Chaduke’s Blog

I wonder how many realize this woman would still be as unknown to most people as she was before she was picked by the GOP as McCain’s running mate, if only Hillary had beat out Obama for the Democratic nomination.  When she was first picked, someone mentioned that to me, they said “yeah, they’re picking her to grab the Hillary vote”.  I remember thinking to myself, “no way, don’t these people understand they would be jumping across party lines?”.

See, I could fathom people being ignorant enough to vote for someone, no matter how unqualified, on the single issue of her being a woman.  I can see that, I just had no idea there were so many of them.  In fact, people who know much more about this sort of thing than I do, such as McCain’s campaign crew, were actually banking on it.  They felt that there were so many people dumb enough to completely cross from Democrat to Republican on the single issue of gender that it could make a difference in the election.  This shows how little respect they have for the intelligence of the American public, and at the same time how little integrity to whole process has.   Not that its all a huge shock to me, but I still find it unsettling every time I’m reminded of it.

These same people who were duped by the GOP, the Hillary supporters who only seem to care that their candidate has a vagina, are the same ones who are now rabidly defending the Palin family from big bad David Letterman.  That’s what most of this stink is about.  These are the ones boycotting the Letterman sponsors and calling the network asking for him to be fired.  They have no concept of political party, which in itself is not an all together bad thing.  I wish people were smart enough to not require their political beliefs spoon fed to them, but these people are not even on that level.  They’re completely oblivious to the entire system, following one issue alone, gender.  On top of it, no sense of humor whatsoever.

The Palins quickly capitalized on this weakness, knowing they could turn this into a huge media circus by simply focusing on an issue that was in the far background of the joke, and bringing it to the surface.  Its actually pretty smart.  They know their mindless “base” well, and how to stimulate them.  They took the situation completely out of context by ignoring the fact that it was first and foremost a joke.  Second, they cleverly used the lack of detail by Letterman to show that the joke implied “statutory rape”.  That term in itself is misleading, because we all know that it can differ drastically from forcible rape.   They even went a step further, by simply saying the joke was about “raping their 14-year old daughter”, leaving the statutory part out altogether.  That will really stir up the hornet’s nest.

Now, as a mob of morons protest and call for Letterman’s head, I’m hearing the term “pedophilia” passed around.  Dirty old David Letterman, the pedophile who thinks rape is funny and jokes about it to the world to boost his ratings.  He’s a nasty, bitter old man, who not only likes raping young girls, but is really mad that he was snubbed a second time for the tonight show.  This is how he’ll get them back.   Actually that part, aside from him liking rape, sounds pretty believable.  I could picture him doing this, maybe even on a subconscious level, to start controversy.  The ironic part is that in the process he did Palin a favor.   I love her comment about not wanting to boost his ratings by appearing on his show.   An arrogant, clueless, pretentious opportunist and hypocrite, what more could we ask for in a potential presidential candidate?