When I first heard of Sarah Palin I was living in Oaxaca, Mexico. The area in which I was living had dirt roads, roosters that would cock-a-doodle-do at the wrong hour of the night, and a few small tents that were local “convenient stores.” The internet connection I had wasn’t that great either, you could only use so much bandwidth a week and once you reached that limit, the internet would not work. Usually, after I opened a few e-mails and checked facebook a few times I was pretty much done with the internet for the week.

Being in that situation I didn’t have much time to watch Sarah Palin talk about lip stick or being a hockey mom. And, I didn’t get to see all the buzz that surrounded the McCain campaign because of her, but I did hear a lot about her “skimpy resume.” And have continually heard about it among other things.

Whether or not it was justified, you be the judge.

What I don’t think is right, however, is all the personal attacks she has had to take since her initial bid at becoming the vice-president of the United States. I agree ̶ as some of you may, she probably wasn’t ready to become the VP of the USA. But it is dispiriting that the personal attacks have been so strong that they prevented her from doing her job as Alaska governor.

According the the Tulsa World, “Palin said her administration has been paralyzed by fending off frivolous lawsuits.” She has been attacked like a hacker immobilizes a computer server. The hacker or group of hackers will plan an attack by mobilizing others and computer software, discerning the target, discuss attack approaches, and then begin an onslaught of overloading a computer server. The individual or group will make so many request to the computer server that it just can’t keep up and causes the server to shut down.

It is kind of like seeing 3 or 4 kids at the store with one parent. The kids will say things likes this…”can I have this?” “can I have that?” “oooh, I want that, daddy please, oh please, I promise I’ll clean my room!” We all know what happens, after so long the parent gives in because it is too much to handle at one time.

This is exactly what has happened to her and her administration. I did several Google searches on Sarah Palin and got the following results:

Sarah Palin- 25,000,000 results
Palin daughter- 4,110,000 results
Palin family- 18,000,000 results
Palin lawsuits- 1,520,000 results

And compare that to the google search for Tulsa, Ok:

Tulsa, Ok- 9,350,000 results

Sarah Palin has been overloaded by requests and maybe it is the best thing for her to press the political reset button and let life restart. By her doing this it will allow those who are only attacking her for personal reasons to be seen for what they really are.