Time to Say Good Riddance to Sarah Palin  By K.C. Dermody | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Tue, Dec 13, 2011
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COMMENTARY| Is Sarah Palin's time in the spotlight finally over? We've had to hear about the former governor of Alaska's political gaffes and personal family dramas for what seemed like forever, but that may finally be coming to an end as we see 2011 come to a close.
Fortunately for the citizens of our nation, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Palin chose the media over politics, and most recently she's been shopping her new reality television show, a series that is said to focus on her husband Todd and his career as a championship snowmobile racer, instead of the 47-year-old beauty queen herself.
Unfortunately for the Palins, both TLC owner Discovery Communications and A&E Networks, who fought over her previous reality series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," has decided to pass. Her first show is said to have garnered about a million an episode, and the asking price for a show featuring Mr. Palin may have been a bit steep.
Could the fact that the public is tired of the focus that was put on the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate?
Now that the Alaska native is no longer considering a run for the presidency, she seems to have quickly faded from the headlines, and I say, it's about time.
Palin did provide a lot of fodder for entertainment. The endless scandals that she was a part of were hilariously funny at times, though they were also a bit scary when connected to the thought of her possibly attempting to run our country the same way that she seemed to run her family.
Thank goodness she was only able to pull the wool over the eyes of a small part of the population. Palin is a strong supporter of abstinence, and the year she discovered her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant was the same year in which, according to the Washington Post , she used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
In the ultimate hypocrisy, as reported by the Huffington Post, Bristol went on to earn over $260,000 as an advocate against teen pregnancy, though she herself did not believe in the abstinence that she was promoting. Ironically, another Palin child, Track, got his girlfriend pregnant and the pair had a shot-gun wedding in May. Track became the father of yet another Palin grandbaby in early August.
The last straw may have been when the biography of the life and career of Palin was released, alleging that she had used cocaine and had an affair with the husband of her husband's business partner.
Yes, I say it's time to say "good riddance" to the former politician who should probably consider herself lucky to have stretched her 15 minutes of fame for as long as she did. |
