“I totally agree with this. I firmly believe one of the major reasons the Republicans lost the last election was because of the skits on Saturday Night Live on Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin was (and still is) a bright, energetic, and popular sitting governor of a major state. Yet Saturday Night Live, a place where (strangely enough) many young voters get their political news, portrayed the governor as a bimbo and an idiot. And guess what? The reputation stuck. True, some of her subsequent news interviews didn’t help her case, but they certainly didn’t make her out to be an idiot. And she was and is a lot smarter than Joe Biden, that ignorant hack from the mighty state of Delaware (certainly no comparison in size to Alaska). So the left certainly uses comedy programs as a political weapon against the right and with great success. The problem is, with Hollywood so skewed to the left (both in acting and in producing), it will be hard to get funding for anything that seems even remotely conservative. Pity, because there is so much to laugh at on the left. For example, there’s always Joe Biden. Need I say anything more?”
Thanks. Who said the right wing doesn’t have a sense of humor? In any case, I don’t doubt that Palin is as at least as smart, or smarter than Biden or any other name you care to throw in her direction. The problem for her image is that she had to appeal to the Republican base–a whole mob of idiot, racists, anti-feminist idiots! Trying to morph her image into somethng that didn’t threaten the hillbilly base, while still looking capable of running the US—of course she looked like a risible clown. As recent history shows, that’s too big a hill for anyone to climb.
Just imagine, this smart, capable woman has to share a stage with a troglodyte like Joe the Plumber and pretend that there was even an isthmus of intellectual aggreement or capacity between them, or the base. Ha. It still makes me laugh. Thanks.
