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Let's that that:
*A Democrat couldn't give an answer when asked what newspapers they read.
*A Democrat was asked to buy a few outfits for appearances and wound spending over $100,000 of campaign funds on high-end, frivolous junk.
*A Democrat had a spouse who belonged to an organization that advocated secession from the Union. Not only that, but said Democrat also recorded a keynote address for their convention while in high office.
*A Democrat accused an opponent of "pal[ling] around with terrorists" and not being a part of "real America."
Do you want to hear more?
One can only wonder.
For all the Palin supporters who think she was mistreated by the Democrats and the media, McCain's own staff has criticized her as unstable, uninformed, and difficult. Even McCain and his family have hesitated to issue supportive statements of Palin since the election. Please stop blaming the Democrats and the media for Palin. She quit under pressure, and much of that pressure came from Republicans who knew her best.
She cannot speak a coherent, complete paragraph on the same subject. She just can't. Some folks think she's going to get her own TV show. Thoughts of who she'd invite on as guests and what those on-air conversations with her would be like fills me with the same emotions you'd experience watching two trains racing headlong toward each other from a distance. You can't stop the imminent collision. It's completely horrifying, yet you can't take your eyes off it - it's too darned fascinating.
She has expert knowledge of... what?
Palin is at best an "attitude." She's no leader and she's certainly no visionary.
Sarah Palin values higher education with graduate degree (is not LDS, no Y, no BYU-ID or BYU-HA)
Wasilla debt was two sides
Golden Gate was “a bridge to nowhere” among many, (one will be built for a village by law RE air strip regulations).
Sarah suddenly was invited to McCain without his political life history, or a Liahona.
Gov. Palin was new to national politics but DID debate the lifetime DC politician attorney BIDEN!
OBAMA picks press conference questions, PLANTS his favorites, to control speech-questions he plans to answer. He only appears to speak with a prepared teleprompter!
Begich fired that Anchorage police chief!
Gov. Palin restructured and promoted him BUT HE REFUSED and QUIT!
Who alive today remembers WHEN Dinosaurs lived or what calendar was used to reckon that TIME?
Palin daughters were reared to respect God’s law and chastity. LDS/other girls make mistakes also.
Obama ignorance unbelievable — thinks USA has 60 states!
Yes, Alaska = villages, towns, cities, farms, valleys and mountain cabins like REAL AMERICA.
Your Palin facts” are twisted/opinions and misinformation. Don’t be the problem, be honorable to correct it when you hear it. Get it?
Palin was not a "breath of fresh air" for American politics. She is an example of what is worst in the Republican party. She is ignorant, arrogant and haughty. She exemplifies the rejection of educated, rational dialogue.
This is a great day for the Republican party. I hope that one day Republicans can realize that fact, reform their party and ideology and rationally engage the electorate once again.
But we do know a lot about her. Much more than we know about Obama (where was he actually born, anyway?). And we know she's the real deal, not some stamped, primped, spun, metrosexual paper doll cutout.
I guess that's what bothers you about her, huh?
She went to a state college, like 80% of college grads. She shops at Wal-Mart, like 80% of the people in the country. She hunts and camps and has a beautiful, but fallible family, like the vast majority of Americans.
But mostly, she doesn't share your contempt for 80% of Americans and the Nation they love. The 80% of us that do most of the working, living, and building up of this country.
And who deserve better than your smarmy, snotty invective.
Palin supporters constantly criticize President Obama, dismiss his moral values, his patriotism, his religious views, even doubt his citizenship; yet defend Palin when she quits under pressure. I admired William Buckley, proudly voted for Ronald Reagan, but Sarah Palin does not represent my conservative values. And as a Mormon, the disrespect shown towards President Obama does not reflect my moral values. I was taught to respect our leaders and to be tolerant of others.
She should be a PTA member or Girl Scout leader.
Sorry, but she has failed in every attempt to impress. How the GOP thought she would be any kind of an asset is mind boggling.
But that's the GOP. Rudderless, passe, irrelevant.
Mikey
Seems a little elitist, to me.
Of course, that's your defining trait.
Sarah Palin is no more qualified for the White House than am I.
She should stick to what she can do well, and that's it. Politics and anything requiring more than average intelligence is not her calling.
Sorry
//Mikey -- What do you Paleolibs have against PTA members and Girl Scout leaders?
Seems a little elitist, to me.
Of course, that's your defining trait.//
I'd take Paleolib elitism over Necon Populism anyday and I'm a Libertarian who shudders @ the thought of either.
She wants to run for public office she sits under the magnifying glass.
I think it's incredibly low to attack her children and that shouldn't have been done. Although it is pretty funny and ironic that despite her anti-sex ed rantings her daughter still got pregnant in high school. Obviously her method of teaching sex education at home didn't work.
Good riddance that she's gone. I could do away with a few other politicians (democrat and republican alike), but I definitely prefer leaders who know a bit about the lives of those they are leading, as well as where the countries we are at war with are on a map.
She finally, irrefutably proved that Democrats are NOT for the little guy.
As long as you're (1) a natural-born citizen (2) over age 35, and (3) resident in the US for at least 14 years, you are every bit as qualified as those presidents with their heads on Mt. Rushmore, perhaps MORE qualified than the current president -- he seems to be hiding something dealing with (1).
It's elitist Democrats that want to convince you you're not good enough and that that only someone better, smarter, more Ivy League educated, should be president.
I'll take a real person any day over an empty suit of either party. Unfortunately, that's all we've been offered recently.
That's why so many of us love Sarah. She's the real deal.
We ridicule for good reason.
AM
To Ernest T. Bass - you want 4 more years of Obama? Are we living in the same country? Are you insane?
To Updated Resume - you do realize that Obama didn't finish his term (or anything else) or serve the people of Illinois, right?
To Liberty - Agree that Hannity, Beck, etc can be divisive. But ever listen to Hightower, Stephanie Miller, AL FRANKEN? The left has their spin-masters, too.
To Seriously - Most American's DO believe the earth was flooded, or at least substantially flooded at the time of Noah. No one is sure about the dinosaurs, but the iron-clad, documented falacies of carbon dating have added to the confusion. Pottery once thought to be millions of years old, is now believed to be more like hundreds of years old. We don't have all the answers.
BTW, I don't think Palin is the right choice, but I agree she was treated differently because she was Republican.
"thoughts" is a misnomer. Thinking obviously had very little to do with what you posted.
Author must have been talking about someone else and got confused, or is more ignorant than Palin...
you people crack me up!!! :0)
"ah, listen ..." (heard that before?)
You chose to drink the "sweet cool-aid" mixed by the charming puppet with the big ears, and now all Americans will pay for it - including future generations.
I call that JUSTICE because we no longer seek the GRACE of God (that is foolishness to those of you that don't recognize The Holy Trinity).
Because you swallowed the stuff of "It's not about character - it's about issues ..." and didn't even recognize that THE most important issue was/is CHARACTER - we as a nation are experiencing a deadly rising tide that might as well be a tsunami.
Sell your soul to the devil, move to a place with an abundance of freeloaders, and you to can become a puppet of world-wide renown that will escape normal scrutiny.
4 U "deep-thinkers", look up HUMANISM, and ask yourself: Did I taste that in the "cool-aid"?
It's a slippery slope we're on.
Are you talking about religion or the government of our country? Or can you tell the difference?
You see, those of us with a brain know the difference.
We can only hope so! She deserves every bit of it.
Conservatives are wimps. This is why so many dodged the draft.
Can't wait 'til the next Civil War.
And yet the other side seems capable of only saying liberal=bad, conservative=good, with no further analysis necessary.
And @You Paleolibs | 6:53 a.m, you're right, most of my neighbors went to state colleges, shop at WalMart, and enjoy camping, hunting, etc. They are great people who I really like. But, for some reason, I just fail to believe that because they have a similar culture, race, history, religion, or set of beliefs about the future of our country as I have means I would want to support them for President.
Finally, from what I have seen, Obama is a good husband and father in a monogamous marriage, so in my mind, he remains a moral person among most politicians.
Can you believe the current government spending borrowed stimulus money building roads and bridges, etc. and then taxing anyone who pollutes the air by driving cars and trucks, or uses heating fuel, or manufactures because of Global-Warming?
Why get an education for a high-paying job? Just apply for a job building roads, and go back to using horse-drawn wagons!
Wake up and smell the gas fumes!!
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Along with Palin's political career.
As it should be.