Posted on 01/31/2012 10:03:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Last week, Sarah Palin stepped over the edge of civility. Fox Business Network host Eric Bolling played a clip of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on “Meet the Press” in which Christie said Newt Gingrich “has been an embarrassment” to the Republican Party.
“Poor Chris,” Palin responded. “This was a rookie mistake. He played right into the media's hand.” Palin added that Christie must have been shaken up by Romney's second-place showing in South Carolina. “You kind of get your panties in a wad, and you may say things that you regret later. And I think that that is what Chris Christie did.”
One can only hope that Palin regrets her rookie mistake of using that brand of crude language on television. Except, just when Palin seems increasingly irrelevant, that quote put her name back in the news.
Days later, when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer greeted President Barack Obama on the Phoenix airport tarmac, the two got into a testy exchange about Brewer's account of a meeting with the president in her memoir, “Scorpions for Breakfast.” Associated Press photographer Haraz N. Ghanbari snapped photographs of the Republican governor jabbing her finger at the president of the United States.
Governors: Manners, please. Stanford University political science Professor Mo Fiorina considers the tarmac spat indicative of a “breakdown of basic civility, of basic mutual respect, of the degree of animosity within the political class.”
A few years ago, I read an amazing memoir, “My Year Inside Radical Islam” by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, who converted to Islam as a college student. “No other Muslim will accuse you of not being a Muslim,” a friend had told him. “The thought that other Muslims would accept me as a brother in faith even if we disagreed on some theological points was comforting.”(continued)
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Debra's got to be kidding. That article is simply embarrassing. BTT.
Palin is right about the need for the "process", i.e. the vetting and campaigning continuing for more than 4 states.
The media and old far--er , establishment types in the GOP have picked losers too many times. They haven't the brain cells to see that this election cycle is more than just another one in their career of being in charge of all the money and making laws and regs just for us---imagine that! They think so much of the electorate that pays their bills they make laws and regulations just for US!--literally! They exempt themselves..
Can anyone tell me, please, what are they going to use for power and status when we are just another third world dung heap, having to register with the local police and notify them whenever we move, reporting in to the police in our new town.
The Germans were still having to do that when we lived there in the fifties, and it seemed horrible to me. This regime is putting us in the fast lane to a dictatorial police state and GOP leaders either do not care or are too dumb and self centered to realize.
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“crude language”?
What crude language? I guess she forgot to hold her pinkie in the right position while talking. Or some such Shiite.
“Poor Chris,” Palin responded. “This was a rookie mistake.”
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*giggle* It seems Palin did what she set out to do...get a jab in. :)
This lady has her undies in a wad over the ‘rookie mistake’ comment. She’s just hiding behind the panties, rather large ones, too—if they belong to Christie. :p
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