This is utterly bizarre, even by Sarah Palin's low low standards. I mean, does she have any clue that she's totally undermining John McCain by mocking a Senator who's been around forever and arguing that voters have a choice between "experience" (uh, that would be McCain, right?) on the one hand and "new energy" (uh, that would be Barack Obama, I believe?) on the other? My god, she's a disaster for John McCain. What on earth was he thinking?!?
Many of the recent polls in Virginia are showing Obama around 50 percent in the state and polling above what Democratic presidential candidates have recently gotten in Va. (lower-mid 40s). Palin doesn't seem to help McCain enough (if at all) in Va. Whatever benefit she may be giving in our culturally conservative regions (valley, southside, southwest) is being outweighed by the frustration of voters generally and the social moderates residing in NoVa, the college towns, and the increasingly moderate suburban areas of Richmond and Tidewater.
So reckless (bamboo - 9/30/2008 7:06:55 PM)
Of course she's bizarre, but mainly she's scary. What I feel most is anger -- anger that the GOP could be so cavalier and reckless to allow such a person to be on the ticket with their 72-year-old guy. It shows they don't take government seriously. This is one of the flaws of our party-driven presidential election system, no part of which is outlined in the Constitution. We need to demand some reforms to prevent this from happening again. It makes me think we should consider parliamentary rule, where such a goofy nomination would be very unlikely.
Look on the bright side (Pain - 9/30/2008 7:11:39 PM)
Come Thursday night, her political career outside Mooseburger Alaska will hopefully be over, and we don't have to worry about seeing her again in the lower 48.
Mooselini will be deposed! (Ron1 - 9/30/2008 7:13:57 PM)
Government is the problem, that's the GOP dogma. Given the dominance of Free Market ideology, the Republicans have exactly the same view of government as does the Marxist ideology, namely, that, in their case, once their ideal free market is established, government will just wither away into an administrative system whose sole function is to support the markets (and, coincidentally, the mega corporations which will inevitably dominate the "free" market). That is Free Market Heaven.
Note how everything the Republicans do, including recently voting against the financial bailout bill and the comments they thereafter made--- all of it tends to debase, trivialize, treat with contempt Congress in favor of the unitary executive. This naturally flows from their dislike for government, and the result is contempt for elections and anyone who takes elections seriously. Also, contempt for the function of government as a rule maker or regulator: all government does in their eyes is muck up the free market, which requires no regulation. Such stubborn dogma precludes any cooperation across the aisle, not to mention that this attitude results in putting utterly unqualified cronies or ideologues in charge of such government functions as FEMA.
Watch for her answer on the periodicals/magazines she reads. (FMArouet21 - 9/30/2008 7:09:53 PM)
In tonight's CBS interview segment Palin filibustered this elementary question from Couric. Bet she doesn't read anything--except the briefing folders now being pressed under her nose by McCain's staffers in preparation for the VP debate.
No wonder Palin gets confused when she tries to string the bullet points together. She has merely memorized by rote. She is a walking talking points processor: in go the bullet points; out comes the mishmash.
That interview was horrifying (Lowell - 9/30/2008 7:17:54 PM)
I can't believe any sentient human being with an IQ over 50 could support this imbecile Palin. She doesn't even know what newspapers she reads, she doesn't think it matters what causes global warming (it TOTALLY matters; there are TOTALLY different courses of action implied if man causes it - which of course is the case - or if it's natural climatic cycles!!!), she can't name any Supreme Court decisions, she believes a 15-year-old girl impregnated by her rapist father should have the baby, she mocks Joe Biden for being a Senator a long time (not apparently considering that John McCain is also a Senator who's been there forever), etc.
What. The. F***?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Whats scary is this (Pain - 9/30/2008 7:28:39 PM)
I was at a wedding last Saturday, and my neighbor asked me if I watched the debate. blah blah blah.
He said, he went to bed thinking that Obama had won, and was excited to see on Saturday morning that McCain had won. I said, um, he didn't win. There are several polls and most showed McCain lost. He denied it, said he saw McCain had won in the polls. OK, whatever.
Then I mentioned that Palin scared me, and he said, it depends on your perspective...that he thought she was a fresh face and brought a lot to the table!
I said, Jim, have you seen her interviews?
He said, no, he haven't seen anything about her.
Thats her base. The uninformed mushbrains who will vote R if they ran a bucket of spit on the ticket.
We out here in the blogosphere react this way. (FMArouet21 - 9/30/2008 7:35:20 PM)
Even some of the reality-based conservatives, like George Will, agree.
But what about the low information voter out there in the Vast Red Abyss? I'm convinced that 35-40% of voters (i.e., "The Base" plus another five to ten percent) feel most comfortable in voting for candidates who are just as f***ing stupid and ill-informed as they are themselves. When they listen to this kind of gibberish, they think:
Hey, Sarah is real people just like me! She's likable! She's no stuck-up elitist! She don't read no stinkin' books or magazines! She don't travel to no stinkin' furrin' countries or eat their smelly foods! She hunts and fishes! She can even dress a moose! She's perky and chirpy! I really like perky and chirpy! I'd really like to have pizza and a beer with her! Heck, I like her so much I'll vote for her!
And Republicans have honed pandering to the stupid vote into a political art form. Normally, they select candidates who are not really stupid, but can pretend to be. George W. Bush is a prime example. But with Palin, they really do seem to have hit the exacta: she not mere seems to be stupid; she is stupid.
I know, that's what horrifies and (Lowell - 9/30/2008 7:39:27 PM)
terrifies me. Not to be alarmist, but we HAVE TO win this election or we're doomed. Seriously.
Talk about "low information" (Lowell - 9/30/2008 7:46:41 PM)
She reads ALL the newspapers and magazines and STILL doesn't know anything. Check this out; Katie Couric seems incredulous...
Favorite Authors (NP - 9/30/2008 7:57:27 PM)
I heard on Air America that her favorite authors are CS Lewis and George Sheehan (wrote Running and Being about running). She just can't answer a question. She's read them all. And then she turns it into an issue about Alaska. No lady, it's you.
Why couldn't she name any (Rebecca - 9/30/2008 8:02:50 PM)
Let me see.. Just off the top of my head, newspapers I have read in the last year:
The Balitmore Sun
The Washington Post
The Washington Times
The New York Times
The Guardian (British)
The Los Angeles Times
LeMonde (French)
LeMonde diplomatique (French)
BBC News (The website)
Aljazeera English
The Irish Times
The Christian Science Monitor
I'm not joking. She has no knowledge of ANYTHING. As Tim Kaine said earlier today, "I think most people would take hiring someone for a summer job more seriously than Senator McCain took the choice of Governor Palin." You can say THAT again!
Palins list (Pain - 9/30/2008 8:13:32 PM)
Field and Stream
Outdoor Life
"1000 Moose Recipes you're family will love"
Snow machine repair manual {kept on the toilet]
Aerial Hunting made easy
Polar Bear, Smoler Bear: Why I hate all white animals.
I finally figured it out (Rebecca - 9/30/2008 7:52:30 PM)
There has always been something vaguely familiar to me about Sarah Palin's appearance. Now I've got it. She is a young version of the church lady.