Poor, Pitiful Palin

[SamIam]

PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking "only" for reasonably priced rooms and not "often" going for the "high-end, robe-and-slippers" hotels.
THE FACTS: Although travel records indicate she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) overlooking New York City's Central Park for a five-hour women's leadership conference in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000. Event organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her daughter. The governor billed her state more than $20,000 for her children's travel, including to events where they had not been invited, and in some cases later amended expense reports to specify that they had been on official business.

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Palin’s book appears to be attempting to re-write history. Yet even the dumbest high school kid knows that history is written by the winners, not by the losers. It gets even worse when you are a loser who is writing self-aggrandizing propaganda and expecting us all to swallow it whole. Anyone around here have some antacid?

[TheMercenary]

She is dumb as a rock when it comes to politics on the national level. Will Tums work for ya?

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

She is dumb as a rock when it comes to politics on the national level.

Yet, many within the Republican social conservative base just love her!

I guess that makes them "dumb as a rock" as well.

[SamIam]

Republican social consevatives are dumb as rocks? I would like to protest this slander on the behalf of rocks everywhere. RSC's are more closely akin to simple single celled organisms such as blue-green algae. Algal blooms can kill pets and even people. It is an example of a once benign organism gone haywire. Sign of the end times no. 983 - blue green algae take over the earth.

Go here if you want to worry about something today:

http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/clmp-toxicalgae.html

[Shawnee123]

I protest that post on behalf of anything on earth colored blue-green.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Redux

Yet, many within the Republican social conservative base just love her!

It's not just them, I think that a lot of people are so overwhelmed and disgusted with politics/politicians, they're attracted to her as someone they can identify with. Those people don't see her as being ineffectual in national/international politics, because of their own naivety in those areas.

I don't know anything about bugs or poisons, so I hired that exterminator because he's got a cool truck with a big bug on top.

[Shawnee123]

I think that's true. Some see her as a straight-shooter, one of "us" the way Joe the Plumber was thought of by some.

Of course, I don't see her that way.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Redux

Yet, many within the Republican social conservative base just love her!

A few weeks ago I met someone who aspired to be the senator of Alaska and he thinks something big is going to happen with Sarah Palin. She will be able to rally her base whether she is running for office or not and depending how the next few years go, it may have some strong effects. From my opinion, it is one of the best short-term strategies the Republicans can have since she will have two to four years to practice speeches and interviews and show how much she has grown.

On the other hand, I think this is a very foolish long-term strategy. The demographics of the United States are changing quickly and if the Republicans want to have a chance in twenty years, they have to change their stance to socially liberal. Palin may be effective in the next decade but the Republicans need to start looking for young fiscally conservative socially liberal Republicans to build up or they will be in trouble in twenty to thirty years. It will probably happen naturally but the more they push Palin, and others like her, the more trouble they will have in the future.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It's not just them, I think that a lot of people are so overwhelmed and disgusted with politics/politicians, they're attracted to her as someone they can identify with. Those people don't see her as being ineffectual in national/international politics, because of their own naivety in those areas.

Also people that don't like her speaking style and analogies probably would never vote her anyways so she doesn't have to take them into account. It will be interesting to see if she has changed for 2012 at all.

[Sheldonrs]

I've gotten very tired on trying to figure out what it is about Palin that would make ANYONE think she has what it takes to run ANYTHING.

From now on, all I have to say is "Sarah Palin...what a cunt!"

[Shawnee123]

Amen, Shel. The woman hasn't one redeeming quality.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But, but, but, she's a hockey-mom.

[Spexxvet]

But she kills mooses .... and probably squirrels.

[xoxoxoBruce]

And she can see Fearless Leader, from her house.

[SamIam]

I heard on NPR today that she might be thinking as far out as 2020. Maybe she'l look better in 10 years than she does now. I kind of doubt it though. In my experience age does not burnish character so much as it enhances what ever eccentricities that were there to begin with. At any rate, I can't imagine ever voting for her. She's cute on the talk radio circuit though.

[Shawnee123]

Oh, and I wish her daughter's baby daddy's 15 minutes would end soon. That kid is a puke!