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While I'm slappin' my knee and practically square dancing across the room due to your down, home, folksy style, I remain really confused about one thing...
How can you possibly equate smart and intellectual with anything negative? That's quite possibly the most irritating thing about the current version of the conservative movement... Anti-intellectualism first negates the hard work that many people do to get graduate degrees, to learn at top institutions and have a greater understanding of the planet and society...
Secondly it values idiocy and ignorance, which is just plain sad.
exactly!!!!! Whether Palin really is dumb, or she just acts that way so people will like her, I don't know, but both are sad and scary possibilities. People say the left is "scared" of her. No. But what does worry me is the following she has. she doesn't worry me. The sheep worry me.
While I'm slappin' my knee and practically square dancing across the room due to your down, home, folksy style, I remain really confused about one thing...
How can you possibly equate smart and intellectual with anything negative? That's quite possibly the most irritating thing about the current version of the conservative movement... Anti-intellectualism first negates the hard work that many people do to get graduate degrees, to learn at top institutions and have a greater understanding of the planet and society...
Secondly it values idiocy and ignorance, which is just plain sad.
True... yet they defend to the death doctors' incomes and businesspeople's right not to have to pay any further tax "because they went to school and worked hard."
you got 2 out of 3 articles on your side. Congrats. I did read the whole thing, thus the quote I posted from the last paragraph. You do this constantly - pick and choose quotes from your links that support your side. I don't know if you don't read them, or don't understand them, or what but the quote theolsarge posted from the article YOU posted says it all!
Here's the quote you posted. Is that the best you can do with THREE articles from Leftists praising Palin?
Quote:
"The speech was inspired drivel, a series of distortions and oversimplifications, totally bereft of nourishing policy proposals — the sort of thing calculated, carefully calculated, to drive lamestream media types like me frothing to their keyboards. Palin is a big fat target, eminently available for derision. But I will not deride. Because brilliance must be respected, especially when it involves marketing in an era when image almost always passes for substance."
Just that one little sentence is all you can point to? Inspired drivel - check. Distortion and oversimplifications - check. Bereft of policy proposals - check.
Hello? It wasn't a "policy" speech. It was Red Meat.
Here's the quote you posted. Is that the best you can do with THREE articles from Leftists praising Palin?
Just that one little sentence is all you can point to? Inspired drivel - check. Distortion and oversimplifications - check. Bereft of policy proposals - check.
Hello? It wasn't a "policy" speech. It was Red Meat.
Of course, you missed the last part I underlined.
Main Entry: sar·casm
Pronunciation: \ˈsär-ˌka-zəm\
Function: noun
Etymology: French or Late Latin; French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmos, from Greek sarkasmos, from sarkazein to tear flesh, bite the lips in rage, sneer, from sark-, sarx flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwarəs- to cut
Date: 1550 1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain 2 a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b: the use or language of sarcasm
Here's the quote you posted. Is that the best you can do with THREE articles from Leftists praising Palin?
Just that one little sentence is all you can point to? Inspired drivel - check. Distortion and oversimplifications - check. Bereft of policy proposals - check.
Hello? It wasn't a "policy" speech. It was Red Meat.
Of course, you missed the last part I underlined.
why do you just ignore the fact that the author called her speech "drivel" and "a series of distortions"? Do you really think this was a complimentary review? You do know what a "distortion" is right? Some might call them "lies." That's fine and dandy with you? "all image and no substance." Is that what you are after in a leader?
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True... yet they defend to the death doctors' incomes and businesspeople's right not to have to pay any further tax "because they went to school and worked hard."
It *is* amazing.
People would much rather defend the $250,000 a year that they will NEVER earn than improve their current state....
You give a speech riddled with falsehoods about the president and national security, and then try to shrug them off as the "lamestream" media attacking you.
You don't fool me, even as your legion of fans considers you the second coming of President Reagan. You quit on the people who elected you to become a political celebrity, which your presidential running mate blasted then-Sen. Barack Obama for doing.
You had the opportunity to show everyone that you're willing to take on anyone who crosses the line against those who are mentally challenged, and you failed.
Please, make as much money as you can. Paraphrasing comedian Martin Lawrence, ride this train until the wheels fall off. But please, cut the crap. You're a crass politician with no true conviction. Your actions have shown that.
As a big fat liberal, I LOVE Sarah Palin and the teabaggers!
RUN, SARAH, RUN!!!!!!!
Palin/Brown 2012
Tea Party RULES!!!!!!!
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"all image and no substance." Is that what you are after in a leader? 
