Posted on 12/05/2010 5:32:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Two week ago, when John Heilemann wrote a cover story for New York Magazine outlining the perfect storm that could carry Sarah Palin to a Presidential election victory in 2012, I would have told you that Sarah was much more powerful as a king-maker and not a King.
And then she went and bragged to Barbara Walters that she can beat Obama in 2012 this.
Hah ha. Funny. In an Armageddon kind of way right? We can’t be that stupid, can we? Well… in the immortal slogan of an era long ago: yes we can!
So I decided to re-read Hielman’s article to see if his logic held water. I think I can summarize the article in this way. 1: Palin is doing all of the little behind the scenes things you do to lay the groundwork for a run. 2: The only other major GOP contender is Mitt Romney, who both fails to inspire and has the albatross of having served as Gov of Massachusetts when that state passed a healthcare plan that looks a lot like the plan that has all of the Randian Regressives calling Obama a socialist. B: The White House is eating this up, thinking that Palin is so polarizing that she could not possibly win, but mother*****n thirdly; NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg will launch a credible, Ross Perot style independent campaign. And in these polarizing times, with populist fervor on both the left and the right and the economy showing no signs of improving, it is a crap shoot with the odds on favorite in this scenario being Palin.
“She’s a supernova,” says former Bush advisor Mark McKinnon. “The only parallel is Barack Obama. And look what happened to him.”
In this scenario, those who interpret the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 as a portent of the end of time may well be right. Because the nuclear codes will then fall into the lap of a woman who thinks the earth is only 6 thousand years old and that our illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan are Gods wars, that “God” is on our side.
Now, I know that my views, and how I present them, often earn me the scorn of those who would label me an elitist liberal snob.
You know why I am snob? Why I am elitist? Because liberals – or progressives are right. You are wrong. End of story.
When conservative forces in the south were arguing for separate but equal facilities for blacks during the civil rights struggle, does any version of history look back and exonerate the apes that held onto the conservative position? No!
Twenty years from now, when you are trying to explain to children why there was so much debate over Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and Gay Marriage, whose side will you be on? The Fred Phelps hate mongers and Military macho dick wavers who want to keep gays in the closet?
No. Twenty years from now, you will look back at this time and think, what was the problem? Why were we dragging our knuckles like apes?
Sarah Palin is a regressive with a growing army of grown men in Halloween Colonial Garb or crucifix clutchers or Ayn Rand disciples who will, if given the full reigns of this country, send us back to the Stone Age. Palin and her followers will disagree, of course, on the grounds that since archeologists place the Stone Age about 700,00 years ago and therefore 694 thousand years before their world began, that my conclusions are irrational and mathematically impossible.
But a serious run from the barracuda seems more and more plausible. What do you think- two years out; whom do you see winning the Presidential election in 2012?
Sorry but your spinning of fictional beliefs is transparent.
Believing in the myth of evolution and the proverbial “Missing Link” is similar to believing in the myth of the homosexual gene. It simply does not exist and there goes your argument.
LOL - atheists are so gullible and lacking of innate common sense and wisdom.
Evolution is a documented fact. Species do change over time under the influence of natural selection of genetic variation. It simply does exist, so there goes your argument based upon ignorance.
Creationists beliefs are the most common among the less educated segments of society. The more educated you are, the less likely you are to be a creationist.
But where is the proverbal “Missing Link” to prove your point?
Again, evolution is a belief without any scientific basis...just like the magic homosexual gene.
btw, I have an MBA and have been an adjunct professor & senior officer in a $400M organiztion.
You are the weakest link. Good bye!
LOL!
What “missing link” do you want? There are thousands of non-human but human like fossils. Care to explain ANY of them?
You are weak, and greasy as a breakfast link.
Good bye!
Yikes! I must have hit a nerve with requesting the Missing Link and the homosexual pervert gene to support your mystical theory that rejects God.
For you to slander all Conservative Christian and Jews by accusing us of being stupid demonstrates the typical arrogance, elitism and intolerance of leftwingnuts.
I suggest you return to the bowels of DU!
Lindsey Gramnesty, is that you in your tutu? LOL!
What a maroon!
Nothing in evolution rejects God.
I didn’t slander Conservative Christians and Jews by accusing you of being stupid. Being a creationist is not synonymous with being a conservative, and acceptance of a scientific theory doesn’t mean one is an atheist - but such idiocy is what your argument is reduced to.
I pointed out that the less educated segments of society are more likely to be Creationists. That is the truth. The more educated someone is, the less likely they are to be a Creationist.
Don’t make Boehner cry!
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