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Resignation
by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin generates new political cottage industry known as
Palintology. (Update: Palintology has its own domain: http://palintology.com.)·
By Jim
Wrenn,
Editor and Washington Bureau Drawer Chief at PoliSat.Com.
July 13, 2009--
Alaska Governor Sarah
Palin's resignation generates a whole new political cottage industry known as
Palintology. The punditocracy confidently claims to know why she did
it, but few in the punditocracy agree on the answer. That is, of course,
the nature of the punditocracy-- each pundit confidently proclaiming prescience
with political certitude in how and why pundits with different views are
completely wrong.
Few political figures within recent decades have generated such widespread
interest and contradictory views. Now, the Hystory
Channel puts all these views into perspective in a hystorical
docudrama titled Palintology.
Some pundits claim it's a hysterical rather than hystorical, but those are
pundits that don't understand puns. But the Hystory Channel's Palintology
docudrama puts the "pun" in pundit.
When Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska, most pundits on both the left and the
right viewed her decision through the prism of the 2012 campaign for the
presidency. However, the Hystory Channel's Palintology docudrama
shows why and how her resignation strategy focuses on 2010 rather than
2012.
The left side of the punditocracy will mock the docudrama because it portrays
humans and dinosaurs alive at the same time-- indeed, they'll claim that Palin
believes humans and dinosaurs walked the Earth in the Garden of Eden. The
left side of the punditocracy doesn't seem to understand artistic or literary
devices except when they're employed by the left to mock figures on Palin's side
of the political spectrum. Thus, the left is likely to view Palintology as
a "Creationist" view of politics.
The right side of the punditocracy is sharply divided among those who view Palin
with disdain as a political amateur unschooled in the Ivy League branch of
"conservatism" and those who view Palin as an embodiment of those by
whom William F. Buckley (at the zenith of his intellectual acuity) professed a
preference for being governed rather than the "faculties of Harvard or
Yale"-- i.e., the "first 200 people in the telephone
directory." This latter group of right-side pundits says Palin is
"the first 200 people in the telephone directory."
(Editor's
Note: This wmv video box was added to enable viewing of the original
version after YouTube cancelled the YouTube account for the YouTube version of
this video, which YouTube version was originally posted as the flash version of
this original wmv version you can view below.)
PoliSat.Com's Washington Bureau Drawer Chief is in this latter group believing
that Palin resigned now because she reached two non-professional-politician
conclusions: (1) Congress, as currently constituted, is so rapidly
accelerating American's slippery-slope slide from capitalism and liberty into
collectivism, redistributionism,
government-run
"businesses", pantheopianism,
Global-Warming
Religion, and big-brotherism that "all the chips are on the
table" in the 2010 races for the Senate and House if liberty and
market-based capitalism are to survive, and (2) that in order to (a) put the
fear of defeat in 2010 into the minds of as many Senate and House members not
ideologically committed to collectivism but potentially willing to "go
along" with current proposals by Obama and/or the current House and Senate
leadership and (b) increase the chances for the 2010 election to reverse, if not
halt, the slide into collectivism, she must go "pedal to the metal" to
campaign for anyone seeking election (or reelection) in 2010 who opposes such
collectivism and favors liberty, market-based economics, drilling for oil and
gas for energy independence, and a strong foreign policy unapologetically
opposing the growing threats posed by the Islamo-Fascist and Paleo-Stalinist
alliance. Correctly understanding that she could not go "pedal
to the metal" on such mission while remaining Governor of Alaska, she
sensibly concluded that her resignation was in the best interests of the country
as well as Alaska in order to enable her to put her shoulder to the wheel
between now and the 2010 elections to support candidates of either (or any)
party willing to oppose collectivism domestically and appeasement abroad.
--Jim
Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.
Permanent
links to this installment:
http://polisat.com/DailyPoliticalSatire-Commentary/Archives2009/du20y09m17d13-01.htm
OR
http://PoliSat.Com/Palintology.htm.
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