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Sunday, July 05, 2009
How on earth can anyone believe this woman should be president?
I'm serious. I want to know. I realize that the Republican Party has become an organization in which accomplishment, intelligence, knowledge and curiousity about the world and a plan for what one wants to do are regarded as liabilities rather than assets, but really....on what basis should Sarah Palin be president?
Right now we are in two intractable wars left us by George W. Bush. North Korea is testing nuclear missiles. Climate change is occurring faster than even scientists predicted. Our health care system is a shambles. Our job base is disappearing. The problems facing our government are so massive they defy description. Right now we have a president who, whatever his flaws, and he has many (most notably his coziness with Wall Street and his icky feelings about Teh Gays), at least can string his thoughts together coherently and whose worldview is about something other than personal grievance.
In traveling through Freeperville and the comments sections of various blogs, I'm struck by the way the zealousness of the Cult of Sarah has absolutely nothing to do with actual policy. It's all about the popcorn fantasies of people who think that the Reign of Queen Sarah I will be about sitting on the couch watching the ritual massacre of all liberals.
So, wingnuts...suppose you get to watch that spectacle. What then?
What does Sarah Palin do about North Korea, a nation with nuclear weapons the leader of which was taught by George W. Bush, and has since shown the rest of the world, that if you have nukes, the U.S. will leave you alone; it's only if you don't that you get invaded.
What does Sarah Palin do about this country's diminishing job base in manufacturing, high tech, and other industries, a reality that has affected her home state?
Presumably Sarah Palin denies the reality of climate change. OK, then, what does she propose to do to help people whose homes are damaged by flooding, hailstones, tornadoes, Category 5 hurricanes, and other manifestations of climate change?
And while this doesn't seem important in the larger sphere of things, can you imagine having a president who quits because the press and bloggers are being mean to her, and then has her lawyer threaten to sue anyone who speculated on her reasons for resigning?
Need I go on?
What is this woman about, other than feeding the ragegasm of angry white people?
And on what planet is being a member of a group whose sole purpose is secession from the U.S. somehow "patriotic"? How does quitting make you a fighter? How does siccing your lawyers on people who say mean things about you make you the kind of conservative that rails against trial lawyers?
On what is this cult of Sarah based? Do they ALL just want to fuck her?
Here's the tragedy of Sarah Palin: If she weren't a mean-spirited right-wing Christofascist narcissistic nutball, she COULD have been the kind of feminist around which women could rally. If she were about helping other working mothers and parents of special-needs children and health care for all and a stable job base, she could have been a credible contender for first female president. But alas, she is only an aging beauty queen, a Mean Grrrl who in politics has found a way to extend her reign as Prettiest Girl in High School to use people (or states) and then throw them away when they stop feeding her massive ego -- or the gaping hole in her soul which no amount of attention will fill.
Right now we are in two intractable wars left us by George W. Bush. North Korea is testing nuclear missiles. Climate change is occurring faster than even scientists predicted. Our health care system is a shambles. Our job base is disappearing. The problems facing our government are so massive they defy description. Right now we have a president who, whatever his flaws, and he has many (most notably his coziness with Wall Street and his icky feelings about Teh Gays), at least can string his thoughts together coherently and whose worldview is about something other than personal grievance.
In traveling through Freeperville and the comments sections of various blogs, I'm struck by the way the zealousness of the Cult of Sarah has absolutely nothing to do with actual policy. It's all about the popcorn fantasies of people who think that the Reign of Queen Sarah I will be about sitting on the couch watching the ritual massacre of all liberals.
So, wingnuts...suppose you get to watch that spectacle. What then?
What does Sarah Palin do about North Korea, a nation with nuclear weapons the leader of which was taught by George W. Bush, and has since shown the rest of the world, that if you have nukes, the U.S. will leave you alone; it's only if you don't that you get invaded.
What does Sarah Palin do about this country's diminishing job base in manufacturing, high tech, and other industries, a reality that has affected her home state?
Presumably Sarah Palin denies the reality of climate change. OK, then, what does she propose to do to help people whose homes are damaged by flooding, hailstones, tornadoes, Category 5 hurricanes, and other manifestations of climate change?
And while this doesn't seem important in the larger sphere of things, can you imagine having a president who quits because the press and bloggers are being mean to her, and then has her lawyer threaten to sue anyone who speculated on her reasons for resigning?
Need I go on?
What is this woman about, other than feeding the ragegasm of angry white people?
And on what planet is being a member of a group whose sole purpose is secession from the U.S. somehow "patriotic"? How does quitting make you a fighter? How does siccing your lawyers on people who say mean things about you make you the kind of conservative that rails against trial lawyers?
On what is this cult of Sarah based? Do they ALL just want to fuck her?
Here's the tragedy of Sarah Palin: If she weren't a mean-spirited right-wing Christofascist narcissistic nutball, she COULD have been the kind of feminist around which women could rally. If she were about helping other working mothers and parents of special-needs children and health care for all and a stable job base, she could have been a credible contender for first female president. But alas, she is only an aging beauty queen, a Mean Grrrl who in politics has found a way to extend her reign as Prettiest Girl in High School to use people (or states) and then throw them away when they stop feeding her massive ego -- or the gaping hole in her soul which no amount of attention will fill.
Labels: insanity, Sarah Palin, wingnuttia
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republicans love stupidity - look at the past few weeks - they are forgiving mark sanford - so is HIS WIFE!
as someone who is jewish i dont know much about the rapture - but this sounds like it to me
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Thats all I have to say.
I wouldn't want her to be president, but I do admire her ability to send the Left into obsessive bouts of apoplectic fits. I'll miss that if she really does retire from the scene.
That video was later scrubbed from her Governor site and from You Tube. I know, I saw it before that happened.
Thanks for the lesson, G O P !!!
S
On what is this cult of Sarah based? Do they ALL just want to fuck her?
It isn't even about the fucking, really, so much as it is about stroking the egos of men who can benefit her politically. (She later dumps them when it's advantageous, but never mind that.) To cite an old urban myth, it's a lot easier for some guys to put up with a Catherine the Great if they think they're the horse.
You seem to have confused "delightfully mocking and pointing at" with "obsessive bouts of apoplectic fits". I mean, did you even read the post? Are you one of those people that thinks Stephen Colbert is serious?
You did, however, do a nice job of explaining the vaaaaaaast disconnect between the activists on the left and the activist on the right in this country.
One group sees Bailin' Sarah Palin as the face of contemporary conservatism and is ecstatically happy.
The other group.. well, shoot.. sees Bailin' Sarah Palin as the face of contemporary conservatism and is ecstatically happy.
I guess we're more alike than I thought.
"If"?
Hell, IF I had wings, then I could fly (I know where I would go).
Tragedy? You've got to be kidding. There is nothing tragic about the fact that Palin is a mean spirited greedhead. That is simply who she is, over and out.