DISQUS

sherifffruitfly · 11 months ago

As with so much else, they love her SPECIFCALLY because we hate her.

We, on the other hand, have genuine reasons for hating her: she's a blithering idiot.

teresaInPa · 11 months ago

yes she must be because she is only governor while you post on blogs using made up names.

pssstt... she really isn't stupid, and the constant attacks on her are just making my fellow lefties look mean and small.

vkobaya · 11 months ago

she really isn't stupid,

Are you kidding? She is pathetic. There are pebbles in the garden that are brighter than she is, to say nothing of what crawls under those pebbles.

RitornaVincitor · 11 months ago

Sorry, TeresaInPa. I just have to interject here that Vkobaya made me laugh. Hard. Rrrrrreally hard.

slappymagoo · 11 months ago

Couldn't agree more. I don't know what it is with so many Republicans who only seem to live for being a thorn in the side of Democrats. They'll gladly stand in the way of progress and very necessary change, because if Dems are for it, it must be bad. And then they'll accuse Dems of being unable to get anything done, much like standing in front of a train and then accusing the trains of always running late. And it's all for the fundraising, it's Election Day coercion "Vote for us, or those of us left in power will grind everything to a halt." Of course, if you vote for them, everything they'll do will still be against your best interests, but hey, at least the Dems can't do anything, and isn't that all that matters?

teresaInPa · 11 months ago

John, you really should just ask her out. I remember when all the little boys in third grade used to pretend to catch and eat my "cooties". My Mom told me it was because they liked me and low and behold with in weeks they were fighting over who was my "boyfriend". I am finding this weird obsession of the men on the left (gay and straight) with everything Palin to be very much like third grade.

You might risk finding out that she's just not that in to you, but at least you could move on.

RitornaVincitor · 11 months ago

Move on? And miss all the fun? Honey, she's a walking comedy show, ya know? And don't be so sure that a lot of those boys who were fighting to be your boyfriend weren't gay.

teresaInPa · 11 months ago

I am sure at least one of them was...but that was not something I was concerned about in third grade.

RitornaVincitor · 11 months ago

Nora??? Is that you?!?!

RitornaVincitor · 11 months ago

Oh my gosh! Nora! It IS you! That's just what you always did when I was right. You wouldn't say anything! Plus you're from Pennsylvania, so it must be you. Oh, Nora, I can't believe it. Remember when we'd go to your house after school and your mother would make those long hamburgers in hot dog buns? And remember when Hurricane Hazel was coming and your umbrella got blown inside out, and I laughed, and you got so mad? I wasn't laughing at you. Really. I was just laughing at the umbrella. And I'm so sorry about seventh grade when Sister Cathleen Maurine sent you to Mother Superior. I thought you got kicked out because of your hair. I didn't know about the boys. I didn't find out about that until much later. And that time I walked past you and didn't say anything and you thought I was snooty because I was wearing a prep school blazer and was too good for the world. It wasn't that. It was because you were talking to that blowhard Jim Libey. I didn't notice you were pregnant. Oh god, I hope it wasn't Jim's!

Steve_in_CNJ · 11 months ago

so ya think 'men on the left' are seeing starbursts too?

"I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it." -rich lowry, national review.

MC_Haiku · 11 months ago

Sparkling starbursts ricocheting around the room? As W would say, "Fabulous!"
Did lowry actually say that? i think that is a closet queen trying to pass as str8 and pretend he knows how to react to perceived "feminine wiles." Unbelievable.
When anybody winks at me, male or female, i get away as fast as I can, 'cuz i know i am about to be hustled.
Did his Rudeness happen to write about that Lowry quote? It is made for him.

obamalover · 11 months ago

Well I'm definitely going to vote for her in the Republican primaries. This will be the first time when Dems had a nominee ahead of time - since Obama is President - and Republicans didn't during the age of blogging. I can see a mass movement among liberal bloggers for a get out the vote effort for Palin in the Primaries to assure her nomination (and eventual defeat).

RitornaVincitor · 11 months ago

Hahahaha! I LOVE that the GOP loves Palin. What a boob. She'd be perfect to continue the Bush legacy. Please, oh please let her be the nominee next time. Palin/Lieberman. Dizzy and Sleazy.

Steve_in_CNJ · 11 months ago

lipstick and dipstick.

SCLiberal · 11 months ago

ROFLMAO!

Cyninbend · 11 months ago

I agree with you 100%. But I also think she only brings to light what many of us have known for a long time about the true agenda of the Repug party---that they were a coalition of right wing fundiie true believers working for a Christian theocracy and wealthy business types whose greed knows no limits and who drool at the thought of a return of robber barons and the end of all taxes and regulations (on them and their businesses not on the rest of us!). Why independents convinced themselves that the Repugs cared one iota for them, or were better for national defense or fiscally conservative, or any of the rest of those excuses they use to vote for blatant idiots and liars, has always been beyond me! The Repug love of Palin is a silly thing that somehow opens the door for that middle of the road, non-committal bunch to see what's always been there.

devlzadvocate · 11 months ago

The woman is a potato

RainbowPhoenix · 11 months ago

Don't you mean "potatoe?"

devlzadvocate · 11 months ago

He says "potatoe", I say "potato" . . . doesn't quite make the song to blog translation, does it?

What ever happened to DQ?

JustAnOldLady · 11 months ago

can't wait to hear her debate Obama........

sdrDusty · 11 months ago

Palin truly embodies the "base" that Repubs have cultivated over the past couple of decades. She's not an aberration or departure as many "mainstream" party members (like C. Powell) are suggesting.
It's their bed... hope they like it.

grandma · 11 months ago

After eight years of a blithering idiot in the White House one would think the GOP would raise their standards....

Indigo · 11 months ago

That's fine. She's leading them even further away from the mainstream. Maybe they'll all perish in the desert of stupidity from exhaustion and throats sore from shouting ignorant slogans.

satori · 11 months ago

relegated to fringe status? another appropriate word is returned to fringe status. that's where they were, in ilk with the john birch society, until they first started being actively picked up post Dixiecrat; and in earnest as a tripart coalition of republicans since the 70s. from there, they've built and evolved some with time. despite the impression the media pervades us with, republicans have always had trouble with the numbers, so propaganda and vote/turnout suppression have been keystones of strategy for acceding and maintaining political power (as well as the national zeitgeist). they were regarded as fringe but, as most of us are aware, were cynically exploited for their votes. evangelicals and other elements of the insular crowd were previously largely apolitical but taught how wield influence and grab power. they've done it from seizing local governments/school boards to badgering and coopting the media (working the refs) to influencing and eventually attaining federal offices. they're resilient and the movement has been decades in the making. reagan and the associated era gave them respect which we still here about but clearly an era that is now past us. conservative leadership unleashed a monster which has now seen the flight of the more sensible conservatives and independents as the social conservative element of the coalition has come full circle to overreach. they're now fringe again and indications are we're at the bridge to a new era, but the nature of what is to come is not clear. what has happened with the election and energy for obama is a hopeful sign but tough and uncertain times lie ahead. the same conditions are the stuff great opportunities are made of. it's the only time substantial change, positive or negative, is effected.

MC_Haiku · 11 months ago

I have a friend who worked in the Reagan white house and is still involved in conservative politics. He told me he believed the only way to civilize the savages (his phrase), aka the Christian base, was to bring them into the political process, not leave them out on the fringe as they traditionally had been. Of course, he does not acknowledge now, that, after thirty years, they are no more civilized than they were beforehand. Even worse perhaps since they are the "base" of the republican party now, which was not the case before, as you point out.
The funny thing is, my friend thinks that Obama will very likely be a great president of real historical importance.

ronfromnewhampshire · 11 months ago

to put another point on it, i had a right winger tell me the other day, with a straight face no less, that palin had the qualifications to be president but hillary didn't have the quals to be secretary of state. dilusional doesn't begin to cover it.

therepguy · 11 months ago

Its easy to loathe a fascist...

scytherius · 11 months ago

Which is why the Republican Party is irreversibly D E A D.

satori · 11 months ago

no, they'll be back in time, if in different form. it's amazing how often the proclamation that conservatism, liberalism, republican, democrat is dead (or conversely will go on in power forever) it uttered when history bears out a different story

scytherius · 11 months ago

Well, typically I would agree as in my almost 70 years that's the way it has been. But this time there are many significant differences that never before existed. In no particular order they are:

1. My generation of white males dying out;
2. The Internet;
3. The rise of minorities;
4. An unprecedented movement toward the opposition party (Dems) these last 2 elections;
5. A purging, by the Republicans from their Party, of anything resembling an intellectual;
6. Youth discarding of Religion;
7. The Internet (and yeah, I know I put this one twice)

These times have never existed before. But, in short, a small, backwards, ignorant group of bigots just will not survive in this country . . . and that is the Republican Party.

No . . . it's dead.

jaja · 11 months ago

it shows you that there really ARE some Americans that do not care about solving the nation's problems-or are simply not capable.

triple7s · 11 months ago

Is it just me or has her make-up and hairstyle gotten REALLY bad since the campaign. My guess is that she can't pay the fee to get the same stylists. Sure makes a difference.

Father Ted · 11 months ago

Yes she's nuts, and normal people see that. But maybe being nuts won't matter so much in 2012 and 2016. Maybe after years of horrible recession, people will be desperate enough to vote for the simplistic, feel-good jingo. The demagogues of the 20th century were looked down on by rational people when they first rallied in their silly colored shirts and railed against the traitors among us who were responsible for everyone's misfortune, but it was the rational people who got swept away in the end. Never underestimate the appeal of the mindless populist to an ignorant or desperate electorate.

satori · 11 months ago

she also reminds of greg stillson (from Stephen King's The Dead Zone)

jerryCA · 11 months ago

John, maybe you ought to do a weekly "Because the Bible Says So" and blog a verse. For example, we should be shoving the verse Deut. 22:13-21 that says women who are not virgins when they married are to be executed. Such efffing shameless hypocrites, those rightwingers.

jerryCA · 11 months ago

the comment I made earlier should be directed at Sarah Palin... we all know she had a bastard baby before she married.

debintexas · 11 months ago

The Democrats and independents loathe her? I'm an independent, and I LOVE her! She handed Obama the election, after all. How many Republicans voted for Obama, or didn't vote at all, because to do so would make her president if (when) McCain croaked!