Sarah Palin blames everyone but herself.
One expects this from middle schoolers. Presidential wannabes?
Even Ann Althouse gives up and declares Palin a hopeless dummy. Her comments thread comes alive with accusations of elitism. Of course, none of them question that a bunch of Ivy League chickenhawks casually manipulate the masses to thirst for ever more war while absurdly rich contractors and weapons makers reap the benefits. They understand how the system works: get a dummy with a nice smile to sell the policies the eggheads concoct. Nobody expects Sarah Palin to know anything. Her diehard supporters know that if they can somehow figure out how to get America to once again drop all standards and put another used car salesman in office, she’ll be told who to put in her cabinet to carry out the unbridled interests of entrenched power. What’s so entertaining about her is that she’s so terrible at being charming or feigning good judgment, yet the depraved GOP base simply refuses to accept that there’s a problem. They’re so hopelessly broken over past glories, like Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the movie I just finished watching, 500 Days of Summer, that they’re unable to function in the present.
-jb
November 14th, 2009 at 6:54 am
I don’t have a problem with her as much as I have a problem with her supporters.
The dumb ones are as bad as the dumb Obama supporters I’ve met. Nothing there, but yet they keep yelling that they both will change everything for the better.
November 14th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I have a problem with Sarah Palin. And it’s not that I just have a problem with conservatives–if Clinton had gotten the nomination I’d have had to think long and hard about choosing her over McCain. But Palin, to me, represents most of what’s bad about the Republican Party today–anti-intellectualism going so far as to become a complete lack of curiosity about the world and the people in it, red-meat populism, a complete inability to see two sides of an issue. I think she’s awful.
But, sadly, Althouse’s takedown was not even remotely convincing. That’s the best she could come up with?
November 14th, 2009 at 10:22 am
I hate to defend Althouse, but she had two pages to work with, and made the point that virtually every word was whining about how helpless Palin was or evidence of massive ignorance.
November 14th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
But, sadly, Althouse’s takedown was not even remotely convincing. That’s the best she could come up with?
And note the howling reaction to the most tepid of criticism.
November 15th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
“And note the howling reaction to the most tepid of criticism”
And that’s why her fans are batshit crazy.