Posted on 03/21/2022 6:00:43 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. Palin said then:
After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next.
For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.
In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into the neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now.
Hounshell wrote then that Palin’s comments were “strange” and “this is an extremely far-fetched scenario.”
“And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine’s pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don’t see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel,” Hounshell dismissively wrote.
Palin made her remarks on the stump after Obama’s running mate Joe Biden warned Obama supporters to “gird your loins” if Obama is elected because international leaders may test or try to take advantage of him.
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It’s real easy to write /s, instead of helping to perpetuate a myth.
Palin said that Russia can be seen from some points in Alaska, and that’s true.
(You can even swim between points in Alaska and Russia.)
Bold since he or more accurately they, don’t have to face the cameras. They’ve got two dupes for that.
Yes Sarah Palin was definitely MAGA before Trump - an early promise of Christmas returning to Narnia. They Salinski’d her mercilessly and john McCain revealed his black soul at that time as well.
Without Palin on the ticket the 2008 loss would have been greater....no doubt about it.
And funny how the lamestream is unable to find any bikini pics of liberal chicks like they did with her.
That ended the left posting it.
I remember the show after that where they really did have Sara Palin on.
One of the few really good post-second season shows.
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Thank you for the clarification!
I shamelessly took credit here for my once in a FReeptime moment of glory! :)
I was proudly dubbed “Buckhead of the Bikini” by a fellow FReeper.
Absolutely correct.
She chose trump over Cruz in 2016.
She was the kingmaker in 2016.
It would be exhausting placing a /sarc reference at the end of every sentence
/SARC
Putin was already poisoning Uke politicians who weren’t down with the Putin program.
Sarcasm is no way to go through life.
Chances are you know that or maybe you don’t. In any event, it is overused in today’s society.
Satire is much more high-minded than sarcasm. Commentary intended as satire is more intricately constructed. It challenges its readers, forcing them to question their own thought processes. It’s like a mental puzzle, satisfying to solve, with the extra added gift of training the mind to spot deception, psy-ops, gaslighting, calumny, etc., so often used by villainous people to advance their narrow agendas, or unfairly to tear down those they (in their childish way of thinking) perceive to be their political or social enemies.
A “/s” would have helped this reformed sarcastic and natural Palin suppoter interpret your comment.
There are those who see Palin as a threat who deceitfully make the comment you made for no other reason than to belittle Palin and try to induce others to discount, or dismiss out of hand, whatever objectively thoughtful, clever, foresighted, insightful or incisive thing she is currently saying, as the rantings of a gravitas-free moron that everyone can safely ignore.
You appear to have confirmed that you wanted others to interpret your comment as pure sarcasm.
For the Palin fans among us, loathe to stand by quietly and allow her childish detractors to get away scot free with still more cruel character assassination she totally doesn’t deserve, the use of the signal “/s” in this instance would have helped us instantly distinguish you from that small and pathetic band of Palin-hating punks who wouldn’t know class or patriotism or Christian charity if any one of the three were to fall off a shelf and klunk them in the head.
Very well said!
Pithy and concise. Unlike long-winded me.
Do you remember Trump taking Palin to lunch in 2015? Classy guy, classy gal. The deep staters/globalists have no such class. Glamorous photo-ops of Trump and Palin calmly enjoying a friendly pizza lunch together predictably causes steam to come out of their ears, player-haters all.
Cruz is down with the struggle but seems to struggle at times with transparent vanity and a touch of awkwardness (remember when he humiliatingly bonked his wife in the forehead with his dumb forearm?). It’s both the original sin and the fatal flaw of being an exotic—a non-NBC.
That’s bullshit by America-hating conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone.
She was right about the death panels, too. #Sarah
“That’s bullshit by America-hating conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone.”
What part? Where he shows all the Deep State people in Ukraine, along with their press releases, news reports and other information?
Feel free to think we (including Hunter, Neuland, and many others) had NOTHING to do with Ukraine...if you need to.
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