Sarah Palin Has A God Complex

8:46 am EST March 7th, 2010 | Conservative, Republicans | 30 Comments

She claims it was ok to write on her hand, because you know, God did it too.

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30 Responses to “Sarah Palin Has A God Complex”

  1. jrfunkenstein says:
    March 7, 2010 at 9:38 am

    I can’t wait to hear how she’s also like George Washington, because she cannot tell the truth either.

  2. Dennis says:
    March 7, 2010 at 9:39 am

    This is not her fault. She is what she is, and what she is merits no disdain. She is feisty and public-spirited, and millions of people vibrate like tuning forks to her rhetoric. When she was suddenly forced to take a walk on the highest wire in America’s political circus, she showed grit.

    She also showed that grit is no substitute for seasoning. She has been subjected to such irrational vituperation — loathing largely born of snobbery — that she can be forgiven for seeking the balm of adulation from friendly audiences……

    –By George F. Will
    Thursday, February 18, 2010
    Washington Post

    “Loathing largely born of snobbery.”

    Indeed.

    Or, if you’re Wilbur, “En effet!”

  3. Wilbur says:
    March 7, 2010 at 9:47 am

    Dénis, plus court.

  4. Dennis says:
    March 7, 2010 at 9:58 am

    Au contaire, Gilbert.

    The point was, Palin has quite ably managed to make herself an extremely popular, highly marketable and handsomely profitable product largely as a result from the snobbery that the Left imparts on her.

    Will calling it irrational vituperation is just much more eloquent than the term I use for it; “obsession.”

  5. Wilbur says:
    March 7, 2010 at 10:08 am

    You forgot to mention why we should care what George Will says. About anything.

  6. The Dark Avenger says:
    March 7, 2010 at 10:14 am

    I think you should post when your blood isn’t tied up near your lower extremities, Dennis, the lack of blood to your cerebrum is pretty obvious in your posts about Sarah here…………..

  7. Dennis says:
    March 7, 2010 at 10:21 am

    Because unlike you apparently, most readers don’t need to have it spelled out for them. If they’re interested, they can read for themselves and agree or disagree. What Palin said had nothing to do with a God complex. She made a reference to God writing on his hand that the audience laughed at and then applauded. A scoff at the liberal left who went berserk over it. She is effective at taking the lemons, what Will calls ‘irrational vituperation’ towards her, ‘snobbery’ actually is what it boils down to, and making some very delicious lemonade out of it. Instead of your childishly amateur video link of ‘Leave Sarah Alone’, Palin is quite grateful to you all. I think she’s more of a mind to tell you to ‘Bring It On’ than she is to ‘Leave Me Alone’.

    I feel almost as if I’m condescending to you to have to explain that to you in such simple terms, Wilbur.

  8. Frank DiSalle says:
    March 7, 2010 at 10:44 am

    It is very common, especially among Protestant preachers I have heard, to make jokes about very specific citations in the Bible. Dennis is absolutely right — by no stretch of the imagination was she comparing herself to God. To do that, she would have written a person on her hand.

    Here’s Isaiah 49:16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands

  9. White Whale says:
    March 7, 2010 at 11:04 am

    “of course the dollar sign I have written on my hand tonight…”- Lemons and making lemonaide? More like she enjoys MOST of America scoffing at her because the rubes will pay her money for these speeches. Its not that she is just unqualified in the political spectrum but she is part of the Paris Hilton type culture that is infecting the more serious aspects of life.

  10. Wilbur says:
    March 7, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    Palin has quite ably managed to make herself an extremely popular

    Popular in the sense of “everybody likes to watch dingbats make fools of themselves on teevee”, sure.

    Popular in the sense of “I would seriously consider voting for her for president”? Only among a small and shrinking whackadoodle minority:

    There is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November survey. Even among Republicans, a majority now say Palin lacks the qualifications necessary for the White House.

  11. jr says:
    March 7, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    “OLIVER IS PART OF THE LIBERAL ELITE WHO WORK AT NON PROFITS. SARAH IS RELATING TO MIDDLE AMERICA. EVERYONE IN MIDDLE AMERICA GETS 6 FIGURES A SPEECH AND 7 FIGURE BOOK DEALS. JESUS MADE SARAH GIVE MEN STARBURTS TO COME CLOSER TO JESUS CHRIST. SHE COULDN’T FINISH HER TERM BECAUSE GOD NEEDED ANOTHER REALITY SHOW STAR.”-Matt Drudge

  12. zadura says:
    March 7, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    There was a time that the Republican party would have been quite happy to have been labeled snobbish. It was the time in which the conservative intellectual elite was establishing philosophy and principles. I suspect that William F. Buckley, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and von Hayek thought they were building the foundation on which future generations could organize institutions. They could never bring around the masses and their progeny have much less patience.

    Thus we have anti-intellectuals like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. Anybody that believes these are the successors has a weak view of either conservatism or of American history. In reality, Beck and Palin are the new vessels of bare demagoguery and populism. The problem for all of us is that the content today is focused on the elevation of financial interests, but in future could be turned to pitchfork radicalism without missing a beat.

  13. fafaroo says:
    March 7, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    Dennis, Sarah Palin hates you.

  14. KC says:
    March 7, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    So God can’t remember my name unless he cheats?

  15. abanterer says:
    March 7, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    George Will accused someone else of snobbery? Did lightning strike him after he wrote that? Will is himself is not just a snob, but he’s the Ur-snob.

    I have issues about Sarah Palin because she makes no sense. The few times she has committed to a specific policy on anything, it’s either been obvious, harmful, vague, or just plain wrong. That she is able to ‘press on’ despite being ridiculed by everyone else is not ‘grit’, precisely because she does insulate herself in a bubble of adulation. She hasn’t had a difficult question lobbed at her since she left the governor’s office. And it seems to me that even leaving it in the first place is indicative of quite an absence of ‘grit’. But, whatever – If people want to pay Sarah for giving them a speech on ‘what we oughta do’, then power to them.

  16. canadian bacon says:
    March 7, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Shit, and God Palin just spoke in “Canada” to thunderous applause. Only in Alberta. Dang.

    If you care –

    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2651556

  17. Wilbur says:
    March 7, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    And quoting George Will of all people on an anti-elitism screed. Toffie- nosed popinjays like Will will keep puffing Sarah up as long as they think she’s a convenient stick to beat the liberals with. As soon as she’s served that purpose they’ll toss her away as if she were trailer trash.

  18. Indeed says:
    March 7, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    America’s Finest News Source: Latest Sarah Palin Speech Opens Sixth Seal

    IDAHO FALLS, ID—Speaking unto an audience of anti-immigration advocates, global-warming deniers, and members of the Tea Party Nation, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave forth utterances Monday that reportedly opened the sixth seal of the Book of the Apocalypse.

    “Wow, it’s good to be here, just shootin’ the breeze with a bunch of real, hardworking Americans who love their freedom,” said Palin, her words echoing across the Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium as mighty tremors caused great unrest beneath the land and the sea. “So are the little guys like you and me gonna fight these Washington insiders with their big government agenda? You betcha we are!”

    And lo, there was then a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the moon became as blood; and “gosh” was spoken repeatedly; and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind.
    These disturbances reportedly went unnoticed by the audience, however, as their thunderous applause drowned out the sound of the foretold cataclysm.

    “This Tea Party movement just goes to show ya that America is ready for another revolution,” Palin said as things long ago divined came finally to pass. “Who do you think is gonna stand up for the freedoms promised by our Founding Fathers? Folks like us, or some socialist professor of constitutional law in the Oval Office?”

    It was then, witnesses claim, that there was a tearing of the heavens, and the skies receded as does a scroll when it is rolled up, and anecdotes about everyday middle-class Alaskan families were enunciated in down-to-earth tones.

    “That’s right, partner,” Palin said, as every mountain and island moved from its place, and flames overtook the lakes and the rivers and the seas. “Thanks, but no thanks.”

    According to biblical scholars, the opening of the seven seals described in the Book of Revelation will usher in the End Times, the Tribulation, the reign of the Antichrist, and the eventual salvation of the 144,000 chosen few. It is thought that the sixth seal’s opening will bring about the full fury of God, leading ultimately to the Day of Wrath.

    “Admittedly, this is not what we were expecting,” said Robert Harwood, a doctor of divinity at the University of Cambridge. “The Bible speaks of a beast with seven horns and seven eyes, not a raven-haired woman from the north who knows not what foolishness she speaks of.”

    “Still, there’s no denying it,” Harwood added. “The End of Days is upon us.”

    One member of the crowd not torn apart by swarming harpies told reporters he feared living in a country where his daughters would grow up speaking Spanish and not be allowed to carry handguns.

    “Palin for president!” Bill Coleman, 37, of Topeka, KS chanted, and the stench of flesh rotting in the belly of Satan rose up, and the stench of death rose up. “Sarah Palin for president!”

    “Small town folks—the folks who grow our food, run our small businesses, and teach our kids—are getting pretty riled up by President Obama’s big socialist ideas,” Palin spoke as the stage upon which she stood was rent apart by an unseen hand, opening as unto a great chasm, whose gaping void she narrowly escaped by clinging to the podium.

    “Uh…how’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?” Palin added.

    Chaos and disorder then spread across hill and valley to every corner of the earth, eyewitnesses reported, and as the minions of the Antichrist prepared for their millennium of world dominion, even the teeming masses of heathens could not in their hearts deny that the final phase of Armageddon was close at hand, and that you’re darn right Joe Six-Pack pays too many taxes already.

    The Antichrist, whose true identity remained unknown as of press time, will reportedly come to torment the sinners of humanity as soon as the seventh and last remaining seal is opened.

    “I’m so happy that we’ve got the liberal left running scared,” Palin concluded. “Because whatever the TV pundits might want you to think, from where I’m standing, the future looks really good.”

    Why is God so condescending?

  19. Dennis says:
    March 7, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    Why not just post a link and save tons of bandwidth, Indeed?

    Or maybe everyone here should do what you feel compelled and privileged to do.

  20. The Dark Avenger says:
    March 7, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    Yah know what, Dennis, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so in the spirit of your suggestion I bring this, and nothing more.

    Enjoy!

  21. Dennis says:
    March 7, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    Why, thanks, DA. You see, Indeed has no idea why he is just as much the troll as anyone else on here.

    Jay Tea had him pegged accurately a long time ago:

    “Indeed” is a true rara avis — a unique specimen of troll. He trolls on the side of the site’s owner. I don’t think I’ve ever seen his like.

  22. The Dark Avenger says:
    March 7, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    You didn’t click the link, did you Dennis?

  23. Dennis says:
    March 7, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    I did, actually. We record SNL every week, but sorry, no matter which political side they spoof, it’s rare that anything on that show is funny anymore.

  24. Frank DiSalle says:
    March 7, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    DA, that was actually funny — a true representation of what the Left thinks would happen if Gov Palin were elected President in 2012.

  25. The Dark Avenger says:
    March 7, 2010 at 6:47 pm

    Yah think so Frank DiSalle?

    Actually, if it got you thinking, that’s such a rare event in the first place…………

  26. Oliver Willis says:
    March 7, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    Will is himself is not just a snob, but he’s the Ur-snob.
    BINGO. Being lectured on snobbery from George Will is kinda like… being lectured on snobbery from George Freaking Will.

  27. Jaim says:
    March 7, 2010 at 8:25 pm

    “Why not just post a link and save tons of bandwidth, Indeed?”

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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  30. jrfunkenstein says:
    March 8, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    ‘The point was, Palin has quite ably managed to make herself an extremely popular, highly marketable and handsomely profitable product largely as a result from the snobbery that the Left imparts on her.’

    You’ve got to be kidding.

    I suppose the fact that her bottomless ignorance and inflated self worth haven’t appealed to those equally short shrifted in cognitive reasoning, education, humility and intellectual curiosity?

    She plays to her her audience of like minded mental midgets, which is the sum of her popularity.

    Pretending to be some kind of down home hero when you’re nothing more than a crass social climber has exposed Palin to the warranted criticism she continues to manufacture with her vulgar ego and woeful inability to admit her voluminous failings.

    But then, she couldn’t possibly write all that on her hand.