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Daren in Brief
Going Rogue

by Daren Foster

As we near the end of the unofficial Sarah Palin Week (with her high profile stops on Oprah, the cover of Newsweek and a Barnes & Noble in Grand Rapids, Michigan), I can’t help wondering if there’s ever been another failed vice presidential candidate who’s garnered this much post-election coverage. I mean, just look at the cloak of invisibility the actual sitting Vice President of the United States wears and the disproportion is nothing short of glaring. Not only was she on the losing team last November, guys, she contributed mightily to that loss.

Yet there she is, bestriding the media sphere as if a colossus, whispers becoming yelps of Palin in `12!! She’s even managed to have the largely antagonistic Left come to her aid over the allegedly sexist coverage in Newsweek. The cover pic featured her in running gear, gams all glistening, with her legs featured in another photo inside along with a Sarah Palin slutty schoolgirl doll that made an appearance during last year’s campaign. Umbrage was further taken by the article’s title, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?

Here’s the thing. Rather than demeaning on a gender level, I think the title is appropriately demeaning purely on a personal level. If my Sound of Music knowledge is up to snuff, the song which the Newsweek article title refers, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, concerns the lack of gravitas Julie Andrew’s character, Maria, possesses to live the life of a nun. Certainly lack of gravitas is a criticism that continues to haunt Palin as a political entity.

As for the sex in the sexism charge, it seems to me Palin is working the referee in a couple ways here. I don’t believe the whole small town, school marm, sexpot breeder image is purely a left wing, liberal media concoction used to diminish her as a legitimate political force. Nothing excites the socially conservative, evangelical base that so loves and adores Palin more than a whiff of sex. From condoms in the classrooms to abortion, the carnal act is the common denominator. I’m just a hockey mom with a hunky husband, still havin’ babies in my 40s. Wink, wink. And then, when her opponents run with that, everyone’s up in arms, indignant. Well, I never… !!

Look at the title of her book, Going Rogue. I cannot be the only person who made the almost immediate jump in association to the term going commando. You know, wearing pants without underwear. Going commando. Going rouge. From there, it’s just a small step to thinking Sharon Stone in Fatal Attraction.

Whooo-eeeee!! the conservative fanboys are screeching. Under that pantsuit she ain’t wearing no panties! She’s got my vote in 2012!!

… I’m just saying.