The Wilding of Sarah Palin

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Well, Susan Collins also voted against harsher punishments for drug users and amending the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage. She’s a member of Republicans for Environmental Protection. She broke with her party to confirm Sonia Sotomayor. She’s been seeking a comprehensive energy bill.

On the economic side, she voted for the stimulus.

It’s not abortion alone. She has a more moderate record in general.[/quote]

LOL. Ok.

You’re not disproving my point, but feel free to go on defending Collins’ moderacy all you want.

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[quote]snoopabu3 wrote:
I didn’t hear the outrage of ostensibly non-racist conservatives when Obama was being portrayed as Curious George. [/quote]
I missed this one. do you have a link.

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[quote]dhickey wrote:
snoopabu3 wrote:
I didn’t hear the outrage of ostensibly non-racist conservatives when Obama was being portrayed as Curious George.
I missed this one. do you have a link.

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[quote]AlisaV wrote:

If she makes me angry, then yes, it’s because she’s a social conservative, a fairly radical one. I don’t like that wing of the Republican Party. [/quote]

Not only this, but many of us think she was also trotted out as a gimmick to not only appeal to the radical social conservative, but women in general.

Whoever vetted her thought that women would vote for McCain/Palin simply because Palin is female.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
WolBarret wrote:
AmericanGirl wrote:
How about those women who can bake delicious pies and have a successful career? Or the ones who can trap shoot and also nurture her children? Or a combo of all of the above?

There’s not too many of those in the public eye. And the ones who are, are overshadowed by the single women with great careers and no family.

There’s a few out there. For instance I know of this one woman who:

Fishes

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Hunts

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Shoots

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Cooks

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Is a wife and mother of five

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Was a governor

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And a Vice Presidential candidate of a major party

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And successful author

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And is pretty and stay in shape

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BUT YET is still disliked, hated and despised by many on this thread and elsewhere. Yeah, the woman who has done it all but is still hated by liberals. Still hated by feminists. I have to think this has a whole lot more to do with the haterz than it does the subject of the hate. Correct me where I’m wrong, O Learned Ones.

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They will claim it’s because she is a nitwit. While I share this opinion, she is no more a nitwit then Pelosi and not even close to M Waters. We don’t see the same attacks against them.

Both sides have their attack machines. The right has to be careful because the public is just waiting for evidence of racism or sexism. The left does not have this burden so they can attack a bit more indiscriminately.

None of this is all that shocking to me. You do what you know you can get away with. If the right could get away with calling Clinton a ball busting cunt, they would. If they could call Frank a slobbering cock sucker, they would. If they could campaign against Obama in black face, they probably would.

The attacks can be pretty vicious, but what concerns me the most is not the attacks. It’s that one side can get away with it and one cannot. My guess is that if both sides could attack at will with little political repercussion, they would probably end up policing themselves out of fear of retaliation just as brutal. Instead the left has near free reign on these types of attacks.

The article that started this thread is very clever. I certainly couldn’t put together something as clever. Insightful…not really.

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[quote]Christine wrote:
dhickey wrote:
snoopabu3 wrote:
I didn’t hear the outrage of ostensibly non-racist conservatives when Obama was being portrayed as Curious George.
I missed this one. do you have a link.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403613.html [/quote]

Now that’s funny. It would have been better with his face superimposed. He does look like curious george. The hairline and the ears.

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[quote]Christine wrote:
Whoever vetted her thought that women would vote for McCain/Palin simply because Palin is female.[/quote]

And if this is true, which I believe it is, then it sure makes a larger statement about the values with regards to women than the media sexism.

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[quote]debraD wrote:
Christine wrote:
Whoever vetted her thought that women would vote for McCain/Palin simply because Palin is female.

And if this is true, which I believe it is, then it sure makes a larger statement about the values with regards to women than the media sexism.[/quote]

So it couldn’t be because of her energy policies? Or because maybe she is an intelligent person? Look what she did to the health care debate.

Nah, it just has to be because she is a female.

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I want a wife like Palin.

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[quote]borrek wrote:
I don’t hate the gun shooting, successful woman, nurturing mother Palin. I hate the sound-byte machine, product of her handlers, wolf in sheep’s clothing attack on my character as unamerican for daring to disagree Sarah Palin.

I think Sarah Palin would have been the blockbuster McCain was looking for had she toned down that bullshit “[b]I[/b] represent the ‘real America’” shtick. [/quote]

I was too late to reply, but this sums up everything for me.

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[quote]debraD wrote:
And really I don’t think that the fact that a woman fishes or shoots either makes her a role model for feminists everywhere or that it is relevant to her politics. Of course all those things might seem a bit more impressive if your base expectation of women is already low because really they only put her at the same level as any male politician except she gave birth, something the majority of women do. [/quote]

I don’t see what makes her a role model for feminists either - she’s fecund, not a lesbian, not obese, and pretty. Of course the majority of liberal women, especially in the press, will hate her. Look at the horsey-faces of the most strident Palin-haters - Palin just represents an opportunity for these women to indulge their petty jealousies.

Her intellect has been criticized. Frankly, I find nothing impressive about it, but I find the intellects of those making the criticism far less impressive, especially on this thread.

I’m hoping this is a conscious allusion to Biden’s statement about Obama before the election. He made almost this exact remark.

The whole idea behind abortion was lowering the black birthrate. During the 60s, it morphed into a “right” associated with promiscuity without consequences, which is why liberal men support it.

It has facilitated a “no-strings” soft polygamy right along with the divorce laws. Now women are finding that men don’t want to get married and that they have to work a lot more.

The idea of feminism itself is a joke.

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[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:

Why don’t you provide us with some instances from your no-doubt-lengthy (else you would not have written the above, correct?) list of examples of the McCain campaign, the media, or major conservative outlets of any sort attacking Obama for being black?[/quote]

Why don’t you provide us with a list of examples of the Obama campaign, the media, or major liberal outlets of any sort attacking Palin for being a woman?

(long silence)

I hope the media and the liberal public shows Sarah Palin the same polite consideration that Hillary Clinton gets. Maybe somebody will start a group for Palin such as “C.U.N.T.” like wingnuts did for Hillary Clinton. You could fill a book with examples of the right focusing on what a “bitch” Hillary is… not exactly policy-based criticism, is it.

Pot, meet kettle.

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Hopefully she will build up a huge war chest for the 2012 presidential campaign. Lets make sure she’s a major player.

Please give generously!

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[quote]K2000 wrote:
Bill Roberts wrote:

Why don’t you provide us with some instances from your no-doubt-lengthy (else you would not have written the above, correct?) list of examples of the McCain campaign, the media, or major conservative outlets of any sort attacking Obama for being black?

Why don’t you provide us with a list of examples of the Obama campaign, the media, or major liberal outlets of any sort attacking Palin for being a woman?

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http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-75824

This is from the editorial that you will no doubt ignore. This speech was just more of the same thing over and over, it answered no questions and it leaves me believing that she is nothing, but the GOP playtime Barbie doll(aka the blow up doll).

Its a shame we won’t be seeing you in this thread anymore.

Edit*
Before you say, its a user submitted editorial, if anything like that was ever posted on a real news site(FOX) it would have never been posted. CNN not only posted it but kept it around.

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That website appears to have user-generated content for CNN watchers. It would be like saying that TC Luoma has Libertarian views because you post on his website.

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[quote]K2000 wrote:
That website appears to have user-generated content for CNN watchers. It would be like saying that TC Luoma has Libertarian views because you post on his website.[/quote]

CNN is responsible for what is posted on its site. You don’t see stuff like that on fox. Take a look at newsweek. Where they took a picture off of a running magazine Palin did and used it as a front cover.

Face it the left media is trying to make her out as a dumb barbie doll. Only fringe elements like yourself refuse to see it.

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[quote]John S. wrote:
Edit*
Before you say, its a user submitted editorial, if anything like that was ever posted on a real news site(FOX) it would have never been posted. CNN not only posted it but kept it around.[/quote]

Please don’t make me find offensive comments on the Fox News website. Your argument is stupid, but what did I expect?

Yeah, Sarah Palin really got a raw deal because she’s a woman. Palin being a woman wasn’t one of her few interesting qualities, it was used against her.

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