Sarah Palin Slips into Self-Parody

National Review ^ | January 26, 2015 | Charles C. W. Cooke

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

Skipping to the end:

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Consider, if you will, what happens to a person who suggests that Sarah Palin is anything other than saintly. Right off the bat, they are accused of disliking America or Alaska or conservatives or mothers or the working class — or even women in general — and then they are informed that their “hatred” is showing. Next, their motives are questioned and their supposedly secret “agenda” is exposed for the world to see, for no right-thinking person could dislike Palin on the merits, natch. “I hope you enjoy your elite cocktail parties,” the apologists will say, and then they will huffily tell you that they “hope signaling that you are ‘one of them’ was worth it.” And finally — as is the case when one expresses disapproval of other cult figures, such as President Obama, Ron Paul, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Paul Krugman — it is presumed that all animadversion must be motivated by envy or by snobbery or by secret admiration, and that it can therefore be safely ignored. “What have you done,” they will ask, “that compares to my paragon of virtue?” All told, it’s really quite pathetic.

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Having been mercilessly and unjustly pilloried by the media throughout the 2008 campaign, Sarah Palin had a clear choice in its aftermath: She could sober up and prove the buggers wrong, or she could collapse into ignominious pasquinade. Sadly, she chose the latter. The rest of us should choose to move on.

[MinnesotaLibertarian]

I expect to get flamed by the Palin fan club, but this is one of the best summaries I've seen of why she should not be taken seriously as a candidate. It has nothing to do with her policies - it has do with how she conducts herself. I agree entirely that she was not treated fairly by the media in 2008, but she has done nothing but play into the image they've created for her ever since. Furthermore, quitting her term as Governor halfway through is a major red flag, and eliminates the credibility of the "executive experience" argument.

[Sasparilla]

The author succinctly described why she cannot be elected.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I completely disagree.

(now I am going to sleep. I just had to disagree with you)

:D

[kanawa]

Blahblahblah

[gov_bean_ counter]

What people are failing to realize that at an event where no one particularly stood out, Palin is the one getting the press. At this point in the 2016 election cycle, there is no such thing as bad press.

[miss marmelstein]

I really hate it when my favorite politicians collapse into ignominious pasquinade. Damn!

[Jack Hydrazine]

What can you expect from a formerly conservative publication?

[Jack Hydrazine]

She’s living in their heads rent-free 24/7.

[Billthedrill]

Consider, if you will, what happens to a person who suggests that Sarah Palin is anything other than saintly. Right off the bat, they are accused of disliking America or Alaska or conservatives or mothers or the working class — or even women in general — and then they are informed that their “hatred” is showing.

That is something I would never do, not even to an anti-American, West-hating, misogynistic, mother-hating elitist bigot like the author. I'm a bigger person than that.

[Genoa]

I would crawl over broken glass in the pouring rain to get to my polling place and vote for Sarah. So would Mrs. Genoa and the extended Genoa family.

[left that other site]

One could say the same thing about the “National Review”.

[Sasparilla]

No such thing as bad press? Would you call Gerald Ford continuously falling down the stairs of Air Force One good press? Unfortunately, Palin is following in those footsteps.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Pound sand.

[Cicero]

National Review has been in the pockets of the RINO establishment for a long, long time—basically, ever since Bill Buckley died.

[Louis Foxwell]

Yeah, me too. They become apoplectically hysterical whenever she speaks. Sarah separates the wheat from the chaff, every time.

[greene66]

“National Review?” Which was so rhapsodically enamoured of Mitt Romney?

To hell with them. I regard them as just as much an enemy to my beliefs and values as I do MSNBC these days. I’ll stick with Palin.

[Third Person]

Go Sarah!

[Scrambler Bob]

collapse into ignominious pasquinade. Damn! —

Is that anything like a big vat of guacamole?

Or the Tar Pits? (Be assured I am referring to white tar pits only.)

[KC_Lion]

Team Romney Is Concerned.....

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.