sarah palin

Well, here in mid Michigan we are about to be treated with a visit from Sarah Palin. She is arriving in Grand Rapids MI this afternoon, for a book signing at Barnes and Noble. People have been standing in line since yesterday evening to get a wristband so they can get in to see Ms Palin, as if she were a Rock star.

I find that amazing...but then I find the fact that there even is a Sarah Palin amazing. What amazes me even more is that anyone takes her seriously! Yeah, I know she was the GOP's choice for VP candidate. We all know just how important the VP is. If she had been elected VP, she would not even be in the news at all. If the VP is in the news it is usually a joking reference. Ms Palin is probably better off media-wise by not winning the election!

Or at least she was until she published her 'book'. I use the quotes because said item is only 5 chapters long, so it hardly can be considered a book IMNSHO. Now once again she is in the limelight. The news media will have a field day! I am sure the reviews are going to be mostly bad. I cannot say whether or not the book is bad. I have not read it. I am not driving to GR to stand in line for the privilege of standing in another line to get an autograph. I will check it out of the local library when it becomes available.

There is no such thing as bad publicity. Ms Palin has once again put herself in the forefront of the news. She is again in front of the cameras doing her thing 'Ya Betcha!' She is really good at her act. She has it down pat. She is the every woman that is being ostracized by the 'big guys' in New York. She is appealing to the 'little person', the ones that the aforementioned have no regard for. She does do that well. She is show business at it's finest. She should be a movie star, I think, and not a politician. Well, alright, a TV star then, if a movie star is too important.

Should anyone take her seriously? No more than Barbary Striesband should be taken seriously, or any of the Hollywood ilk. Ms Palin has not ever accomplished anything. She got elected Governor of Alaska...but she didn't complete her term. She did not accomplish being Governor. She was nominated VP candidate by the GOP...she did not get elected. She lost, in other words. Losing is also not accomplishing. She wrote 5 chapters, and called it a book. I do not think that is an accomplishment either. Ms Palin's only accomplishment is to put herself in the limelight, to keep herself in the news, and to give Tina Fey comedic fodder. She should not be taken seriously at all.

She's all show...and no go...