Update: Read “Conservative Confession: I Manipulated Voting on Dancing With the Stars by Voting“
I tried several times to write this with reason and focus but that hasn’t worked, so you get what follows instead. Let me be honest, Bristol Palin on Dancing With the Stars annoys me, I don’t have many good reasons why, it just does.
It is hard enough defending Sarah Palin to myself. Her great strength was being a well loved Governor with resolve. She quit. OK. She is a non-Washington inside who is a bona fide conservative who doesn’t owe anyone. Ignore her political payback endorsements of RINO’s. She is what this country needs! She will probably get to a clear platform later… right?
It is hard enough selling her to myself because in the end I can only explain it in these terms, she is a great looking, interesting candidate who tells me what I want to hear in broad terms but ignores specifics and uses keywords attractive to my ideology. The problem? I just described Barack Obama. Cue Glenn Beck chalk board – I will not be a Palinbot, I will not be an Obamabot.
So take what I just said and add that it is hard enough selling her to everyone else. The media have turned a few bad interviews into an onslaught on her intellect and her sanity. Her family and associations haven’t helped that.
I get it, Bristol was the one hit the hardest. Mom made the national stage preaching conservative values, Bristol had an unwed pregnancy and it too went national. It sucks for her. Then the dad went batty and is running around grubbing like a vole on steroids. It stinks.
The reality though is plain to see. Her now frequent attempts to court fame open her up to that ridicule. Back in 2008 it was unwarranted, now it is invited and the price we as a society make people pay for trying to achieve fame and fortune. The tabloids have been given a welcome mat and like it or not this will reflect upon her mom.
Bristol and her family are free to do what they wish. I don’t begrudge her making money or reaching for a spotlight but it isn’t the path I would walk. It also doesn’t help her mom or the argument that this wholesome family is a model for America. There is an enormous amount to lose, not so much to gain besides a few dollars and time in the spotlight.
Maybe I am a grouch. Actually let me restate, I know I am a grouch but maybe on this I am just being so for the sake of it. All I know is that the moment I first heard the idea I thought it was terrible. When I heard it was happening I cringed. I might not have a solid logical foundation for it, but that is how I feel.
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