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If you think Sarah Palin is an idiot click "Rec" and post this on your wall. (Original Post) Playinghardball Jan 2013 OP
I don't think she's an idiot Flashmann Jan 2013 #1
ditto........... northoftheborder Jan 2013 #2
she is an idiot samsingh Jan 2013 #4
She's a clever idiot. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2013 #10
I have to disagree Flashmann Jan 2013 #14
No, she something more basic than any of those things. Skidmore Jan 2013 #23
Yes I see that Flashmann Jan 2013 #32
Maybe Todd. But that's it. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2013 #40
I suppose I can begrudgingly credit her Flashmann Jan 2013 #46
Agree ewagner Jan 2013 #38
Thank you. Lack of raw intelligence doesn't mean she's not ambitious. Bucky Jan 2013 #68
I thought about it Kalidurga Jan 2013 #3
Yep, Grifterella The Wizard Jan 2013 #5
"Snow Drift Snookie" closeupready Jan 2013 #7
Klondike Kardashian Jeff In Milwaukee Jan 2013 #18
Bible Spice. PeaceNikki Jan 2013 #22
Caribou Barbie GObamaGO Jan 2013 #29
Alaska = Mississippi with Polar Bears Jeff In Milwaukee Jan 2013 #39
lol.... dixiegrrrrl Jan 2013 #55
Tundra Tart calimary Jan 2013 #64
Trailer Park Machiavellette Bucky Jan 2013 #69
Dang! ALL these are GREAT! And they do fit, too! calimary Jan 2013 #73
kind of a sociopathic Minnie Pearl--without the price tag on her hat. yurbud Jan 2013 #37
She's an idiot with a good sense of what resonates closeupready Jan 2013 #6
no, spend your leftover 'suspended'campaign funds on your own books sarah. Thats the republican way. Sunlei Jan 2013 #8
And that winkie-wink is Exhibit A evidencing how closeupready Jan 2013 #9
A picture is worth... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #15
There it is!! closeupready Jan 2013 #16
Courtesy of the DCCC. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #33
DAMMIT! Plucketeer Jan 2013 #21
You Betcha libodem Jan 2013 #11
I only need one thing and that is her entire demeanor, voice Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #12
Don't for a single second that Ineeda Jan 2013 #70
Didn't her 15 minutes expire yet? Moostache Jan 2013 #13
Even Roger Ailes has lost most interest in her, tblue37 Jan 2013 #44
Is it 2009 again? Richardo Jan 2013 #17
Complete Idiot Unknown Beatle Jan 2013 #19
Could not agree more. PurpleEngineer Jan 2013 #20
Sad to say - BUT Laf.La.Dem. Jan 2013 #24
You're darn tootin! R B Garr Jan 2013 #25
a Palin quote... defacto7 Jan 2013 #26
Ironic comment (as so many of hers are) Bainbridge Bear Jan 2013 #72
Just watched Game Change again yesterday thelordofhell Jan 2013 #27
After giving the matter serious consideration ... lpbk2713 Jan 2013 #28
And if you DON'T think she's an idiot... Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #30
What did she do now? Nt alp227 Jan 2013 #31
She also certified the idiot status of... Mike Nelson Jan 2013 #34
What is this "wall" you speak of? Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #35
I think the OP assumes that all or most of us here use Facebook Number23 Jan 2013 #48
She is not only a quitter, but an embarrassment to our country. Jamaal510 Jan 2013 #36
When she was first identified as 2naSalit Jan 2013 #41
I have a wall? Buzz Clik Jan 2013 #42
Not just an idiot, but a quitter relayerbob Jan 2013 #43
When you get right down to it, Palin is nothing more than a pure phony... Playinghardball Jan 2013 #45
So glad to see a post that actually remembers who all of us should be fighting. Number23 Jan 2013 #47
Idjit and a D1ck. Rain Mcloud Jan 2013 #49
Sorry,i meant to Idjette. N/T Rain Mcloud Jan 2013 #50
Why are we giving her any attention? Isn't this what she thrives on? nt Walk away Jan 2013 #51
I wonder if she isn't Borderline, i.e. incapable of being anything but a MANIPULATIVE idiot. patrice Jan 2013 #52
Hey, 2008 called tularetom Jan 2013 #53
^Thread Winner!^ Turborama Jan 2013 #61
I don't have a wall to post it on sad-cafe Jan 2013 #54
I rec'd but I don't have a wall to post to. Please let her go away. AAO Jan 2013 #56
Who? whistler162 Jan 2013 #57
Sarah only has to be smarter than the workinclasszero Jan 2013 #58
I don't think - I KNOW! VPStoltz Jan 2013 #59
Well, okay...she's an idiot.... Doc Holliday Jan 2013 #60
Idiot doesn't come close to describing the moronic hateful disgusting imbicile who is Sarah Palin! DrewFlorida Jan 2013 #62
Rat-like cunning. Hekate Jan 2013 #63
Who? madinmaryland Jan 2013 #65
Everything that's wrong in America tied up in one pretty package. mountain grammy Jan 2013 #66
....... trusty elf Jan 2013 #67
Hilarious Ineeda Jan 2013 #71

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
14. I have to disagree
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:49 PM
Jan 2013

Of course this is merely my opinion.....I think,in every phase of her life,beauty pageant contestant,politician/Governor,author,TV personality/pundit,she's been nothing more than a puppet......The public face of someone else's agendas...

I mean,with the command of language and vocabulary she displays,I just can't buy into the notion of her actually authoring a book....I think,on television,she just mouths words others place in her narrow little mind....I believe with every fiber of my being that,as Governor,she was under the total control of nefarious others,most notably her husband,reTodd,who was himself being paid to be her "handler"....I think if ANYone could be even loosely described as clever,in that family,it would be reTodd....

I'm convinced that had she been left to her own devices,no one would be discussing her on any substantial level....She'd be enjoying the same amount of fame that I do.....None!...

I won't dispute her being a grifter,but she isn't the ring leader,by any stretch...She's every bit the tool of monied interests,that Boy George Bewsh is......

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
23. No, she something more basic than any of those things.
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:36 PM
Jan 2013

She's a con artist. A flim-flammer, a grifter. She chatters herself right through people's wallets and property. As a woman in aanother time, she would have been a courtesan, not well-born but trading on chatter and winking at the right people.

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
32. Yes I see that
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:49 PM
Jan 2013

All of it.....What I don't see is that she has the wit,on her own,with which to pull any of that off..I really believe everything she's done,has been at the orchestration of somebody else...

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,330 posts)
40. Maybe Todd. But that's it.
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 05:09 PM
Jan 2013

Quiting the Governorship, and striking while the wing-nut iron was hot, was a decision that benefited her and her family ONLY. She rung up what? $15-30 million dollars (last I heard it was $15million and that was 3 years ago)?

The luck of having McCain drive a dump truck full of money up to her front door was what put her on the national scene - like you said - as a puppet.

But she was a cunning grifter all on her (and Todd's?) own. The only difference is, without McCain (and HIS handlers) she would still be grifting penny ante $50 dollar a day per deims, construction supplies and tax payer-paid vacations for her kids all on her own.

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
46. I suppose I can begrudgingly credit her
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 06:22 PM
Jan 2013

With the absolute minimum brainpower required to attain penny ante grifter status,mostly on her own....I can reconcile that notion with that of her being an idiot.....

ewagner

(18,964 posts)
38. Agree
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:59 PM
Jan 2013

She has the innate ability to ingratiate herself to an audience by playing on their beliefs.

She has a niche' audience who will not challenge her intellect....(that's the nicest way I can say it)

Bucky

(54,014 posts)
68. Thank you. Lack of raw intelligence doesn't mean she's not ambitious.
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 10:30 AM
Jan 2013

She may have stumbled in to national prominence, but she was always going to excel in some place in life because she was out to win and be the boss of whatever room she ended up in, even if she didn't scruple about what means she used to make it to the front of the line. Ambition doesn't require book-learnin' or even core logical functioning about public policy. But there is a kind of intelligence--people smarts and the ability to tell crowds what they want to hear--that guides her political and career moves. She's no rocket surgeon, but do not ever dismiss her as merely dumb or as Todd's muppet. She may not know algebra, but she knows exactly what she's doing.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
3. I thought about it
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 02:19 PM
Jan 2013

I don't think she is an idiot. I think she is a grifter. On the other hand she might be an idiot and a grifter.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
6. She's an idiot with a good sense of what resonates
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:10 PM
Jan 2013

with Americans today. She's spent a good portion of her life in the public eye - mostly in beauty pageants, losing them - so she knows what buttons to push for each audience, which words to use, over and over and over again.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
9. And that winkie-wink is Exhibit A evidencing how
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:14 PM
Jan 2013

she performs effective circus acts using a script ("Okay, Sarah, page 37, 4th paragraph: this is the part where you deliver a double entendre, smile, and then coquettishly blink your left eye. And stop me if I'm using too many big words.&quot .

Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)
12. I only need one thing and that is her entire demeanor, voice
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:34 PM
Jan 2013

annoys the bejeebus out of me, she may be a real nice person but as soon as she would open her mouth I would lose it.

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
70. Don't for a single second that
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:47 PM
Jan 2013

"...she might be a real nice person..." She's meaner than a junk yard dog. You betcha. I, too, hate her voice and demeanor, but I was/am fascinated by her infallible penchant for word salad. To read a transcript, rather than hear it, is comedy gold.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
13. Didn't her 15 minutes expire yet?
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 03:47 PM
Jan 2013

Seriously, she is not a major player in politics, holds no elective office (or original thoughts) and has no national platform issue to really champion or build from....she is re-heated Macaroni and Cheese - something that should simply be discarded and moved on from rather than ingested...

tblue37

(65,391 posts)
44. Even Roger Ailes has lost most interest in her,
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 06:05 PM
Jan 2013

because instead of following his instructions, she stupidly assumes that she knows what she is doing and can make better tactical decions on her own. He warned her to keep her mouth shut afyer Gabby Giffords was shot, but she had to defy him by making and posting that bizarrre, self-serving video. FOX seems to use her much less than at first--at least it seems so, since I don't see anywhere near the number of articles I used to see about the dumb stuff she spouts on FOX.

(I don't watch FOX, so I only knew what she said when it got reported.)

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
19. Complete Idiot
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:23 PM
Jan 2013

She even named her book 'Going Rogue' from a skit on SNL. Not one independent thought from this dunce.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
26. a Palin quote...
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:39 PM
Jan 2013

Upon hearing a criticism of her vocabulary she answered,

"Well, American is an evolving language."


lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
28. After giving the matter serious consideration ...
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:40 PM
Jan 2013

Last edited Tue Jan 15, 2013, 11:49 PM - Edit history (1)




I conclude that yes, the halfwit half-governor does indeed qualify.










 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
30. And if you DON'T think she's an idiot...
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:43 PM
Jan 2013

...then you're probably not reading this thread, because operating a computer or tablet is way, way too complex a task for you.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
36. She is not only a quitter, but an embarrassment to our country.
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:55 PM
Jan 2013

You know, the GOP has it's share of swindlers. There's Frank Luntz and Bill O'Reilly, for example. I think those two guys are evil, but pretty clever. But people like, say Bachmann and Palin seem to be genuine believers of the things they say. They are gaffe machines.

2naSalit

(86,638 posts)
41. When she was first identified as
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 05:25 PM
Jan 2013

Senator McGoo's running mate, I wrote an essay about why I thought she was selected and what I thought of her alleged qualifications. And I was correct on all counts after only seeing her debut outing. All I saw as far as "qualifications" was her anatomy. I further developed the hypothesis that she and Bachmann were both "placed" in office in their respective states as examples of how women would function in office... inefficiently, subject to flights of fancy when actually attempting to think... very much like what we see playing out on a grander scale with the Teabag society attempting to show how inept the African-American president would be/is by denying him the right of office by refusing to legislate because he did win office. Now that he has done so twice, I speculate that this faction of shills will default on the debt ceiling as punishment for the re-election of the person they despise and would do anything to thwart his legacy of anything but inept and as a failure. Since we voters showed them up, we are going to be punished, mark my words, it's their only train of thought now, you can see it in their eyes and the tone of voice, the smarmy bastids.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
52. I wonder if she isn't Borderline, i.e. incapable of being anything but a MANIPULATIVE idiot.
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 07:14 PM
Jan 2013

Stories about relationships around her background resulting in significant levels of antagonism, especially public relationships, and all of the hopping from one milieu to another, appear to suggest a personality disorder known as Borderline Personality.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
58. Sarah only has to be smarter than the
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 09:24 PM
Jan 2013

idiot teabaggers who worship the ground she walks on.

She is a viciously smart grifter/conman in this way only...taking the rubes who love her to the cleaners.

The whole reich wing entertainment complex is a con to suck millions of dollars out of the pockets of idiots.

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
60. Well, okay...she's an idiot....
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 09:52 PM
Jan 2013

....but she's a wealthy idiotte.

Much as I have loathed her, from the moment she was presented to the American public as a viable option to occupy the Oval Office by a campaign so cynical that it thought it could just present an alternate "candidate with a vagina" and scoop up a shitload of disaffected voters, I have to admit one thing.

She has way more money in the bank than I do.

What this means (if anything), I don't know. As Bill Maher put it, she's so dense that light bends in her vicinity. Shit, I feel dumber just talking about her...so why is she rich while I and so many others are struggling? Does being a whore really pay that well?

I never knew....

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
71. Hilarious
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:55 PM
Jan 2013

I'm sure photo-shopped, but is that a raccoon humping a.....
BEAGLE
in the background????

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