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.
Iatz, rats...
Venturer, I adopted consevative as a useful political title rather than a repub. When I think of repups in congress, I think of rinos..don’t want to be associated with them again. It’s something to think about.
So was I. :-(
I have a pic of my kitty that might be great for your collection. When I took the picture, both eyes were glowing and each was a different color. ;-) I’ll upload and send links to you..maybe they’ll be useful.
It's around finals time and Christmas break for many colleges. Could be five or six weeks of this stuff.
It's something you'll learn. There are many styles of replying to other posters. Some use italics to quote, some use quote marks, some use lines of demarcation and some use nothing at all. It's best to look at the post to whcih the poster is replying to be sure who said what.
Confused? You'll get used to it.
Yeeeeeesh. I don't suppose it'd be particularly conservative of us to openly encourage heavy drinking and masturbation in place of online posting on their parts, would it...? ;)
Yikes! Whcih = which.
I think you’re gone now but maybe you’re still reading this thread so here goes.
First she had t quit as she was being charged with just outright stupid charges which had no merit but of course the left and the right elitists are fearing her.
She was being made ot spend money to answer these phony charges and thus her money was not going to her family plus she could not deal with her state because of the distraction.
The elitists and the left will say she is a quitter but anyone with a brain knows what really the left was up to.
Now another point
If question about the qualifacation comes up about a person then I expect that person regardless of who it is to answer it.
Yes I would expect Sarah too.
Now the question is why does Barack hussein obama not show his past documents.
I think that is a fair question to be asked.
Now if that question asks about where was he at columbia and why has he sealed his past along with his birth place then he should answer it...
It is very easy for him to say here it is and have done with it but he does not why???
I am not saying he was not born here I am asking why does he refuse to show it and why the big secret?
very simple questions and yet he and the left will not answer it.
Instead the left looks like they do with Beck at name calling, making fun etc.
It’s actually quite sad to know that some in this country cannot answer a question and will try instead of demean that person thus throwing them off subject.
reason why.
Simple because it is not easy for them to answer and deep down the left knows they too cannot answer.
Check your ammo and your canteen, and pick up some dry socks from the quartermaster.
That is the coolest picture ever!!! That would be great on a cheer a person up greeting card. Or a kitty calender. Come to think of it you guys should make a zot calender.. :).
I took these pics with my phone, and after looking at them, the quality is terrible. But one of them is a great yawning fang shot. (Well, I am biased)
Exactly, I posted on my facebook about the Climategate scandal, a liberal friend of mine who was black was debating me on the subject, a few of my conservative friends joined in to support my post. One of my conservative friends mentioned Glenn Beck.
My liberal friend then posted, “Beck is a racist. Enough said. I am done arguing facts with you people.” From then on it got more ugly, and it turned into my friend calling us all racist. She could no longer talk about Climate Change. Needless to say, that liberal friend of mine is no longer on my friends list, thank God.
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