The Real Problem with Sarah Palin

Good riddance to Sarah Palin. The articulately challenged Governor abruptly resigned from her post for some unknown, rambling reason last week. Since I can’t be bothered with understanding her long-winded resignation speech (believe me I tried reading it but lost interest halfway through) or watching the video, I’m sure she has a really, really good reason for leaving office.

All she ever talks about is how the liberal media has been picking on her and how she got thrown under the bus by John McCain’s campaign staff but she never owns up to how she may have contributed to any of this. Of course it’s everyone else, it’s not her. Unfortunately for Palin, politics is not a beauty pageant where you get to wear a swimsuit, flash a pretty smile and answer superficial questions; constituents expect more.

The real reason Sarah Palin has become a joke was accurately summed up by Fox News analyst Liz Trotter. Trotter reads Palin’s pedigree at the 1:07 mark and doesn’t stop there:

As far as Palin’s future, I hope she lays low and keeps her mouth shut for the next 20 years but that’s just wishful thinking on my part. In spite of what she says, Palin loves the media spotlight but doesn’t want to be held accountable for anything.

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God Talks to Joe the Plumber?

Joe the Plumber (aka Samuel Wurzelbacher) has decided against running for public office. If you’re thinking what I’m thinking, you’re probably breathing a sigh of relief. Whoever had that lame idea that someone like Wurzelbacher is suitable for public office needs to be knocked the f**k out. Clearly his fifteen minutes is over and he desperately needs to fade back into obscurity and anonymity.

I’m thinking the same people wanting him to run for public office probably think Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the Republican presidential front-runner in 2012. *crickets chirping* Surely God talks to other people and not just Joe the Plumber. According to Wurzelbacher he talked to God and “he was like, ‘No.” If God is listening, I sure wish he’d tell Joe to shut up and go away.

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The Problem with Sarah Palin Supporters

Radio talk show host and Sarah Palin supporter John Ziegler is a jerk. He agrees to go on MSNBC to be interviewed about his documentary on Palin but ends up attacking Palin’s critics. Like the typical Sarah Palin supporter, Ziegler feels the need to defend her honor at all costs. These people are ride or die. Never mind the self-destructive interview with Katie Couric, the embarrassing appearance on Saturday Night Live and the anti-intellectual persona, Palin dug her own hole and fell in it. She’s not even in the top five of GOP party leaders according to a recent poll. What a surprise!

For laughs, you can catch Ziegler and all of his arrogant snarkiness here:

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Did Anyone Really Expect Bristol and Levi to Last?

Did anyone really expect Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston to last? Levi’s sister, Mercede has gone and spilled the beans to Star magazine. Not that she had to tell us this, but how many 17 year old high school kids want to run off and get married?

Remember how the wedding was conveniently planned when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin became the Republican Vice Presidential candidate? Bristol’s pregnancy was a private, family matter and off-limits to the media. Jamie Lynn Spears, star of ‘Zoey 101′ on Nick TV, didn’t have that luxury. She was subjected to all kinds of criticism and scrutiny by the media, most of it related to her perceived lack of morality and poor upbringing. Remember Jamie Lynn is the younger sister of pop singer Britney Spears, who during that time, was going through a mental meltdown. Most of the criticism was mean and malicious.

Bristol’s pregnancy laid bare the hypocrisy of her mother’s belief that abstinence only was an effective tool in preventing teen pregnacy. Sarah Palin was damn near sainted because Bristol was not only keeping the baby but she was going to marry the baby’s father. After all, only poor black and Hispanic girls from broken homes have out-of-wedlock births, not teenage girls from god-fearing, devoutly Christian families like Sarah Palin’s. While Bristol was an unwed mother, black and Hispanic girls in the same predicament are sexually promiscuous and irresponsible babies mommas.

Shotgun weddings rarely last and I think Bristol and Levi were probably over months and months ago. When Bristol appeared on Greta Van Sustern’s show and declared that Levi was a “hands on” dad, the story just seemed too good to be true. Obviously it was because Levi’s sister Mercede claims Bristol won’t even let Levi see the baby. Sounds like some drama is going to be popping off in Wasilla!

I doubt we’ll be hearing the end of the story especially if Levi’s sister is doing the talking and one of the tabloids is going to pay her.

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Sarah Palin is Not Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony, originally uploaded by Athena’s Armoury.

Oh hell to the naw! A new website has popped up to corral all of those disgruntled Sarah Palin supporters. Sarah in 2012!? *sticks fingers in ears* It’s called Team Sarah and it’s dedicated to advancing the values that Sarah Palin represents in the political process. *crickets chirping* I’m wondering what those are!?

The website has an enviable membership roster that includes those who are fighting to prove that Barack Hussein Obama is not a natural born citizen (The People vs. Barack Obama), those who chose not to watch the inauaguration festivities on January 20th (Volunteer for America on Inauguration Day) and those who are praying for Sarah and her amazing family and praying that god will open the door for her in 2012 (Prayers for Sarah). Scary stuff indeed. The site borders on being just plain creepy.

I bet you’re wondering what values Sarah Palin represents, well me too. Here’s what the website says:

As many of you know, Team Sarah is a project of the Susan B. Anthony List,an
organization founded in 1992 and named after the suffragette who fought
forwomen’s rights and against slavery. Susan B. Anthony possessed the core
valuesand convictions that embraced all human rights and human dignity.

She stood up for rights for slaves, women, and unborn children. She lived out her values consistently, as does Sarah Palin.

She lived with backbone and determination and confidence. So does Sarah Palin.

While I am not doubting Palin has backbone, determination and a healthy dose of confidence. I would not equate her with Susan B. Anthony. Up until about five minutes ago, none of these people had even heard of Sarah Palin and now they are worshipping her for the hate-mongering, double-talking dimwit that she is.

Creepy stuff indeed. I’m going to let that slavery foolishness slide for now because it is totally irrelevant. Sarah Palin’s fifteen minutes are now officially up.

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The Irrelevance of the G.O.P.

Republican Elephant, originally uploaded by Crusaders Government Class.

“If ever there was an election that was not worth winning, it was the contest of 2008. While it was hard-fought on both sides, had McCain won, it might have spelled the end of the Republican Party. As it is, the party is well-situated to
come back in 2010 and in 2012, if it learns the lessons of this year.”

“Simply put, all hell is about to break loose in the markets and the economy.The mortgage crisis will likely be followed by defaults in credit card debt,student loans and car loans. We will probably be set for two years of zero growth, according to economists with whom I talk. And the federal efforts to protect the nation from the worst of the recession will probably lead to huge budget deficits and resulting inflation. We are in for stagflation that could last for years.”

Oh really? So says political pay-for-play strategist, Dick Morris. Morris is obviously not an Obama fan. He must not have heard that all hell has already broken loose in the markets and the economy. Where has he been this past month? As much as he’d like to blame Barack Obama for the unstable American economy, he has no basis for it. He might want to look back over the past eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration to find answers. I’ll even give him a hint: deregulation.

If Dick Morris really thinks this election was an election not worth winning then he should have told John McCain and Sarah Palin. One look at the teary eyed Palin and the sad faced McCain during his concession speech last week said it all. They tried every dirty trick in the campaign playbook and still lost. Palin clearly doesn’t want to step out of the spotlight. Her fifteen minutes are up but she just keeps talking and talking and talking. The election was worth winning Dick, it’s just that your team lost.

As far as 2010 and 2012 go for the Republicans, they’re going to have to show me something different. If they really want to know why they lost, all they need to do is look at the people attending their last convention, it hardly reflects what the real America looks like. Throw in the Republican trifecta of narrow-mindedness, holier-than-thou-ness and cultural intolerance, then you’ll know why they’ve become irrelevant. America has moved on but the Grand Old Party is firmly ensconced in the 1970s. I wonder what Dick Morris has to say about that.

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The GOP Fall-Out and Sarah Palin

One of the best things about Barack Obama winning the election is that Sarah Palin gets to go back to Alaska. Today her campaign jet landed in Alaska and she emerged with her husband to cheers of “2012″. You’ve got to be effing kidding me right!? Caribou Barbie campaigning was quite enough for me with her ‘g’ dropping, race-baiting, fear-mongering stump speeches. I’m glad those days are over.

Attempts have been made to compare Palin to former Republican Vice President Dan Quayle. If I were Quayle, I’d be insulted. Quayle was infinitely more educated, intelligent and cultured than Palin, who has been called a “Wasilla hillbilly” by a McCain campaign worker. My hope is that she will fade into oblivion never to be seen or heard from again. I’m crossing my fingers and clicking my heels hoping this will happen. 2012 my a**!

The real dirt about the McCain-Palin campaign is slowly oozing out and Palin is being thrown under the bus. She was not only a divisive figure within the campaign but also is a divisive figure within the Republican party. The criticism about her being a “diva” and a “whack job” sounds well deserved. John McCain did the most honorable, gracious thing he has done in this campaign and that was to give one of the best concession speeches I have ever heard. That was the real John McCain and at that moment, I respected him.

Sarah Palin doesn’t know her place and cerainly has no clue as to how much of an embarassment she has been to herself ,the Republican party and smart women everywhere. Her inflated sense of self-importance had her thinking that she should also speak to the American people after John McCain made his concession speech. I’m glad that was vetoed. I am certan she thought about stealng the mic to send a shout out her constituency: the uneducated, xenophobic, patriotic base of the Republican party.

Palin was the wrong choice at the wrong the time, an insult to women and educated people everywhere. Did she cost John McCain votes? You betcha! All of the criticism that Palin has received is well-deserved and had nothing to do with media bias. So she didn’t bother to study for her interview with Katie Couric,? It showed. She was told to buy three suits and get a stylist but spent more than $150,000 on clothes for herself and family. For all of the foolishness that is Sarah Palin, no one deserves any more blame for the Republican’s loss than John McCain.

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God, Energy & Sarah Palin

Oh God! Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin made another one of those policy speeches. Last week it was special needs children where she ridiculed fruit fly research in Paris. I kid you not! Her comments were laced with so much sarcasm that I couldn’t tell whether it was the fruit fly research she didn’t like or the fact that the fruit fly research was done in Paris. Either way, Palin should be embarrassed but doesn’t have enough sense to be. No one bothered to tell her that fruit fly research has been vital to the discovery of diseases in human genes.

Today’s policy speech was about energy, another topic she’s supposed to be an expert on. According to Palin, an evangelical Christian, God has blessed our country with all the resources we need so we don’t have to be at the mercy of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or our ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. She offers no alternatives to our dependency on oil but that “everything-but-the-kitchen-sink” energy policy that she and McCain are touting. And don’t forget the vacuous “drill, baby, drill”.

As usual, Palin’s snarkiness got her into trouble. She ridiculed Alaskan Senator and former political ally, Ted Stevens, who was recently convicted of Federal ethics violations, for being a member of the good old boys network. She must have forgotten about her own ethics violation in Alaska over Troopergate and the looming ethics investigation over Palin family travel at the state’s expense.

I won’t even go into how she ragged on Congress for thirty years of failure since they couldn’t pass an energy independence policy. She must have forgotten that John McCain has been there for at least twenty of those years. So much for the meat and substance she promised the Wall Street Journal. If she is elected Vice President, God help us!

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The Best Obama Ad Yet

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John McCain Could Still Win

While campaigning in DesMoines, Iowa last Saturday in her fancy designer clothese, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of being a communist. Yes, the dreaded “c” word. Palin brought it up before a crowd of cheering supporters in a no-doubt “pro-America” part of the country.

Nothing is more threatening to Joe Six Pack than communism. Communism is just downright evil and an anathema to our democratic form of government, it’s right up there with patriotism, jingoism and the Bible. Palin told the crowd:

“See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody.“

The quickest way to get people who live in the “pro-America” parts of the country all riled up is to accuse the front-runner with a funny sounding name of being a communist and even worse, a Muslim. Evidently these are the people who rely more on rumor, innuendo and hate-mongering to decide who they’ll vote for on November 4th.

Although Obama is leading in just about every poll, do not for a minute believe he has the election won. This is the most important election of our lifetime which makes it imperative that everyone who is registered to vote does so. Do not underestimate the likelihood that John McCain and Sarah Palin could wake up on November 5th as our President and Vice President elect.

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