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The mean girl analogy is spot on. And those of us with teen-aged daughters who are close to that mean girl mentality, saw it in Palin the night of her so called feisty speech at the RNC, and saw it in her puffed up responses to “Charlie” Gibson.
And Talbot has brought us further into the loop.
I felt bullied as I watched her on my TV delivering her snarky debut speech. Thank god I didn’t confront her in the school cafeteria; I’m certain she’d have tipped my tray, leaving my lunch spewed on the floor. For sure I’d make her Burn Book like so many of the "guys" she used to hang with.
But popular girls, especially when they’re the mean girls, are hard to turn down. They are seductive. Everyone wants to be close to them; girls and boys.
And like powerful junior high cliques, the Republicans feed Sarah Palin, egg her on, pandering to her sex, trying to convince us that this mean girl is a powerful woman who deserves to be a presidential running-mate, and possibly, the President of the United States of America.
I think this is some kind of nasty set up from the wanna’ be popular boy who’s running for President.
