Sarah Palin Do You Consider Her A Borderline Baby Boomer

Sarah Palin Borderline Baby Boomer???
By Guest Writer, Columnist and Author, Carol Stanley

According to some time charts Sarah Palin is at the tail end of being a Baby Boomer.

She doesn’t look like a Baby Boomer! She doesn’t act like a Baby Boomer! She doesn’t talk like a Baby Boomer. What do you think?

All of us in the Baby Boomer age range are dealing with many of the same challenges and issues. All of these challenges really start to percolate at about the age of fifty.

• Where did I put my keys?

• My waist grew an inch and I gained five pounds from eating nothing.

• The kids will be moving out soon?

• Should I start a new business?

• Should we sell our home?

• Lets check out our investments to be sure they are safe.

• Do we have enough money to live a very long time?

I would venture to say that Sarah is not looking for her keys, though she does drive her own car to work. She is probably pretty organized and her keys are more than likely in the same designated place. She appears to be in great shape and very trim. She is out jogging at all hours of the night, especially in summer where it stays light for many hours.

Retirement is a word that is obviously not part of her vocabulary. She, like many Baby Boomers is thinking about going in a new direction. However her direction is not moving to smaller quarters. Her proposed VP mansion in DC will be large enough to keep her family from running into each other.

Often when retiring, people move to warmer climate, or to be with their grown kids. Well, the climate will be warmer than Alaska and could actually be quite hot. And her kids are already with her.

I guess you might say that running for Vice President of the United States could be classified as a career change.

Her kids will be around for a long time, so the empty nest syndrome will not apply. In fact there will be at least one kid around for about eighteen years. There is also the issue of grown kids returning to the nest, and sometimes upon their return, bring a little bundle of joy. That possibility lurks in her future. When does she have time to make lunches for her school age kids? Perhaps the older ones do the mundane tasks for the younger ones.

Not a Pretty Picture…Only Jackie “O” could make this look work.

It seems a miracle that anyone can govern a state, be a wife and mother, exercise, go
to PTA meetings and find a little time for sleep. I assume she cooks her own dinners, since she fired the cook. Or do you think they fast food it pretty often?

Did she mention her views on birth control? She advocates abstinence…however, it did not work to well with her oldest daughter. We all know kids have a mind of their own and will do what suits them even if Mom is Governor of Alaska. Maybe if she had become Vice president before her daughter got pregnant she may have had second thoughts

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Thank you for that insightful article, Carol.
For those of you who would like to read more of Carol Stanley’s words, hop on over to her site.

I had a friend who asked why hadn’t I written anything about Sarah Palin. I replied “because I have nothing to say good about her…I simply do not like her or what she stands for.”

Gechzzzzzz, I don’t even consider her a Baby Boomer! But I did make Jenny the oldest Gorilla in captivity an Honorary Baby Boomer the other day! Unfortunately, “she” died Thursday. Jenny was a great Gorilla. She liked people and never ate a baby. Never wanted pipe lines for gas, lain in her home state and was a vegetarian.

More than I can say for Sarah Palin, who is just another good ole’ boy, that wears skirts, a French twist and glasses.

What say you Baby Boomers? Jenny the Gorilla or Sarah Palin? Who is the true Baby Boomer?

~The Baby Boomer Queen~

Other BBAC posts that coincide with this article:
Oldest Zoo Gorilla, Jenny, Euthanized at Dallas Zoo, Age 55