I read Sarah's book. Not nearly enough pictures, but I read it anyway.
I tend to agree with her basic stance on the political arena. Less government is better government. If you want to free up the economy, put money back in the hands of people who will spend it to expand the economy -- business owners. You're never going to achieve growth by taking from some and giving to others, it just won't work. Government should work for the people not the other way around.
I could vote for somebody who has those core beliefs. But...
After reading her book I couldn't vote for her.
Here, in a nutshell, is why. Everything she says is reduced to some myopic experience from her past.
What would you do about climate change, Sarah?
"Well, Granny Wispers used to knit afghans to keep us warm when it was 20 below in Alaska. She's still knitting, so I just think climate change is a bunch of hooey!"
She's right. Climate change is hooey. But the Granny Wispers story kills it.
Here are her comments as a Fox News reporter on Harry Reid's negro problem:
I come from a very diverse state. My family is diverse. I'm married to an Alaska native. A lot of us don't think along those lines that somebody's skin tone would be criteria for a qualification for the presidency. So his -- his thinking and his articulating of that -- that thought was -- is quite perplexing. It's quite unfortunate. And I think it's unacceptable.
Fuck the Alaska bit, Sarah. I know you love Alaska and think it's spiffy. I know you think your Eskimo hubby is the tits. I know half your family are sled dogs. But shut the fuck up about it. To most people Alaska is a big blob that sits off to the left of the country in its own separate box. Either that or it is connected to Hawaii.
She's rendering herself irrelevant.