Sarah Palin Pravda's Daughter

When I was a child through the Reagan revolution, the Russian Newspaper Pravda ( the Truth ) was famous for its ability to report and document revisionist history. In other words, facts be damned we'll report it the way we think it should be. Sarah Palin's new book was published by the folks which brought us Pravda. Any semblance of what really occured or what happened is totally distorted by the small, mean, ill informed and highly opinionated Ms. Palin.

She harps on the indignities ( all imagined or totally made up ) heaped on her by John McCain and his aides. She ignores how she was thrust from her well deserved obscurity to the Vice-Presidential nomination of her party only through the devices of the self same John McCain. You almost have to laugh aloud at her whiney attack on Katie Couric and the press. Yes, Ms. Couric certainly asked her difficult questions she couldn't have been expected to be able to answer, like, "what newspapers do you read?"

She resented being protected from the rest of the press, I guess she wanted to show off all her qualifications for high office, like spear fishing and moose dressing. Nor did she and her family want the $150,000 worth of clothes she was forced to pick out and wear. This woman who was McCains 4th or 5th choice owes her entire notoriety to the hand she is presently biting. Ouch!!!

There have been some pretty bad picks for vice-president in our history; Spiro Agnew for one comes quickly to mind, Tom Eagleton is another. None of them have been as graceless as the former Alaskan Governor. This is a person who lacks the class or brains to slide out of the public arena now that her 15 minutes are over. To my fellow Republicans who admire and believe in Ms. Palin, I will bequeath a book equally as true, you know it, it starts, " Once upon a time..."