Palin is Not the Answer

Reason Magazine online ^ | July 10, 2009 | cathy young

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just came across this...UGH?!

Meet Dan Tubagoo, Sarah Palin's speech writer.

it has this line:If you watched this whole thing and did not realize it was a parody then congratulations you may actually be dumb enough to have voted for Sarah Palin.

does have some Alaskan Websites...suppose they might be of the leftist variety.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The new Senator from Alaska get dissed :

Sell crazy somewhere else, we're all stocked up here

Sarah would beat Begich easily....

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As Alex Gimarc wrote on his July 7th piece here on the standard, it appears my hopes for Mark Begich have gone the way of the tooth fairy and Elvi Gray-Jackson. As you will all see in the weeks to come, layers of fees, fines, and taxes all in the name of “progressing the city” have amounted to a $17 million deficit, and some hard choices ahead. Begich has bought into the myth of “man made global warming” and here’s the worst part, this guy works for and speaks for us! Are you hearing me?

[dr_who]

Works for me. Particularly ones from Washington, DC.

[Mojave]

Future Contestant: U.S. American Presidents for one thousand, Alex.

Alex: She resigned her position as governor in order that she could successfully run for president.

BTTT

[steve-b]

While eschewing "victim feminism," Palin has enthusiastically embraced "victim conservatism": the grievances of cultural traditionalists who feel trampled and disdained by the more educated and influential (and often, more affluent) segments of American society. Like the "oppressed groups" of the left, these traditionalists have some valid complaints but channel them into a destructive ideology of polarization and resentment.
Such a zeal can energize the base—but also fatally split it and alienate the unconverted.

This is one of the fundamental problems with Palin -- her insistence on playing the victim is incompatible with any attempt to present herself as either competent or conservative.

[steve-b]

Nope; you’re the one who misrepresented the quote.

[Mojave]

It was an exact quote, as opposed to the disingenuous paraphrasing that was being corrected.

But you knew that, quoteless one.