Steve-b Alert!!!
Posted on 07/14/2009 5:04:36 AM PDT by steve-b
Sarah Palin is, and always has been, an intellectual and political featherweight. As a moose-killing Barbie doll, she was exactly what the Republican Party in Alaska wanted for a mouthpiece. She was adored by the Republican masses in Alaska (she carried a gun and favored secession, the only qualifications needed).
That worked well for Alaska. It enhanced the image of Alaska to have someone in frilly blouses, rather than plaid wool shirts, to front for their oil industry. Good for Alaska.
Then something weird happened. The Republican Party nominated the oldest person ever put forth by a major political party for president. While he seemed to be in good health, they were worried about the geriatric image this person gave of the Republican Party. Besides his advanced age, he espoused the same worn-out and proven ineffectual Ponzi schemes which were fast becoming revealed to an American populace, no longer content with the wool being pulled over their eyes.
With extreme misfortune for the Republican Party, the Democratic Party nominated a young, athletic, good-looking, vastly intelligent, multi-racial — and did I mention, young? — senator, with a photogenic wife and family. There was quite a contrast.
You had the old senator, with no plan, with "Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" for a theme song and a multimillionaire trophy wife to replace the plain one he had while a POW, against a dynamic young senator, with new ideas and new plans to take the country back to greatness, after eight years of mismanagement and malfeasance. And worst of all for the Republicans, he had the ability to say that he was not a bit like George Bush.
What could the Republicans do? Well, they couldn't put forward any plans. They didn't have any. They couldn't run against the people who brought America down. They were the people who brought America down. So what could they do?
Send in the clowns.
They thought: "We need something different. We need a woman on the ticket."
There were a few women in positions of power in the Republican Party who actually had some experience and were qualified to at least run for higher office. Did they pick any of those women? That would have made sense.
So they didn't do that. They picked their concept of what they needed to counteract the vitality of the Democratic ticket. They picked the Alaskan version of Britney Spears.
No thought was apparently given to finding out if this person actually had the ability or the smarts to possibly become a real live president of the United States. It wasn't worth their time to find out if this woman was remotely fit for the position. She looked and talked good. Sort of. In a Republican sort of way. And they just didn't care what she might and could do to America.
And did the wise old man, who was the titular head of the party, object when this person was presented to him as his running mate? Nah. Did he care about the future of America? Or did he think that this stunt might be the only way he could live in the White House? I suggest that you pick option 2. That's what happened.
Now I have to ask all the folks — the Republican base — who attended those rallies and screamed about and voted for the guy who wasn't quite sure how many houses he owned and the Barbie doll who thought "Russia was just over the horizon" was a foreign policy statement: If Sarah Palin had been elected as vice president, would you have thought it a grand idea that she would cut and run halfway through her term? Why finish her term when there are book deals and right-wing conventions to arouse for money?
You have to wonder what the John Boehner-type voters were thinking, if anything, when they cheered Sarah "Cut and Run" Palin. Not much, probably.
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Excellent post, and I could not agree more!
Barack Obama is, and always has been, an intellectual and political featherweight. As a Commie-loving Kennie doll, he was exactly what the Democrat Party in Chicago wanted for a mouthpiece.
How's that for "Fair and Balanced..?"
I like it. :)
The author makes some good points about McCain. The things he wrote about Palin are the stuff of fairy tales. He’s basically saying that a young, energetic liberal multi-racial man is far, far superior to a young, energetic conservative woman. In the real world he should be comparing Palin to Biden, but that could prove embarrassing for democrats and their state-run media pimps.
Steve-b Alert!!!
Does that sum it up?
Let’s see with only 1 siren.
Already replied, she needs to hit Health care reform too,.
Steve-b Alert!!!
Since Sarah spoken out against Cap N Trade, the Far Left will redouble its efforts to pressure wary Dem Senators to pass Cap N Trade. If Sarah is pro/con something, the Far Left will reflexively take the opposite stance of Sarah’s.
Steve-b Alert!!! John Kennedy was the King of Camelot.
Al Gore is the country's first Renaissance man.
Written by a guy who does bad boilerplate liberal op-eds for a suburban newspaper. Now that’s comedy.
Just another liberal who loves to beleive the sterotypes liberal make up about Republican’s. Think jr high school rumors. They are so narrow minded that they don’t even have a clue that most of what they believe is made up.
Oh, yes:
And if Sarah Palin had been elected vice president, there still would have been a mentally-disabled person living at One Observatory Circle. It’s just that it would have been the vice president’s youngest child, instead of the vice president.
RE :”Since Sarah spoken out against Cap N Trade, the Far Left will redouble its efforts to pressure wary Dem Senators to pass Cap N Trade. If Sarah is pro/con something, the Far Left will reflexively take the opposite stance of Sarah’s.”
I am not sure I see that, but assuming you are right, is that an argument for Palin to stay quiet?? Do we get single payer Obama-care if she speaks out against that too??
If Sarah wants to prove she is more than Caribou Barbie, she needs to speak out on the issues. If the Dems happen to pass the Messiah’s hellish policies out of a reflex hatred for her, then so be it. Let the fools who voted for the Messiah suffer under his policies. Let the Messiah own the bad economy completely.
LOL, you risk being burning at the stake by the believers YOU blasphemer.
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