As The Palin’s Turn
“Guiding Light” is ending after 70 years of radio and television shows. This is an astonishing feat.
I don’t care though, ‘cuz I don’t watch soaps.
But there is a new soap that has caught my attention. I call it “As the Palin’s Turn.”
On the Pulitzer-winning newsmagazine “Tyra,” Governor Palin’s former-future son in law said he was pretty sure the Governor knew he and her daughter were having sex. Additionally, he was essentially kidnapped to appear at the Republican National Convention (forcing him to cancel hunting plans).
I am not here to validate any of that. People say all kinds of wacky stuff on talk shows. Such a huge percent of it is made-up that none of it is credible.
It doesn’t matter. It just adds to an already-delightful soap opera.
Up until now I have avoided commenting on Sarah Palin’s daughter, because I think families should be off-limits, unless that family member injects his/herself into the public arena.
The boyfriend injected himself into the public arena by going on Tyra. He is now fair game.
The governors’ daughter did it by becoming a spokesperson (seriously) for abstinence. She is now fair game.
Forget the cost of the outfits Governor Palin wore during the campaign.
Forget her loopy answers to the simplest of questions. (Although my personal favorite was in regard to what newspapers/magazines she reads….. “Oh, all of them.”)
Forget the ‘diva’ comments former McCain aides made about her.
Do remember, however, that Palin’s husband belonged to the Alaskan Independence Party separatist group. The stated goal of this group is to make Alaska its own country, and no longer part of the United States.
Don’t you just love true patriots?
All of this and more, and Palin is still a leading candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination.
Such support from GOP conservatives!
I bet they would be equally supportive if an Obama daughter became pregnant, or if Michelle at one time belonged to a group that wanted Illinois to secede from the rest of the United States!
Tune in again soon, for “As the Palin’s Turn.”
P.S. Have you got a better title than “As the Palin’s Turn”? Let me know. I may change the title based on your suggestions. Did Guiding Light ever offer that?
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wrote on 7 April 2009 at 19:03
Agree on all of it, except one detail: I think politicians and their – and their families- private lives should always be off limit unless the politician campaigns on ‘family issues’ that then turn out to be lies or hyprocisy in his/her private life, ie. the guy who demonizes gays and runs an anti-gay agenda politically, and then is caught soliciting men in an airport toilet…
In other words, I think Sarah Palin’s daughter was fair game from the moment on that Ms. Palin ran on a fundamentalist Christian-abstinence only-and look what a great mom I am ticket, with a daughter pregnant out of wedlock. The scandal wasn’t that the daughter had sex before marriage and became pregnant, the scandal was that her mother clearly doesn’t do what she preaches and preaches what is not a reality in her family, all the while holding herself up to be the guardian of some loopy kind of morality. Morality in my world is to be honest, not lie and not be a hypocrite. Sarah Palin fails in all three.