News of Sarah Palin's abrupt resignation has the blogosphere all a-twitter (probably Twitter as well, though I haven't checked there). Some crazy revelations about her have come out in the past few days, and chances are good that there's something major still to come. I have to admit, the most telling detail for me was this quote from her interview in Runners World magazine:
"I used to joke around with John McCain during the campaign about coming jogging with me. And once I asked him what his favorite exercise was, and he said, 'I go wading.' Wading. He lives on a creek in Arizona, so he goes wading. That cracked me up."
I've read some on the right have convinced themselves that people like me hate Sarah Palin because she's hot and has a big family, and we're ugly, barren, miserable feminists who can't stand the sight of a womanly woman. Well, no. The paragraph above explains why I hate her. She is making fun of the 72 year old disabled war hero who gave her the biggest break of her career. Now that he's no longer of use to her, she feels free to mock his disability in a national interview.
I don't hate her for the compulsive lying, the incompetence, for being a parody of herself. On the contrary, she was a gift to the left last fall and somehow she's still giving. I don't even hate her for taking pride in being ignorant. If I hated everyone who did that, I'd be so busy hating I'd have no time for anything else. I hate her for the nastiness. The spite. She is a mean girl.
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