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Why Liberals Love to Hate Palin

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Posted on Sep 16, 2008
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Sarah Palin has energized the Republican base, but she’s also helped Barack Obama raise millions. Political insider Taegan Goddard uses a viral e-mail to explain why the moose hunter makes liberals nuts.


Political Insider:

If you want to know why Gov. Sarah Palin drives liberal Democrats crazy—and is helping Sen. Barack Obama raise money at a record pace—here’s an excerpt from an viral email making its way around the country:

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”

Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

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By Virginia777, September 17, 2008 at 12:05 pm #

I don’

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By Hulk2008, September 17, 2008 at 11:59 am #
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Anybody notice that Palin’s hair style is a lot like those Texas polygamist “babes” ?  Is this some kind of “Stepford Style” ?  I don’t recall any of them wearing designer glasses or having a home tanning bed, though.

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By xyzaffair, September 17, 2008 at 11:47 am #
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I lived in Anchorage for a few months in 1994 while working with the Pipeline.  Anchorage has a cosmopolitan feel, with a symphony and good Thai and Indian restaurants.  I am from Los Angeles, so I felt as if I was in exile while living in Valdez but loved going to Anchorage.  Its population is 4% Afro American, which is small, but they do hold an annual Juneteenth celebration, commemorating the arrival of news of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas.  I can’t speak much about Wasilla, but I got the impression that it and towns like it (Eagle River, etc.) are sort of lily-white.  I am guessing Governor Palin’s reduction of funding for the Wasilla museum had something to do with lack of interest in or resentment of its emphasis on native culture and history.

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By Mac Sadler, September 17, 2008 at 11:45 am #
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Liberals love to love you if you: Sport a rat-gnawed hair-do over orange pantsuits, clap with your forearms while leering a power-mad grimace, and have a daughter employed by a hedge fund. It helps to have a serial adulterer husband who points his finger while profusely lying, and trashing his ex-paramours. Now that’s real feminism. Sail on, oh ship of state.

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By Leefeller, September 17, 2008 at 10:36 am #

Happy Pam,

You seem in a good mood today I see.

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By thebeerdoctor, September 17, 2008 at 9:05 am #

On the link below, just click on Sarah Palin Picture Gallery.

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By thebeerdoctor, September 17, 2008 at 9:02 am #

re: Cyrena

Thanks for the comment. Here is the link about glasses:
http://www.popcrunch.com/sarah-palin-gallery/

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By hippy pam, September 17, 2008 at 8:32 am #

If “moose turd” gets in to POWER….we will ALL NEED TO WATCH WHERE WE WALK…Her “snotty” attitude and “bitchy vindicative ways” will be piled EVERY WHERE and DOOM ON YOU IF YOU “CROSS” her “SITES”....She will PUT ALL DISSENTION TO HER “LAW” under the gun…..WE WILL BECOME THE WOLF IN HER SITES…...

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By cyrena, September 17, 2008 at 4:53 am #

Beerdoctor,

Thanks for the link and the update on Sarah’s eyesight in childhood. I don’t know why the Alaskan that posted here made the claim that she didn’t need them, but maybe she had vision correction surgery between childhood and now? Where did you see childhood photos of her anyway? (never mind…doesn’t matter)

Yeah, yeah, I know…that’s beside the point as well. Just thought I’d toss it in there for goof-off purposes.

I agree that there’s no reason to hate the woman. Or, let me rephrase that…there’s no reason for ME to hate her, and that probably holds true for anyone else outside of Alaska. Now I have a feeling that there are probably some folks in Alaska that have reason to hate her, but so far, she’s not been in a position to do similar damage to the rest of us.

Now of course if too many misguided and moronic citizens vote for them, that could change.

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By thebeerdoctor, September 17, 2008 at 3:30 am #

Note: the link below is the working link for my comment. Sorry for the typo.

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By thebeerdoctor, September 17, 2008 at 3:27 am #

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/17/poles.wildlife

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By thebeerdoctor, September 17, 2008 at 3:18 am #

All of this is besides the point. There is no reason to hate this goofy woman. She is just a misguided soul who has prospered by embracing her stupidity. As for the glasses? Pictures I have seen of her as a child show her wearing them. But the best reason I can think of to never ever vote for her is this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sept/17/poles.wildlife

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By cyrena, September 17, 2008 at 1:56 am #

Leefeller,

It’s true about Cheney’s bangs not being the issue when he fired up his buddy in the face. But, I’m with Dr. Knowitall, I think Sarah’s bangs are too long.

Now I hadn’t even considered the hairpiece. (I had one in the 60’s as well, but I only wore it twice…too heavy…don’t even know why I had it. My own hair was already heavy enough, especially when it was wet…took forever to dry it). Anyway, I hadn’t given much thought to Sarah’s hair, because it just looks the same as all the hair back in the day.

But…I was mesmerized by the glasses after I found out from one of the bloggers who uses the same eye doctor, that she doesn’t even NEED glasses, and just wears them to look ‘smart’. Humm….

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By hetzer, September 16, 2008 at 11:09 pm #

I think of a frat boy.  It was frat boys who orchestrated 911.  It was frat boys who have “ruled” this country since 2000.

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By JimM, September 16, 2008 at 10:03 pm #

I dont need to be told why I hate her. I heard her vicious lies at the RNC, saw her gloating. big-faced arrogance, and abhor her totally fascist Rovian behavior.
As I have said, I hope some day, hopefully soon, she will herself experience the terror and agony she has inflicted upon the animals she has murdered and then boasted about.

what a stupid shit

Jim

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By Bob Clouse, September 16, 2008 at 9:10 pm #
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Jesus Christ! That bazooka line put me on the floor! I’m using that line. Thanks!

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By Dr. Knowmore, PhD, PhD, PhD, September 16, 2008 at 5:33 pm #
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I think she wears a hair piece, (my mother wore one just like it in the 60’s) and that her bangs are quite possibly the only real thing about her.  Has to be Tina Fey having one on us all…..

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By Leefeller, September 16, 2008 at 5:02 pm #

Dr. Knowitall,

We know Chaney’s bangs were not to long when he shot the judge.

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By rage, September 16, 2008 at 5:00 pm #
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I agree with PT.

The Dems love to hate Karl Rove with a lethal passion. I don’t think Dems care enough about Palin to hate her that rabidly. Dems firecely disagree with her stands on a lot of things. Feminists feel she’s setting women back to the Dark Ages. Everyone who has ever seen a beauty pageant know her answers already. And, the whole blue world is still laughing about her foreign policy being predicated on her ability to Russia from her back porch. She’s provided lefty pundits with enough material to long well into Obama’s first term. Palin is nothing short of a loon. But, hate is a little strong for an annoying little dunce the world has only known roughly twelve days.

Personally, I think she’s just a very useless tool with which Karl Rove now has to make the very best go this far along in the campaign. Sarah Palin is God’s retribution for Rovian hubris. Rove was so sure that Hillary had made the short list until the only name he scribbled onto Gramps’ short list was Palin’s. Now he’s stuck with that millstone and can’t spin her positives in any sort of way that comes off as remotely feasible. Karl now has to campaign on personality because there is no genius to be found.

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By P. T., September 16, 2008 at 3:58 pm #

I hope she doesn’t start talking in tongues and rolling around when she has a loaded gun.

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By tomack, September 16, 2008 at 3:53 pm #

I agree, she needs a haircut. She also looks very uncomfortable holding that rifle. She almost looks toasted. Geez, I’m starting to like her.

Actually, I LOVE her effect on the “process”. Hope she keeps it up because it is, and will, help Obama. I’d like to see her blow something up with a bazooka. I’ll bet that would get Obama another $10m in donations. You know, nothing alive, maybe the side of a hill or something. An old Studabaker parked in someones backyard…

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By P. T., September 16, 2008 at 3:53 pm #

I don’t know anybody that hates Sarah.  Instead, they think she’s silly.  However, they don’t want her in Washington.

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, September 16, 2008 at 3:38 pm #

I think Sarah’s bangs are too long.

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