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"I love Sarah Palin. She seems like a really good mom so I'm sure she'd be just fine in the White House."

My cousin during the 2008 election. When ignorance meets naivete meets smug mother people.

Quit trying to oppress me Knowles!!

Your use of the word unanimous is erroneous, since at least one person the reads this and comments regularly likes her.

The guy shot his television and then turned the gun on his wife because he doesn't like Bristol Palin?

Must have been an Obama voter.

Is Paddy here with drinks? Because I'm not touching this without alcohol.

Just to make it interesting:

REALLY?

I don't understand how even the most staunch conservative can see Palin as anything but the vapid fame whore she is. Is there nothing these people won't defend?

Obama has a knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Palin 2012 is the best thing that could happen to him.

I like Michael Palin...

seriously Knowles, what is wrong with you, you shouldn't site one particular indifidule on the sight if you don't want their to be problems. Im with ya BigTodd. PALIN 2013! PALIN 2013! PALIN 2013! shes going to rock barack HUSSEIN Obama.

I got your back Scully. It took me a while to load up the shot glasses and spinach dip from the Prisco thread and haul them over here, but now I can officially announce that THE BAR IS OPEN.

Oh and it may be scripted, but you gotta love the fact that even the incredibly un-hip daughter knows it's embarrassing for a woman in her forties to be wearing prom hair. In day light. While pretending to do target shooting.

Hold up, BigSuper. Woul'dnt wan't you to misrepresent all y'all Big guys.

Total misuse of the Big Apostrophe, there. (reference: Oxford Comma).

"don't" should be "do'nt", and sofourth and somesuch.

Carry on, Wayward Son.

So it was Murray who drew the shortest straw ever and has to review the show? I confess, even if Palin were a pinko liberal Commie lesbian organic farmer who was dating Rachel Maddow, I couldn't stand more than 10 seconds of that voice. They should play her voice over loudspeaker in the Afghan caves. Bin Laden would surrender in ten minutes.

Is Paddy here with drinks? Because I'm not touching this without alcohol.

"How's that hidey-seeky stuff workin' out for ya?"

make them all go away - please - all shallow shells of people - go away palins go away - blow away

oh a flame party is were bunch of people sit around talking shit about someone they don't know, hoping to get another person to argue with them. I get it now can I play too?

At least Sarah Palin will survive when the zombies come.

Great. Another Scylla and Charybdis apocalyptic scenario to worry about.

wow Parker was that a voice of reason on here

Of course she'll survive when the zombies come. Her followers are a mindless mob of knuckle-draggers who advance themselves by sucking the humanity out of society. Zombies are her core demographic.

"At least Sarah Palin will survive when the zombies come".....perhaps. But if she does , it will be for the same reason that the ravenous brain munchers rejected Homer Simpson. She simply does not have that which they seek.

Oh, hang on, that was not MM's mistake. But it looked real! Well done, that's hard to do.

The sight/site thing on the other hand, that's too obvious. I didn't start readin' here yesterday.

I am growing more and more convinced that BigTodd is not real and instead someone is working an elaborate practical joke at all of your expense. (and I encourage you all too bear that in mind next time you want to engage him on whatever tangent he is building on. The only winning move is not to play).

Having said that, I am glad I didn't have a beverage when he called Dustin "Knowles" because I would have done a literal spit-take at that. Figgy, I know we don't want to encourage him, but I nominate "Quit trying to oppress me Knowles!!" for ee.

Yeah, Big Todd, I generally don't engage in or provoke political discussions on here, because I know it's a pretty liberal place. But a headline like that just screams to be disputed.

I appreciate good debate, but the tendency among most liberals to simply resort to insults makes it tough to have civilized dispute. Insults are the resort of those who can't actually debate intelligently. So it's usually not worth it, ESPECIALLY on a faceless forum. When there's a complete lack of respect for the person to whom you're speaking and your entire being just drips with disgust and disdain for you, it's difficult to talk about ideas, reality, and political theory.

Oh well. I love Pajiba. I just chimed in to say chill the fuck out.

*THEIR entire being...

@Rykker

It's all just a little too perfect. It feels like satire. At first it was subtle, and mostly in the Pajiba Debates and Fox News posts. Now he is popping up everywhere and always presenting himself as the perfect foil to the prevailing liberal viewpoint of Pajiba. Yesterday he was telling us he has a dozen kids and doesn't believe in vaccinating them (just holistic medicine and the power of prayer). It's too perfect. He knows us too well.

@Todd

Oh, I got the insult/joke. But that's exactly my point. It was too good. You know us too well. You may not be Pookie, but you are someone. It was a good run, my friend. I respect the hell out of you for pulling it off like you did. Legendary. But the jig is up. I'm on to you.

Parker >> I resent your generalization about "most liberals." Ad hominem attacks are hardly exclusive to the left, and I have witnessed no evidence that it is a tactic more commonly employed by those with my political leanings. I probably could dig up quite a few attempts at my part for intelligent debate on the internet over the years that resulted in little more than name-calling at my expense that somehow inexplicably rendered my opponent the winner (at least in his mind).

Perhaps we react in an overly visceral manner to Sarah Palin, but you have to expect a few overreactions when the Republicans came so close to putting her a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. She's not your "least favorite," but were you honestly pleased with her as a running mate? Throw out these negative reactions - do you think she deserves the level of positive fervor and devotion that she continues to receive? Isn't it possible our reactions are also a response to her unearned widespread positive reception?

not a dozen, 11, I said I prefer holistic meds, and prayer, but God made Doctors for a reason. I read comments for months before making a comment. The only thing you are onto is my left nut

I too hate the assumption that because we loathe a fake hypocritical fame-whore that we must be liberals. I'm surely no conservative but liberals (politically speaking) have plenty of idiots of their own. If they didn't Palin's whole act wouldn't work as it does.

Todd, The only thing in this post that was about you was Dustin's recognition that you'd be the first one to differ at his comment about everyone hating Palin. Everything else is simply commentary on her TV show, which is what this site does. When Palin's inevitable "documentary" comes out (It's coming. We all know it) this site will review it and most likely bash the hell out of it.

I...like...turtles. And Beer.

The only thing you are onto is my left nut

Hey, Paddy, I'ma grabbin' the last beer out the cooler.
I'll buy if someone flies!

Does anyone else think Ms. Palin has stunning legs? I'm stunned. Stunned, do you hear?

Obama's experience for the position of president was far scarcer.

Do elaborate. Please.

I can make Black Russians. In fact, you can see them from Palin's house.

If Paddy's Black Russian comment doesn't get in EE I say we form an organization to refudiate the process. We can call it the EE party.

Rykker: we are running low. I have an oldbotyle of peach schnapps. That should hold us while Scully does z run to the liquor store.

Well, it's sort of hard to elaborate on a LACK of experience, but here are some thoughts...

Palin: 44
Obama: 47

Palin: served as mayor
Obama: served as community organizer

Palin: served as Governor
Obama: served as Senator

Palin: chair of Interstate Oil and Gas Commission, chaired Alaska Conservation Committee, chaired National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee, passed two major pieces of legislation – an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws and a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline in her first term

Obama: wrote two autobiographies, no major pieces of legislation, worked with ACORN, a nonprofit group that was recently involved in the biggest case ever of voter registration fraud

I'm not saying I want Sarah Palin to be president. I don't. But no way was Obama more qualified through experience to hold the office. That's what I'm saying here, like or dislike.

Hate the Palins? Nope. Wven at their worst (and as hilarious as that FB standoff was), I can’t muster hate for Bristol, Willow, Tripp, Trig or Panic. It’s hard enough to figure the world out as a kid in a regular family, much less as the child of a mother who uses you as a political prop in lieu of actual policy. As for the First Dude, he seems to be at least smart enough to keep his trap shut, at worst it would be largely guesswork or guilt by association.

Hate Sarah? Were she a threat then maybe, but her presidential prospects go down every time she opens her mouth. Don't take it from me: when the guy who masterminded 2 terms of GWB quits your corner, you’re pretty well running on empty:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011160004

It’s hard to imagine any powerbroker worth their salt suggesting a potential candidate open themselves up to a reality tv level of scrutiny. Usually the trick is masking the smell of their shit, not putting it on open display and telling passers-by it's sandalwood.

"I've met her twice, she is sweet as all get out. And very stunning if I do say so myself."

Posted by: BigTodd

So what you're saying is, you feel she's adequately qualified to be POTUS because you want to fuck her?

While I don't think it's true that "Nobody Like the Palins", I think it's pretty easily demonstrated that (former) Governor Palin's profile far outstrips her actual popularity. Recently, among Alaska Republicans, she polled behind Huckabee, Gingrich and Romney. And in this CBS News poll,

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20018819-503544.html

she has only a 22% approval rating.

So I don't know why I'm talking about her. Therefore, I'm getting a drink, and watching a movie.

she is sweet as all get out. And very stunning if I do say so myself.

I hear this is why McCain picked her as a running mate. 'Cause everyone knows his skinny old-man legs and cantankerousness could only pull in 237 electoral votes, on a good day.

Um, sorry Snugglepants, but I wasn't making fun of community organizing. It's a comparison of executive experience.

Obama's speechwriter is terrific. Off the cuff, he's not so eloquent.

The guy actually thought he'd been to 57 states in the US. That made me a cringe a little.

And he wasn't a law professor. He was a lecturer. There is a difference.

Anyone mention Biden as a vice-presidential fool? As long as gaffes of epic proportion are on the table, maybe it's a fair comparison...

I just think the "Palin is stupid" is a bit overplayed. Our current vice-president can't seem to keep his foot out of his mouth, but no one freaks out about that.

He may not be real, but he is still entertaining.

Mrs. Snuggiepants? May I be excused of regurgitation?

Charismatic is not a qualification for president.

It's not even a qualification for teacher. I know a few teachers who are so damn charismatic, their kids would follow them out the building where ever they led, like the Pied Piper. But they can't teach the actual content for shit because they don't understand it very well themselves. They often remind me of Palin.

(And you are using your local schools, even if you aren't currently sending children there. How? Well, there aren't thousands of feral illiterate children roaming the streets all day because they aren't being educated, right? Then I call that a win and the schools are working for you, educating your future fellow community members. There's a bigger benefit than just the one under your nose, is what I'm saying.)

Being president isn't being beauty queen popularity princess. It's so so very much more than that.

Why are we talking about this woman again? I feel like Groundloop up there has the right idea.

/off to mix a drink

For Parker to read: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_barack_obama_really_a_constitutional_law.html

If the University of Chicago says so I'll take their word at it, how's that?

Gaffes? Everyone makes gaffes. EVERYONE. Queen Elizabeth II is one of the most careful speakers I have ever heard and has made verbal mistakes a time or two. They're rare, but they happen even to her.

No, I was talking about intelligence and knowledge (which, of course, are different things). And yep, I'd pit Biden against Palin any day. I'd pit nearly anyone against Palin. She's one of those "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" people, God love her. She's in good company, I mean a lot of people aren't too sharp. But I don't want them in any position of power or leadership, either.

BigTodd I honestly don't know what it means to be excused of regurgitation. I really don't, no joke. I think the teleprompter thing (never understood why that was a big deal, either) got answered by someone else.

Nope, I dislike stupid people in my own party EVEN MORE. They REALLY piss me off. (I'm thinking of some local people who have run for state office, good Lord.)

Again: gaffes are not the same thing as intelligence or knowledge. And there was a showdown between Biden and Palin: the 2008 debates. I could very easily tell which person knew what they were talking about and said things of actual substance and which person failed on both counts (the latter would be Palin).

Vince Noir has the right idea. Enough is enough.

May I just take a moment away from the ... debate to go back to the picture of Bristol above?

She's like some G-rated dominatrix, "Behold, I will blind your eyes with my black granny panties, and you will FORGET that I cannot dance! mwa ha ha"

"I will show you my sexy kneecaps and you will faint with desire!"

"Don't even think about fucking me or my mother will have to refudiate you till you beg for mercy."

Aw, am I the only one who likes BigTodd? It's about time this place got riled up and bitchy again.

(Plus it's like he's that Jim Bob Duggar guy. He's got 17 kids. Best get a move-on, Todd.)

My first gut reaction was I don't "hate" Sarah Palin, but after giving it a lot of consideration, I really, really, really, really, really dislike her. She is just the antithesis of everything I would consider a qualified elected official, of any level. Under any other circumstance, she would just be like one of the drones in my mom's local county Republican's ladies auxiliary. And that's what bothers me so much, she is no more qualified to lead a country than my mother. She might be well-meaning, but terribly, terribly wrong.

Okay, the Nyquil is kicking in. The combination of that and the boxed wine should be enough to kick this flu. Sorry I won't be awake to read the rest of this flame war.

I think Palin was picked as vice-president candidate as assassination insurance, like Dan Quayle. I don't think even John McCain thinks she would be the best the Republican Party has to offer in 2012.
As for the reality show, why not? Gotta be better than Jersey Shore. Not that it matters to me, since I don't watch TV anyway.

Charismatic is not a qualification for president.

By: Snuggiepants

It is not alone a qualification for president. But, do you know what charismatic is a primary qualification for?

Cult Leader. Koresch, Jim Jones, that Heaven's Gate guy? All charismatic, all enigmatic leaders.

I wandered back over here, but perhaps the conversation has died down. Anyway, Parker, most of what Snuggiepants has said represents my position in comparing Obama to Palin, particularly the comment about listening to the two of them talk, whether they are on their respective teleprompters or not. It's true that he did not have the executive experience that she did (that she would later quit, as mentioned several times above), but it is blatantly obvious to me that he is not only vastly more intelligent than she is but also much more measured and considerate in his decision-making. Obama is much more likely to see the grays of this world and to approach issues with humility. Those are qualities that I consider extremely important for a chief executive who must deal with an increasingly interconnected global community.

The very idea that the "57 states" gaffe is some sort of credible measure of Obama is laughable. Try having every single word you ever speak put under the level of scrutiny that a Presidential candidate must endure. I'll take the cringe-invoking moment of the 57 states misspeaking incident one hundred times over before I'd ever stomach that video of Sarah Palin confronting the teacher over her "worst governor ever" sign.

The thought of her in the Oval Office is simply terrifying to me, and I don't think that is an overreaction.

I think I like superasente again.

Whenever this woman opens her mouth she subtracts from the sum of human intelligence.

And Christine O'Donnell's no better.

EXCUSED OF REGURGITATION: The rare respite from vomiting after a night of serious drinking. Usually accompanied by spinning rooms and a flushed face.

Man, I drank 47 shots of Patron last night but was miraculously excused from regurgitation. I did, however, hallucinate like a motherfucker.

You all are worried about an idiot with no executive experience possibly taking control of the office of the president, yet conservatives are currently living that exact fear through Obama/Biden.

Irrationality, thy name is Palin-haters. Seriously, what are you worried about? A woman who is all noise, sound, and fury, that in all likely hood will amount to nothing?

I mean, clearly nobody likes her (which is why she pretty much routinely outpolls the current seated president.)

But since most of you on this site have grafted yourselves human-centipede style to Obama's proverbial teat, I guess I'm just pissing into the wind here.

Sarah Palin quit her elected job to make money. Hard choices...

Still.

Still?

STILL?!

/throws up hands and storms out

Wha te fuuuuucks goin on ere? Did I misssss th fighh? Fuuuuckin ello shots. Imma goin back t sleeeep.

wow and people call me a troll? and this is what you call a flame war? multiple people pointing out a typo? what a buncha pansies. If you really wanna see a flame war I'll show you one.

Terriers is crap, Daniel Criag is a sissy bitch, Obama is nothing but a puppet for George Soros, and aicn has better reviews.... that should start some shit

I paid you mom extra to help me sosumi

I don't hijack them all but if I really wanted to I could.

Someone teach me how to do a heart HTML tag. I need to offer one to Rykker.

So I've gone from being Pookie to Barbadoslim? not only are you pansies but you are nitwits too.

Sarah Palin quit her elected job to make money. Hard choices...
Posted by: vllach at November 18, 2010 9:01 AM

Boy, you libtards wouldn't know the truth if it came up and bit you in the ass. Palin was saddled with 500K in personal debt caused by having to defend herself against frivolous ethics complaints and lawsuits. Taking money from the state to defend against those bullshit complaints would have violated state law. She had a choice of going broke or leaving office.
I'm surprised nobody is making fun of her down syndrome kid like they did during the election.

*Comes inside, stumbles over detritus.

Shit, did I miss a party?

*Shambles off to drink alone.

And there was BIG cash to be made NOT being governor, oh yeah, you BETCHA!

She's a quitta!

From a swedish POV:

I like how it´s a given fact that MAYBE Palin can be president of the US..."land of the free, and all that other crap"
She´s charismatic!...even sexy?
She has a chance!
Not on this site of course...but nevertheless...

Vladimir Putin would shit in his pants LITERALLY if you send that woman...And then eat her alive(maybe literally?)
U.S have power over the world(wether you like it or not)...pls don´t send Palin to us...PLEASE?

the Palins,.....are a joke! their nothing but publicity stunt,....no way in hell,...can that stupid retard of a woman , even comprehend what it would take to be in the white house,....more less,...be in a outhouse. all you tea party members are a bunch of losers ,....and you all need to get a life,..intead of keeping your head up the palins ass,......I seriously feel sorrow for the burden that brisko,..must endour being the daugther of that crazy stupid woman and a teenage pregnancy statistic ....they all need to go back to Alaska and if they are what alaska produces,...I am seriously sorry for the state of Alaska,....state of idiots...