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| Sarah Palin hands out autographed copies of the Constitution. Hoping that somebody will explain it to her. |
Sarah Palin’s bus is plastered with a mockup of the U.S. Constitution. But her entourage — both the three-vehicle motorcade that includes the bus and the smaller, two-SUV version she uses for smaller events — hasn’t been very respectful of the traffic laws.
They speed. They run red lights and stop signs. They make last-second lane changes to get off the highway, sometimes without signaling.
So do the reporters following them.
Journalists in the caravan trailing her One Nation tour bus describe the experience as harrowing, a rolling menace careening up the East Coast in hot pursuit of the former Alaska governor who declined to provide any advance itinerary of her tour over six days on the road.
As they left the clambake she attended Thursday in New Hampshire, Palin’s two-SUV caravan did 52 miles per hour in a 35 zone as it peeled away from the hosts’ neighborhood. Both cars blew through a stop sign about a mile later. They did 70 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-95 — and then, after they got off, without signaling, flew right past a flashing sign informing them they were going 45 mph in a 35 mph zone.
And that was after they’d already stormed the major cities — and just missed driving through a tornado on the road into Boston.
On Tuesday, the bus nearly hit a biker turning off of Pine Street in Philadelphia
You know I am not sure ANY other coverage of this bus tour does a better job of illustrating what a Palin Presidency would look like.
We have already seen that it would be dangerously anti-intellectual, but as this story demonstrates it would also undoubtedly ignore the existing laws that are in place to contain its power and do whatever the hell it wanted, just like Palin did as Mayor of Wasilla. Or have everybody forgotten this quote: 'I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'"
I know that Palin likes to argue that all of those ethics complaints filed against her while she was Governor were frivolous, and perhaps one or two fit that category, but the majority of them were in response to some rather serious ethical lapses, and they became the ONLY way to hold our Governor accountable for her actions since she never responded to good advice nor common sense.
This is why I NEVER take the teabaggers seriously. They say they want their leaders to adhere to the Constitution and follow the rule of law, and yet they support candidates who have demonstrated nothing but disdain for the rules, and who do not even appear to have a rudimentary understanding of what the Founding Fathers envisioned for this country.
The next time that Sarah Palin tries to hand a copy of the Constitution to an American citizen I hope they ask her if she could explain to them ANYTHING specific about what it says, and watch her stumble to provide an answer that is not just some version of the word salad that she dishes up every time anybody puts her on the spot.
The woman is virtually unteachable, and simply has NO respect for any rules or laws that do not let her do what she wants to do. And that is NOT somebody that you allow to gain power, that is somebody you walk to the park in a child safety harness so that they do not run out into traffic.
Of course for Palin it might need to come with a gag, since in her case the mouth is her most dangerous orifice.
