Palin Resigns as Gov? WTF?

You know who else that was true for…

Godwin?

:smiley:

People with axes to grind usually exhibit the same behaviors regardless of their partisan affiliation.

A lot of the hatred for and fascination with Palin is absurd, I agree. Some of it must be fear. Some of it’s also shock that, of all people, she wound up running for VP and believes she’s going to be president. (It’s almost a noveau riche thing.) I’m sure she’s smarter than she appeared in her famous interviews, but she makes you wonder sometimes. If she’s not clueless, with this resignation she has pulled off a great impersonation of someone who really is clueless.

I’m not seeing so much an axe to grind as I am a refreshing objectivity and intellectual honesty. What makes you feel Paglia has an axe to grind?

(I’ll have to respond later if necessary, as I’ll be leaving shortly.)

I read that Paglia piece yesterday. It basically amounts to nothing but a bunch of bog-standard snivelling and whining about the imaginary liberal media. Poor Sarah has never earned a single bit of criticism or mockery. The liberal media’s just a-scared of her because of how purty and smart she is.

Oh, absolutely no effort is required–she does a perfectly good job accomplishing this all by herself. Even her “reasons” behind her departure have been ripped to shreds for their wholesale dishonesty and pretensions of martyrlike grandeur.

It’s cute you compare her to Rush, though, because like him, she rallies her forces through distortion, misrepresentation, hypocrisy, and smarmy jingoism. That Paglia likes her is a surprise, but only if you see things through strictly a political prism. The pundit never praises Palin’s politics, only her “style”, her “moxie”, her girl-power posturing. And, as is clear from her assessment of the VP debate, when it comes to assessing Palin, Paglia is completely delusional.

She’s Camille Paglia. What does she do other than grind axes? I’m not saying she’s any more or less skewed on the Palin than she is on any other issue, but she’s always Camille Paglia.

Her claim that Alaska paid 1.9 million to defend her is off. She used lawyers on the payroll. They just spent time on her defenses that could have possibly been used more productively. But Alaska had to kick in no extra money.

Via Balloon Juice, Anonymous Liberal had a great post on Palin over the weekend. It strikes me as a good counter to Paglia’s piece. No new information, but it summarizes what I think is the general response to her by Dems and the thinking Repubs.

http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009/07/emperor-has-no-clothes.html

That’s only true if you view the amount of attorneying done in the state by its attorneys as a fixed thing, which doesn’t vary depending upon the amount of business put on its plate. In a case like that, the “cost” is the delay in dealing with other state business.

On the other hand, if the amount of resources hired and used by the state varies according to workload, then the increase in workload could indeed be costing the state extra money. For example, the state may contract out some of its attorneying.

Seriously? Have you ever read Sexual Personae? Vamps and Tramps?

The fact that you look to Camille Paglia for intellectual justification utterly blows my mind.

Paglia is just as nuts as Palin. If ever a woman wanted to be a man it’s Paglia, to her a woman is nothing unless she behaves like a starlet. She is in love with Palin literly. I stopped reading her years ago when I realized she was loony tunes, a so called Democrat, feminist, liberal and atheist who is always on the side of the right wing. Every column includes references to her books and Madonna, I bet this current one did as well.

She lost me at, “Palin cleaned Biden’s clock!”

Which debate was she watching?

Maybe she meant it literally.

Paglia doesn’t want to be a man, she wants to be an adolescent male. I read Sexual Personae in grad school. While it’s interesting, Paglia makes Susan Powter look calm.

Oh…oh, my. Oh, my goodness. I thought the clips from the funny SNL skits thread were going to be the best laugh I had all day. But this! Classic! Comedy gold!

I want to frame this and put it on my wall, that’s how classic it is.

“What makes you feel Paglia has an axe to grind?” HEEEEEE!!!

Okay, now…if everyone is through guffawing at the question of what axe does Paglia have to grind that makes her a right-wing partisan, how’s about somebody answering the question?

I mean, I’m well aware that in the minds of many around here there is simply no justification for a right-wing viewpoint that isn’t based on either nuttiness, evil or stupidity, still I’d like to see her specific reason explained.

And no, I haven’t read any of her books, and no, I don’t look to her for intellectual justification…whatever that means.

But I do know that on the four or five occasions over the course of a year when I happen to read one of her columns, her intellectual honesty, clarity of thought and observation, and her proclivity for calling a spade a spade strikes me as both unexpected and refreshing.

So how’s about it kids, just what is Paglia’s axe to grind? Is penis envy really the reason she’s “always on the side of the right”?

ETA: And of course, it should be noted that simply ‘being on the side of the right’, if indeed she is, in no way means that she’s wrong. :wink:

Fear? The only fear I have now is that she won’t get the Republican presidential nomination after such a boneheaded move.

No, she’s not a right-wing partisan. But she is a walking, talking, writing axe to grind.

I don’t even know who Camille Paglia is (for several posts I thought we were talking about Prince Charles’s main squeeze), but I say again … anyone who claims that Palin cleaned Biden’s clock in last year’s vice-presidential debate has a screw loose.