Palin Around With Obscurity

I am really curious what the fallout of the election will be for Palin.

The dirt on her is coming out heavy. Even Fox made her look bad and her staffers too.

She doesn’t know what Africa is, she walks around in a towel, she likes to spend other people’s money on clothes, she was talking to a head of state without informing her running mate.

I really see her selection as a symptom of a Rovian problem…the intelligence or lack of it lies with the campaign advisors.

Candidates are just identity politics place holders with no real agendas or thoughts of their own. Those can all be uploaded.

Bush is the best and worst example.

In any event, I’m calling Palin with her own VH1 show by 2012!

For the record, this may not be much of a prediction…

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In his Globe and Mail piece, John Doyle had some interesting ideas:

What’s happening with the Palin story is what has happened over and over again on U.S. TV over the past 20 years. Ordinary, working-class people, sometimes startlingly inarticulate and with messy personal lives, are thrown into the TV spotlight and, by being ordinary – bartenders, truck drivers, hairdressers and janitors on Survivor or Big Brother – they are a good bet for being compelling on TV. The women have names such as Misty and the guys are called Ace, or similar.

Look at the Palin clan – a moose-hunting, snowmobiling couple with a bunch of kids who have soap-opera names: Track, Willow, Bristol, Piper and Trig. There’s the knocked-up teenager daughter, the gun-totin’ mom and even if it seems the teenagers are at it like rabbits, there’s the declaration of deep conservatism and the assertion – later withdrawn in a sort-of manner – that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools. They’re straight out of Survivor, Big Brother, Wife Swap, Love Cruise, Temptation Island, Married by America and Are You Hot?

A few years ago, CBS gave serious consideration to a reality series called The Real Beverly Hillbillies. The idea was to “transplant genuine Appalachian natives into the world of Los Angeles glitz and glamour.” It never happened. But now it has, with a twist – Alaskan hillbillies have been transplanted into the world of Washington politics.