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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 12:00 AM

The dominatrix

Sarah Palin is trying to seduce independent voters. But she comes across like a whip-wielding mistress who wants to discipline a naughty America.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 04:18 PM

Dominatrix how sexist of you

How do you consider Palin to be a whip-wielding mistress?Is it because she has stolen your Messiahs thunder? Well comparing her to terrorist is unbelievable.Lets talk about terrorist shall we.Obama worked for William Ayers for 8 years.Ayers even held a fundraising for Obama to start off his Senate career.Next his association with Jodie Evans-anti-American activist who gave aid to Islamic Radicals,and his Co-founder of CODE PINK.FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS- who is anti-christian communist and Obama stated that he looked upon him as a Father.

Then there is Louis Farrakhan,Anti-American radical Islamic who Obama helped launch the Million man March.Who also wants to rid the world of all white devils.Then there's Rev.wright,who gave Farrakhan a award in the Trinity Church that Obama sat in for 20 years. O yea there's more just look it up for your self.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 04:29 PM

Schizophrenic

You can't have it both ways. You cannot blatantly disrespect women and in the same breath come across as even remotely believable with your phony women's rights arguments. There'll be a veto-proof democratic congress and McCain would never go there, anyway, so give up already. The Obama campaign and the DNC/ONC sold women's rights down the river when they dissed Hillary and her supporters and now they wonder why so many of us will absolutely no way no how vote for Obama. This life-long Dem is splitting the ticket this year and this kind of drivel only serves to make me feel better about it. So thanks, I guess.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 04:47 PM

Seriously, the indignation here is laughable...but not nearly as funny as the article.

It seems very clear that half the population, at least, (and many of them are women/and or who claim to be liberal and not conservative) are as demented about sex as any medieval cleric or mullah. Actually this really comes as no surprise to those of use who have been listening to the anti porn, anti prostitution, anti sex feminists over the years.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 06:33 PM

Dominitwit

You must be kidding. Is this what constitutes "edgy" or even "normal" writing for a Salon entry? I'm sorry, but this writer sounds too familiar with S&M. I think he was either reminiscing about his own past experiences, or maybe he has a secret fantasy about Sarah. Did you ENJOY the spanking she gave you, Gary?

This transcends smear and moves even further left into the zone of truly bizarre. Now, not only is it accurate to characterize modern Dems as un-American wimps, appeasers and losers, you have carried it off into the world of perverts. And you expect to be taken seriously? You people are unglued.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 07:33 PM

This is just...

... sexist hatred.

When will you get the message? This is not acceptable. It is sick. You are lucky to be protected by the distance of the medium.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 07:45 PM

At least she would probably respect me in the morning.

VERY unlikely, but i hope you don't seriously expect us to believe that that would change your behavior.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 07:52 PM

thank you Elizabeth Plumley for making the issue clear:

men thinking about (or at least communicating those thoughts in any form) sex, or at least sex involving women, in any way that some "authority" on women's thoughts dislikes is the equivalent to actually raping a woman and should be treated as such. Fortunately the patriarchy is ending soon and we will all be free.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 09:42 PM

Rich Ironies Abound

Obama was able to challenge Hillary Clinton and win partly because she was a woman and he was the one candidate who, being black, could change the conversation from gender to race.

Now the Obama/Biden ticket is falling behind in the polls because, well. Sarah Palin is a woman, and is able to change the conversation back to gender while appealing largely to the working and lower middle classes, a demographic toward which the Democrats have turned a tin ear.

Americans, above all vote for someone who reminds them of themselves. Palin and family are the archtypical American middle class family, and when the intellectuals of the left attack they are attacking someone who is seen as 'one of us.'

I'm not encouraged by the mocking tones coming from the Democratic left and bombastic windbags like Keith Olbermann and Bill Mayer who will do more to defeat Obama among average working Americans than anything Palin can do herself.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 05:39 AM

rocket999:

I am bewildered by a number of assertions in your most recent post & I feel that I must reply, if, for no other reason, in the interest of clarity.

The first sentence of your post reads, "UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ENEMY AT YOUR OWN PERIL." But for the life of me, I cannot figure out exactly which of my statements you have interpreted as indicating that I am underestimating the enemy.

Was it was my statement that,

". . . [Palin] & her feeble-minded ilk present the SINGLE MOST TERRIFYING THREAT POSED TODAY TO THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY & to the rights, privileges & freedoms currently taken for granted by America's asleep-at-the-wheel citizenry"?

Might it have been the sentence which read, in part,

". . . [her] opinions . . . will be employed by Palin and her fellow Christian pinheads in SINGLE-MINDED PURSUIT OF THE RECASTING OF AMERICA AS A CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY"?

Or perhaps it was my assertion that,

"The time has arrived to WAKE THE FUCK UP & FIGHT THE THEOCRACY, BEFORE THE KOOL-AID DRINKERS ARE IN CONTROL OF EVERY ASPECT OF OUR EXISTENCE."

Your second sentence reads, "You might disagree with Palin, but she's not a 'nitwit.'"

Au contraire. She is most assuredly a nitwit. In fact, as far as I can see, she exhibits all the qualities of a gold-star nitwit.

Gov. Palin resides in the wealthiest nation on earth. She enjoys, as do the majority of Americans today, unfettered access to the very best information current research has to offer in the areas of technology, science, medicine, astronomy, etc. And still she subscribes to flagrantly irrational ancient myths & superstitions, beliefs for which she cannot provide even the smallest shred of evidence.

Six thousand year old universe? Check! Virgin birth? Check! Resurrection? Check! The Rapture? Check!

You state that Palin has a "faith-based world view that might seem totally illogical to . . . you."

No, her world view does not "seem" totally illogical to me. Her world view IS totally illogical & altogether ludicrous; her religious beliefs ARE nothing short of absurd. And it's time that the non-believers among us stop pretending otherwise.

Another of your statements read, ". . . she's a adult who has clearly taken charge of her own life. SHE'S NOT A SHEEP OR A BLIND FOLLOWER."

Try as I might, I simply could not discern any hint of satire or irony in that statement, and so I find myself in the position of having nothing else to say except . . .

ARE YOU HIGH? SHE IS AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN!!! SHE IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF "SHEEP!" Hello? Do I need to reiterate the list of her most passionately cherished beliefs? Virgin birth? Rapture? Resurrection? Ring a bell?

There is not a single tenet of the Christian faith that can withstand even the most perfunctory scrutiny. The Bible is a crapfest, a steaming pile of ridiculous nonsense, perpretrated upon the none-too-bright by those who are adept at exploiting fear of eternal damnation to enslave the gullible.

Palin is absolutely a sheep, a blind follower, who has exchanged critical thinking skills for the less intellectually rigorous activity of unquestioning adherence to religious mumbo jumbo, served up by the powerful in service of their own best intersts.

As I said in my prior post, were Sarah Palin a garden-variety nitwit, an ordinary sheep, most of us would have little to fear from her. Unfortunately, such is not the case.

For in addition to being a sheep & a nitwit, Gov. Palin is also cunning & ambitious. I believe you alluded to this notion in one of your posts when you wrote that she is "politically savvy." She is, indeed, politically savvy, which is one of the qualities that makes her so dangerous.

Finally, in your original post, you stated that, "You don't have to like Palin, but you do have to respect her."

Actually, I don't. I may have to co-exist with her, but I don't have to respect her -- nor do I. She and her kind are boneheaded clucks, albeit dangerous boneheaded clucks who pose an alarming, tangible threat to the way of life currently enjoyed by America's citizens.

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