The big difference with Palin... my "aha" moment

[OneGrassRoot]

Why does she bother me so much more than other right-wing Republicans running for the highest office?

She IS a thumper...she is one of them, not just pandering to them as BushCo and now McCain are doing.

She is not a compassionate conservative; she is a religious extremist embodying the hypocrisy and corruption that tends to go along with that crowd, but she is more likely to act on legislation than BushCo, for example.

Then again, money and power are their true God, with the Halliburton's and Enron's their churches.

[madmax]

1. My aha moment

She has never voiced an opinion on equal pay, day care etc. (Forgive me I'm tired) and all the issues Hillary has fought for over her entire public life. Now Caribou Barbie just moves in for the honors without having paid any dues or done any heavy lifting. That really pisses me the fuck off.

Besides the fact that the repugs only picked her based on idealogical appeal to the fundy base.


:mad:

[Bosso 63]

2. Pandora's Box.

What has bothered me about this situation, is the Degree of difference between the right and the left. Thats not to say that there hasn't always been a vast divergence before, just drop into the free republic for a moment if you can stomach it. But this is different. Some of the "true believers" get this glassy look when they talk about Palin that I find pretty creepy. Real power in her hands would make Bush look sane, and I'm starting to wonder if she is not only more than something we bargained for, I'm starting to wonder if she could be something more than McCain bargained for.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Oh, yes, you are so right.

She is indeed a thumper. For a personal perspective from one who knows her, please check Phil Munger's entry at ProgressiveAlaska.com this morning, Palin's Views on the End Times.

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/saradise-lost-chapter-sixten-palins.html

[crickets]

4. ...

Holy crap. Sorry for the bad pun, but there's not much else to say. Saddle up her dinosaur and send her packing. She's scary.

[snooper2]

5. The World is 6000 years old...

Imagine her as President...


You think Bush is bad....maybe he is right, he will be looked upon better in the future :rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Not funny! This freak of nature Palin needs to go! Get rid of her before she gets rid of us all!

[Matariki]

6. Exactly. I want nothing more at the moment to see her career UTTERLY DESTROYED

PERMANENTLY. And let it stand as a lesson to all of them.

I don't trust that she'll just go away because of what a joke she is.

I'm more pissed about this I've been pissed in a long time. And that's saying something after eight years of the crap the bush admin has put this country through.

[depakid]

7. THat's exactly what should happen- and would happen in a sane country

Unfortunately, many of the leading Democrats (including Obama) think it's better to pander to the small but vocal minority of American mullahs, than call them out for what they are in no uncertain terms.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. What bothers me about her is her blatant and unrepentant fringiness.

With her beliefs she has no place in public office, much less as a candidate for vice president.

How this person became mayor is understandable considering how small the town was/is and she was a political unknown. Residents probably figured, hey, how bad can she be? From what I've read she has sent that little town into a debt so large no one could have foreseen it.

How she became governor is a little questionable, but hey, it's a small state--one of the smallest--and she had been planting lies about her fitness for office and resume so how would anyone know what is true and what wasn't when she ran for governor? Of course Alaska may be America's Italy in terms of corruption, so as an outsider how can I know what is considered "normal" politically for them? And maybe they thought she was the better choice for governor compared to the others.

Nonetheless, according to the opposition research she really screwed that small town up with some massive debt. I wonder what they think of her now.

[Mad_Dem_X]

9. She is the anti-Hillary.

She is against everything Hillary stands for, and vice versa.

[Liberal Gramma]

10. She is Bush in a skirt

without his family connections. She's in bed with big oil, she is anti-environment, she is anti-science, she is petty and utterly ruthless. This is a very scary woman.

[Lars39]

11. I want to know how high up the food chain the first dude is, too.

What's he really do and what are they grooming/rewarding him for?

[OneGrassRoot]

12. Yes to everything you guys are saying, and thanks for the link...

above showing just how scary she is.

The thought that there'd be someone worse and more damaging to our country than Bush is UNBELIEVABLE, yet the more I see of her, the more real that seems.

My hope is that Hillary will speak up and slap her in the face as not representing ANYTHING she did, so the women who are more politically independent (those who, sadly, don't research as they should) aren't pulled toward her because she is a woman and a "real" person (whatever that means). I've already encountered a few of those women who, without knowing better, will fall for it.

We need to pay careful, careful attention to the lies spewed tonight. She'll either lie through her teeth, or she'll be a straight-up bible thumper, revealing her true beliefs, trusting that God will get every single fundy vote possible to win the election for them (beyond their stealing ability, that is). If she goes with the latter, my only hope is that she'll say what I know she believes: that Obama is the antichrist and she can't wait for the Rapture to come.

That's what nearly everyone around me believes, so I hope she is honest about it and loses votes from all rational people.

I'm gonna need a lot of wine to get through that though.....