Or, maybe liberals should just get a life and truly learn how to live and let live. John McCain beat them to the punch. It is entirely possible Sarah Palin is going to be the next Vice President of the United States of America. It’s entirely possible she may be President one day. She has a child with Downs Syndrome and did not abort him. She lugs the little guy to work with her. She has a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant and is planning to marry the father of her child.
Would someone please explain how any of this disqualifies her to be VP?
We aren’t even touching on the ‘qualification’ argument which is insulting to Democratic intelligence. The woman is more qualified than Barack Obama and that’s the whole rub. For some strange reasons when liberal Democrats are backed into a corner they become "creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're all together ooky" and and just plain funny. They are also annoying and can truly harm innocent people and reputations. Maybe they should have a warning sign rubber-stamped across their foreheads.
Then there’s one other little aspect of a Sarah Palin VP Candidacy. It trumps Barack Obama. Liberal Democrats are beginning to reek of that special odiferous aura of impending doom. Please, continue your current path to abject destruction. You are funny. I’ve realized it’s just fun to sit back and enjoy the show. I’m going to go fix some popcorn.
Want some?
Just remember, come November, the American people may be sick and tired of the temper tantrum and may end up throwing a bucket of cold water on you.
Deal with it – and Sarah Palin. She’s here to stay.
Curses! Foiled again!
P. S. It just dawned on me. I have the wrong cartoon characters. Barack Obama and his liberal little Democratic friends remind me of the Adaams Family!
They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Democrat Family.
snap snap
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - GoMccain
You know why there are so many issues arising about her experience and record? It is because she has a record. She has done everything Obama only talks about ..like raising taxes on oil companies and redistributing that tax as a rebate to the people..
She could have taken the easy route but then
There is no 'present' button on the governor's chair and neither will there be one on the President's.
2 - Lisa Solod Warren
Oh, dear, you really didn't tell a story about the most educated man you ever knew who only went through the second grade, did you? And he hardly had any teeth? And lived without indoor plumbing? But could dissect English literature and philosophy better than any professor with a Phd? He wasn't, by chance, also black and a functional illiterate who got all his book larnin' by listening to his mammy tell him stories she had heard the folks up at the big house tell late at night when she snuck in to listen after she had done all her chores? Was he?
3 - SJ Reidhead
Dear #2:
I rarely call someone racist with their remarks, but I've rarely encountered anything as nasty or ugly as your comment. Elbert Adams was WHITE. Obviously you know nothing about the rural South in the 1960's. I gather you've never encountered someone like this, self-educated.
One of the top litigators I know is "self educated".
BTW - Abraham Lincoln (another poor white man from the rural South) was self-educated.
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
4 - Dave Nalle
I hsve to go with Lisa here. The racism she displays is bad, but the condescending elitism is even worse.
Abraham Lincoln had a 6th grade education, yet passed the bar and served successfully as president. Few people would challenge his qualifications today, yet he was less well qualified on paper than Palin, Obama or just about anyone else.
But just to clear something up, SJ, Lincoln wasn't fromt he rural south. He was born in Kentucky and raised in Illinois. He didn't move to New Orleans until he was 16 and moved back to Illinois after a relatively short stay in the south.
Dave
5 - Dr Dreadful
"If you check the comments on my previous Blogcritics articles about Sarah Palin, it is amusing. Liberals are showing just how absolutely insane they can be when their bluff is called."
The interesting thing is that when I read those comments from Palin detractors on your previous articles (written and published long before she emerged as a serious contender for the veepship), I didn't get any particular impression that they were from Democrats. A lot of them struck me more as disgruntled (for whatever reason) Alaska Republicans.
And with a lot of the new ones I still don't get that impression. There was, for example, the mother of a special needs child who made quite a convincing argument that a Down syndrome baby needed full-time care, and that it was unrealistic of Palin to expect to take on the stress of a presidential campaign, possibly the duties of a vice-president, and still provide that care. I'm not saying I agree with her, but it is a point that merits serious consideration and I don't see at all that it comes from a 'liberal' standpoint.
You're taking the remarks of a small lunatic fringe, of which you can't in large part even demonstrate their liberalness, and painting them as the entire platform of the Democratic Party.
And you can't seriously expect Democrats to give Palin a free pass, especially on the issue of her experience. Those concerns are as legitimate as the ones Republicans (and some Democrats) have been voicing since Barack Obama first announced his candidacy. But Obama has done a lot to address those concerns, and now the onus is on Palin to do the same. It's going to take a bit more than Republicans spreading their hands and repeating over and over that her accomplishments speak for themselves.
6 - SJ Reidhead
Sorry Dave, but Kentucky was "South". Lincoln's parents came from the Carolinas. They were very much "Southern". I am well aware he was raised in Illinois, but his background was "Southern". Nancy Hanks came from South Carolina. The only reason he had any education at all was because of his step-mother.
The Hanks family had connections to John C. Calhoun, and were under his influence. There are some absolutely fascinating stories and some very good evidence pointing to the fact that Calhoun was in fact, Lincoln's father. Naturally anyone who has never gone through the material at Clemson University goes into fits upon hearing this.
Having spent my childhood exploring portions of Kentucky where Lincoln was born, I can honestly say it is "Southern". The whole point is it was very "rural" and very much backwoods. His family was "settlers".
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
7 - Lisa Solod Warren
Oh you guys..... I wasn't being racist at all. I was calling SJR on her outrageous cliche. You all take yourselves way too seriously as I have pointed out more than once. Humor is obviously in short order here. Her little story was so over the top it deserved to be called out. Amazing, just amazing......
8 - Clavos
The Democratic reaction to Palin has become a classic case of sheer, unmitigated panic, engendered by the real fear that this woman, who appeals on a very visceral level to the fed up American public, may just help John McCain to seriously kick Democratic ass come November.
The contagion of panic sweeping through the Democratic ranks has them trampling on and kicking over virtually all the sacred Democratic verities, revealing them to be nothing more than what the rest of us always suspected they were: shibboleths. We see women attacking a woman, mothers attacking a mother (and her kids), and effete elitists attacking her humble origins.
The Democratic Party is behaving like a group of spoiled kids who have been denied a toy they've seen in the toy store window.
Their desperation would be risible if it weren't so pathetic.
9 - Lisa Solod Warren
Hmmmmm. Is that why Obama is now at 50%?
More,(as I am sure you already know) TK.
10 - SJ Reidhead
I'm sorry, Lisa, but it wasn't funny. It was nasty. I don't know if you've been following "Republican" news, but there are a heck of a lot of Republican women, present company included, who are absolutely furious over the way Sarah Palin is being treated by so called enlightened liberals.
I've been working on this story for a little over a year. Yes, it is personal to me. I've never seen anyone treated so badly, and so undeserving of being treated so badly. Even Clarence Thomas has not been mistreated in such a vile and deplorable manner.
You may think it is cute, but enough is enough. It isn't about being cute. It is all about destroying the reputation of good, decent people.
It don't think it's funny at all - and I have a very healthy sense of humor.
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
11 - Condor
I liked the story. It brought back a memory of the most intelligent person I ever met. He had a pretty good education, but that didn't stop him. But the education (book learnin') only went so far, the rest he did on his own. That's important, one can have the best education money can by, but it ends at a certain point. If you are taught what to think, it really doesn't do much for you, if you learn how to think... the limits are boundless. Mr. Jones (his real name) was a rocket scientist (no foolin') but when I ment him he was was retired and I never heard him utter a word about rocketry... but he was definately a professor and I'm not talking about a degree but about a mind.
Amazing. SJ, you were fortunate to meet someone at the level of thought. I know I was with Mr. Jones... people like that, you remember them to the grave.
12 - Condor
Ok... I just have to quit typing on this laptop.... I apologize for the typos... but I'm bouncing around in the back of a van loaded with electrical gear... when we hit a cell tower I can transmit.
13 - handyguy
As is often the case, commenters on here conflate, or confuse, blogosphere loudmouths with mainstream Democrats and Republicans. The most strident voices of course get the most attention, but that doesn't mean they are genuinely representative.
The postings on DailyKos represent a certain segment of the left, just as Limbaugh/O'Reilly/take-your-pick represent a slice of the right. I wince when I read some of the Kos stuff, as I imagine the rightist voices on here could do without the more obnoxious bleatings of talk radio.
But these are just small slices and segments, not majorities on either side. And the mainstream media [NY Times, CNN] has mostly covered the Palin coverage, at a fairly bemused distance, and has been pretty low-key overall.
And I think Sen. Obama's own reaction [leave her alone] is remarkably sensible.
14 - Mark Saleski
It is all about destroying the reputation of good, decent people.
ah, when the rove machine is turned back in the opposite direction, the rules must suddenly change?
this is why politics, or maybe the related "discourse", is so incredibly pathetic.
15 - Lisa Solod Warren
SJ, whether you have been working on whatever story you have been working on for however long is not the issue. I wasn't poking fun at Palin (although I have), I was remarking on your story of the man with no teeth who knows more than anyone. It's a cliche, pure and simple. No matter how long you have worked on it.
If you have worked on the story you just posted on Palin for a year, well, so be it. But it doesn't say anything. It just attacks people who don't like her. It's just your opinion that she is a worthwhile candidate. That's it. You don't back it up at all.
She may be a perfectly decent person and a good mother. But she is not capable of being next in line for the oval office. She just isn't.
As for women having it all. I have been a feminist for a long long time and one thing I know and have known for nearly as long as I have been a feminist is that women can try and have it all but we can never have it ALL at the same time. We make choices.
Nancy Pelosi has five kids. She waited until they were older before she ran for congress.
Sarah Palin has four kids under 18, one of whom is handicapped, one of whom is pregnant out of wedlock. SHE says her daughter will marry the guy. We haven't heard from him. SHE violated her daughter's privacy by revealing the boy's name. And ultimately SHE is responsible for the media's fascination by choosing the job over her family's privacy.
I have said in other posts that she has a lot on her plate. Even if she were eminently qualified (which she is not) this is not the time for her to leave her home state and go across the country and take on this kind of responsibility. She made the choice to give birth a few months ago to a handicapped child. She knew about her daughter's pregnancy. She has a husband who works in the state. She has a job she says she loves. SHe can wait a few years for the next thing.
I have a column coming up where I document well why she is NOT qualified. Check your facts. Read. She is being investigated. She is far from lily white. The fact that she has a mediocre education is the least of it. Do not defend her just BECAUSE she is a woman. I do not denounce her just because she is a woman. In fact, I don't denounce her because of that at all. I don't think she would even have been considered had she been a man with the same qualification.
16 - SJ Reidhead
Lisa;
There is nothing wrong with being against a candidate. That's fine. Everyone has the right to disagree. Right now I am one of those Republican women who is absolutely furious over the treatment of Sarah Palin, who does not deserve it. I've been writing about her for a year.
A year ago I thought she was the right person for the nomination. I still do. I think she is far more qualified than Barack Obama. We all know what this is all about. If the left cannot take out Sarah Palin and ruin her reputation, Barack Obama will increasingly look worse.
That's how I feel - and guess what? I have just as much right to feel that way about him as you do Palin.
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
17 - Zedd
Republicans have SOME responsibility to the nation. The lazy, selfish, bratty attitude toward governance is unpatriotic. Republicans somehow believe they are good by virtue of being Republican. They have destroyed this nation in a short time and dare make wreck less (off the wall) choices to govern this great land, gambling on our future. They treat this nation like its an investment. "If you cash in, great, if not, oh well, better luck next time". This choice has turned me off to this party possibly for good. The reaction of Republican electorate is even more disturbing. How dumb can be? It's called evolution. It's happened already. It's perfectly fine to use your brain. Geeeeez!
18 - Zedd
Clavos,
"The Democratic reaction to Palin has become a classic case of sheer, unmitigated panic"
Well Sorta. Do you remember when Democrats kept saying that Bush was dumb but you voted for him anyway? It sorta like that again. This woman's lack of readiness is glaring. Off course you don't see it. You didn't know that Bush was a dunderhead. Remember how a large portion of the electorate kept saying just how dull witted he was and Reps kept insisting that it was political? Well Clav, we are here again. You are missing it and we are exasperated. You are all gleeful, high and happy and we are stunned.
19 - El Bicho
"Barack Obama did not have the courage nor the class to ask Hillary Clinton to be his running mate."
You just lost me with that line, showing a complete lack of understanding about what you are writing about.
20 - handyguy
To change the subject slightly, both the Gallup and Rasmussen daily tracking polls put Obama's support at an important psychological barrier today for the first time:
Gallup:
Obama 50%, McCain 42%
Rasmussen:
Obama 51%, McCain 45%
Each covered the 3-day Sat-Mon period.
No doubt the convention will change these numbers later in the week. Not sure which direction, though.
21 - Cannonshop
And we're going into day two of the Media circus over Bristol. Proving once again that racing to the bottom gets the brass ring first.
22 - Arch Conservative
"This woman's lack of readiness is glaring"
As is Obama's.
Once again arrogance, overconfidence and a complete lack of understanding of the American people will be the Democrats downfall in November.
I guess you just can't fix stupid.
23 - Condor
"They have destroyed this nation in a short time and dare make wreck less (off the wall) choices to govern this great land, gambling on our future"
Zedd
Who is "they" -- The Republican's or the voters? Nobody gets into office without the voters.
The voters are the reason for everything that happens politically in this country. Yet, for the most part, the voters don't really care. They don't listen, they don't read. They show up, looking at the pictures, led by the nose from whatever sugarcoated source brought them to their decision.
Now, partainship aside, I'm looking for
1. Experience
2. Leadership
3. Common sense
I could care less who went to school where, how they look, and all that other garbage that get thrown out there during the running.
As far as I'm concerned the primary's are a beauty contest and the conventions are info-mercials.
I've been looking at voting records, for those in congress and state actions for those at the state level. I'm not a big fan of governors as presidents... from Carter on, they have not been that impressive. VP's are probably better pulled from congress... as I can only imagine the exclusivity of that club.
I understand the globally the world (according the the press) has a great liking for Obama, and that by electing him the U.S. will once again walk in the shining light of favor.... I actually heard that statement from the news media... Is it just me, or doesn't that sound like a blatent attempt at propaganda? Brain washing.
Just looking at the voting records alone, along with who worked both sides of the aisle (demonstrating teambuilding skills) really tells an insightful story.
Now both candidates have strengths. Obama has Biden, and McCain has Palin. All have great respect for each other, all are capable.
As voters, it is our responsibilty to check the facts, and make a decision based on facts. It is not a time to make emotional choices based on how you feel that day, or how you choose to acheive orgasm, or how you calculate the government handout....
Federal level government is not there to coddle us. It's there to protect and defend us. Let the states do the coddling, they are supposed to be doing that. Let the states figure out the taxes needed to do the coddleing within its borders... not this redistribution of the wealth. If I'm living in my own private Idaho, what makes the fed think that I should support a beach bum down in Florida who is working the system?
It's important to me that the President covers a large footprint of the people, not necessarily along party lines, but in fostering legislation along reasonable lines.
I hear Obama discussing lots of ideas and I'm beginning to hear the sound of money being thrown around to make these ideas happen. Tax dollars.
I hear McCain discussing lots of ideas but he's not really throwing money around, he's providing tax incentives to company's in order to acheive the economic stimulus.
So economics become a ideaological battle, fine. How many voters have been paying attention to the plans these 2 are putting forth? If I was a betting man, I'd wager less than 10 percent, probably less than 5 percent.
Which leaves the 90 to 95 percent of the people (who bother to vote) making decisions based on nothing more than what they have been fed by the progandist news media, and the infomercials and beauty pagents they have been witness to.
That's the problem... the "they" is the voters. The voters are impowered and don't even care.
24 - Andy Marsh
You are missing it and we are exasperated.
I wonder who the "we" is she's talking about...I'm not exasperated...not sure I even know how to be exasperated! I'm a little frustrated with people claiming that Barry is the be all and end all of IT all!
I guess to liberal democrats voting present is experience...so, hey everybody! I'm here!
25 - Joanne Huspek
Good article, SJ.
I, for one, a working Independent, am getting more than mildly annoyed with the double standard. I wouldn't blame Palin if she decided to back down. The lynch mob mentality which is posing as public scrutiny is alarming. Why not judge all the candidates on their records, not on any other criteria?
I'm also annoyed that some are alluding to the fact that Alaska is way out there. As far as I can tell, it's still part of the US. Yes, it's very far away, but don't you think there are more than a couple of smart, sophisticated people living there? They can't all be living in igloos and shooting caribou for dinner.
For that matter, does anyone realize that Ms. Palin, for her lack of foreign policy, has a huge foreign neighbor? No, not Canada, although that is a huge foreign neighbor. I'm talking about the one on the other side of the state, namely Russia. It would be interesting to find out how she has dealt with that one in the past.