Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: “Sit down and shut up”, but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and “go with the flow”.

Nah, only dead fish “go with the flow”.

No. Productive, fulfilled people determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time… to BUILD UP.

Typically Palin: a colorful, folksy, nature-oriented metaphor that’s completely nonsensical once you examine it, and to the extent it contains any substance it’s astoundingly self-regarding: screw the state, this isn’t working for me. (As you’d expect from someone who thinks it’s okay to shoot animals from planes.) But just to make it explicit, it’s quite obviously not true that only dead fish go with the flow. How do those Alaskan salmon reach the ocean to begin with?

As David Kurtz says, “Quitters stick to it. Winners quit.”

So long, Sarah, it was fun while it lasted! Maybe you thought you were being a tease by quitting right in the middle; maybe you figured we’d be left panting for more. But in fact we’ve begun to catch onto your fast-and-loose manner with the facts and the law, and only the truly Low-Information Voters are still tuning into Desperate Governors. If you manage to make it out of this year without a jail term you’ve still got a shot at the Christist vote, which might be enough to get you elected on the Alaskan Independence Party ticket. But you’ve just ended any hope of national elective office. Not that you had a realistic one anyway, so nothing really lost.

Posted by Chuck Dupree at July 04, 2009 07:21 AM

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