More Barfing...

A New York Times article about Palin, "A Riveting Speaker, Waving the Flag".

Although I am happy to read things like this:

Ms. Palin’s partisan zeal could repel some independent voters in closely contested states like New Hampshire and Pennsylvania; Democratic polling in both states shows Ms. Palin with high negative ratings among independents. Palin advisers say many of these voters do not know enough about her; Ms. Palin is campaigning in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and New Hampshire on Wednesday.

And I agree with this:

In some ways, Ms. Palin seems like a 2.0 version of George W. Bush — not the deeply unpopular president, but the plain-spoken and energetic campaigner who rose as a political talent in Texas and solidified his appeal in the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns. Hers, like his, is a with-us-or-against-us message, as when Ms. Palin pledges total solidarity with “good, hard-working, patriotic Americans.”

My gag reflex begins when I read this:

“America, doggone it, unfortunately we’re deep in debt, and Barack Obama would put us even deeper in debt,” she added a few minutes later. “We’ve got to reverse this. America, we cannot afford another big spender in the White House.”

Because as we all know, tax cuts for the rich, actually SAVE money, right?

It is not until I get to here that I need to find a garbage can:

If there are holes in logic or a lack of specifics in Ms. Palin’s speeches, her audiences tend to fill the absence with gushing affection…“She’s intelligent, she’s adorable and she has the audacity to speak her mind,” said Ray Gilson of Corapeake, N.C., who attended the Virginia Beach rally. “I’ve never loved a politician like I love her. I want her to be president someday.”

Yep, because that is what we all need: someone who has made no long-term academic commitments, someone who has no experience, and someone who is “adorable” in the White House to solve all of our problems.

In reality, I guess it isn’t Palin that scares me, it is the people who give her power by believing in her glittering generalities and overt racial and cultural discrimination that make me most scared… because they share this country with me.