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Panda

Well, they voted Bush in TWICE!
Anything can happen in the land of the free.

raycarey

i think most americans would say that the first was an honest mistake, and that the second causes them to feel shame and embarrassment...that they were so easily manipulated by the politics of fear.

Milkman

Here is another, and from Bill O'reilly.

Palin apparently had temper trantrums, over-shopped for clothes, etc.

Some back-biting right now and former staffer for the McCain campaign are speaking out.

As O'reilly says, there should a book coming out.

nidhogg

Yeah, I saw that this morning on Fox. Looks like thats where a large portion of the blame will be placed.

Still, more than a bit annoying that, after weeks of Fox (and O'Reilly) trumpeting her as the best thing since sliced bread, they are going to pillory her for being as dumb as a stump.

Most right thinking people knew that from the very begining. Still, I suppose the larger issue here is that McCain took a huge risk on her that blew up in his face. Risky gambling -not really what you want from a president. America may have escaped a tradgedy.

raycarey

hardly surprising that fox (aka RNC mouth piece) needs someone to throw under the bus after such a humiliating defeat at the polls. and i have little doubt, that after they're done with her, they'll move onto the old man.

sabang

The Huffington Post says it best, Palin was a Pawn:-

Still, so did an even more alarming realization: Sarah Palin wasn't a power broker; she was a pawn. Her selection as VP, a move brokered by campaign manager Steve "The Bullet" Schmidt and allowed through by McCain's flimsy hold on his own campaign, was far worse than a mere cynical "political stunt." It was an act of cultural abuse; an exploitation of Palin's own novice aspirations, and an insult not only to the women whose votes the McCain campaign had hoped to sway, but to the millions of "real" Americans to whom the politically and socially naive Palin was expected to be an object of identification.

The later abject tokenism of Joe the Plumber took this gross manipulation of the working-class to new heights, but the real Freedom Fry fake-out starts with Palin. The GOP leadership plucks from obscurity an ambitious but woefully uninformed, inexperienced small-town mayor and small-state governor, whose narrow-minded, backward views are likely less deliberately sinister than just sadly symptomatic of her insulated upbringing, and splashes her out onto the battlefield of presidential politics with little more than an overpriced Neiman-Marcus wardrobe and a gaggle of shopworn, Salvation Army talking-points. Naturally, she got shot down. (Even if she did finally learn to pronounce "Ahmadinejad.")

Full article- James Rotondi: The Tears Were Real; Palin Was A Pawn

A cynical neo-con populist manoeuvre, that rightfully backfired.

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Butterfly

watch the Faux crowd starting to eat their young,

should be highly entertaining,

panama hat

No, no . . . she is being misrepresented . . . and she reads all the newspapers and magazines . . . and she can see Russia from her bedroom . . . and she is the mother of the baby . . . and she believes that a woman has to carry her incestuous rapist's baby to full term . . . and she needed the $150.000 for a new wardrobe . . . and she knows she is up to the job of Vice President . . . no, she doesn't know what a vice president does . . . and she believes the tax rate in Thailand is 5%
. . . and she doesn't know that her own currency's $2,- bill is legal tender . . . (oh, sorry, mixed up moronic women) . . . and she'll be ready and waitin' and hopin' and wrasslin' and shootin' and skinnin' and flyin' . . .

May the holier-than-thou right wing nutjobs choke on their with-holy-water-sprinkled-moose-burgers

Quayle/Palin 2012 and 2016 and 2020

Jet Gorgon

Actually, she is hitting back, striking out at the press and at two-timing aides. Oh, dear. Very detrimental to herself and the GOP. Tune into CNN.

Butterfly

^ hey Jet, I wouldn't be surprised if you looked exactly like Palin

Jet Gorgon

^ Thank you.

Yep, GOP aides leaking anti-Palin goss.

Raffles

To nip her silly idea's in the bud

In one election the currency of America's politics has been raised worldwide by electing Obama - I doubt the GOP want to make themselves look stupid by having Palin as frontrunner for 2012 - Ther party does has a heart and its not among the new religious right nutters

Palin was a nasty little stupid woman who needs to get back to her small town and hide - those who promoted her should be under a rock with shame

panama hat

^ There is a difference in IQ, though . . . one actually breaks the single digit barrier. Boom-Tish!


Watched probably the same footage as Jet on CNN just now . . . she is doing herself no favours, as Jet mentioned, and the GOP is a mess right now with resignations en masse . . . but the replacements are hard-liners . . . have they not learned?!

attaboy

A bunch of campaign workers pointing the finger at her in order to deflect from the crappy job they did themselves. When they send out their CVs it's got to include "it was her fault!".

I'm not going to apologize for her, but I myself can't be sure if other Latin American countries were added to NAFTA subsequently. But then I'm not running for the VP slot. As far as her getting pissed at the news, who doesn't?

I think the paid campaign staff are trying to take the heat off themselves. They ran a shitty campaign. McCain is too old. His mind is five, six or seven beats too slow so he is too slow to respond off the cuff or outside his planned script. She was the wrong choice. Too provincial.



People voted for Bush the second time around because they had even less confidence in Kerry. Kerry was a complete dud. He would bow to his wife before television cameras. That sort of thing doesn't instill confidence amongst the American electorate. I'm sorry. It doesn't.

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Norton

Exactly. Rats running from a sinking ship. The same rats that came up with the brilliant idea of thrusting her on the national stage long before she was ready for it.

AntRobertson

You're probably right but frankly it's hard to imagine her ever being ready for it.

attaboy

Yep, people are looking for work now that the paid campaign gig is over. If they decide to stay in the Washington DC loop, they will have to suck up to the victors in order to gain employment.

Travelmate

Well the funny thing is. Americans are speaking of her becoming the next President.

AntRobertson

^Ok, that's just sad!

Mr Earl

Palin wasn't a major factor in the defeat. The economic meltdown and the lame Republican/McCain response to it killed them.


Only the morons are still blabering on about baby seals, wolves, clothes, and where africa is.