Dang. I missed it!
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.
I didn’t read every single post, but I did read all those by the original poster. Any idea what was the cause of the kitty call? Other than disliking Governor Palin what was the crime?
Sometimes the real action is behind the scenes. This may be one of those times.
This makes me smile.
Welcome to Free Republic. I hope you learn a lot and engage in plenty of serious debates. I hope it helps you grow as a conservative and as a person.
That being said, you babble a lot and most of it is very difficult to follow.
That may well be true, but this thread has proved one point. The level of Palin hysteria is over the top. I hope it doesn’t become self destructive. I’d hate to see real debate become an endangered species because of mob mentality.
Dang. I missed it!
My too. I just came in after playing around in my woodworking shop for several hours... and quickly discovered that the lib Troll was gone. LOL
I love happy endings.
Buh-bye!
I think that Sarah just didn’t expect the Left to use the ethics laws against her they way they did.
Personally, I think that some of us Freepers reach for the zot button way too quickly. Just because you’re wrong about the lovely and gracious Mrs. Palin doesn’t mean you should be treated like a troll. After all we’re not the Daily Kos that zots people after 1 disagreeable post. We’re supposed to be much bigger than that.
No, Ikeonic your real idiocy started to shine after you exhibited the symptoms of “foot in mouth disease.” After we tried to show you the error of your ways and lead you back to the path of righteousness,you had to continue to shove your foot in past your knee.
Still, not many people can say they were responsible for over 250 replies to a first time post, so congratulations are in order for that hugh accomplishment.
So, thanks for providing a full days’ entertainment. I mean that seriesly.
So it was a mistake that she made that could be abused against future Governors and she didn’t stay to fix it.
What's the big deal? Just say you aren't one, if it's so bloody important.
Guess Ike forgot that you have to keep your head when you're taking fire, huh.
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