Sarah Palin, Racist?

I once remarked, actually more than once, that I hated black jellybeans.  I never meant it to be a racist comment.  I just didn’t like licorice, or “licorish.”  I also favored cowboys in white hats as opposed to those guys in black hats who always seemed to be evil in one way or another.  Even worse, I thought Sarah Palin was a very decent, intelligent, and caring woman, and a great Republican vice-presidential candidate in the last election.

I was almost proved wrong, not in my distaste for licorice and affinity for white hats but in my estimation of Sarah Palin.

Imagine my surprise to learn before the last election that she was a racist!  How little I knew. I kept trying to understand why and how she became so bigoted and prejudiced that she could sink so low as to be tarred with that vile epithet and I resolved to get to the bottom of the matter.

Maybe, I thought, it was somehow related to her job?  Palin is the chief executive of the State of Alaska, in acreage the largest state in the union and, incidentally the only state in the union that seems to be weathering the current recession.  That the governor is managing to keep Alaska solvent when so many other states are gasping for air, and begging to be stimulated by Obama, is indeed commendable but accomplishing that feat can’t rationally be explained by her racist attitudes so the cause had to be found elsewhere.

Maybe the pernicious seeds of her racism could be traced back to something she said?  She certainly said a great deal to the condescending, supercilious Charlie Gibson but Palin said even more to the perky, wily Katie Couric.

Couric is widely credited with “bringing Sarah down” and the Republican ticket down last November with her CBS interviews of Palin, which also served to save Katie’s job.  However, even though the governor flubbed some answers to Katie’s questions, nothing she said could even remotely described as racist.

The answer must lie in the governor’s personal life, it just had to since nothing else makes any sense and her life is so filled with negatives that it’s tough to remember them all.

Let me count those negatives.  She has had the same husband, Todd, for over 30 years but he had a DUI twenty years ago.  They have 5 kids, including a daughter, Bristol, who succumbed to raging teenie hormones, conceived and bore a baby instead of killing it, then broke up with the teen father instead of marrying him.  The Palins also chose to bring a son, Trig, who has Downs Syndrome, into the world.  And, as she said, Sarah Palin really is able to see Russia from her porch.

Add to all that baggage that she fished, thereby depleting our waters of wildlife, hunted defenseless animals like wolves and moose, that she liked mooseburgers, and that she practiced the sport of snowmobiling, thereby disturbing the Alaska’s pristine landscape!

What a bitch, I thought.  Anyone whose hubby had a DUI, whose daughter had a child out of wedlock, must also be racist!  Then, too, Palin had the temerity to burden the world with an imperfect child and admitted to spying on Russia without a CIA clearance, hunted, fished and snowmobiled, and the case was closed:  The governor was most probably a dyed in the wool racist as well.

Eureka!  I had proven Governor Sarah Palin’s iniquity! 

It was then that I discovered I was wrong, although, as I had resolved, I did succeed in getting to the bottom, the very bottom where the bottom feeders lurk.

The racist charge had been brought against Palin by two Democratic politicians, Reps. Gregory Meeks and Edolphus Towns, both liberal congressmen from New York City: http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/black-congressmen-declare-racism-palin-s-rhetoric.

The basis for their charges was four words Palin used in reference to Barack Obama, namely, that he was ”not one of us” which verily dripped with the putrid scent of a racial attack, in the minds of the good congressmen.  The Obama-infatuated media lapped it up.

Forgotten in their haste to smear her was the context of her words, that she was addressing Obama’s ties to the still-proud, unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers:  http://www.usnews.com/blogs/barone/2008/8/22/obama-needs-to-explain-his-ties-to-william-ayers.html

Anyone who associated with such scum of the Earth could rightly be determined to be “not one of us,” not a patriotic American, not a man who had America’s best interests at heart, not trustworthy, not honest, not qualified to be the next president of the United States. In four words, “not one of us.”

Baseless allegations of racism are what we get for our failure to impose the most basic Intelligent Quotient standards on our elected officials, such as Meeks and Towns. If we don’t test their IQ’s, maybe term limits would help.

What a travesty!