The Palin Video – What People Are Missing

So Sarah Palin’s been in the news.

And what distinguishes this from any other week in the past 2 years?!

Well this week it’s epic youtube video footage! A video of her confronting an Alaskan who’s created a banner making fun of the former Governor. Hubbub has been generated. First, you’ve gotta watch this thing. If it is nothing else, it is entertaining…

The lion’s share of chatter about these moving pictures is over the look that Palin gives her daughter (the hooded female who notes that Alaska’s loss of her mother has now become America’s gain) after she learns the angsty woman’s profession. Admittedly, not a tremendous moment for Palin. If the look is meant to express something to the effect of, ‘Teacher’s unions are usually super liberal and I’m not surprised a member of one wouldn’t care for me…’ then that’s pretty legit. Unfortunately, not the best way to express it… on moving pictures… on the interwebs. Though it does appear this particularly filming experience was somewhat unconventional – note the strange dance that Todd Palin and the large looking bald gentleman undertake in an apparent effort to discourage the camera operator.

I actually think the more damaging moment is earlier in the video. The teacher’s beef is that Palin resigned as governor before her term expired… that she quit on Alaska. Palin attempts to blunt the woman’s attack by saying she is now free to fight. Then she notes this fighting is so other Conservatives can get elected to public office. Then this chain events will lead to our constitution being protected and our military being maintained to promote freedom o’er the globe.

Whahawahawaha?! On the one hand she dismisses the importance of holding her public office, but her reasoning for doing so is to elect others to public offices? And then we somehow make a leap towards the protection of our constitution and our troops overseas?! This is just not a logical or good bit of reasoning on the gov’s part.

To be fair!… It’s very possible this woman with the sign in the cold is also a super liberal who ideologically is predisposed to dislike the Alaskan who has become the rallying point for the Tea Parties. The motive for this is probably deeper than just the quitting. But this is the most obvious line of attack that any Republican opponent would have against Palin in a potential 2012 primary.

If an angry voter in Alaska can reduce Palin to this startlingly weak response on her biggest vulnerability, what could Mitt Romney do in a debate in New Hampshire?