The Idiosyncrasies of Sarah Palin

July 22, 9:02 AMUS Headlines ExaminerCharisse Van Horn

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There might not be another name of a female politician that stirs up controversy, emotional reaction, and utter bewilderment as the name, Sarah Palin. Conservatives adore her, she amuses liberals, and centrists wonder what to make of her. It seems everyone is agreement when it comes to figuring out what she means. You can play her speeches repeatedly, and never find a deeper meaning to what she is saying. Take her sudden resignation announcement, for instance. Republicans and Democrats alike still scratch their heads trying to find the answer to one simple question, “Why?”

Political strategists are quick to announce that her announcement appears to be political suicide, yet her supporters stand firm that Sarah Palin will not leave politics, because she’s just wired that way. Her ex future son-in-law took away his vote and support of confidence, thinking that she is only about the money. A new article in the Washington Post shows that for all of Sarah Palin’s ethical violations, many which have been resolved, it appears that one might be here to stay: Palin Legal Donations May Have Violated Ethics Law, Report Finds

And of course, any time anything is said about Sarah Palin, whether it be the Washington Post, Katie Couric, late night comedic shows such as Saturday Night Live or David Letterman, or bloggers such as Shannyn Moore exercising their right to free speech, Sarah Palin always has an answer. As she does in this ABC report: Palin: Report she Violated Ethics Laws ‘Misguided’ and ‘Factually in Error’.

What is interesting and what seems to be nothing short of the idiosyncrasies that define Sarah Palin, is that the very allegations that she states robbed her of her political future are the ones she personally devotes the most time to. When Sarah Palin is faced with criticism, controversy, or if some blogger morphs a picture of her and her son, or another writes an article trying to figure out why she quit her governorship, Sarah Palin is the one who uses her resources to fire back, and not in a ‘one-time- statement to the press’ while she is off going about Alaska’s official business. The idiosyncrasies of Sarah Palin are found in the statements that she made when announcing her resignation. Her attributing to the fact that she had so many ethics complaints (unfounded ethic complaints, you know, the ones concocted by the liberal media to sabotage her political future), that it basically cost her too much money, and too much of the ‘good folks of Alaska’s time’ to stay around and deal with them. However, it didn’t take too much effort from a governor to lodge an all out campaign against David Letterman, to appear on special interviews with Matt Lauer to defend her claims that David Letterman is essentially a horribly perverse man that should not come in contact with young teenage girls, money was not an object when it came time to drawing up legal announcements threatening to sue the media, and one blogger in particular, Shannyn Moore for slandering her  'good name', and at the height of the fan fare, the mocking and regular weekend rituals of laughing at Sara Palin, it did not seem to phase her sense of ‘ethics or morality’ that SNL was making her the laughing stock in the American’s public eyes. In fact, she went on SNL and joined Tina Fey as well as Alec Baldwin, a political science major turned actor who appears to be going back to his first calling, and had no problem making fun of herself. Sarah Palin went on SNL and joined in, making a mockery of herself, only to attack bloggers, media outlets, and David Letterman for exercising the same free speech. Sarah Palin doesn’t have time to stay in the governorship due to the seemingly, never ending ethics violations? Yet, she has time to appear on SNL, and lead campaigns against the media and Alaskan citizens like Shannyn Moore, exercising their right to free speech.

Some politicians keep their mouths shut and only answer criticism and attacks when advised to by their political strategists. But then, that is the idiosyncrasy that is Sarah Palin.