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And in the meantime, any new discussions about her are swept up and dumped into this one thread. I suppose this makes her supporters here happy. They never could take much criticism of her.
Do you think the mods will dump your new thread here or just delete it?
It’s more likely that she will never get anywhere near the White House, and not just because of her own limitations. The Palinist “real America” is demographically doomed to keep shrinking. But the emotion it represents is disproportionately powerful for its numbers. It’s an anger that Palin enjoyed stoking during her “palling around with terrorists” crusade against Obama on the campaign trail. It’s an anger that’s curdled into self-martyrdom since Inauguration Day.
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These are the cries of a constituency that feels disenfranchised — by the powerful and the well-educated who gamed the housing bubble, by a news media it keeps being told is hateful, by the immigrants who have taken some of their jobs, by the African-American who has ended a white monopoly on the White House. Palin is their born avatar. She puts a happy, sexy face on ugly emotions, and she can solidify her followers’ hold on a G.O.P. that has no leaders with the guts or alternative vision to stand up to them or to her.
Yeah; amazing, ain't it! Even in her hour of departure, they can't quite leave her alone. She apparently saw the light, what the remainder of her political term would be like, and she didn't want to waste the Alaskan taxpayer's money fighting off the mean-spirited moron pundits.
Of course, they had to do her in, because she was a real threat to them and the status quo, being such a Washington misfit and all, and able to deal with reality as she did.
She's really the last sort of person that could have hoped to fit in to the endless and dreary fights that characterize DC politics. Although she may also be exactly what this country needed, we'll never know, and the existing one-party masquerading as two will continue.
Too bad for us, but then, perhaps the Second American Revolution will take care of those good ol' boys in DC. Patience, lads.
"Patience, lads" -- lol, what are you, Robert Shaw?
I don't care for a lot of her thinking but I like Sarah Palin personally. A lot of the attacks on Sarah Palin are coming from her own party. The problem is that she took on the Republicans and exposed some Republican corruption during her rise to Governor of Alaska.
The Republican party is trying to find a leader right now. Sarah Palin has star power and can attract huge crowds wherever she goes. The Republicans are scared to death of her. The Democrats don't like any republican especially the 'Family Values' types and are piling on. Its got to suck being Sarah Palin right except for the fact that she is about to become filthy rich!
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In an interview with the Washington Times, resigning Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) made a surprising admission: Her own son doesn't vote with the party she represented on the national state last fall. Asked what she would do once she stepped down from her post, Palin told the paper she would campaign for candidates she favored, whatever their party:
If you actually read the article and pay attention to who's saying what, the words democrats, republicans, independents, issues, values, etc. are all words other people are using (including the journalist who wrote the article).....those words are all used to interpret what she was quoted as saying, which was:
"I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or afffiliation"
She uses the word "candidates", which are people that are running for office.....she also uses the words, "the right things" which doesn't necessarily mean she's talking about issues or her values. People make assumptions which they and others then draw conclusions from but, there's no reason to do that (nor should you), if you just pay attention to what is actually being quoted....what the person actually said.
Lol -- in other words she's still as inarticulate as ever.
Those who sniff the rarified air in the GOP are in for a rude awakening. This war at home is not about political parties as much as it is about the urban elite versus everyone else.
Those who sniff the rarified air in the GOP are in for a rude awakening. This war at home is not about political parties as much as it is about the urban elite versus everyone else.
"country club bluebloods" vs. "the real America"?
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