Sarah, Plainly a fraud

For the life of me, I don't get the populist right hullabaloo over Sarah Palin.

You'd think that after eight years of George W. Bush's betrayal of the American people, complete with the gutting of the Bill of Rights, the enslavement of us and our posterity with massive debt, and the near-miss of amnesty for illegal alien invaders, we'd have learned to be wary of a skirt-wearing W clone.

At the very least, with the Neocon Wars now exposed as fraudulent and counter-productive, not to mention as having justified DC's citizen surveillance programs and massive deficit spending, people would reject any candidate promising more of the same. But as she made clear on her recent interview with Rush Limbaugh, Palin fantasizes about not only "victory" over Afghans fighting foreign invaders, but even more aggression against Iran:

RUSH: You mentioned earlier you wanted to talk about national security, that you hoped it came up. Well, here it is: What do we face? What are our threats, and are we prepared, or not?

GOV. PALIN: Well, I think domestically a threat that we're facing right now is the dithering and hesitation in sending a message to the terrorists that we're going to claim what Ronald Reagan claimed. Our motto is going to be: "We win, you lose." The way that we do that is allow McChrystal to have the reinforcements that he's asking for in Afghanistan. That sends that message to the terrorists over there that we're going to end this thing with our victory. We need to start facing Iran with tougher and tougher sanctions that need to be considered.

Wake up, people. The biggest threat to our security is a rogue central government that's burdened us with $12 trillion in debt, which was nothing but theft from the middle class for the benefit of politically connected big business, which not only includes the Wall Street bailout, but the armaments makers who're making a killing (sorry!) these days.

The Empire is hopelessly corrupt. Switching the nameplate of the puppet in charge won't change a damned thing.

When McCain snatched Palin from near-obscurity and propped her into the national limelight, she instantly became star-struck by the DC glitterati. This former supporter of Alaskan independence mutated into another rah-rah nationalist, dazzled by the trappings of imperial glory. She's now just another vote-getter intoxicated with fame and the allure of power. Voter beware.