I can quit any time! I do not have a problem!

[lolaraincoat]

Okay, so, I am powerless to control my need to read every bit and byte anywhere in the whole internet about Sarah Palin. It's not even about politics - she's like the most implausible fictional character ever, and the more I read, the less plausible she seems, and I'm fascinated.So anyway, here are some of the my favorite random Vice-Presidential-

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[lapsedmodernist]

yes! including the phrase "under god"!

[lolaraincoat]

Really? I missed that one! That's brilliant! Where did you find it?

[lapsedmodernist]

what about that awesome rumor that her baby is really her grandbaby?

[lolaraincoat]

Meh, that is - sadly - probably merely an awesome rumor. Though it is also true that if the rumor is untrue, she was far less cautious than I might have been about her own health and the health of the fetus (all the stuff about giving a speech at a conference in Texas and then taking an 11-hour flight back to Alaska after her waters broke would be true, if it really was her pregnancy.) Plus she went back to work like three days after the baby was born. But then this was her fifth pregnancy, so maybe she was just really, really relaxed about it?

[lapsedmodernist]

I dunno--maybe it's a rumor but maybe not--if the timing with her daughter's pregnancy now is right--that means that the daughter got pregnant while she had MONO?

the waters breaking thing--eh--the medical industry norm is "must deliver in 24 hours after waters break"--not immediately--but even that is the super-medicalized "deadline"--plenty of women (who deliver with midwives or at home or whatever) go over 24 hours, and it's generally fine.

the going to work thing after 3 days is more crazy to me--although if she works in her home, then maybe.

[lolaraincoat]

Maybe the mono germs sapped the daughter's moral strength so she just ... couldn't ... say ... no?

S. Palin really pushed the deadline there, if you assume that the 24-hour deadline had any basis in reality, but I agree that it probably can be ignored some of the time. Generally there's a lot more cautions to be taken when women get pregnant after 36, and still more past 40 or so, but maybe that's more for women who haven't been pregnant before?

Heh. And no, she brought a three-day-old infant to the Alaska capitol building for a meeting of her "gas pipeline team." That seems really crazy to me, but then, it's the US, with the very worst maternity leave policies in the whole industrialized world. (I doubt Palin would frame the issue that way, of course.)

[robriki]

Sorry for the way late reminder, but could you post your fanaticize points ASAP, please?

Thanks!!

[lolaraincoat]

Already done! Thanks for the reminder!

[djinnj]

It's like watching a train wreck. I'm actually kind of getting grossed out by all the flailing at this point, because it's so focused (at least what I'm seeing) on her wife and mother aspects and losing sight of her professional OMG Unqualified aspects. Except that it's such a train wreck! The hypocrisy evident in her behavior even if everything she claims is true is just boggling on top of all the other boggling. I was glad to have found this today, however, as I like having all the boggling in one place.

[lolaraincoat]

Yeah, I'm just enjoying the introduction to her as a crazy-ass fictional character. If I thought of her as potentially the President of the US someday, well, her strengths and weaknesses as a mother, sister, or spouse would be pretty much irrelevant ... but I'd be appalled by her actual, you know, policy positions. She thinks states should pay parents for homeschooling! She thinks schools should teach creationism! She can't decide what her policy is on Iraq! She thinks the federal government should not tax oil company profits but that it's great for Alaska to do so!

Meh. Why get all worked up about it when I could just write the story about her Dream Date with Thomas Eagleton?

[djinnj]

One bonus of this, though, is I might actually be able to convince my mother who's rather liked McCain for his "maverick" image that he's an idiot with this choice.

[femmequixotic]

Honestly I'm having major problems with the misogyny I see being thrown at Palin from the liberal blogosphere. Just...WTF. Seriously. Sigh.

And I'm also having major problems with people calling Palin a hypocrite because her daughter got pregnant. Mainly because, dude, that'd be like calling my mom a hypocrite in her beliefs just because my brother knocked my sister-in-law up before they got married, and frankly if someone called my mother a hypocrite for that I'd kick their ass.

Gah. I'm being torn between my liberal politics and my need to defend the right of the people I love to hold their religious beliefs despite the fact that I disagree with them and walked away from that belief system myself. Sigh. It's disconcerting to say the least.

*is bitter at McCain for putting me in this place, dammit*

[amelia_eve]

Oh lordy, you are just feeding my own obsession here. Vile enabler! Thanks for the links.

Her children's names bug the heck out of me. Isn't it sort of cruel to name your mentally disabled son after a branch of higher mathematics? Will future children be named Calc and Chem?

One of my Shibboleths of Adult Dating was to vet the names of any children of dating candidates. Non-names and kreativ spelinz are huge red flags to me.

[lolaraincoat]

See, if she had named her kids after art supplies, that would be all right with me - Bristol Board Palin! Pipe Cleaner Palin! Willow Brand Colored Pencils Palin!

But that's why nobody asks my advice when naming their children, I guess.

[amelia_eve]

Oh man, I thought I was the only one old enough to think of Bristol Board the first time I heard her name.

Don't forget Benday and Rotring for the boys. The trouble is, everybody would be jealous of the one who got to be called X-acto, because that is the coolest spelling of the coolest art supply ever. Little Cray-Pas would never get over it.

[lolaraincoat]

Rotring! Rotring stayed in diapers forever, practically, because he was leaky. Benday's the one with the short attention span and funny ideas. Poor little Cray-Pas had to dress up in loud colors just to get anyone's attention, because of being the youngest. And X-acto was not only the coolest, he was smart too - it's just not fair, you know?