Ding Dong, the Witch is…Hung

I never thought I’d stick up for Sarah Palin, but that day has finally come.  Don’t you think hanging an effigy of Sarah Palin is beyond the pail?  Someone in West Hollywood doesn’t.  This idiot, who shall remain nameless, thought it would be great fun to dangle a mannequin dressed and made up to look like Sarah Palin from a noose that descends from his chimney.  He is a professional window dresser by trade, so he has lots of experience and accessories for the display, but apparently zero taste.  Even worse, he’s cowardly hiding behind the cloak of Halloween claims – “it’s all fair, anything goes when Halloween is at hand.”  Dang.  Even Tina Fey doesn’t stab that hard.

We all know what an effigy of Barack Obama in a noose would incite among the natives.  Isn’t it just the teensiest tacky to do the same thing to the opposition?  Not to mention disrespectful?  I know I’ve trashed Sarah Palin for her politics and ignorance, but I don’t wish her ill, nor do I wish she would die. 

This isn’t a literal interpretation on my part.  Do you think the racists who lynched and hung blacks in the early 1900s wanted their victims dead?  You bet.  Do you think those in vehement opposition to Sarah Palin want her dead?  Maybe.  Those who truly hate Sarah Palin and her ilk find other Republicans often to be guilty by association based upon their political affiliation alone.  To wit: look what’s happening to John McCain right now.  He can’t gain an electoral vote to save his life because people now associate him so thoroughly with the failed principles of W.’s politics.  Sarah Palin is a Republican, so she must be a total loser, because George W. Bush is also a Republican – and he’s a dismal failure as a President. 

I would rather shoot myself in the foot than trumpet the positives of Sarah Palin.  However, hanging an effigy is the next best thing to the real crime.  Ergo, I assume this West Hollywood denizen wants Sarah Palin dead, or at least banished to Siberia so that she can finally claim for real she knows about foreign relations.  She may be controversial and obnoxious, but she doesn’t deserve to be hanged in effigy.  She is an American who is entitled to her freedoms, and not be forced to sit at the opposite end of the lunch counter in political quarantine.