EDITORIAL: Abandon all hope ye who support Palin

Manassas News & Messenger ^ | 2/10/2010 | The Editors

[CharlesWayneCT]

If there was ever any doubt that Sarah Palin is a fool, she has removed it.

Once the governor of Alaska and a vice presidential candidate, Palin has left the confines of public office for the more sympathetic offices of Fox News.

She has also been acting as something of a de facto leader of the Tea Party movement.

Unfortunately, her new roles have not lent her the gravitas she was lacking as a politician.

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Palin has consistently shown herself to be thoughtless, uninformed, impulsive and opportunistic. If these are the qualities people look for in a leader, then this country has bigger troubles than the economy or war.

Palin hasn't ruled out a run for president in 2012. If conservatives truly want to end Obama's reign, we suggest that she is the wrong opponent to match against him.

[Wee-Weed Up]

We’ll see what these people have to say when every candidate palin endorses wins in the 2010 elections.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I agree, and wouldn’t have bothered, except that he did ask. Also, this guy isn’t an idiot, and I was pretty surprised at this editorial, and told him so, and that’s what started this.

[CharlesWayneCT]

No, there’s no need, but since I was asked if I would write a response column, I thought I should at least consider it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Thanks. Is it OK with you if I steal a line or two from this if I write my column? I’ve tried to make that argument but I think I like some of your wording better.

[Blue Jays]

"...For a woman called a fool, they sure are in paranoid fear of her..."

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You are precisely 100% correct. That is why Americans laugh at the mainstream media.
Moonbat journalists can't write a straight thought about Governor Palin without falling all over themselves.
Their screeching opinions often oppose each other...even in the same article!

[papertyger]

I have to wonder how you could possibly work for such an over-the-top reactionary moonbat.

It's situations like this that call to mind the eight stupid bastards that fired Rush Limbaugh.

[sniper63]

Blood in the water.....if she is such an absolute bumbler, why all the vehemence coming from the left? She is honest in her approach and does not talk or appear condescending (unlike the current doofus)to the audience she is speaking to. I don't ever hear her repeating the same talking points over and over to get the point of her speech across (again, unlike the current doofus). She also used three words written on her hand to jog her memory as to what high points she wanted to hit, unlike the current doofus who has to read a prepared speech word for word and still not get his message out.

She can answer a question off the cuff without having to scroll back through her speech to reiterate the talking point. It is nice to see someone who has the ability to speak from the heart and mean it.

[RobbyS]

About “retard” and Rush, Palin says she listens to him. That means she gets him. Your editors don’t.

[fireman15]

Thank you for responding to editorials like this one in your local paper. I quit subscribing to the local paper in the town where I am from. At one time I had lunch nearly every day with the former editor of the paper after he had retired. It was heart breaking to him to see the paper that he had built into a respected institution systematically taken over and destroyed be a succession of leftists with agendas.

I have had many letters published and frequently comment on the paper's website. I feel that it is my responsibility to try and counter the crap printed in my local paper. The irritating part is that even when one is confronted with outrageous nonsense one still has to remember that the editors hold all the cards. If you said everything you really wanted to... they will not publish it and they will often delete even your comments from the web page. At times it still feels good to let them know how you really feel, unfortunately you can only tell them you are canceling your subscription so many times before they figure that one out.

[gimme1ibertee]

The Editards sure are determined to make some so invalid,so insignificant,so no-issue,go away.
Sarah,you're over the target...keep your flak jacket buttoned up and keep bombing away! Love it!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

(((PING)))

[CharlesWayneCT]

“work for” is really a misnomer in the field of free-lance opinion columns. In 2004, the paper dropped a conservative writer and another one quit, and a friend of mine wrote to the staff and suggested they consider me as a replacement (I wasn’t writing editorials then, but I was active on an e-mail group where we discussed politics and local issues).

So now I send them a column, and get paid a pittance for it. And I get to say I’m a writer. My qualifications were that I can write complete sentences, and live locally.

The current editor isn’t the guy who first accepted me, he’s a young guy on the liberal/libertarian side of things, who usually does a better job of explaining and supporting his positions, even when he is dead wrong.

But I don’t really work for him, I just get a chance to put something conservative in the paper once a week and get lunch money for it. It’s a good gig, so long as I don’t think about how long it takes to actually write the column.

The key to making real money in opinion writing is to get syndicated, so you can get paid 100 times for the same column. That’s not going to happen for me.

[Crim]

Scared shitless.

http://www.progressive.org/wx020810.html

[jimt]

The editorial certainly qualifies as “opinion”, being totally fact-free.

This and a perusal of today’s Houston Chronicle while at the doctor’s office remind me that most “newspapers” are not fit for toilet paper, let alone reading.

[RobbyS]

My qualifications were that I can write complete sentences, and... That puts you ahead of most of us.

[hattend]

[papertyger]

I would comment but its so stupid I try avoid arguments with idiots It wastes your time and annoys the idiot

I disagree. "Stupid" should hurt. And it's our duty to "bring on the pain."

[ansel12]

This is from the local paper that publishes my column. It was particularly harsh, and has generated a lot of comments.

It wasn't really harsh, it was just juvenile. They need to pay some attention to the news before they try to reference it, the Limbaugh mistake they made was inexcusably ignorant and comparing the most bizarre and constant use of teleprompters that we have ever seen to someone inking six words on there palm, or even having a stack of index cards to refer to, is just juvenile.

Shouldn't something this trivial be in chat?

[papertyger]

...comparing the most bizarre and constant use of teleprompters that we have ever seen to someone inking six words on there palm, or even having a stack of index cards to refer to, is just juvenile.

One thing I deeply respect about my wife is her insistence on using her "palm pilot" as she calls it. I've tried to buy her the gadgets, but she insists her way is "good enough," and those that don't like it can go to hell.

[Deb]

This reminds me of when the Left used to say Reagan was a senile, idiot who was obviously suffering from Alzheimers in the White House. That means that a man who was barely conscious beat them in 3 presidential elections (I'm counting Bush 1), every major policy fight and for the support & love from the American people.

Pretty good for a doddering, old fool. Sarah will do it too.