Think you know Sarah Palin?

Until this morning, I just wrote off Sarah Palin as someone too uninformed and emotionally unstable and, ultimately, inconsequential, to take seriously or to bother myself with. As I said--until this morning. I just got finished reading a Vanity Fair piece on her. Holy cow. Besides making millions of more dollars than I thought she was, she also has far more followers than I realized. If even half of this article is true, folks, we have every reason to be scared. She is nuttier than I knew. A portion of the article: Sarah Palin’s connection with her audience is complete. People who admire her believe she is just like them, and this conviction seems to satisfy their curiosity about the objective facts of her life. Those whose curiosity has not been satisfied have their work cut out for them. Palin has been a national figure for barely two years—John McCain selected her as his running mate in August 2008. Her on-the-record statements about herself amount to a litany of untruths and half-truths. With few exceptions—mostly Palin antagonists in journalism and politics whose beefs with her have long been out in the open—virtually no one who knows Palin well is willing to talk about her on the record, whether because they are loyal and want to protect her (a small and shrinking number), or because they expect her prominence to grow and intend to keep their options open, or because they fear she will exact revenge, as she has been known to do. It is an astonishing phenomenon. Colleagues and acquaintances by the hundreds went on the record to reveal what they knew, for good or ill, about prospective national candidates as diverse as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Barack Obama. When it comes to Palin, people button their lips and slink away. I'm telling you, this is an excellent and important read. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to find out about this woman. She is one scary individual. And she has more power and money than I knew right now. Until she's gone and no longer a factor in American society and politics, I might make the suggestion you occasionally, at least, follow one or more of the following blogs on her: The Immoral Minority: http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/; Shannon Moore: Just a girl from Homer http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/; Palingates: http://palingates.blogspot.com/. I found them in the Vanity Fair article. I will say, too, that frequently, because of the way Ms. Palin is and what she thinks and believes, it can make for some darned amusing reading. Link: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010?currentPage=all