I think “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” has established fairly clearly that she doesn’t hunt anything. She just said she hunted moose and wolves.
On the note of “shit at hunting”, this is probably the best summary I’ve seen of her shtick:
The Culture Warriors:
Our current crop of candidates offers up some pretty good examples of this. The McCain family is really stinkin’ rich (inheriting multi-million dollar fortunes and owning a dozen houses) but the other three couples on national tickets are well-off on a much more banal scale. The Palin family, the Obama family, and the Biden family all have incomes running into the six figures which is much more than your average American family has. But the Palins choose to spend their money in very different ways. They’re raising five kids, getting into competitive snowmobiling, going on moose hunting expeditions, etc. This isn’t stuff that your typical coastal elites care to do with their time and money, but none of it’s cheap, either. Rather, these are the leisure pursuits of Red America’s economic elite while prosperous people in Blue America are instead raising fewer children in smaller houses that are much more expensive per square foot and spending money on cheese plates rather than moooseburgers.
But in whatever sense snowmobiling is a “working class” hobby — and I’ll agree it doesn’t have vast appeal to big city sophisticates — it’s not a cheap pursuit, and I’m sure Todd Palin could have bought a ton of arugula with the money he spent on his snowmobile instead. He just chose not to, which is fine. But that’s what these culture wars are all about — relatively prosperous cultural conservatives fighting with relatively prosperous cultural liberals about “postmaterial” political issues and using lifestyle cues as proxies for those battles — they’re not about poor people mobilizing themselves on behalf of the GOP.
There needs to be a word for this.
Johan_O
3505
A moving and inspirational song celebrating Palin’s wisdom, skills and coming exploits, such as jailing congressman, interpreting the constitution and walking through open doors.
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=89388
She was picked for the role for a reason. I think it might have been Bill Kristol who first pointed her out as an option, before there was any broader discussion of whether or not she’d work or be qualified or look exactly like Tina Fey or anything. I could be wrong, though - I barely remember a week ago.
Equis
3507
On the note of festishizing Palin, I give you Steampunk Palin #1
Saving the world from an energy crisis with her pal Robama
*Man, I can’t delete the post in the comics forum can I? Damn.
corsair
3508
Modern squinty glasses in steampunk? Sacrilege!
Case
3509
“Ze goggles, zey do nothing.”
If you read the link (WARNING: therein lies madness), the premise is actually near-future post-apocalyptic, with Palin, Obama, & McCain becoming cyborgs and teaming up to take out Prof. Greenhouse, who is actually…Al Gore!
Hunh. I did not see that coming.
And the funny thing is, it’s still less stupid & in(s)ane than anything to come out of Palin’s piehole in the last 2+ years. If only barely.
Today’s Doonesbury uses an actual, amazingly unselfaware quote from Palin’s book:
I don’t understand the ‘mini-guy’ part. I think the joke stands on its own with just a simple reading from the book. Sad.
Ah, that helps, thanks. Must be the font.
That’s a Doonesbury thing. Rather than represent Palin directly, he talks about her through Sam’s “Palin Action Figure,” who holds late-night sessions with Sam’s other toys. Since she’s not actually Sarah Palin, she’s Palin’s “mini-me,” or “mini-guv” (as in governor, not “guy.”).
Yeah, I got the toy part, from the first panel. The ‘guy’ was confusing me, but I get it now. Is this a regular thing though in the strip? I don’t read it. Has he been attacking Palin before?
Dejin
3518
That’s how I read it too and I was also wondering what “MINI-GUY” was a reference to.
He attacks everyone in politics with a special focus on conservatives.
It’s generally a very political strip, though it has some non-political storylines. He does some odd things when dealing with political figures, usually representing them with some weird symbolic image instead of a human figure. Clinton was a waffle, for example. With Palin he’s using her face, but he always uses Sam’s doll as a proxy instead of Palin herself.
