Apparently so.
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Posted on 12/05/2009 9:54:41 AM PST by ikeonic
Sarah's explanation of why she legitimized the birther conspiracy theorists feeds right into her victimhood storyline:
Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask … which they have repeatedly.Ah yes... Palin was a victim of a massive left wing conspiracy that forced her to courageously step down as Alaska's governor. So it's only fair (to her mind) that Obama be hounded by an equally loony right wing conspiracy -- the birthers. Well, you just can't argue with logic like that!
Rick Moran at Pajamas Media takes Palin to task and then some. Here's a sample:
I note that some Palin fans are trying to spin the fact that she never called on the president to produce his birth certificate or questioned his citizenship. They are missing the point. Sarah Palin has said that these questions are legitimate, that voters have a right to know, and that “a lot” of citizens are concerned about it.Moran continues:She didn’t say what any rational person on the right or left believes: that questions about the president’s birth have been settled by the state of Hawaii, that only a very small group of citizens are even concerned about the issue, and that an equally small number of people were even aware of the ridiculous controversy over Trig’s origins.
Those who are tempted to say that Sarah Palin’s attempt to legitimize the birther movement will destroy her campaign should forget it. It will never happen. She is immunized against such career-ending gaffes by her loyal followers who don’t want to listen to anyone when they criticize, laugh, or beat their heads against a wall over the latest evidence that as presidential material Palin would make a good candidate for the mayor of Wasilla.
The problem is, unless the GOP — and that includes Rush Limbaugh and the other cotton candy conservatives who wield a lot of influence — stand up and denounce her in no uncertain terms, birtherism will have gone completely mainstream in the Republican Party. If that happens, you might want to forget about any significant gains at the polls for the GOP in 2010.
By her stupidity, she is now going to force every GOP candidate for the House and Senate to come out and declare whether they are birther nuts or not.Indeed. Read the whole story here.
The only reason I bother these days to post anything about Palin is merely to declare that I rue the day McCain ever picked her as his running mate (stupidest decision of his adult life) and pray that someday soon she will return to Alaska and disappear. Palin is the poison pill that threatens to sink the entire GOP and I refuse to take that pill and go down with her.
I'm not going to hold my nose and vote for Palin. I can not go to my grave with that vote on my conscience. It was bad enough holding my nose and voting for her to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency. If she is our nominee in 2012 or 2016 or 20xx, I will vote for a third party or none of the above. If she's all we got, then we deserve to lose. It's that simple.
Now some might call me hypocritical for supporting Palin while she was the nominee. True enough... but I'll leave it to Chuckles Johnson to offer up an explanation for anything I wrote in support of Palin last year:
Says Chuckles: "I was skeptical of her, but I was ready to defend her, because it was hyper-partisan time."
On that much, I'll agree with Chuckles -- and I agree with little Chuckles has to say these days. In hyper-partisan mode, I too said a lot of things to defend Palin. I swallowed hard and praised her just as I know it pained others to praise McCain during the campaign.
But once the election was over, I pulled few punches with Palin. Just as every RINO hating social conservative wasted no time in spouting their hatred for McCain once the election was over. I was always a McCain supporter (and wish he'd beat Bush in 2000), but never liked Palin for anything other than her ability to regurgitate sound bites (more like bait) to appeal to the base.
I always preferred Pawlenty and think McCain would have been far better served to lose with honor with Pawlenty at his side than to throw a Hail Mary with Palin and unknowingly launch the career of the all but certain destructor of the modern day GOP. In the end, the shadow of Sarah Palin may well drawf all the good McCain accomplished in the US Senate.
Jim just needs to fire up the bugzapper we can have some fun.
Awwwwww. Troll Number One Faw Down, Go Boom. ;)
He was boring, really.
Boring, and LOUD. Never a pretty combination platter, that. ;)
“Now how the heck did you know my name was Skippy, I’ve never posted it here.”
It had to be...you voted for Carter...
:)
Apparently so.
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IATZ!
I will restate my two posts, the rest was responding to attacks.
Gov. Palin didn’t add any clarity to the issue.
This is what I would have liked to hear her say.
“Both the party and the states have a responsibility to ensure the candidate’s eligibility for office. It is fitting that the media, as well as the citizenry, question this and be supplied documentation of that process.”
Regret that everyone got so excited, Have to run... good day.
We didn’t miss you even before you showed up here. We won’t miss you now, nor will we miss you ever.
Go, go, begone, never return.
No, there is just the Tax list I prepared for banners, with the help of other FReepers, for display in the Upper Senate Park on the Fourth of July and for the march on 9/12. I am a conservative, without qualifiers and without the mealy-mouthed platitudes favored by your ilk. I assure you that at no point in my entire life would I have considered Jimmuh Carter to be Presidential.
I find many, not all, but especially the heavily qualified, all over the place "independents" like yourself to be morally and philosophically cowardly, without the courage of true convictions. I also doubt you to be an "independent" because they would naturally be repulsed by Carter.
Please, be clear about this; I did not say I "liked" your home page. I found it telling. I don't know why on earth you want to be here, but knock yourself out...please...don't make the mistake of thinking that I find your presence here to be anything but odious.
Unlike you I thought McCain stunk.
I still think he does.
I held my nose and voted for him because of Sarah Palin.Many Republicans did.
I could proudly vote for Sarah Palin without holding my nose.She is America, Motherhood, and my sister rolled into one.
She saw she was hurting her state and she could not pay her legal bill fighting phony charges.
So: she left and the new Governor doesnt have to face the charges and the state is doing fine. No more scurrilous harrassment from the retard who kept harrassing Sarah.She is making enough money from the book to pay her bills for defending herself.She is making statemens as a private citizen that I sincerely love. Love them all.
God Bless her and her family and I wish her all the best.
Is she hurting the GOP? Hell No, The RINO’s are doing a good job of that.
I make this statement I will not vote for another RINO of the caliber of John McCain so help me God, I will vote my conscience and take what I get.
#190: "Regret that everyone got so excited"
Yeah. Poor, misjudged, misinterpreted li'l victim of circumstances, you.
Pfffffftt.
FTR, she created the ethics laws which she ultimately blamed.
Actually, you’re blaming the wrong person for that particular example of brain dead blather. ;) Look again; Airborne was quoting another poster.
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