Am I the only one concerned that lately that Sarah Palin has gotten into all of our collective heads -- including my own?
The latest news is that the McCain campaign has announced that their moose mom, or whatever they're calling her now, won't cooperate with a state investigation up in Alaska about whether she abused her power in firing a state official for not firing the State Trooper who was her former brother-in-law.
All Palin has managed to do is steal the national spotlight since the announcement of her being McCain's running mate. Love or hate her politics, her image or her persona, she's a lightning rod.
Seriously, had anyone even seen Joe Biden -- remember him, Barack Obama's running mate? -- until recently?
But the Democrats have one person who can publicly neutralize Palin by going toe-to-toe with her, in words. That someone is equally dynamic, far more in touch with what mainstream women want, dwarfs Palin in intellectual capacity and political experience, got 18 million people to vote for her in her presidential campaign and has the credibility with both genders to bury her once and for all.
So I must ask:
WHERE THE HELL IS HILLARY CLINTON?
Where's the fire she showed in busting Barack Obama when she competed against him?
Can we get more out of her in her rallies for Obama than the uninspired mantra, "No McCain, no Palin, no more of the same"?
Obama and his staffers have become so annoyed by Palin the irritant and are so shocked that she's actually developing a cult following that Obama -- like many of us -- are spending far too much time on her.
That's where Hillary must now come in, take one for the team and run interference for her party's candidate. Why can't Hillary let loose some of those sharp barbs against Palin and tell the country she's not the right woman for the job?
Why can't she shout from the mountain that while plenty of other women are mothers, shop at Wal-Mart, support their children and balance their careers and family lives, that that's where the similarities stop?
Why can't Hillary communicate with some conviction that while having a woman as president or vice president is long overdue, that the country would be making a grave mistake by installing someone as utterly unqualified as Palin.
Dammit, Hillary, get off the bench!
Get in the game and expose Sarah Palin for what she is -- as much of a cynical, token pick now by John McCain as Clarence Thomas was more than a decade ago by George H.W. Bush. And both are anethemas to the aspirations and sentiments of the majority of the people to whom they belong.
When Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign and announced she would throw all of her support behind Barack Obama, I wanted to believe her. When she praised him at the Democratic National Convention, I thought she was sincere.
But why now do I get the sneaking suspicion that Hillary's not getting in Palin's face not so much because she doesn't want to get medieval on another female politician, but because maybe deep down she believes Palin might actually drag McCain into the White House by his lapels, buoyed the wave of faux protest votes?
Maybe Hillary's saving some bullets for 2012 to fire at Palin in another presidential run.
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