How were Republicans so Stupid ...

[T.G.G. Moogly]

that they took Sarah Palin seriously?

Were Republicans on Crack?

I mean seriously, conservatives were elevating someone with a fourth grade intellect to become their party's high priestess.

“It was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.”

There is also a tone of soul-searching and even repentance in some of the commentary, as pundits on the right reconsider their own role in stoking the Palin phenomenon.

“In hindsight I regret contributing to the premature deification of Sarah Palin,”

Is it just that conservatives are all emotional and touchy feely these days to the point that their judgment is compromised? Or is it that their judgment is compromised, which in turn leads them down these emotional paths of stupidity? They know what they feel and they think it's something wonderful and that they have to share?

I've never been that way so I'm just asking.

I should add that I know at least half a dozen people personally who were smitten with Lady Sarah and I honestly could not understand it. I knew she was a political and intellectual idiot but they seemed to be under some spell. Were they just enjoying the eye candy?

 

[Togo]

She's popular, therefore she gets votes.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

When she was first chosen I thought, "well this might be a game changer", then she began to speak and I knew McCain's campaign had jumped the shark. The train wreck began when he chose her without vetting her. His "maverick" image was revealed to be "impulsive".

 

[dismal]

Well, let's face it Republicans just don't have the talent pool to get VP candidates the likes of John Edwards, Joe Lieberman, and Joe Biden.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I think that there was more than a little bit of cognitive dissonance going on. The hated libruls were laughing their asses off about what a moron she was and they'd be damned if they were going to concede the slightest point to those cheese-eating French-lovers, so they just went all in the other way for the sake of a big fuck you to the other side. Then they just got a little too into the whole thing.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

When she was first choosen, my first thought was "Is she the Governor of Alaska? Yeah, I think so."

A Republican in the office who was certain Obama was going to "blackify" the nation, said that her husband said Palin was a great person. It was odd. Right-wingers didn't know Palin at all, yet they already loved her. Which would explain Herman Cain from the last primary.

These people don't think. Nominating Palin was the most destructive thing the Republican Party has ever done. It breathed temporary life into a terminal Presidential Campaign, but the price has been enormous. She gave a voice to the criminally insane.

 

[Medicine Man]

that they took Sarah Palin seriously?

Is it just that conservatives are all emotional and touchy feely these days....

Yeah....like some 13-year-old dude who'd just discovered his "magical distraction"....and, she knew it!!​

The Sound And The Fury
October 2010

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"She has a horrible temper, but she has gotten away with it because she is a pretty woman.” (The friend elaborated on this last point: “Once, while Sarah was preparing for a city-council meeting, she said, ‘I’m gonna put on one of my push-up bras so I can get what I want tonight.’ That’s how she rolls.”)

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"During the campaign, Palin lashed out at the slightest provocation, sometimes screaming at staff members and throwing objects. Witnessing such behavior, one aide asked Todd Palin if it was typical of his wife. He answered, “You just got to let her go through it… Half the stuff that comes out of her mouth she doesn’t even mean.” When a campaign aide gingerly asked Todd whether Sarah should consider taking psychiatric medication to control her moods, Todd responded that she “just needed to run and work out more.” Her anger kept boiling over, however, and eventually the fits of rage came every day. Then, just as suddenly, her temper would be gone. Palin would apologize and promise to be nicer. Within hours, she would be screaming again. At the end of one long day, when Palin was mid-tirade, a campaign aide remembers thinking, “You were an angel all night. Now you’re a devil. Where did this come from?”

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[fromderinside]

Really? Some libruls are still stuck on Palin?

cummon. We got stupider fat to fry. Son of Ayn Rand Lover or Brother of President Weapons of Mass Destruction or Cuban Senator who hates ending privation in Cuba for starters. No need to go as far as Harvard's own Texican Senator Creation Christer and Climate Change denier or Wisconsin and Kansas Governors Supply Side Tax cutter Salvation gaff duo.

Republicans are trolling for anything that will bring them the stupid vote. Simple as that.

'nuff sed.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Sarah Palin’s odd, rambling speech last weekend before an audience of committed conservative activists in Des Moines has many influential voices on the right saying that the time has come to acknowledge that the romance has gone cold and the marriage is dead.

I did hear bits of it and it was incoherent and rambling. Very vapid stream of consciousness stuff.

Her address was a 34 1/2 -minute roller coaster ride of cliches, non sequiturs and warmed-over grievances. One line that stood out: “GOP leaders, by the way, you know, ‘The Man,’ can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then The Man can’t ride ya.”

 

[ZiprHead]

While Sarah Palin is this:


This is what right-wingers saw:

 

[arkirk]

Well, let's face it Republicans just don't have the talent pool to get VP candidates the likes of John Edwards, Joe Lieberman, and Joe Biden.

Don't gloat! It won't make the responsibility for Sara go away. In a way, I felt a ray of hope shine on me when she was nominated. I didn't want to vote for the Democrat hacks, but I still didn't want the Republicans to win. Aw shucks, how da ya feel about that? Republicans are usually a lot more dishonest than they are stupid...with Sara, they got a balanced ticket....sure to lose.

 

[fromderinside]

At least you see making a choice is a responsibility. As for the rest, I'll leave it to you since you're the sailor.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

I think that there was more than a little bit of cognitive dissonance going on. The hated libruls were laughing their asses off about what a moron she was and they'd be damned if they were going to concede the slightest point to those cheese-eating French-lovers, so they just went all in the other way for the sake of a big fuck you to the other side. Then they just got a little too into the whole thing.

Maybe - pretty close anyway. I think they were pretending that no one could be that stupid and still be an elected Governor. So on and on with the wunnerful wunnerful. That's all I can figure. That and the fact that she is attractive so half of them were walking around with a woody.

Democrats have had some losers but I've never heard this much gush about any of them. And none of them were such a ditz in hindsight. Doesn't say much for the voters in Alaska.

 

[Medicine Man]

Really? Some libruls are still stuck on Palin?​

Pretty-much....as often as she is, about making public-statements....begging to be smacked-down....


​

 

[Medicine Man]

I think that there was more than a little bit of cognitive dissonance going on. The hated libruls were laughing their asses off about what a moron she was and they'd be damned if they were going to concede the slightest point to those cheese-eating French-lovers, so they just went all in the other way for the sake of a big fuck you to the other side. Then they just got a little too into the whole thing.

Maybe - pretty close anyway. I think they were pretending that no one could be that stupid and still be an elected Governor. So on and on with the wunnerful wunnerful. That's all I can figure. That and the fact that she is attractive so half of them were walking around with a woody.

Democrats have had some losers but I've never heard this much gush about any of them. And none of them were such a ditz in hindsight. Doesn't say much for the voters in Alaska.

Actually....it says a LOT about voters in Alaska....​

“But, that’s just Alaska!”​

"According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Sarah Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively."

 

[Bronzeage]

When she was first choosen, my first thought was "Is she the Governor of Alaska? Yeah, I think so."

A Republican in the office who was certain Obama was going to "blackify" the nation, said that her husband said Palin was a great person. It was odd. Right-wingers didn't know Palin at all, yet they already loved her. Which would explain Herman Cain from the last primary.

These people don't think. Nominating Palin was the most destructive thing the Republican Party has ever done. It breathed temporary life into a terminal Presidential Campaign, but the price has been enormous. She gave a voice to the criminally insane.

Sarah Palin was not chosen. She was the last chicken in the shop when the RNC got there. They knew they were going to face either Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, and there wasn't a bullet in the gun that could kill that monster. Every Republican of any note passed on the offer. No one wanted to ride the twilight train with McCain.

They had to have a name, and they had to have it fast, or the story would become "High Noon" with John McCain as Gary Cooper.

Those people did think and the thought going through their mind was, "I wonder if anyone will notice if I leave this campaign off of my resume."

 

[Medicine Man]

When she was first choosen, my first thought was "Is she the Governor of Alaska? Yeah, I think so."

A Republican in the office who was certain Obama was going to "blackify" the nation, said that her husband said Palin was a great person. It was odd. Right-wingers didn't know Palin at all, yet they already loved her. Which would explain Herman Cain from the last primary.

These people don't think. Nominating Palin was the most destructive thing the Republican Party has ever done. It breathed temporary life into a terminal Presidential Campaign, but the price has been enormous. She gave a voice to the criminally insane.

Sarah Palin was not chosen. She was the last chicken in the shop when the RNC got there. They knew they were going to face either Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, and there wasn't a bullet in the gun that could kill that monster. Every Republican of any note passed on the offer. No one wanted to ride the twilight train with McCain."

....The type o' candidate more-commonly-referred-to as a Throw-Away Candidate....one, last Hurrah....soon to be forgotten (as any serious, future candidate)....especially when your Party knows they're more-than-likely looking at an electoral ass-whuppin'.

Some politicians (actually) make a career of being a Throw-Away Candidate....

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

When she was first choosen, my first thought was "Is she the Governor of Alaska? Yeah, I think so."

A Republican in the office who was certain Obama was going to "blackify" the nation, said that her husband said Palin was a great person. It was odd. Right-wingers didn't know Palin at all, yet they already loved her. Which would explain Herman Cain from the last primary.

These people don't think. Nominating Palin was the most destructive thing the Republican Party has ever done. It breathed temporary life into a terminal Presidential Campaign, but the price has been enormous. She gave a voice to the criminally insane.

Sarah Palin was not chosen. She was the last chicken in the shop when the RNC got there. They knew they were going to face either Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, and there wasn't a bullet in the gun that could kill that monster. Every Republican of any note passed on the offer. No one wanted to ride the twilight train with McCain.

Joe Lieberman would have. They selected Palin because she could excite the base, and she did, and they actually took the lead in the polls for a short period of time, right before she opened her mouth on television. Sarah Palin is a master of riling up simpleton people. It is the only thing she is good at, but she managed to become Governor of Alaska without having any other skill set, so that does speak volumes. People still pay to see her speak.

The Republicans were indeed, never going to win in '08. Eight years of W saw to that. But Palin was somewhat of a hail mary throw at the end. And it stuck. Sure, they still lost by a good margin, but Palin was like opening Pandora's Box. And I don't know if anyone saw that coming. Granted, if it weren't for a right-wing media blitz against Obama right out of the gate, the Tea Party probably doesn't happen and Palin disappears, but Fox News and the like did make a full court press and the Tea Baggers were born.

 

[Medicine Man]

Sarah Palin was not chosen. She was the last chicken in the shop when the RNC got there. They knew they were going to face either Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, and there wasn't a bullet in the gun that could kill that monster. Every Republican of any note passed on the offer. No one wanted to ride the twilight train with McCain.

Joe Lieberman would have. They selected Palin because she could excite the base, and she did, and they actually took the lead in the polls for a short period of time, right before she opened her mouth on television. Sarah Palin is a master of riling up simpleton people. It is the only thing she is good at, but she managed to become Governor of Alaska without having any other skill set, so that does speak volumes. People still pay to see her speak.

The Republicans were indeed, never going to win in '08. Eight years of W saw to that. But Palin was somewhat of a hail mary throw at the end.

....To help reel-in those sweaty-dudes who'd fight for front-row seats at a Britney Spears show!!!

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Sarah Palin was not chosen. She was the last chicken in the shop when the RNC got there. They knew they were going to face either Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, and there wasn't a bullet in the gun that could kill that monster. Every Republican of any note passed on the offer. No one wanted to ride the twilight train with McCain.

Joe Lieberman would have. They selected Palin because she could excite the base, and she did, and they actually took the lead in the polls for a short period of time, right before she opened her mouth on television. Sarah Palin is a master of riling up simpleton people. It is the only thing she is good at, but she managed to become Governor of Alaska without having any other skill set, so that does speak volumes. People still pay to see her speak.

The Republicans were indeed, never going to win in '08. Eight years of W saw to that. But Palin was somewhat of a hail mary throw at the end. And it stuck. Sure, they still lost by a good margin, but Palin was like opening Pandora's Box. And I don't know if anyone saw that coming. Granted, if it weren't for a right-wing media blitz against Obama right out of the gate, the Tea Party probably doesn't happen and Palin disappears, but Fox News and the like did make a full court press and the Tea Baggers were born.

You're both good writers. Palin should have been so fortunate.