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Oh my. One of us definitely has an emotional investment here. I don’t have any emotional investment in this issue. I think Palin isn’t electable; my preference would be someone like Jim DeMint or Mitch Daniels. But I remain fascinated by the phenomenon of Palin-hate.

I don't think Palin is electable either. So, what's your problem?

Do you want another four years of Obama because most American voters are more scared of Incompetent Palin than they are scared of Incompetent Obama?

I don't think Jim DeMint or Mitch Daniels are electable either. They have as much national name recognition as your mother-in-law's pet cat. Come back down to the Planet Earth.

Where does "hate" fit into this?

I love my little sister but my little sister is as unqualified to be President of the United States as Sarah Palin is.

Tell me, truthfully:

If Sarah Palin would have been born a male named "Robert", would "Robert Palin", with two and a half years of experience (before he quit) as Governor of a State with half the population of San Diego, CA, been given a second thought as a Vice Presidential candidate?

NO. He would not have been.

Without looking it up on Wikipedia, tell me the name of the current Mayor of San Diego, California.

You can't. (Isn't that correct?)

Yet, that white, male Republican, Mayor Jerry Sanders, has been a Mayor of a political entity with TWICE the population of the State of Alaska and he has served FAR longer than Sarah Palin (because he did not quit in the middle of his firat term) , but nobody has ever heard of him outside of Southern California because he is not female.

Why have you heard about Barack Obama and about Sarah Palin when Mayor Jerry Springer has much more experience than EITHER Barack Obama or Sarah Palin?

Because we live in the Age of Affirmative Action. Today, what matters is not is not experience or competence but whether you are NOT a white male.

Hate?

Don't think so.

I would have no problem with Sarah Palin being my sister-in-law.

Be that as it may, the Presidency of the United States is way over her head just as the Presidency of the United States is way over the head of Barack Obama.

We already have an Affirmative Action President that is putting the survival of the United Sates in the 21st Century in serious doubt.

Two Affirmative Action President in a row and we should just bend over and kiss our collective @ss "Good Bye".

You're the one screaming in all caps on this thread. So, as I've said, you have the emotional investment here. Let me remind you of the subject of the thread, as I consider thread hijacking rude and ignorant: It has to do with relations with friends re: Palin.

I have a big, big problem when the culture decides to run an ongoing Two Minutes Hate campaign against Republicans, so I defend Palin when people start to foam at the mouth with hatred over her. As you did when you trotted out those bull***t Steve Schmidt quotes. That's it.

Come back down to the Planet Earth.

And vote for....um, who, exactly? Mitt? He is the least electable Republican in America including the ones currently in prison. People who aren't Mormons hate him. The borderline socialist Huckabee? Please. You're being coy about who you actually do support here, which does not give me great confidence in the list of candidates who meet your high standards.

Further, you demand "name recognition" while pulling your dress over your head about the Republican with the highest name recognition in America (Palin). You alternately demand either "qualifications" or "name recognition" when it suits your argument against whoever I seem to like at the moment, while not daring to admit whatever Messiah you support.

One thing to consider when putting Obama and Palin on the same level.

One of them believes in the Constitution, and one of them doesn't.

Palin could do no worse than Obama or even Bush for that matter, and probably a damn sight better than Obama.

I have to wonder exactly what qualifies someone to be President anymore and I don't see anyone on our side that has a clue right now besides Palin.

I do know the one big disqualification is being a Democrat. They are enemies of the Republic, every damn one of them.