Treason

Obey

The scariest thing about the recent revelations we are learning about Palin, post elections, is not that she didn't know that Africa is a continent and not a country. In fact, there were many early signal that affirmed her failure to meet presidential requirements on foreign policy, the economy, and civil government functions. So, if anything, this whole Africa thing is just the comedic cherry on top of everything people already knew about her. No, the scariest thing about Sarah Palin turned out to be her handlers and the campaign movement that was trying to get her into office.

Things have turned ugly with the campaign cannibalizing itself. What is troubling is that Palin's handlers knew, and knew early on, that she was not qualified for the office she was running. Yet they continued to champion her qualifications under the banner of "country first". This insincerity and disingenuous is almost treasonous, is it not? We ought to be outraged that these people knowingly put the country in danger. There was a steady period of weeks before the financial and credit calamity when a President Palin didn't seem all too unlikely. Dare we imagine what kind of disaster that would have been? Ironic that we were so convincingly saved from complete political disaster by an economic disaster.

The other scary thing is that people are still defending Palin. The McCain campaign has themselves created the monster that brought about their defeat. But the monster that is Palin has become greater than Palin herself. The people who have identified and connected Palin have done so on the level of the values they perceive to share. These people thus equate an attack on Palin as an attack on their values so no matter what facts that disqualifies Palin surfaces these people will only hang on tighter to their belief in her. What is sad is that this perception of shared value between these voters and Sarah Palin is a manufactured fraud on one end. I'm sure you can guess which end. None the less, these lemming voters need to exercise independent thoughts if they are to find salvation from their own ignorance. The American well being can no longer afford to be held hostage by the ignorance of these people, as it has been in the past 8 years.