This was my favorite line:
Say what??!!??!!
Foreign countries are IN the state that she is the executive of?
Oh!
My!
GOD!
Question.
If you were judging a high school debate and one of the contestants was throwing out shit like this to support their argument would you give them any points or credence? Would you say “Yes, I don’t agree but they sure did a good job of stating their case.”
This is what it’s come down to. Somebody that couldn’t win a high school debate running for Vice President on a ticket with a 72 year old disabled war veteran that has had cancer treatment at least four times.
So what do you think Putin is thinking? It’s like the Russian national hockey team scheduling a game against Wassala High School. (And don’t give me any crap about Miracle on Ice. Not even close.)
So, in other words, let’s do what we should have done many years ago? Partially to protect the freedoms that Sarah Palin would love to take away from us herself? (love that bullshit about women’s rights)
No shit!
Never end a sentence with a preposition!
It’s the latest Disney comedy-adventure flick! The feel-good movie of the year!
You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll apply for a passport!
That was priceless. 
The wisdom of Charlie Kelly strikes again: “Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power. Good. Thank you, thank you. If you vote me, I’m hot. What? Taxes, they’ll be lower… son. The Democratic vote is the right thing to do Philadelphia, so do.”
Anyone care to Charlie-ify Palin’s statement?
-Joe
Brilliant!
The clip/quote that defined the thing for me was when she mentioned knowing where Putin’s mind was at/ head was at, because of the shared airspace border. She’s got Canada on one side and Russia on the other and boy howdy she’s got her finger on the femoral artery of international politics.
You know what? I’m a Democrat, etc. etc. and so a part of me is actively salivating. Another part of me feels very very bad for this woman. She’s been plucked from a job that she was elected to, and if she wasn’t doing very well so far well hell- given some time and seasoning she might have become a pretty good Governor. She’s in so deep that it is, to be honest, not gratifying as much as it is slightly frightening to witness.
You watch someone laugh at a white shark from the beach, you hold them in contempt. You see someone sputtering as the cold salt water keeps washing into their mouth because nobody taught them how to swim and they’re in a riptide? You feel real pity.
She should not be in this position. She’s drowning. The hyper-bright shimmer in her eyes as you could SEE her mind pre-reading words for acceptability as she formulated her answers to Katie was a real visual cue. She’s drowning.
Her party will never admit it, nor would they consider pulling her. That’d be disastrous. But my gosh.
Cartooniverse
Her position is too critical, her grasp of international relations too definitive, to move her out. It is essential for the freedom of America that she remain vigiliant at her post, ever ready should the zeppelin head of Putin come floating over the Bering Sea, endangering our strategic reserves of seal blubber and ambergris!
I have to agree to some extent. I feel badly for intelligent, well-spoken women everywhere who cringe every time Palin opens her mouth. She is a poor representative of her sex (not that Biden is such a hotshot) on a par with Dan Quayle, and a very poor example of someone from a small town. She’s not stupid, but she’s completely out of her depth in this role.
Oh fuck that noise. Why would you feel pity for someone who put herself in this position, over and over again? She ran for mayor, she ran for governor, and now she thinks she’s got the goods to be VP despite being manifestly unprepared, unintelligent, incurious, and uninformed. The woman is a narrow-minded, ignorant, deluded crackpot choking not on seawater but her own ambition. She has the same creepy, singleminded belief in her own righteousness, the same stubborn outrage at any criticism or even outside scrutiny, that Bush, McCain and Cheney have. It’s called hubris, and it is revolting. I don’t pity her, I despise her.
I make no claims to be more articulate than she is (though I hope to God I am). But I don’t have to be. And if someone came to me and invited me to be on their presidential ticket, I’d say, “what the fuck man, are you crazy?” If she had an ounce of self-awareness she would have respectfully declined their advances. But she hasn’t and she didn’t, and the reason why appears to be because she actually thinks she’s qualified, and my guess is she hungers for the power to push her nutso religious agenda as hard as she can.
And now once again we’re gonna see a Republican candidate appear in a debate and be lauded simply because she manages not to drool over the microphone. Expectations are so low for Palin that all she has to do is remain upright to be declared the winner.
I know it is nice to say she’s not stupid, but evidence? I know she isn’t stupid on an absolute scale, but how about relative to the people she’d interact with in Washington or around the world, not relative to small towns in Alaska (or nearly anywhere else.)
She’s a Creationist. She cannot come up with good justifications of her experience or positions. She did not go to a very good college. I haven’t seen evidence she did well even there. She seems more driven by vindictiveness than a consideration of the consequences of her actions.
I don’t doubt at all her confidence she is up for the job. A sign of stupidity is not being able to realize what you are getting into.
Perhaps “clueless” is a better word than “stupid”. Re: your last sentence. I think her ambition has blinded her to her own lack of qualification.
All six of them weren’t good?
First one was too big, next one too small, third one was too hot, fourth had, like, *tests *and stuff…
Seven if you include Fifi La Fontaine’s School of Charm and Poise
(bonin’ up for Miss Alaska, dont ya know).
I can’t say I despise her, but I don’t like her for the reasons you mentioned. I think having her as a VP puts us in dangerous position. I despise McCain for that. If he really really wanted a female VP to pander to disgruntled HRC fans, this is the best woman he could choose? I don’t think he has the judgment to be president because of it.
Yep, I agree there, too. I’m always leery of politicians with religious agendas, too. I believe in God but I’d have more respect for organized religion if it stayed out of politics.
Well, they probably think Bush has done a fine job. :rolleyes:
I don’t think he chose Palin. I think his campaign managers did. That buys him nothing, though, because then he clearly isn’t in control of his own campaign.
THAT’S how she got second place? Maybe if she boned more she would’ve won.