like a canker sore

Palin wants you to think she’s thinking about running-one more time for the first time.

Dear Mrs. Plain,

And I thought you went away. But then, like a canker sore on the edge of a lip all you did was go into hiding, lurking, at the ready to re-infect the unwitting person yet one more time. And like that canker sore your timing is unpredictable. But once you reveal yourself all the ugly and infectious materials from which you were born rear its ugly head and you shine like a beacon in the night not warning ships but destroying them as they enter your harbor of hate.

You are a great con artist Mrs. Palin. You have surrounded yourself with loyalists who hate the truth, prefer fabrication and love to divide and conquer. You are an amazing magician and your use of smoke and mirrors is phenomenal. Your slight of hand ingenious and your art of illusion would make most Las Vegas performers swoon and sway.

You are a scary individual, almost a character Stephen King might imagine. But then in Mr. King’s novels the scary characters, as malicious as they might be, are championed over by really righteous and intelligent people. I fear however that your cadre of blame someone else first, hate has a place in America, no points made in speaking the truth, minions are a worrisome and strong group to overcome.

And speaking of hate and anti American traitors, I see you as a patient zero. (You know, or maybe your handlers have never explained this to you), that every recent epidemic or pandemic has an original carrier. When the senile John McCain, reaching for straws, invited you to be his running mate, he unleashed the first of many homophobes, bigots, self serving, me first America second Republican/Bagger fools to embrace the American political theater. He opened up Pandora’s Box and you with no idea of the Constitution, fairness, equality, political prowess suddenly jumped from that box and started infecting the mind and emotions of people looking for scapegoats looking for blame and not looking for truth. You were the first infection and your disease of ignorance, irrationality, and ideologue has enveloped this country.

So you want us to think you are back. And it works Mrs. Palin, somehow the stupid buy this and the men and women who are fearful afraid and foolish buy into it. I am afraid of you Mrs. Palin and your secessionist husband Todd. (How are his secret meetings with the men and women from Alaska going, do they still want to join Texas, and Rick Perry in seceding from the union) are making the rounds. You have quite the machine out there and perhaps if we still can write history books (if you become president I can picture the banning of books), I can see how the era of the 2000’s becomes the reality show era, where reality is not real but scripted. Where the audience never wanting to think for themselves just had to pretend that the pop culture stars were smart, and clever and real. And future generations will wonder if Sarah Palin was just another sitcom character, someone must have played her, because no one could really be like that.

I used to blame liars like you for the dismantling of civility and culture, but I have learned, that you could never be as powerful or carry as much prestige unless the public permitted you to do so. As much angst and anger as you provoke I am more worried about those who insist on listening to your fabrications and fables. I am worried that because of their inadequacies my American life is on a very fragile string, ready to snap. You are good at seizing the moment, especially when there are monetary rewards in that capture.

So, you are making the rounds yet again. Your ego, fed by FOX News, members of the 700 Club and lemmings paid off by the Koch Brothers, is difficult to contain. I am curious Mrs. Palin do you have a conscience? Do you ever wonder what really might happen to this nation if you are elected? Do you even care?

Like a canker sore, on the edge of a lip, all shiny red with patches of puss emulating from the center, you once again reappear…ugly and painful indeed!