The Persecution of Sarah Palin

[serum114]

The Persecution of Sarah Palin
by Thomas Frank

Maybe in their business lives, conservatives are the stern, unforgiving masters of capitalist lore. But when it comes to politics, oh, do they love a whiner!

It is her mastery of the lament that explained former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's appeal last year, and now her knack for self-pity is on full display in her book, "Going Rogue." This is the memoir as prolonged, keening wail, larded with petty vindictiveness. With an impressive attention to detail, Ms. Palin settles every score, answers every criticism; locates a scapegoat for every foul-up, and fastens an insult on every critic, down to the last obscure Palin-doubter back in Alaska.

From Ms. Palin's masterwork, we learn that the personal really is the political. Every encounter with a critic seems to be a skirmish in the culture wars, from the Alaska debate moderator who didn't play fair once to the "wealthy, effete young chap" who ran against her for governor but who, in one of the quickest transitions from anti-snob to snob in all of literature, is also said to have served as "our limo driver at [her husband] Todd's cousin's wedding."

We read about the mean things people have said about Ms. Palin's daughter Bristol, Ms. Palin's suspicions that the neighbors of the Alaska governor's mansion disapproved of her kids' toys, her assurance that she lived a spartan life as governor, "despite what some critics would later accuse me of doing." There's the nonscandal she calls "Troopergate," which is virtually impossible to follow in this telling, except for the insults Ms. Palin directs at one of the men who was (apparently) on the other side of the issue, whatever it was.

In other circumstances, Ms. Palin seems like a woman of grit. When she discovers that her fifth child is going to be born with Down syndrome, she is initially upset, but then writes a letter in God's voice-incidentally, one of the book's creepiest moments-instructing the rest of the family to "accept that I [i.e., the Almighty] only want the best for you. . . ."

But the mean things people say and do during her vice presidential run-these are not to be taken in the same spirit. These are to be recalled and deplored, one by one, as if from a master list Ms. Palin has been keeping all this time. She reminds us that someone hacked her email, that she got a prank phone call, and that she once saw someone wearing an insulting T-shirt in Philadelphia.

She claims that what ruined her famous interview with wily CBS News personality Katie Couric was the latter's "condescension," which caused Ms. Palin to bungle questions like the one in which she was asked to name her favorite newspaper. And she introduces us to Steve Schmidt, the Republican campaign strategist who is the book's No. 1 bad guy-almost alone among the book's characters, he is always referred to by his last name-and who, as Ms. Palin tells it, once implied to an aide that "if there were any more leaks critical of anybody in the handling of Sarah Palin, then a lot more negative stuff would be said about Sarah Palin."

And, lo and behold, there is. Much more. All of it neatly catalogued, bemoaned, and for sale.

But amid all this score-settling, Ms. Palin wanders into some predictable traps. When explaining her political philosophy, for example, she tells readers that "conservatism is a respect for history and tradition"; on the very next page she instructs readers to accept the creative-destructive whirl of the market, which affects society the way "wildfires in Alaska burn away deadfall to make way for new growth."

So much for tradition. The respect she shows history, though, is the kind of respect you show the flag when you soak it in kerosene and touch a match to it. "[W]e tried growing government to save the economy back in the 1930s, and it didn't work then either," Ms. Palin writes. It is a modest assertion, though, compared to the astonishing finding Ms. Palin reveals in the next sentence: "Massive government spending programs and protectionist economic policies actually helped turn a recession into the Great Depression." If this is, as it seems, a reference to the New Deal, then history, per Ms. Palin, sometimes goes backwards, with the WPA and its ilk actually bringing about events that took place before they were launched.

But Ms. Palin's life is meant to be an inspiration. Maybe I should follow her example. The opinion-page equivalent of the Palinesque style is easy enough to imagine: I would use this space to recite the indignities the world forced on me over the course of the week-an effete-looking young person ignored me the other day-plus glimpses of heartland authenticity-I sure do like pot roast-before concluding, darkly, that the reason I suffer is because I am such a sterling American.


I can't wait to get started.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704782304574542051447849052.html

[BlackAsCoal]

:lmao2:

Wow

Sarah Palin .. an "inspiration"

America is a stupid country .. and Sarah Palin is the proof.

[Brian-W]

:lmao2:

Wow

Sarah Palin .. an "inspiration"

America is a stupid country .. and Sarah Palin is the proof.


Sad Sad Sad......but oh so true.

[MintJulep]

The Sarah Palin Redemption.

She is making the rounds and exposing the leftard media for what it is.

Long overdue.

[Brian-W]

The Sarah Palin Redemption.

She is making the rounds and exposing the leftard media for what it is.

Long overdue.

:lmao2: :lmao2: :lmao2:

[Moby]

She is making the rounds and exposing the leftard media for what it is.
You mean when they pointed out that Palin was making up a bunch of lies in her book? Terrible leftard media pointing out the facts. :banghead:

[MintJulep]

You mean when they pointed out that Palin was making up a bunch of lies in her book? Terrible leftard media pointing out the facts. :banghead:No, the truth is coming out. Just keep watching. You're going to see a surge in support for her after this book tour. Wait for it.

[Socialist_Revolution]

No, the truth is coming out. Just keep watching. You're going to see a surge in support for her after this book tour. Wait for it.
what are you smoking minty cause I want some of that shit!:lmao2: There MIGHT be a surge but it will come from with in her base and /or the base of the FAR FAR right...moderates and most other Americans cant stand her and think of her as an annoyance and nothing more.

[MintJulep]

what are you smoking minty cause I want some of that shit!:lmao2: There MIGHT be a surge but it will come from with in her base and /or the base of the FAR FAR right...moderates and most other Americans cant stand her and think of her as an annoyance and nothing more.No, only the far left loons "can't stand her" because they are mortified of her and what she stands for. That is more than obvious.

[Socialist_Revolution]

No, only the far left loons "can't stand her" because they are mortified of her and what she stands for. That is more than obvious.
You mean far left loons like McCain and his staffers who call some of her claims in her new book false and lies....those far left loons?:thumbsup:

[MintJulep]

You mean far left loons like McCain and his staffers who call some of her claims in her new book false and lies....those far left loons?:thumbsup:Nope. You know who I mean. The Palin Deranged crew who are still obsessing over her, a YEAR later. :lmao2:

[Socialist_Revolution]

Nope. You know who I mean. The Palin Deranged crew who are still obsessing over her, a YEAR later. :lmao2:
nope i dont know who you mean cause the majority of people I talk to could care less about her and dont obbess including my republican conservative mother in law who admitted she could not stand her from day one and did not vote for pres this last time around cause she didnt like Obama and refused to vote for McCain BECAUSE OF Palin....IN FACT she almost did vote for Obama because of Palin and her nonsense bringing down the McCain camp but didnt because she couldnt see the bright side in either McCain Palin OR Obama Biden

[kres24GT]

When you are a dumb bitch you should just keep your mouth shut, otherwise people will attack you.

[Brian-W]

No, the truth is coming out. Just keep watching. You're going to see a surge in support for her after this book tour. Wait for it.

You sound like a 9/11 truther.

We've all just mistakenly believed that Sarah Palin was a quack up until now.

THIS book is going to bring out the truth.......just you wait. :lmao2:

[MintJulep]

nope i dont know who you mean cause the majority of people I talk to could care less about her and dont obbess including my republican conservative mother in law who admitted she could not stand her from day one and did not vote for pres this last time around cause she didnt like Obama and refused to vote for McCain BECAUSE OF Palin....IN FACT she almost did vote for Obama because of Palin and her nonsense bringing down the McCain camp but didnt because she couldnt see the bright side in either McCain Palin OR Obama BidenMcCain was just a poor candidate. Palin actually breathed life back into his campaign.

[Brian-W]

No, only the far left loons "can't stand her" because they are mortified of her and what she stands for. That is more than obvious.

You're right I am afraid of her.

She scares the shit out of me, because she upholds narrow mindedness as a virtue.

I'm sure your friends over at Stormfront are all drooling over her.

[Socialist_Revolution]

McCain was just a poor candidate. Palin actually breathed life back into his campaign.
so thats the reason Obama killed the crap out of McCain on election night because Palin breathed life back into things...I got ya!:thumbsup: And here I thought it was because people got tired of hearing the same bullshit rhetoric about Bill Ayers this and Obama palls with terrorist that when people wanted to know how the candidates were gonna fix this country..damn my bad on that one.


btw didnt McCain want her to dial down her outrageous rhetoric for fear it was hurting his chances?

[Moby]

No, the truth is coming out. Just keep watching. You're going to see a surge in support for her after this book tour. Wait for it.
Of course there will be but what does that have to do with the fact that she's lying about many, many issues?

[Brian-W]

McCain was just a poor candidate. Palin actually breathed life back into his campaign.

So Palin is Dr Frankenstein? Good description.

[MintJulep]

Of course there will be but what does that have to do with the fact that she's lying about many, many issues?There is no "fact", only hearsay.

[Moby]

There is no "fact", only hearsay.
The lies are now printed in a book. I haven't purchased a copy but I might go verify what the AP has already claimed as lies.

[Binky]

No, only the far left loons "can't stand her" because they are mortified of her and what she stands for. That is more than obvious.


You know, she's actually a breath of fresh air. Look at all the assholes that are thrown at us to vote for. Every four years, here we go again. The assholes keep rollin' in for America to bend over and vote for them. They don't give it a second thought to lie their way into office and then, tell bigger and better ones, once they get in. They get the perks and we take it in the backside....

I'm really tired of all the demopublican bullpucky....those parties should've been busted up eons ago......

[The_Limit]

You know, she's actually a breath of fresh air. Look at all the assholes that are thrown at us to vote for. Every four years, here we go again. The assholes keep rollin' in for America to bend over and vote for them. They don't give it a second thought to lie their way into office and then, tell bigger and better ones, once they get in. They get the perks and we take it in the backside....

I'm really tired of all the demopublican bullpucky....those parties should've been busted up eons ago......

She is an idiot.

[doctordog]

She is an idiot.

no worse than the idiot we have in DC now.

[slowhand]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d91brDnt7A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d91brDnt7A)

[foxbaron]

Sure is amazing how much Palin worries you guys.

If she is so inconsequential then why do you guys keep ranting about her?

Keep on trashing her and trying to ruin her reputation and popularity boys and all you are gonna do is make her even that much more popular.

Then again maybe its just that democrats don't know how to act around a pretty woman, considering your women are so damn ugly.

Our women are hotter than yours! Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah.

[Brian-W]

Then again maybe its just that democrats don't know how to act around a pretty woman, considering your women are so damn ugly.

Our women are hotter than yours! Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah.

LAME.........

[MintJulep]

Of course there will be but what does that have to do with the fact that she's lying about many, many issues?More "gotcha" games from the LMSM. The latest of which to be outed is the AP, who have 11 reporters "fact-checking" Palin's book, but never fact-checked Obama's, Biden's or Kennedy's. The partisan hack agendas don't get more blatant than this, but at least, it's being exposed.

"Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin's book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.

The attraction to Palin doesn't appear to be partisan, since AP didn't fact-check recent political tomes by Republicans Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich.
The AP, however, regularly writes "fact checks" for major political speeches, such as a September health care speech by President Obama.

Doug Underwood, a University of Washington journalism professor who covered Washington politics in the late 1970s for Gannett, said Palin brings some negative attention on herself with a history of bad interviews and misstatements. In addition, the press cannot ever be perfectly consistent or fair, he said.

Still, the media treated Biden and Palin differently, he said.

Biden's book "Promises to Keep" became an instant best-seller when he was chosen to be Obama's running mate, but was not fact-checked by the AP and only received passing interest. In a story last year on Biden's Vietnam War draft deferments due to asthma, the reporter notes Biden didn't mention the malady in his book.

Palin is not the standard presidential possibility for 2012, Underwood said.
"She's a figure who's a politician, but also a part of popular culture," he said.
Palin supporters believe 11 reporters poring over every word of her book is excessive- and further proof of the media's obsession and maltreatment of the hockey mom from Wasilla.

"They're obsessed with trying to discredit her," said Adrienne Ross, New York state organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee. "Because she's a conservative woman, they make fun of her accent, comment about her looks. She doesn't come in the package they want her to come in."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/17/ap-turns-heads-devoting-reporters-palin-book-fact-check/

[Mason66]

:lmao2:

Wow

Sarah Palin .. an "inspiration"

America is a stupid country .. and Sarah Palin is the proof.

What does this woman have in her past that she has to cover up or explain away?

I mean does she have radical friends?

I agree America is a stupid country for voting for the ultimate criminal Clinton, I was shocked the day he was elected, and now Obama.

A mans past is important.

[foxbaron]

What does this woman have in her past that she has to cover up or explain away?

I mean does she have radical friends?

I agree America is a stupid country for voting for the ultimate criminal Clinton, I was shocked the day he was elected, and now Obama.

A mans past is important.


Evidently a man's past as well as his current associates doesn't matter to the majority of Americans that were dumb enough to vote for Obama. Character doesn't seem to mean much to people anymore. Therefore if you accept shit you get shit.

[Mason66]

Evidently a man's past as well as his current associates doesn't matter to the majority of Americans that were dumb enough to vote for Obama. Character doesn't seem to mean much to people anymore. Therefore if you accept shit you get shit.

Unfortunately character doesn't mean anything anymore, so we get what we get.

[MintJulep]

:lmao2:

Wow

Sarah Palin .. an "inspiration"

America is a stupid country .. and Sarah Palin is the proof.America is a country filled with stupid, lazy people stricken with the terminal "gimmes" and Obama is proof positive.

Dumb people willing to trade their freedom for shackles under the guise of "free shit".

[Mason66]

America is a country filled with stupid, lazy people stricken with the terminal "gimmes" and Obama is proof positive.

Dumb people willing to trade their freedom for shackles under the guise of "free shit".

That is true. That explains Obama but what about Clinton?

Even after people knew about his illegal dealings and his sex drive, he won.

He was many things but he was not Presidential.

I was actually shocked that day of the election when Clinton won.

[xav8terx]

Sure is amazing how much Palin worries you guys.

If she is so inconsequential then why do you guys keep ranting about her?

Keep on trashing her and trying to ruin her reputation and popularity boys and all you are gonna do is make her even that much more popular.

Then again maybe its just that democrats don't know how to act around a pretty woman, considering your women are so damn ugly.

Our women are hotter than yours! Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah.


See that is all she is to you fools. She is pretty...but an empty shell. The left doesnt fear her and they dont keep bringing her up. She is like VD...she wont fuckin go away. You dont put your kids out there, say you dont like spending then support that bridge, use your power to fire people who you disagree with, leave a state in shambles, quit your job because the heat is coming down on you, ask (on national tv no less) what the fuckin VP does without someone calling your dumb ass out for it. And to top it off...that fuckin attention whore wrote a fuckin "look at me the victim" book...hey minty, doesnt that make her pathetic ass a victocrat or whatever word you stole?? :lmao2: :lmao2:

But...you fucks like Mancoulter so there you go.

[xav8terx]

You know, she's actually a breath of fresh air. Look at all the assholes that are thrown at us to vote for. Every four years, here we go again. The assholes keep rollin' in for America to bend over and vote for them. They don't give it a second thought to lie their way into office and then, tell bigger and better ones, once they get in. They get the perks and we take it in the backside....

I'm really tired of all the demopublican bullpucky....those parties should've been busted up eons ago......


Ok, i'm confused? You think more of the same...which palin is...is a breath of fresh air???

[xav8terx]

Evidently a man's past as well as his current associates doesn't matter to the majority of Americans that were dumb enough to vote for Obama. Character doesn't seem to mean much to people anymore. Therefore if you accept shit you get shit.


No kidding, you people elected Bush twice. :talktothehand:

[Binky]

Ok, i'm confused? You think more of the same...which palin is...is a breath of fresh air???


Compared to those previously aligned for us to vote on, yeah, a breath of fresh air. Real.... Down to earth. All that goes with it. Mistakes and all even. Go figure. But it didn't surprise me a bit that you'd only pick up on that one itty bitty sentence. It is the reason I threw it out there, just to see how long it would take for someone to pounce on it, or how many.....:lmao2: Thanks for proving my suspicions correct, since it didnt' take long indeed....:lmao2:

[bairdi]

America is a country filled with stupid, lazy people stricken with the terminal "gimmes" and Obama is proof positive.

Dumb people willing to trade their freedom for shackles under the guise of "free shit".
Exactly what freedoms have you lost or traded under Obama?

[The_Limit]

Palin has a label that will haunt her in her political life, she is stupid and vindictive.

What an awesome combination for a female trying to make it in the national political arena.

No one takes her seriosuly. She is a brand name, the media is only interested because of her stupidity, and her awkward style of playing the victim 24/7.

Its never, ever her fault. It was McCain, or McCain's aides, or the media, or Levi, or the trooper, or the ethics investigator, or Katie Couric, or Charlie Gibson.

Its never, never, never her fault.

She's being kept down by the man, don't cha know?

[The_Limit]

On another point, whats with the "The left is afraid of Sarah Palin" meme.

All the various righty media mouth pieces were spouting the same pathetic weak ass crap, so of course we had our own flying monkeys try to flog that shit here.

Every lefty I know, to a person, is practically begging for the GOP to nominate her in 2012 - because they think it would be paramount to an easy re-election bid for President Obama.

[xav8terx]

Compared to those previously aligned for us to vote on, yeah, a breath of fresh air. Real.... Down to earth. All that goes with it. Mistakes and all even. Go figure. But it didn't surprise me a bit that you'd only pick up on that one itty bitty sentence. It is the reason I threw it out there, just to see how long it would take for someone to pounce on it, or how many.....:lmao2: Thanks for proving my suspicions correct, since it didnt' take long indeed....:lmao2:

I only stopped on that sentence because the rest of it just pointed out how ridiculous that one statement was. You do realize who we're talking about don’t you? :)

[Moby]

Real.... Down to earth. All that goes with it. Mistakes and all even. Go figure.
Left town in financial disaster.
Left state in financial disaster.
Blamed everyone else for her mistakes.
Lied about many issues.
She's a tax cheat.
She used her authority for vindictive purposes.

The down to earth is acting. The mistakes and the results are real.

[Moby]

Palin has a label that will haunt her in her political life, she is stupid and vindictive.
I don't think she's stupid but certainly no more than average intelligence based on her knowledge of politics and educational background.

[The_Limit]

I don't think she's stupid but certainly no more than average intelligence based on her knowledge of politics and educational background.

No, she is stupid.

When asked for an opinion regarding Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, her response was was so fantastically stupid.

She said, even after acknowledging Israel was building on Palestinian land, ""I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead."

I mean, is that a serious response?

What kind of logic is that, what kind of reasoning is that? That because country x is "growing" that country x should be allowed to build on country y's land?

She is a first grade moron, an idiot of monstrous proportions.

And you know what makes her comments even more stupid? Palestinian population density is much, much worse than Israel. So by her bizarre logic, Palestinians should be allowed to build on Israeli land because the Palestinian population is growing much faster than Israel's.

Ever since she made that ridiculous, ignorant comment about fruit fly research the book was closed on her.

She is an idiot.

[Binky]

I only stopped on that sentence because the rest of it just pointed out how ridiculous that one statement was. You do realize who we're talking about don’t you? :)


Here, I'm reaching my hand out so you can slap it.....There, now, feel better? :taunt:

[Binky]

Left town in financial disaster.
Left state in financial disaster.
Blamed everyone else for her mistakes.
Lied about many issues.
She's a tax cheat.
She used her authority for vindictive purposes.

The down to earth is acting. The mistakes and the results are real.


Hmmm, believe whatever you choose to as you always do......

[Binky]

She is an idiot.


Yeah well, the world is full of 'em.....

[Binky]

She is an idiot.


Aren't you from Canada? Yep, I think you are. If so. Shut the hell up and critize your own politicians.... Tend to your own problems.

[Binky]

Unfortunately character doesn't mean anything anymore, so we get what we get.


Yeah. You're known by the company you keep. Look at who he kept company with....That pretty much says it all.....

[Binky]

No, she is stupid.

When asked for an opinion regarding Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, her response was was so fantastically stupid.

She said, even after acknowledging Israel was building on Palestinian land, ""I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead."

I mean, is that a serious response?

What kind of logic is that, what kind of reasoning is that? That because country x is "growing" that country x should be allowed to build on country y's land?

She is a first grade moron, an idiot of monstrous proportions.

And you know what makes her comments even more stupid? Palestinian population density is much, much worse than Israel. So by her bizarre logic, Palestinians should be allowed to build on Israeli land because the Palestinian population is growing much faster than Israel's.

Ever since she made that ridiculous, ignorant comment about fruit fly research the book was closed on her.

She is an idiot.


I just don't think she was used to that sort of limelight, even tho' she was the gov. of Alaska. Running for VP was a whole different ball game.

Anyway, the fact of the matter is that people wanted change....Well, their getting it now. And the change ain't lookin' good.

[Mason66]

I just don't think she was used to that sort of limelight, even tho' she was the gov. of Alaska. Running for VP was a whole different ball game.

Anyway, the fact of the matter is that people wanted change....Well, their getting it now. And the change ain't lookin' good.

I don't think the people in the rest of the US understand what it is like to live in Alaska.

It takes a very strong person to survive there.

There is no time for bullshit, all the time is used in survival.

That makes for a very strong person.

I don't see where people get that she is stupid or weak. I haven't seen any interview that she wasn't herself. No airs or lying. Can you say that about any other politician?

I mean hell, every time Obama opens his mouth, he lies. I understand they are not his words but he says them anyway.

Palin has integrity and she lives her life that way, whereas most poliicians, especially on the demopcratic side, don't.

I don't see her as president because she would never get anything done with the attacks she will provoke but she does have a place in politics if for nothing else to keep our hope alive for finding a politician for president with integrity again.

[Mason66]

Yeah. You're known by the company you keep. Look at who he kept company with....That pretty much says it all.....

The voters didn't seem to care.

I wouldn't have Obama as a friend. He seems extremely false as a person.

He says what he needs to at the time to get what he wants.

He will do anything with anybody to get ahead.

Worse yet he doesn't know anything but won't admit it.

I don't associate with people like that. That is my choice.

If I can't trust the person I don't have them in my life.

[The_Limit]

I don't see where people get that she is stupid or weak.


Are you serious? I mean, are you really serious?

You don't get why she is "seen" as stupid.

Even in her softball interview with Hannity she responds with answers that DO NOT make any sense whatsoever. It only highlights her ignorance and stupidity.

Take note how she handled this question about Iran from getting nuclear weapons...

"We have allies who are as concerned about Ahmadinejad's actions as we are," she said. "Cutting off the imports into Iraq, of their refined petroleum products. They're reliant ... on those imports. We have some control over there. And some of the beneficial international monetary deals that Iraq benefits from, we can start implementing some sanctions there and start really shaking things up and telling Ahmadinejad, nobody is going to stand for this."

-Sarah Palin

What in the hell is she talking about? I mean really, what the hell is she is talking about, besides making it very clear she is confusing Iran and Iraq?

This has nothing to do with Obama, McCain or anyone else.

She is an IDIOT because she is an idiot, it has nothing to do with the media, democrats, me, you or anyone else anywhere commenting on Sarah Palin.

Her own words sink her everytime because she says things that are beyond stupid, incomprehensible and outright ignorant.

George W Bush looks like a literary genius compared to her.

[xav8terx]

Here, I'm reaching my hand out so you can slap it.....There, now, feel better? :taunt:

A little bit, thank you. :p :)

[serum114]

I don't think the people in the rest of the US understand what it is like to live in Alaska.
I think they have houses, electricity and all that it's not as if they live in igloos. Maybe since she lives in Alaska she can't understand the rest of the US?


It takes a very strong person to survive there.

There is no time for bullshit, all the time is used in survival.

That makes for a very strong person.

Wow! I think baby's are born there everyday. A little melodramatic don't you think? How could anyone govern there if survival was the only thing on the agenda for the day.


I don't see where people get that she is stupid or weak. I haven't seen any interview that she wasn't herself. No airs or lying. Can you say that about any other politician?

I mean hell, every time Obama opens his mouth, he lies. I understand they are not his words but he says them anyway.

Palin has integrity and she lives her life that way, whereas most poliicians, especially on the demopcratic side, don't.

I don't see her as president because she would never get anything done with the attacks she will provoke but she does have a place in politics if for nothing else to keep our hope alive for finding a politician for president with integrity again.
:lmao2: :lmao2:

[Bill Cosby]

I think they have houses, electricity and all that it's not as if they live in igloos. Maybe since she lives in Alaska she can't understand the rest of the US?




Wow! I think baby's are born there everyday. A little melodramatic don't you think? How could anyone govern there if survival was the only thing on the agenda for the day.


STOP!!!!

I know you feel their pain........LMAO

It gets cold there... http://www.mindspring.com/~alutiiq/pix/ak/anchorage-sunset-apr003.jpg& those ppl are practically Canadians- UCK!!!:melodramatic:

The ppl in the south Bronx certainly feel sorry for them..http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mg7D3kYysfw/Rrl4foMAEtI/AAAAAAAADCk/DciRfv6wC98/s400/Slum_South_Bronx_3_small.jpg

Appalachia feelin yea to..http://huggabears.org/shop/images/CS_appalachia.jpg

[Binky]

A little bit, thank you. :p :)


:lmao2: :lmao2:

[Binky]

STOP!!!!

I know you feel their pain........LMAO

It gets cold there... http://www.mindspring.com/~alutiiq/pix/ak/anchorage-sunset-apr003.jpg& those ppl are practically Canadians- UCK!!!:melodramatic:

The ppl in the south Bronx certainly feel sorry for them..http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mg7D3kYysfw/Rrl4foMAEtI/AAAAAAAADCk/DciRfv6wC98/s400/Slum_South_Bronx_3_small.jpg

Appalachia feelin yea to..http://huggabears.org/shop/images/CS_appalachia.jpg


There you go tryin' to act like a funny man. ROTFLMAO!!!!!

[bairdi]

Angry supporters boo Palin for leaving in the middle of her book signing: ‘Quittin’ on the job!’

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in Indiana yesterday for a book-signing at a Borders store. One thousand lucky fans with wristbands to meet Palin stood in the rain all day waiting for her to arrive. However, Palin quit the event before she had the chance to sign all the books, leaving 100 supporters out in the cold:

“I’m very disappointed. I think it was very rude. She could have at least apologized, and she didn’t even do that,” said Teresa Hedrick. [...]

“We bought two books from Borders to have our receipt and our wristband to get it signed tonight,” said one woman. “My books are going back to Borders tomorrow.”

“We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,” said one man. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.“

People who didn’t get to meet Palin “went home only with a piece of paper with Palin’s signature.” Video from the event shows angry wristband-holders loudly booing Palin and yelling, “Sign our books!” and “Quittin’ on the job!” Watch it:

A8mAZhOJIfI

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/20/palin-angry-book/

[serum114]

STOP!!!!

I know you feel their pain........LMAO

It gets cold there... http://www.mindspring.com/~alutiiq/pix/ak/anchorage-sunset-apr003.jpg& those ppl are practically Canadians- UCK!!!:melodramatic:

The ppl in the south Bronx certainly feel sorry for them..http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mg7D3kYysfw/Rrl4foMAEtI/AAAAAAAADCk/DciRfv6wC98/s400/Slum_South_Bronx_3_small.jpg

Appalachia feelin yea to..http://huggabears.org/shop/images/CS_appalachia.jpg

Just being able to see Russia from Alaska is enough to make your blood boil, so that might cancel out the poor weather conditions in the winter.

[MintJulep]

Are you serious? I mean, are you really serious?

You don't get why she is "seen" as stupid.

Even in her softball interview with Hannity she responds with answers that DO NOT make any sense whatsoever. It only highlights her ignorance and stupidity.

Take note how she handled this question about Iran from getting nuclear weapons...

"We have allies who are as concerned about Ahmadinejad's actions as we are," she said. "Cutting off the imports into Iraq, of their refined petroleum products. They're reliant ... on those imports. We have some control over there. And some of the beneficial international monetary deals that Iraq benefits from, we can start implementing some sanctions there and start really shaking things up and telling Ahmadinejad, nobody is going to stand for this."

-Sarah Palin

What in the hell is she talking about? I mean really, what the hell is she is talking about, besides making it very clear she is confusing Iran and Iraq?

This has nothing to do with Obama, McCain or anyone else.

She is an IDIOT because she is an idiot, it has nothing to do with the media, democrats, me, you or anyone else anywhere commenting on Sarah Palin.

Her own words sink her everytime because she says things that are beyond stupid, incomprehensible and outright ignorant.

George W Bush looks like a literary genius compared to her. She is more qualified for the job than Obama. Her mere presence makes moonbats meltdown within a 10k mile radius.

Sarah is a rock star and liberal kryptonite.

[Brian-W]

Palin has a label that will haunt her in her political life, she is stupid and vindictive.

What an awesome combination for a female trying to make it in the national political arena.

No one takes her seriosuly. She is a brand name, the media is only interested because of her stupidity, and her awkward style of playing the victim 24/7.

Its never, ever her fault. It was McCain, or McCain's aides, or the media, or Levi, or the trooper, or the ethics investigator, or Katie Couric, or Charlie Gibson.

Its never, never, never her fault.

She's being kept down by the man, don't cha know?

The sad thing is, that many people DO take her seriously.Especially here in the south. They love her anti-intellectual attitude and look at being a ditz as some sort of virtue. And when she plays the Jesus card, they all just swoon over her.

I think Jon Stewart nailed her down perfectly. She's nothing but a conservative mad-lib....a talking point machine.

She's all fluff and no substance....a perfect conservative.

[Brian-W]

I don't think the people in the rest of the US understand what it is like to live in Alaska.

It takes a very strong person to survive there.



Ah Bullshit. This isn't 1849. Alaska is part of the modern world. They have the same shit up there that we do in the lower 48.

I guess all that methamphetamine they cook up there is the 21'st century alternative to whale blubber. :banghead:

I've lived in Alaska, and other than the snow. Alaska is not much different than Alabama.....which pretty much says it all.

[lucytalk]

she has done more to destroy the gop party then anyone else i know (rush hannity etc may tie for second)

as long as you actually don't vote her in. sit back, enjoy the show. laugh a little.

[Brian-W]

she has done more to destroy the gop party then anyone else i know (rush hannity etc may tie for second)

as long as you actually don't vote her in. sit back, enjoy the show. laugh a little.

Never underestimate the power of ignorance though Lucy.

In a way, she has helped to strengthen part of the republican base. The jesus freaks all love her like Salvation.

Look at how Minty swoons over her. You would think she was the Savior incarnate.

[lucytalk]

Never underestimate the power of ignorance though Lucy.

In a way, she has helped to strengthen part of the republican base. The jesus freaks all love her like Salvation.

Look at how Minty swoons over her. You would think she was the Savior incarnate.


never underestimate sarah

but ignorance is what 30 percent of your population, max ?

i agree she has strengthen the republican part of the base but she also fractured the gop party. there is now a mounting conservative base side as well. they may turn out to be the sane ones.

i dunno ~ sarah is ripping the base apart imo. for sure she is doing more harm then good.

[MintJulep]

Publicity tour turns fresh page on ‘Palin Power’

"Should anybody have doubts about what a potent political force Mrs Palin is — and what a formidable candidate she would pose if she chose to run in the next Republican presidential primary — attending this inaugural book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, would dispel them.

The book tour is an open slap to liberal America. It ignores big cities, concentrating on smaller ones, towns and some nearby military bases, in a series of swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida and Iowa — the site of the first nominating contest in the next presidential primary.

Joe Verran, wearing a “Sarah Palin for President” T-shirt and a “Palin Power” baseball cap, replied: “You betcha,” when asked if he would like to see her in the White House. “She’s real. She is exactly what the American dream is all about. She has a son in the military. Everything about her life is what so many people in the world come to America to achieve.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00647/palin_son_647577a.jpg

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6923334.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6923334.ece)

[MintJulep]

never underestimate sarah

but ignorance is what 30 percent of your population, max ?

i agree she has strengthen the republican part of the base but she also fractured the gop party. there is now a mounting conservative base side as well. they may turn out to be the sane ones.

i dunno ~ sarah is ripping the base apart imo. for sure she is doing more harm then good.They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan. And we all know how that turned out. :lmao2:

Her approval ratings have jumped to 51%, btw.

[serum114]

St. Sarah of Wasilla
by David Benjamin

Sarah Palin's latest buzz accompanies the publication of her campaign memoir, Going Rogue. But the book is a ghost-written collaboration, making it a poor measure of the singular marvel that is Sarah Palin. To better get the drift of this woman's weird, wonderful career, I go back to her star-spangled, lightning-bolt Fourth-of-July resignation as governess of Alaska.

Within minutes of that shocker, talking heads everywhere struggled to make sense of Palin's rambling series of excuses, rationalizations, platitudes, dares and non sequiturs. Every last analyst staggered away, mystified.

But Palin's followers - without exception - understood, intuitively and completely. They rejoiced in the inspiration of what she had said, as well as what she hadn't said and what she was incapable of saying.

Even they, however, did not know what she meant. No one did, nor will anyone ever really grasp her meaning that day. And that's the point. In the Zen universe of Sarah Palin, meaning is the most meaningless thing of all!

Anyone who has tried to fathom the Palin phenomenon is eventually surprised that she bothers to speak at all. But she loves talking, to the delight of her fans and to the utter befuddlement of anyone who regards languge as a serious medium of communication.

Words are not Sarah Palin's currency, nor would she command her immense army of ardent followers if she had a "way with words." When asked about "issues," Palin either recites an irrelevant aspect of her biography (looking across the Bering Strait at Vladimir Putin, covering high school hockey games for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman), or she rattles off a mind-numbing series of talking points, seemingly memorized off a laminated card handed to her by Grover Norquist.

Asked about any domestic problem - education, unemployment, breast cancer, etc. - she invariably advocates cutting taxes. Given problems of a more metaphysical nature, she will come around to invoking Jesus.

Respond to her that even Jesus approved of taxes - "unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" - and she will answer with only a smile that says, "You're trying to trap me with words again, but I can't he-e-ear you."

She's pro-life, she says. But the only branch of government that she and her followers approve is the military, which is in the business of killing. Is this not a profound contradiction, an ethical dilemma that merits reflection and moral anguish?

Nah. It's words. Just words. To hell with words.

Conservatives claim Sarah as one of them. She tolerates the linkage. But she's not, really, if you figure that modern conservatism proceeds in a historical line from Adam Smith and Edmund Burke to Ayn Rand, William F. Buckley, Irving Kristol, George Will and smarty-pants guys like that. Conservatism has always been stirred by intellectual ferment and lively discourse, bestowing on its current adherents traditions, policies, positions, unsettled arguments and great books. Conservatism has a literature.

But Sarah Palin doesn't read - at least not snooty stuff like "literature." None of her people read - except for Scripture. Reading, after all, is just a lot of words.

Sometimes, Palin comes off as a sort of lumpen-populist, metaphorically defending the trailer-park gates against an army of tree-huggers and bleeding-hearts who want to break up the annual all-Alaska spotted owl and dolphin roast. But her style, her clothes, her hair, her lack of butchness - these are not populist. They're petty bourgeois. She wears makeup even when she's dressed in waders.

When Going Rogue came out, her ex-friends in the McCain campaign called Palin a liar. On MSNBC, Keith Olbermann went to considerable pains to cite passages in her book that were contradicted either by facts or by past statements Palin had made herself.

Olbermann missed the point. There are no lies in Sarah's book; nor in her life, nor in her heart. Utterances that seem untrue are not lies, because Sarah believes them true. If she says one thing, then later forgets what she said and says the opposite, Sarah Palin is neither lying nor mistaken, nor forgetful, because at each moment, she believes what she has said. And a minute later, she will believe something else, if she says it. Whatever she says, if she says it, will be true. But if it's not, so what? It's words, only words.

Sooner or later, words fail everyone. This goes double for Sarah and her faithful. Sarah Palin is the voice - and the embodiment - of the inarticulate.

When Sarah Palin says something that doesn't seem to make sense to most of us, her people - the tongue-tied and frustrated - understand perfectly, because that's exactly what they would have said, if only they could.

What Olbermann and the word-obsessed, meaning-seeking media cannot grasp is that Sarah Palin is not someone you believe. She is someone you believe in.

She is not a politician. She is a prophet.

She is the earthly incarnation of an ideal beyond earthly comprehension that only those who believe in her believe in, although it's beyond their comprehension. Like all prophets, she is the answer to questions her followers are incapable of expressing. She is what they are, and she is what they would be if they weren't what they are.

Watch Sarah Palin with the audio turned off. You will sense what her followers feel. In her ill-controlled face, there is sheer amazement at being so high for so little reason. There is defiance of all those equally amazed. And there is a smugness in the assurance that there ain't nobody gonna knock her down and she never has to explain how she ever got there.

As if she could.

In her gestures and in her gaze, one feels the spirit of another people's prophet, equally indifferent to coherent speech, equally disdained by the literate and the elite, but equally beloved of the insulted and injured. His motto was: "I am what I am."

His name, as any real American knows, was Popeye.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/21-1

[lucytalk]

They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan. And we all know how that turned out. :lmao2:

Her approval ratings have jumped to 51%, btw.

yes we do know how ronnie turned out

51 percent is good

[Boogie man]

The republican party needs to be ripped apart. The last election proves it. There are a lot of conservatives who are becoming active instead of relying on the elite to make our decisions. I'm not a republican, but I vote for republicans who are conservative. Sarah Palin is real and doesn't play the game and that is why she is popular.

[Brian-W]

Publicity tour turns fresh page on ‘Palin Power’

"Should anybody have doubts about what a potent political force Mrs Palin is — and what a formidable candidate she would pose if she chose to run in the next Republican presidential primary — attending this inaugural book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, would dispel them.

The book tour is an open slap to liberal America. It ignores big cities, concentrating on smaller ones, towns and some nearby military bases, in a series of swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida and Iowa — the site of the first nominating contest in the next presidential primary.

Joe Verran, wearing a “Sarah Palin for President” T-shirt and a “Palin Power” baseball cap, replied: “You betcha,” when asked if he would like to see her in the White House. “She’s real. She is exactly what the American dream is all about. She has a son in the military. Everything about her life is what so many people in the world come to America to achieve.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00647/palin_son_647577a.jpg

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6923334.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6923334.ece)

Just to break your talking points into laymans terms...... she gets a better reception when she's playing to the uneducated.

[Brian-W]

They said the same thing about Ronald Reagan. And we all know how that turned out. :lmao2:

Her approval ratings have jumped to 51%, btw.

yes we do know, he turned us into a debtor nation, destroyed the middle class and made all his cronies rich.

But Conservatives still have some sick man crush on him that borders on worship.

[Binky]

The republican party needs to be ripped apart. The last election proves it. There are a lot of conservatives who are becoming active instead of relying on the elite to make our decisions. I'm not a republican, but I vote for republicans who are conservative. Sarah Palin is real and doesn't play the game and that is why she is popular.


Personally, I think both major parties should be dismantled. They stand for power and corruption. America is coming apart at the seams and here we have two huge parties that do nothing but speil, speil, speil as many lies as they can dream up in order to get their candidate elected. So much for "truth in advertising," so to speak...... Kick backs, kick backs and kick backs. It's all part of the game of corruption.......

[Mr, gone]

St. Sarah of Wasilla
by David Benjamin

Sarah Palin's latest buzz accompanies the publication of her campaign memoir, Going Rogue. But the book is a ghost-written collaboration, making it a poor measure of the singular marvel that is Sarah Palin. To better get the drift of this woman's weird, wonderful career, I go back to her star-spangled, lightning-bolt Fourth-of-July resignation as governess of Alaska.

Within minutes of that shocker, talking heads everywhere struggled to make sense of Palin's rambling series of excuses, rationalizations, platitudes, dares and non sequiturs. Every last analyst staggered away, mystified.

But Palin's followers - without exception - understood, intuitively and completely. They rejoiced in the inspiration of what she had said, as well as what she hadn't said and what she was incapable of saying.

Even they, however, did not know what she meant. No one did, nor will anyone ever really grasp her meaning that day. And that's the point. In the Zen universe of Sarah Palin, meaning is the most meaningless thing of all!

Anyone who has tried to fathom the Palin phenomenon is eventually surprised that she bothers to speak at all. But she loves talking, to the delight of her fans and to the utter befuddlement of anyone who regards languge as a serious medium of communication.

Words are not Sarah Palin's currency, nor would she command her immense army of ardent followers if she had a "way with words." When asked about "issues," Palin either recites an irrelevant aspect of her biography (looking across the Bering Strait at Vladimir Putin, covering high school hockey games for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman), or she rattles off a mind-numbing series of talking points, seemingly memorized off a laminated card handed to her by Grover Norquist.

Asked about any domestic problem - education, unemployment, breast cancer, etc. - she invariably advocates cutting taxes. Given problems of a more metaphysical nature, she will come around to invoking Jesus.

Respond to her that even Jesus approved of taxes - "unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" - and she will answer with only a smile that says, "You're trying to trap me with words again, but I can't he-e-ear you."

She's pro-life, she says. But the only branch of government that she and her followers approve is the military, which is in the business of killing. Is this not a profound contradiction, an ethical dilemma that merits reflection and moral anguish?

Nah. It's words. Just words. To hell with words.

Conservatives claim Sarah as one of them. She tolerates the linkage. But she's not, really, if you figure that modern conservatism proceeds in a historical line from Adam Smith and Edmund Burke to Ayn Rand, William F. Buckley, Irving Kristol, George Will and smarty-pants guys like that. Conservatism has always been stirred by intellectual ferment and lively discourse, bestowing on its current adherents traditions, policies, positions, unsettled arguments and great books. Conservatism has a literature.

But Sarah Palin doesn't read - at least not snooty stuff like "literature." None of her people read - except for Scripture. Reading, after all, is just a lot of words.

Sometimes, Palin comes off as a sort of lumpen-populist, metaphorically defending the trailer-park gates against an army of tree-huggers and bleeding-hearts who want to break up the annual all-Alaska spotted owl and dolphin roast. But her style, her clothes, her hair, her lack of butchness - these are not populist. They're petty bourgeois. She wears makeup even when she's dressed in waders.

When Going Rogue came out, her ex-friends in the McCain campaign called Palin a liar. On MSNBC, Keith Olbermann went to considerable pains to cite passages in her book that were contradicted either by facts or by past statements Palin had made herself.

Olbermann missed the point. There are no lies in Sarah's book; nor in her life, nor in her heart. Utterances that seem untrue are not lies, because Sarah believes them true. If she says one thing, then later forgets what she said and says the opposite, Sarah Palin is neither lying nor mistaken, nor forgetful, because at each moment, she believes what she has said. And a minute later, she will believe something else, if she says it. Whatever she says, if she says it, will be true. But if it's not, so what? It's words, only words.

Sooner or later, words fail everyone. This goes double for Sarah and her faithful. Sarah Palin is the voice - and the embodiment - of the inarticulate.

When Sarah Palin says something that doesn't seem to make sense to most of us, her people - the tongue-tied and frustrated - understand perfectly, because that's exactly what they would have said, if only they could.

What Olbermann and the word-obsessed, meaning-seeking media cannot grasp is that Sarah Palin is not someone you believe. She is someone you believe in.

She is not a politician. She is a prophet.

She is the earthly incarnation of an ideal beyond earthly comprehension that only those who believe in her believe in, although it's beyond their comprehension. Like all prophets, she is the answer to questions her followers are incapable of expressing. She is what they are, and she is what they would be if they weren't what they are.

Watch Sarah Palin with the audio turned off. You will sense what her followers feel. In her ill-controlled face, there is sheer amazement at being so high for so little reason. There is defiance of all those equally amazed. And there is a smugness in the assurance that there ain't nobody gonna knock her down and she never has to explain how she ever got there.

As if she could.

In her gestures and in her gaze, one feels the spirit of another people's prophet, equally indifferent to coherent speech, equally disdained by the literate and the elite, but equally beloved of the insulted and injured. His motto was: "I am what I am."

His name, as any real American knows, was Popeye.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/21-1

Excellent article serum.:thumbsup:

[Bill Cosby]

The republican party needs to be ripped apart. The last election proves it. There are a lot of conservatives who are becoming active instead of relying on the elite to make our decisions. I'm not a republican, but I vote for republicans who are conservative. Sarah Palin is real and doesn't play the game and that is why she is popular.

So what are you suggesting???

[Bill Cosby]

Just to break your talking points into laymans terms...... she gets a better reception when she's playing to the uneducated.

Playing up to crowds two or three deep must be really exciting........ :disbelief:

I think in a week or two her dilemma/challenge will to remain off (or not $$$) the "circuit"-->> murrary, springer & judge Judy.... :lmao2:

[MintJulep]

Just to break your talking points into laymans terms...... she gets a better reception when she's playing to the uneducated. Yeah, because we know the Obot-gimme my free shit-wards of the state are all only in that position because NASA isn't hiring.

LMAO

[Boogie man]

Personally, I think both major parties should be dismantled. They stand for power and corruption. America is coming apart at the seams and here we have two huge parties that do nothing but speil, speil, speil as many lies as they can dream up in order to get their candidate elected. So much for "truth in advertising," so to speak...... Kick backs, kick backs and kick backs. It's all part of the game of corruption.......

Looks like the republicans are going through a transition for the better. The democrats will be next when they lose congress and the presidency. That's the way it works.

[Bill Cosby]

Looks like the republicans are going through a transition for the better. The democrats will be next when they lose congress and the presidency. That's the way it works.

What is the transition??

Where will they land??

What will become of those "left behind"?????

[Binky]

What is the transition??

Where will they land??

What will become of those "left behind"?????


:lmao2: :lmao2: They'll be shoved into a program like "no child left behind." :lmao2: You remember that one don't you?

[Brian-W]

:lmao2: :lmao2: They'll be shoved into a program like "no child left behind." :lmao2: You remember that one don't you?

No Child Left behind......didn't that have something to do with catholic priests? :lmao2:

[Boogie man]

What is the transition??

Where will they land??

What will become of those "left behind"?????

Hopefully, in my opinion the transition will be more to the right. Get back to basics. Stop trying to compete with the democrats. As long as the republicans try to compete with the democrats they will lose. Stand on conservative priciples instead of trying to please everyone.

[Bill Cosby]

Hopefully, in my opinion the transition will be more to the right. Get back to basics. Stop trying to compete with the democrats. As long as the republicans try to compete with the democrats they will lose. Stand on conservative priciples instead of trying to please everyone.

Depending on how you define those "principles" how did John & Sarah stack up???