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I’d love nothing more than a two term Palin presidency, to Slap America out of stupid and the Notion that our only valid choices is either one of the two busted broken parties running around the world embarrassing me for America every chance they get.Oh please. Palin agrees with 100% of the Republican agenda. The reason that the GOP turned against her is because she became a great big joke -- a caricature of the right that drove the independents screaming in terror. Name one GOP policy that Palin isn't a supporter of. Name one of Palin's policies that isn't in full agreement with the GOP. On the other hand, a Palin presidency might convince the left leaning states that the union needs to be dissolved, which is probably the best outcome for the people at this point. Let the whackos elect whackos to run their countries and keep them out of everyone else's business.
Destined to lead. Destined for the White House. Sarah Palin is the real champion of the middle class. That is why the media attacked her. She would have prevented the puppet Obama from shovelling 2 Trillion of our money to the DOW and Wall Street.Or destined to continue on her path as national scapegoat for the republican party? time will tell.
Sarah Palin is the real champion of the middle class. That is why the media attacked her.Champion of the middle class? Where do you get your weed? Which of her stated policies and objectives supports the middle class? Her opposition to health care, her support for big oil, or her support for cutting taxes on the rich? Perhaps you think her theft of $480m in federal funds for the bridge to nowhere was helping the middle class somehow? No? How about her outright lies in claiming that she didn't want the money in the first place? Only a moron would believe that she is any different from any other Republican. Every single stance that she has ever taken has been right in line with the GOP agenda. She's pro-war, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-stem cell, pro-gun, anti-union, pro-death penalty, pro-creationism, and a global warming denier. How is that ANY different from ANY OTHER mainstream GOP candidate? Claiming that she's "different" is intellectual dishonesty. She has the exact same agenda as every Republican leader since Nixon. By the way, "the media" didn't attack her. The left attacked her (obviously, just as the right attacks leading democratic figures), and Comedians mocked her for coming across as a complete idiot and not being able to speak coherently. The GOP doesn't like her because they think that she cost them the presidency. I don't think that's entirely fair though -- it was GOP who lost the election. The real Presidential race in 2008 was the Democratic primary.
By the way, “the media†didn’t attack her. The left attacked her (obviously, just as the right attacks leading democratic figures), and Comedians mocked her for coming across as a complete idiot and not being able to speak coherently.The media did attack her. They attack everyone, and she's no different. But she did make it easier...
he media did attack her. They attack everyone, and she’s no different. But she did make it easier…Which "media"? Other than the left (who attack every leader on the right), and Comedians, who was attacking her? Was Fox, WSJ, or any other right wing media outlet attacking her?
That stuff didn’t stop Bush now did it? Bush couldn’t tell the difference between WMD’s from Shineola, and he said New-que-lur around polite company. He was president twice.Palin's dad isn't George H.W. Bush, and turd blossom won't have anything to do with her. I'm highly skeptical that the GOP would actually allow a non-white male be their candidate any time in the next 20 years. she could run as an independent, sure, but all that would do is split the GOP vote and guarantee another 4 years for the democrats.
Remember, it is like that Star Trek episode with the “Will of Landru†and mind control cultist everywhere programmed to report on you. Keep cult members at bay, never let them persuade you to attend their “gatherings,†or enter your house or for god’s sake see your home made beer until you finish your phd and get the hell out of there… At least that is what my cousin told me… he did 3 1/2 years in Utah…I've spent most of my life here. I use the pioneer method, and do what the pioneers did. Yep, drive over the state line and buy alcohol in Vegas. :)
The “ONLY†person capable of “SAVING†this country, is going to be anything but an Republican or Democrat.I agree -- but Sarah Palin *IS* a Republican. If she runs as an independent, it will be on the EXACT SAME AGENDA as whatever asshole the GOP plops out. The same agenda that has been failing since Nixon. How is that "independent"? Real change won't happen until we kick the lobbyists out and have citizen funded elections. After that we should focus on figuring out ways to reduce or eliminate political parties, which are the real root of the problem. When you read an article that talks about how passing legislation is going to be difficult because some PAC or lobbyist is going to "fight it", you know how wrong the system is. Speaking as someone who voted for Obama purely as the better of two crappy options last November, I would absolutely love to have some viable candidates without having "Democrat" or "Republican" next to their name on the ballot. Frankly, none of the smaller political parties (Libertarians, Greens, etc.) appeal to me either. I want politicians who are able to look at a situation and make the best decision, not the decision that happens to win votes or be most consistent with arbitrary ideology. I want politicians who aren't going to waste my time and theirs grandstanding on bullshit issues like defending "the sanctity of marriage" or resolutions honoring michael jackson.
Just a quick question, how much worse could she possibly be?That's what you idiots said about GWB and look how much worse it was. I guarantee you if Al Gore was elected president in 2000, things would be a lot better now.
Just a quick question, how much worse could she possibly be?How much worse than who? She could be a lot worse than Bush, who in turn was a lot worse than Obama -- there's a LONG way you can fall. Another war or two would be awesome. That's really beside the point though -- you aren't going to "fix" politicians, so you might as well go jump off a bridge now if you think any candidate has any chance of doing that ever. Every democracy on this planet is full of dumb fucks and dipshits who waste time and money on dumb things. We put up with it because the alternative is some form of dictatorship (fascism, monarchy, empire -- take your pick), and dictatorships are entirely too unpredictable to be pleasant to live in. Democracy always has been and always will be a bunch of dumb asses elected by a bunch of other dumb asses that tries to muddle through and make society work. So far it actually works pretty well.
Problem is, I don’t think that’s politically viable. There’s no way this country would ever allow a fully government owned and operated healthcare system. We have to set our sights on something that could actually be achieved.Medicare and Medicaid??
You said it. Why does this society continue to insist that renters should be the shit that “homeowners†wipe off their shoes? So you overpaid for your house - why exactly should that make you one of the chosen people?Government policies have favored ownership the world over for a very long time. There has been plenty of research that shows that stability in living environment is very good for society as a whole. Aside from ensuring lower crime rates and higher school performance, home ownership acts as a nice dumb investment vehicle for people who aren't capable of managing more complex instruments. That's not to say that I agree with the bailouts, but you really should understand the government's reasoning in their actions. Well, that and 80% of registered voters are home owners.
Aside from ensuring lower crime rates and higher school performance, home ownership acts as a nice dumb investment vehicle for people who aren’t capable of managing more complex instruments....or getting screwed in the backside by same. When was it that houses became thought of as investments, anyway? Unless FLW designed it, forget it.
On July 31, 2008 Larry Kudlow interviewed Sarah Palin about a probe into an alleged scandal and asked her if she was interested in becoming John McCain's running mate. She replied: "But as for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does everyday?" On September 29, 2008 CBS aired one of the many parts of an interview Katie Couric did with Sarah Palin. In this particular installment, Couric asked "what newspapers and magazines did [she] regularly read..." and Palin responded by saying: "I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media." Couric pushed further asking "what ones specifically?" and Pain said, "Umm... all of them. Any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." It only got worse for Palin from there. A couple days later Couric showed another segment of the interview in which she asked which decision, other than Roe V. Wade, Palin disagreed with. Sarah responded: "Well, let's see. There's --of course --in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings, there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are -- those issues, again, like Roe v Wade where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know -- going through the history of America, there would be others but--" On October 2, 2008 Palin faced off against Joe Biden in their first (and only) VP debate. She said several hilarious things, but her winking is what most of us still remember and what gave Rich Lowry of the National Review "little starburts," most likely in his pants. On October 11, 2008 Sarah "I'm a hockey mom" Palin appeared at a Flyers game to drop the ceremonial first puck and was greeted by resounding "boos" from the crowd. On October 20, 2008 Sarah was interviewed by an NBC affiliate in Colorado, which passed on a question from a local third grader who wanted to know about what the Vice President does. Palin answered: "[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." Which is blatantly untrue. On November 1, 2008 Palin unwittingly took a call from a Canadian comedian posing as the French president. The fake Sarkozy suggested the pair go hunting together saying, "I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun." She responded, saying, "Well, I think we could have a lot of fun together while we're getting work done. We can kill two birds with one stone that way." The comedian went on to say his wife is "so hot in bed" and tell Palin that Bruni has written a song for her called "Du rouge a levres sur une cochonne" aka "Lipstick on a Pig." On October 5, 2008 Sarah Palin called Afghanistan “our neighboring country†during a speech to U.S. soldiers who must have thought, "This is what we're fighting for?" On October 15, 2008 Palin gave a speech in the Granite state and said, "I like being here," she told the crowd in Laconia, "because it seems like here and in our last rally too -- other parts around this great Northwest -- here in New Hampshire you just get it." The crowd was understandably confused. On November 13, 2008 Palin gave a speech that Jonathan Martin called "perplexing" and "jarring," because it was basically an old stump speech she gave a million times before she lost the election. Jonathan Capehart told MSNBC's David Shuster, "I watched her entire speech, and I had to remind myself that the election was a week ago, and this was not a McCain/Palin rally. Everything you heard at a McCain/Palin rally since she was selected as the Vice Presidential nominee since September, and even down to the same rhetoric was in that speech." On July 3, 2009 Sarah Palin announced that she would resign from the office of the governor, giving some a sigh of relief and late-night comedians a heart-attack. The speech was a little crazy: There was something about a fish and sports and a lot about politics and not quitting but then quitting. It was more confusing than when she explained politics to that 3rd grader. When Palin resigned she said that fighting unjust ethics complaints was immobilizing her. "I'm not going to let Alaskans go through a year of stymied, paralyzed administration and not getting anything done," she said. Someone asked how she would run the country if these accusations could stop her from running the state and Palin responded that the "department of law" protects the president. There's no such thing in the White House.---------------------------- I prefer a candidate that can formulate a pertinent, educated response. If I wanted someone who was unable to do so, I'd vote for BAP33.
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