Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Dangerous Airhead ~ Sarah Palin

I've been trying to ignore Sarah Palin's recent antics, but an article at Huffington Post last week drew me out of attempted Palin-blockage:Why Sarah Palin Is Not Only an Airhead But a Dangerous One by Mona Gable.

Airhead is a good description of Ms Palin, who has 5 personal planets in Air sign Aquarius. Here's her natal chart with a birthtime recommended by astrologer Chris Brennan at The Political Astrology Blog.






In past posts about Sarah Palin I used a different, and probably inaccurate, birth time. The one used now one could still be an inexact time and rounded-up, as Mr. Brennan points out, but perhaps nearer to the truth. (I suspect she has Leo rising, which would put her birth around half an hour earlier than 6pm.) Looking again at her chart, I notice that natal Venus is at 1* Aries, the point where transiting Uranus (modern ruler of the sign containing her cluster of personal planets: Aquarius) is due to arrive in around a year's time. I'll watch for any news of change for her then, or during the several months before and after.

This woman, in my opinion, gives Aquarius a very bad name! I checked back on the dozen posts of mine where she was mentioned and see that on one occasion I looked at her chart along with that of Dick Cheney, another rogue Aquarius Sun who seems far more Saturnian than Uranian: "Un-Aquarian?" was posted on 4 September 2008. Other posts mentioning Sarah Palin can be accessed from the sidebar Label Cloud. Reading all of these on a full stomach is not recommended!

Some of us suspected that Sarah Palin would simply ride off into the sunset and fade from view - or at worst be offered a job presenting some FOX TV show, which we could easily avoid. Wrong. Ms Palin has other fish to fry and her recent efforts to inflame right-wing masses have become impossible to ignore. Here's a snip from the article linked above:

After the landmark health care vote on Sunday, Palin promptly posted a map of the U.S. targeting vulnerable Democratic members of Congress. To highlight their districts, she didn't use something all Alaska and folksy like a smiley face or a grizzly bear. No, she marked them with rifle cross-hairs. But I guess she didn't think the message was explicit enough. So she exhorted her gun-loving followers with this: "Don't Retreat--Reload." Cute.

This week we've seen that words like these have terrifying consequences. In an interview with The National Review John Boehner suggested that Steve Driehaus, a freshman Democrat from Cincinnati, would be a "dead man" if he voted for health care. Driehaus did, and now his family has received death threats. New York Democrat Louise Slaughter received a message saying snipers were going to kill the children of all those who'd voted for health care. Imagine walking outside your house one morning to find a coffin there. That happened to Missouri Democrat Ross Carnahan.

Republican leaders have yet to firmly denounce these threats. I guess they're afraid of looking wimpy or weak and want to keep their jobs. It's no wonder Palin feels emboldened to demean Obama and attack Democrats with no regard for the consequences. It's clear she doesn't care, that she's willing to say anything. Let's not forget: this is the college dropout who couldn't even tell Kate Couric what newspapers she reads. So it's not like she has a regard for language or facts.

With thousands of angry followers on Facebook and Twitter, Palin might no longer hold office, but she's still holding court. And that combined with her almost gleeful ignorance makes her dangerous. It's time to call Palin out and hold her accountable.
Bear in mind there's an anniversary coming up soon to remind us all of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh on 19 April 1995 - an atrocity fuelled by right-wing hatred. Ms Palin would do well to remember that when you light a fire, sparks caught in a backdraft could easily ignite designer garments and burn their wearer badly.

To the beginning of this quote I'd add the word "Inciting"....

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."(Isaac Asimov)

8 comments:

Anon said...

She **is** dangerous, this kind of individual would do anything to be on top, to make people spek of them but their big misfortuue is that their real capacity does not fit their disasterful ambitions...

And so they attack but fundamentally they have nothing to say, nohing of good to bring...

She neither is a true conservative, she only tries to surf the wave at any cost as she did for Tea Party movement...

Shawn Carson said...

sarah was born just 7 days after i was and i have often wondered how my life might be different if i were born under that crazy new moon conj mars and saturn like she was. i would say that her ego is completely identified with this bizarre conservative movement and we should not be surprised to see this combination result in violence and mayhem.
i think she has nothing of substance to offer, but merely acts as a mouthpiece for the lunatic fringe. if it weren't for this small but noisy faction she would get no attention in the political realm.

Twilight said...

Anon ~~ I agree. John McCain has a lot to answer for in bringing her into the spotlight as his running mate at the last election.
He showed a serious lack of judgement!

Twilight said...

Shawn Carson ~~~ Hmmm yes - that was a narrow escape for you ;-)

Her Sun/Mars/Saturn could be key, I reckon. Apart from that, an overdose of emphasis on one sign is an iffy proposition in my opinion. Some people can handle it - Garth Brooks for instance, some can't.

R J Adams said...

My lack of respect for most things American stems from the ability of people like Palin to gain power in this country. Can you imagine it happening in the UK, or France?

'Airhead', to me, simply describes the space between her ears.

Twilight said...

RJ Adams ~ No, I can't imagine it happening in the UK - they'd just laugh at her ! (Can't really say about France, though I suspect they have more taste than to let such a thing happen).

Vanilla Rose said...

I disagree with the vast majority of her views, but in an odd way she has helped my creativity. I am planning to write a novel where the heroines represent a change from bland male politicians in suits, but where their policies are completely un-Palin.

Twilight said...

Vanilla Rose ~~~ Good theme!
What immediately sprang to mind as I read your comment was a UK TV drama about a supermarket manager (female) who ended up as Prime Minister....was it called "Mrs. Pritchard".....googled that - no "The Amazing Mrs Pritchard".
I loved it, we saw the DVDs.