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Why can't Republicans just admit when they choose a horrible candidate?
Democrats do it too but the GOP seems to pick horrible VPs like Quayle and Palin.
Can anybody just imagine a President Palin today?
Why can't Democrats admit their media allies hold a double standard when it comes to treatment of women?
Palin started talking and that was the beginning of the end.
I think that's the bigger problem. Palin showed she was woefully unqualified. Mind you, she might have been very qualified, but it didn't help when she presented herself as not ready for primetime.
For the record, prior to 2008, I voted Republican. I probably watched right-leaning news broadcasts and read right-biased media. And I recognized Palin was a terrible choice. No amount of spin could have made Palin look like a good choice.
Sarah Palin fell out of popularity because she kept saying stuff like "Maverick" and sounding kind of silly.
And then, Tina Fey swept in with her absolutely spot-on satire of Palin, whoosywhatsit and all, and it was all over before she could really begin.
I truly believe if there hadn't been a Tina Fey, America would view Palin a little differently. You just can't unsee Fey's impersonation.
So because of Tina Fey's shtick, Democrats and their media wing thought it acceptable to reference Sarah Palin using the most disgusting of epithets, and to accuse her of motivating a mad man to go on a shooting rampage?
Never thought a comedienne could have such power over a political sect.
"...Because here’s the thing. The media didn’t just hate Palin because she was a conservative Republican woman. They hated her because she was attractive, charismatic, and the mother of a young family. They hated her because she was not a hypocrite, especially about abortion. They hated her because a lot of ordinary Americans liked her, despite her rustic affectations and awkward public presence. They hated her for much the same reasons McCain staffers like Nicolle Wallace, who later shamefully turned on Palin for pats on the head from the media, hated her: she was totally indifferent to the approval of the East Coast establishment, and she wasn’t afraid to laugh in its face and call out its vapidity and duplicity.
They could not know it at the time, but by destroying Palin they were sowing the wind. Many of the things the media hated about Palin they ended up getting tenfold in Donald Trump eight years later. In 2016, accusations of sexism against Trump fell flat, not just because Trump could point to the hypocrisy of Bill and Hillary Clinton on the subject, but because the Palin saga proved, to at least half the country, that Democrats and the media don’t care about sexism, even sexism of the worst kind, as long as it’s deployed in the service of their political agenda.
Now they come forward under the guise of calling out sexism in politics with a thinly-veiled attempt to preempt all legitimate criticism of Harris. It won’t work. Republicans and conservative media are not likely to treat Harris the way Palin was treated, but when Democrats and the media inevitably cry out that Trump is being sexist, that conservatives are being unfair, and that in retrospect they regret how they treated Palin, no one will be able to hear them above the whirlwind."
Not attractive in the least on any level without intelligence. Hard pass.
The Democrat Party and their media apparatus still owe Sarah Palin an apology for their accusations regarding the Tucson shooting.
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