Sarah-haters, Obama-bucks, and the Alaskan bloggers.

There are a number of prevalent conservative memes that keep being utilized by the Sarah supporters to explain why the Alaska bloggers (and not just the "progressives" either) are so anti-Sarah.

One is that we are afraid of her because she is "authentic". To this I have to ask WTF? There is NOTHING authentic about Sarah Palin. From her fake Fargo accent on the McCain campaign trail, to her promises of transparency which she confuses with covering up, this woman is the absolute definition of "inauthentic". (Is that a word? Well spell check did not kick it to the curb so it must be.)

And we are not "afraid" of her because she is "authentic". We are afraid of her because she is an imbecile and she is in charge of our state. It is the same way I would feel if I was in the backseat of a car being driven by a drunken blind man. Outside of the car, no problem, inside of the car, HUGE problem.

The second meme is the one that says we hate her because she is "pretty". For one thing I am a guy, I LOVE the pretty. But I could care less if my governor was attractive or not, I want somebody who can do the damn job! It is not that I want to screw her, I just don't want her to screw me.

And as for my female blogger pals? Well they are powerful, confident women who are much too secure to be getting all "junior high school" over somebody just because she is the "pretty one". And besides, take it from me, some of my progressive female friends are MUCH prettier than Sarah could ever hope to be. Both on the outside, and on the inside where it really counts.

And none of us really "hate" her. We despise her lies, we cringe at how she represents us to the world, and we are frustrated by her lack of competence, but we don't hate her. If anything we pity her, and everybody who still supports her. I often wonder if they do not occupy some parallel universe where up is down, and wrong is right, and Sarah Palin is not a train wreck.

The third meme is the one that says we are being paid by the Obama administration. This one has been around since September when there was all of this talk about Obama operatives up here making trouble for the Republicans and trying to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin.

Nope. Never happened. I asked.

I literally ran into only ONE person who was on the Obama payroll. Everybody else I met was a volunteer, and they were local, with the exception of the guy who came to town to set up the Obama campaign headquarters.

However we did learn of a few Republican operatives up here, just to give you an idea of who was REALLY being underhanded and duplicitous. Karl Rove operative Tim Griffin anyone?

And as for the rumor that the Alaskan bloggers have been financed by the Obama administration, or any other progressive group, I just have to say WHERE IS MY CHECK? I have been blogging my fingers to the bone and have not been paid one red cent. Now is that fair?

But here is the thing, NONE of us have been paid. I know. I asked.

These people are my friends, I am sure they would cut me in if they had worked out some deal for a payday. Besides everybody that I know works a full time job, or a bunch of part time gigs, to pay the rent and buy bandwidth.

So I guess that leaves us with the question of why do we do this?

Because somebody has to. Somebody has to point out the lies, the manipulations, and the mistakes to minimize the damage they could do to our fellow Alaskans, and to the rest of the country.

Why are we the ones? Hell I don't know. I guess because we were the ones who could not stay quiet about it any longer. Believe me, some days ALL of us wish somebody else was doing this instead. But we also recognize that even if they were we would still have to be involved somehow.

After all this is our home, if we don't care enough to protect it than how can we expect others to protect it in our place?