I would love to see her nominated, it would just about be a sure Democrat win, hell a dead Cow with a can of Lysol as a running mate would beat Palin/Anybody like a Narc at a Biker rally!
Unclviny
Honestly. It’s hard to imagine how our two-centuries-plus Republic endured lo those many years without our current enlightened twenty-somethings around.
Yes but don’t forget, we had TWO elections where a frightening number of people voted for George W. Bush. The stupid is still out there.
So, mswas, would you say Joel Chandler Harris worked more on a Dionysian or an Apollonian level? 
ETA: Dang. Beaten to the punch by jayjay.
She would love to make all her opinions into some kind of laws that must be obeyed. And then, when she finds out that she can’t just declare new laws, she can go rogue against Congress, and the Supremem Court.
There was a time in, oh, the mid-19th century where the idea of the U. S. splitting into two countries wasn’t that far-fetched.
But seriously, no, I don’t think stupidity is new in this country. I do think that it has become somewhat fashionable among those adhere to certain political beliefs. Eschewing logic and critical thinking seems to be the national pastime. More than in days past? I would say so, since the barriers to spreading one’s ideas are now so low with current technology that anyone can publish un-vetted innuendo, speculation, and outright falsehoods at the speed of light, and gain a following virtually overnight.
On preview, I suppose I should amend the claim in my earlier post to include technology in the equation. Stupidity + technology to spread said stupidity with unprecedented ease is a recipe for trouble. End of the republic? Not likely. Enough to get Sarah Palin elected president in 2012? Somewhat likely. More likely than I am comfortable with. YMMV.
I think I qualify.
I’m not afraid of Palin, I’m afraid of what she represents: a celebration of ignorance, willful or nonchalant. A world where lying to make a point is encouraged, where fear to claim a victory is demanded, where the mundane is politically sexy.
I’m no more afraid of Palin than I am of, I don’t know, Twilight.
Actually, that works. Palin is the Twilight candidate.
At least you know how to spell Dionysian.
I suppose I should make reassuring comments, but I remember my own utter shock in 1980 when Reagan got elected. I don’t think he was any smarter, but he was much better at keeping on message, AND deflecting questions he wasn’t prepared to answer.
She scares me the same way Al Sharpton does or Ron Paul, or Ross Perot. Which is to say “I am scared that there is an audience for the stupidity.”
You know who scares me as a liberal - Huckabee. He has the folksy charm of Bush, the populism of Clinton, and is savvy.
Sarah Palin scares me in the same way my cat scares me when I put scotch tape over his paws.
Sure, it makes me laugh, and it does break my heart just a little bit to see the poor bastard freaking out, sputtering and acting like an utter moron, but damn, if that’s not some fine entertainment.
2012 nomination? A roll of scotch tape? It’s all the same to me.
To those Democrats who support a Palin 2012 ticket:
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Sure, she probably won’t win, but so long as she’s on the ticket the chances of this happening remain greater than zero. Are you willing to accept that risk? I’m not.
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Are you so sure Obama can’t beat a more competant Republican?
I’m touched that you think that a few mooks on an obscure message board wishing to see Mrs. Palin run will somehow jinx the next presidential election, but frankly, if she runs and wins, then as a country we deserve what we get.
Besides, she’ll probably quit halfway through her first term anyway.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with my attitude on this subject.
It’s not that we don’t think Obama could win against a real opponent. It’s just that it would be walk-a-3-foot-wide-balance-beam easy if Sarah’s that opponent.
It’s better to burn out than fade away!
Yeah, he got his head cut off. I’d like to avoid that one.
-Joe
Just because you swallow quarters and homeless people urinate on you doesn’t qualify you as a phonebooth.
Appollonia was a protege of Prince sometime in the 80’s. I think Dionysus is a poster here. We often look to them as examples for our debates.
Glad I could help clear that up for you.
This is true, though sometimes the steamroller goes off the cliff if it gets too much steam. That’s kind of unlikely with Sarah baby though, because other than money and her kid having a kid out of wedlock, she’s fairly scandal resistant.