The American Mind

I’d totally get the Sarah doll if it came in either one of the suits she wore in the Governor’s mansion, or a camo outfit. Either way would be fine with me.

Unless you know the reason people are researching her you can’t really say, as the article implies, that it is all positive motivation. I suggest that detractors are out there as well digging dirt.

I still love her and think she can go as far as she wants!!!

I think she was quite obviously out of her depth as a vice presidential candidate, but she’s certainly a capable politician. I have enough reason not to like her simply due to her policy positions, but there’s much more to it than that. She and there rest of the McCain campaign was head-spinningly dishonest about her record. (Observe the bridge to nowhere and other pork barrel spending.) Plus, she was downright nasty in her attacks on Obama. I’m generally not squeamish about nor much disturbed by cheap shot campaign politics, but she was pretty remarkable. The whole socialist thing? C’mon. Way over the top and totally inappropriate.

Does she have a future in the Republican party? I expect so. But if the GOP truly believes she deserves a place in their leadership come 2012, all I can say is wow. The anti-intellectual know-nothing wing of the party is buying you all tickets on the fast train to Whig city, baby.

Sure Scott, we’ll take your advice. Its not like your an uber-liberal who has an axe to grind or anything…

Palin is a conservative rockstar. In the same way Obama is the liberal illuminati rockstar. It makes one wonder what would have happened if Palin would have gained steam earlier and taken on Obama in the election. I guess we will have to wait 4 years to see that some.

“Über” should have umlauts, and I prefer to spell it “ax” when I grind it. Still, I don’t know what any of those things have to do with whether I’m right or wrong. I think a great many people who are not liberals also believed that she was far out of her depth.

The difference between her rockstardom and Obama’s is that he is a rockstar who spent two years proving that his candidacy has seriousness to it. He spoke at hundreds of events, had innumerable press conferences and interviews, a dozen debates–and came through them all looking like a knowledgeable and serious candidate. Palin is the kind of rockstar who had very little time to demonstrate an appropriate level of gravitas. And what little opportunity she did have wasn’t very successful. You can only get so far on the charms of being a MILF with dropped Rs. At some point people want to know if you can do the job. I think most people weren’t convinced she could.

>>>The whole socialist thing? C’mon. Way over the top…

Not a stretch at all considering Obawan’s “justice of redistribution” comments. And given that his whole career has been centered on taking other peoples money, whether taxpayer’s or contributions, and doling it out to the “more deserving”, one cannot really say otherwise about his philosophic center, with perhaps the exception that considering his past he appears more communist than socialist.

“Über” should have umlauts, and I prefer to spell it “ax” when I grind it.

And if we all were to be picky, rockstar would be two words.

>>>… he is a rockstar who spent two years proving that his candidacy has seriousness to it.

Yes, indeed. Swayed by slick and pretty words and wholly empty rhetoric of “Hope” and “Change”

Never mind arugula and 57 states.

Had Obamamama been as scrutinized as Palin, had the MSM dumpster-dived his past as they did Palin’s (not to mention Joe the Plumber’s), had they thoroughly examined his close ties to Rezko and Aires and ACORN and Blagojevich and Wright and Davis, or inquired of where exactly all that Woods and Annenberg cash actually went or how he basically stole his first elected office or why his campaign refused to implement normal anti-fraud measures for on-line contributions or asked about his lack of legal scholarship or why he refuses to release his grades or why he lied about having quit smoking ….

Instead, the MSM hid his past purposefully and covered up his (and Biden’s) gaffes and mistakes and out-right fraud with flowery praise and unbridled tingly-leg enthusiasm, all the while obsessing on Palin’s shoes and something they termed “troopergate”.

>>> At some point people want to know if you can do the job.

How true. However, the comparison you make is entirely wrong.

You see, it was Obama v McCain, and there is no question that McCain was the far far more qualified candidate. If you want to compare Palin with someone, you must compare her with the mumble-mouthed Biden.