Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/09/2010 7:29:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"Sarah Palin represents an America this is absolutely, definitionally white, that's very much rural America."
That's how The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan summed up the former Alaska governor in his appearance on the November 7 BBC Radio 4 "Americana" program.
Echoing Peter Jennings' infamous description of the 1994 midterms, the liberal British-born blogger added of 2010 voters that they had "had a panic, a tantrum."
For his part, Washington-based "Americana" host Matt Frei reinforced Sullivan's analysis, labeling Palin the "Evita of the North" and generally failed to question Sullivan's analysis.
"Despite all the kind of hullabaloo about the Tea Party, and they did have a very energetic campaign, and we were all fascinated by them, they didn't do that well, not as well as they thought they would," Frei helpfully offered Sullivan. The Atlantic blogger agreed, adding, "Without [the Tea Party candidates] the Republicans would have won the Senate. I think that's quite clear."
Sullivan rebuked both liberals and conservatives for having "misjudged" Obama.
"The Left wanted him to be this iconic transformational figure, and the right needed a bogeyman, so, he's stuck in the middle," Sullivan protested.
Of course in doing so, Sullivan completely neglected the fact that Obama and his campaign surrogates sold the then-candidateto the 2008 electorate as precisely an "iconic transformational figure" and that conservatives have legitimate grievances over his policies, such as ObamaCare and stimulus spending.
Sullivan, however, did predict a silver lining to the midterm shellacking that Obama and the Democrats suffered:
I happen to think that in the long run, the middle will work, and the more tempestuous American politics becomes -- especially when it's gridlocked -- the more people seek some sort of calm guy in the middle of it all.
Perhaps Sullivan thinks an Obama figure is needed for America's long-term decline, which he also predicted:
MATT FREI: Do you think the American people are aware of the power of India and China and what this could mean to the supremacy of this country?
ANDREW SULLIVAN: I think they are at a nervous, subliminal level. I don't think they've really faced up to it and addressed it, which is hence this, what I would call almost neurosis about continuing to say America is number one when America may not be number one anymore. I'm just not sure that this isn't cyclical, this isn't the new normal, this isn't the recessionary economy we're always going to live in and that's a hard thing for Americans to adjust to. They do not want to ackowledge that their elevator up has stalled.
What, is Andrew Sullivan black now? Chinese? American Indian or Pacific Islander? Central American Hispanic Mestizo?
Go (expletive) yourself, Andrew. You’re a parody of a parody of a parody of something that wasn’t very funny to start with.
No, she represents 'An America that wants to stay America'. IMHO
Progressives fear this woman more than anyone. She is constantly under attack by direct ridicule or innuendo and rumor.
I don’t know about you but anyone they hate this much has got to be someone worth my admiration! It is sad how many friends and co-workers have bought into the conventional wisdom about Sarah without knowing a thing about her.
Isn’t Sullivan the same brain dead moron who thinks that Trig is not Sarah’s kid.
Angry hate filled little people who live their lives in pursuit of offenses.
My lesbian cousin hasn’t stopped screeching about the klan takeover of the country since the election. Yesterday she deliberately went to apply for a job at some Christian college in Minnesota and is screaming bloody murder because they wanted her to sign some statement about upholding basic Christian ideals.
She didn’t want the job, she wanted someything else to cry about. Idiot.
He says that like it’s a bad thing. As if the white race that predominantly built this nation into the most powerful and wealthy nation on earth is some how diseased.
Mr Sullivan is, at best, a fool.
Definitionally self-motivated and successful. If there is a skin color associated with these values, it is neither the fault of Palin nor of those who practice them.
You got a problem with “white” white boy? Stuff it Andy!
Oh my God, she IS white! How did he guess?
Note: Lefties are obsessed with the color of the skin.
Yes, he’s the head “Trig Birther” on the Internet.
What? No racist accusation? That’s a racist statement ... oh, sorry, he’s talking about white folks ... ‘sokay ...
...and to think the old poofter was once considered a conservative...
And to think that Todd has native American blood, as do her kids. Sullivan, what a piece of work, doesn’t even do his homework. Just spews.
Yeah, Sullivan the delusional obsessed pervert who beleves that Trig is not Sarah’s kid.
Hardly
Evita was born out of wedlock in the village of Los Toldos in rural Argentina
Sara was born into a full family of educated Americans (No hyphens)
Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights
Sara, not so much. She did tax the crap of out of oil companies, causing the high unemployment in the oil patch we see today. Evita championed women's suffrage in Argentina Sara would not speak out to support the unborn, leaving two pro-life measures to fail in her administration. Shortly before her death from cancer at the age of 33, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress. Eva Perón was given an official state funeral despite the fact that she was not an elected head of state. Sara is scaring the staid (R) party RINOs to death. Evita was the first female elected President of Argentina, some claim that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness" As for Sara - 2012 is coming baby!
How rich - “Evita of the North”
Hardly
Evita was born out of wedlock in the village of Los Toldos in rural Argentina
Sara was born into a full family of educated Americans (No hyphens)
Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights
Sara, not so much. She did tax the crap of out of oil companies, causing the high unemployment in the oil patch we see today.
Evita championed women's suffrage in Argentina
Sara would not speak out to support the unborn, leaving two pro-life measures to fail in her administration.
Shortly before her death from cancer at the age of 33, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress. Eva Perón was given an official state funeral despite the fact that she was not an elected head of state.
Sara is scaring the staid (R) party RINOs to death.
Evita was the first female elected President of Argentina, some claim that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness"
As for Sara - 2012 is coming baby!
Keep demonizing her, lefties. You’re gonna pave an express lane for her, directly to the White House.
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