Palin Should Do Nation a Favor and Run For President (MEGA BARF ALERT)

The Reading (Pa.) Eagle ^ | 2/19/2010 | Leonard Pitts, Jr

[Russ]

Originally Published: 2/19/2010 Leonard Pitts Jr.: Palin should do nation a favor and run for president

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Dear Sarah Palin:

I hear you're pondering a run for the White House in 2012. You told Fox News it would be absurd to rule it out. I'm writing to ask that you rule it in. I very badly want you to run for - and win - the Republican nomination for the presidency

I know you're waiting for the punch line. Maybe you figure I think you'd be a weak candidate who would pave the way for President Barack Obama's easy re-election. No. I want you to run because I believe a Palin candidacy would force upon this country a desperately needed moment of truth. It would require us to decide what kind of America we want to be.

You are an avatar of the shameless hypocrisy and cognitive disconnection that have driven our politics for the last decade, a process of stupidification creeping like kudzu over our national life.

As Exhibit A, consider your speech at a Tea Party event, wherein you dismissed the president as a charismatic guy with a teleprompter. Bad enough you imply that teleprompter use is the mark of an insubstantial man, even though you use one. But what made the comment truly jaw-dropping is that even as you spoke, you had penned on your left palm, clearly visible, a series of crib notes.

If Obama is an idiot for reading a prepared speech off a teleprompter, what are you for reading notes you've inked on your hand like a school kid who failed to study for the big test?

In the Fox interview, you scored Obama for supposedly expecting Americans to sit down and shut up and accept his policies. But when asked when the president has ever said that, you couldn't answer.

I found that a telling moment. Ultimately what you represent is not conservatism. Heck, I suspect that somewhere, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan are spinning like helicopter rotors at the very idea. You represent the latest iteration of an anti-intellectualism that periodically rises in the American character.

There is a belief in us that y'all just can't trust nobody who acts too smart or talks too good - somebody whose general persona indicates he may have once cracked a book or had a thought. Americans tend to believe common sense is the exclusive province of humble folks without sheepskins on the wall or big words in their vocabularies.

I don't mock those people. They are my parents, my family elders, members of my childhood church. I honor their native good sense. But if it is insulting to condescend to them, it is insulting to mythologize them.

More to the point, something is wrong when we celebrate mental mediocrity like yours under the misapprehension that competence or, God forbid, intelligence, makes a person one of those elites lacking authenticity, compassion and common sense.

This is not a clash of ideologies, but a clash between intelligence and its opposite. And I am tired of being asked to pretend stupid is a virtue. That's why I'd welcome the moment of truth your campaign would bring. It would force us to decide once and for all whether we are permanently committed to the path of ignorance or whether we will turn back from the cliff toward which we race.

Either way, we need to know, and your candidacy would tell us. If you love this country, you can do it no greater service. Run, Sarah, run.

Leonard Pitts Jr. is a syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.

[RRTJSP...........]

Obama is either an idiot, or a Communist, or both........

His poll ratings within a few months will be worse than congress, which I believe are in single digits.......

Obama has never run a business, or even been a mayor.......

He should be fired...........Just like Cheney said last night.....”he is a one term president”...........

[CSM]

“You represent the latest iteration of an anti-intellectualism that periodically rises in the American character.”

For that alone she would get my vote. Those that think they are intellectual simply want to lord over the common folks.

[andy58-in-nh]

I would like to ask Mr. Pitts what he imagines Barack Obama might be doing today, were it not for affirmative action?

I suspect his answer would be perfectly revealing. I would bet a great deal of money that whatever similar lack of achievement he suggested for Obama, he would in the same breath blame on white racism. That is to say, like all racialists he would avoid the glaring truth: Obama lacks much of the intellect and ability popularly ascribed to him in the service of the guilt industry.

[junta]

This thread is liberalism defined, what amounts to college kids (of all ages) sitting about stoned out of their minds congratulating themselves for their “goodness.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/19/838435/-Black-Kos-presents-an-homage-to-our-sister-series-WGLB!

Frankly it horrifies me that such a large portion of America’s population is this freakin braindead. Mods if I have violated some principle please delete my post.

[manc]

good post

the far left are like kids who want to rebel and then they cannot accept that they’ve grown up and still want to rebel.

We have aging hippies who still think they’re in the 70’s and then drive their little car thinking it makes them look cool.

[andy58-in-nh]

It is a dirty little secret of the modern "intellectual class" that they are in truth more ideological than intellectual. Their desire to control and own trumps any desire for either comprehension or explanation to people they consider socially inferior.

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel: properly Progressive American intellectuals are becoming more like the British peerage every year; the more they inbreed, the stupider they become. And appear.

Instead: please give me the common sense and plain-spoken wisdom of a tradesman, a rancher, a beat cop, or a fisherman. Even we corporate cubicle-mongers might have a thing or two to teach our luminous culturati. Not that they'd listen.

[junta]

Self centeredness to the point of pathology many times is another attribute that sticks to them. I have had the pleasure of working with many an arrested development libkid and the worst was a boy PHD candidate who desperately wanted to be a prof so he would never have to grow up.

[manc]

I know one girl who stayed in school because she loved it and she told me that she doesn’t want to work and her parents are paying for school,

she is now 31 and still in school taking other degrees and still not had a proper job yet of course she’s a big liberal too.

[junta]

Sounds about right. Marxism/socialism works for them because they are subsidized.

[CSM]

I agree completely.

[FrankR]

Now, ol' Leonard got out his old "So You Want To Be A Journalist" paperback and got engrossed in Chapter number 6, "Angles and Spins on the News".

Now he's trying the old "reverse psychology" trick - an old ploy, but obviously strange territory for him. Affirmative Action does not guarantee Affirmative RESULTS.

Now, I'm not sure if Bro' Leon thinks this will "scare" Palin, or not, but it's definitely an "I would worry if I were you." challenge to her. But Bro' Leon forgot - or never noticed - Palin is pretty hard to scare.

Bro' Leon's obama worship knows no bounds, and I'm thinking that he would give all of his bling-bling to get the messiah re-installed for another reign as "Reparations & Redistribtion Organizer" for the country formerly known as Amerika.

You see, Leon knows if the kenyan gets back in office again, there will be no limit to the reparations and redistribution going on around here...well, at least no limit until the parasites kill the hosts...US

Still, Ol' Leon didn't read far enough in his little "how to" book to see that it is "man bites dog" that is real news; when it's just another "I hate Sarah Palin" piece - (ho-hum) it amounts to little more than an high school book report with a C-minus grade.

Now, come'on Lenny...get a grip, you can do better than that column; it lacks class, it lacks gravitas, it lacks journalist dignity, and it lacks style. You know, Lenny, "how to" books can only teach you so much, you have to remember that experience and intelligence counts too.

The moral of the story is, while ol' Lenny is running around bragging about how he nailed Sarah Palin, she doesn't even know HIM. Bro' Leon didn't say a thing in his alphabet soup regurgitation that she hasn't already laughed off a thousand times before.

But, boy...didn't he really zing her with the "notes in the palm" remark...wow...I'll bet she's not even heard that one before. That was what...two weeks ago? Where have you been Leon?


"Hey Leon...Talk to the Hand!"

Just remember Leo, while Sarah only has crib notes in her palm, you can practice safe sex in YOURS. LOL

[rbmillerjr]

They are so petrified of her.

Conservatism to them is evil...packaged in a woman brings about hysteria.

Pitts looks like a fatazz drunk with a low IQ.

[mc5cents]

To a liberal common sense=stupid. Who needs it if you’re a liberal-progressive. Who needs facts for that matter. They just get in the way of their agenda.

[Kandy Atz]

Liberals smart, Conservatives dumb yada yada yada...

If “intellectuals” are the ones currently destroying are once great nation, I will be happy to elect someone who is not considered one. Common sense, wisdom, integrity and Conservative values are what built this country. Not a bunch of “deep thinkers” from once respected universities that are now nothing more than progressive indoctrination centers.

Obama an intellectual? Please! Let me uh, uh, hmm, uh, umm, get back to you on that. I’m still searching for those other 7 states and testing Obama’s magic breathalyzer on asthmatics. Yea, he’s real a brainiac.

As I said before, I would have much more respect for liberals if they spoke the truth instead of the pandering and lies we hear daily from the left. We may not be “intellectual,” but we are not liberal sheep either.

6% believe that the Obama stimulus created jobs? I weep for my country that there are 18 million people so completely lost when it comes to politics and the economy. I’m guessing that number is made up of government workers, the media and celebrities.

[ohioman]

As with all Leonerd Pitts articles, at least it is correctly targeted with a MEGA BARF ALERT. I wish Pitts would do us a favor and go fishing in the Bermuda Triangle by himself.

[highlander_UW]

If Obama is an idiot for reading a prepared speech off a teleprompter, what are you for reading notes you've inked on your hand like a school kid who failed to study for the big test?

No, Obama IS an idiot who reads prepared speeches...he's not an idiot because he reads prepared speeches. But honestly, if he can't speak to a class of 6th graders without someone writing down what to say for him why do you think we should take his vaunted intellect seriously?

And answer me this...how many words did Palin have written on her hand? 4 or 5? So she was able to give a speech with just a few words as a reminder, whereas Obama needs every word of his speeches presented in front of him. Again, try to look at it objectively and tell me which one is the better speaker...and I said speaker, not reader.