IGNORANCE ATTRACTS IGNORANCE

Sarah Palin's paucity of knowledge would be amusing if she weren't running for vice president of the United States. She has taken political double talk to a new low. She doesn't know what she's talking about and it shows. When reporters expose this fact McCain calls it "gotcha journalism," a catchy phrase to cover up the fact that she keeps tripping over her own ignorance. During her debate with Joe Biden she was an amusing cartoon, while he spoke like he actually knew something. But the next day Sara Palin's fans were delighted because her ignorance hadn't revealed outright stupidity. They felt relieved, and could now whole heartedly support her run for vice president. With smiles and winks and down home chumminess she won them over. Is that all it takes? Shouldn't there be some semblance of knowing how to connect the dots with some intelligence? It was like seeing someone at the Olympic Trials arriving at the finish line smiling and waving, and though not really qualifying, allowed to go on to the actual Olympics because she didn't fall on her face. She knows how to rally the troops. But ignorance attracts ignorance, and her fans are becoming a mob. You can hear them shouting "terrorist", "kill him", and other ugly things, that belie all culture and civilization in a primitive cry for blood. It isn't Sarah Palin's fault that she inspires the prehistoric at her rallies. She isn't aware of anything except her own ambition. If she hears anything at all, it's her name coming to her like kisses on the breeze. The rest sounds like Power. The guttural shouts, the snarling invectives, the punchlines of prejudice: it all sounds like POWER. But you can't blame Sarah Palin. She's ignorant. She's totally, and frightfully, ignorant.