An Orgy of Indignation (Conservative self flagellation alert.)

http://www.rasmussenreports.com ^ | June 16, 2009 | Debra J. Saunders

[Maelstorm]

I wish Sarah Palin would just go away.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, I wrote about the unfair personal treatment to which the political press corps subjected Palin and her children. Now I just want her to stop milking her role as GOP martyr.

Palin should stick to her day job -- by which I mean, governing Alaska, not being fodder for talk-show humor.

Both parties have their umbrage industries -- thanks to true believers, who love nothing better than to see themselves as victims of a perceived double standard. Last week, comedian David Letterman's two off-color jokes about a Palin family trip to New York led to an orgy of indignation.

Yes, I know that a politician's family -- especially their minor children -- is supposed to be off-limits. Letterman apparently thought he was joking about 18-year-old teenage mom Bristol Palin, unaware that 14-year-old Willow Palin went to Yankee Stadium.

[bigbob]

Liberal Translation: Joke around about Palin daughters being raped, it doesn’t matter much which one...

Because Sarah Palin SCARES them so badly. That’s why. She can win and they know it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Is this the same lady who was whining about how we were going to miss the news media when it was gone?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Republicans who want to win back Washington would do well to look for a winner. Not a victim.

She give her self away here---Romneyite.

[DTogo]

Notice how none of the attractive Conservative women have a problem with Sarah Palin?

[Maelstorm]

You have that right. Even when we win there are those among us who are committed to losing. What is accomplished by this kind of self indulgent crap? Nothing. It gives the left a finger to point and say “here here there is a Republican who thinks Sarah is just being a poor sport and should take her licks like a big girl.”

[Rashputin]

So, now she's being called a milk maiden. What low thing next, that she failed to commit suicide after the media were tough on her? That she didn't defect to a Muslim country once someone said she dressed ‘slutty’? Is this author supposed to be a republican and if so, is he from the Powell wing of the democrap party just on vacation or something?

Toooo, much.

Regards

[popdonnelly]

“Republicans who want to win back Washington would do well to look for a winner. Not a victim.’

Sarah Palin is anything but a victim. But some Republicans act like victims - of an abusive relationship with liberals and leftists.

[ReneeLynn]

Yes, is Hillary were afraid of someone winning she’d think of something more dastardly and behind-the-scenes to do than whine in an article. She must have come up blank on Obama.

But, this chick? To her I say, Oh shut the h*ll up and leave Sarah alone.

[ReneeLynn]

‘if’

[Nervous Tick]

>> I disagree. IMHO, they’re useless twats.

I say twit-todo
you say twat-todo

Let’s call the whole thing awful.

[popdonnelly]

How does Saunders feel about Ed Schultz calling Palin “political slime”? Are we supposed to sit back and take that, too? Maybe Saunders should try asserting herself as a human being with human rights.

[pallis]

All Sarah did was go to a ballgame. She didn’t do anything to invite Letterman’s slime. He is a scumbag trying to be funny. Sarah is doing her day job, quite well, by the looks of it. Nothing she can do will keep the left from hating her and attacking her. They are afraid of Sarah, and they will do anything they can to destroy her. It’s what they do. Why should she go away?

[Jeff Chandler]

This bears repeating:

President GW Bush “went away” (ignored too many media attacks) and ceded the US to the DEMS

[freekitty]

You have to wonder about people like this author who don’t seem to know how to think or process information.

[Jim from C-Town]

Saunders is a Republican? I just read a couple of her articles and find her to be anything but a Republican. A morally lost leftist idiot is what I was able to glean from her poorly written and badly organized thought process.

If convoluted logic was an asset, she would be pure gold.

[Col Freeper]

-- by which I mean, governing Alaska, not being fodder for talk-show humor.

This statement is so dumb it's almost unbelievable.

Gov. Palin is now responsible for Letterperv's "jokes" about her underage daughter (as well as all the other perverted comments he has been making)?

Another Noonanite spewing meaningless words.

Must be afraid of not getting invited to the leftist parties.

Gov. Palin's arrival on the political scene seems to really be stripping away the fake "conservative" cover many have been hiding behind.

Oh well, I'll just skip reading any further articles posted on FR written by this individual.

[JLS]

Oddly she has a point about Gingrich, but what in the world was Palin suppose to do? She did not come to NY to bait Letterman into smearing her and her family. Or is she supposed to know he’s a liberal and can not help himself?

[Islander2]

Again.....

This bears repeating:
President GW Bush “went away” (ignored too many media attacks) and ceded the US to the DEMS.

Going away, or becoming a wussy is guaranteeing that you lose.

Mahalo

[JoJo Gunn]

With all due respect, you shouldn't have edited it. The line goes beyond any political boundary, and needs to stand as an immortal shrine to knee-buckling stupidity.   

"Palin should stick to her day job -- by which I mean, governing Alaska, not being fodder for talk-show humor."