I just got some interesting information from someone who had to wait on her for several hours recently, they got to stick around her dressing room, hanging out with her and her daughter, long enough to give us a
real picture of this “woman”.
First of all, I’m stating that I have a huge problem with people who tell me, as a gay man, what I can and cannot do, like get married, etc. If you’re not gay, you have absolutely no right to dictate that to me. I also don’t have female body parts and am not pregnant so don’t feel it’s my place to determine whether or not you should be able to have an abortion. So in two respects, I already have a big problem with Palin. About 90% of the women I know also have a problem with her, and know she doesn’t have women’s rights or interests at heart in any way, shape or form.
(Oh yeah, she’s also a Republican, and since we’ve had horrible economic and social problems during and after every single recent Republican presidency, why should McCain’s be any different?) My personal opinion is that if you vote for McCain, you—and the rest of us poor suckers—are going to get what you deserve.
Back to the dressing room with Palin: she was bitchy, demanding, snappy and unpleasant, to the point of depressing her daughter and irritating some staff members. The moment the cameras turned their eyes towards her, however, she snapped on a big, bright, fake smile and dazzled the audience, and quite a few of the people she’d just annoyed.
Palin’s taste in clothing runs to the very sexy side, because man does she have the body for it! The Republican PR people (the same Bush guys, including her and McCain’s speech writer, their budget people, etc., etc.) have a hell of a time downplaying her attractiveness because (and I quote), “she’s way too sexy for the American public.” That black skirt she’s wearing at the RNC? It’s a cute, sexy little cocktail dress that they had to throw a $2,500 coat over to make it look conservative.
What about her glasses? An act too. Phony, just like everything else about her. They’re glass, with no prescription. I’m not saying that politicians don’t engage in long hair/makeup/speech-memorization sessions. What I am saying is that the disparity between who this lady really is and what she projects on-camera is horrific.
Her daughter is deeply depressed at being thrown into the spotlight, spending hours talking to her friends on the phone for support; she’s highly upset that her mom is [literally] forcing her to marry a guy she barely even knows, and whom she is not dating (have you ever seen a MySpace profile disappear so fast before?) Not to mention—why aren’t more people talking about the irony of a [female] who’s advocating abstinance over safer sex education—it obviously isn’t working for her own family!
Regarding her big speech at the RNC, while Palin was memorizing it (she was just presented with it during the convention—Bush’s speechwriter had it delivered to her—and had absolutely no part in its creation), she kept exclaiming, “oh god, I’d never say that!” and other phrases to the effect of complete and total disagreement while reading the sucker.
If you don’t agree with something politically, you should never spout it off as if it were the nearest and dearest to your heart. My grandfather taught me that. Being an Indiana boy (b. in the 1920’s), he had a much more countrified upbringing than I did, but his value system was pretty simple. Unlike me, he didn’t like Clinton—but it wasn’t for political reasons. It was much more for the fact that he’d lied. But at one point he did tell me that his problem with the lying was minor, considering that every other word out of Bush, Sr.’s mouth was a blatant fabrication (or verbal screwup).
Anyway, end of Palin rant. There’s plenty more wrong with that lady (think: “Serial Mom”) but the thought of her taking over after McCain keels over in early 2009 from a lifetime of bad diet, debauchery and now stress (think: unreleased medical records), I’m afraid of what Big Oil Palin will do to further f*ck up America.
’Cause right now, America is really f*cked. And I blame you, Red States—why do you always get to pick our presidents for us? I don’t want any part of your Republican politics or viewpoints, they’re all so 1816.
I’m registered Green party this year. I’m tired of partisanship. Not because of the Democrats, but because the Reps are so good at making the Dems look bad that I don’t feel like there’s much choice right now. I’m voting for Obama because I want a friendly, upbeat, educated and normal human being running the “free world” and not another pasty, 983-year-old white dude with seven mansions who has no idea how much it costs to fill up his Humvee because his butler and entourage do it for him.
I just realized that Palin reminds me of Kathleen Turner in “Serial Mom”—a great movie, by the way, about an overly-conservative, frighteningly controlling woman, who although an overachiever in anyone’s eyes, happens to be a serial killer. And nobody suspects, until it’s too late (of course, this is Hollywood we’re talking about, even if it is John Waters). She has that same bipolar personality exhibited by so many (warning: language) of the world’s finest serial killers.
