Reader comments: Palin was persecuted
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no they didnt! they just let her speak, she took the handle from there.
joe biden makes blunders and sounds like a dolt sometimes. i accept that.
palin is less knowledgable than an AP history student and has less of a grasp of intl affairs than any college student who has taken a poli sci class.
her statements weren't freudian slips. she was the most offensive insult on American intelligence imaginable.
palin is cancer to the american body.
Out of all the possible great picks (including Romney), McCain settled on one of the worst prepared and unknowledgeable politicians I've seen. To this day, Palin takes no responsibility for her gaffs. I remain convinced we dodged a bullet in keeping her out of the Whitehouse.
Meanwhile, there are still people out there who believe Obama is a Muslim.
Neither the Democrats nor the media treated her "unfairly" or with disrespect anymore than she treated them. Palin was and is an intellectual disaster, a 95 IQ who never read a textbook trying to tell nuclear physicists what an atom is. She got sent back for regrooving, that's all.
She's not qualified for the job she has now, and certainly not qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Thank God the McCain/Palin ticket was defeated -- the country really dodged one there.
She can break into her usual neocon act calling her opponent:
America-hater
Socialist
Baby-killer
Communist
Muslim
etc.
Mainstream America will reject that Limbaugh-sounding trash-talking once again.
Fey did not make Palin look bad - Palin made Palin look bad.
She was persecuted because she isn't smart enough to run a city with the population of 2 let alone become the VP of the United States. Of course following schrub-dub she looked like a genious.
Still, she was WAY out of her league if she really thought she could be the veep and possibly the president one day.
You said it perfectly. That said, she was the perfect choice for republicans. They don't want smart and articulate. They want a person who believes in the same myth and superstitions they believe in. It doesn't matter if the person they support cannot run a country, what matters is that the leader they vote for is a xenophobe who believes the world is 6000 years old and that people are black because Cain slew Able.
She was persecuted because she was treated much differently than if she had been liberal. If she were Obama's running mate and had the same demeanor, gaffes, and other mistakes she would have been given a total pass by the media (if you don't believe me, just look how they treated the total buffoon Joe Biden).
It's an end of an era neocons.
America works best left of center - not further right than Genghis Khan or Hitler.
Palin wanted to kill this research, because she thought it sounded like waste. If someone is running for office, an office that may somehow have an impact on research budgets, and she wants to pontificate about research, she ought to do her homework first. She didn't. For that, and other reasons, she didn't get the job.
Palin was and is a tragedy. Her failure is emblematic of the failure of Bush and the failure of Republicans in general.
She was savaged by the press. Remember the stories about armies of lawyers and journalists landing in Wasila to do opposition research? In contrast, BHO got, as usual, rose petals strewn before him. Many of the bumps in his road would have completely derailed a candidate on the right.
We have a press that is FAR from impartial and that is bad for the country.
Only an idiot could think the media treated Palin like any other candidate.
No rights for gays. No rights for women's reproduction. Illegal wire-tapping. Authorization of torture. All are symptoms of this disorder.
So knock off the stupid Alaskan woman jokes (and yes, Sarah Palin knows full well that you cannot literally see Russia from Alaska, she was just being allegorical). I thought feminists and liberals in general were supposed to be above such dissing. Its so 1950s...
Sarah Palin was ill prepared for what she tried to do.
But she's a big girl. She did her best and her best simply wasn't good enough. We can admire her for that. Run for the top office in the nation and you go under the microscope of scrutiny. Every thing you say can and will be used against you. If you have what it takes. You will prevail. If you don't you'll get what you deserve. Now... who's next?
She will either shine or fade away...
The point of this blog is to examine one particular matter which speaks volumes about Palin's integrity and decision-making capability. The goal being to enable Alaskans to make informed choices about their future political candidates. If voters are unable to examine a candidate on matters of integrity and if journalists are unable to ask perfectly reasonable questions (i.e. what papers do you read?), then we have a serious problem.
It is very nice for a change that "Joe the Blogger" can now act as a journalist, encourage creative thinking and scientific analysis and not sit back and swallow every pre-digested bite the media hands to us!
>>Can anyone name another candidate where the media went after their family with such hatred and bile<<
If memory serves, the press went after Nixon's Carter's daughter pretty hard.
>>Were Obama's kids attacked by the media like Palin's kids?<<
No. Because, Barack was smart enough to not place his kids out in the line of fine (metaphorically of course).
>>Only an idiot could think the media treated Palin like any other candidate.<<
Reiterating my previous opinion, Sarah brought all this agony on herself. I can't recall who said it but Mooseburger i.e. Gov. Palin proved it, "the only difference between a wise man & fool is a wise man knows when to keep his mouth shut."
Or, As Mark Twain quipped, "People may think you're a fool. Don't open your mouth and prove them right."
As far as her being the #1 choice of the GOP in 2012 - I say (with apologies to George W. Bush) BRING HER ON!
She did come back AFTER being briefed to provide the answers she should have had at the time the questions were asked.
It's a poor carpenter who blames the tools for the outcome of the project.
I liked the comments from Timj - if I want to find someone to be there to run this country, I'm not going down to the local tavern to recruit someone off their bar stool, nor will I take that person on the campaign trail as being someone to listen to.
She is just as qualified as Obama. Let's get real about the situation she is on the money so to speak.
People are sooooooooo blinded by Obama & you will see in about six months to a year about him.
The media are so wrong about her from the start & I know everyone know this is the truth. Palin has alot of people behind her all the way. You go Palin on as you are & stay the same.
I do wish Obama well & so do other Americans. He's going to need it by far. I do wish him success.
She was in fact treated like any other candidate ... the difference noted was due entirely to the extremes of her own personal shortcomings. She was a laughable choice to VP by any reasonable measure and the press behaved proportionally.
That some folks are insulted by this and still maintain that Sarah Palin was a qualified choice for VP is truly sad. It's a commentary on how easily swayed some folks are through fear and thinly veiled lies.
That they stubbornly cling to these views is equally sad but unsurprising after the polarization of the past 8 years.
You would think the adherents of the Far-Right would have gotten the message when America replaced them in the House and Senate and now in the General Election in November.
to make matters worse she took it personally. that is the first rule in politics, don't take it personal or everyone will pile on. Duh. maybe she will learn that one for next time. if not she will fail miserably again!
>>If the GOP feels the party is not "right" enough, let them pick salty-tongued Ann Coulter for their next Vice President and see how voters react.<<
Olbermann & Maddow would have to be on 24/7 not to mention Letterman & Leno.
Though, it may cause Lewis Black to finally stroke out.
So sorry Shara. boo hoo hoo hoo.
This is nothing more than the standard left-wing Taliban approach to politics -- since you know you can't win on issues, you resort to smarmy invective and ad hominem attack, to avoid having to advocate a losing position.
Note that in none of the comments above is there a single mention of disagreement with a specific position Sarah took or advocated during the campaign.
That's because snotty, snooty personal attack has been substituted for actual substance in the liberal playbook.
Sad.
America-hater
Socialist
Muslim
Baby-killer
and America soundly rejected her.
And now the Far-right whines: "Palin was persecuted"
That's like Ann Coulter demonizing single-mothers and blacks on "The View" the other day and then whining to the hosts: "You're attacking me!"
LOL!
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