Stupid Sarah Palin at it again

[barfo]

You guys need Hillary.

edit: actually, I wish old Nancy would run and win your nomination.

I'm sure you do, but luckily, no Democrat wants that (besides maybe Nancy herself).

barfo

 

[Natebishop3]

I'm sure you do, but luckily, no Democrat wants that (besides maybe Nancy herself).

barfo

I don't know many Republicans that want Palin as their nominee either. I don't think she's President material, but I don't understand all the hate from a lot of people. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. She hasn't done anything wrong. She didn't cheat on her husband or take bribes or sell out to the major corporations like so many other politicians. She has flaws, but none that I can see that make her such a huge target. I don't think she's the brightest, and I think Hillary would probably kick her ass in a debate, but that just means she's not a legit contender to the throne. Just another wannabe.

 

[barfo]

I don't know many Republicans that want Palin as their nominee either.

You may not know them, but polls say they are out there. [Out there in more ways than one.]

barfo

 

[Natebishop3]

You may not know them, but polls say they are out there. [Out there in more ways than one.]

barfo

Well sure, they exist, just as there are libs that want Nancy.

 

[barfo]

Well sure, they exist, just as there are libs that want Nancy.

That's the thing - there aren't libs who want Nancy. They don't exist. Polls show substantial support for Palin for President. There are no polls which show similar support for Pelosi.

barfo

 

[Natebishop3]

That's the thing - there aren't libs who want Nancy. They don't exist. Polls show substantial support for Palin for President. There are no polls which show similar support for Pelosi.

barfo

There's gotta be someone. Maybe nobody ever actually thought to poll the topic

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-palin/2011/06/02/AGWcfjJH_story.html?hpid=z2

Conservative women enthusiastic about Bachmann, Palin

DOVER, N.H. — They don’t like identity politics and aren’t crazy about the word “feminist.” But a lot of conservative women here can’t help but rejoice that they may have a couple of tough-talking, tea-drinking mothers to choose from in the Republican primary.

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is on the verge of announcing her intentions, and former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is contemplating a bid. If either runs, it would be the first time since Elizabeth Dole’s bid in 1999 that a viable female candidate has sought the Republican nomination for president.

The prospect has energized conservative women who four years ago were deeply uncomfortable with Hillary Rodham Clinton but who see in Bachmann and Palin the kind of family-focused, overtly spiritual candidate whose lifestyle and values seem to mirror their own.

The inclusion of Palin and Bachmann in the mix of candidates caps a blockbuster year in which women were credited with helping the GOP retake control of the House. Women occupy many of the leadership roles in the tea party movement, which reshaped the 2010 midterm elections. Nine GOP women joined the House last year, one joined the Senate, and three won governorships in November.

 

[Denny Crane]

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[Denny Crane]

You know how Sarah Palin said Paul Revere warned the British? Well, he did. Now, who looks stupid?


(I'm no fan of Dan Quayle by any means, but this story about the "potatoe" (SIC) incident is one I never heard before)

Working from a placard, Quayle corrected one sixth-grader by telling him to add an "e" to "potato." Journalists gleefully noted the spelling misteak. And Quayle's dunce hat was glued in place.

Trouble is, that mis-spelled placard was actually written out by the classroom teacher herself, either through her own ignorance or, a few suspect, some sly political set-up. Quayle knew he hadn't written it and thought the error was the point of the lesson.

And because the classroom spelling bit was a last-minute addition, aides who would have foreseen the everlasting damage of their boss inexplicably adding a mistake to a student's work did not know what the placard said. Quayle subsequently forbade them from explaining the error to the media, for fear of embarrassing the teacher.

 

[julius]

I think there's a bias in that the media knows that people on the left love to hear things that make her sound/look stupid... just as they liked to hear and see things that made Bush look stupid. It's simply a money thing. They want to put stories on the news that are going to attract the most viewers. If Palin was widely loved, they wouldn't say shit.

I'm not especially impressed with her, and I don't think she's a very good public speaker by any means, but I think it's unfair how she's been picked on since she came into the national spotlight. The left has gone after her mercilessly with the jokes and the sexual innuendos, which I think is pretty fucked up. I would say the left would be more supportive of women's rights and equality, yet they are attacking a woman who ran for VP and wants to be a strong and powerful woman. I guess I don't get it.

yet the right never has said anything bad about women, blacks, or the current president of the US (you know, being a socialist, muslim, from kenya, hates America, hates whites...).

 

[Natebishop3]

yet the right never has said anything bad about women, blacks, or the current president of the US (you know, being a socialist, muslim, from kenya, hates America, hates whites...).

The right is portrayed as the uptight, conservative, illegal alien hating, religious zealot, anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, anti just about everything party. What does that have to do with anything?

I'm just saying I don't understand the hate when the Dems are supposed to be the ones who are all about women's rights and shit.

 

[MARIS61]

You know how Sarah Palin said Paul Revere warned the British? Well, he did. Now, who looks stupid?


(I'm no fan of Dan Quayle by any means, but this story about the "potatoe" (SIC) incident is one I never heard before)

Not surprising, because it's pure fiction.

 

[PapaG]

I remember a story where she was 'viewed in a poor light' by the mainstream media b/c she had 3 words written on her hand in a half-hour speech. That was a difference b/w "unvarnished truth as seen by the camera" and spin.

I don't particularly care--she wants to be in a political race, she should be doing things to make herself look good. And if that means overcoming a bias, that's among the smaller problems the next president will have. But to maintain that there isn't a sizable block of media outlets out to disparage her is not being intellectually honest.

Edit: you may be right, julius, that it's more "lazy" than "left", but there's some precedent for a lot of vitriol coming her way from the more liberally-based media sources. I'm not saying Fox doesn't do that, either, but generally it seems like the stuff there (at least, from the article of the Fox CEO someone posted earlier) is dug up and factual, rather than spewn and spun.

Only in our media:

Giving a half-hour speech with three notes written on the palm as cue cards is worthy of ridicule, while reading a half-hour speech off of a teleprompter is the stuff of genius.

Has anybody ever heard Obama without a teleprompter? Ummmm, errrrr, ummmm, ahhhhh, gaffe, ummmmm

Saying the media isn't biased against right-wing candidates simply is not based in reality.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

You know how Sarah Palin said Paul Revere warned the British? Well, he did. Now, who looks stupid?


(I'm no fan of Dan Quayle by any means, but this story about the "potatoe" (SIC) incident is one I never heard before)

Working from a placard, Quayle corrected one sixth-grader by telling him to add an "e" to "potato." Journalists gleefully noted the spelling misteak. And Quayle's dunce hat was glued in place.

hilarious unintentional irony is hilarious!

 

[maxiep]

You think there's a left bias, I think there's a lazy bias.

I really need to address this accusation in detail...meh, never mind.

 

[Natebishop3]

Not surprising, because it's pure fiction.

I forgot you were there when Paul rode by. What was it like to watch the battles at Lexington and Concord?

 

[barfo]

I forgot you were there when Paul rode by. What was it like to watch the battles at Lexington and Concord?

I think he was talking about the potatoe, not the midnight ride.

barfo

 

[Natebishop3]

I think he was talking about the potatoe, not the midnight ride.

barfo

Was Maris the teacher that gave Dan the booby-trapped placard?

 

[maxiep]

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/06/suffolk-univ-history-prof-palin-right.html

 

[maxiep]

From a Revere expert: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/268933/what-sarah-palin-got-wrong-and-we-did-too-joel-j-miller

 

[Shooter]

(I'm no fan of Dan Quayle by any means, but this story about the "potatoe" (SIC) incident is one I never heard before)

Working from a placard, Quayle corrected one sixth-grader by telling him to add an "e" to "potato." Journalists gleefully noted the spelling misteak. And Quayle's dunce hat was glued in place.

Trouble is, that mis-spelled placard was actually written out by the classroom teacher herself, either through her own ignorance or, a few suspect, some sly political set-up. Quayle knew he hadn't written it and thought the error was the point of the lesson.

And because the classroom spelling bit was a last-minute addition, aides who would have foreseen the everlasting damage of their boss inexplicably adding a mistake to a student's work did not know what the placard said. Quayle subsequently forbade them from explaining the error to the media, for fear of embarrassing the teacher.

"spelling misteak" ???

But I digress. What's worse--being unable to spell "potato" or thinking that the current year is 2008 instead of 2011?