’)Put aside the crazy attacks coming from Palin intended to whip up terrorist/racist feelings, and simply look at what she does as a political character. What the hell kind of person is this to run for national office? I’m serious. She could be pro-choice and anti-war and I would say Sarah Palin sounds like a ninny. That fake accent (it goes in and out depending on who she’s talking to), the inability to speak properly, the phony down home phrasing. It’s like a bad movie version of a politician, but she’s real.
Republican or Democrat, WTF? Is the right so desperate that they not only look at this sort of person and see her acceptable, but in fact find her so worthy of praise many of them wish she were at the top of the ticket?
You have got to be kidding me. Unacceptable.
She’s a rejected Northern Exposure character.
(Note to world in general: more Northern Exposure references please.)
Best explanation ever! Rejected Northern Exposure character! LOL!
Dude, she fucking winked at least three times during her debate. Winked! I’m not particularly well-versed in the Marquis of Queesbury’s Rules of Debate, but I’m pretty sure that if you wink, you automatically forfeit.
She winked.
I was listening more than watching so the winks didn’t really register with me. When i saw all the mentions of “the wink” i thought there was just one. But looking at some of the clips now online which show her winks (plural)? Damn, I’m thinkin’ the woman has some serious nervous twitch goin’ on there, ya know?
Maybe McCain isn’t the one we should be worryin’ about strokin’ out, you betcha!
Governing is not the issue. Winning is the only issue.
When they selected Governor Palin, I think they were trying to kill two birds with one stone.
The media had convinced them that the country was full of women wh would vote for any woman who ran for office. The religious right did not support McCain.
The church lady was expected to be the rallying symbol for both those groups.
If you watch the tape of her 2006 debate you will see that she is having a joke at our expense.
I would have a problem with the likes of her on my PTA.
Not only is there something desperately wrong with her, there is something far more wrong about an electorate that allows and wants somebody like her, as OW says, to be at the top of the ticket. But then, she’s already behaving as if she’s at the top of the ticket, anyway. The press lets her get away with it. And here I thought Idiocracy was set 500 years from now.
Too wierd to be amongst Northern Exposure’s eccentrics, and a lookalikey of Peggy Hill to boot (but without the charm, brains or lovability).
Given her husbands militia leanings, and her history (only documented in one photo, but come on, it was an official photo) of being sympathetic (if not supportive) of the John Birch Society, it actually makes a lot of sense. Those kinds of movements are thick with individuals who in normal like would be considered less than average. And they like seeing people like themselves in positions of power (hence George W’s popularity). Smarts has nothing to do with it. If she can spout the right talking points (Blacks sub-human, Jews evil, Trilateral Commission, etc.) she’s part of the gang. It’s not surprising to me that there have been reports of folks shouting things like “Kill him!” “Terrorist!” or “Traitor!” and she hasn’t blinked (or winked for that matter). As I was reading the various reports today of the various racially tinged outbursts today, the same name kept leaping to mind: David Duke. Palin is the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with the White nationalist movements in this country: for starters, most of what those movements are built on is patently wrong. So, for her to lie or make extreme (i.e., racist, anti-semitic, anti-World Order, etc) statements is really just part of a theme.
She sounds kind of… Canadian to me. And all that “hockey-mom” garbage is kind of a red light. Can we trust her not to sign the country over to Ottawa?