Sarah Palin to become Fox News Commentator

Sarah Palin, former Vice Presidential Candidate, has signed a deal with Fox News. She will be appearing on Fox as a political commentator, joining other well known "Republican-turned-TV talking heads" like Mike Huckabee and Karl Rove.

This, according to political analysts, implies that she will not be running for the Presidency in 2012. Democrats seem to be rather sad about this, because they know that Obama would not lose to Palin.

I'm not really sure what to say about this one. Considering Palin's credibility among the intellectual communities, Fox may be hurting itself. Then again, this is a terrific example of Narrowcasting. It would certainly appeal to the rather large Fundamentalist portion of the country, but who knows? We'll just have to wait and see.

Repeating Past Mistakes

Watching the Republican National Convention this week, one could get a sense of high drama. Betrayal by the federal government. A need for change. John McCain, help us! Yet funnily, this party that is so gung-ho on change has had, well, only eight years to do it in. Yes, as some Republicans will argue, the last two years the Democrats had Congress, but they still had George Bush in the White House. Why didn't he propose any of this change we're all hearing about? What was his energy plan? His education plan? His plan for the economy? Why didn't he reform Washington, as John McCain now seeks to do?

 

The answer, sadly, bodes ill for our country if John McCain beats Barack Obama in the fall. You see, eight years ago, a western Republican ran for office as a Washingotn outsider, a reformer, a bipartisan player. And he turned out to be George W. Bush, who has been anything but the aforementioned descriptions. Instead, he and the GOP have dangerously led this country to war, ignored global warming, remained obstinate on creating a new energy policy, let the environment be trashed away, and allowed the current mortage meltdown to unfold. Meanwhile, Social Security remains unfixed, health care continues in its sorry state, and No Child Left Behind maintains its strangehold on public schools. And, John McCain is even more hawkish than the man that brought us the mess in Iraq. To think that such a similar GOP candidate is now practically tied in the polls with Sen. Obama and has decent chance of winning the presidency, is, well, frightening.