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Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

plpool — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:40:39 -0000

I find it amazing the rip&#39s on Sarah Palin after all this time. It must be true. She really is a threat. McCain is a would be wanta be President. He would not have got the votes He got if he had not brought in Palin. As far as Vice President Biden and the Democratic Leadership we are seeing now in Congress, I would not be boasting on how poor Palin is. The People of America both Democrat&#39s, Republicans, Independents are giving the Majority all F&#39s for a grade. 2010 election should be interesting.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

plpool — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:40:39 -0000

I find it amazing the rip's on Sarah Palin after all this time. It must be true. She really is a threat. McCain is a would be wanta be President. He would not have got the votes He got if he had not brought in Palin. As far as Vice President Biden and the Democratic Leadership we are seeing now in Congress, I would not be boasting on how poor Palin is. The People of America both Democrat's, Republicans, Independents are giving the Majority all F's for a grade. 2010 election should be interesting.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

DLS — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:59:57 -0000

"If Palin wants a political future, she&#39s going to have to make an appearance on "Meet the Press" sooner or later."

She shouldn&#39t _have_ to (as no show, especially a Washington "institution," should ever have such clout), but in today&#39s reality, of course she should. She&#39s either not for real or is being protected (why?) if not.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

DLS — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:58:38 -0000

"A) I have never circled the wagons around Palin"

Nobody here has. This was just another illogical or downright fictitious and spontaneous-emotional charge from the other side.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

DLS — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:59:57 -0000

"If Palin wants a political future, she's going to have to make an appearance on "Meet the Press" sooner or later."

She shouldn't _have_ to (as no show, especially a Washington "institution," should ever have such clout), but in today's reality, of course she should. She's either not for real or is being protected (why?) if not.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

DLS — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:58:38 -0000

"A) I have never circled the wagons around Palin"

Nobody here has. This was just another illogical or downright fictitious and spontaneous-emotional charge from the other side.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

davemartin7777 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:23:57 -0000

If Palin wants a political future, she&#39s going to have to maka an apperarnce on "Meet the Press".

Biden&#39s been on MTP three times from what I&#39ve googled.

What are the odds of Palin&#39s handlers allowing her to do MTP... slim and none?

Palin on MTP would be pure comedy gold.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

AustinRoth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:01:28 -0000

Neither longevity as a Senator (Strom Thurmond) nor being VP (Dan Quayle) has any bearing on or is an indicator of intelligence.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

GreenDreams — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:48:24 -0000

AR, I know you&#39re not a fanboy, or you&#39d surely have to relinquish the "unnervingly moderate" crown. Of course you&#39re meandering close to the line on your Biden point, though of course both of us have more illustrious achievements and if people just got a clue about our brilliance, they&#39d pad our c.v. with stuff like longest serving Senator and VP. Besides, neither of us would ever &#39misspeak&#39 or have any foot-in-mouth moments.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

AustinRoth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:14:01 -0000

GD -

A) I have never circled the wagons around Palin

B) I didn&#39t comment on Biden&#39s ideology; I commented on his buffoonery. I believe he is the model for the new clowns at the Ringling Bros&#39 circus.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

skippy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:03:04 -0000

anyone who knows my blog knows i am no palin fan.

but i tend to agree w/melissa @ shakesville that the article was rife w/sexism and a lot of unnecessary put downs because palin was a woman.

one of melissa&#39s best points is that the ambition that purdum cites as questionable trait in palin would never be mentioned about a male candidate; what&#39s wrong w/a politico having ambition?

also, the imagery purdum uses: it came from wasilla, little shop of horrors (get it? palin&#39s a monster! yeeks!), she needed a "horse whisperer," things that, i wonder, would purdum write about a male politician?

i disagree w/the overboard polticial correctness @ shakesville often times (i personally thought the bit about palin&#39s relatives making billy carter and roger clinton look good was hilarious), but this time i felt melissa was spot on.

did we really need to contemplate that palin is fertile? is that really something that needs attention? aren&#39t most male politicians of an age where they could father a child? what&#39s that about, some hormonal imbalance we need to take into account when dealing w/palin?

i loathe sarah palin for her smallness, her pettiness, her willingness to destroy perceived enemies, and her unwillingness to acknowledge reality.

but i don&#39t loathe her for being a woman. can&#39t we have a profile, either from the right or left, that doesn&#39t treat palin&#39s sex as some sort of carnival side show to be gawked at?

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

tidbits — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:02:15 -0000

The day Obama announced Biden as his running mate, I was on the golf course. From that day to this, those in our foursome refer to mis-hits as "Bidens".

The day McCain announced Palin as his running mate, I took up smoking again, knowing I wouldn&#39t want to live if she ever became president.

After the lapses in judgment by both candidates in their vice presidential picks, all I can say is thank god for write-in ballots.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

GreenDreams — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:51:05 -0000

Good and fine. As I expected, you guys will circle the wagons around Palin, which suits me just fine.

A method that political scientists use for gauging ideology is to compare the annual ratings by the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) with the ratings by the American Conservative Union (ACU). Biden has a lifetime liberal 72 percent score from the ADA through 2004, while the ACU awarded Biden a lifetime conservative rating of 13 percent through 2008. Using another metric, Biden has a lifetime average liberal score of 77.5 percent, according to a National Journal analysis that places him ideologically among the center of Senate Democrats.

works for me...

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

Guest — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:23:57 -0000

If Palin wants a political future, she's going to have to make an appearance on "Meet the Press" sooner or later.

Biden's been on MTP three times from what I've googled.

What are the odds of Palin's handlers allowing her to do MTP... slim and none?

Palin on MTP would be pure comedy gold.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

AustinRoth — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:01:28 -0000

Neither longevity as a Senator (Strom Thurmond) nor being VP (Dan Quayle) has any bearing on or is an indicator of intelligence.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

DLS — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:19 -0000

"If you think Biden comes even remotely close to being divisive and lame and polarizing as Palin"

Lame, arguably more so. Biden the buffoon in the limelight has been kept muzzled for everybody&#39s good.

Divisive? Palin&#39s "divisiveness" (as with the GOP) is largely fictitious, created for various reasons or "reasons" mainly by the Left (making divisive remarks that include charges the GOP is divisive)

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

DLS — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:36:37 -0000

"It is obvious she is the Anti-Christ."

"Hell, she gets more attention from the Left than from the Right."

And as you caricature it so well, it is so routinely _pathological_ from the Left. (Lefty S.O.P.)

As for McCain, as with his recent comments about Obama on Iran (responded to strangely and wrongly on this lefty site, naturally) -- McCain is weak, as weak as the statements he makes about Obama, as weak as his campaign was, as weak as he was as a candidate (weak as a "conservative," after all).

As for Obama and the Demmies in Congress and in Obama&#39s executive-branch menagerie, they should sometime begin to exercise self-control and even some intelligence; they cannot rely on Dim-vote forever acquiescence to continued rushing to gross excess on every issue they can name or identify to shove the nation far too leftward without any attention to fiscal propriety or often without paying financial attention at all. It&#39s not going to continue comfortably forever.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

antifederalist — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:32:53 -0000

Biden is not a laughing stock? You don&#39t get out much, do you?

http://giovanniworld.files.wordpress.com/2008/1...

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

AustinRoth — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:48:53 -0000

GD - I thought you paid enough attention to know that I am FAR from a Palin fan, from the word go. That doesn&#39t mean I cannot see the silliness in the continued efforts to tear her down, though. Hell, she gets more attention from the Left than from the Right.

And Biden is too a laughing stock.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

GreenDreams — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:48:24 -0000

AR, I know you're not a fanboy, or you'd surely have to relinquish the "unnervingly moderate" crown. Of course you're meandering close to the line on your Biden point, though of course both of us have more illustrious achievements and if people just got a clue about our brilliance, they'd pad our c.v. with stuff like longest serving Senator and VP. Besides, neither of us would ever 'misspeak' or have any foot-in-mouth moments.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

AustinRoth — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:14:01 -0000

GD -

A) I have never circled the wagons around Palin

B) I didn't comment on Biden's ideology; I commented on his buffoonery. I believe he is the model for the new clowns at the Ringling Bros' circus.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

TheGrandPanjandrum — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:05:49 -0000

With the ongoing purification of the GOP, and the possibility of a Palin candidacy in 2012, that is going to leave the GOP VP nominee pool wittled down to Michelle Bachmann, Eric Cantor, and a 7th round draft pick to be named later if Ben Stein can&#39t be talked into living in government housing.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

skippy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:03:04 -0000

anyone who knows my blog knows i am no palin fan.

but i tend to agree w/melissa @ shakesville that the article was rife w/sexism and a lot of unnecessary put downs because palin was a woman.

one of melissa's best points is that the ambition that purdum cites as a questionable trait in palin would never be mentioned about a male candidate; what's wrong w/a politico having ambition?

also, the imagery purdum uses: it came from wasilla, little shop of horrors (get it? palin's a monster! yeeks!), she needed a "horse whisperer," things that, i wonder, would purdum write about a male politician?

i disagree w/the overboard poltiical correctness @ shakesville often times (i personally thought the bit about palin's relatives making billy carter and roger clinton look good was hilarious), but this time i felt melissa was spot on.

did we really need to contemplate that palin is fertile? is that really something that needs attention? aren't most male politicians of an age where they could father a child? what's that about, some hormonal imbalance we need to take into account when dealing w/palin?

i loathe sarah palin for her smallness, her pettiness, her willingness to destroy perceived enemies, and her unwillingness to acknowledge reality.

but i don't loathe her for being a woman. can't we have a profile, either from the right or left, that doesn't treat palin's sex as some sort of carnival side show to be gawked at?

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

jasperjava — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:16:09 -0000

There&#39s an interesting dynamic. Palin is obviously a potential disaster if she were in a position of power, capable of inflicting serious damage. Those who realize this speak out, and her blind followers react by thinking that we&#39re "scared" of her. Well, anyone in their right mind should be scared of the possibility of Sarah Palin as President, but we have enough faith in the American people to hope that this couldn&#39t happen. Her fans send more money to her PAC, and Democrats can legitimately hope that she gets nominated: she would easily be demolished by Obama. Still, it&#39s like having a bullet in the chamber of a revolver, playing Russian roulette. What if something happened and she actually WON? After all, a borderline imbecile like George W. B*sh DID get "elected", in a manner of speaking, and look where that led us.

Re: McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece

GreenDreams — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:03:08 -0000

nice try AR. Biden is not a laughing stock. cmon, you&#39re not a Palin fan are you? Maybe so. Anyway, just proves my point. If you think Biden comes even remotely close to being divisive and lame and polarizing as Palin, well you KNOW you have my support to nominate her for the presidency.