Could have at least got the quote right...

You can almost see the landing lights of the point of the thing sailing right over her head...

jerry2a: OK. So - I want all of the Fark Independents and Conservatives that have accused Obama of playing the race card to denounce Sarah Palin for playing the gender card. Seems to me you should be just as outraged about this. "Oh, if I don't vote for Obama I'm a racist - they're playing on white guilt". So by that logic, it's "male guilt" if I don't vote for Palin?

Yes, and your girlfriend should be ashamed of feeding this ill wind as well...

Teela: FTFA: "... let's see what a comment like I just made, how that is turned into whatever it'll be turned into tomorrow with the newspaper."

Wow, to make a statement like this after getting the quote wrong.

Somebody said in another thread a few days ago: I don't have enough faces to palm.

This is what bothers me about the McCain and Palin campaign--and it bothered me about the McCain campaign before she hopped on board--is the basic disrespect that it shows for the voters. Their intelligence. Their ability to piece together information. It is a campaign that assumes that people are going to take everything at face value, and then insults people who might want to dig a bit deeper.

If they demonize intelligence or critical thinking, how in the heck are they going to lead? It is telling that they don't want none of that fancy book-learnin' in their White House, nor any of that "fair dinkum-thinkun" stinking up policy.

We've just spent 8 years being insulted nearly daily by the Bush Administration, and in fairness, as a people we deserve to be insulted for allowing him a second term--heck, we deserve the insult for allowing his first--so why invite another 4 years of a leadership that doesn't respect the American people?

Kome: I like how the Daily KOS assumes Palin said it deliberately, and not it being a gaffe. To do so requires one to assume Palin is more than a blubbering moron who is lucky that she can dress herself properly in the morning.

See, that's the thing--I don't assume that Palin is an idiot. Watching her debates for the Alaska Governor's seat, you can see that she's NOT an airhead.

She is NOT well versed on issues OUTSIDE Alaska, and that shows. She is very much a creature of the party--I know, she's got the "Maverick" brand name, but that really hasn't been borne out by her policies or her stances. She is a well groomed politician--and by well groomed, I mean she's been put into play, and has support by folks who are glad to have a spokesperson with the ability to sign things into law.

But, despite being beholden to some folks, and interests, she has an agenda of her own--or rather, she is beholden to a few folks with disparate interests. But she has done well enough back in Alaska, and I don't think she's dumb.

I think she's out of her depth. In her comfort zone, she is fairly smart, funny, and while not a gifted orator--which is sort of sad when you think that she was a journalism major who wanted to get into television--she has a certain charm.

What bothers me about it, is that it's based on the idea that to be populist, you have to reject intelligence, and instead put everything into folksy homilies. Will Rogers she ain't--but a lot of the RNC strategy is trying to tie candidates with that sort of folksy wisdom. But, it's disingenuous, because it is calculated, as opposed to being folk wisdom.

Palin is just hoping that you're so charmed by her, that you're not going to notice. And that is the thing that bothers me about her, is the artifice of her.