Palin Going Rogue and Running on Fumes

I tried to ignore the former Alaska governor.  I didn’t say a word when she quit her job last July. I didn’t say anything sarcastic when she and David Letterman went round and round.  But now I think she needs some advice.  She’s on her book tour for “Going Rogue“, she’s been on Oprah, and now all the hoopla is cooling so she’s looking for something to get her name back in the news.

Huf Po says she’s joining the birther movement!?  The birther movement– not the best place to pitch your tent and start selling hooey.  Ask Lou Dobbs who lost his lucrative nightly gig on CNN for trying to rep for that branch of the black helicopter conspiracy set.

Palin’s wading into the birther pool came in comments came during an interview with conservative radio host Rusty Humphries.  Who the heck is Rusty Humphries?  Sounds like a cheap Limbaugh knock off.

So in the course of the interview Humphries asked Palin whether she planned to “make the birth certificate an issue” if she runs for president in 2012.  “I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue,” Palin said. “I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers.” Humphries — who began the interview with a rendition of the song “Sarah, Queen Of The Wild Frontier” — followed up: “Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?” “I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game,” Palin responded, adding that “the McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area.

But wait, later that night on her Facebook page she did a 180:
Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask… which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.

I want the lunatic fringe to embrace me… I don’t want the fringe to embrace me.  Please make up your mind.

But before that, she might want to muzzle her family members.  This is big time, Lower 48 states politics– she needs to be sharp.  You can’t have your relatives stepping out of  line, embarrassing you, and deviating from the carefully crafted image you are trying to foist upon the majority of Americans who don’t think you have any qualifications for higher office.  She’s not alone in having inconvenient family.  Jimmy Carter had Billy Carter.  Bill Clinton had Roger Clinton.  Hillary Clinton has Bill Clinton.

For Palin, first there was Bristol’s baby daddy, Levi Johnston.   You tried to shoehorn him into the family, paraded him in front of the national media during the GOP convention and then that all fell apart. He’s now doing commercials for pistachio nuts and baring all for Playgirl magazine, when he’s not dishing with Tyra Banks on her talk show.

Now comes word that Palin’s own father contradicts the former Alaska governor’s description of her reasons for leaving college in Hawaii after only one semester.  In “Going Rogue” Palin writes, “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen year-old Alaska girls.” But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe who wrote the book “Sarah from Alaska“. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.”  Here is an instance of father not knowing what’s best for his daughter’s political ambitions.