PDS or what?

HOW DARE SHE! Theater of the Absurd

My first inclination is to invoke PDS (Palin Deranged Syndrome) to explain this absurd Los Angeles Times op-ed piece,  Palin and Reagan by Craig Fehrman.  But then I'm thinking, "is Fehrman victim, or embittered  propagator?"   Think AIDS patient, and AIDS patient who spits in people's face in order to spread the disease.  What do you think? First stanza: “ "Sarah Palin's Alaska" didn't debut until Sunday night, but the former governor has been defending it for weeks. After Karl Rove wondered how a reality show fit "the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office,'" Fox News gave Palin a chance to respond. "You know, I agree with that," she said. "Those standards have to be high for someone who would ever want to run for president, like, um, wasn't Ronald Reagan an actor? Wasn't he in 'Bedtimes for Bonzo,' 'Bozo' or something?" Defending it for weeks?  What is there to defend?   Fehrman used that to shoe-horn in "After Karl Rove wondered how a reality show fit "the American calculus ... .'" WTF? Karl Rove is a technician.  He put together the Bush field apparatus that saved the nation twice - from Al Gore, and then John Kerry.  That era's prevailing zeitgeist, fostered by sore loser democrats, that Bush was too stupid to cut his own meat meant others must be pulling his strings.   Karl Rove and Dick Cheney were the puppeteers who actually flew drones into the WTC and dialed up Hurricane Katrina.  But Karl Rove is part of the GOP establishment hierarchy ...  that has been waging war against Sarah Palin, and now the TeaParty.  Just so you know the context. She said Bonzo! He's got her trapped now, wot. “ The movie was "Bedtime for Bonzo," but no matter: What Palin should have mentioned was "General Electric Theater," the television show Reagan hosted and occasionally starred in from 1954 to 1962. It would have made Palin's point nicely. Instead, her comment hinted at a different one altogether: that Palin has an appallingly and disturbingly superficial knowledge of Reagan's career and principles What About Death Valley Days?  What about 20 Mule Team Borax-- Mr. Caster-of-stones?  Sheesh. This important stuff eventually leads to the principle indictment of Mrs.Sarah Palin. “ This summer, speaking to a California crowd, Palin suggested that "it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State." Reagan's alma mater is in Eureka, Ill. It was embarrassing, but apparently not for Palin. For her purposes, the details -- and a whole lot more -- simply do not matter. It's no excuse that Sarah was a sophomore, playing high school basketball when His Maximus became president.  No excuse at all to ignorantly  think the ex-Governor of California grew up in Eureka, CA, and not Eureak IL.  I cannot defend her anymore.  Unless she gets a teleprompter. Sigh.