Actually, I think we’re part of that. And not just the media. We lend them some authenticity simply by calling Tea Party candidates. They’re Republican Party candidates, supported by the Tea Party.
I keep harping on this, but many people I’ve talked to who spout the Tea Party propaganda have never studied the TP’s website. That’s dangerous.
I don’t mean to imply that I don’t care about how mind-bogglingly stupid Sarah Palin is; I care a lot. But even if she weren’t stupid, who in the hell would actually want such a nasty, mean, hateful bitch as this as their President?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/26/palin-delivers-a-gaffe-filled-message/
*"She said her gaffes receive more attention than those made by the president and vice president. In honor of the claimed-disparity she titled the post “A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States,” a reference to a mistake President Obama made on the campaign trail in 2008.
The former Alaska governor dedicated the first paragraph of the post to almost a dozen slips of the tongue by Obama."*
You know, it kind of reminds me of the time she went off the deep end, vilely referring to her President as “The Candidate Who Must Be Obeyed”, claiming that the media followed his edict to leave his children alone, but they won’t leave hers alone. The problem with that is, it wasn’t his children then-candidate Obama was saying should be off-limits to the media, it was, in fact, hers.
And here she is again, publicly denigrating her President, as if he was the one who made fun of her North Korea slip-up. She’s no better than a schoolyard bully. “Well, if the media can poke me with a stick, then I’ll just poke someone else with a stick! So there!”
My g-d, what a hateful, ugly shrew she is.
It’s one thing if you make a slip of the tongue and know that you did it and what the correct statement should have been. It’s another to be utterly fucking clueless.
Hey!
Thing is, the people who like her also like that about her. They like that she’s not only as dumb as them, she’s also as petty and spiteful. Only unlike them, she gets to actually say this shit out loud, while they “Yes sir” their way through their petty, pussy little days, and then go home and neglect their families to post stupid, hateful shit on facebook, which provides them the only sense of power or influence they get in their lives.
I agree.
Your glasses are fantastic, dahling.
-Joe
I think she’ll run.
Sarah Palin is the embodiment of the phrase “Be careful of what you wish for.”
Sarah is pursuing an illusion of her own making.
I’m not talking about those who want to elect her; I’m talking about Sarah’s comprehension of what it means to be the President of the United States.
So far the journey is for Palin and about Palin. Palin is the center of attention, surrounded by those who want her to be president, and those who criticize her can be ignored, with the spin that they’re bunch of lamestream losers.
But what happens when you get what you want?
Let’s speak of it hypothetically: Palin is nine months into her 1st term as POTUS. Israel and Iran have ratcheted the tensions between each other. She gets a phone call at 3 o’ clock in the morning that via US intelligence, Israel will attack all of Iran’s known nuclear facilities along with other secret installations in 36 hours. “Okay, let show those terrorist who’s boss now, don’t you know.” “Too bad about Iran, isn’t it like they don’t deserve it after what they did to our hostages, right?”
President Palin then calls an emergency meeting of all the intelligence agencies to thinking, “Great, we’ll pretend that we don’t know anything about it (wink, wink), but we’ll let Israel unload on those camel jockeys.” After the presentation about the forthcoming attack, the head of FBI’s domestic intelligence informs the group that six hours ago, they’d received information that Hezbollah had planted at least two dozen cells in the last three months who will launch a swarm of terrorist attacks all over America, if Israeli attacks on Iran. The FBI then mentions that unfortunately, they don’t know who it is, or where they are, but they have some leads. President Palin then ask if we’re prepared for this kind of attack. The room gets quiet. An aid whispers to Palin that as a result of blocking a set of earmarks over another issue, Senate’s Majority Leader George Mitchell funding of a special paramilitary training center in Kentucky which would have dealt with swarm attacks was never implemented. Mitchell never liked Palin and it wouldn’t take long for him to exploit this little mistake. That information would be send Palin’s poll numbers into the lower 40’s, as the economy had stagnated further, when Treasury Bond interest rates started climbing in response to the dollars decline over the continuing rise in the federal deficit as a result of the devastating 8.2 earthquake in southern California which amazingly had resulted in only moderate structural damage, but unfortunately resulted in the collapse of 3 “earthquake reinforced” dams which drowned 18,000 people in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. (Whew!).
And now president Palin finally realize nine months after taking the oath of office that estimates of up to 800 more Americans could be killed by the end of next week.
And that doesn’t include missile attacks from Iran on Americans bases in Iraq and Afghanistan overseas and world-wide terrorists attacks from Iranian agents along with Al Qaeda attacks so they can get a piece of the action (even though Al Qaeda hates Shia branch of Islam).
And if war broke out with Iran . . . Palin realized, “This isn’t what I signed up for . . . .”
The Secretary of the Defense, John Cornyn asks, “Mrs. President, what do you want to do?”
What’s a Grizzly Mom to do?
Nothing about Sarah Palin that I’ve read, seen, heard, or notice suggests that she’s given this particular gut churning aspect of the presidency any thought. But none of the stuff I mentioned is out of the realm of possibility (but, to be fair rather lame for a story line).
That’s what sobers me about Palin. No other mainstream candidate (not 3rd party) I’ve seen aspiring for president (going back to Johnson/Goldwater) suggest to me that they couldn’t be president–I just didn’t want them to be president. But if they were elected (and most of those whom I voted against were), I was pretty sure they had some sense of the magnitude of the presidency.
Try as I might, I can’t see it in her. She’s just too immature to be president.
With respect to her supporters, if they believe she has the character, they see something I can’t see. But also, with respect to her supporters, I see things they don’t want to see.
I have decided Palin isn’t just a partisan hack, she really is a an idiot who is way out of her depth, and is just faking it, hoping no one will notice.
From “Open Letter to Republican Freshmen Members of Congress” on her Facebook page:
How do you defund an unfunded mandate? Any Palin apologists want to try to spin that?
Negative money.
I just cannot believe that Palin will actually be nominated.
The Republicans are not that stupid.
So I got to thinking about church affiliations. GeeDubya is a born again Methodist, his folks are Episcopalian (The Church of the Pearly Gated Community), IIRC both Clinton and Obama are Baptists (well, duh!). So, I’m thinking, Sarah Palin? There is a faint odor of Pentecostalism about her.
Any way, googling gets that she describes herself as a “non-denominational Christian”, which I’m guessing is some sort of Unitarianism for rural retards. Which is to say, she has no theological positions to disagree with, and none to agree with either.
I’m wondering how much that matters any more. Used to matter a lot, in living memory, my Cousin Cole’s family of Baptists would get into huge fights with Cousin Clay’s, Church of Christ. Such things weren’t as important as high school football, but they were damned important!
Are the denominations melting together into a theological goo, an indistinct mish-mash of Protestantism?
(If it were Catholics, we wouldn’t say “mish-mash”, we could say a potpourri of Popery. But that would be wrong.)
You know, Palin’s words are a target-rich environment. Yet along you come to ‘mock her’, and you happen to pick something she actually got right, then snicker over it.
A program can be both federally funded and impose unfunded mandates on the states. For instance, the feds could spend 10 billion dollars opening up cheese shops in every state, and then demand that the states hire the people to staff them. That puts an unfunded mandate on the state, and you can stop that by defunding the construction of the cheese shops in the first place.
Something much like that happened with the stimulus, and it was the justification for some states to refuse the money. For example, the feds wanted to build extra schools in a bunch of states with stimulus money, and initially pay to hire the staff to man them. But then they wanted the state to pick up the cheque to keep the schools open after that.
Or take New Jersey, where the federal government gave the state 890 billion dollars to increase teacher salaries. Then the money got used up, leaving the state with an 890 billion dollar hole in the budget. The result: Teacher layoffs.
An example directly related to the health care bill: The bill attempts to put the responsibility for administering ‘high risk’ pools on the state. South Carolina has already refused on the grounds that it’s an unfunded mandate.
The health care bill also has a bunch of regulations regarding insurance coverage, the amount that insurance rates can be increased, and a bunch of other regs. But it puts the burden for enforcing them on the states.
It’s not rocket science to show how a program can be both federal funded and impose unfunded mandates on states, so I’m surprised that you honestly couldn’t figure that one out. Your Palin-hatred must be short-circuiting your brain.
Now stop making me defend Sarah Palin!
In the spirit of complete fairness, I’ll go ahead and say that the “North Korea” gaffe is indeed the functional equivalent of the “57 states” gaffe. I don’t hold that agaisnt her at all, and urge that nobody should hold it against Obama either. Each should be given the benefit of the doubt under the “Nobody is Actually That Stupid” rule.
IME, “non-denominational” is basically just for churches that are just a bit too kooky to go straight Baptist, or for charismatic churches that wouldn’t have any problem fitting in with Pentecostals, but decide they’re just too precious to let themselves be “defined” by any “label”, man.
Actually, the typical non-denominational church is found in a community of multiple Christian sects, where there aren’t enough people to justify multiple churches, or in communities that are intentionally religiously ‘progressive’ and welcome people of all Christian faiths. My wife and I were married in a church like that - it was in the inner city, it ran the main soup kitchen for indigents in the city, and it had members who had been Catholic, Baptist, and every Christian sect in between. Their message was progressive politics coupled with an emphasis on personal improvement through faith - not lecturing others.
But you know, those kinds of non-denominational churches are a bit harder to sneer at.
So, your knowledge of what constitutues a “typical” non-denominational church is founded upon the fact that you have been inside one? Did you get the witchcraft protection rituals, or just the wedding?
You know, I don’t disagree. It’s the verbal equivalent of a typo, your mouth is just moving faster than your brain. Of course, the thing about Sarah is that her mouth never stops running, and her poor legless brain can’t catch up.
Jeez, that sounded pretty damned liberal until you got to the not lecturing others part.
Right. 'Cause it’s those liberal churches that flood the public discourse and lobby for action against homosexuals, abortions and video games.
Sam’s example sounds progressive to me, but I don’t think it’s the sort of nondenominational church Sarah Palin favors. Too much loving the sinners, not enough praying for political action.