Screw Sarah Palin!
If you find yourself feeling sorry for Sarah Palin against your better judgment--like, maybe you think it's a side effect of the vestigial wussiness we liberals seem cursed with, and you want to make it stop--the read Rebecca Traister's new essay.
In fact, the only people I feel sorry for are Americans who invested in a hopeful, progressive vision of female leadership, but who are now stuck watching, verbatim, a "Saturday Night Live" skit.Palin is tough as nails. She will bite the head off a moose and move on. So, no, I don't feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for women who have to live with what she and her running mate have wrought.
There's obviously much, much more. Of course, I'm still a liberal. I still suffer from all the attendant wussiness one might expect. So when Sarah Palin returns home the humiliated, ever-less popular, soon to be grandmother, son in Iraq, governor of perhaps the strangest state in America... then I might feel a little sorry for her.
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I resent the idea that Palin is tough merely because she has used a gun to kill unsuspecting animals. Killing a moose by biting its head off - now that is tough! I get Rebecca's point, but as jovial as it may be, I'm a little concerned that she is adding to Palin's legend. And no, I don't feel sorry for Palin. I feel sorry for Hillary who is being juxtaposed to this psychotic Republican moose killer.
Same here. The fact that Palin shows no sense of responsibility. I'm sorry but shooting wolves from a helicopter is NOT sporting. It's cruel and irresponsible. SO the fact that she seems to have no sense of responsibility and has no care int he world about conserving a species that is already scarece worries me - what would she end up doing to the country? SHe's irresponsible and ignorant, and she is in NO way ready to run ANYTHING. I wouldn't even want that freak to headup PTA at school. o0
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