Poor Sarah – Judith Warner Blog – NYTimes.com:
This may explain why, on Tuesday afternoon when I went to The Times Web site and saw the photo of Sarah Palin with Henry Kissinger, a funny thing happened. A wave of self-recognition and sympathy washed over me.
That’s right — self-recognition and sympathy. Rising up from a source deep in my subconscious. I saw a woman fully aware that she was out of her league, scared out of her wits, hanging on for dear life. I saw this in the sag of her back in her serious black suit, in the position of her hands, crossed modestly atop her knees, and in that “Mad Men”-era updo, ever unchanging, like a good luck charm.
An excellent article written on on a very personal level. It’s from Thursday. I think I crossed into something like sympathy at the cruelty as McCain’s choice when I watched Katie Couric gently prod her for the correct answers during the Couric interview. Palin tried very hard to stick to the ticket talking point memos. Yet still the Conservatives came out saying that Couric was too hard on her.
I don’t think I’ll ever like her or feel any real sympathy toward her as a person. She’s cruel and barbaric in her attitude toward animals. She’s unsportsmanlike. That, above all, pushes me the wrong way just as much as Cheney attending a trap and shoot. Its anything but real hunting and as far as I’m concerned it is not sportsmanlike. Man against nature is what defines hunting. Otherwise, you are just aiming the gun and pulling the trigger. Big fucking deal.
The other things that define her as a candidate are all the things that I am against, although I do give her props for her consistency in her no exceptions in the case of incest or rape for abortion. She isn’t judging women on how much fun they’ve had concieving like many of the Forced Pregnancy are – She truly believes that a life is a life no matter what situation surrounding its conception. I stand at the exact opposite end of her scale, but I do acknowledge that she isn’t a hypocrite like so many others.
But, now that her star has faded, I wonder what the next move will be. There always seems to be some sort of vindictive nastiness that comes out of the Neocon corner when something doesn’t work out for them.
