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Is Sarah Palin Being Christened as De Facto Leader of the GOP?

Posted by Bob Cesca, Huffington Post at 7:26 AM on December 4, 2008.


Sarah Palin is a walking, talking psychobomb -- and she's on the verge of becoming the face of the Republican party.

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A standup comic once joked about his inner monologue while rubbernecking through the scene of a car accident. First the serious reaction: "Oh! How horrifying! How awful!" Then the morbidly gleeful: "Cool! Is that an arm?"

Watching the Republican Party implosion and subsequent bloody flailing has become my favorite spectator sport. "Wow, the Republican Party is really, really horribly mangled," then, "Cool! Palin's making an ass of herself on TV again!"

Why the excitement? Well, it appears as if she's being christened as the de facto leader of the Republican Party. Wednesday, for example, instead of attributing his victory to the well-known Republican majority in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss credited his expected victory to Sarah Palin's stump speeches:

"...when she walks in a room, folks just explode."

Explode? Smart choice of words, Senator. Sarah Palin makes Republicans explode. Perfect.

If Palin, in fact, becomes the leader of the Republican Party, exploding is precisely what will happen -- and not in the weirdly excited-slash-sexual way Chambliss seemed to imply. Specifically, Sarah Palin is a walking, talking psychobomb, and elevating her to anything beyond a near-term novelty will be disastrous -- in a word, "explosive" -- for the Republican Party.

And it'll be almost too much fun to watch.

As of right now, we have several contenders for this post. There's "Sister Sarah" (a nickname I don't quite understand). There's the twice divorced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. There's Bobby Jindal, the far-right governor of Louisiana. And Tuesday, we learned that Jeb Bush might be running for Senate and thus throwing his gigantic hat into the fight for the future of the party.

How screwed are the Republicans right now? Put it this way: the sanest contender in the above list is named "Bush." Yes, Bush: a name that proved to be even less popular this year than the name "Hussein." Yet there he is front and center.

Now, it's important to clarify the schadenfreude and why the aforementioned Republican contenders are so much fun, and, more importantly, why many fellow liberals are rooting for them to keep talking.

Simply put, Palin and the others, will serve to more or less confine the Republican Party to the deep South where there are enough white fundamentalist hoopleheads to provide the GOP with a respectable electoral showing, but not enough support to seriously compete nationally. In other words, the Republicans are inexplicably pushing names that will do much more harm than good. And that's just fine and dandy.

For instance, apart from her unserious pageant walking and clueless turkey geeking, it's practically impossible for Sarah Palin, with her far-right ideology and divisive politics, to expand a Republican electorate that's already suffering from, well, shrinkage. Her appeal is so laser-focused on a rabidly fanboy-ish chunk of the GOP base that many more Americans who would otherwise vote Republican will surely continue to snap to other options. Meanwhile, the Palin base -- the fanboys who are "exploding" over Sarah Palin -- are a mélange of Bush dead-enders, disgruntled former Bush loyalists who haven't yet realized that the only difference between Palin and Bush is, well, lipstick, and, of course, way too many disturbingly pervy older men. Outside of this narrow demographic, everyone else thinks she's more or less an earnest yet embarrassing joke.

Anecdotally speaking, while working the polls on Election Day, I overheard more than one relatively uninformed, uneducated Republican -- I mean, guys who probably think "peeance freeance" is an actual foreign policy term -- turn to their buddy and say (paraphrasing), "Palin's kind of an idiot. And she probably don't know what peeance freeance means neither."

The only possibilities for the resuscitation of the Republican Party are either, 1) a failed Obama presidency or, 2) an as-of-yet unannounced transformative and inspirational Republican figure.

There's nothing to really indicate the former, but there's always the freak possibility that a random cascade of uncontrollable events could swing the White House into turmoil. It happened to President Carter.

As for the latter, I really can't think of a Republican answer to Barack Obama. Once again, however, the Republicans are betting on either Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal to be the knock-off Bizarro Obama. Palin aside, the notion that Jindal is the "Republican Obama" amplifies how truly ridiculous and desperate the Republicans are.

They're making a huge mistake in assuming that just because Jindal is young and of unusual ethnic origins that he's the equivalent of Barack Obama -- in the same way they mistakenly calculated that Sarah Palin would attract female voters just because she's a woman, even though she possessed none of the positive qualities of Senator Clinton. It's totally shallow and vaguely racist. A party which has so often dealt in identity politics and racial divisiveness to suddenly go, "Hey, look over here! We have an ethnic, too!" seems weird and awful to me.

Additionally, Jindal's religious extremism won't manufacture any new Republican voters from the middle -- he's anti-choice without exceptions, he supports teaching creationism as a science in public schools and, yes, he once performed an exorcism on a friend who he believed was possessed by a demon. Yeah, if there's one thing the Republican Party needs more of, it's religious zealotry.

So we have an exorcist, a Bush, a turkey geeker who makes people explode, and Newt, who, by the way, wrote a book imagining if the South had won the Civil War. If these cable reality show misfits represent the future of the Republican Party, it's going to be a seriously entertaining four years.

BobCesca.com


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What a Line-up!
Posted by: gar1948 on Dec 4, 2008 8:45 AM   
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"...we have an exorcist, a Bush, a turkey geeker who makes people explode, and Newt, who, by the way, wrote a book imagining if the South had won the Civil War..."

Sounds like a great line-up to me. I can't wait for 2012. Should be lots of fun. Who knows, it might finally give a third party candidate a chance.

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» RE: What a Line-up! Posted by: truman
» Third Party Potential Posted by: floridahank
» RE: Third Party Potential Posted by: Lauren
» RE: Third Party Potential Posted by: pelican beak
» Irony, you guys want Sarah Palin to go away but... Posted by: theVRWCwhodatesLiberals
» RE: What a Line-up! Posted by: Oracle2020
Wow.
Posted by: Quannah on Dec 4, 2008 9:13 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Chambliss has given us, in his statement, every Republic Party Freudian sexual innuendo wet-dream regarding Sarah Palin.

I'm going to throw up now...

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» RE: Wow. Posted by: Lauren
Don't gloat too much
Posted by: g on Dec 4, 2008 9:43 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Yes, Obama won, but the fact that the 'imploding' Republican party got 46% of the vote, with someone as blatantly incompetent and crazy as Palin on the ticket with a fair chance at becoming president should give you pause. Have fun watching the crazies, but remember that there are a lot of them in the US, and that they do have voting rights.

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» RE: Don't gloat too much Posted by: ohb0b
» RE: Don't gloat too much Posted by: Lauren
» RE: Don't gloat too much Posted by: maxaron
» RE: Don't gloat too much Posted by: CatDad
» RE: Don't gloat too much Posted by: Quannah
» RE: Don't gloat too much Posted by: CatDad
» "It's impossible to speculate"??? Posted by: pelican beak
What Palin reminds me of.
Posted by: monkeywrench on Dec 4, 2008 9:54 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
With that motormouth and the nasty demeanor exhibited during the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin is a lot like the Looney-Tune Tasmanian Devil: a lot of spinning and whirling and barking, but, ultimately, not very effective and not very smart.

Keep in mind that no matter how much noise the T. Devil made, he was flummoxed by nothing more than a crafty rabbit.

It will be the same for the Alaskan Devil Ms. Palin; it just won't be a rabbit that does it.

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» RE: maybe it will be this Posted by: Lauren
» What would Jesus say? Posted by: pelican beak
» What Palin reminds me of. Posted by: theVRWCwhodatesLiberals
What Palin reminds me of.
Posted by: monkeywrench on Dec 4, 2008 9:54 AM   
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With that motormouth and the nasty demeanor exhibited during the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin is a lot like the Looney-Tune Tasmanian Devil: a lot of spinning and whirling and barking, but, ultimately, not very effective and not very smart.

Keep in mind that no matter how much noise the T. Devil made, he was flummoxed by nothing more than a crafty rabbit.

It will be the same for the Alaskan Devil Ms. Palin; it just won't be a rabbit that does it.

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» RE: or this? Posted by: Lauren
What Palin reminds me of.
Posted by: monkeywrench on Dec 4, 2008 9:54 AM   
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With that motormouth and the nasty demeanor exhibited during the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin is a lot like the Looney-Tune Tasmanian Devil: a lot of spinning and whirling and barking, but, ultimately, not very effective and not very smart.

Keep in mind that no matter how much noise the T. Devil made, he was flummoxed by nothing more than a crafty rabbit.

It will be the same for the Alaskan Devil Ms. Palin; it just won't be a rabbit that does it.

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» RE: What Palin reminds me of. Posted by: monkeywrench
» RE: What Palin reminds me of. Posted by: Longdream
» RE: What Palin reminds me of. Posted by: pelican beak
» RE: What Palin reminds me of. Posted by: pelican beak
» RE: What I love... Posted by: Cybershaman
» RE: What I love... Posted by: Lauren
» RE: What I love... Posted by: kahuna_2bears
» RE: What I love... Posted by: Quannah
» RE: What I love... Posted by: pelican beak
» RE: What I love... Posted by: Joni50
The Faux-News appetite must explode first
Posted by: channing on Dec 4, 2008 10:16 AM   
Current rating: 4    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
The one and only reason repugs got 46% in the '08 election was Faux-News, or Fox Noise according to Olbermann. Palin was literally and figuratively a Fox candidate taken from the success of fanatical fantasy programming replete with gaudy hair, overdone makeup and clothes and the all-important Mas-Factor (that's Masterbation-Factor for those clueless about the right). Those "fanboys" are the hyper-religious celibates that must wait 'til their virgin arrives before committing their sex-catch to the Authority of the man of the house, and are determined to remain free of real sex with a real partner until they can, sucker, I mean subdue, I mean have a lifetime monogamous marriage in Jesus' name, but meantime, lets have a religious-right wet-dream to help us explode in impatience!

I actually concluded that Alaska itself fell into this trap because they seriously thought no one else seriously cared what they were doing up there by the North Pole... but the fiasco of a candidate they presented to the world will change all that as Alaskans and especially the "sane" press and people there are going to redouble their seriousness-factor and kick that loon out of their public face at the very next turn.

More on point is that that wretched party got that many votes based solely on mass-deception of the kind Hitler used to distract the population and overrule the truth and reality setting in there, and yes, I voted for Obama out of "fear" that it was actually working. In light of this, one of the biggest guarantees progressives have of assuring a no-repeat of even close to even voting is the dissolution of mega-media owned surreptitiously by the likes of Murdoch and GE. We cannot win the couch-potato battle by letting them continue outright lies on the public waves in the name of "news" and it will be up to us to tear into the FCC and congress on the validity of the falsely-advertised news programming that knowingly and repeatedly abuses the facts, hides their conflicts, propagandizes fear, and inserts corporate/military agendas to upend the public dialog. It may be as simple as enforcing "Truth In Advertising" through congress, declaring commercially sponsored news to disclose their conflicts.

We don't have much time.

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» ah State Channel One Posted by: theVRWCwhodatesLiberals
» RE: ah State Channel One Posted by: pelican beak
Two Mules...
Posted by: quietbear on Dec 4, 2008 11:23 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
You said you didn't understand the "Sister Sarah" nickname... It is in reference to the old movie starring Shirley McClain and Clint Eastwood called, "Two Mules for Sister Sarah"... It was about a prostitute pretending to be a nun that was on the run from "the Law"... It's a very apt nickname if you ask me...

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» RE: Two Mules... or two witches? Posted by: kahuna_2bears
» RE: Two Mules... Posted by: ohb0b
» RE: Two Mules... for sister Sarah Posted by: Nightstallion
» RE: Two Mules... Posted by: popeurbanxxiii
He's gotta win first
Posted by: drmflorida on Dec 4, 2008 12:12 PM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Jeb may think a senate seat will propel him on to the national scene, but he's gotta win first. In case anyone's been sleeping, down here in Florida, south of the south, we've gone blue!

Ok, I'm gloating without justification, we still have a republican dominated state government. But hopefully we can re-activate the structure the Obama campaign built and reclaim the legislature. With Jeb Bush on the ticket in 2010, that might be exactly what we need to do that!

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» RE: He's gotta win first Posted by: Lauren
COUNT DOWN FOR SARAH
Posted by: VZEQICVA on Dec 4, 2008 1:24 PM   
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Sarah will end up in the sack with one of her "fan boys". She is not accustomed to this amount of attention and probably won't handle it well for much longer. She has always been protected and is lacking the real world experience that most women have over the years. Politically she doesn't appeal to enough people, just the religious crazies. She certainly gets a lot of exposure & Publicity but I dont see it lasting. ANNA

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» RE: COUNT DOWN FOR SARAH Posted by: kellysgarden
I'd Vote for Her!
Posted by: AlexLawyer on Dec 4, 2008 8:18 PM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I'm so giddy over this possibility that I'd consider turning the tables on Rush Limbaugh and registering as a Republican to vote for her in the primaries. She's the standard bearer for ideologies such as creationism, supply-side economics, anthropogenic global warming denial, ignorance-based sex education, opposition to abortion and gay rights, and other issues that are endangered species in 21st century America. This tripe might still sell in trailer camps, Assembly of God and Southern Baptist franchises and the like, but it's deadly poison that will relegate the GOP to minority status and marginal influence nationally and ridicule internationally.

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» RE: I'd Vote for Her! Posted by: Lauren
» RE: I'd Vote for Her! Posted by: Nickdanger007
» RE: I'd Vote for Her! Posted by: pelican beak
» RE: I'd Vote for Her! Posted by: kahuna_2bears
» RE: I'd Vote for Her! Posted by: Dboy
Hey This is a Great Idea
Posted by: Abraham007 on Dec 5, 2008 12:13 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I think its a wonderful idea to make Sarah Palin, America's favorite psycho-babble Babe, the new face of the Republican Party!

What better way to fully diminish what's left of the GOP's credibility and ensure the emergence of new, more viable parties as alternatives.

The Key: put Sarah on TV as often as possible and open a special Sarah PsychoBabble channel on YouTube.

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SARAH PALIN MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP
Posted by: orwellturns on Dec 5, 2008 1:34 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
If we hadn't had such an obviously stupid President for the last 8 years, the likes of Sarah would have been laughed off the first couple of days on the scene. What an embarrassment to the dignity of the USA that anybody thinks of her as qualified for a re-run.
Republicans have been driven to insanity by considering her ever.
McCain has become even lower in my opinion for ever thrusting this
horror on us. I guess he thinks that the position he chose her for is a big joke. HERE SHE COMES, MISS VICE PRESIDENT!!

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» RE: SARAH PALIN MAKES ME WANT TO... Posted by: popeurbanxxiii
I have said it before and I says it again, who has seen the likes of this woman?
Posted by: Nightstallion on Dec 5, 2008 2:09 AM   
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The only thing missing is her beast she all ready babbles on! Hey Christians here is your key! You want the second comming? Put this one in the drivers seat and you will be popping of to raptureland by the droves!
THY ELECT



It troubles me no end

Please don't think that I am bored

I'd like to be a friend


There is one thing

That's in my way

It is not a fling

I just need to say

I have my doubts

Then be on my way


Perhaps to better days

Lord let me be correct

Save me from thy Elect.


There's none so blind

Who will not see

And they all think

That that, is me

Only you have my respect

God save me from thy Elect.


Your son has said

To be like him

You'll never know dead

Or feel the grim

Reapers skull like head

Be like a child instead


Just you know I am true

And as Jesus eyes were blue

From you I'll not defect

But save me from thy Elect!

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sister sarah
Posted by: sherman on Dec 5, 2008 3:00 AM   
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she is "sister sarah" like the aunt in The Handmaid's Tale, please make this slime from an oil slick go away...plz!

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» RE: sister sarah Posted by: Tim V
More Like the Boobs of the Party o' Boobs
Posted by: godsbreath64 on Dec 5, 2008 3:08 AM   
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And specifically the last ones to convince you to leave the party.

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Go, Sarah!
Posted by: Tom Degan on Dec 5, 2008 3:48 AM   
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I hope she is the future of the GOP. If that is the case, the "Party of Lincoln" is finished.

I always knew that an African American would become president in my lifetime. The only problem was the fact, I always believed the person in question would be a right-of-center Republican. Even a slightly progressive black Democrat always scared the bleeding, mortal shit out of Middle America.

Then an incredible thing happened. Seventeen days ago, the American people became radicalized. So radical, in fact, that they elected a decidedly left-of-center Black Democrat.

That's pretty radical, baby. That's progress, too.

If the Republican Party insists on pandering to its dying, half-witted base of extremists, kooks and fools, they'll never win another national election again.

Go, Sarah!

The De Facto President

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY.

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» What happened? Posted by: 2thepoint
don't be surprised.......
Posted by: mr.president on Dec 5, 2008 3:58 AM   
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It does not matter how any of us view the choices the republican party chooses as its face,if elected the results will be the same.What we seem to forget,especially after this victory,is the politics of fear,on the intelligence challenged right.Remember,to them,every muslim want to kill their family,climate change is fake,democrats have abortions for something to do,and we are all subversive communists.I live in a relatively rural area,where I will say,it seems from time to time the education system may not have reached someone,and I have heard more than one person say something out loud like "sarahs my girl"! Remember also these people have no factual basis for forming these opinions,its all about sensation people,and caribou barbie is one,we should all be afraid of her,she not only has a very good chance of becoming the poster girl for the right,after four years or eight years of coaching/prep. she will have a very real chance of becoming president.If any of this sounds silly or impossible to you,remember this...........GEORGE BUSH HAS BEEN OUR PRESIDENT FOR EIGHT YEARS.

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HOW DO YOU SAY PALIN
Posted by: DWIGHT BAKER on Dec 5, 2008 4:23 AM   
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Stupid, sinister, selfish, sneaky,

NO NEED TO WASTE ANYMORE TIME ABOUT HER all the old republicans that voted for her will be dead OLD AGE in 2012.

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Jeb and the Slick Money
Posted by: beeden on Dec 5, 2008 4:45 AM   
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Let us not forget how many billions Bushco has slipped under the radar to his friends and family, and the opportunity to further enrichen their coffers while the economy ( that they so conveniently derailed) is at bargain basement prices.

In a few years, election time, with their rejuvenated profits and the opportunity to create further pillage and mayhem, it will be time for Jeb to step up to the Presidential plate, with the "family" assistance and "expertise", the pliable funds available will see even more massive misinformation unleashed upon the general public.

This is a family, hell-bent on the destruction of the planet ( George Snr. and the mining of a glacier for gold ( never mind the rivers' pollution) is only a small part of the story), for a fistfull of dollars. Their megalomania will ensure Jeb is presented as the next "Bush wave" of unabashed greed, torture and worldwide turmoil.

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Obama's presidency won't be easy. That gives Repubs a shot in 2012.
Posted by: Jasonix on Dec 5, 2008 5:15 AM   
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Obama inherits a collapsing economy that still has further to fall. The falling price of oil is just an anomaly caused by the market turmoil, not because our oil problems have been suddenly solved. Within the next two years, the price of oil will likely skyrocket again, and inflation may roar as all the money they're printing for the bailout devalues the dollar. These aren't temporary economic problems - the fundamentals of the economy no longer work. Previously, we put people deep in debt at the start of life with student loans and mortgages (and massive credit card debt, especially for those who dare to have children) - the debt, nothing but a legal fiction, forced people to burn more oil and use more metal and other resources to create the economic goods that enabled them to pay off the debt. This worked as long as there were more resources to be exploited - now that the resources are running out, debt-slavery is no longer a workable economic model. Americans still haven't come to grips with this and what it means - they think this is just a recession we have to get over.

When it becomes clear that the entire system is collapsing and that there will be no more lavish shopping malls and SUVs, and that the future is going to involve performing real work to create things of value, building meager lives on equity rather than outlandish lives on debt, Americans are going to freak. If some Republican idiot comes along promising to restore Wal-Mart America, many won't bother to even think through his or her proposals. The proposals, quite honestly, will boil down to wars to steal other people's oil. And many Americans will buy into that.

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» quite correct... Posted by: Annapurna1
Choosing a President
Posted by: floridahank on Dec 5, 2008 5:16 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Citizens who are truly interesting and deserving of
the best Presidential candidates
are forced to "take what they get," rather
than end up with the best people to choose
from. Why is that? I believe the 2 biggest
factors are: "the large number of uninformed voters --
working in tandem with our vapid, gossip-obsessed political media"

That almost guarantees we'll end up with a
second-rate list of people to choose from,
especially when it takes $100-$500 million
to get into the game.

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Sarah Palin, DeFacto Leader of GOP
Posted by: miss_grundy on Dec 5, 2008 5:30 AM   
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As long as the press, including the liberal press, keeps writing and focusing on this preening peahen, she will continue to get attention. While 46% of the American electorate voted for the GOP, they probably did it because they didn't like "the other one." There are still a lot of people in this country who are racists and are willing to vote for anyone if they are white. How else can you explain this pervy allure to a woman who mentally and verbally stumbles over herself.

At the Governor's Meeting, the press all wanted to talk to Palin, even though there were much smarter governors in the room. It is the fault of the media that this woman hasn't gone away. I hope that Obama and his government will get things right so that in 2012, he'll be able to trounce the GOP. Perhaps by then America will like having a smart president again.

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» Frightening Posted by: NWCrow
Jerry Springer anyone?
Posted by: thekidde on Dec 5, 2008 5:35 AM   
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With this kind of horrific lineup, the Repubs are bound to go the way of the Dodo - wow, how fitting.

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Palinistas
Posted by: BlindSoul on Dec 5, 2008 6:09 AM   
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I'm not sure whether to be "pleased" that Palin will "lead" the Republican Party OR to "fall on the floor laughing" that the Republican Party sees her as anything more than a temporary diversion to hold the limelight while the "serious" Republican "leaders" work out who will be their "real leader."

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The Wasilla Project is ready for Palin 2012
Posted by: emopaul on Dec 5, 2008 7:00 AM   
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The people from Palin's hometown are ready to respond to the next phase of Palin's career. She has "issues" that aren't going to go away. In the series of videos produced by the Wasilla Project (covered here on Alternet), there is enough material to keep Palin in Alaska for years to come....
Sarah Palin: Fiscal Conservative?
Sarah Palin: Rape Kit Controversy
Sarah Palin: Religion in Politics
Sarah Palin: The Email Scandal

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But They Drag Us Down With Them...
Posted by: cheryljohns on Dec 5, 2008 7:05 AM   
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"I have been thinking exactly those thoughts since the election. It is a sad commentary on the wisdom and intellectual capabilities of the american electorate. Pity them for they know nothing and deserve less."

The rest of us don't deserve their "picks". There ought to be an IQ test to vote. I am sure both parties would agree - but just not on the criteria. Dems would want only with those above 110 to vote - Repugs only those below 90 to vote.

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