Poor, Pitiful Palin - Page 7

TheMercenary · 11-23-2009, 07:41 PM

Ahh... Life is filled with diverse views on many subjects. It is what makes this place so grand.

ZenGum · 11-23-2009, 08:14 PM

Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody has one but that doesn't mean we want to see yours.

(not aimed at anyone in particular there).

TheMercenary · 11-23-2009, 09:41 PM

Well to be honest I can't stand Palin either. I just think turnabout is fair play. I subscribe to none of them. Really. It is all a bore.

classicman · 11-29-2009, 10:38 AM

Many wish she would just go away, including a lot of conservatives who agree she's just a nutjob.

ZenGum · 11-29-2009, 11:12 PM

Yeah, and I wish she'd keep that daughter of hers off the net, too.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-01-2009, 07:10 PM

Y'know, Classic, I am not very impressed with those. Assorted people, some of them really pretty goddam grubby, run about clanging the cowbells chanting "Palin is a nutjob, Palin is a nutjob," but I just don't see it. It looks much more to me like a cultural clash between stuffy Northeasterners and the necessarily rugged and frontiersy Alaskan than any question of even eccentricity, to say nothing of mental health.

richlevy · 12-01-2009, 07:18 PM

Y'know, people were saying things like "Don't look at her personal life, just her policies". That is not an absolute. The one question I had for her was "Now that you know from personal experience that good teenage girls from good families have sex, have you changed your view on only funding abstinence only education?"

She could say she hasn't and keep her base.
She could say she has which would show the ability to learn from experience and change.

She would probably dodge the question and attack the questioner.

TheMercenary · 12-04-2009, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

Y'know, people were saying things like "Don't look at her personal life, just her policies". That is not an absolute. The one question I had for her was "Now that you know from personal experience that good teenage girls from good families have sex, have you changed your view on only funding abstinence only education?"

How do you know that she did not know previously that "good teenage girls from good families have sex"?

xoxoxoBruce · 12-04-2009, 11:28 AM

I read a quote where she claimed it was a surprise her kid was sexually active.
That statement surprised me, but I don't remember where I read it.

TheMercenary · 12-04-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I read a quote where she claimed it was a surprise her kid was sexually active.
That statement surprised me, but I don't remember where I read it.

It has been my experience that most parents say the same thing, esp when their kid shows up prego. They knew it went on but never thought their kid did it. All the more reason to educate kids in all aspects of sex education and make contraceptives available to them when they do become sexually active.

richlevy · 12-05-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

How do you know that she did not know previously that "good teenage girls from good families have sex"?

I'm saying that, giving her the benefit of the doubt, she based her 'abstinence only' decision on her personal beliefs and experience. After she was 'surprised' by her own daughter, did this alter her beliefs in any way?

The distinction between ignorance and stupidity is that the first means lack of knowledge, and the second means the inability to learn.

As a potential voter, I am curious as to her capacity for learning and adapting to new circumstances as well as doing what's best for her constituents versus what's satisfies her political base.

Give credit to Obama that on most of the major issues right now he is willing to piss off his base to get things done. From what I hear, on this specific issue Palin is still giving the party line. If she got into office and her worldview got a shock similar to that in her personal life, would she be able and willing to adjust, even in her first term in office and looking at reelection?

TheMercenary · 12-06-2009, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

I'm saying that, giving her the benefit of the doubt, she based her 'abstinence only' decision on her personal beliefs and experience. After she was 'surprised' by her own daughter, did this alter her beliefs in any way?

The distinction between ignorance and stupidity is that the first means lack of knowledge, and the second means the inability to learn.

As a potential voter, I am curious as to her capacity for learning and adapting to new circumstances as well as doing what's best for her constituents versus what's satisfies her political base.

What constituents? She is not in any office. She is not running for office. She wrote a book and is trying to become a mouth piece for the far Right. Why demonize a mother who is not unlike any other mother surprised by a teen pregnacy who is her daughter.

dar512 · 12-01-2009, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Assorted people, some of them really pretty goddam grubby, run about clanging the cowbells chanting "Palin is a nutjob, Palin is a nutjob," but I just don't see it.

It must be really fun to live in SoCal. People hardly ever run around here clanging cowbells. And when they do, they never bother to chant.

richlevy · 12-01-2009, 10:03 PM

Sorry, but I absolutely had to do it.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-01-2009, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512

It must be really fun to live in SoCal. People hardly ever run around here clanging cowbells. And when they do, they never bother to chant.

Danggggg... that's just... well, it's terrible.

"We will fight for Bovine freedom,
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo
Or die...
Cows With Guns!"

11-23-2009, 07:41 PM	#1
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Ahh... Life is filled with diverse views on many subjects. It is what makes this place so grand. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-23-2009, 08:14 PM	#2
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Opinions are like arseholes. Everybody has one but that doesn't mean we want to see yours. (not aimed at anyone in particular there). __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-23-2009, 09:41 PM	#3
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Well to be honest I can't stand Palin either. I just think turnabout is fair play. I subscribe to none of them. Really. It is all a bore. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-29-2009, 10:38 AM	#4
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Many wish she would just go away, including a lot of conservatives who agree she's just a nutjob. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

11-29-2009, 11:12 PM	#5
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Yeah, and I wish she'd keep that daughter of hers off the net, too. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-01-2009, 07:10 PM	#6
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Y'know, Classic, I am not very impressed with those. Assorted people, some of them really pretty goddam grubby, run about clanging the cowbells chanting "Palin is a nutjob, Palin is a nutjob," but I just don't see it. It looks much more to me like a cultural clash between stuffy Northeasterners and the necessarily rugged and frontiersy Alaskan than any question of even eccentricity, to say nothing of mental health. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

12-01-2009, 07:18 PM	#7
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Y'know, people were saying things like "Don't look at her personal life, just her policies". That is not an absolute. The one question I had for her was "Now that you know from personal experience that good teenage girls from good families have sex, have you changed your view on only funding abstinence only education?" She could say she hasn't and keep her base. She could say she has which would show the ability to learn from experience and change. She would probably dodge the question and attack the questioner. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

12-04-2009, 11:28 AM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I read a quote where she claimed it was a surprise her kid was sexually active. That statement surprised me, but I don't remember where I read it. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-01-2009, 10:03 PM	#14
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Sorry, but I absolutely had to do it. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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