Randi Kreiss

Trump recruits (who else?) fellow Know-Nothing Sarah Palin

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This may go down in history as the Summer of Abysmal Ignorance.

Yesterday I thought I was having a post-traumatic-stress reaction, but it was only transitory anxiety at the reappearance of Sister Sarah. That would be Sarah Palin, who demonstrates a profound lack of enlightenment considering her very public trouncing two elections ago and her subsequent outing as an ignoramus.

I thought she was gone from public life, out killing animals in the wilds of Alaska. Then, suddenly, there she was, squalling in that voice from hell about the Iran nuclear deal, “Only in an Orwellian Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust blown from atop his unicorn as he’s peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty.”

I have nothing to add to that. Why gild the lily?

Last week, when the president visited Palin’s home state to urge action on climate change because islands there are actually disappearing under the feet of the local indigenous population, the former V.P. candidate was nowhere to be seen. She said nothing about Alaska’s role as ground zero for global warming, about which she surely knows something; instead she weighed in on Iran and the impact on Israel of the nuclear deal, about which she demonstrably knows nothing.

What has lured her off her famous Alaskan front porch, from which she can monitor other foreign countries? Another intemperate outlier, Donald Trump, candidate for president, has called her back to pubic service, inviting her to participate in his campaign while dangling a possible cabinet post as bait.

Mama Grizzly went for it. Suddenly Trump wasn’t alone in his xenophobic diatribes against anything Obama, downtrodden minorities and productive diplomacy. Palin is actually supporting a candidate who insulted her former running mate, John McCain, who is generally held in respectful regard by all Americans.

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