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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I've heard a couple of pundits, (I assume as a kind of backhanded compliment), say that although "unqualified", Ms Palin would possibly be a political force to be reckoned with for years to come. Really? I know a lot of energy has been spent examining the Sarah phenomena and it's been fun but her brand is really, really fading as she becomes associated with a floundering campaign and her true worth (to McCain), comes into sharp relief. It seems that, removed from the dynamics of this political race, she's a nonentity. Consider her "Boy Howdy" charm outside the confines of a desperate campaign where she was essentailly used as a red herring, a trojan horse or an Obama doppelganger, ("See , we got our own minority right here!") Left to her own devices, on the sidelines, are we really gonna go to Ms Palin to hear her folksy take on, for instance, the situation in Darfur? Unless she's suddenly able to speak convincingly and at some length about a variety of important topics , I'm afraid that her folksy, wink-wink schtick will have suddenly a very short shelf-life indeed. I'm afraid her MILF appeal would just vanish if she suddenly became, dare I say, statesman-like in her bearing as she delivered dry policy speeches about her special topic, energy. Face it, as long as she's not seen as some kind of finger-in-the-eye- of-the democrats- game changer, she's pretty uninteresting fodder for discussion. And let's not forget her special appeal to the adolescent sexual appetite of the republican boy's club. What's she pushing, like 45? In 4-5 years her "freshness" quotient is gonna be down considerably. Perhaps she can become a reality show contestant- oh, that's right. She IS one. Didn't she win the "I can Be Persident, TOO!," sweepstakes? You know, I give the Palin Phenom a thumbs down overall. She is last week's news. She is the flavor of the month. She is Boooring!
Maybe when all is said and done she can make a reoccurring appearance on "Desperate Housewives". Todd can play the "Pool Boy". Then he can have an expanded role as more than a cardboard cutout standing behind John Mccain...
You betcha. The number of people that talk like that here? Pretty small. Sarah, that is why "Fargo" was a bit of a joke. You don't have to be from an "eastern' state to see what a fraud Palin is. She stereotypes, likes some female rural step n' fetch it, the worst aspects of what she imagines working class or rural people to be like. She talks down to them, as if they didn't know anything.
"Shucks, yah sure, I'm just like you. I don't know shit - and I'm just like YOU! You don't know shit either, and don't care. Yah, you betcha! Wink, wink. By the way, where is my $35,000 tanning bed and my oil pipeline to Alberta and my federal subsidies?"
Palin's father was a science teacher and track coach, and she graduated from the U of Idaho in communications in '87. Which is why she became a sports reporter. This is not excatly the life story of a daughter of toil.
Can you say Olympia Snow? There were some women in Republican Party who were half-way competent to choose. Rove chose Palin to appeal to the fundamentalist base, which McCain wasn't doing. After all, the Democrats chose a women to run with Mondale years ago. And Trotskyists ran a women for Vice President in the 30s. This is a vote for dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden. That is it. For the people? Don't kid yourself.
Don't mean to flatter but you are one crazy fucker -- an opinion reached having just read through your past fifteen posts. I had to stop. My laughter was scaring the guards again.
Speaking of monkeys flinging their feces at the people looking in at them, our bud Teleologicus is back. Is he/she in some kind of Faulknerian prose finals? Hate those periodic sentences and all. At first I thought the guy/girl needed some four-backed beast stuff but the more I read the screeds the antidote is apparent: psychotropics, mushrooms or better still organic mescaline. With a third eye Teleologicus might find him/her/itself.
Until then, let's have a draw-Teleologicus contest. First prize, the lead in Oedipus Rex, broachpins and all. Until Salon offers this in braille the winner would be spared any future Teleologicus comments.
last night at a friend's house, i was talking politics with his dad - a VERY BRIGHT AND EXTREMELY FUNNY MAN, whom i truly like and always learn something from, and who happens to be a republican - kept asking me questions. i responded honestly - i think sarah is an insult to everyone for every reason. i even left the room for a spell, and when i came back, he asked more. then, totally out of the blue, he was screaming at me in a way i have not seen since i lived at home, that he doesnt care what she makes her daughter do, doesnt care what her personal life is, or what kind of mother she is, or where she went to college, or if she knows anything about the supreme court or if she reads. he ONLY cares that she is not a good old boy. was way too bizarre. and he is SMART, one of the smartest people i have ever known. a damned capable lawyer. and yet: stone cold insane.
he kept asking if it is was sexist for gwen to call her dear. i said gerry, when the woman winked three times in her debate, and dropped all her gees and said goshdarn, i dont think she is worried about sexism. he didnt care. republicans live in their little self-constructed world and do not let reality intrude on it, and that is across the board.
and so many of them DENY being republican - what is that about?
i asked him to picture her talking to a head of state in that asinine down home fashion. he refused to concede. it is mind blowing.
but salon, you know perfectly well that americans ARE stupid. VERY STUPID. they cant hear, and the will cut off their noses to spite their faces.
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