Like Bush Derangement syndrome, Obama the Messiah, and of course Obama Derangement syndrome, mass hysteria over Sarah Palin is again sweeping across the nation like waves from the rising seas of global warming.
I am not impressed by Palin, though in fairness I have been too busy in my job search to have seen much coverage of her Tea Party appearance. However, there seems to be a lot of excitement over her use of crib notes in the palm of her hand during her speech. See, Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Media Matters, Politico, and many many more.
Dear liberals / Democrats, this anti-Palin derangement; this obsession is certainly a form of mass hysteria and if you keep it up you are going to help put her into a position of power, perhaps the presidency (see Democrats derangement over Bush, 2004 and Republican derangement over Obama, 2008) in 2012 or 2016.
Dear conservatives / Republicans, if you don’t find a leader that will focus on free markets, tax reform, and keeping government out of people’s lives you’re going to be running Palin in 2012 or 2016. Do you really think the party will ever recover from that?
Get a clue on what’s important.
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Palin may or may not be ready for the presidency… however, she is light years ahead of the current occupant of the office, and has the character and temperament to be a fine leader…With good values and an old-fashioned work ethic, she has 90% of all she needs to be a successful President.
Any substantive criticism of Palin shines even more light on the paper thin resume of Obama. And as the recession continues deeper, all his grand schemes are proving enpty, unpopular and expensive.
Palin makes the Left jealous because while she is attractive, she has a supportive, hard-working husband and well mannered children, who all work together in a tight unit..
Her pro-life/pro family stance makes her a target for these demented jealous trolls…
Sarah’s strengths scare the left because they shift focus to the great weakness of the current office holder. A true empty suit with bad big government ideas and a bigger ego…
I have plenty of reasons not to like Ms. Palin based on her credentials and her positions. She is almost certainly better informed than she appeared to be in the campaign, but those are the breaks–she should have made a better impression. The fact is that she’s likable to the Conservatives who are having a hard time finding a family-values advocate who isn’t a hypocrite, and a small-government champion who doesn’t seem grumpy and old. I disagree with her positions, since I’m pro-choice, pro gay-marriage (I’m assume that’s anti-family to you), and I’d like to end corporate welfare before gutting our social programs. And Work ethic? How about finishing her term as governor, not getting caught with notes in her hand (because she can’t use a teleprompter after giving Obama so much grief), and not manufacturing outrage to get into the spotlight but instead developing cogent positions and defending them?
I have to laugh when I read that the Left is jealous of Palin because she has a bunch of “well-mannered children” who all work together. Did you mean “except for the teenage daughter who got knocked up by a high-school dropout who then trashed Palin in numerous interviews and did a centerfold for Playgirl?” I don’t like run-on sentences, so I didn’t include the fact that Levi’s mother was recently arrested for drug dealing.
Yes, I am sure every Democrat who is a parent is envious of a mother whose daughter gets pregnant at 17 by a jerk who then walks out on her. Isn’t that what every parent wants for his or her child?
Normally I don’t think that a politician’s kid should be a target for the opposition. Unless the politician uses the kid as a political prop in her campaign, the way Palin did. I’m not sure why Palin thought it necessary to fly Levi to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis and parade him in front of the media, but when she did that she and her supporters gave up any claim to privacy in this matter.
Paul
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
Like you say, minor children should be excluded from the political discussion of their parents no matter how the pol parents try to use them.
I will always like Sarah Palin because she agrees with me on every issue.
The fact that an offspring has a minor crisis in her life, does not dissuade me from that opinion, but if she chose to end the pregnancy at the local PlannedParenthood death center, I would run the other way from her.
“Like you say, minor children should be excluded from the political discussion of their parents no matter how the pol parents try to use them.”
That is NOT what I said. Please don’t lie.
I said that when politicians use their children as political props, as Palin did, they and their supporters lose the right to demand privacy on the kids’ behalf. It reminds me of the time Cheney yelled at Wolf Blitzer for bringing up his lesbian daughter’s pregnancy – after Cheney’s office had put out a press release on it.
A teenage pregnancy is far from a “minor crisis,” since it changes at least two human lives forever. I don’t know that it says anything about Palin – except that if she thinks teaching kids abstinence works, then her own experience shows she is wrong.
What does say something about Palin is the recent revelation that this opponent of excessive government spending demanded that Alaska spend $3500 to do electrical work in the governor’s mansion so that her personal tanning bed could be used there. It says that like many of her ilk she is a hypocrite.
I agree with Warren. I don’t care if Palin is a hypocrite, liar and money-grubbing, self-promoting fraud, as we all know she is. I still support her because she supports all the correct conservative positions her handlers tell her to. We don’t need a leader in this country, what we need is a spokesmodel, and Palin fits the bill!
Warren- Nice prose, but where are the facts…it is all fluff, and could easily be stated as the following:
Obama may or may not be ready for the presidency… however, he is light years ahead of the previous occupant of the office, and has the character and temperament to be a fine leader…With good values and an old-fashioned work ethic, he has 90% of all he needs to be a successful President.
Any substantive criticism of Obama shines even more light on the paper thin resume of Bush. And as the recession continues deeper, all his grand schemes are proving empty, unpopular and expensive.
Obama makes the Right jealous because while he is attractive, he has a supportive, hard-working wife and well mannered children, who all work together in a tight unit..
His pro-choice/pro family stance makes him a target for these demented jealous trolls…
Baracks’s strengths scare the right because they shift focus to the great weakness of the previous office holder, a true empty suit with bad big government ideas and a bigger ego…
Enough with the chest thumping. We all know that we can keep the spin going until everyone vomits. How about we stop, and fix whats wrong….the things we can agree on…and then once we have it almost perfect, we can worry about the BS that congress seems to spend so much time worrying about. This includes abortion, steroids in baseball, and bills chastising each other for a misturned phrase.
You’ve really got to get over Jorge Bush…He is not the President any longer..Obamster has been in office for a year now. From what I can see, he is clueless about job creation and stabilizing the private sector…
When he stops with all the nonsense, HealthCare, Cap/Trade, and more taxes on EVERYONE, the economy will turn in the right direction….but first he has to admit he’s lost his way, before I can help him in any substantive way……Until then, I hope you like being poor…
Oh and by the by, The Cut and Paste job on what I wrote overlooks the fact that in Obama’s case, nothing is true except that he has a nice family….All else is a figment of your MSLSD addled imagination….IMO…
We can “get over” George W. Bush as soon as we manage to pay off the huge $1.5 trillion deficit he left Obama. If you have any ideas about the programs you would like to cut in order to do that, tell us all about them. Until that debt is paid, and the two wars he started are resolved, Bush will always be with us. I know the Right would like to pretend that the effects of everything he did vanished the moment he left Washington, but you know that isn’t the truth and so do the rest of us. Reagan complained about the economic problems he inherited from Carter for years after he got in and the Right did not seem to think that was inappropriate. As with so many other things, it’s only bad when Democrats do it, right?
Paul
I could be wrong, but I believe Mr O and many Dims voted for the TARP program and bail-outs initiated Fall’08..It seems to be a bi-partisan clusterf**k..
And Mr O is continuing down the same irresponsible path…But Nov ’10 will be here before you know it…
You are indeed wrong if you’re saying that TARP is the cause of the deficit. Much of the money given to banks under TARP has already been paid back. The principal cause of the deficit is exactly as Obama described during his SOTU address: Bush’s tax cuts, two wars paid for by borrowing rather than taxes, and a new Medicare entitlement created without additional revenue to pay for it. Are you saying we should pretend those things never happened? Why on earth should we do that?
As for November, what do you imagine is going to change? The Dems are opposed by – guess who? – the same people who promised less spending and, when they had control of Congress and the WH, increased spending instead. Why do you think we should believe Republicans this time when they didn’t tell the truth on this issue the last time?
Paul
Thanks for your thoughtful reply…
Don’t believe everything you read on the daily KOS…You wouldn’t appreciated Palin no matter what she does. Unfortunately, she has no power any more. Only the power the Left gives her thru their incessant whining..
Warren, You’re quite welcome. You’d be even more welcome if you would tell the truth. For example, Palin has no power any more because she quit her governorship in order to make money. As governor she had the opportunity to show how her principles could make people’s lives better, but she CHOSE NOT TO use it. Is that true, or am I making it up? Well?
As regards November, we seem to have a choice between Dems, who are pretty clear about wanting more spending and bigger government, on the one hand, and Reps, who claim they are for the opposite but who have lied about that in the past, on the other hand. Again, am I making any of that up? I’ve heard Glenn Beck say pretty much the same thing.
Shawn
I like the civility you and Warren are displaying, but honestly Shawn, we (me and hubby) both voted for Barak, thought he would really be different. He hasn’t been and it’s disappointing to say the least.
He seems befuddled about what to do to stop the job loss freight train.
He said he was a centrist but I see none of the bipartisanship
he said he would bring to the table in order to make the the Congressional HealthCare bill work for the Country.
Plus , he has a huge majority in the House and HAD a super majority in the Senate.
What stopped them? It wasn’t the Party of NO, who have since, become the Party of HELL NO…
It was Mr O and Congress’ inability to do the health care fix in the open with transparency. Not to mention, the Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu pay-offs.
Major blunders all around.
I am disappointed in our historic first black President, who has so far shown himself to be not much more then an inexperienced smiling lightweight.
But luckily he has 3 more years to try and straighten things out.
I’m with you, Juno. It’s like the Clinton administration all over again, except it’s even more painfult to watch–like watching a car crash in slow motion. Obama inherited big problems, to be sure, but his own party deserted him on his major initiatives. On the other hand, it’s his fault for not putting up his own healthcare bill that he could have sold, rather than punting to Congress. He’ll have cover after 2010 to move to the center, and maybe he can be as good a president as Clinton (Please no Monica Lewinsky-type troubles in the second term!)–reduce the deficit and maybe get us out of these wars.
Lynn
Good assessment of the political minefield Obama finds himself in. He seems to me to be very ideologically driven, so he cannot change course and do what the Republicans are suggesting. That would be a sure admission of his perceived ineptitude. Bill Clinton he is not..
So with this bad economy, that’s getting worse, Mr O is in a box. Can’t change course and he can’t do the things he wants to do to help the poor, downtrodden and the unions. But he seems to be very tight with Jamie Dimon, perhaps Jamie can give him some advice.
It’s a real shame.