Boo hoo…poor Sarah!

Trailer trash politics slut.

when will you guys get bored with this??

I check the home page and article after article about Palin!!

This is one reason why the “left” can never get anything done. Or maybe the “left ” is just fine with have a circle jerk over Palin…

Sarah Palin belongs to a party which has turned sexism into an art form. If she is then subjected to sexism herself she has no one but herself to blame. She was not put forward by the Republicans as VP because of her intellect or her personal integrity. She was put forward to counter Hillary Clinton’s 18 million votes. In the same way that racists used to think all black people looked the same and were the same, the Republicans think women are too stupid to distinguish between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. ‘They want to vote for a woman, let’s give them a woman to vote for,’ was their theme. It was a huge mistake, women didn’t miss the contempt in this and were completely turned off by it. What happened says more about the Republicans than it does about Palin. They are reckless and ruthless in their pursuit of power and were prepared to put another puppet in the White House, just like George W. Bush, so they had a backup patsy in case McCain died. Palin is not the problem, those who put her up for VP are the problem. An even bigger problem is that no one really knows who they are.

I still think Dick Cheney had a hand in Palin’s selection as VP.  She was somebody Cheney could easily have controlled and she would even have been grateful for it.  The Cheney Death and Money Machine would have set up shop in Palin’s office and therefore would have played a substantial and largely unseen and unwelcome role in a McCain administration.  McCain would eventually have caught on but what could he have done until 2012 when he could have dumped Palin?  By then, she would have been McCain’s natural successor.

Eight Ways to Spot Emotional Manipulation
There is no use in trying to be honest with an emotional manipulator. 
An emotional manipulator is the picture of a willing helper. 
Crazy making - saying one thing and later assuring you they did not say it. 
Guilt. Emotional manipulators are excellent guilt mongers. 
Emotional manipulators fight dirty. 
If you have a headache an emotional manipulator will have a brain tumor! 
Emotional manipulators somehow have the ability to impact the emotional climate of those around them. 
Emotional manipulators have no sense of accountability.

A woman comments.  Sexism and Sarah Palin is like
Clarence Thomas and racism.  Another way of putting it: Sarah Palin policies are to women as Clarence Thomas policies are to African-Americans.  Poor.
It is difficult for men to write about women without dropping in some sexist comments.  Some women will echo stereotypes too.

There seems a tendancy to lean to far towards assumed sexism when discussing the critiques of Sarah Palin. Sexism will be truly a thing of the past when we can assess male or female on their own merits or lack thereof.

I do not know the reasons for McCain’s addition of Palin to the ticket, though , in light of her subsequent comments, it was obviously a very poor choice indeed. Noone, I assume, put the flood of ignorant remarks in her mouth, noone forced the GOP to allow her to spout one ridiculous remark after the next, and noone is responsible for those remarks but Ms. Palin.

Perhaps a certain desperation or despair infused McCain’s campaign, understanding possibly, that after eight years of Bush/Cheney even a dead Democratic candidate was going to outpoll any GOP nominee. Perhaps some rather dim bulb in charge thought Palin a future star and the VP nomination would set her up for future high office, I do not know.

What I do know is that Palin is a blight upon American politics and those who support her candidacy for any office commit a travesty on common sense and good judgment.

Bill Gives Attorney General Power To Designate Gun Owners, Tax Protesters As Terrorists

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bill-gives-attorney-general-power-to-designate-gun-owners-tax-protesters-as-terrorists.html

Amendments to the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, which has already been passed by the House, would empower the Attorney General Eric Holder to define gun owners, anti-abortion activists and tax protesters as domestic terrorists in light of recent federal reports that classify millions of Americans as “extremists”.

Former impeached Florida judge and now Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings has introduced amendments to H.R. 2647: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, which would give Holder dictator powers to demonize legitimate protest groups as being affiliated with violent race hate organizations.

The bill is ostensibly aimed at preventing race “extremists” and gang members from joining the Army, but since the Army already hires felons, criminals, racists and gang members, the real purpose behind the legislation is to codify the move to label gun owners, “anti-government” activists and tax protesters as domestic terrorists, a process that has been ongoing since at least the start of the decade.

The bill’s definition of “people associated or affiliated with hate groups” include, “Groups or organizations that espouse an intention or expectation of armed revolutionary activity against the United States Government,” or “Other groups or organizations that are determined by the Attorney General to be of a violent, extremist nature.”

The evidence required to show that such an organization is affiliated with a violent hate group includes people possessing tattoos identifying them with the group, individuals who attend conferences or rallies sponsored by a “hate group,” people who engage in online discussion forums of an “extremist” nature, people who possess documents, books or photographs or simply “related materials as defined by the Attorney General” that represent “hate propaganda.”

The amendments introduced by Hastings were passed by the House and the bill now moves on to the Senate for approval before it is signed by the President.

Since the definition of an “extremist” has already been established by numerous federal documents over the last few years that list law-abiding citizens as domestic terrorists, Hastings’ amendments are simply an attempt to centralize the power to demonize such groups into the hands of the Obama administration.

I am usually as supportive of the anti-sexist views as possible.  But had Sarah Palin looked like Barbara Mikulski, and that been the ONLY difference, she never would have been picked to run for Vice-President. Period.  The sexism was on John McCain’s part, a man who cheated on his wife for a year with his rich Barbie-doll clone before he married her. (To Cyndie McCain’s credit, she’s actually got both a brain and a heart—and uses them). I wouldn’t be surprised if Cyndie McCain felt threatened by Palin—until it became clear that McCain and his staff couldn’t stand her.

Sarah Palin used her looks for advancement that way Jim Bunning used his Perfect Game for advancement. Bunning is nearly as stupid and ignorant as Palin—and he’s got a 30 year head start on her!  Bunning may have been a marvelous pitcher, but he’s been a dumb reactionary @$$hole since getting into politics.  Palin is the same, using something TOTALLY irrelevant to get ahead. 

Seems more common with Republicans: Ronald Reagan, Gopher, Sonny Bono, Jack Kemp, Bunning, Steve Largent, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzeneggar and now Al Leiter has talked about it, to name a few.  On the Dems side I only know of Bill Bradley (also a Rhodes Scholar) and Heath Shuler, a former quarterback and now Congressman from NC. And now Al Franken, whose POLITICAL commentary over the last dozen years has been razor-sharp, and wickedly funny.

It seems much more a Republican trend to run with no obvious relevant skills, but a hook.  And Sarah Palin had her hook. Conservative (Reactionary), nasty infighter, both publicly and behind the scenes, and both pretty AND sexy—far better looking that other harpy of the Right, Ann Coultergeist.  It’s her hook like Sonny Bono’s “I Got You Babe” and Jack Kemp’s passing arm.  Or Jim Bunning’s Perfect Game.