” I forsee her piddling legal bills soon handled by six figure speaking fees and a likely “Sarah Palin Show” on Fox opposite Rachel Maddow.”

Maddow is brilliant.  I’d love to see Sarah as a guest on her show…

Palin is a nut.  And those who believe in her and follow her are nuts. 

I hope she does run in 2012.  I’d rather see President Obama re-elected than any Republican possibility today.  She’d ensure his re-election.  He’d have a harder time of it running against Romney I think…  Palin would ensure him a landslide victory.

Thank you Eugene. You are right on the mark once again.

Like many other reasonably intelligent people, I saw Palin for the moronic ideologue she is in the first few minutes of her media exposure after being tapped. Also, like many others, I didn’t want to jump to immediate conclusions, but every interview or speach she gave simply revealed more ineptitude.

For the first time in my life I actually got on the phone with all my conservative friends and family members and begged them, if they weren’t going to vote for Obama, to not vote at all… PLEASE don’t let that crazy MILF near the White House!

As time went on and it became clear to most of us that we were right all along, it also became startling to see how many defenders rallied to her. Knowing those people are out there right now operating heavy machinery and “clinging to their guns and religion” sends chills up my spine like a cold Alaskan wind(bag).

I expect to see her on the Fix News Network,where she and that flea circus she calls a brain, will fit right in…

I suspect Sarah is planning to become a Faux news “personality.” The job’s perfect for her—she can say any ignorant, idiotic thing in the world and get away with it. This job offers more than the Alaskan governorship insofar as she could wear expensive clothing and accessories EVERY DAY and NOT have to give them back. Even better, her war paint would be applied by professionals and she’s be on TV every day…you betcha!  Her critics? Faux could provide Sarah with their playbook of excuses and attack rhetoric for all occasions.

She’ll be around to do damage but wouldn’t be working hard; her stream of stupidity will earn her millions and pivot another American fascist into high office.

Altara,

“I think that she brings excitement and fun to a campaign.”

Yes she would, but that is hardly a reason for her to run for the highest office in the land. We had George W. Bush denigrate the office for eight years - we don’t need a female version of him to entertain us. We have already seen that act ad nauseum. Palin is not ready for prime time and never will be - she doesn’t want to do the hard work of governance, and she only wants to go around the country spouting off Republican right wing talking points that appeal to the extremist base but are irrelevant to the rest of the country. Republican’s need to attract candidates who actually think and can govern and do it effectively. We don’t need any more candidates who tell us how lousy government is and then we they get in office, prove it.

Her stream-of-conscious speechifying seems to attract and entertain her core supports and would-be suitors.  But there’s no coherence, no consistency, no policy depth.  Will that change going forward?  Why would it?

Actually, I think there has been reverse sexism at play here.  Any man who was as inarticulate and uninformed as Palin wouldn’t have had a chance in hell at becoming President or even Governor.

Oh… I forgot about Bush.

Never mind.

Amazing with all the problems in the world Silly Sara somehow manages to get top billing.  Did it ever occur to anyone this half-wit would be best ignored?  Consider this, if McCain had put Charlie Crist on the ticket, McCain would have won Florida and lot more states would have been in play.  The Democrats just need to send Palin a thank you note and the rest of us just need to say “goodbye”.

The only good republican i ever saw was dead.  Still, palin is awfully good for a laugh.

““Palin has far-right conservative views, and while I disagree with her on almost everything, there’s certainly nothing inappropriate or illegitimate about her philosophy. But I feel sorry for conservatives who look to her as a champion, because she’s going to let them down.”“
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Oh, you mean letting them/us down much like a certain ‘new’ president has let us down with his totally disclosed method of retaining the previous administration’s agendas instead of the ones he campaigned on for his position of power?

Eugene,

While the media may have been reluctant to call out Sarah Palin as not ready for prime time, millions of American’s realized within weeks that McCain and the Republican’s had made a colossal mistake in judgement by nominating her. What had to be happening behind the scenes is that McCain with his gambling nature decided Palin was his only chance to really get the base behind him and pick up independents and Democrats unhappy with the nomination of Obama over Clinton. He failed in that assessment as Hillary supporters intensely disliked Palin and independents immediately saw the mediocrity of Palin. In the final analyis McCain only got the true believer vote, which he would have gotten anyway. Palin was a failed strategy except for the initial euphoria after the convention, before anybody really even knew who she was. What is maddening is that the media if anything was too kind to her, contrary to her protestations. Time after time, they kept giving her the benefit of a doubt and tried to explain away her deficiencies. They also failed to hammer her on her total lack of qualifications to be president - she was a part time mayor of a very small town in Alaska and a short time Governor of a state with a budget smaller than many American cities. There was also very little criticism of McCain for his Palin decision which reflected very poorly on him.  Palin likes to claim victimhood, but the real victims here were all of us who would have had to suffer if somehow Palin ascended to the presidency.

Anarcissie, I’m perfectly willing to take the chance that whatever replaces the Repubs might be worse than they are. When you’ve been lied to and led down a primrose path, politically speaking, all you want for the liars and hypocrites is their comeuppance.

Therefore, I remain unrepentant in my hope that the Repubs die swiftly of swallowing their own lies.

If the Republican Party disappears, something else will take its place, and it may not necessarily be better than the Republican Party.

I think the Republicans have a significant problem with the Religious Right, for example people like Palin.  For many generations these people were on the Democrats’ plantation, but they were never allowed to come near taking over the party.  After they had been sucked over to the Republican side by the Southern Strategy, people like Reagan and the Bushes were able to satisfy them with a dogbiscuit or two, like nominal opposition to abortion.  Palin represents the real thing, although fortunately she does not seem to have sufficient character, fortitude or intellectual power to see the project of taking over the party and the country through.  But there will be others.

How I hope that Palin’s career—and how it ends—is a sure sign of the Repubs’ demise as a viable political party.

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”—John Arbuthnot (1667 – 1735), Scottish physician, satirist and polymath.

Sluts and tramps (male and female) don’t have long attention spans. They flit from partner to partner.  Palin’s a politics slut—flitting about, unable to commit. And, of course, you can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her read.