The loving couple:
Posted on 05/11/2011 4:59:11 PM PDT by Nachum
I'm glad Andrew Sullivan has responded to my Sarah Palin piece. You'd hate to write as much about her as I did and not have it register on the Dish. That would be like if you were a large white whale and Ahab just ignored you.
Andrew's response covers a lot of terrain, and I agree with his point that Alaska is essentially a socialist state, or more accurately, a ward of the federal government (for more on that, see this excellent Charles Homans piece in the Washington Monthly). In fact, its perverse tax structure is one reason why Alaska became such a corrupt mess--it levies no sales or income tax, and relies almost exclusively on oil taxes and royalties (plus the feds). So it's no wonder that the oil interests' political power grew to the point of corruption. But that wasn't Palin's doing--and she, more than anyone, fought against it.
Andrew's other big gripe is, I'm afraid, a bit of a straw man woman. He suggests that I've presented Palin as being "deep down, a bipartisan progressive reformer, foiled by a cynical McCain campaign," some sort of pointy-headed wonk who'd "rather be discussing healthcare policy at the New America Foundation." (Heh.) Furthermore, I am "reckless" for not realizing that:
Palin is not and never was driven by policy but resentments... That oil tax was a way to get back at the Republicans she hated (and who had humiliated her), and to win power by a populist appeal, backed by a virulent Christianism - hostile to the moneyed elites of the GOP and unmentioned by Josh.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Sullivan is just pissed because as he was watching the 2008 GOP Convention Sarah showed up to give her speech in the same dress he was wearing.
He is obsessed because he lusts after her, and that is confusing him.
Neither one of these two PDS losers understand Sarah Palin.
You stole my post ... :)
Volumes could be filled on what Sullivan doesn’t “get” about Palin.
"necessary discipline" / "serious candidate" - some 'pedestal, huh, Joshua? You mean, like those exhibited by more "disciplined" and "serious" candidates like...
- Albert 'I invented the Internet' Gore
- John 'I earned my medals' Kerry
- John 'the Maverick' McCain
They do not get our conservatism they never will, but they do get her ability to go over them and not through them as they try to play "The College of Cardinals" as they pick the successor.
She is the metaphorical Martin Luther and it scares the Merde out of them.
They know in their guts she cannot be stopped.
It is their worse nightmare, Reagan in a Mini-Skirt that will nix all their Utopian fanstasies...
January 23rd-ish 2013, it will suck to be Chrissy, Angrea, and Maddcow....
I nearly choked on my Homemade chocolate chip ice cream thanks to that answer!
There’s a lot Sullivan doesn’t get period, like human sexuality.
“Sarah showed up to give her speech in the same dress he was wearing.”
LOL! That is funny!
Opinionators get into a simplistic love-hate thing with public figures. Sullivan doesn’t want to hear anything bad about Obama and won’t consider anything good about Palin. He doesn’t get that he’s half a world away from Alaska and knows nothing about local conditions there. That’s a temptation for all pundits — they start to believe that the world is as simple as their columns — but gays in particular tend to be pretty narrowly focused on simple “yay-boo” interpretations nowadays.
The loving couple:
The loving couple:
My night would have been just fine without that photo!
I can ‘almost’ get the gay blades being affected by PDS, what I don’t understand is other women. Hearing all the chatter about jealousy is just not ringing true for me - it’s something else and I’ve yet to get an honest answer from any of my friends as to what and why they suffer as they do.
Joshua Green, you are overlooking the fact that after Palin got her start as an excellent Governor, she joined the McCain ticket and boosted McCain’s numbers.
McCain lost the election. He had Palin on a leash so she couldn’t do anything. To say Palin lost the election is idiotic.
Jealousy.
Palin HAS the good-looking macho husband AND an active career AND a good homelife AND the children they either can't ever attract, couldn't keep attracted, have already rejected through divorce, or have aborted out earlier in their life.......
I am rinsing my eyeballs with bleach.
“loving couple” bleh
“she joined the McCain ticket and boosted McCain’s numbers.”
It has long been my contention that McCain would have lost by another 5-10% of the popular vote and who knows what in the electoral without Gov. Palin.
Why do gay couples resemble each other. It’s very nearly comical.
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