“The Uncompromised One” Is Here to Stay (I Hope)

Many people who read this essay will say that I hate Sarah or that I feel threatened by her. They couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact of the matter is I love the former VP candidate, I love what she has done to the political landscape in America and I love how she keeps me emotionally and intellectually entertained; much like a car race (can anyone say crashhhh!!!) This is why I, unlike many liberals accross the country, am enjoying Sarah’s reign as defacto-populist-conservative spokeswoman. Watching her is like watching a Saturday Night Live skit in the Twighlight Zone on the Outer Limits. I am speechless, shocked, and confused all at the same time. I am so happy. She is the political version of crack cocaine.

Sarah gave a speech recently at the first ever National Tea Party Convention. Six hundred delegates paid a hefty price to be a part of this historical meeting on contemporary conservative thought. She began her speech by saying thank you to Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), who she described as a true representative of the Tea Party movement, someone who saw that Washington wasn’t working and decided to run for Senator, in order to bring the government back to the people. But, his Tea Party affiliations end there. Senator Brown is against any further restrictions to abortions or gay marriage, and he is a supporter of Massachusetts’s current healthcare program that provides universal coverage and does require compliance by the citizens of that state. What?!? He supports insurance mandates, socialized medicine, and an unconstitutional intrusion upon our freedom. When did these become Tea Party standards? On top of this Scott Brown has said in the Boston Globe, that he is not certain exactly what the Tea Party movement stands for. This is the best they could come up with? That’s like having Kermit the frog (and by Kermit I am referring to Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman) as the Democratic National Committee Chairman.

The truth is that Scott Brown represents everything that Half-Gov. Palin says is wrong with the Republican Party. He is quite possibly the most moderate Republican in the Senate. Her support for this man is laughable. Much like Sarah’s support of Rush Limbaugh after he said that liberal Democrats were retards (despite calling for Rahm Emanuel’s resignation for using the same word to describe the same people), her support of Senator Brown is another political compromise, by “The Uncompromised One.” Her popular appeal comes from her claim that she is not like the Washington establishment. In this she is correct, she likes to play the Washington word games, unfortunately her spin is too obvious for most moderate Americans to endure long term. If she likes to play the game (and I know that she does), she is going to have to improve her forehand return and volley. And if you are listening Mrs. Palin, please run for President in 2012, because politics has not been this entertaining in many years.