LELAND W. RUBLE
That’s right, she’s having a temper tantrum because she thinks not allowing a “National Day of Prayer” will lead to America turning into a godless socialistic and hedonistic republic. Sarah Palin, the political Houdini of the religious and demented political right, told her host Big Mouth Bill O’Reilly, in reply to a question concerning the National Day of Prayer—a Billy Graham successful effort to de-communize the USA—that some people are trying to enact a “fundamental transformation of America.”
She continued to assert the absurd notion that this country create laws based on the god of the Bible and the Ten Commandments. (It’s doubtful she is aware that disobeying any one of these ancient commands could result in death by stoning or some other barbaric form of punishment intended to kill the individual who disobeyed any one of the Ten C’s.) However, if she is aware of this fact, than she is more dangerous than the folksy motherly image she flaunts before the public. Palin is regarded by some on the religious and political right as not only a constitutional scholar, but also along with bubblehead Rush Limbaugh, crybaby Glenn Beck and the arrogantly opinionated Sean Hannity, as the religious right’s most prominent soothsayer.
Is she, as some have suggested, using her Tea Party notoriety to appeal to religious fundamentalists foaming at the mouth with the aspect of realizing their dream of turning America into a theocratic, fascist country not unlike what the Islamic Taliban once enjoyed in Afghanistan? Or does she just say goofy, absurd things to appease her audience of wacky Tea Baggers, hardcore conservatives, and blowhards like O’Reilly, because it assures her of a steady income on the political right talk-show circuit?
It’s not too far fetched to imagine that Palin actually believes most of the blathering nonsense that emerges from her mouth. And, to also believe that she tremendously enjoys being the recipient of funds that have turned her into an overnight millionaire with endless offers to speak at gatherings for the politically hysterical and deranged who feel neglected because policies of the Obama administration have slowed down their fascist and theocratic ambitions to turn the USA into their nightmare society of god and religious insanity.
In a sane world, a folksy, incomprehensible political hack like Sarah Palin would refrain from opening their mouths on programs viewed by an audience of several million. But this is not a sane world, and there will always be an audience of political Frankensteins, fairytale authors of the fantastic and unreal like Tim LaHaye, and the politically demented and fascistically inclined like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck etc. In fact, her appeal to those on the religious and political right is so seductive that she is assured of having an audience wherever she has (for a fee) made the decision to open her mouth and utter absurdities like that previously mentioned. The crazies that flock to hear her speak have assured her of a steady income far into the future. Her most aspiring admirers, the Tea Baggers and religious fundamentalists, are certain she is the political answer to Obama’s more liberal policies, and even possibly a future candidate for president.
I know, it’s hard to imagine her assuming the presidency, but the USA, by all indications, is not alone among nations that have elected a leader because of his or her irrational motives and pronouncements. If anyone has viewed the antics of a Tea Party demonstration, it becomes evident after a few minutes that these people are on the verge of exploding in frenzied convulsion over issues they view as socialistic, anti-god, overly liberal, anti-American, anti-gun, and on and on. If there is no issue, a bombastic clown like Glenn Beck will step into the fray, and create an issue from the Mormon theological nightmares that plague his mind. It’s not unexpected to presume his giving the Tea Baggers an issue, even if it’s something as ludicrous as claiming a race of liberal aliens from outer space are controlling the environment by secretly beaming destructive protons toward the surface of this planet.
It would be ridiculous for anyone to seriously entertain the notion that Palin’s fatuous pronouncements that America be governed by the Bible god and Ten Commandments be considered as viable objectives in this era. However, after making her lunatic observation in the presence of Bill O’Reilly, I’m sure there were thousands of Tea Baggers and Christian zealots clapping their hands and shouting hallelujah and Amen, after she opened her mouth. It is this bizarre group of people for whom Sarah Palin’s pronouncements are nourished and given a life of their own, have evolved into a political and religious Frankenstein.