"She's a demagogue! She's ignorant. She's a flake!"
I could not have said it better myself.
How does Pat Buchanan shave his face in the morning without wanting to cut his own throat? If I had to go on television now to defend Sarah Palin I would leave the studio, climb out onto the balcony of my hotel room, and swan dive onto the New York streets below.
I almost feel sorry for these people. And that includes the websites that are still demonstrating fealty to her after she essentially abandoned them, after convincing them to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for her.
Come on people! Buy a clue here!
Many are as profoundly ignorant as Palin herself, that's the real explanation for the psychosis of blind faith Palin followers.
ReplyDeleteCarl Bernstein thank you for calling a spade a spade...
ReplyDeleteMaybe Carl will be interested in doing an investigative report on Babygate or Housegate... we can hope can't we.
Carl team up with Woodward and do it please!!!
Proof that she lied about the baby would sink her like a rock!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGryphen,
ReplyDeleteIt is vital that you continue to explore why people buy into the Palin fantasy. How she rose to prominence and why she is still tolerated is going to be a key question in the next few national elections. Political backers are looking at how some were nearly successful in putting a puppet within a heartbeat of the oval offices The politicians WANT a puppet to soothe the masses and let the backroom run/exploit the country.
The psychology of her supports is even more important the mind (?) of Palin.
Just another example of how Pat Buchanan doesn't let the facts get in the way of his opinions.
ReplyDeleteIf I were at university taking an Abnormal Psychology class, this whole phenomenon would make a dynamite thesis. These people are manifesting abnormal thought-patterns and behaviors all across the board.
ReplyDeletePeople buy into her "persona" because people, average ordinary everyday people want to believe that she is "just like them" and they don't want to believe she is just another politician.
ReplyDeleteShe sells "folksy" very well. She feeds into that part of "average joes" who want to think that they have what it takes to "take on the big guys", or think that they can do a better job than "those politicians".
She is selling what they want to buy. She is like a snake oil salesman that will sell you whatever it is you think you need.
The hard core republicans who stick by her, like the fact that she is pretty and made the rise to "Governor". She supports what die-hard right of right republicans feel. Puritanical Family Values, Deep-rooted Christian Faith, Conservative Principles, and the fact that she is a mother of a special needs child adds to their devotion to her because they can claim rights to that "anti-choice" agenda within her as well.
She embodies everything they want the party to be and isn't. What they fail to see is the "man behind the curtain". She isn't knowledgeable. She "doesn't know what she doesn't know" and they don't want to know what she doesn't know because that would spoil the image of her they have concocted in their head.
Look at the republicans who originally supported her and are now backing away...they figured it out.
Anyone who still believes in her abilities is just refusing to admit she isn't the bag of goods she was selling, and don't want to believe that they bought into a sham.
Didn't you love it when Bernstein walked right up to edge of calling McCain a traitor?
ReplyDeleteThe truth is that McCain is not a hero - he IS a traitor.
Is Buchanan paid to be contrary? On Chris Matthews he mentions the baby gate rumor. What's up with him?
Palin is a fantasy, a Symbol to her base and the media I guess, of all good American things like motherhood (like the Italians don't revere mothers!) Guns, hunting, the whole pioneer in the wilds of Alaska thing....but the way to counter this with normal people, is to talk about Palin and the treasonous, Real American thing she does.
ReplyDeleteAll Americans are real Americans but she disses 75% of the country when she spews this crap.
the Real Americans vs everyone else thing disqualifies her for national office.
Thank you Carl Bernstein! The video cut off after Pat B. praises SP for bringing some life to McCain's campaign for two weeks. Two weeks - then what? Then most of America started to find out more about SP, and it was not pretty, that's what. If "middle America" had stayed infatuated with her, the election results would have been different.
ReplyDeletePeople continue to watch her, because who knows what crazy thing she will do or say next? She is the Anna Nicole Smith of politics, "sexy", famous, rich (or soon will be) and is carrying a bag of unresolved psychosis in each hand.
P.S. I doubt "Baby-gate" will erode her base. They will find a way to make insurance fraud, and hospital hanky-panky seem sacrificial instead of a weird 1950's response to an unplanned pregnancy.
It what will stick is something to do with money, or unlawful benefit, like House-gate or Trust-gate. (Or some secret she has quit office to hide.)
Has anyone tracked down where Palin is Tweeting from now?
ReplyDeleteOr have all the evil librulist tweeter enemas gone into Twitter and grabbed up all the Palin-ish Twitter names, and she can't find one that describes her, not already taken?
Mean ol' pathetic anonymous tweeters! Shame on you?
Its a good thing that I was reared properly because what wants to creep into my heart is hate for Pat Buchanan. My upbringing is the only thing standing between my brain and that emotion. I can hear my dearly departed parents' admonishing me to not hate anyone. But Pat and his friends just push all of my buttons.
ReplyDeleteDitto to Anon 8:22. With my last breath I would swear that that was what the GWB presidency was all about. Nuf said....
ReplyDeleteO/T: Celtic Diva just got the post up from Lazar...
ReplyDeleteSeems like the official AK site has been scrubbed of all her Quitteriness's tweets and bleeps and threats etc...
It is not just the official AK site that got scrubbed - google doesn't have anything anymore either!!! There are two site addresses that come up - and when you click on them, an almost blank page of Sean Parnell comes up.
ReplyDeleteCheck out http://omfgalaska.blogspot.com for more!
I don't know why someone in Alaska doesn't file an ethics complaint about babygate. It is a fraud commited against the Alaskan people. It will have to be investigated. Palin will have to provide proof to the ethics panel. You still can file. Whether it is dismissed or not, it will get news. You must make the news, the news is not just going to happen.
ReplyDeleteSo are there any takers, any Alaskan willing to put his name to an ethics complaint about babygate? Any Alaskan ready for this to be over? You all believe it, so file it. It will cost you nothing.
Lazar's post on OMFGAlaska is a must read!! This is beyond outrageous. So much for wimpy Parnell. I knew he was a loser. We cannot let this go!
ReplyDeleteI heartily agree with 8:22. George Bush and Sarah Palin are goofy magician tricks to make us focus on them instead of what's going on. Oh, please not another administration like that.
ReplyDeleteLynn
Is c4p allowing intelligent discussing and opposing viewpoints? If so, this is way off their previous policy.
ReplyDeleteOn July 8th, two posters at c4p are having an intelligent discussion!
They are respectful to each other, even though they have differing viewpoints. The posters are "Bill in Baltimore" and "Postergirl." Because "Postergirl" provides food for thought (again, in a very respectful and intelligent way), Narciso (a regular poster) finally steps in and all but demands that the two cease the discussion. They agree to do so, but the comments up to that point are well worth the read. I NEVER thought I would see this type of discourse in the sea of pee. I do not check there often, so I missed this discussion 3 weeks ago. Although the OP is about the
"Trig Truthers," the posters delve way off topic (in an educational way).
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/definitive-smackdown-of-trig-truther-in.html
That c4p brought up the birth story at all is a shocking event in itself.
Gryphen, are you still working on your story? I agree with Anon at 8:22 am. All the bad needs to come out to prevent this woman from getting close to the presidency again.
ReplyDeletePat Buchanan, Bill Kristol, Roick Lowrey, Jonah Goldberg and their ilk aren't blindly following Sarah. They are knowingly supporting Sarah and promulgating a fraud on the US.
ReplyDeleteSomething that was said in the video reminded me of one thing we were talking about in Alaska while working to get Begich eleceted. People here often do not know the issues. When we would try to engage them in a conversation they often did not know what we were talking about. Yet, they display this arrogance that they are somehow superior because they just vote for whoever their party tells them to vote for. We talked about how we might as well just put Rs and Ds on the ballots and leave off the names because they just looked for an R and voted for that candidate. Bringing up a valid point never worked on them. They were like pod people. I knocked on a lot of doors and it was creepy to say the least.
ReplyDeleteI watched The Ed Show, Alaska Democratic Party Patti Higgins said they have requested all of Palin's emails under the FOIA. The law says 10 business days, it was 8 months in April. The price for the emails given was $450,000 and climbing. She said a guy in California got a few emails that were heavily redacted and some looked like there were redone. She thinks something is going on, hiding something? It was her understanding that 4 attorneys were working on the emails, not the Blackberry ones. She estimated 5 hours per email.
ReplyDeleteCarl is one succinct dude
ReplyDeleteI love it
"She's a demagogue! She's ignorant. She's a flake!"
sry if this is OT
Any wagers on how long she will last in rehab?
wtf went down with Kris Cole and Chris Matthew?
who had no balls for Hardball?
I don't miss the tweets at all. I am totally loving her vacuous heinie vacating.
The look on Bernstein's face when they cut back to him while Pat is defending her is great. He looks simply incredulous.
ReplyDeleteRick Horowitz has the drop dead funniest spoof on a Sarah speech I have read. It's over on Huff. Can you post it here?
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