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. Ive 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 didnt say what any rational person on the right or left believes: that questions about the presidents 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 Trigs origins.
Those who are tempted to say that Sarah Palins 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 dont 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'm betting these two are really interested in working on each others laptop...
She is the #1 target of the left, for good reason. She had a Leutenant Governor who would do a good job, and thus she could save the state from being attacked along with her. She figured she could take the constant ripping but the great state of Alaska no longer needed to suffer.
In quitting, she GREATER served the state.
Are you insinuating that Obama's Eligibility was PROPERLY vetted?! Let's go back and see how the "vetting" unfolded:
The truth about Obama's birth certificate (FactCheck.org) Here is the FactCheck team that Team Obama hand-picked for the Obama Certification of Life Birth "validation" on August 21, 2008. Nice hair, huh? The MSM and Leftist blogosphere bought off on Jess & Joe's Pelosi signed the DNC Certification(s) a week later on August 28, 2008, at the end of the three-day DNC Convention. The Senate, Secretaries of state and the Electors FELL IN LINE after the election in December 2008 through January 2009. REALLY, who would dare OPENLY question the first black President who seemed so loved by supporters around the time of the Inauguration?! If they DARED oppose Obama on such a question, they MOST SURELY would have been called a RACIST or a NUT, just as others who questioned Obama's credentials have been maligned! "Just give the man a chance," and "It's about time we had a black president," were some of the many mantras the MSM & other Obot enablers kept repeating earlier this year. And with a little help from Rep. Abercrombie of Hawaii, Pelosi, Reid and other schills running interference along the way who have MUCH to gain and EVERYTHING to LOSE if there IS a TRUE and VALID investigation of Obama's eligibility (via his birth certificate and/or his FATHER's British citizenship) ...
... well, HERE we are in December 2009, with the question STILL unanswered. |
hurry2012 Since Dec 5, 2009
Oh very clever clown. Sign in with a new signon because you cannot find even one person here who agrees with your moronic rant. Don't get too comfortable here, the Mods will be visiting you shortly for your fraud.
“I’m betting these two are really interested in working on each others laptop... “
I would guess you are right.
Exactly, and I agree with you 100%, you however missed the point I was trying to get at. I was not bashing McCain. My comment is in context to this article, showing the article writers hypocrisy of calling Palin a quitter, but yet supporting McCain.
Well you can’t call Palin a quitter, and then support John McCain, who would have been a “quitter” as well.
Well, if makes you feel better, I'll never join the Democrats. Unlike Benedict Arlen, I have principles.
It is the same clown logging in under different names.
Chortle!
You have principles like Saddam had principles.
You know, it may not be such a bad idea for you to join your soul mate Dimwits at DU/Kos.
Makes it much easier to take you down, when Sarah Palin helps Republicans to CRUSH the Dems in 2010.
“She ain’t Reagan,”
Ha AND YOU THINK THAT MCCAIN AND PAWLENTY ARE! WOW MISGUIDED IDIOT ALERT!
You do nothing but spew personal attack emotional bile at Palin and her supporters yet you then have the arrogance to start whining about getting tactics directed back at you by her supporters?
You bitch about Palin "playing victim" then rush to play victim when your own posting style is directed at you?
I cannot decide which is more appalling, Your overweening arrogance or your rabid hyper ignorance
“The thing that make me most uncomfortable is the whole hero worship aspect. It’s become the flip side of Obama worship... “
“She ain’t Reagan, she ain’t Maggie Thatcher and she is not going to save the GOP...”
“Again, you nailed it. Love the blog by the way... “
Hahahahaha...Moran writing under an alias, no doubt...who else would compliment that nutball?
So, you put down charismatic appeal by comparing her to the two most charismatic conservatives in recent memory and then sayiong the appeal is unimportant? Ohhhh noooooooooo...ohhh geez...NOW what do we do? Your man Bobby Gin-Doll sure has their qualities in Spades, though huh?
You effing moron...try to come up with a line of attack that works with at least a fifth grader...your crap isn’t selling here...
Is Palin running for office in 2010? Maybe if she gets elected to Congress she'll have a new job to QUIT!
In all seriousness, I'd like to thank all you Palinistas for giving me a window into how anyone can defend her decision to resign as governor. You'll never persuade me to agree with you, but I'll give you all credit for your unbreakable faith in Saint Sarah. Like the Goracle and Obamania, her cult hero worship knows no bounds. Sarah worship is a religion and her converts can't be reasoned with.
Spare us the posturing clown. We know you are the same person
“Well, if makes you feel better, I’ll never join the Democrats. Unlike Benedict Arlen, I have principles.”
I’ll bet you have PRINCIPALS...and they pay you for this crap...
Spare us the posturing clown. We know you are the same person Nope, sorry. Do I need to produce my birth certificate? I don't know who hurry2012 is, but it ain't me.
Yeah, like you can make a case that Pawlenty and McCain are Reagan Conservatives, get lost with your big government establishment RINO’S.
Nope, I'm just a real American asking real questions. Free speech (nobody pays me) in this free republic.
To Free Republic's credit, free speech flourishes here, even if it's dominated by Palin quitter-bots.
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