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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Palin snaps at Obama for linking her to the 'anti-intellectual' wing of the GOP
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In an interview with the right-wing Newsmax TV, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) attacked former President Barack Obama for calling her out as part of the Republican Partys anti-intellectual wing.
Its kind of pleasurable to know that Ive been living rent-free in his head for 12 years, said Palin. The movement that he still cannot accept nor understand that movement was all about giving the voiceless a voice, empowering people who are fed up, want accountability in their government, want a smaller, smarter government, things that he just hasnt been able to grasp.
She added that neither party cared for her, or Trump, because they were rogue figures who challenged the establishment.
Obamas book had this to say: Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the modern Republican Party xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks were finding their way to center stage. She had no idea what the hell she was talking about.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/sarah-palin-snaps-at-obama-for-linking-her-to-the-anti-intellectual-wing-of-the-gop/
There's a video link above, but I'm not pasting it, because it's Newsmax.
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malaise
(269,157 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)"I have to say something, so I'll just fire back something snotty that thoroughly proves his point."
raccoon
(31,119 posts)Karadeniz
(22,564 posts)Phoenix61
(17,018 posts)when he was being all nice and polite. I like him even more knowing how snarky he can be.
live love laugh
(13,124 posts)3catwoman3
(24,032 posts)...has been pre-occupied with her at all.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)I'd be willing to bet that it took him about 30 seconds to come up with his description of Mrs. Moose, that representing the sum total of mental energy he had to expend.
Ohiogal
(32,047 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)sakabatou
(42,170 posts)LakeArenal
(28,837 posts)sakabatou
(42,170 posts)tanyev
(42,601 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Good grief!
tanyev
(42,601 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)God, she's an idiot.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)I hear it's good for the Keto diet.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)She's as incurious as George W. Bush. She doesn't read.
Shermann
(7,428 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 14, 2020, 07:06 PM - Edit history (1)
And Trump's favorite book is "The Bible" (or "Bonfire of the Vanities'')
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)PatSeg
(47,573 posts)She got so much attention for so long, she started to believe all the hype. As I read the quote, I could hear that weird sing-songing voice of her's.
Her fifteen minutes was up a long time ago, but she just won't go away.
but she is so intellectually bankrupt she doesn't know the 15 minutes were up eons ago......
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I'm sure those words were beyond her educational level and Obama probably did it on purpose, rather than simply call her a dingbat.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)spanone
(135,862 posts)Different Drummer
(7,641 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Then I see something about her, and think, "Sarah who? Oh yeah. The one who could see Russia from her house." I doubt President Obama thinks much about her either. Maybe when he needs a chuckle.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Well, actually Sarah.....
Miguelito Loveless
(4,470 posts)Q.E.D.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)you're stupid not rogue.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)The extremist right wing has been with us since the KKK. There was an expansion in post war America with the Birchers and evangelicals really pitched since Reagan.
The right has always had a large contingent of fanatic, paranoid extremists that just keep collecting new scapegoats to hate and use to fear monger.
McCain selected her, she rolled over the rock, Obama enraged the racist nutjobs, Trump invited all the freaks out of their holes into the public.
keithbvadu2
(36,887 posts)McCain wanted Lieberman.
The political right wanted Romney.
The religious right wanted Palin.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)The ultimate responsibility for the decision lies with him.
Sneederbunk
(14,298 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)3catwoman3
(24,032 posts)...humankind.
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Chili
(1,725 posts)It'll download next week. Can't wait!
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Chili
(1,725 posts)It's old age! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
lastlib
(23,272 posts)Oh, maybe it was the Queen of Babble-On. Never mind..... ---
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)That she didn't quit in the middle of the interview!
Paladin
(28,271 posts)Shit, they're all anti-intellectual, now. trump took care of that.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,650 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)carpetbagger
(4,391 posts)SunSeeker
(51,664 posts)Me thinks thou protesteth too much, Sarah.
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)and whines like Trump.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,887 posts)Intellectual Sarah who thinks Africa is a country.
George II
(67,782 posts)Old Crow
(2,212 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,675 posts)What an idiot and just because the drones in your party can't figure that out, does not make you smart.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)patphil
(6,204 posts)ancianita
(36,132 posts)She never thought or talked like that. She's just picked up enough book learnin' to use some new lipstick on her piggy faced version of herself.
She'll never get a federal level voice again. She can only carp at individuals while she collects her yearly oil check thanks to AK liberals who made constitutionally sure she could.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)usaf-vet
(6,200 posts)....dumb and dumber.
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)Actually I designate W as the beginning of obvious idiots within the GOPutin party in my lifetime. She may not be the biggest political idiot in their seditious, disgraceful party...because the competition is immense: bachmann, paul, etc, etc.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)How she got an Einstein Visa, I'll never know.
onethatcares
(16,178 posts)bristol, track, trig, taud, geonom,and the rest of the dogs didn't care for her either. But hey, who cares? What did she accomplish except to allegedly get some new window in her house.
she'll be like the female version of Donald Rumsfeld in three more years but she'll still be wearing the cheerleader costume.
marble falls
(57,172 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,853 posts)a thimble, that is if she knew what one was...
hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)Because the rest assessment isn't very flattering!
muntrv
(14,505 posts)czarjak
(11,289 posts)newdayneeded
(1,956 posts)Speaking of Sarah. I think trump will follow her path. Huge following right after election, pretty much irrelevant after 4 years.
volstork
(5,403 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,410 posts)--Sarah Palin, at a motorcycle rally in Washington, D.C., where she rode in on a Harley, May 29, 2011. I guess EX hubby Todd got tired of Sarahs emissions 😷
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)Adults are speaking.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)just when i had forgotten all about her. She is either unintelligent or willfully ignorant. As far as rogue goes, she's like dog that got out of the fence that runs around barking at everyone for no good reason. Kind of like Trump.
JDC
(10,130 posts)es466
(114 posts)And the snarky remark about living "rent free" in someone else's head.... yeah, that's really original.
marmar
(77,088 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,629 posts)And it's very, VERY spacious in there.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Vivienne235729
(3,384 posts)It's about the anti intellectual arm of the GOP. Truth hurts.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)Wypipo.
Darkstar53142
(71 posts)People who are xenophobic, anti-intellectual, paranoid conspiracy theorists, and antipathetic toward Black and brown folks should remain voiceless. They don't deserve a place at the table. Palin and Cheato gave them a voice. That's why they're condemned.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)THING IS you can never really "get" that mentality level without a lobotomy, so in a way she is right.
Understanding why people run around hating others for being "them" is just impossible unless you are a slug that leaves slime wherever you go because it is part of your existential being, you don't know HOW it feels to NEED to spread the hate over everything you touch and make life a little more disgusting for everyone you meet.
PIG WITH LIPSTICK, go away.