eyehate: The only thing that would make this even better is finding out Letterman got her axed.

lol

ToeKnee666: eyehate: The only thing that would make this even better is finding out Letterman got her axed.

lol

Skleenar: Damn.

Embezzlement, huh? You wouldn't think that a good Christian like Sarah would get caught up in stuff like that.

I guess that exorcism didn't take.

CanisNoir - yelmrog: This is a woman who, when asked about which magazines she was fond of, could not name one. Not one. Couldn't even throw one out there and fake it. I mean, what was the deal there?

You know, I don't read a single damn magazine; not a one. I read the internet and watch some cable, but Magazines, couldn't be bothered. So given the same question, under the same pressure, I'd probably bumble that one too.


You're not qualified to be VP or POTUS either.

This is precisely the problem. People think she's not dumb because to them, she seems as smart as they are. I don't say this for the sake of insulting you, but if you don't see how dumb Sarah Palin is, the odds are pretty good that it's because you're on or below the same rung of the ladder.

To be a bit blunt in explaining what I'm talking about, do you think retarded people know how dumb they are? I mean, it's probably so extreme that they realize there's a fundamental difference in the way they think and the way everyone else thinks... but they don't have the intellect to grasp the difference. They don't understand what they can't understand.

They believe the things they believe are right just like everyone else... otherwise they wouldn't believe them. The problem is they're using a faulty or less efficient apparatus to arrive at their beliefs. They're less capable of properly implementing reason and logic and perception. No matter how hard they try or how much they work at it, they simply will not ever have an apparatus capable of grasping trigonometry. They're as physically incapable of it as I am physically incapable of throwing a 100 MPH fastball or levitating a pencil with my mind.

Moreover, do you think they know how dumb other retarded people are? Being unable to grasp their own limitations, they are unable to see those same limitations in others of comparable intellect... because they're operating on the same intellectual level.

I can SEE how dumb Sarah Palin is with the very same clarity with which you can see how dumb retarded people are... or even the real-life equivalents of Forrest Gump or Karl Lee from Sling Blade... people where there are no physical indicators, but the deficit is clearly visible just the same. I can see it and hear it because I'm a lot smarter than she is. I can see and hear it in the language she uses and the way she conveys ideas and perceives the things around her. I and a lot of other people can see it as clear as day.

When someone says they can't see it, I'm forced to conclude that they're operating at a comparable level.

"She's just as smart as me" doesn't mean much when you're not that smart.

The fact is that there are some people who can think circles around you. There are people that can comprehend things that won't even fit in my brain. It's like a dog whistle... just because you can't hear it doesn't mean it's not there.

Nearly everyone thinks they're smart, but 50% of people are of below average intelligence. Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, you can't run out and become a world champion boxer just because you want it bad enough and you can't be the bestest leader of the free world ever just because you're convinced that you're as smart as anyone else... because you're simply not as anyone else. Neither am I... and I'm pretty goddamn smart.

OgreMagi: JSTACAT: Roook: This is what happens when women get into politics are allowed to vote"


// ftfy

// my campaign in 2020 will be based on all women staying home, barefoot and pregnant, far away from the voting booth.

Seems reasonable. The first thing women did when they got the vote was get Prohibition passed. We should have taken their vote away the moment they did that.

While you guys may be kidding, that's what Ann Coulter writes (new window), too.

er. - "Nearly everyone thinks they're smart, but 50% of people are of below average intelligence. Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, you can't run out and become a world champion boxer just because you want it bad enough and you can't be the bestest leader of the free world ever just because you're convinced that you're as smart as anyone else... because you're simply not. as anyone else. Neither am I... and I'm pretty goddamn smart."

technicolor-misfit: This is precisely the problem. People think she's not dumb because to them, she seems as smart as they are. I don't say this for the sake of being insulting, but if someone can't see how dumb Sarah Palin is, the odds are pretty good that it's because they're on or below the same rung of the ladder.

I think that puts it a little more fairly.

(Though I anguish over the someone/they're plural a little.)

PartTimeBuddha - technicolor-misfit: This is precisely the problem. People think she's not dumb because to them, she seems as smart as they are. I don't say this for the sake of being insulting, but if someone can't see how dumb Sarah Palin is, the odds are pretty good that it's because they're on or below the same rung of the ladder.

I think that puts it a little more fairly.

(Though I anguish over the someone/they're plural a little.)


You're absolutely right and I appreciate the edit. That's a much better way to put it.

technicolor-misfit: "She's just as smart as me" doesn't mean much when you're not that smart.

My difficulty isn't so much that. There are many different types of smarts, though they do have one thing in common: the knack of paying attention. My problem, with Palin, is that I very often cannot understand a single damned thing she's trying to say.

I had to watch the resignation gush three times before I could parse the godawful monotone screech into something with rhetorical meaning. She is the most appalling communicator. It's as if someone had taken the text of Finnegan's Wake, painted it red white & blue, ran it through a shredder and then stapled individual fragments to the foreheads of the True Believers with a nailgun.

The people she's talking to want to believe the wisdom of the words that come out of her mouth, even though it's utter garbage--illogical, self-contradictory, unsubstantiated, poor and dishonest and everything else awful. But they want to believe it's fine stuff, so they suspend their disbelief and do so. Because of the team and abortion and Jesus and all those things.

The issue isn't her (or their) intelligence. It's belief and the need to believe that if you close your eyes and wish real hard and knock the heels of your shoes together three times that Sarah will come good and there won't be any corruption and there won't be any vindictiveness and that abstinence-only does work and ... everything else.

Sarah Palin is not just a woman in Alaska. She is a compelling story, once you invest in her. What is fascinating is that she is such an inutterably poor and compromised candidate that you really do have to be in a kind of fugue-state to deny all the horror she contains.

She is a tale, told of an idiot.

Palin was picked for the VP slot when Hillary was not Obama's pick.

They looked around, made a bad choice in that they thought ANY woman would pick up the Hillary voters, and ended up with someone who was so far out of her league in every way that even her instant celebrity could not help the ticket.

They tried to bolster their chances by making Joe The Plumber the GOP hero.

Then, after Obama is elected they choose Michael Steele to head the GOP.

So many missteps it's hard to follow.

PartTimeBuddha: The issue isn't her (or their) intelligence.

Well.. I have to say I think it is, to a degree. Cruise thru Freepertown or HotAir and note all the comments that say Sarah makes perfect sense, while Obama is incoherent because you "can't understand what he's talking about half the time". Ummm, I have an alternate theory about that, kids...

However, that being said:

It's belief and the need to believe that if you close your eyes and wish real hard and knock the heels of your shoes together three times that Sarah will come good and there won't be any corruption and there won't be any vindictiveness and that abstinence-only does work and ... everything else.

Agreed times eleventy. Even if next week she's indicted, arrested, and then goes on Barbara Walters and outright confesses to some heinous crime, her true believers will still say it was the media and the libruls and that awful "Barry" who framed her, and we all know it. There will be no convincing them, ever. It's a waste of time to try.

But I don't have any particular desire to see her life destroyed. There are worse human beings on the planet than poor ignorant deluded Sarah. If she just goes away, makes a lovely living off speaking engagements for the rest of her life, and no longer has any governmental authority over the public ever again, I'm cool with that.

rnld: Palin was picked for the VP slot when Hillary was not Obama's pick.

They looked around, made a bad choice in that they thought ANY woman would pick up the Hillary voters, and ended up with someone who was so far out of her league in every way that even her instant celebrity could not help the ticket.

I keep wondering if it wasn't really as simple as that. They needed a woman, they needed someone who would complement the "mavrik"-y-ness of McCain's message. A nice pair of gams didn't hurt, and would appeal to a male-dominated party that hasn't had a looker to admire for a while. They needed someone with enough ambition to do whatever she had to do to get ahead, and not ask too many questions.

What they didn;t count on was her self-image and unshakable belief that she's running the show.

Casanova.Frankensteir: PartTimeBuddha: The issue isn't her (or their) intelligence.

Well.. I have to say I think it is, to a degree. Cruise thru Freepertown or HotAir and note all the comments that say Sarah makes perfect sense, while Obama is incoherent because you "can't understand what he's talking about half the time". Ummm, I have an alternate theory about that, kids...

You're right. I should have been clearer. I ought to have said:

"The issue isn't her (or their) intelligence, but their willing suspension of that intelligence because..." (of their beliefs/need to believe).

I was trying to get across the point that some very bright people can be extremely dim, on times.

I hope she is indicted for something. It's been an interesting ride, and she put my hometown in the nation's consciousness, but I'm just ready for her to go away.

"same windows, same wood, same products."

If I could just remember...there was story how Todd supposedly designed and built the house but the neighbors had said contractors came in to build the thing...
kind of a coinkydink the house was built at the exact same time as the sports complex.

From October 2008...

Link (new window)

Here's what I see as possibilities.

1. She's going to be hit by some sort of scandal. Whatever it is, it's going to be the iceberg to her Titanic, and she's jumping ship now. When you consider the sorts of scandals people have survived politically in the past, this one should be a doozy if true.

2. Someone with clout told her to go away, now. Explains the sudden resignation and the taking it for the team metaphor but who could have that much clout?

3. She suddenly snapped at all the press with the Vanity Fair piece being the straw that broke the camel's back. It is not easy living any person's life with the whole world's attention focused on you ever but when you're the constant butt of everyone's jokes, it must be awful tempting to just say screw it, I'm going home, and let the world go elsewhere for its finger-pointing. I'd give her props if this one's true and we never see her again.

/thank God for the fools. Without them the rest of us would look none too good.

farbles: Here's what I see as possibilities.

1. She's going to be hit by some sort of scandal. Whatever it is, it's going to be the iceberg to her Titanic, and she's jumping ship now.

Suitably enough, they're calling this the "Iceberg Scandal."

/not making that up. Google news it.

farbles: When you consider the sorts of scandals people have survived politically in the past, this one should be a doozy if true.

Anti-corruption candidate is corrupt? That would finish you.

farbles: It is not easy living any person's life with the whole world's attention focused on you ever but when you're the constant butt of everyone's jokes, it must be awful tempting to just say screw it, I'm going home, and let the world go elsewhere for its finger-pointing

Heh. This, but with an important addition. It's impossible for you to Wield Terrifying Power when people cease to take you seriously.

farbles: 2. Someone with clout told her to go away, now. Explains the sudden resignation and the taking it for the team metaphor but who could have that much clout?

Has she disappointed or been a significant liability to anyone, recently? Maybe someone with a bit of a temper, quite a lot of connections up on the Hill... someone not famous for forgiveness? Someone who has been exquisitely and extraordinarily quiet about things regarding her for several months?

A big issue for Palin is you never know what's lurking behind the scenes.

She took the VP slot on the family values ticket knowing her underage, unmarried daughter was pregnant.

She told the world that they would get married - and many doubted this would happen.

The minute her ticket lost, the boyfriend was wished into the cornfield.

It is amazing the level of "forgiveness" Palin gets from conservatives considering how full of BS she is.

She quits because she doesn't want to be a lame duck and just collect a paycheck. Um how about working at the job you were elected to do?

How about becase your poll numbers as Governor don't matter anymore, working your tail off making this right for you state, doing a great job and then running for President?

This is weird stuff here.

rnld:
The minute her ticket lost, the boyfriend was wished into the cornfield.

I think they're going to have to do a lot more wishing. Levi is looking to sell a tell-all book, he announced yesterday.

Lenny_da_Hog: rnld:
The minute her ticket lost, the boyfriend was wished into the cornfield.

I think they're going to have to do a lot more wishing. Levi is looking to sell a tell-all book, he announced yesterday.

Can you imagine when the right wing media will work to discredit this guy?

It will be over the top insane.

Lionel Mandrake: Embezzlement, huh? You wouldn't think that a good Christian like Sarah would get caught up in stuff like that.

If you've done business with really religious people, you've learned that god says it's ok for them to rip off anybody not in their church.

Get your money up front.

/late to the party.

SpookyBlues: Unless the field is made of ineligible whackos, she would not survive it.

Do they have anything else?

Benevolent Misanthrope: I mean, seriously - how bad to you have to be to get totally PWN3D in an interview with Katie Farking Couric...She earned the reputation of being a blithering idiot by proving it repeatedly. She couldn't answer basic questions, and then during a debate acted indignant that she would be expected to answer questions.

Sums it up. The apotheosis of self-righteous, self-indulgent, self-obsessed mediocrity.

farkers with Palin derangement syndrome, like alcoholics, sucking out the last pitiful drops from their vodka bottle before they move on to the cough medicine and listerine....


so sad, so pitiful, so fark

farbles: 2. Someone with clout told her to go away, now. Explains the sudden resignation and the taking it for the team metaphor but who could have that much clout?

Nobody left in the republican party has enough clout to get her to concede anything. So I'm thinking the Justice Department might be involved. I doubt President Obama would get involved directly..

libbynomore2: farkers with Palin derangement syndrome, like alcoholics, sucking out the last pitiful drops from their vodka bottle before they move on to the cough medicine and listerine....


so sad, so pitiful, so fark

You know, no one makes you come here you little whiny biatch. No one is dissuaded by your arguments. No one listens to a single thing you have to say. You are not changing anything by posting here. Go back to Free republic and go suck Rush's dick. You are one single piece of flotsam here and nothing you say matters even a little bit. You are a minority party, singing a minority song. No one here wants to hear it, you are finished. Why do you bother? You have not swayed one single person to your point of view. You must only be here to troll and you do a piss poor job at that. You are a failure and so is your ideology. I pity you and all who are like you. It must be so lonely to be the only idiots who buy Rush's bullshiat. I'll piss on your troll grave freeper.

So this turned out to be a big non story.
Palin just announced she is on to bigger and better things for the country, or some horseshiat.

/on yahoo news at 23:21 Sat 4jul09

vabeard: So this turned out to be a big non story.
Palin just announced she is on to bigger and better things for the country, or some horseshiat.

FTFA "I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint," she said.

Damn, did she get a position in Obama's cabinet?

SilentStrider: Klingon Penis: (Clearly, they'll take anyone.)

see North, Oliver

That's one the Marines in my family are disgusted by every time they see him. Farking idiot dishonored the uniform. They'd like nothing better than for him to be in Leavenworth.

Maddogjew: libbynomore2: farkers with Palin derangement syndrome, like alcoholics, sucking out the last pitiful drops from their vodka bottle before they move on to the cough medicine and listerine....


so sad, so pitiful, so fark

You know, no one makes you come here you little whiny biatch. No one is dissuaded by your arguments. No one listens to a single thing you have to say. You are not changing anything by posting here. Go back to Free republic and go suck Rush's dick. You are one single piece of flotsam here and nothing you say matters even a little bit. You are a minority party, singing a minority song. No one here wants to hear it, you are finished. Why do you bother? You have not swayed one single person to your point of view. You must only be here to troll and you do a piss poor job at that. You are a failure and so is your ideology. I pity you and all who are like you. It must be so lonely to be the only idiots who buy Rush's bullshiat. I'll piss on your troll grave freeper.


no one, no one, no one....

wow how sad you are that you desperately need to believe that " everyone " agrees with you......

so pitiful.....so pathetic.....

it is YOU!!!

(libby always goes back to dead threads to make sure he has the last post)

libbynomore2: farkers with Palin derangement syndrome, like alcoholics, sucking out the last pitiful drops from their vodka bottle before they move on to the cough medicine and listerine....

so sad, so pitiful, so fark

I agree. They just can't seem to let go.

I never much cared for Palin. When McCain chose her as her running mate, he lost almost the entire moderate base which is far more important than the religious right that he cemented with her. It was a stupid move. But that's in the past. The election is over and Palin should have disappeared into obscurity where she belongs, except the lefty moonbats need her to prove some point that isn't clear and probably isn't all that important.

OgreMagi: The election is over and Palin should have disappeared into obscurity where she belongs, except the lefty moonbats need her to prove some point that isn't clear and probably isn't all that important.

She gets coverage and likes it. No one forced her to call a press conference and resign in such a bizarre manner. (Unless she was forced by forcing forces, unknown.)

Because she's so unclear, much of the discussion is centred around 'what is she thinking?' and goes like this:

(i) Lefty: She's not thinking anything! She stupid, corrupt and gonna swing so high, massa!
(ii) Righty: She's GENIUS! Three whole years to arrange toy soldiers and turn the country into what we want it to be!

But it's her own actions -- the faux outrages and odd behaviour -- that provoke this. If she did sit down and shut up and get on with her job then I think much of this would die down. None of it comes from a vaccum.

You are sooo sued!



/hawt like Palin.

Uns-buzzle? What means that?

So is Brad going to have to put his money where his mouth is?