The “Real” America

Did you know that if, like me, you live in a city, you don’t live in the real America? It’s true! Consider this quote from Sarah Palin:

“We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation…”

That’s from a speech she gave in North Dakota the other day.

I must say, this is one of the most remarkably insulting things I’ve ever heard a candidate say while out on the stump. The implications here are that the “best of America,” and the only “real” Americans, who are hard-working, patriotic and pro-American, live in small towns. What a fucking asinine thing to say.

I live in Phoenix. It’s currently the 5th largest city in America, something that comes as a surprise to most people. We passed Philadelphia back a couple years ago, and I’m guessing we’ll pass Houston in a few more years. Phoenix is also the capitol of Arizona and the state McCain represents in the Senate.

But according to the implications of what Palin said, we aren’t part of the real America. We aren’t hard-working, patriotic, and pro-American. As I’ve mentioned before, according to the GOP mythology, and to a lesser extent that of much of America, the only “real” America and the only “real” Americans are found in small towns.

Palin is, as others have observed, basically Bush with tits, right down to being incapable of giving a coherent speech. She’s rude, she’s insulting, she lies constantly and on stupid things, she’s a flip-flopper (she supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, dontcha know, and then took the money from the government anyhow, *wink*), she’s a fundamentalist Christian, she has no clue about the rest of the world and she’s completely unqualified to be President of anything, much less our country.

Here’s one last fun quote from her. Another thing that illustrates the kind of obnoxiousness she’s a part of.

“In fact, we were on the bus today, we were making a list of who are some celebrity singers who could come out and help us and gosh, for the life of us, the pickins were slim there,” she said. “Who’s quasi-conservative out there in the celebrity land?”

Well, let’s see… John Voight, Kelsey Grammar, Kid Rock, Dean Cain and Arnold Schwarzenegger all spring to mind without me even having to look anyone up. But, of course, as we all know since Hollywood is out on the coast, it’s not part of the “real” America, and it’s controlled by the liberals and blah-blah-blah.

I can’t wait until this election is over and she slimes her way back up to Juneau, where she can stay and freeze until 2012, when I’m sure she’ll thaw out and try to run for President.