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Flashmann
(2,140 posts)I KNOW it!!!......
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)samsingh
(17,599 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Flashmann
(2,140 posts)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)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)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)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)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.....
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)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)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.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)of the Tundra or Snow Drift Snookie.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)There are so many...
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)GObamaGO
(665 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)My apologies to the State of Mississippi.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)really shouldn't laff, but that WAS funny.
calimary
(81,298 posts)Bucky
(54,014 posts)calimary
(81,298 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)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.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)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." .
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)I was trying to eat my lunch!
libodem
(19,288 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)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)"...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)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)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.)
Richardo
(38,391 posts)What exhumed this particular subject?
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)She even named her book 'Going Rogue' from a skit on SNL. Not one independent thought from this dunce.
PurpleEngineer
(10 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)The people that voted for her are the real idiots!
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)Also.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Upon hearing a criticism of her vocabulary she answered,
"Well, American is an evolving language."
Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)in that caribou Barbie doesn't believe in evolution.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Yeah, she's an idiot.........
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)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)...then you're probably not reading this thread, because operating a computer or tablet is way, way too complex a task for you.
alp227
(32,026 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,958 posts)...John McCain.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)I think that's where the "walls" are.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)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)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.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)Oh and Rec.
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)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.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)and they want their post back.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)I hate being told to rec, as well.
sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)but I do think she is an idiot.
AAO
(3,300 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)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.
VPStoltz
(1,295 posts)Doc Holliday
(719 posts)....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....
DrewFlorida
(1,096 posts)Hekate
(90,708 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)trusty elf
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Ineeda
(3,626 posts)I'm sure photo-shopped, but is that a raccoon humping a.....
BEAGLE
in the background????