Terrific New Palin Article at Vanity Fair
It doesn’t really say much Palin watchers don’t already know, and misses the faked pregnancy story entirely, but it’s an interesting read for a few new insights into what the burning question “what the hell was McCain thinking?” Here’s a tidbit:
As Palin has piled misstep on top of misstep, the senior members of McCain’s campaign team have undergone a painful odyssey of their own. In recent rounds of long conversations, most made it clear that they suffer a kind of survivor’s guilt: they can’t quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be. They quietly ponder the nightmare they lived through. Do they ever ask, What were we thinking? “Oh, yeah, oh, yeah,” one longtime McCain friend told me with a rueful chuckle. “You nailed it.” Another key McCain aide summed up his attitude this way: “I guess it’s sort of shifted,” he said. “I always wanted to tell myself the best-case story about her.” Even now, he said, “I don’t want to get too negative.” Then he added, “I think, as I’ve evaluated it, I think some of my worst fears … the after-election events have confirmed that her more negative aspects may have been there … ” His voice trailed off. “I saw her as a raw talent. Raw, but a talent. I hoped she could become better.”
I read the article. It is so much liberal pablum. Here is what it boils down to: (i) empty and gratuitous insults (”deep ignorance” “disastrous election” “casual about the truth”) without any substance in the discussion, (ii) anecdotes about her twittering and appearance at a party function, and (iii) begrudging recognition of the Governor’s ability to energize the party. At no time did the article discuss actual issues, like abortion, taxes, energy security, dealing with government corruption. It focuses only on the negative, including the piling on of ethics complaints against the Governor which rather pale next to our nouveau riche President’s date night for $250,000 to NY. Of course, the article overlooks the Governor’s masterful performance at the Convention and at the VP debate. It overlooks the crude, hateful, slimy attacks on her by the media, egging on the hateful democrat base.
Bullshit. This has nothing to do with liberal or conservative. It has to do with a woman who aspires to enormous power, who just happens to have a provable history of being a compulsive liar, a babbling idiot and a complete nut job. She spouts empty slogans and you can’t actually look past those, apparently, to what she has DONE. Action speak way louder than words.
A good comparison is Mike Huckabee. I disagree with literally everything he stands for. But, I can’t help but respect him. To hear him speak is to understand that he’s a thoughtful person. Someone who has considered his positions deeply and honestly. I would be very surprised if he turned out to be the kind of nasty, lying, wacko that Sarah is. Frankly he seems like a really decent person.
And whining about the president’s travel? Give me a break. Here’s a homework assignment: go find all of the trips GW Bush made during his presidency and add up the cost of those and see if you still think you have a point. Palin fans are a bunch of cretins.
I call your bullshit and double the pot. This has everything to do with liberal and conservative. Every conservative woman I’ve spoke to supports Sarah Palin. Every liberal woman I’ve spoken to get a nervous tic and try hard to cover their hate but in the end blurt out “I despise that woman.” Every conservative American supports the Governor’s pro-life position (you show deed and action by actually bearing and caring for a Downs syndrome person), every liberal attacks her position. Every conversative I know supports her desire for energy independence through safe drilling at home, every liberal pulls their hair out. Every conservative supports her tax policy of minimal burden while every liberal cries like a baby that the Federal Government is our only savior and we need to tax the rich a lot and the middle class more.
But here’s the real story — liberal women can’t look past the blood in their eyes to see how womanity is being trashed right along with Sarah Palin. Check this out: http://mccainsucks.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/palin-pig-porn-whack-job-blow-job/. It’s only one of a myriad of filth comments. Go on TYT and see the kind of anonymous misogyny fill those comments when it comes to the Governor.
Compulsive liar? Show me the proof. Every presidential candidate after G. Washington has been accused of lying, but you have to go one step further and show compulsion, and I bet you are a defender of the great Clinton escape “what is your definition of is?”. Aspires to enormous power? You got a problem with a woman who wants to be president? By definition anyone who wants to be president aspires to enormous power, and I doubt she would force a tax cheat on the country to be Treasury Secretary. By that appointment alone the President has undone years of IRS efforts to promote voluntary compliance. Do you know how often taxpayers are claiming the Geithner defense to their evasion?: “Hey I just used Turbotax and it didn’t pick up on my extra 100,000 so give me a break like Geithner.” And those are the ones the IRS catches. It’s called the tax gap and our President has widened it through poor poor judgment.
Some of the few Alaskan accomplishments of the Governor: Expanded the Domestic Violence and Abuse Council, signed legislation allowing a contract for TransCanada Alaska to develop and build a pipeline stretching for 1,715 miles from the Prudhoe Bay treatment plant to Alberta Canada. Signed Energy Package August 25, 2008 which returns state oil revenues to the citizens.
Another key McCain aide summed up his attitude this way: “I guess it’s sort of shifted,” he said. “I always wanted to tell myself the best-case story about her.” Even now, he said, “I don’t want to get too negative.” Then he added, “I think, as I’ve evaluated it, I think some of my worst fears … the after-election events have confirmed that her more negative aspects may have been there … ” His voice trailed off. “I saw her as a raw talent. Raw, but a talent. I hoped she could become better.”
Well, key aide could learn but obviously Gov Dipshit cannot.
Ok. Give me your top 3 iron-clad proofs of lies of the Governor. I will check them out.
No. No, it isn’t liberal or conservative. It’s the fact that she is a compulsive liar. You can’t really get around it if you check out any of her statements. This entire blog is filled with the proof. I’ve been providing the proof for months. I would never support the Clintons again after the “meaning of the word is” thingy. No way. And the fact that Hillary enabled Bill’s serial sexual harassment of numerous women and even went so far as to have her own goon squad she could sick on those women if they spoke out, means I will never vote for that woman for any office. I’ll bet you don’t like socialism, right? Here’s irony: “Signed Energy Package August 25, 2008 which returns state oil revenues to the citizens.”
Do you know the definition of socialism?