50 Reasons Why The Left Hates Sarah Palin

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Floortom wrote:
LOL…Palin is the epitome of what’s wrong with the modern GOP so it’s no suprise she appeals to the half-wits on this board:

anti-intellectual? check
power-hungry? check
fear-mongering? check
Christian extremist? check

If the GOP clings to this dummy, that ship will sink even quicker. She holds no appeal to anyone other than the moronic “base”

If you owned an NFL team, would you hire as a head coach someone who had never ever been a head coach of anything?

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NFL teams do that frequently, hiring coordinators, position coaches, and even special teams coaches (Harbaugh).

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:

You propose to hand over our country to a man who chooses a stumbing idiot like Biden, who thought that Roosevelt was President in 1929 and that FDR went on TV in 1929 to calm the American people, and you then seriously call Sarah Palin stupid?
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You forgot the best quote of whole campaign. Obama’s 57 states quote.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
GDollars37 wrote:
You can bash Obama all you want, and I’d probably agree with you on 70-80% of it, but it doesn’t change the fact that Palin is woefully underqualified, far worse than he is. And her selection puts the lie to McCain’s pretenses about experience and “country first.”

She has more “qualifications” than Obama has. We’ve gone over this ad nauseum here. He has NO experience other than being a campaigner. None. 16 months in the Senate is unequivocally comparative to NO experience for POTUS. This is not debatable by rational people.[/quote]

Yes it is. And don’t act like “Ad nauseum” means that anyone arguing that she has more experience ever won the argument.

He has eight years in the state senate and four years in the US Senate. That means more than 2 years as Governor of Alaska and however many years she was mayor of Shitfuck Fargo.

MAYOR!!! Mayor means SHIT!!! I talk with them every fucking day, and half of them are not worth the wasted breath. Up in Fargo I’d imagine it’s even worse. The only good thing about visiting their city hall is you can buy smokes and a bottle of gin in the same building.

NOt to mention, the man is unequivocally more intelligent than that thing.

What is not debated by rational people is whether or not Pig should ever be allowed within spitting distance of the White House.

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[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
Headhunter wrote:

You propose to hand over our country to a man who chooses a stumbing idiot like Biden, who thought that Roosevelt was President in 1929 and that FDR went on TV in 1929 to calm the American people, and you then seriously call Sarah Palin stupid?

You forgot the best quote of whole campaign. Obama’s 57 states quote.[/quote]

Oh yea… that was a lot worse than McCain’s agreeing with Obama about “Sayin’ some pretty bad things about Western Pennsylvania”.

If every word you spoke was filmed and recorded, you’d have a few gaffes. Good to know you’re so superior to all the rest of us mere mortals.

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[quote]Sloth wrote:
A clearer pic.[/quote]

Just imagine the outcry if it was Obama being hung in effigy.

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Why does anyone think Obama is smarter than any other politician?

He certainly hasn’t demonstrated it.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
…He has eight years in the state senate and four years in the US Senate…

Let’s face it, he really just has the eight years in the state senate. He was a U.S. Senator for about the first 16 months of his term and sat on his hands. Since then for all practical purposes he has been nothing more than a professional campaigner. He has no record of substance in the good ol’ boys club that is the U.S. Senate.

His U.S. Senate seat has had little to do with representing the people of Illinois and everything to do with his carefully orchestrated hike down the yellow brick road towards the White House with his scarecrow, tin man, et al, in tow.

I admire his political savvy in the sense that he has come a long way in a short time but that has as much or more to do with the people who have pushed him along as does his intellect.

Bottom line is he is very inexperienced for the job of POTUS and very experienced at projecting an image to the contrary.

The political favors he owes will come due if he’s elected and they are vast. He is not an independent man who will put the people first. Watch and see. I know, I know, all politicians are whores but this one has more than his share of pimps waiting for their cut.[/quote]

Palin was a governor for less than two years, in which time she brokered a pipeline deal that is very likely to fall apart and be tied up in protracted litigation. Oh, yeah. She made some minimal reductions in pork in a state that is one of the most corrupt and has taken the most federal earmarks of any in the nation. Many of which she whole-heartedly supported during her tenure in Wasila.

Before that she ran up a huge debt in Wasila, mostly to build a stadium, a deal which she spectacularly botched. Cost the city many additional milliiions by failing to ascertain whether it even had title to the land (similar issues with the pipeline deal, by the way). A private lawyer brokering a deal for clients would be guilty of malpractice for such a grave mistake. And likely face disbarrment or suspension as well. And only accomplished the project anyway at the EXPENSE of many more important infrastrucure improvements which is what she promised. And what Wasila residents counted on when this ‘fiscal conservative’ convinced them to pay more taxes and run up a huge debt.

People have complained this is misleading before but haven’t presented a single shred of evidence of how any of this is untrue. That’s because it is. If you want to believe ‘experience’ equates to managerial incompetence and a short tenure as governor of a state with a lower population than most big cities, more power to you.

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As Biden predicted, someone will test Obama very soon if he should win. Watch what happens. Bush was made fun of for sitting calmly after told of the 9/11 attack. Obama’s reaction will look like a Three Stooges frantic comedy.

Look how the wonderful Dem Congress deals with a financial meltdown (and the people vote even more Dems in this time!). Watch what happens when a real crisis hits.

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I don’t like Obama. Can’t cast a vote for him. Don’t like McCain much better.

But it baffles me how anyone can still defend Palin just because she’s down-to-earth and they agree with her social values. She’s terrible. She doesn’t understand any issues. The fact that she sidestepped all the questions in the VP debate and thus didn’t come across looking ridiculous does nothing to change that.

And she’s done a bad job in Alaska.

Wake the fuck up.

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[quote]jsbrook wrote:
I don’t like Obama. Can’t cast a vote for him. Don’t like McCain much better.

But it baffles me how anyone can still defend Palin just because she’s down-to-earth and they agree with her social values. She’s terrible. She doesn’t understand any issues. The fact that she sidestepped all the questions in the VP debate and thus didn’t come across looking ridiculous does nothing to change that.

And she’s done a bad job in Alaska.

Wake the fuck up.[/quote]

“Bad job” is a relative term. While the US congress is sporting an approval rating in the single digits, Palin enjoys an approval rating of 80% or better. I guess maybe she is doing something than the fucking congress isn’t.

She connects with the voters.

To say that she doesn’t understand the issues is pure bullshit. She may not interpret the “issues” the way you want her to, or the way the fucking egg heads in DC want her tois really not her problem.

And to say she didn’t answer ANY of the questions in the debate is just flat wrong. Just an ounce of intellectual honesty would go a long way in your post.

The only reason I was in favor of a McCain presidency (pre-bailout) was because of Palin.

There are tens of millions of me’s out there. Probably enough to swing the election, in my opinion.

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
DoubleDuce wrote:
Headhunter wrote:

You propose to hand over our country to a man who chooses a stumbing idiot like Biden, who thought that Roosevelt was President in 1929 and that FDR went on TV in 1929 to calm the American people, and you then seriously call Sarah Palin stupid?

You forgot the best quote of whole campaign. Obama’s 57 states quote.

Oh yea… that was a lot worse than McCain’s agreeing with Obama about “Sayin’ some pretty bad things about Western Pennsylvania”.

If every word you spoke was filmed and recorded, you’d have a few gaffes. Good to know you’re so superior to all the rest of us mere mortals.[/quote]

I wasn’t saying he’s stupid, just that thats a funny slip of the tongue to make on the campaign trail for presidency. I chalk it up to fatigue, but it’s still funny.

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
more intelligent than that thing.

What is not debated by rational people is whether or not Pig should ever be allowed within spitting distance of the White House.[/quote]

You are really acting like a shit now.

That “Thing” has done more with her life than you EVER will…and is probably smarter AND hotter than any chick you will EVER be with…and that’s why you hate her so much.

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[quote]Rockscar wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
more intelligent than that thing.

What is not debated by rational people is whether or not Pig should ever be allowed within spitting distance of the White House.

You are really acting like a shit now.

That “Thing” has done more with her life than you EVER will…and is probably smarter AND hotter than any chick you will EVER be with…and that’s why you hate her so much. [/quote]

LOL. Nancy Pelosi has everything you just said, except for the “hot” part. Is that why you hate her? Or Hillary? Or any other female Democrat?

Please motherfucker. Stop talking out your ass.

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Someone peed is someones irish oatmeal this morning.

Wait, do you actually hate hillary and pelosi? I’m not sure what you meant.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
I don’t like Obama. Can’t cast a vote for him. Don’t like McCain much better.

But it baffles me how anyone can still defend Palin just because she’s down-to-earth and they agree with her social values. She’s terrible. She doesn’t understand any issues. The fact that she sidestepped all the questions in the VP debate and thus didn’t come across looking ridiculous does nothing to change that.

And she’s done a bad job in Alaska.

Wake the fuck up.

“Bad job” is a relative term. While the US congress is sporting an approval rating in the single digits, Palin enjoys an approval rating of 80% or better. I guess maybe she is doing something than the fucking congress isn’t.

She connects with the voters.

To say that she doesn’t understand the issues is pure bullshit. She may not interpret the “issues” the way you want her to, or the way the fucking egg heads in DC want her tois really not her problem.

And to say she didn’t answer ANY of the questions in the debate is just flat wrong. Just an ounce of intellectual honesty would go a long way in your post.

The only reason I was in favor of a McCain presidency (pre-bailout) was because of Palin.

There are tens of millions of me’s out there. Probably enough to swing the election, in my opinion.
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Uh, she doesn’t understand the “issues”. She doesn’t “read”. She didn’t know what “pre-conditions” were. She didn’t get that earmarks for “fruit-flys” directly helps her own children.

She can’t remember she wanted a bridge to nowhere. Her own campaign says she doesn’t know anything? WTF are you talking about? If one thing has been demonstrated since she’s been picked, it’s that she doesn’t know really anything.

And as to her popularity, I’d suspect it isn’t 80% anymore in Alaska, and in addition that popularity I suspect is directly related to how much of the wealth she spreads.

Since she’s been Gov., the price of oil has been sky high, and socialists that they are in Alaska, that means more money for the citizens, so much so that in addition to getting a check, they don’t have to pay income tax. I wonder what that does to a governor’s popularity…hmmm…

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If I had to choose one thing, I’d go with his faux humility - hiding (barely) an overweening arrogance, an oily insincerity, and a huge dose of narcissism. IMO, all else flows from that.

I stole this from another thread… I thought it was a pretty good description of Palin.

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[quote]deputydawg wrote:
Sloth: thanks for the picture. They hate her. There is no question that they hate her.

Colin Powell is not part of the “right” intelligentsia. Colin Powell is a centrist, a moderate. furthermore he is the modern day reincarnation of Robert McNamara – for all of young’uns he was Kennedy and LBJ’s sec. of defense that was so gung-ho about Viet Nam but then after the fact says he screwed up and he really knew it was wrong and he’s really sorry.

Same with Powell. As Sec. of State, if he really didn’t beleive in the whole WMD’s and invading Iraq he should have said “I resign” and here’s why. That’s what truly honorable public servants do. There are many examples of this throughout history. [/quote]

Williams Jenning Bryant, for example. HOwever, everyone remembers him as the guy in the Scopes monkey trial, not for his principled resignation in protest of Wilson getting us into WWI.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
I don’t like Obama. Can’t cast a vote for him. Don’t like McCain much better.

But it baffles me how anyone can still defend Palin just because she’s down-to-earth and they agree with her social values. She’s terrible. She doesn’t understand any issues. The fact that she sidestepped all the questions in the VP debate and thus didn’t come across looking ridiculous does nothing to change that.

And she’s done a bad job in Alaska.

Wake the fuck up.

“Bad job” is a relative term. While the US congress is sporting an approval rating in the single digits, Palin enjoys an approval rating of 80% or better. I guess maybe she is doing something than the fucking congress isn’t.

She connects with the voters.

To say that she doesn’t understand the issues is pure bullshit. She may not interpret the “issues” the way you want her to, or the way the fucking egg heads in DC want her tois really not her problem.

And to say she didn’t answer ANY of the questions in the debate is just flat wrong. Just an ounce of intellectual honesty would go a long way in your post.

The only reason I was in favor of a McCain presidency (pre-bailout) was because of Palin.

There are tens of millions of me’s out there. Probably enough to swing the election, in my opinion.
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I couldn’t disagree more. She DOESN’T understand the issues. It’s not a matter of ‘interpretation.’ Not sure what world you’re living in.

That was obviously hyperbole about sidestepping the issues. Whether it’s all or many is irrelevant to my point. That’s just a disingenuous attack on your part. You seize on one word. I could’ve just as easily said many. Probably would’ve if I thought about the distinction at all.

The point is she did fine in the debate. But how? She managed to avoid looking ridiculous in the debate by just not answering questions she didn’t understand or have a solid answer for.

As far as swinging voters, I think she’s alienated as many as she’s ingratiated. Maybe she’s invigorated the ‘conservative base’ whatever the hell that is.

What of it? I’m deeply sceptical that very many would’ve actually been willing to stay home and thus aid the Obama campaign no matter who McCain chose as a running-mate or how disgruntled they were with him.

I know 10 people who were pro-McCain who won’t pull the trigger on him anymore because of her. And that’s just people who’ve told me this in passing. By no means have I been ‘taking polls.’ And forget about people like Colin Powell. Plenty of real conservatives are abandoning ship, largely because of her.

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[quote]100meters wrote:
rainjack wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
I don’t like Obama. Can’t cast a vote for him. Don’t like McCain much better.

But it baffles me how anyone can still defend Palin just because she’s down-to-earth and they agree with her social values. She’s terrible. She doesn’t understand any issues. The fact that she sidestepped all the questions in the VP debate and thus didn’t come across looking ridiculous does nothing to change that.

And she’s done a bad job in Alaska.

Wake the fuck up.

“Bad job” is a relative term. While the US congress is sporting an approval rating in the single digits, Palin enjoys an approval rating of 80% or better. I guess maybe she is doing something than the fucking congress isn’t.

She connects with the voters.

To say that she doesn’t understand the issues is pure bullshit. She may not interpret the “issues” the way you want her to, or the way the fucking egg heads in DC want her tois really not her problem.

And to say she didn’t answer ANY of the questions in the debate is just flat wrong. Just an ounce of intellectual honesty would go a long way in your post.

The only reason I was in favor of a McCain presidency (pre-bailout) was because of Palin.

There are tens of millions of me’s out there. Probably enough to swing the election, in my opinion.

Uh, she doesn’t understand the “issues”. She doesn’t “read”. She didn’t know what “pre-conditions” were. She didn’t get that earmarks for “fruit-flys” directly helps her own children.

She can’t remember she wanted a bridge to nowhere. Her own campaign says she doesn’t know anything? WTF are you talking about? If one thing has been demonstrated since she’s been picked, it’s that she doesn’t know really anything.

And as to her popularity, I’d suspect it isn’t 80% anymore in Alaska, and in addition that popularity I suspect is directly related to how much of the wealth she spreads.

Since she’s been Gov., the price of oil has been sky high, and socialists that they are in Alaska, that means more money for the citizens, so much so that in addition to getting a check, they don’t have to pay income tax. I wonder what that does to a governor’s popularity…hmmm…[/quote]

For real. 80% of Alaska’s revenues come from petroleum extraction. As long as all is well on that front, a chimp could be governor and everything else could be in the shitter, and they’d be happy.