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Palin was persecuted

Sarah Palin was ridiculous,

"Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin what newspapers and magazines she read to inform her worldview before being tapped as John McCain's Vice Presidential running mate. And Tuesday on the "CBS Evening News," Palin's answer was revealed: "most of them," "all of 'em," and "any of 'em."

Palin would not, or could not, name a specific news source"

Sounds like a candidate for the Utah legislature to me.

the writer states "in a superior stroke of evil genius" the dems/media/blah blah blah somehow thwarted the repub plan and made palin look bad.

no they didnt! they just let her speak, she took the handle from there.

joe biden makes blunders and sounds like a dolt sometimes. i accept that.

palin is less knowledgable than an AP history student and has less of a grasp of intl affairs than any college student who has taken a poli sci class.

her statements weren't freudian slips. she was the most offensive insult on American intelligence imaginable.

palin is cancer to the american body.

As a Republican I was fully prepared to vote for McCain - until he chose Palin for his running mate.

Out of all the possible great picks (including Romney), McCain settled on one of the worst prepared and unknowledgeable politicians I've seen. To this day, Palin takes no responsibility for her gaffs. I remain convinced we dodged a bullet in keeping her out of the Whitehouse.

She did not present herself as well-educated, experienced, or highly intelligent. She identified herself as a Joe Sixpack, a beer-drinking, football-watching person who many might identify with, but who you really don't want running the country...
Meanwhile, there are still people out there who believe Obama is a Muslim.

So, Palin tried to come into the majors after a season in Pop Warner and another in American Legion baseball and she expected to be treated like the new Babe Ruth?

Neither the Democrats nor the media treated her "unfairly" or with disrespect anymore than she treated them. Palin was and is an intellectual disaster, a 95 IQ who never read a textbook trying to tell nuclear physicists what an atom is. She got sent back for regrooving, that's all.

She was accurately critizied. She proved her incompetence and total lack of qualifications out of her own mouth. She was ridiculed for her OWN actions and comments.

She's not qualified for the job she has now, and certainly not qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Thank God the McCain/Palin ticket was defeated -- the country really dodged one there.

Run her again in 4 years.
She can break into her usual neocon act calling her opponent:
America-hater
Socialist
Baby-killer
Communist
Muslim
etc.
Mainstream America will reject that Limbaugh-sounding trash-talking once again.

Umm - Fey's character was based on Palin - Palin acted first. Fey merely repeated Palin's statements and copied her acts and accents - usually adding (or removing) very little.

Fey did not make Palin look bad - Palin made Palin look bad.

SNL's writers could not have done a better script for tina fey than palin did. Caribou sarah should have writing credit on the show. There is one youtube clip comparing what sarah said about health care and Fey parroting it on the show and it's almost verbatim, and funny in both cases. It's also sad when it comes from palin. Give up the persecution complex; we really did, as someone has mentioned, dodge one with her defeat.

Palin was persecuted.
She was persecuted because she isn't smart enough to run a city with the population of 2 let alone become the VP of the United States. Of course following schrub-dub she looked like a genious.
Still, she was WAY out of her league if she really thought she could be the veep and possibly the president one day.

re: Palin is cancer
You said it perfectly. That said, she was the perfect choice for republicans. They don't want smart and articulate. They want a person who believes in the same myth and superstitions they believe in. It doesn't matter if the person they support cannot run a country, what matters is that the leader they vote for is a xenophobe who believes the world is 6000 years old and that people are black because Cain slew Able.

She wasn't persecuted; she was exposed for being ignorant, unprepared and under-qualified. If you want to be first in line of succession to a 72 year old President of the United States, you should know that you can't see Russia from Alaska. You should know what the Bush doctrine is. You should be able to say what your foreign policy credentials are. And if you can't, that means you are not a good candidate. And no amount of winking at the camera or whining about bias is going to compensate for it.

Palin was vetted, plain and simple. And she failed muster, plain and simple. And this is the process that has been missing from out National political discourse for too long. I hope it only gets tougher in the future - too much is at stake. I certainly feel some compassion for her. I don't believe she could have been thrust upon us without some hidden puppet-masters in her party. And doubtless, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. I do fault her for what appears to be unreasonable persistence now as her political ambitions have clearly gone into overdrive. She is in the same camp with "Joe the Plumber" - victims of the Reality TV generation. And come next election, there will be another 4 year groups of Americans freshly authorized to vote her off the Island once again. And good riddance.

Palin-Romney in 2012!

When Palin came in only runner-up for the title of Miss Alaska she told a friend that she had lost because "she hadn't created enough drama around herself". Remember that. Keep it in mind every time she raises her head. The lesson Palin learned long ago when she lost a beauty contest can be seen in everything she does, every public statement she makes.

Funny that a lot of Tina Fey's skits used direct Palin quotes. The media didn't treat her unfairly, she was exposed for what she is: somwone who should not be vice president or President. That is all.

While I don't think Palin was the most qualified candidate for the VP position, the media and nearly every commenter so far in this forum continue to spew out venom at anyone with conservative values.

She was persecuted because she was treated much differently than if she had been liberal. If she were Obama's running mate and had the same demeanor, gaffes, and other mistakes she would have been given a total pass by the media (if you don't believe me, just look how they treated the total buffoon Joe Biden).

When Palin mocked fruit fly research, she lost every vote of every scientist with half a brain. Genetic linkage was discovered in the fruit fly. The first genetic map was created using the fruit fly. Groundbreaking research continues today using simple fruit fly models.

Palin wanted to kill this research, because she thought it sounded like waste. If someone is running for office, an office that may somehow have an impact on research budgets, and she wants to pontificate about research, she ought to do her homework first. She didn't. For that, and other reasons, she didn't get the job.

Palin was and is a tragedy. Her failure is emblematic of the failure of Bush and the failure of Republicans in general.

Palin is the best example of how far the Far-right phenomenon has come and how quickly they have failed in the eyes of mainstream America that is sick to death of being shouted at, hung up on, interrupted, and dictated to.

It's an end of an era neocons.

America works best left of center - not further right than Genghis Khan or Hitler.

She was pretty HOT...isnt that what we want in a vice president?