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Andrew Sullivan: The Banality Of Palin?
The Atlantic ^ | August 4, 2010 | Andrew Sullivan

Posted on 08/04/2010 12:05:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Weigel responds to the Levi-Bristol break-up by shaming the media:

"Why assume that [Sarah] Palin was behind [the Levi-Bristol engagement], cleaning up a problem before a possible 2012 run? It’s because the alternative, truer explanation is dull. Palin as tabloid joke is a story for 2008. The story for 2010 is that she’s a master plotter, a recruiter of grizzlies, whose book sales and TV deals prove that she’s outsmarted everyone.

This theory doesn’t have many takers inside of Alaska, where Palin’s celebrity and national designs are frowned upon by people who wanted her to serve out her term. But outside of Alaska, Palin has had so much success with a memoir and a Facebook account that we assume she’s about to outsmart everyone in some other way. In this case, the assumption was that Palin thinks so far ahead that the idea of a Bristol-Levi shotgun wedding, something treated as a joke when rumored in 2008, became an example of Machiavellian strategy and media manipulation. Well, now we know—Palin cannot actually force her child into a loveless marriage to fix a political problem."

(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: andrewsullivan; getpalin; milkyloads; palin; sarahpalin; sullivan
They keep floating trial balloons and they keep getting shot down.
1 posted on 08/04/2010 12:05:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who cares what this fagot thinks about anything!?!??!


2 posted on 08/04/2010 12:08:12 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: All

queers hate Palin with a passion usually reserved for their love of weiners.....


3 posted on 08/04/2010 12:15:12 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s better than the anality of Sullivan.


4 posted on 08/04/2010 12:19:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s face it, Sullivan has been using Palin’s name to earn a living for a couple of years now.


5 posted on 08/04/2010 12:23:40 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

6 posted on 08/04/2010 12:24:16 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; PetroniusMaximus; Maverick68

The inanity of Andrew Sullivan.

It’s amazing how these nuanced. pseudo-intellectuals can never see the forest for he trees.

It’s real simple Andrew - Palin’s message resonates with the people because unlike you she gets the big picture. And the big picture is simple - freedom with responsibility!!


7 posted on 08/04/2010 12:24:27 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gays hate women...or they wouldn’t be gay.


8 posted on 08/04/2010 12:26:28 PM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: Maverick68
"queers hate Palin with a passion"

Not these Boyz

9 posted on 08/04/2010 12:29:10 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (BP was founder of Cap & Trade Lobby and is linked to John Podesta, The Apollo Alliance and Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They told me that smoking too much dope rots the brain... and they were right.

- JP


10 posted on 08/04/2010 12:29:46 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Every time a Democrat mocks Sarah Palin, an independent gets its wings." - JP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They told me that smoking too much dope rots the brain... and they were right.

- JP


11 posted on 08/04/2010 12:29:55 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Every time a Democrat mocks Sarah Palin, an independent gets its wings." - JP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anyone that sleeps with another man sleeps with satan... get thee from me satan!

LLS

12 posted on 08/04/2010 12:31:50 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Matchett-PI

Do you think if Hillary runz, they will still be on our side? I don’t.


13 posted on 08/04/2010 12:33:30 PM PDT by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about the banality of sodomy, Andrew?


14 posted on 08/04/2010 12:33:56 PM PDT by Antoninus (It's a degenerate society where dogs have more legal rights than unborn babies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is just pissed because she looks better in boots and a skirt.


15 posted on 08/04/2010 12:41:08 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Durus
I don't know why gays are gay, but I don't believe they hate women. A lot of them are very good to their mothers.

It's distressing that Atlantic would give this miserable soul so much ink and paper, but this is more emblematic of the Prozac left than homosexuality.

16 posted on 08/04/2010 12:54:34 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Cameras, cameras--never forget to bring your cameras)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sullivan = Palin Hater


17 posted on 08/04/2010 1:07:15 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: indylindy

Who knoz? :)


18 posted on 08/04/2010 1:15:11 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (BP was founder of Cap & Trade Lobby and is linked to John Podesta, The Apollo Alliance and Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Or it could just be that Levi had a sweet deal, then messed it up, then had another shot at the sweet deal, then messed that one up. In short, as Patrick Bateman told one of his lady friends...“Pumpkin, you’re dating a tumbling, tumbling dickweed.”
19 posted on 08/04/2010 1:26:48 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: Real And Spectacular.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Andrew Sullivan: The Banality Of Palin?

One of my favorites from IowaHawk on Andrew Sullivan and Sarah Palin:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/10/dial-m-for-maternity.html

20 posted on 08/04/2010 2:14:18 PM PDT by RJL
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