If she insists on painting herself as an average housewife / hockey-mom, she deserves these attacks. This is not Mr. Smith goes to Washington: this is real life, and we want to elect someone who we can look up to- someone who is more qualified, more disciplined, more dignified than ourselves.

She is not it. John McCain might have been it, but he isn't anymore.

That damned uppity media!

She's playing in the big leagues now. As someone once said, she should stop whining and show us what she can do.

The person who said that was Sarah Palin.

I am not in the media, but I feel contempt for anyone who is pig-ignorant and proud of it. Sorry if that makes me elitist.

/Not really.

...And it is why they still don't understand the Palin Breakout.

Only fifteen days ago, no one knew who she was. Isn't it a little too early to throw terms like "Palin Breakout" around??? Sure, her devoted following is remarkable, but I haven't seen anything that shows me that her following's anything other than people who were gonna vote (R) anyway.

A month from now, if she's really managed to sway most of the independents to the Palin-McCain ticket, then we'll be justified in talking about breakouts. Maybe even capitalize it.

My gut feeling is she's too dogmatic to appeal to too many independent-minded people. Look at practically any opinion poll taken in America during the past five years & you'll see that Republicans - about a third of the population - believes one thing, and everyone else believes something different. I don't think her appeal's going to broaden beyond 1.) Republicans, 2.) people who won't vote for the attractive and successful, and 3.) people stupid enough to fall for the "He's a Muslim! No, wait - the ANTICHRIST!!!" emails...

Of course the Democrats could still mess up a campaign horribly in the home stretch. It's happened once or twice.

Uh-huh, but when she attacks Roe v. Wade, she attacks me and my family: my awesome and badass American friends who have the right to do whatever the fark they want with their bodies, in any state in America they live in. Nobody's going to attack women's rights and get away with it.

Sister, you can make whatever choices with your uterus you want, but don't take a choice away from the rest of womanity.

Also, if Russia nuked Seattle it would take out Vancouver too, and I'm not cool with that. No war with Russia, please! BC is right in between the continental USA and Alaska!

Also, colour me skeptical on a woman who, when asked if being gay is a choice, says "Charlie, I'm not going to judge the people who believe being gay is a choice. I'm not going to judge that." Refusing to answer the question and refusing to share her own opinion.

This, a week after she made a speech where she bashed Barack Obama for talking one way to Scranton and another to "San Francisco", which is the most prominent conservative Christian code-word for gay people. Uh-huh.

She's waaaaaay too hardline on abortion. Even those who think Roe v. Wade should be overturned generally make an exception for abortion in cases of rape or incest.

On the other hand, Obama can't seem to speak the pro-life movement's language. When he made that remark about being "punished with a baby," I knew exactly what he meant, but the pro-life camp expect their politicians to see childbirth as a good, almost holy thing

"Rightly."
Sure.
As if resisting the overly simplistic, doe-eyed submission to authority - being marketed as a "change" from the policies of a unitary executive and a thoroughly cowed Congress - is somehow proof of an "attack" on the people who identify or sympathize with a local-girl-makes good success story.
Apples and skyscrapers.

That first sentence quoted in the headline almost supports the notion that run-of-the-mill Republicans aren't voting on the issues or the facts, or the denied contradictions (misstatements? lies?) of their candidates... so much as they're expressing their longing for the world to be as they would configure it.

Soldiers all gung-ho behind the current administration, Russia bad, "abstinence-only" a prudent strategy, more drilling to address high gas prices and dependency on foreign suppliers, industries can be trusted to police their own safety / environmental / monopolistic impacts, any monitoring of telecommunications and internet activity is necessary "to preserve freedom" / "to protect the children", banning contraceptives as a step toward outlawing ("eliminating" !?) abortion, exploding national debt that won't have to be reckoned with 'cause Jesus will return any minute...

Ut-oh. This went green. Here comes the trolls!

/I'm in enough green Politics threads for one night!

The right is going full retard now.

They should know, never go full retard.

Very creative on subby's part to just quote part of the "article." Hmm. So only the media hate Palin, every one woman loves her? I'm a woman, and she doesn't represent me, my mother, my family, or any children I may CHOOSE to have in the future. I also noticed in her interviews tonight she didn't mention encouraging birth control education/availability to decrease abortions, but instead presented adoption as something to push. Interesting. I suppose encouraging people to use birth control is killing those potential babies?

bobbette: Uh-huh, but when she attacks Roe v. Wade, she attacks me and my family: my awesome and badass American friends who have the right to do whatever the fark they want with their bodies, in any state in America they live in. Nobody's going to attack women's rights and get away with it.

"Oh no deary, you've got me all wrong! I am trying to save your family from eternal damnation. As a soccer mom from Podunk, AK, I know what is best for your family and I am the only one who can save you from the rapture. Not even the old man can do that!"

Damn those elitists with their knowledge of foreign policy! We need a Hockey Mom^TM in the White House!

cameroncrazy1984: She's playing in the big leagues now. As someone once said, she should stop whining and show us what she can do.

The person who said that was Sarah Palin.

Boo-YAH!

/carl approves

I said it in another thread.

Palin is The Pet Rock with lipstick and a pants suit. The fad is over.

So, it's okay when Republicans have personality cults?

I just want to keep up on the double standards.

ragekage: So, it's okay when Republicans have personality cults?

I just want to keep up on the double standards.

Two words for you. Ronald. Reagan.

I'm pretty sure the average American family didn't request hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks via a corrupt, indicted Senator.

I could be wrong, though.

kmmontandon: I'm pretty sure the average American family didn't request hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks via a corrupt, indicted Senator.

I could be wrong, though.

I'm also pretty sure that my mom wasn't a beauty queen, news anchor, mayor, or governor, and my dad damn sure wasn't a professional snowmobile racer.

I'm pretty sure the average American family isn't remotely qualified to be Vice President of the United States.

Republicans are so delicate.

hoi polloi alogoi!


/cake is served

I_Love_Verdi: If she insists on painting herself as an average housewife / hockey-mom, she deserves these attacks. This is not Mr. Smith goes to Washington: this is real life, and we want to elect someone who we can look up to- someone who is more qualified, more disciplined, more dignified than ourselves.

She is not it. John McCain might have been it, but he isn't anymore.

cameroncrazy1984: She's playing in the big leagues now. As someone once said, she should stop whining and show us what she can do.

The person who said that was Sarah Palin.

oldebayer: I am not in the media, but I feel contempt for anyone who is pig-ignorant and proud of it. Sorry if that makes me elitist.

/Not really.



You guys are going to have to split (1) Internet. I don't have enough to go around.

They're going to ride the anti-media rocket all the way down.

Occam's Chainsaw: kmmontandon: I'm pretty sure the average American family didn't request hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks via a corrupt, indicted Senator.

I could be wrong, though.

I'm also pretty sure that my mom wasn't a beauty queen, news anchor, mayor, or governor, and my dad damn sure wasn't a professional snowmobile snowmachine racer.

FTFY!

Now I know why I let my total Fark subscription lapse. This place is filled with the unhappiest people on earth. I don't care what the topic Farkers will find the negative in it.

She's too farking dumb and completely, totally American to not be elected.

McCain made a decision to win himself an election; in the process he could do this nation grievous harm. But what the fark, as long as your team wins this round, right?

I've accepted it. They'll win. shiat will get worse. McCain, hopefully, will drop dead of a heart attack a year into his first time, and we'll have Palin as our prez for four awesomely terrifying years.

You know how farking awesome it will be to look back fondly and say "Man, I miss Dubya."?

Strap yourself in, and just learn to enjoy it, man.

Aeonic_Blue: I've accepted it. They'll win. shiat will get worse. McCain, hopefully, will drop dead of a heart attack a year into his first time, and we'll have Palin as our prez for four awesomely terrifying years.

President Palin would be even more of a figurehead for the neocons than Bush is now. Putin would eat her alive, probably literally.

enoxo: FTFY!

What's up with that? I've noticed everyone and their moose-hunting sister calling them "snow machines" as of late. I thought the terms were pretty much interchangeable.

The average American family has a pregnant teenage daughter who likes to booze it up, wants to ban books from the library, tries to get state troopers fired for dissing their sisters and thinks we should go to war with Russia because "that's what God would want"?

Because if that's the case... America's phuqued!

Occam's Chainsaw: What's up with that? I've noticed everyone and their moose-hunting sister calling them "snow machines" as of late. I thought the terms were pretty much interchangeable.

No idea, I call it a snowmobile. :) Then again, I'm not from Alaska.

I wish I had an ounce of artistic ability - I so want to photoshop a republican victim card.

This is exactly what I mean by 'groupthink'. They defend their own, no matter how bad that person is.

Is it a wonder that Germany fought so hard for Hitler?

I had no idea most families ran up such massive debt and compelled rape victims to pay for rape kits, let alone getting excessive earmarks that provoked criticisms from a presidential candidate.

Grrr: "Rightly."
Sure.
As if resisting the overly simplistic, doe-eyed submission to authority - being marketed as a "change" from the policies of a unitary executive and a thoroughly cowed Congress - is somehow proof of an "attack" on the people who identify or sympathize with a local-girl-makes good success story.
Apples and skyscrapers.

That first sentence quoted in the headline almost supports the notion that run-of-the-mill Republicans aren't voting on the issues or the facts, or the denied contradictions (misstatements? lies?) of their candidates... so much as they're expressing their longing for the world to be as they would configure it.

Soldiers all gung-ho behind the current administration, Russia bad, "abstinence-only" a prudent strategy, more drilling to address high gas prices and dependency on foreign suppliers, industries can be trusted to police their own safety / environmental / monopolistic impacts, any monitoring of telecommunications and internet activity is necessary "to preserve freedom" / "to protect the children", banning contraceptives as a step toward outlawing ("eliminating" !?) abortion, exploding national debt that won't have to be reckoned with 'cause Jesus will return any minute...

check out the sleeves of Chuck Norris' book "Black-Belt Patriotism" and you'll see how he is the perfect example of the mentally ill Republican Conservative


boo hoo me, learn how the liberals ruined America, took faith away from us god-fearing christians, took opportunities away, took education away, etc,etc,etc even though the truth is the exact opposite in many ways


come, let Chuck Norris teach you how to use his severe ignorance ,lack of education, enlightenment, incessant use of logical fallacies to form "reason", historical inaccuracies up the ass,etc,etc,etc


forcing your faith and beliefs onto everyone else while claiming you are a persecuted lot, and crying for "freedom", "liberty" and "justive" = makes you a farking retard

bobbette: Also, colour me skeptical on a woman who, when asked if being gay is a choice, says "Charlie, I'm not going to judge the people who believe being gay is a choice. I'm not going to judge that." Refusing to answer the question and refusing to share her own opinion.

Maybe the answer is "above her pay grade."

Outside of the absurdity of that whole "babygate" fiasco, just what the hell do people "rightly" see as attacks on themselves and their families?

Some jackasses on the internet start a stupid rumor, and you want to have a cultural revolution over it?

Calm. The. Fark. Down.

rppp01a: Is it a wonder that Germany fought so hard for Hitler?


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Has it been pointed out yet that some people deserve to be looked down on? It sounds like an elitist thing, but it's also a highly effective motivation to create the kind of change necessary to make America a better place. The one example that sticks out in my mind is welfare. People always talk about how people used to be ashamed to have to go on the dole in the 40's and 50's. It was the kind of thing you were so terrified of that you got up every morning and got dressed and pretended to go to work for 8 hours while looking for a job. Just so people wouldn't think you were a dead-beat. Now (well, not now now, but 15 or so years ago), Old Dirty Bastard was proud of the fact that he rode in a limo and covered in gold jewelry to the food stamp office and got his food stamps. Now, if we were allowed to sneer at these kinds of people, maybe they might change. Or education. Used to be people were ashamed of being illiterate. Now, people brag about how much they hate reading and hold being a redneck as a badge of honor.

If you consider it an honor to be an uneducated, uniformed, and generally underachieving member of society, you deserve all the derision that can be heaped on you.

Alien Robot: Maybe the answer is "above her pay grade."

Above her "gay" grade?

Larry Mahnken: I'm pretty sure the average American family isn't remotely qualified to be Vice President of the United States.

On the contrary, I'm pretty sure they are. The requirements: be over age 35 upon swearing in, be a natural-born citizen, and not have previously been the President of the United States for two prior terms. That's all. Most families in the US will have a person who qualifies.

fark yeah! You know what else PISSES ME OFF? When my doctor says he knows more about medicine than I do! And when my airline pilot says he knows more about flying planes than I do! Those elitist farks! This is America, anyone can do anything they want

USA USA

Durr Durr Durr Durr

The brain is an amazing thing, while simultaneously articulating in a complex language the part of it responsible for abstract thought can, apparently, be cut out entirely. This has resulted in what top scientists have named "The functional halfwit." Because of there unusual condition they may be hard to spot among the general populace without first having them open their mouths. But in America at least they will often looks something like this:

Alien Robot: bobbette: Also, colour me skeptical on a woman who, when asked if being gay is a choice, says "Charlie, I'm not going to judge the people who believe being gay is a choice. I'm not going to judge that." Refusing to answer the question and refusing to share her own opinion.

Maybe the answer is "above her pay grade."

Its too bad Palin isn't as quick witted as you. That would have been an excellent answer.

So perhaps Sarah's followers are an... army of ignorant white trash, gun nuts, hicks, Jesus freaks, morons and other human refuse that due to dumb luck happen to be American citizens?

Thanks for everything, Karl Rove. May you burn in hell for the retarded American political system you've created over the past 10 years. It wasn't perfect before at least there was some semblance of honesty and integrity associated with. Now you've left us with this shiat. Fark you and your neocon dogma. May someone videotape you doing something illegal with an underage boy. I can only hope.

She is not an idiot. She is just extremely out of her league. As in: not vp material.

And never will be.

PS. Subby is an Idiot