Palin's Biggest Deficiency?

[StClone]

Alaska is as far from, and as isolated from, the U.S. as Hawaii. She is woefully disconnected with the Lower-48 and has an abridged relationship with people and politics outside Alaska. As far as I can tell she has the least amount of interconnectedness with America than any other Vice Presidential Candidate ever.

Schooling in Idaho and Hawaii and trips outside Alaska are majorly deficient for her to know any more about us than we knew about her pre-V.P. selection. She can not Governor what she does not know or understand. Especially the way she has seen to operate in Alaska as her way or the highway mentality is so Bush-like. She's American but as far removed from our shared experience as it can get. This is not a positive value -- heck she's closer to Russia!

[BlooInBloo]

1. Biggest deficiency: she's an idiot.

[alsame]

Yes, that too, LOL. n/t

[arthritisR_US]

7. she's a total waste of skin. n/t

[StClone]

31. You know some say she's sexy.

I just don't see it in her skin, nor her soul(lessness).

[arthritisR_US]

42. you are dead on!!! n/t

[StClone]

8. Love an Idiot when everybody gets $Ks for just being Alaskan

Hell Alaska is a Welfare state. They hunt fish and pretend that they are the bad ass and live off the bounty of all.

[alsame]

2. IMO, her radical positions will be more detrimental than any of

the issues you mention, although they will all contribute. But her views are so extreme and out of touch with the mainstream that they will be her downfall, once the 'novelty' of her candidacy wears off. Only hard core fundies and neo-cons will stick with her after that, everyone else will be turned off.

[Fumesucker]

10. I disagree....

I think Mrs Palin will resonate with a lot of voters, particularly the "low information" types who make up such a huge portion of our electorate.

I'm already hearing rumblings from my own family and I know that if I try to argue it will only degenerate into a real life flamewar.

[BeFree]

21. So

You're giving up already? You're a quitter? You're just gonna lie down and let her take over the country?

Man, those are some fumes you suck, eh?

[Fumesucker]

23. I should blow my family apart for no benefit at all?

Make no mistake, I've argued politics with my family before and it never turns out well. They are neither stupid nor freepers but they are classic "low information voters" and arguing with them is completely pointless, it's like trying to get me to care about football.. It's not going to happen.

I live in a very red area of one of the reddest states, how I or my family votes is not going to change anything here.

And the fumes I'm sucking are financial...

[BeFree]

26. Ok

Sorry for beating you to a bloody pulp on the fumes thingee.

But you say your family is low info.... well, give 'em some info. DU is full of it and it's free.

Tell ya what, it makes DU a far better place to keep positive and progressive, and you bummed my trip by your negative words. That's whay I had to beat on you. Can you dig it?

[Fumesucker]

29. Are you a sports fan?

I'm not and when I start hearing sports talk MEGO (my eyes glaze over), I don't know the lingo and it bores me beyond tears..

That's the way they are with politics, you can almost watch the synapses turn off in their brains. Kind of like the scene in 2001 A Space Odyssey where the astronaut is unplugging HAL's memory..

The most frustrating part is they all know that I'm far better informed than they are on politics, history, pretty much you name it, they will ask me specific questions every once in a while but if I try to volunteer any information at all I get told I'm "browbeating" them.

[BeFree]

33. Seems Palin maybe your ticket then

All the salacious stuff that is coming/will be coming out about this new celebrity may just get their attention. Wait, what tread am I on? Nevermind, find a hammer that works and eat some sense into them and come back with some good news, K?

[StClone]

39. Come one DUers Unite -- McPalin is the enemy

Be nice or I' go all Joe Lieberman on you.

[cliffordu]

3. Born without a soul??

[OneGrassRoot]

13. I second that. n/t

[StClone]

22. Copy Right Infringement Alert.

"Born Without a Soul, the Sarah Palin Story" Official Biography of Sarah Palin. Regenery Books.

[cliffordu]

44. LOL!

:rofl:

[sutz12]

4. Well, the idea that John McCain likes her is no plus in my book. nt

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

5. Credibility n/t

[kestrel91316]

6. There's probably nothing but bible verses in that empty head of hers.

And poison oozing from every pore.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. She's a Reich Winger.

A Rabid Reich Winger...a Dick Cheney neocon.

[HereSince1628]

11. If she was in Oz, I'd say she could play the part of the scare crow AND the wicked witch

No brain and very nepotistic (remember "Who killed my sister?")

[On the Road]

12. Well, It Does Not Seem to be Calcium Deficiency

Seriously, I worry about the provicialism, too. Especially because embedded in the Alaska provincialism is the deeper provincialism of the Assemblies of God.

[StClone]

16. Yeah Provincialism is accurate

There is something unseemly about an accomplished Alaskan that translates to a NO BODY in the 48% that is the rest of the U.S. Run thought the Republican imagery machine Palin is most omnipotent. PRESTO out pops this tenacious Conservative pit bull. She leaves a body count. I doubt real politicians down i the 48 will yield to where her ego out strips her reach.

[DailyGrind51]

14. Calcium?

[StClone]

19. Nah Krytonite

[ColbertWatcher]

15. She's a sociopath?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3939460&mesg_id=3939460

[StClone]

17. I feel it but

I didn't think I have the credentials to label Palin sociopath (I really think she may be).

[ColbertWatcher]

20. It wold be nice if we knew SOMETHING about her.

It might stop some of this rampant speculation that's been going around the internets.

[StClone]

25. There is a solution

An Alaska incommunicado retreat for a few weeks so to develop your mouth piece education and indoctrination into the horde of soul-selling Social Conservative Corporate Tools. No doubt there's more to this story.

She's really a blank slate onto which the mind control master of the RNC shall write. "Don't worry Sarah we've develop your narrative."

[ColbertWatcher]

27. True, but America still doesn't know a thing about her.

She needs to start answering questions.

[StClone]

30. Sarah talking off prompter

Would be the unraveling of the whole storyline that is being weaved. I doubt she will go on any TV interviews until she is fully educated about the real "Sarah Palin Story."

[ColbertWatcher]

35. No doubt. BUt, how long is it for her to memorize Hillary Clinton's bio? n/t

[StClone]

38. She won't mention Hillary anymore

She gets booed for using Hill as a mentor-figure. I think the Hillary's disenfranchised supporters meme was a bust and is pretty dead.

[ColbertWatcher]

40. That may be true, but I wouldn't put it past the GOP to steal certain parts of her story. n/t

[lonestarnot]

18. Agree! A sociopath from what we've seen of her, she fits the definitions quite nicely.

But then I'm no shrink, or Bill Frist the cat killer either. :)

[StClone]

32. LOL. Getting Frist's name alongside Palin's

Fifty bonus points for you lonestarnot!

[Odin2005]

24. She's an insane culture warrior.

She'll get the crazed right-wing Boomer Culture Warrior vote but she drives away everyone under the age of 30. Folks born in the 70s, 80s, and 90s grew up with all this culture war shit and we are SICK OF IT!!!

[StClone]

28. College Republicans types

Throw these worthless fucks into that group too, though they came by it via a differing route. Whereas older folks grew up in a world of some hardship and blame outsiders and minorities for their troubles, College Pukes are pampered. Most under thirty and live in a reality vacuum that allows them to cotton to the ideals of Nordquist, Rove and Reagan.

[Fumesucker]

37. Some of you are sick of it...

I personally have been fighting these battles so long I feel like Frodo going up against Mordor, I'm SICK OF IT too!!

Stop fighting though and Mordor wins.

Is that really what you want?

[Odin2005]

43. I didn't say we should stop fighting.

I just said people my age are sick of hypocrite moralists (not all of them on the Right) whipping up people into a fervor over social issues and demonizing "the other" while poverty, healthcare, the environment, and our crumbling infrastructure gets ignored. It's why I've supported Obama since before he got in the race.

[Fumesucker]

45. You said you are sick of the culture war...

You have two choices, give up and let the right have their way or keep fighting.

This crap has caused a great deal of friction within my own family, nobody hates it worse than me.

I've been going back and listening to some of the music I grew up on back in the sixties and seventies. What struck me most strongly is that we are fighting the same battles against the same enemy we were back then. In that respect things haven't changed at all.

I'm old and tired of fighting, we lose this one and I'm going to be too discouraged to keep fighting any more, I'm going to leave it to you young people and just doze off in my recliner.

[noamnety]

34. power-hungry corrupt neocon fundie

I don't care where she comes from - I'd be fine with an Alaskan who's against military imperialism, is not in the pocket of oil companies, and doesn't feel the need to rewrite laws to enforce their biblical interpretations.

[StClone]

36. My argument fails

Because I would support a pro-environmentalist, aboriginal empathetic, anti-corporate social leaning V.P. from Alaska even with little exposure to us 48er's.

[ladjf]

41. The lack of humility.