Posted on 11/01/2010 6:48:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The mind of the demagogue is a foreign country. It has a strange culture, enemies that only the natives can see, a passion about the ridiculous and a blowtorch kind of sincerity that incinerates logical thinking. On Sunday, the custodian of one such blowtorch was on Fox News. I am speaking, of course, of Sarah Palin.
She was charming, amusing and believable. When Chris Wallace asked her about any presidential ambitions, she did not coyly say that she had not given the matter any thought. Instead, she said that if her party needed her, if her country needed her, if the need for her was truly great, then she would sacrifice her freedom of movement, the privacy she enjoys with her family — never mind their tabloid lifestyle and addiction to publicity — and give it all up and run for president. All over the nation, a fair number of Republicans reached for the antacid. Oy!
A Palin presidential candidacy, Politico tells us, gives the GOP establishment a near-fatal case of hives. The leadership generally considers her to be both unelectable and uneducable. (She seems hardly better informed than when she was a lone sentry, binoculars trained on nearby — and forewarned — Russia.)
A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that only 39% of voters viewed her favorably and a still lower figure, 27%, considered her qualified to be president. (Who are these people?) But as Republican leaders know, Palin's numbers are much higher among their own rank and file. With conservative Republicans, 55% think she's qualified to be president — and among Tea Party types, she wins by acclamation. The nomination, please.
John McCain's little joke is turning out not to be so funny...
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... and Ronaldo Magnus himself!
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Well said!
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You may have had an epiphany, but you obviously missed out on something a little better.
“Cohen, were you drunk when you wrote this?”
Well, if I were married to Meredith Vieira, I’d be hidin’ out in the old liquor cabinet;)
Lovely picture!
Yes, I think this deserves its own thread...heheheheh
Liberal pundits are almost becoming caricatures of themselves.
Lol! That’s great!
A little gory but otherwise, nice work.
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