She's baaaack!

Sarah Palin couldn’t keep her facts straight on the campaign trail, and now that her book “Going Rogue” has been released, it’s clear that she can’t keep her facts straight when given proofreaders, fact-checkers and months to think about what she wants to say, either. For most people, having a book of this caliber attributed to them would be humiliating, what with its countless lies, distortions and hypocrisies.
Take, for example, her attack on Ashley Judd, the actress who starred in a commercial calling for the end of aerial wolf hunting. Filtered through Palin’s persecution complex, this political statement becomes a demand that she “halt hunting, ban guns, and end wildlife management such as predator control.” Ban guns? Really? Further irony: Ashley Judd is referred to as a “perky, pretty celebrity” and a “delicate starlet.” I wonder what Sarah would have to say if her own prettiness and perkiness were used as insults against her? After all, it seems this newly minted “feminist” has discovered, and thoroughly enjoyed blaming, society’s sexist double standard.
Keith Olbermann pointed out that many of Palin’s lies in “Going Rogue” and on her subsequent media blitz serve no political purpose. It might have been advantageous to lie in the context of distancing herself from the snafu known as “I can see Russia from my house.” However, what does she gain in contradicting herself on the “family vote” that was supposedly taken before Palin accepted McCain’s nomination for vice presidential candidate? Olbermann rightly notes that all Palin does with lies like these is prove that she has no regard for telling the truth, and that she will spin anything she can get her hands on. Good thing she’s never called for honesty in politics…
Once the matter of the Troopergate scandal comes up, Palin becomes extremely defensive. In her mind, Walt Monegan, the Commissioner of Public Safety, didn’t call for a bigger budget so that he could work on issues like rape, which plague Alaska at a rate higher than any other state in the Union. No siree, Monegan was just being “insubordinate”! And as for people who question her gratuitous use of the term, Palin has the following words:
“Some union members and Democrat friends were offended when I later branded Monegan’s behavior ‘insubordinate.’ Is there a better term for it? As I write this, I’m thumbing through a thesaurus….still looking….still looking. Nope. Seems like insubordination to me. I had the final say on the budget. It was my responsibility to make it efficient.”
In other words, this piece is a lesson in how much more important it is to gain “fiscal conservative” cred by slashing budgets than to actually put your back into changing Alaska’s status as the rape capital of the country.
All this face-saving, even at the cost of open deception, can only mean one thing: Palin wants to remain famous and relevant. Could that be for the purpose of running for President? It’s unlikely, because Palin has learned how much she dislikes having “actual responsibilities,” and how much more fun it is to just be a sort of commentator called in to give a Teabagger-conservative view on TV shows. However, if she did run again, it wouldn’t be cause for panic; she’d surely quit by the end of the first year.