Homer Welcoming Committee

I just got finished watching Sarah Palin having a conversation in her hometown of Homer, Alaska, with a woman named Kathleen Gustafson. Gustafson and her friend Billy Martin decorated the top of a fishing dock with a 30-foot banner that read WORST GOVERNOR EVER. Ms. Palin, who was in Homer shooting footage for her television show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, stupidly confronted Ms. Gustafson about the banner. Big mistake, as the short but very telling video reveals. Kathleen Gustafson is a perfect example of the no-bull Alaskan type that Palin has no doubt referred to in her speeches. Gustafson calmly and bluntly states her grievance with Palin: that she abandoned Alaska for fame and fortune. Todd Palin and a security person try to block Billy Martin’s coverage but are unsuccessful. Sarah Palin knows that she is on camera and does her best to make believe that this is a cheerful chat, a teaching moment for Gustafson, herself a teacher. To watch this is to see how completely full of it Sarah Palin is. Her discomfort level is eclipsed only by her inability to give a credible answer to a direct question. It’s Couric all over again, but even more real-time, you betcha. Sarah Palin is not ready for prime time, small time, or any other time. What a joke. The great state of Alaska wasted a lot of time and money on this one.

Apparently, Palin’s people took the banner down after the minor dust-up. So much for the First Amendment of the Constitution, the very thing that Sarah Palin is out to protect from any who would endanger it. Ah, if she would only read it. Throughout the mini-confrontation that inconvenienced Ms. Palin and company’s alternate universe, Kathleen Gustafson was civil and polite. She’s an Alaskan I can believe in.

Watch this comedy spot if you get a chance. I am sure this one is going to go worldwide at least an hour ago. Keep it up Ms. Palin, it’s getting better and betterer!