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Posted on 02/10/2010 10:54:16 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
If there was ever any doubt that Sarah Palin is a fool, she has removed it.
Once the governor of Alaska and a vice presidential candidate, Palin has left the confines of public office for the more sympathetic offices of Fox News.
She has also been acting as something of a de facto leader of the Tea Party movement.
Unfortunately, her new roles have not lent her the gravitas she was lacking as a politician.
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Palin has consistently shown herself to be thoughtless, uninformed, impulsive and opportunistic. If these are the qualities people look for in a leader, then this country has bigger troubles than the economy or war.
Palin hasn't ruled out a run for president in 2012. If conservatives truly want to end Obama's reign, we suggest that she is the wrong opponent to match against him.
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.insidenova.com ...
I wrote back to the opinion page editor with a rebuttal, and he asked me to consider making a column out of it (normally, we are confined to writing about local issues, but he figures there's a lot of local interest based on the comments and the calls he has received).
I'm not sure I want to, but I thought I'd get some responses here. I'll post my e-mail response to the editor below, a little later (I don't have access to it now, plus I want to see comments from others who might be more supported of Sarah Palin than I am).
I would appreciate if people would read the rest of the editorial. I can't post it all because of copyright. In the missing section, the editors discuss the "retarded" comments with Rahm and Rush, and her writing on her hand.
Sarah Palin is like a rorschach test; people seem to see what they want to see, and form harsh opinions one way or another.
For me, the hardest part of addressing this is the "retarded" bit. It is clear she really finds it offensive, while I don't like us going PC. But then she didn't react that way with Rush, instead going the route of "what was meant" rather than just saying the use of the word was offensive (which she did say through her spokesperson earlier).
And it seemed to me Rush really was mocking not just Rahm, but all those (mostly on the left) who go crazy over the use of a word to properly describe someone.
So I think I need help understanding that from some other perspectives. I disagree but can understand Palin saying that calling liberal senators 'retards' or "retarded' is bad (even though retarded seems like an excellent description of their actions). I could also understand Palin saying Rush was hilarious and that the liberals were "kooks" so that was great for Rush to make fun of "retarded".
But I can't reconcile the two; the editors argue she is gutless for not going after Rush, which I disagree with, but think the alternatives aren't much better.
Anyway, I look forward to reading how others would respond (also, anybody who wants to register and leave comments in the local paper, I encourage it if you are civil about it, there is a group of 4-6 liberals who seem to spend all their time commenting on articles.
Hey, if you do that, you can also go mock me in the comments of my columns. This week I was supporting abstinence-only education.
Over-use of the word “I” in your writings.
I would comment but its so stupid I try avoid arguments with idiots
It wastes your time and annoys the idiot
Keep trying. Palin is where she is because of her accomplishments. She has FAR more experience than the Obamaloon or any sub-SAT scoring reporter, and is far smarter.
Sorry, MSM idiots, ain’t buying your “she’s stupid” approach.
In any case, what does stupid have to do with the presidency?
Heck, we’ve got the Obamaloon there now. And he defines stupid.
For a woman called a fool, they sure are in paranoid fear of her.
There is no need to respond to every incondite article published in every two-bit rag by people who think what they do is actual work.
As you may have noticed; there are FReepers who write accurate, cogent, perceptive logic without breaking a sweat.
Idiots who group together as *The Editors* and concoct contorted, hateful nonsense should perhaps write books for a younger audience -kindergarten comes to mind.
For starters, Rahm Emmanuel is an important official of the WHITE HOUSE, appointed by POTUS, who WORKS FOR US, the taxpayers. He's not a satirist or a comic (Some guy after Jon Stewart, who is a nasty little potty-mouth himself, went on a F&^%ing Retard rampage, but he's on a comedy show. Those guys are often obscene--but they dont work for us and they don't work for you and me.
Some group for the disabled asked Sarah to speak to Rahm's outburst, and it worked beautifully, with Rahm humbling himself. That's what really made the critics mad...seeing one of their own humbled.
Refuse to go on the defensive. Always refuse to go on the defensive if you can possibly do so. The left has always had rules for others that they don't hold themselves to.
"Rahm isn't a comic or a satirist, in case you haven't noticed, you idiot, he's supposed to uphold the dignity of the US as if a jerk like yourself would know something like that.
I don't think we get very far by liking liberals. I don't think most conservatives understand just how dark and hateful are liberals' feelings toward us...and, really, just about everyone! They emanate antagonism.
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“Palin has consistently shown herself to be thoughtless, uninformed, impulsive and opportunistic”....
HA! HA!.....She’s still better than that DILBERT DUMB BUTT DISASTER currently in the White House....
The editors should be forced to name one politician with gravitas.
Classic crap from the “Wishful Thinking” (or, more accurately, “Self-fulfilling Prophecy” or “Tell a big lie often enough...” leftistmedia....
Fear . . . I smell fear.
Lotta PDS out there, but notice . . .
Take ANY of those hate pieces and substitute the name Obama for Palin. They’re describing their own godd!
The editor is just making sure we all know there’s plenty of ASS in Manassas. What a retard.
Meanwhile, when that model of conservative thought Rush Limbaugh uses the word "retard," Palin falls all over herself to defend him.
Does your editorial page editor know how to read and/or use a television or radio? Rahm Emanuel did not use "the word 'retarded,'" he used the term "f*****g retarded." Rush used the word "retard" in discussing Rahm Emanuel's outburst.
This goofball of yours also excitedly drools, "Furthermore, despite criticism of Obama's use of a teleprompter, Palin wrote crib notes on her hand to help her through her appearance at a recent Tea Party convention. Add hypocrisy onto her list of leadership qualifications." It is completely ludicrous to compare a speaker who needs a teleprompter and a script to converse even with small groups, to a speaker who has a few lines written on her palm to avoid forgetting important parts of a major address.
As a longtime journalist myself, I have to wonder how you could possibly work for such an over-the-top reactionary moonbat.
all this proves is that Manassas, Virginia has been fully and completely sucked into the inside-the-beltway alternate universe
HEY, you can nominate anyone, a rapist, a proven liar, a cocaine sniffer etc. as long as he is a RAT, don’t need no stenkin qualifcations, remember?
I wanted to emphasize that I was posting this for my own benefit, and explain why I was doing so.
Two words: Navy Corpseman. Perhaps Obama should write a dictionary on his palm.
They can’t distinguish between a high official of the Obama administration using a derogative to describe a group of people as opposed to a radio commentator making fun of said official by saying the same thing he did. They’ve convinced themselves that Rush leads the Republican Party.
Since the author of this POS is obviously a Leftist, it means she is exactly the candidate conservatives should choose. They are scared sh!tless of her!!
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