Sarah don’t blink, and I know why

If you have the stomach for it, watch a disturbing video about Governor Palin’s wolf bounty program, a substitute for clubbing seals (should you become bored with that.)

Sarah don’t blink, and I know why.

John McCain asked Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Despite being a political novice, she said, without any hesitation whatsoever, yes.

Sarah don’t blink, and I know why.

The inevitability of a media interview finally caught up with her. Instead of acknowledging what every American already knew, which is that—coming from where she was—it would be impossible to be ready to be president, she, without any hesitation whatsoever, insisted she was ready.

Sarah don’t blink, and I know why.

When asked detailed political questions, instead of showing one iota of humility by admitting the incompleteness of her knowledge, she tried to hoodwink the American public with scripted narratives, and once again insisted she was ready to be president.

Sarah don’t blink, and I know why.

When asked about possibly violating the sovereignty of another nation, in this case Pakistan, she said, “we must not blink ... in making those tough decisions of where we go and even who we target.”

“We must not blink” must be a euphemistic phrase for “we must not think.” A good leader has to be decisive above all else. George W. Bush was always decisive.

So Sarah don’t blink, and I know why.

Vonnegut (R.I.P) told us in his last book, A Man Without A Country, why people like Sarah Palin don’t blink:

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would make your hair stand on end: “C-Students from Yale."

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.


To say somebody is a PP is to make perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete’s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, published in 1941. Read it!

Some people are born deaf, some are born blind or whatever, and this book is about congenitally defective human beings of a sort that is making this whole country and many other parts of the planet go completely haywire nowadays. These were people born without consciences, and suddenly they are taking charge of everything.

PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!

And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And they are waging a war that is making billionaires out of millionaires, and trillionaires out of billionaires, and they own television, and they bankroll George Bush, and not because he’s against gay marriage.

So many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. They have taken charge. They have taken charge of communications and the schools, so we might as well be Poland under occupation.

They might have felt that taking our country into an endless war was simply something decisive to do. What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is they are so decisive. They are going to do something every fuckin’ day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with any doubts, for the simple reason that they don’t give a fuck what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In these Times, and kiss my ass!

Sarah don’t blink, and I know why.

[Hat tip to roaster marindenver for pointing out Sarah Palin’s cruelty via HuffPo and the wolf video.]

Posted by poputonian on 09/13/08 at 09:13 AM • Permalink

Sarah Palin, PP.  You’ve nailed that.  Thanks for a great post.  (And thanks for the diary link too!  I’m working up McCain’s economic plan now which represents, IMHO, a fairy tale for modern times.) I think that what we have to pound on is 1.  McCain is a serial liar and 2.  His selection of Sarah Palin PP/Serial Liar to be vice president is yet one more example of his terrible judgement.

Agreed on 1 and 2. I seriously believe that she is a PP; she shows all the signs.

And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And they are waging a war that is making billionaires out of millionaires, and trillionaires out of billionaires, and they own television, and they bankroll George Bush, and not because he’s against gay marriage.