughed off on conservative talk radio:
"C'mon people, 90 percent of people watching that interview didn't know what the Bush Doctrine is!!!" screamed one host. You are correct oh wise and crazy conservative host...however, 99.99 percent of the viewers are not running for Vice President...and that .001 who is, was laughing his ass off. His name is Joe Biden.
Palin was busted again lying about being against the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere", a pork barrel poster child that Palin supported until Congress put a stop to it. Confusing to me is that she still breaks out the now tired line of, "We told Congress, thanks but no thanks on the bridge to nowhere," during campaign speeches.
Most media outlets ran the "we went to the candidates town and spoke with his/her baby sitter and one drunk man in an alley who used to go to high school with him/her" pieces...but since then, all the outlets have been scared off by the sexism claims. That is to say, any questioning of Palin's credentials, background, experience or any other topic will be refuted by the McCain campaign as being "sexist".
"Where does Palin stand on the topic of the struggling economy?" you might ask.
"How dare you ask where Mrs. Palin stands!!?! You would probably prefer she stands next to an oven, cooking in the kitchen where you and all your sexist, elitist cronies think women should be at all times," would be the response you would get from the McCain camp.
It really is genius politics by the GOP though, I have to give them credit where credit is due. Karl Rove was the master of this, and his spirit is alive and well...even though he works now as an analyst for Faux News.
The GOP knew that on the issues, they would be killed in this election...so how could they achieve the seemingly unattainable goal of making sure issues were never again discussed on the campaign trail? Enter the "Hockey Mom".
Less than two months away from an election that is more important than any in our nation's history, we are disussing lipstick and farm animals instead of foreign relations and the economy...well there was that one mention of Palin living close to Russia, but that is about as far as the foreign policy discussion goes with her.
Did Barack Obama call her a pig? Who cares!!?!? Brilliant move by the Republicans though...the talk of pigs and lipstick dominated the conservative talk radio airways, and predictably about 78 continuous hours of Fox News and MSNBC.
My only hope is that one or two of those three million people watching the Youtube clips actually stops to think about why we are talking about Tina Fey and pigs instead of real issues that will effect real lives.
So let's get a quick recap. What we know about Sarah Palin if all we watched was the "news" on our TV's.

1. She lives so close to Russia that she can literally see it from her front yard.
2. She is a self described "Hockey Mom" who can field dress a moose
3. She has five kids
4. She is about to become a grandmother because apparently, much to her chagrin I'm sure, abstinence only education does not work in her home, just like it doesn't work in the "real world".
5. She thinks the world is about 6 thousand years old
6. She thinks creation and abstinence only education should be taught in schools (see number 4 for results)

Actor Matt Damon said it best.
"It is like the script from a really bad disney movie."

Hell, I'm sold!...and that is the TRUTH.