Sarah Palin is Hardly Mother of the Year
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by Jeffrey Berger
Responding to a domestic violence report last week, police officers arrested a 26-year old suspect for punching his girlfriend in the face and brandishing a firearm while intoxicated. Is this your typical crime blotter from Any Town USA? Not this time! The alleged offender was Track Palin, oldest son of Sarah Palin.
Whether Son of Sarah ends up in lockup, or receives a slap on his affluenza, is beside the point. Where was Mama “Pit Bull with Lipstick” one day later? Was she arranging bail to spring her son from jail? Retaining legal counsel or family counsel?
On Tuesday, the former half-term governor of Alaska had flown to Ames, Iowa, to stump for Trump. Her signature voice screeching of chalk on blackboard, the family values mom betrayed no hint of the family mess back home.
Not until Wednesday, during a campaign stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, did she finally speak of the elephant in the room:
“That starts from the top. It’s a shame that our military personnel even have to wonder, if they have to question, if they’re respected anymore. It starts from the top,” she insisted.
Indeed! Accountability starts from the top, but was the POTUS deserving her riposte? Did PTSD derail her hapless Track, or perhaps some pre-existing condition long ignored? Let’s take a Tripp (no pun intended) down Memory Lane:
December 6, 2005 — Four teens stopped at a liquor store and stole a bottle of vodka before vandalizing 44 school buses. Although courts do not release the names of juvenile offenders, one of the four teens is believed to be Track Palin.
September 11, 2007 — Son of Sarah enlists in the U.S. Army (presumably to ‘straighten up and fly right’). In the year Track Palin deployed to Iraq, his CIC was President George W. Bush.
September 2, 2008 — On the same day John McCain named Sarah Palin as his VP running mate, tabloids broke this news: Teenage daughter Bristol was pregnant.
September 6, 2014 — Let us recall the infamous Palin Family Brawl starring Papa Todd, Mama Grizzly, bristling Bristol, and punch-drunk Track.
June 27, 2015 — After earning $262,500 as teen pregnancy ambassador for the Candie Foundation (an abstinence awareness charity), Bristol announced her second pregnancy — again out of wedlock.
No doubt, tabloid journalism opens windows on the private lives of famous people but rarely explores for more hidden clues. Are Palin family values behind closed doors the same as they appear in public?
Ask any mental health professional. Patterns of underage drinking, teen pregnancy, and trouble with the law are signs and symptoms of disconsolate teens — and of self-absorbed parents who are inattentive to their needs. Here is the portrait of a distressed family repeatedly mired in controversy and drama.
Of course, Mamma Grizzly does what grizzlies always do: Shift blame. Accuse. Demonize. Play the victim card. And avoid mirrors. Blame the POTUS for the elephant in the room, but never admit responsibility.
If Sarah Palin has achieved anything in life, she has raised denial and self-affirming victimhood to a fine art, and her firebrand populism resonates among millions of like-minded followers. Nevertheless, lawyers and mental health professionals will readily admit: Negligent parents are good for business.
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Now this one I agree with 100%! Well done Mr. Berger and like Paul says hope to see more of your work. First class.
This is marvelous. You didn’t miss a beat here Jeffrey. I hope to see more of your work.
I don’t hate a lot of people, as a matter of fact, I can’t think of but one person and that is Sarah Palin. I despise her and know that’s unreasonable as I don’t really know her. One of the many reasons is because of what you pointed our Michael. She’s a hypocrite who claims she is America’s model parent. She’s far from it.
In response the original post on FaceBook, one commenter said: “If she is this bad can you imagine the followers?”
There is a natural tendency among people to gravitate along cultural, language, ethnic, and religious lines.
The same can be said of politics. In this influential essay, “The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of like-Minded People is Tearing Us Apart,” Bill Bishop explores the phenomenon of “self-segregation” and the tendency of people to choose neighborhoods more compatible with their lifestyles and political beliefs — and the impact of those choices on voting demographics.
Similarly, psychiatrist James Masterson explores the same phenomenon from a psychological perspective in this book: “The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of our Time.” He observes the tendency of people to make personal choices based on emotional needs. In one chapter, Masterson describes a cocktail party attended by seemingly random people, and the propensity of disturbed persons to socialize with equally disturbed persons as if some invisible force attracted them.
“If she is this bad can you imagine the followers?” My reply is: Yes! Absolutely! Right on, Bro. The relationship between Mamma Grizzly and her followers is one of mutual validation.
“Mutual validation.” Perfect.
Kudos to you. Your article was articulate and well framed. Like Mr. Schweitzer I would like to read more of your work.
Nailed it (her), metaphorically speaking, of course.
LOL. Of course 🙂
Could be that the only difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun can be just a slight twitch of the trigger finger, but that “starts from the top” meme or rather that lie is in regular use these days. When those sailors were detained in Iranian waters, I was told the “national humiliation” started at the top because Obama is so weak as if he ordered them to put their hands up. That kind of sedition starts from the bottom
There are lots of bad parents in the world, in many ways and for many reasons, but there aren’t many neurotic braggarts, liars and idiots on the scale of Sarah Palin. Did anyone notice the “drill baby drill” slogan in her outburst? In the middle of a devastating oil oversupply and price collapse that’s crashing the markets and killing thousands of jobs? Sure Sarah, why not?
Bad parent? Most likely. Danger to the civilized world if she ever achieves power on a national level? YOU BETCHA!
She is a first class loon who managed to make America look incredibly stupid, as well as John McCain who should have had better sense than to pick such an idiot as his running mate. Her parenting skills are in the minus category and all one has to do is look at Track and Bristol, both hypocrites of the highest order.