Sarah Palin only treated unfairly in one sense...
Tim Howard
new book, her speeches, and her rather disastrous campaigning in New
York's special Congressional election. Her detractors now include
almost as many on the right as the left, due to how foolish she has
sounded in all these venues. I will say right now that I have no plans
to read "Going Rogue", but from what I have heard (starting before the
book was even released) she comes off like a whiny victim who is blaming
a lot of people for being treated unfairly. Well, for the most part I
don't agree with that crap, but I do agree she is treated unfairly by
the conservatives in one sense--and not in the way her and her
supporters mean.
Her critics on the right nearly all say, that while they like her
personally, that she does not have the intellect, worldliness, grasp of
the issues, etc. to be President. While I agree with those statements
wholeheartedly, I think they are being unfair in one sense. What they
really should confess is that they think she is a woman who does not
have the intellect etc... The fact is that Republican male equivalents
of Sarah Palin are embraced by the Republican party. The numbers are
too numerous to mention, but of course the best examples are their idol
Ronald Reagan, and G.W. Bush. Republicans never pretended, even when
McCain picked Palin for VP, that she was very educated on the issues.
They liked her because of her charm, charisma, appeal to the "base", her
strong belief in God, and of course because she is what mid-westerners
call a "plane talker" (meaning not sounding intellectual). Aren't those
the same characteristics that could describe Reagan and Bush--style over
substance, personality over brains? While she has her fans in the
extreme activist wing of the Republican party, the "establishment"
clearly does not and never did want her to be in an elected position of
real power. As the politically boorish (but entertaining as a comedian
and commercial pitchman) Ben Stein said recently, "she would make a
great talk-show host, but not a President." Reagan and Bush were not
really qualified to be President either, and only accomplished a lot
(rather you think good or bad) because they surrounded themselves with a
lot of people who did do the thinking and were politically of the world
around them. But Republicans embraced them. While few like to talk
about G.W. now, Reagan is still revered. This is the contraction--a
dim-bulb but charming male ideologue who comes across well in speeches
and on TV is not only fine but is the ideal for the Republican party,
but a female is only good for symbolism and rallying the base. Either
the Republicans should raise the bar on their male candidates for
President, as well as all levels office (which would be preferable), or
at least stop being hypercritical about Palin.
Personally, I hope Sarah Palin does go Rogue and runs for President
(which will only happen if God and Tod tell her to). It will be a
loose-loose situation for the Republicans no matter how they react.
Dänk 1010011010
> Personally, I hope Sarah Palin does go Rogue and runs for President
> (which will only happen if God and Tod tell her to). It will be a
> loose-loose situation for the Republicans no matter how they react.
Sarah Palin is a tool of the Democrat party's propaganda department.
All the hype surrounding Sarah Palin is part of a massive marketing
campaign designed to damage the Republican party.
Most rightards are reactionaries, and will automatically reject
anything the Democrats support, and they also love everything the
Democrats hate. The more the Democrat party pretends to hate Sarah
Palin, the more the rightards adore her.
If Sarah Palin wins the 2012 Republican primary, she will lose in a
landslide and take the party down with her. If she loses the primary,
her Tea Party disciples will run her on their own ticket, and she will
split the rightard vote and Obama still wins.
You are the first leftard I've seen to state the obvious, that Sarah
Palin's popularity acutally benefits the Democrat party, and yet you
all continue to treat her like the Antichrist, because manufactured
fear is being used to manipulate public opinion. Propaganda at its
finest, the use of applied psychology to manufacture whatever public
attitudes the Party desires.
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"He took a dime out of his pocket. There, too, in tiny clear
lettering, the same slogans - HOPE, CHANGE, PROGRESS - were inscribed,
and on the other face of the coin the head of Chairman Obama. Even
from the coin the eyes pursued you. On coins, on stamps, on the
covers of magazines, murals, coffee mugs, energy drinks, vitamin
water, bongs and crack pipes, and even on the Oprah Winfrey show --
everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping
you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in
the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few
cubic inches inside your skull.
-- 1984
Tim Howard
Do you call yourself that because you smoke it?
> On Nov 30, 7:33 am, Tim Howard <tim.how...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
>> Personally, I hope Sarah Palin does go Rogue and runs for President
>> (which will only happen if God and Tod tell her to). It will be a
>> loose-loose situation for the Republicans no matter how they react.
>
> Sarah Palin is a tool of the Democrat party's propaganda department.
> All the hype surrounding Sarah Palin is part of a massive marketing
> campaign designed to damage the Republican party.
>
Ha! You give the Democratic Party too much credit. So its all one big
conspiracy? Let me remind you the Democrats did not put her in the
national spotlight last year. Perhaps you think John McCain is in on
the conspiracy too?
>
> You are the first leftard I've seen to state the obvious, that Sarah
> Palin's popularity acutally benefits the Democrat party, and yet you
> all continue to treat her like the Antichrist, because manufactured
> fear is being used to manipulate public opinion. Propaganda at its
> finest, the use of applied psychology to manufacture whatever public
> attitudes the Party desires.
>
Oh the liberals/leftists do not treat her like the Antichrist. We do
not take her that seriously. It is the Republican activists that take
her seriously--to their detriment. Let me also remind you the Democrats
are not the ones pushing her into the spotlight and writing her book.
She is doing all that by herself.
Anyway you have ignored my point. Here is my post again...
Personally, I hope Sarah Palin does go Rogue and runs for President