Posted on 02/19/2011 4:09:28 AM PST by kevkrom
Bob Dole was a FIVE term Senator. When he ran for the Presidency in 1996, he had already completed FOUR years of his six year term. He did not resign from the Senate until AFTER he had won enough delegates from primary contests to SECURE the nomination.
The fact that you try to make some analogy to Bob Dole - not only an announced candidate, but the presumptive nominee - to Sarah Palin, is facially absurd. And, anyone who wasn't a moron, would see it.
Dole, correctly, didn't think it was fair to the people of AK to hold one office, while he was the presumptive nominee of another. Sarah Palin quit her job in 2009 - almost three years before the first 2012 primary, and long before she even officially announced her candidacy. Your argument is specious.
I have made no secret that I am not a fan of Palin...so what? People talk about other politicians in here like cur dogs. It is only you butterfly-thin skinned Palin supporters that seem to have a problem with any type of criticism.
This is why she has no chance at the nomination. If people on FR, who agree almost 99% of the time on most issues, have these kinds of disagreements about her, what do you think the general public thinks? Get out of your FR bubble.
Give me your best defense for all the pin ups we have seen of Palin on FR. You want to throw the PC ‘offensive and derogatory card’, go ahead, defend Wonder Woman Sarah.
Read OldDeckHand’s post several times until it sinks in. He did a far better job than me explaining why your comparison to Dole was ridiculous.
I love how the antiplain idiots try to justify someone else quitting. Palin had her reasons to resign. Very good reasons just like Dole had his reasons. I happen to agree with both their reasons. They both resigned for their own reasons with the voters in mind. Your failure to accept that fact makes you a hypocrite. Deal with that also.
Your word choice seems to suggest you don't like her because she is a woman. There really is no defense that can be made against sexism. Just call it out and move on.
Yes, he quit AFTER he was the presumptive nominee and after he completed five full terms. Palin quit (in her first term) almost three years before the first primary. Some 1.5 years later, she still isn't a candidate for anything.
Deal with it.
Get over yourself. I worked for and supported Martha Roby, Congresswoman for the 2nd District in Alabama and she won. I would say to quit getting your panties in a wad, but you would pull the sexism thing on me. So don’t get your shorts in a knot.
Sarah Palin is an opportunist and is playing you people like a cheap fiddle. Her continued blathering on every subject on earth will be her undoing. Amazing that so called conservatives revert to the tried and true methods of the left...sexism. Oh brother. Sorry, sister.
“Defend her from what?”
I am not asking you to defend Sarah Palin. You are the one who has thrown the sexism card. I am asking you to defend all these stupid photo shopped pictures of Sarah Palin as Wonder Woman and other objects of ‘sexism’ that appear on threads on FR. If this is such an issue to you, then you should make it your mission to tell your fellow Palin supporters to quit doing this.
I have said before and will say again: I will vote for her if she is the nominee. I could not stay home and allow for this socialist to win another term. I have not heard the same out of Palin supporters if she is not the nominee, however.
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