Sarah Paling already has enough exposure on the corporate media. There's no need to include more articles on her on this site unless Obama's doing a shitty performance and deserves to be impeached and removed which he does.

I am not a Sarah Palin fan.

One thing is for sure though---Sarah Palin would not sell out her conservative base the way the Democratic Party, Obama, Biden, Clinton and Rahm Emanuel have in their giving the BIG MIDDLE FINGER TO ALL THE PROGRESSIVE/LIBERALS who voted for Obama.

So, you can laugh at Sarah Palin but realize that she deeply believes in conservative ideals and would not sell-out her base, like Obama already has.

When are you liberals/progressives going to wake-up and realize Obama is out for political expediency and does not give a rat's ass about your issues?

Obama is not a liberal or progressive. Sarah Palin is a conservative. Palin cannot throw the b.s. around like Obama does. Palin is an easy target, but she is not a liar. And you all thought Obama was gonna be some "peace president" or deliver that healthcare reform. Stop being so dumb and/or gullible. Ya gotta love that new huge embassy Obama is building in Pakistan, for billions of dollars, as Americans die of cancer because they have no health insurance....Obama's healthcare plan equals euthansia.

Obama has continued and expanded the military-police-corporatist state of George W. Bush, albeit with smiles and nods and a happy face. Obama has just put a happy face on the military-police-corporatist state of Bush and you fake-phony iberals/progressives think "change" has arrived. If you think Obama is much different than Bush then you are as dumb as Sarah Palin is, or at least that is your charge here.

I am a leftist who joined the Green Party when Obama showed no spine by opening his arms to Joe Lieberman. Lieberman stood there and clapped his hands as Sarah Palin told crowd after crowd that "Obama consorts with terrorists," and Joe had a big smile on his face, clapping with his hands. The spineless Obama welcomed him back in rapid fashion and the spineless Democratic Party gave ole Joe a standing ovation in welcoming Traitor Joe Lieberman back into the fold. The Dems let Lieberman keep most of his committee positions as well. This showed that the Democratic Party has no principles or standards.

Lately, Joe Lieberman has come out against the public healthcare option as well. Well, Obama and the Democratic Psrty can have Lieberman and his ilk like Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Evan Bayh, etc. The Democrats are full of BLue Dogs and Conservative Democrats controlled by the Republican-Lite Democrativ Leadership Council. The Democrats are disgusting in their support of big agribusinesses, the military-police-corporatist-torture-anti-Civil Liberties party. Obama has no spine at all, and he is merely an empty suit.

The Republicans make suck, but, the Democrats act like bent over fools! IMO, the moderate liberal Democrats' virtual obsession with Palin serves to distract from the glaring flaws and deficiencies in their own house, the White one. That's why they can't or won't leave her alone, or let her find whatever destiny she is seeking without accompanying her journey with boos and catcalls.

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Sometimes, it seems Democrats would prefer to see Obama’s reform agenda fail -- and the United States careen toward bankruptcy -- than face the prospect of more GOP attack ads accusing them of "tax-and-spend."

Democrats, by and large, are bought and paid for. They tell themselves that they can make a difference--and they sometimes actually do. Obama's America is better than Bush's.

That said, it's up to us to put the pressure on them to outlaw corporate campaign contributions. The corporation is anti-democratic and a contributing and often primary source of all social ills.

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The same people who rigged the elections in 2000 and again in 2004 chose the ridiculous combination of McCain/ Palin to insure, the choice of Bilderberg Group, CFR, and AIPAC to name a few, Obama, would be elected. Americans are not running their country anymore but they are trying to maintain that illusion. America was taken over by a foreign power, slowly, and without an obvious coup. Just open your eyes and notice who is running our government! The Israel Lobby is well represented by Israelis in high places in Washington DC and they control most of our elected officials in the Senate and the House. Americans need to take back control of their country! It is being destroyed and robbed by banksters and wall street who owe their allegiance to another country and another political ideology. Many have dual citizenship with Israel.

Have you not thought it strange that Israel will receive their 2.7 billion dollars this year while California receives no aid? Americans are homeless, hungry and sick but our government takes care of Israel so they can continue to massacre Palestinians! Turn off your Zionist controlled TV and give that some thought while you still can.

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Republicans are traitors. This cannot be emphasized too strongly nor repeated too often.

I hasten to say the Repubs were probably too stupid to realize they were declaring civil war when they stole the Presidency. Republicans are not warrior types who would openly tell the Left they were going to seize power. They're more "sneaking around in the dark" types.

Also, the best way to wage a civil war is to deny that it's happening--and even to get the victim to deny that it's happening. This where we are today. The Right and Left are at war, but pretending otherwise.

There's a parallel universe where Democrats have moxie. In that universe, there was fighting in the streets in 2000. But in our universe--where no Democrat would ever dare to offend a Republican--we did nothing and sat through Bush II's botched fascist takeover.

More recently, it appears the the Democratic primary was heavily gamed, and we wound up with another neocon in the White House. This will not look very good on the progressives' resume.


Latest Repub talking point: Torture is GOOD for You

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I think so. Do you totalitarian “progressive” pieces of shit know what a republic is?

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"So Alaska may progress, I will not seek reelection as governor."

Did she really say that? You bet'cha!

My goodness! Those Republicans are falling like rocks. This is too good to be true! Am I dreaming? Someone pinch me!

Does this mean that Sarah Palin is going to go away? I hope not. I hope she never goes away. The soon-to-be ex-governor of Alaska is the gift that keeps giving and giving and giving.

The implosion continues....

Senator Al

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

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you for the past 8 years. It was not the Dems who put our country on the brink of destruction. It was Bush & Gang who did that to us. It's only been 6 months, stop whining and give President Obama a chance to undo 8 years of travesty. It didn't happen overnight, Bush & his Rs took this country apart piece by piece while the people stood by and watched and "trusted". They didn't deserve our trust and we are now living the proof of that. Glad Palin quit being Governor, she was seldom on the job, and missed 6 entire months while campaigning. Is that what anyone wants in a President? Not me.

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Sarah just doesn't get it. She pretty much is done, I bet the State of Alaska asked her to step down or face public humility.
Please Read

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As we celebrate our Independence Day, let us remember those noble Americans who fought for freedom, liberty and the American way of life. Those, whose courageous efforts gave us this economy, not witnessed in 80 years, and which has influenced the entire world.

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''Are Republicans a Danger to the Republic?''

Seriously, this is in the title of an article on Alternet?

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... this site was more than a democratic propaganda apologist site.
It seemed to be better than that for a little while.
Now we're back to excusing the democrats from doing anything good because they're afraid republicans will speak up and expose them for hidden agendas and pork? What next, silence all right wing voices and then the democrats will start acting like what they claim to be?
First they needed control of Congress, which we gave them. Then they took impeachment off the table because it would have been a distraction, they say. They said they couldn't do their job because of Bush, but lacked the integrity to impeach him. Weird.
OK, now they have the presidency and a majority. It's other people having other ideas and voices stopping them from handing over what little remains of our country to their backers. Boo hoo.
If they weren't so corrupt they wouldn't have to worry about healthy debate.

Also, since Alaska and Russia's Diomede islands are only a few miles away, and the mainlands themselves are barely 50 miles away, is it just possible you can see some of that with the naked eye from some spots?

How ignorant have these articles gotten? When Palin's facts are more accurate than Alternet's writers, I have to wonder if they're just trying to twist things.

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As a long time fan of multi-party democracies, I lament the fact that the United States labours under a cramped two-party system. Although claims that the Republicans and Democrats show all the practical differences of Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee are not far from the truth, Americans are stuck with the current options until and unless some genuinely leftist party achieves preliminary success and eventually challenges the parties of the moderate right (corporate Democrats) and the extreme right (corporate, Christian fundamentalist, nativistic, misogynistic, homophobic, enduringly racist Republicans). I am, of course, not holding my breath.

So, regrettably, I must say that breathing life into the GOP is the only immediate way to keep even the crabbed and ever-so-slightly phony two-right-wing-pro-capitalist party system going until more sensible minds prevail ... perhaps in a few decades or maybe a century. After all, whether or not the big banks and GM were "too big to fail," the USA is definitely too big and too dangerously armed to go completely nuts.

The reason that the insinuation of a modicum of reason into the Republicans would provide some palliative care to an otherwise toxic American political system is obvious on its face: the fact of a person like Sarah Palin became the Mayor of a dinky little burg some distance north of nowhere is distressing. The fact that she was elected a state governor is appalling. The fact that a venerable (if not always commendable) national party made her a vice-presidential candidate is prima facie evidence that it is as organizationally pathological as she is personally unbalanced.

Evil is one thing and incompetence is another thing; but suffering from irrational, narcissistic delusions is something else.

Of course, Ms. Palin's antics have provided much opportunity for amusing speculation as to her motives (if any). I have heard explanations from: "they finally noticed that the building materials for her new house came from a publicly funded sports complex" to "she's trying to get hired on The View." There are also plausible speculations about corruption charges in play or about to be launched. Who knows? And, I would prefer to think: Who cares?

For now, Ms. Palin is merely pathetic (unless, of course, she becomes dangerously close to power once again). The point now must be: (a) to hope saner minds take over the GOP; (b) to press the current president toward some kind of consistency and effectiveness in terms of "progressive" policies; (c) work toward leftist goals through alternative institutions (environmental, labour, feminist organizations, etc., etc.) in the hope of shaping current party platforms, but in the (believe it or not) more realistic project of constructing a third party challenge.

And, as for Sarah, it would be nice to think this implosion will remove her permanently from the national stage. Such optimism is probably unwarranted. She might, after all, have a cunning plan and just enough witless hate-mongers to pull it off.

If, on the other hand, I were Todd, I think I'd cover my bets by putting her on "suicide watch."

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Now if you hard heads would read this again with out prejudice you would see the truth. ITS THERE!!!

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Leaving the reference of 'songbird' for others to debate, I will proceed with the '08 campaign.
Couldn't retain the Info Lindsay had given him just one day before about Iran- Senility.
Claimed only days after the Anthrax attacks, Saddam was the culprit- when science couldn't even determine that yet. Who told Johnny boy it was Saddams anthrax strain, or how did he have such privvy 'knowledge'?
Claimed he "Knows" how to catch Bin laden, but never shared this info with the Bushies- and still apparently hasn't with the Obama admin?
And lets talk about McCains connection to those 'Afghani Freedom Fighters' he referenced during a debate. That '80's fledgling group in the Afghan/Russian War- still calling them 'Freedom fighters' after 9/11??Is his group of Benefactors still sending them Boots, weapons and Funds?
Worse yet was Songbirds lil' ditty about bombing those millions who flooded the streets of Iran last month to protest to stolen election.
McCain was the accumulation of 40 yrs of sociopathic meglomaniacs which the Repugs have volleyed up for Commander in Chief- Nixon a clinically paranoid, Ronny an alzheimers patient, HW an ass kissing 'Yes man' to Cheney & Rummy delusions of Grandeur, and W the self inflicted mentally challenged egomaniac.
Is it any wonder the Repugs would want Palin as their 'Runner Up'?
If the Republican party wants to resurrect itself, it needs to kick the 'leaders', their mouthpieces and the Religious fantatics, of the last 4 decades to the political curb. Run an 'Ike' (Powell) in '12 and Dems will be scrambling for the Re election. Otherwise Sit down and shut up - the majority of Americans have finally quit drinking your Koolaid shit.

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One of the core principles of the Republican Party is their hatred for Democracy, Freedom and Republicanism:

They have been saying for decades that the government is the problem, and every time they gain control of a government, they engineer it right off a cliff, so they can then say, 'see here's proof government doesn't work'.

I have been hearing the Republican Party espousing heavily armed anarchy now since the crazies came out of the woodwork in the 1950s.

The Republican utopia is this, as far as I can make out, a strong dictator overseeing a weak federal government and a heavily armed society that eagerly kills each other over the slightest provocation. It seems that they want the populace to be so busy shooting each other that they wouldn't have time to think of overthrowing their dictator.

Giuliani, Palin, Bush (Sr. and Jr.), Cheney (and more) all have made cryptic statements, or have acted overtly, that led me to formulate my thesis. All of them HATE the citizen's right to express themselves freely (they hate Freedom).

Bush Sr. said, "Americans have too much Freedom", Bush Jr. said, "It would be a lot easier if I were the dictator."

Guliani filed law suits to prevent people from telling the truth about him and his openly fascistic dictatorial regime.

The Republican leadership simply can not tolerate a free and open society. 8 years of the Bush admin shut down a huge segment of our open society for no good reason, other than to make it easier for them to violate the US Constitution and various laws.

American will not survive another Republican president, or another engineered 'terrorist' attack. They will not let go of power if given another chance at turning America into one huge gulag.

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Whatever her intentions are, she’s done for as a Presidential nominee.

If she quit to get a head start on campaigning in the “lower 48”, she’s still going to be used up as a campaigner in 2010 and then thrown away in 2012 when she’s decimated during primaries debates and attack ads by her Republican rivals. The “Victim Candidate” wanting to be supreme leader is an incredibly stupid strategy. It can get you a devoted following of people who also believe liberals are a bunch of big meanies for calling them unintelligent, but it’s not going to work on a national stage.

If, as some are starting rumors, she’s going to run as a third party candidate, she’ll get the full wrath of the GOP as they quickly squash her so she doesn’t take too many votes away from the Republican candidate. I really don’t believe she’d go this route, though.

And if she’s out of politics and becomes a talking head on Fox News, who cares. Only the same people who agree with her platforms anyway will buy into her.

The only groups of people praising her decision are A) Her core base who mindlessly cheer her on regardless and B) The political media who don't want her to leave since she's such an easy target who guarantees big ratings. She's to them what Paris Hilton is to celebrity gossip writers.

What really matters isn't their opinions, but what her fellow Republicans are saying. And all I saw on the Sunday morning shows was her biggest fan Bill Kristol applauding the move and every other Republican trying to come up with a polite way to call her an idiot.

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We, British and Americans, shout "democracy" and try to shove our version of it down everyone else's throats.

But we suffer from a catastrophic failure of democracy in both the British parliamentary system and the American presidential system.

Bacxk in 2002/3 the majority of our elected representatives failed to ask the most basic questions about our governments' determination to go to war with Iraq. Just one our of perhaps ten equally important questions: what will be the likely effect on the occupation of Afghanistan?

Yet "Iraq" was clearly going to be major blunder prejudicing the entire worldwide position of the West - as was predicted by the "outside" experts in different fields.

That was bad enough, but in 2008 the opposition candidate ran with Mme Palin. If it had not been for the 2008 financial meltdown, Senator McCain and Mme Palin might well have won. (As it was, Obama's victory was far from overwhelming!) And we could have had that lady in charge of the West: someone even less prepared tha GW Bush to be president of the US and the most powerful leader determining all our lives.

No - neither Britain's nor America's democracy is "in safe hands".

Indeed the very fact so many politicians, media pundits and think-tankers favoured the invasion of Iraq makes it extremely difficult for them to open their eyes to the disaster that has befallen us and therefore to consider how best we can - not recover from 8 years of GW Bush, that is impossible - but to end the era of confrontation and waste, and to lead towards a new era of cooperation to face the existential threats to humanity.

We ae lucky to have Obama as leader of the West - he was one of "the few" who opposed the Iraq disaster. But now he has to carry with him those Democrats and Republicans who so nonchalantly sent our men and women to die to prejudice our security! At least Mme Clinton is a reformed "war voter", but Vice Presient Biden too, voted aye.

Once politicians media, think tankers and our general public accept how our democracies let us down, and how dire our Western position is, it will be easier to move ahead free from the kind of confusion and hypocrisy which makes Obamas' task more difficult.

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The Republicans have tested new lows. They don't seem to mind looking foolish. However, there's the rest of us. The ongoing parade of public apologies, weeping and general "looking silly" is taking its toll on the political process. Sarah Palin was just another unqualified loser, pushed down the throats of the Republicans. Her life and experience was nothing more than hopping from thing to thing like a gnat. A short attention span and no will to hang in there. Not an overachiever. Not even a good mother. She cost them a fortune. Meantime back at the Democrat's Ranch how long can it take for the same thing happens? I wish the Repubs would see the danger in letting their party collapse in disgrace. It's contagious. They are destroying our country internally. A Democratic majority across the board is a political victory, but on a sustained basis, not a good idea. There has to be disagreement and competition but the Repubs are busy with their soap opera. They don't have time to devote to the running of the country. Sarah Palin was a huge mistake on their part. They might start by admitting that much. It might be good to order the whole crazy bunch to a "clear our heads week" at some mountain retreat. Realize their priorites and get with the program of helping to run the country. They have clearly lost their way and they owe us an effort to redeem themselves and raise their bar a lttle higher. We cannot function on a weekly dose of nonsense that does nothing but feed the media. Thanks, ANNA

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When I first found Alternet several months before the 2008 election I was not commited to a candidate, barely knew who Obama was, and even considered going green. However after reading the hateful narrow-minded belligerant and too often downright looney comments from individuals claiming to be green supporters, worse even, more rabid than repugs, I quickly changed my mind. It was shocking. If they truly are greens and not mindless trolls, they are doing their party and candidates no favors. Perhaps some are rabid righties attemting to cause doubts and divisions among real progressives/liberals.

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Sarah Palins rambling orations remind me of people i used to council just prior to them going on medication. Really !

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Shes crazy. She did say this was her mission from god to lead a "people's" revolution

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with PurpleGirl...very well said.

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Didn't the article really lay just as much responsibility at the feet of Dems and the media as it did the GOP? Alternet seems to have a propensity for headlines more appropriate to tabloids than to progressive politics. What good does this practice achieve?

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Just a reminder here...

"[There was a] CBS piece detailing several leaked emails in which she asked the McCain campaign to lie about Todd Palin's 7-year membership in a secessionist party. McCain strategist Steve Schmidt responded to her request saying that Todd was a member, and it was a secessionist party and he wasn't going to create an issue in the media if it didn't exist already, nor would he lie for her.

'The statement you are suggesting be released would be inaccurate. The inaccuracy would bring greater media attention to this matter and be a distraction. According to your staff there have been no media inquiries into this and you received no questions about it during your interviews. If you are asked about it you should smile and say many Alaskans who love their country join the party because it speaks to a tradition of political independence. Todd loves his country.

We will not put out a statement and inflame this and create a situation where john has to adress [sic] this."

I would say, UNEQUIVOCALLY, that Sarah Palin is a LIAR. She was trying to lie about her husband's role in the Alaska secession party he was a member of for 7 years... simply because she knew it was a political shit-bomb. She had even given speeches at their conventions! She knew eventually this would come out, but thought that if the McStain campaign denied it, it might go away.

Lying for political expediency. And this is just ONE instance.

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ethics investigations, between the conduct of herself and her husband. Something from those is probably about to hit the fan -- found a cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth

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We always tended to view Sarah Palin as being a mere heartbeat away from reading a nspr. or book, watching some news beyond FOX, taking a fast flight up in a light plane to murder wolves (et al.) from the sky. This woman was scary when she tripped out to be introduced by ol'awkward, scowling John McCain & even scarier when she tried to answer questions in interviews. Ho, boah! Nothin' percolating "in there," folks. Bet Alaska is relieved, though not quite as relieved as we were when she & McCain bit the big one in the election. Not a very close call, but close enough to make us realize what a rough spot we'd AL be in had that gruesome twosome won. Whew.
m. swof.

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They problem is not just with the Republicans. BOTH major parties have become so focused on controlling the Presidency and Congress that they have forgotten their Constitutional duties - to serve THE PEOPLE.

They are all crazy - just to varying degrees.

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They began with the "election" of a doddering old "B" actor, alternating with a Rhodes Scholar, another bumblewit, rammed down our throats by the neocons and their stooges everywhere, including the "supreme" court, and now, another intellectual promising to lead us to the "promised land".
The trend is DOWNWARD, away from true democracy, egalitarian philosophy, and PEACE.
Why are we not out of Iraq and Afghanistan as promised? The "only six months in office" bullshit is beginning to wear just a little bit thin, what with the transparent prevarications and the fact of our continued brutal occupations of those unfortunate nations.
The one thing that can be said about all this is that SOMETHING real and obvious to everyone will be happening soon. If the past is any guide, it won't be good, not for ordinary people, anyway.

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I'm no absolutist, so I could never vote for what Ralph Nader became.Ralph was right about corporations, but wrong to lead gullible people into throwing their vote away on him. There's such a big difference between the Republican and the Democratic party's ways and means it's unconscionable for people to take fussy little positions that blur important distinctions.

Sarah Palin is a walking Republican talking point. All of them, in fact. She is the sort of mindless, ill-educated stooge that the ruling class has put forward. Ralph Nader is a self-appointed stooge who took Republican money to draw votes from the better candidate.

Barack Obama is restoring environmental protections, rebuilding our diplomatic credibility, working to stabilize Afghanistan, and setting a higher intellectual and moral tone than the tone deaf Bushies. (Just take a look at Bolton's oft-expressed desire that we bomb Iran and give fodder to the anti-American haters who wish to use such incidents to squelch the growing movement against them) Sarah Palin, as interesting and hilarious as she might be, would drag the country into the full results of the illogic and counterintuitive ideology Republicans use to ruin both our government and our economy.

Republicans like to think only business can do things efficiently, but the corporate domination of capital in this country wrecks more than builds, and enriches only the very rich rather than the rest of the country.

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The GOP have been slowly but surely veering offbase for a number of decades. Reagan started the problem and Bush continued it to its ultimate goal, the absolute mess we see today. Making suppositions about the current president based on his forst seven months is not only impossible but foolish in the extreme. We still don't have suficient information to make a calling on him yet. so far what we have seen is a slow but inexorable change in the attitudes and policies of the government from right wing selfishness to a kind of center based concern for all Americans, rich and poor. Certainly that isn't enough for many progressives but it is a start. He still has 41 months to go and a lot can be accomplished in that time if he conditions the political spectrum to the new show in town. That to me is exactly what he is doing. Be patient, things are starting to change for the better.

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Sarah Palin is beyond the pale. Agreed. And if a train wreck is "charismatic," then Palin is charismatic.

Republican wackiness and extremism actually go back farther than the author cites. Joe McCarthy was not an anomaly; otherwise his anti-Red mania would not have made the impact it did.

Despite Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative," he himself was a little ditzy and Everett Dirksen, minority leader in the Senate in the 60s, was a loose cannon caricature parodied by late night TV comics.

The point is that the Republican party became wacky in a different way around the time of Reagan, with its affiliation with "Creationism" and the Christian Pentecostal movement: Falwell, Robertson, Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin, Jimmy Swaggart, and so on.

Since then, the sanctimonious marriage of Republicanism and cartoon-Christianity has remained intact.

Of course, unlike other "first world" countries, the US has never made a distinction between church and state, and even an intelligent (though politically aberrant) President like Obama has to make a show of his church-going and "morality."

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Please tell me why so many apparently intelligent people are still spending their energy writing about a left vs. right or dem vs. repub paradigm? I am not a conspiracy theorist but the fact that the real battles are between a core of "haves" versus pretty much most of the rest of us "have a little" or "have nots" is so obvious these days that any time someone writes one of these articles I wonder if they are actually ignorant or just a shill.

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and the article states:

Despite the resulting harm to the nation’s economic health and to the stretched-thin U.S. military, the Republicans have refused to rethink either their tax cuts or their overseas military commitments. Instead they have opted for a political strategy of attacking anyone and any proposal that seeks even a mildly different approach.

But what has Bam Bam done differently?

The Democraps have wasted (and continue to wast) all the political capital they have gained.

They are just treading water until the Repukes figure out how to get the next Shrub in office and continue the destruction of this nation as we once knew it.

Bam Bam needs to get a spine or cut the cords of his corporate pimps. Will this happen? Doubt it. He needs to a least have the take control, I don't give a sh!t attitude that the Shrub had, and FIX something.

As Obamoshrub heads toward a one term presidency,it is the Democraps that are becoming the most disappointing and repulsive in the last 9 years.

You can't continue to focus on the Palins and their ilk. At this point in time they should not be the distraction that is being made here.

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"Sarah has now cut and run.
Like Ensign and Sanford, what fun!
with her wacko views
Jacko's out of the news
the reason why's only begun"

also, check out my new Palin cartoon "Cut & Run" at my website
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Yes, the Republican Party in its present form is a danger to the republic. More specifically, it is a clear and present danger to anyone making less than $250,000 a year. Despite the spectacular failures of the Bush Administration, the GOP is still recommending that we cut taxes on the wealthy and let the free enterprise system work its magic. As a party the Republicans are brain-dead. It's time to pull the plug.

They should rebuild the party along more constructive, Libertarian lines and jettison the lunatic fringe that took over the party after Reagan opened Pandora's box. (As you may recall, Pandora released sorrow and misfortune.)

Unfortunately, we may not have seen the last of Sarah Palin. Her abrupt resignation "for the good of Alaska" (at least we can agree with her on that point) may come to be touted by the right wing as a heroic, selfless act as they offer her up as the sacrificial lamb to be slaughtered in 2012. The lunatics of the far right would rather engage in self-destructive acts than compromise for the good of the nation.

I would like to see Ron Paul and some constructive, moderate Republicans put their heads together and craft a new platform and a new strategy. The competition between the current 2 parties should be based on getting government out of areas where it doesn't need to be involved while making it more effective in the areas where free enterprise fails. Of course, an even better outcome would be another party to totally replace the GOP, but it seems almost impossible.

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........for the Refucklican party: she's ignorant, right-wing, hypocritical, ditzy, etc., etc. Also not mentally all there. Just like Bush. The Refucks attract votes because stupid people need a stupid party.

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The local paper out here in quiet, conservative little Port Elbow, Washington, runs a daily poll in its on-line edition. Today's asked, "Do you think Sarah Palin helped or hurt her presidential campaign chances by resigning her governor position early?"

The answers broke out like this: "Helped them", 16%; "Hurt them", 26%; "Never had them", 47%; "I don't know", 11%.

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why isn't anyone questioning the woman's courage and commitment? Alaska, like 48 of the 50 states, is in very tough economic times. How dare she bail when the going gets tough. She is Short Attention Span Sarah.

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Let me see, this was the VP candidate that wanted to change the way politics are done, right? But now she stands in front of the entire country, and confesses she is not someone who can do politics the same old way. So to sum up, I can't and i won't hang with politics as usual, (can't be that lame-o duck), - and I can't, won't, don't care to, wouldn't consider sticking around and CHANGE the way politics are done, LIKE I PROMISED TO DO AS VP along with the MAVERICK Mr. McCain. Yep, I guess it just isn't as important to fix the way Alaskan government works, but boy-o SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THERE HEADFIRST changin' that washington disfunctional mess!!! YAH!, SHURE.! (Got a Bridge to sell Ya...)

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They've sold our our democracy for an Empire since Nixon.

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GINSBERG: ANOTHER LIB HYPOCRITE

Serial adulterer Klinton puts an ultra liberal ACLU lead attorney on the SC back when.

Guess what? The “liberal” Ginsberg reveals she has had 57 law clerks during her tenure so far.
All were white. No diversity in lib-land. Try that most anywhere else. I dare you.
She even thinks blacks incapable of competing on fireman tests so voted for reverse discrimination recently.

This is one of many examples of how liberal democrats hammer us with rules and then make their own.
They pollute like crazy on your VISA but want you to ride a tiny crash box
.
They want to reform healthcare (translation: ruin it) but won’t pledge to leave their sweetheart coverage deal (or reduce Medicare fraud)…
the coverage-price you can’t ever have…just like you can’t ever have companies compete across state lines.
They won’t even pledge to read the very bills they vote on that change America in drastic expensive ways.
Okay, spin this.

Think about this post…

http://conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish

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Please tell me why so many apparently intelligent people are still spending their energy writing about a left vs. right or dem vs. repub paradigm? I am not a conspiracy theorist but the fact that the real battles are between a core of "haves" versus pretty much most of the rest of us "have a little" or "have nots" is so obvious these days that any time someone writes one of these articles I wonder if they are actually ignorant or just a shill.
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