TheLastManInAmerica

Why do we, as Americans, tend to worship people who deserve nothing more than our derision. Celebrities like Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie and Jesus Christ  do nothing for their fame yet are ubiquitous in American culture. It’s a sad thing, really that so many are so unhappy with their own lives that they must absorb another person’s world into their own to make them feel better.

I see now that Sarah Palin is becoming one of these caricatures of the American Culture. The Republican Governor’s meeting in Miami this week was less about a political party attempting to pull itself back from the brink of extinction than it was about her and I’m confused as to why that is.  Aside from her ultra-conservative views that have made her a star with zealots, she has become a star with the major media for her every faux pas, for the train wreck she is. She is not famous for being a great, or even qualified, politician. She is famous for being, with good reason, an unknown governor who was the desperate and ill-advised vice presidential pick of John McCain.

You might say, “But she is Governor of Alaska, she must have some qualifications.” I hate to be the one to break it to you, son but Alaska is a nose hair away from electing a convicted felon to the senate so her ascendancy to the highest office in the state means less to me than the voting for the Cy Young Award (at least that’s based on stats). She is famous, like so many others, for no good reason, other than they give us something to talk about. For that I thank her, but I’d rather have nothing to talk about than a world with Sarah Palin and Paris Hilton.

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