Posted on 08/27/2010 11:49:37 AM PDT by onyx
It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,” with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted between the president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, and Governor Palin of Alaska.
The leader of Big Labor went to Anchorage to give a speech and attacked Mrs. Palin, accusing her of doing everything from writing notes on her hands to coming out with conspiracy theories about President Obama and his “death panels” to getting close to calling for violence. “Sometimes — about Sarah Palin — you’ve just got to laugh,” Mr. Trumka said. “ . . . But it’s not really funny.”
Mrs. Palin turned around and gave as good as she got, or better, in one of her patented Facebook postings, a demarche headlined “Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause!” She wrote as a one-time card-carrying sister of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and United Steelworkers, cards she held by virtue of her husband’s membership in the two unions.
She asserted that it was “kind of ironic that a union boss has the gall to accuse anyone of threatening violence,” particularly in light of what she called the “violent attempts” by the Service Employees “to intimidate those who wanted to make their voices heard in last year’s town halls.”
She argued the real jobs problem was being caused by the policies of President Obama. Suddenly the Internet came alive like the silver screen, so much so that a columnist of the Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, issued a long complaint.
Seems that Mr. Trumka can’t get anyone to listen to, let alone write about, his usual speeches about what Mr. Dionne characterizes as “social CONTINUE
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Except I never accused anyone specifically of worhsipping her. So those who took offense did so on their own.
And you can also stop saying that I said “ALL” Palin supporters were worshippers. I did not.
The ironic part is that I am indeed a staunch (yet objective) Palin supporter, but folks revolted like I’m some anti-Palin troll.
Whatever. We all support/worship differently, I guess.
Oh, I like that! I must remember to save it.
Yeah...thanks for the wisdom and revelation. Lots of people had no idea she's a fallible human being until you spoke up.
Pathetic Little Concern Troll.
Well if she doesn’t run, make sure you cling to some big name “that can win”. Lord knows we could use another McCain type to beat Obama, eh?
In my own defense, however: I plead not-being-able-to-keep-all-the-haters-hereabouts-straight. Whichever amendment that one is. [::hangs head in abject shame::]
Actually, I was agreeing with you.
If all you can do is call people names (a sure sign of intelligence), can you please tell me what a Concern Troll is?
Good for Sarah. I can’t help but compare that to the recent controversy regarding Ann Coulter’s decision to speak at Homocon.
Cry me a river.
They are nuttier than a Planter’s factory.
What with just his name here (pissant, a stinky little insect) plus his abject horror at the fact that Sarah Palin even exists, and his hundreds of nasty hateful childish posts, Hunter would be wize to dissassoiate himself from this obvious plant who, if a conservative, makes them look like idiots.
I have actually pinged Duncan Hunter to some of pissant's nasty posts, and IIRC I posited almost your same words. Strange to me that Duncan Hunter would want to entertain the advocacy and sponsorship of the member who posts mean and nasty about other Republican conservatives.
Added to that his posts about women were enough to gag a maggot. Jim warned him about that and also about Sarah Palin and told him to seek help.
Duncan Hunter must be an awfully busy man. I guess he never bothered to read any of his pings. He should sign-in once in a while. He would get quite an education.
Thanks, kalee! I’m happy you enjoyed the editorial!!!
And that’s important to know because....?
LOL. They’e a dwndling, but nasty little group.
You betcha! Good for Sarah. About time she got some praise in the print press!
Agreed. Even Jay Severin was speaking optimistically about her on his show today.
Has he not liked her?
My mistake. It sounded like you were calling folks like myself who support Palin "fanatics."
Well he surely can't be busy looking over his vote totals from the 2008 primaries. That would only take a few minutes.
Hey, Duncan, do you, or not, agree with your boy, pissant (aka AJM), in regard to Sarah Palin?
What a good Samaritan you are. Maybe you can Ping him to the posts accusing him of being under FBI investigation, or posts that site CREW who call him (and his son) corrupt, or the one yesterday calling him a "whining b*tch".
Or maybe this one: Wasn’t he involved in some particularly nasty scandal involving a woman that could come out and hurt his chances?
. OR maybe Conservatism wins everytime it is tried, Hunter should try it.
There's lots more. Funny thing is, never once have I whined about it. Just returned fire where I could and let others retrun fire as they see fit.
Maybe we should all write letters to Palin begging her to disown her cult here. The ones that attempt to kneecap every single potential rival. Do I need to even repeat the names that Huck and Mitt and TPaw and Newt have been called?
Sarah would be so ashamed of her cult here. She should sign in some time, she'd get quite an education.
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