Sarah Palin: Average Hockey Mom or Spawn of Satan?

Sean Carman

Like the other 30% of America paying attention to the presidential race, I have been feverishly learning as much as possible about the former PTA president who says that she doesn't know what the Vice President does, really, and hasn't thought very much about Iraq, but hopes that, now that her son is going to be deployed there, we at least have some sort of plan.

Earth to Sarah Palin: Your job as Vice President is not to hope we have some sort of plan for Iraq. It is to help develop one. Hopefully they'll explain that to her at some point.

I thought it was a nice touch that, as Palin stood at the podium in Ohio yesterday, waiting to begin her first speech to a national audience, and she looked uncertain for a second about when to start, McCain leaned forward with his Cheshire Cat smile and helpfully said, "No hurry."
Yes, that's the sort of advice an experienced politician needs -- when to stop graciously receiving applause and begin speaking. It's good they've chosen someone with experience, who knows how to take charge of a situation.

It was undoubtedly the sort of on-the-job training McCain advisor Charlie Black was referring to when he said Palin will be, "learning foreign policy at the foot of a master for the next four years." But why at his feet? Do they not plan to give Palin a chair? If I were her, I would demand my own chair. Sitting on the carpet at the feet of John McCain for four years while he preaches about how we have no exit strategy for Iraq sounds degrading, and also really dull.

Although the image does make me think that Palin could become McCain's Shahrazad, telling a captivated McCain endless stories of fascinating adventures in Alaska so he can never quite bring himself to remove her from the ticket once this whole "throw a curve to Obama" strategy becomes the Republican embarrassment of the Century.


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The other gem in the KTVA news piece is the anxiety-ridden, beady-eyed Palin speaking at some sort of art gallery function about why, before supposedly firing Monagen for failing to address rural alcohol issues (her cover story) she had, two weeks before, praised his work on the issue and nominated him to be Director of the Alaska State Beverage Control Commission. Oops. Palin's frantic explanation comes about two-third of the way through piece and it is priceless. It's so rare these days that you find footage on the internet of a national politician looking like a cornered rat.

If she were just a hockey mom with her own personal views, she's a likeable kind human being. But when a hockey mom with those views is put in a position of power she is so vastly unprepared for... she can become the "spawn of satan".