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Republicans, You Deserve Better Than Sarah Palin
By Bob Wire, 7-07-09
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Republicans, please. You can’t pin your 2012 hopes on Sarah Palin. It’s going to take more than a tough-talkin’ MILF to pull the GOP out of the ditch. You need some real leadership from somebody with real depth and substance. You need somebody who can take a punch.
We all know why she quit her post as Governor of Alaska. It’s easy (especially where Republicans are concerned): follow the money.
She has already spent $500,000 of her own cabbage in legal fees fighting off some 15 ethics complaints during her time in office. She’s not poor by any means, but that’s still a lot of spenderoni. Hell, down at the governor’s mansion, the housekeepers have begun locking up the toilet paper and office supplies. This woman reeks of duplicity and self-service. It’s widely known that Palin continues to collect state per diem funds even when she’s staying in her own house. Once she’s elected President in 2012, she says, she’s sure the “Department of Law there in the White House” would “automatically throw out” any of the complaints she’s been charged with. I’m sorry, did she say the White House Department of Law? Is that in the same wing as the Bureau of Phony Accents and the Royal Order of Things That Smell Like Goat Cheese?
Her reasons for turning her back on the people of Alaska make her sound even more crack-brained than McCain was in choosing her to join him on the ticket last year. The talking heads and political analysts have been burning up the media with speculation and hypothetical hoo-hah since Palin dropped her bombshell last week, but anyone with two synapses to rub together can figure it out. She sees herself as the Great White Hope for an anachronistic party that’s been firebombed into ashes by a dissatisfied electorate that wants more accountability, more honesty and more (any) compassion from its government.
After she stood at the hastily-constructed lectern and quit the job Alaska voters had elected her to do, her lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, said that she is “not a quitter.” Oh. I see. He was using the old Rush Limbaugh method of Socratic debate: repeat a bald faced lie loudly and often enough until people begin to accept it as fact. I hear the same thing from pro sports coaches when rumors surface about them being courted by another team. “Absolutely not,” they’ll say. “I’m committed to this team,” they’ll insist. “I’m not going anywhere!” they yell, pounding the podium. By that point, some maintenance guy is already out in the parking lot, stenciling the new coach’s name on his parking spot.
So then, after her defensive, whiny announcement, what does Palin do? She immediately goes on a fishing trip, hunkering down in the Boston Whaler with her Blackberry to spew tweets and Facebook updates (“Just found a place where we can dump Letterman’s body”) in an unseemly attempt to fend off media criticism like a head cheerleader who’d been ridiculed in the lunchroom over a hickey.
Was there anything of substance Palin had to offer? No. It’s the same vague boosterism, the same bumper sticker rah-rah crap she used to whip up her conservative followers during the campaign. And then there was her assertion that other lame duck governors are wrong for NOT leaving office early, showing up to cash a paycheck, things like that. Puh-lease, woman. Even Fox News isn’t going to let that one slide. She’s “doing what’s right for Alaska.” She’s “taking her fight to a larger stage.” What fight is that, exactly? Is she going to start a charity foundation, or spearhead some inner-city program to education underprivileged children? Nah. Nothing that specific. She’s “thinking outside the box” because she’s “unconventional.” What she IS is crazy as a shithouse rat. And foolish. But worst of all, she’s disingenuous and downright dishonest.
I’m not fooled; I’ve seen this game before. She’s not going to be leading anyone or anything, other than her own get-rich-quick foundation. She’s going to spend the next couple of years being a huckster, working the lecture circuit at $50,000 a pop, winking at starstruck chuckleheads while she babbles on about abstinence, drilling for oil at all costs, pro-life hysteria, and those evil liberals. She’ll have a shallow but wide fan base eating out of her hand, even though it smells like fish. She’ll be buffed and glossed and groomed for a run at the presidency in 2012, this time with top billing.
But Sarah Barracuda, instead of using your mega-watt star power and your high cheekbones to swell the party coffers, how about this—how about honoring your oath of office and doing the job you were elected to perform instead of jumping ship for a better offer? You can wrap this stinky salmon up in all the newspaper of double-talk you want, but we deserve better. America deserves better, Alaska deserves better, and yes, the Republican Party deserves better.
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Ignore the message and denigrate the messengers all you want, but this woman totally brings this scorn on herself. I'm trying to make the point that I think it's a mistake for the GOP to rally around this train wreck. They can do better.
I'd like to see Barney Frank and Harry Letterman at the same ball game just so I could make weiner remarks. Do ya suppose Letterman would be offended? Frank would not be.
Anyone making cracks about some jock knocking up your daughter during the seventh inning stretch going to get a pass from you, or would you do the honorable thing, and redirect the snot locker on the pissant?
I guess we ALL should realize that if you didn't go to Yale or Harvard Law, you are not smart enough to be heard as a political figure. Of course, those same people who are so smart and are Harvard and Yale schooled, have fubar'ed our economy to the deepest tanking in half a century. Palin KNOWS that when 35% of your economy is Finance, you are upside down and sinking. She has that knowledge from handling boats in a place with 30 foot tides, a skill not taught a Yale Law. We are tits up in this country because we have been led by the smarty pants set from the entitled class in government. And here comes Al Franken, Harvard, to rail for the left. He is a comedian. A joke writer. But he is one of YOUR'S so it is not cause for humiliation. Franken's supposed to be the filibuster breaker, but that will depend on Kennedy, who has a frigging brain tumor, growing, and still he holds his Senate seat because he hasn't got the good sense to give it up to a Democrat appointee from Mass. who could show up to vote every day. Smart, those Democrats. And Bryd from West Virginia, 88 or 89, shakes like a dog shitting peach pits, can't walk, is dying before our eyes, and he keeps his seat when good sense, an ethical purpose, would be to step down and let another Democrat like Nick Rahal be appointed to his Senate seat. Rahal shows up. He is not batty. But, NOoooooo! It is a debate about Sarah Palin, all day every day. Except, of course, when Smarty Pants Couric spends the day covering Michael Jackson's pathetic demise. She shows up when Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson show up. Franken can show up for the Senate votes Harry Reid needs, but even Reid can't count on Kennedy or Byrd being there. In light of that, attack Palin. The old misdirection play.
It says a hell of a lot about America, the way we treat the family of a public person, and we should be god damned embarrassed about how the media, the press, the smarty pants elite, the pundits, the trendy journalists, the post-Madoff investors, have treated the family of Sarah Palin. Nobody deserves that kind of shit from a bunch of "I'm better than you" self serving asswipes, for the coincidental happenstance of being related to someone in the public eye. Chicken crap deal. No honor for the reporters and commentators in the Palin deal. Kick the piss out of her, because you do have to expose your superiority, but leave her kids alone, her family alone. And while you are at it, get a life. Sarah Palin, Michael Jackson. Isn't there a real story out there. Seven good American kids killed in Afghanistan yesterday. Savage Obama for not bringing them home like he said he would when he was campaigning.
I saw Sarah Palin in Auburn last month. While waiting for the festivities to begin -- parade & speeches --I spoke with some locals who were angry that the local news media did not promote the governor's visit. And yet 20,000 showed up from all over. How? By the internet grapevine, mostly. That's how I heard about it.
There were some protesters with their signs. One guy next to me wore a particularly nasty t-shirt denigrating President Bush. Although I couldn't see when Sarah Palin stepped onto the podium, I knew when she did because everyone went wild. As she spoke, the signs came down. Even Mr. Nasty T-shirt applauded her.
I realize that honesty in politics is a foreign concept, but I take her at her word. She said that her state's business was not getting done because her time was taken up with the trivial pursuits of a few people with too much time of their hands and too much hate. Not to mention the co$t.
This Cornell law prof says "It Always Has Been About Trig"
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/07/it-always-has-been-about-trig.html
Oh, and btw...
"Obama quits Senate after 46 months--21 of them seeking another job"
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/11/obama-senate.html
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I'm still rooting for a Palin/Jindal 2012 ticket. Anyone else with me?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2YzODI3MGE3OTU0Yjg5ZDY5YmFjZmE3MmFiOWE4ZjQ=
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[heh, heh]
And to address your point, I'm cynical enough to believe that the string pullers ARE the ones who plucked Palin from the pool of candidates. But what about all McCain's subsequent crowing about being a "maverick," and his own handlers publicly scratching their heads over that decision? I suppose we'll never know the truth, but the good news is that it really doesn't matter.
The Republicans were the first ones to notice that Palin's best chances were first and foremost her looks. While I don't like the term, either, liberals had to stand in line to use it. While "they did it first" isn't a great excuse, it does explain the widespread usage of the term.
Empathy for her? Why? Because she used her children as campaign props, then cries fowl when the public does what the public always does? "White House dog" ring any bells? Her continued attempts to maintain the public eye, using both her looks and her permanent status as a "persecuted" chosen one makes her more than worthy of mockery. Her notable lack of new ideas and her prescription to "Demagoguery Is Us" is enough to denote her as one lacking the intelligence to even enter in the debates. There is a minimum, and she's well below it.
**note: all spelling errors are intentional in a poor attempt at humor.
What Palin has, and will continue to have, is a spotlight because of the vapid 30% of hard core right-wingers. Those that believe shooting an abortion doctor is "an eye for an eye", that the only good tax is one that is being cut and that believe that Iran is in need of a serious bombing.
But I should stop there, as I notice that your post is more name calling and labeling and actually lacks anything like substance. More of the usual from the Billy.
Re-read the article above. You'll see that I was referring to Palin's resignation speech of last week, not last year's presidential campaign.
We promise not to make an issue of the titular female leader of the GOP conservatives and family values wing who ABORTED her Governorship in the 2nd Trimester. We promise never to say that...
...oops.
2nd...Sarah Palin will NOT be running in 2012! The only way she runs in 2012 is if her book and tv deals don't rake in enough cash. But even then, she will not REALLY be "running for president" (because there is no chance in hell she will win) but she will be "running for president" for the precious PR that will ultimately bring more money to the Palin family.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_GOVERNORS?SITE=MTMIS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=national-2008.php
What about all the other women (heck, most politicians) who deal with all this crap, most of them for years? Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Janet Reno are just a few that pop into my mind. The difference there is that they are repeatedly skewered for their looks, rather than held up because of them. Every move, every word, family - all personally criticized and critiqued daily and none of them quit. It's a sad truth that it's what today's politicians accept as part of the package of being in the public eye.
Palin at least has a birth certificate we can see. That the left can't come up with a certified US Citizen for President is not something that brings comfort to all. But that is who we got from the George Soros money and the Ariana Huffington blogs.
First it was Bill Clinton and the iffy money from Asia, and when the rocket guidance systems from Hughes were sold to China, you knew that chits were called. The loss of the the multi-position milling machines to the Eastern block by way of Norway still makes me nervous, as those were the reason we could create a silent submarine screw, one that the underwater listening posts couldn't detect. Ah, just water under the bridge. The US is just being a good world citizen....in our own eyes...the rest of the world would like not better than to see us on our collective ass, begging for mercy.
Would Palin punt? I don't know. Will Barry Sotero? Your bet is as good as mine. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The paving crew is working overtime, using our dollars.
No? Neither does Iran: "In Iran, vast crowds turned out on the streets and held candlelit vigils for the victims. Sixty-thousand spectators respected a minute's silence at Tehran's football stadium."
So the ignorant statement that "the rest of the world would like not better than to see us on our collective ass, begging for mercy" is nothing more than a trollish attempt (and maybe I took the bait).
As for the milling machines? Just to let everyone know what he's talking about: Toshiba sold milling machines, through a company named Kongsberg, in 1987. Which would have been a Saint Reagan fault, no? Evidently not in the world of bearbait.
Barry Sotero? Maybe he means Soetero, a name that there is no evidence of Barack Obama using. His step father's name was Soetero, as is his half-sister.
And bearbait as a birther? Pretty hilarious. Says a lot about him, right there.
not you BOB....Sarah!
you rock
McCain and only him picked her against the advice of his Senior staff.
She was not vetted and the selection was a desperate move by a guy who knew he had no chance to win. So much for God and Country
My source was a very senior campaign staff member for McCain. Although I am a Dem we jousted regularly about the campaign last summer and fall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8
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A world with any influence from an ignoramus like Palin and the religious right and that is exactly the world you would be looking at.
Nice to meet you Jay...:)
If Sarah Palin were as dumb as libs are trying to paint her, they would have nothing to worry about would they? It seems to me that you guys are protesting too much, and I think you are afraid of her ability to get votes. Democrat politicians in Alaska understand that Sarah has not been on the take, which of course confirms their opinion that she is dumb and they have filed obviously frivilous lawsuits against her to bankrupt her and distract her from her job. I guess that is a new Democrat campaign tactic.
I have no idea what those initials are you are refering to, but if they are insulting to women it tells how valid your opinions are.
But just for the personal enjoyment:
Palin voters are more likely to
a) Believe in creationism
b) Back Intelligent Design
c) Have less education
d) Be so anti-abortion they kill doctors
e) Watch Fox News
f) Have stockpiles of weapons buried in their backyards
g) Run a still
h) Believe that a bunch of cut splices really do represent all Obama supporters
i) Believe in aliens
j) Have less than 3 teeth
Good thing Palin has self-destructed and the only support she has is from the 30% hardliners that wouldn't vote for a Democrat if Hitler was running as the Republican candidate. (Godwined! Yes to me!)
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/sarahs-sacrifice/
Make friends with Bill Croke, seems like you two should be best buds.
The reversal of Bush Administration criminal Presidential signing statements, investigations of the criminal activities in the CIA and in the Justice Department, removal of troops from Iraq, and on and on and on. 10% unemployment? If you think thats bad, you should go give Bushie a medal for it.
Amazing that fear can control you, and so many weaklings just like you, so easily.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." TJ
But I'm done teasing you. You're just a typical frightened little Republican voter. Nothing new, just the same arguments from 2002, the same bad justifications, the same fear.
just what would of been your response to 9/11. and please dont make make it a focus group with france .
Pretty please invest in a copy of Strunk & White's "Elements of Style" so your rants are at least readable and coherent.
NOTE TO NEW WEST: I understand freeflow of ideas, but these arent ideas. Methinks think this denegration is driving away your readership (and gaining new ones, unfortunately). I am hesitant to visit and read because most of the text seems to be full of junk these days, and wastes precious time I'll seek out the more thoughtful, the less disgusting. I rid me of thee, New West!
Assuming that everyone that thinks Palin is a vapid beauty queen is a "Dumbocrat" is pretty limiting.
Of course, your use of "Dumbocrat" labels the rest of your post as a piece of useless tripe.