Sarah Palin Destroyed The Last Of GOP’s Intelligence

[GoLeft TV]

In a new op-ed in The Washington Post, former Chief of Staff to President Obama William Daley says that the moment John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate is the moment that the GOP descended into complete obscurity. Palin helped usher in the worst of the worst of the Party, and it sent a message to the Party’s leadership that they had completely lost control.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

[deathrind]

1. It was also the moment...

That I lost all respect for McCain...what a coincidence...

[Doc Holliday]

3. It was the moment

that he showed us all that he wasn't worthy of respect, or even being taken seriously as a candidate.

Putting Palin on the ticket was nothing more than a stupidly cynical miscalculation, especially without being vetted. The GOP actually thought they could scoop up all those disaffected Hillary voters just because Palin has lady-parts, too. There is no other demonstrable basis for this ridiculous farce of a strategy.

Whoever came up with the idea of putting Palin on a national ticket should have his cock nailed to a stump, then be given a good hard shove.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

7. I think they are gonna try it again,

If HRC gets the democratic nomination they will bring in some unknown woman that isn't in the debates right now and run her.

Or they just might get Condoleezza Rice out of hiding

[63splitwindow]

4. For him to attempt to put her within a heartbeat of the presidency...

displays something I do not have sufficient words to describe...... and I have a pretty large, colorful vocabulary.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. I believe the many appearances

of McCain on Meet the Press hastened a major decline in it's viewership. That also happened pre-Palin and only got worse. Remember how he opined the the Iraq war?

[FiveGoodMen]

6. "complete obscurity"

They descended into a lot of things but I don't think that "obscurity" is the right word for a party that controls the house, dominates the airwaves, and gets their way more often than not.

[BlueJazz]

8. Yeah, I was wondering about that "obscurity" myself. I mean, it sounds wonderful but then..

..reality rears it's ugly face.

[MissKat]

9. Let's not give her all of the credit

How about adding a few names like Lee Atwater, the master of slime. Rush Limbaugh, the mouth that roared. Glenn Beck, the master of conspiracy. Ann Coulter, a witch with a B., Fox and friends, nattering nabobs of negativity, all of these people have helped push the GOP over the sanity cliff. Is it any wonder that Republican voters don't want anything to do with Republican politicians? The GOP members of both the house and senate need to be put into a room and someone needs to scream at them-- "Your voters can't stand you." But I'm not certain they'd get the message.
I am stunned by the Republican leadership allowing the assault on education, mocking scientists and demanding that liberal thought be taken out of higher education. They yap about a war on Christmas when they're busy conducting their own wars against women, against intellectuals, against people of color, against immigrants, against anyone who wants to disagree with them.
I dearly wish that President Obama would've come out louder, harder, meaner about Fox News. I wish Democratic leadership would've stood up to the lying liars.

[63splitwindow]

11. The pugs who don't support the incumbent pugs are far worse...

on every issue you listed. They make the incumbents look far left by comparison. Take a look at the slime in the majority at the following site as one minor example.

[link:http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/politics-religion-and-controversy-88/|

[Skittles]

10. sorry, no, it was when the Supreme Court appointed that nitwit Dubya as "president"

[Pastiche423]

12. I agree

The party had already been destroyed by W, long before Palin came along to emphasize the destruction.