What is really sad is that so many people like her or think she adds anything constructive to the political scenery. She is ill-informed (to be kind), and tops that with faulty analysis. She doesn’t understand cities or much of any serious policy. She does what her handlers tell her to, except she puts her own little folksy acting on top of it.
Of course, part of it is that there are so many Republicans who believe the nonsense she spouts. Or they just like the look of her or the feeling of her. They are mostly as ill-informed as she is.
Personally, I find her hypocritical—mostly over her vehemence about marriage and children being born to parents who are married and all that other “family values” rubric that represents anything but family values. But when her daughter has a baby without being married, she says next to nothing, other than it’s a private matter. Well, duh. That’s what family values are. Private matters.
But the really funny thing is that she’s a caricature of herself. Whatever she does, it leaves me shaking my head with disbelief. The things she says, the way she acts—if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I never would have believed it.
She’d be of no consequence except the press loves her. They fawn at her every move. It’s revolting. But then, we can’t call them the press any more, can we? It’s all blogs. Hell. Even I have a blog. That about shows you what it means to trust the press.