A potted geranium could get a high approval rating for running a state that can give out free money and not make people pay incomre or sales taxes.
Actually, that “break” is more like “complete agreement”, in this sense of the term:
How incredibly daring to speak out against an indicted and later convicted politician. And then to flip flop on the highway to nowhere. How mavericky.
She deserves kudos for her work on ethics in government. Well, at least her work on other politician’s ethics.
She also deserves kudos for cutting much of her predecessor’s outlandish spending. That was good work.
So, she cut construction spending and fought against other politician’s ethical lapses. Two very solid positives.
Well, lots of people around here were enthusiastic about Howard Dean when he ran - his state if anything is less representative than Alaska.
Especially notable is her windfall profits tax on oil companies in Alaska which she used to distribute checks to every man, woman and child in the state, regardless of whether they worked or paid taxes, and which she specifically referred to as “sharing the wealth.”
Who around here ever said his state was representative?
Nobody - but I never saw that noted as any kind of disqualification either.
Did you?
Since the righties keep on saying the US is going socialist, maybe they do think Vermont is representative.
I’d simply say, “This,” but that’s become a cliche here.
Maybe. But no one was saying that he was a person of substance due to his job approval rating in said unrepresentative state.
No person would want to vote for Palin, not when there are so many more qualified. The VP spot would be a nice training ground for anyone but Palin strikes me as someone with only average intelligence. I just posted here to note that the parts I have bolded will apply equally well to Obama. Obama without the teleprompter is a joke. He keeps on making stupid gaffes without it.
Again, I don’t see anyone making the claim that her approval ratings are all that there is to her. In any case, feel free to read my post for some of the other things in her favor besides her approval ratings.
I certainly agree, which is some of the point regarding Palin’s approval ratings a month or so after her election as governor vs. Obama’s ratings a month or so after his election to the White House. The argument is generally made that Obama must be doing a good job, because his approval ratings are around 60%. Palin’s ratings at the same point in her tenure were a third higher, so she must have been doing a 30% better job as governor as Obama is as President.
Not particularly - the SDMB hates Sarah Palin well past the point that they can be rational on the topic. Witness Shayna’s revenge fantasies that Palin was going to be impeached and run out of Alaska on a rail.
Or the silliest Pitting I can recall of the election cycle - the one where Palin described (quite accurately) what the job of VP entailed. And the lathered frenzies of the Usual Suspects screaming, over and over again, "NONONONO!!!PPALINISWRONGWRONGWRONG!!!LIARLIARLIAR!BADBADBAD!!!’ And people pointing out patiently that she was completely accurate and correct. As well that Biden had said almost the same thing (except his answer was several paragraphs instead of a few sentences, and left off the Constitutionally mandated part of the VP job). And still the screams continued. If Palin said it, it must be wrong, even if it isn’t.
I’m guessing Sarah Palin’s predecessor would not agree.
Regards,
Shodan
Like what, specifically?
No one said it was a disqualification for Palin either. An assertion was made that her approval rating in Alaska was evidence of substance. The rebuttal is that it’s evidence of nothing either way, not that it’s a disqualification.
You mean that time when she stupidly declared that the VP “is in charge of the Senate,” and then the righties went into ultra-sophist spin mode trying to pretend that what she said wasn’t asinine? I remember that. FYI, she was wrong.
Sam Stone cited her approval ratings and then suggested that there might be more to her. Perhaps the latter is a complete non sequitur. I believe that Sam is implying that clearly Alaskans see something to her that we don’t.
I did, and I see very different things in them that you do. I recognize that reasonable people clearly can differ about these matters, even if I myself cannot exactly empathize with that point of view.
(a) Not correct
(b) Correct
That was the Pitting. No, she was entirely correct.
Regards,
Shodan
And Bricker, did you have a link to where Palin called for someone to be lynched? Or was that just hyperbole?
Regards,
Shodan
I had to come in and applaud this incredible construct. Yes, our current President came from a city famous for corrupt politics. Of course, a two-year political colonoscopy didn’t turn up anything but a possibly shady deal over a piece of property, but no matter–he came from the Land of the Machine.
Meanwhile, Alaska has been a political cesspool at least since Palin was on the Greater Moose’s Taint City Council, so she’s going to have some stink on her, too, right? No, because she stood up against it! She opposed corruption!
I’m sure that if you look back, you’ll find that Obama has probably, at one time or another, said that corruption is bad. He has probably also said that babies are cute and that ice cream is delicious.
I’m not going to get into a discussion of their own relative ethical lapses, because it’s been hashed out before, and frankly, I’m tired of arguing about Palin. She’s a punchline. She’s everything wrong with the Republican party (and everything America has rejected about it in the last two elections) rolled into a nicely betitted package. She has about the same chance of being the next President as my cat, and I’m pretty sure he’s a communist.
Want to see the youtubes of people yelling “kill him?”
The point, in any case, is that’s disingenous for anyone to complain that “mud” was thrown at Palin when the worst mud thrown by any of the major candidates was thrown by Palin herself.