How long is this Palin Marathon going to last?

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

I mean, really, don't we have other things going on in the world? Don't we still have issues relating to the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, for example, that still need covering? And what else has been swept under the rug in order to give us nonstop coverage of Sarah Palin?

[saltpoint]

1. Sarah Palin is a 6-headed pink octopus astride a fire-belching shitwagon

rolling backwards down the main aisle of the Endtimes Tabernacle.

I for one am going to at least look out the window at that.

[Kierkegaard]

3. No you didn't!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[jeepnstein]

10. You win the internet with that one!

True, every word of it.

If they give her sufficient time to voice her opinions, the rest of the world will begin to see her for what she really is. Give her enough rope and she'll do the job on herself.

I think it should be mandatory that any serious contender for POTUS be required to submit to at least a year of press scrutiny with no handlers or spin machine running blocker for them. My true dream team would be a panel consisting of Noam Chomsky, the Ghost of William F. Buckley Jr., and Helen Thomas grilling a candidate with no advance preparation for eight hours straight. That would tell the tale. How do you think Ms. Palin would enjoy an ordeal like that?

[saltpoint]

13. That would be a great panel. I'd add maybe Judith Swallow and Amy Goodman

and possibly Bill Moyers.

Although any one of yours alone would be more than enough to reduce Gov. Palin to rubble.

She's in way over her head and her ego hasn't gotten the memo yet.

[beam me up scottie]

17. !

:rofl:

Thank you for that. :toast:

[saltpoint]

19. Hey there.

Good mornin'!

Last Tuesday we sure put the hurt on the GOP. I'm still pinching myself.

[beam me up scottie]

22. Me too!

My bf kept me far away from the media last Tuesday, we were caving all week and drove into Chattanooga around 11pm to get some food.
Found a Walmart (I know, I know-but we were starving) which we discovered was in the black part of town - pretty sure I was the only paleface in there, anyhoo, the night manager came on the intercom to announce that Barack Obama had just been declared the next President of the United States.

Walmart or no, that was a fucking great place to be to hear the news.

By the time we got to the car, I was bawling like a baby.

[saltpoint]

26. Not surprisingly, you are doing everything just right.

It IS a cool place to hear news of that sort, and if anybody mocks you for bawling all the way out to the car, whomp 'em on the head for me! Real hard!

Excellent.

[beam me up scottie]

32. My bf didn't mock me, thinks I'm nuts though (although that's nothing new, I am).

Most of the folks in the store were staff, it was awesome, some had tears in their eyes too, most were just walking around with smiles and dazed looks on their faces.

The only thing close to it that I can remember was when I was little, my dad took me to a circus (I know-I boycott them now but I was a little kid), halfway through it, the ring master halted the acts in all three rings so that he could announce that President Nixon had just resigned.

People were jumping up and down and cheering, my dad just had a stupid grin on his face - I never understood it until much later when I did a term paper on Watergate.

[saltpoint]

35. LOL! The circus audience cheered when Nixon stepped down!

I love it.

I was kinda happy that day myself.

Obama's election night win sent a current through an awful lot of people. It shook people in their bones and blood and all the next day it seemed as if people were just nicer to each other, as if a great burden had been lifted from them.

It just felt awfully damn good after 8 dreary ass-dragging years under Bush Cheney et al.

I imagined people in France and Bolivia and Taiwan saying, "Hey -- the Americans got it right this time."

[beam me up scottie]

38. The circus was in Vermont, a really cool place to grow up.

And one where you can no longer attend circuses with animal acts.

I'm still sort of dazed, I don't think any of this will really sink in until Jan. 20th.

It's going to be a wonderful new year, my friend, I'm thankful that I'll be sharing it with you. :hug:

[saltpoint]

42. Let me please second that, and I'll throw in a big blue hug to boot.

:hug:

[waiting for hope]

25. I'll bring coffee and cookies -

Can I watch with you? :evilgrin:

[saltpoint]

27. You betcha. Whoops -- I mean, certainly.

:thumbsup: :hi:

[Monk06]

29. Be careful what you say. If she mates with the Flying Spagetti Monster we are all in trouble

[saltpoint]

30. LOL!

[beam me up scottie]

39. Blasphemer!

The FSM would never touch her putrid flesh!

[Monk06]

40. What? He won't even slip her a little noodle for the sake of science?

I'd stand in line to watch that

[beam me up scottie]

52. Maybe we can get those two Canadian comedians to hook her up.

I'll leave that imaginary conversation to minds far more twisted than mine. :evilgrin:

(like the ones who photoshopped the FSM into that Japanese woodcut)

[Hekate]

62. That photoshop is strangely....fascinating. Someone must have been a very good girl indeed...

... to rate that visitation. :wow:

Hekate

[Monk06]

41. Dupe

[malaise]

34. That was

fucking perfect.
:rofl:

[saltpoint]

37. malaise, howdy, and can you believe we even WON?!

I'm in a pleasant state of shock, not quite able to process a blue Indiana, a blue North Carolina, and so forth.

Eight. Long. Damn. Years -- finally coming to an end this January when a very able soul takes the helm of the ship.

I'm psyched.

[cliffordu]

36. BEST. POST. EVER

:rofl:

[Lumpsum]

44. Best. Post. Ever. nt

[SmileyRose]

46. Another vote for Best post evar !!

[kayakjohnny]

2. I wonder too. It seems that she's such a freak people just have to keep watching.

Like 'rat-boy' at the carnival.

[salguine]

7. Yeah, but a raging narcissist like Palin just feeds on it, and her already

grotesquely swollen ego just keep getting bigger and bigger. THIS continued coverage is what's convincing her she's a genius and she ought to run for President in '12 (which is fine by me; it'll be like watching the Hindenburg approaching Lakehurst to tie up—and we now how that turned out).

[kayakjohnny]

11. Can you imagine her winning the nomination, then have to debate a very popular

incumbent with a 78-82 percent job approval rating?

[salguine]

24. Actually, no, I can't imagine her winning the nomination. Like every year that the

opposition party runs, they'll have ten or twelve candidates toss their hats in the ring for the Republican Primary, and she'll get chewed to pieces. She won't make the first round cut. She'll totally Quayle out. (Hey! I just coined a new term!)

[saltpoint]

49. True, but my guess is that the carnival rat boy knows how to read a map.

[Buzz Clik]

4. Apparently, you've kept Palin at the top with this thread. Any particular reason why?

[noel711]

5. Is there no more war? Haven't heard squat about it...

[FreakinDJ]

6. Long enough to bury the Bitch - I hope

I don't want to see a repeat of the "Air-Headed Cheerleader" in 2012

[TreasonousBastard]

8. I find more talk about her here on DU than...

out there in meatspace. Aside from that pointless Morning Joe brainrot where they just yak on about the latest idiocy, she's getting her 5 minutes on some morning news shows and that's about it.

She hasn't shown up at all on NPR, PBS, local tevee news or the two newspapers I read every day.

[saltpoint]

48. I bet she is in no hurry to go on NPR. Someone there might ask her a real

question and she'd be expected to answer it.

She's unable to handle Couric, so I doubt if she'd fare very well against actual journalists.

She may try for the 2012 nomination by doing an end run around the journalists and just show up for Regis Philbin and other pop programs like that, to avoid detailed interviewing.

[TreasonousBastard]

51. Can you imagine her up against Margaret Warner on...

The News Hour? That woman scares me like the librarians in fourth grade.

Or Terri Gross, who sounds so naive but sweetly goes straight for the jugular?

Heh-- as Gail Collins said a while ago in the Times, Palin's exotic and if she was a deer hunting soccer mom from New Jersey nobody would think twice about her.

[saltpoint]

61. Margaret Warner is a great interviewing journalist. She's really hit her

stride in the last couple years or so, and yes -- I think she'd take Palin apart.

[Birthmark]

9. Good question

I didn't think the shelf life of cheesecake was nearly this long.

[tanyev]

12. The longer it lasts, the worse her chances of going anywhere in 2012.

Keep talking, Sarah.

[KharmaTrain]

14. Oversaturate Away...

Here's the deal. For most of the campaign, she was the big "get" for the media. Since she was so controlled, she became a target for every interview show just due to the fact she was so hard to get. Now that the gag is off and Sarah can't shut up, the media is happy to let her babble herself into oblivion.

Consider this the epilogue on Part 1 of the Palin Place. She was going to be the target of the circular firing squad now shooting it out on the right...and she is gonna play poor victim (which the media is sucking up)...it's a game we should sit back and enjoy as the rift between the social and fiscal "conservatives" rift wide open the more she tries to "reshape" her image.

For us, she's just an irritant now...or a source of onging amusement. For repugnicans, she's either a symbol of "resistance" or a complete embarassment...and the more this grifter plays in the media the more she reminds people as to why she and Gramps lost.

[Submariner]

15. When we tire of her WORD VOMIT

I can't help but be amused at how responds to reporters questions. The word vomit seldom is coherent and sounds silly as hell. I wish I was a reporter to call her out on that, like "WTF did you just say, it makes no sense?"

[mondo joe]

16. Is someone preventing you from talking about other things?

[Phred42]

18. Till 2012 of course

:banghead:

[alwysdrunk]

55. God Willing

I mean, if we are talking about the BEST chance for two Obama terms, we should all be rooting for Palin harder than anyone. I might go to the Republican primary to vote for her.

[TransitJohn]

20. The first Tuesday in November of 2012 n/t

n/t

[Johonny]

21. Media thinks you love it

Just like they were convinced Clinton voters wouldn't vote for Obama and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

[Dogtown]

23. Palin speaks to/for the Fundies

When clearer heads w/in the GOP back-target this election and disenfranchise her, I'm hoping she'll go Libertarian and take her Fandies w/her.

Splinter away, you self-absorbed hack!

[saltpoint]

31. She does have the fundie following, but Huckabee claimed his

share of that vote also, and won Iowa with it.

Palin's task is somehow to eliminate anybody in her path, and it may get nasty if Huckabee wants the nom as much as she does, which I expect he does.

While things could change, I'm not seeing her out-flanking Huckabee for the fundie vote in Iowa.

[Marsala]

43. Don't underestimate the irrational love the fundies have for Palin

She is also more doctrinaire conservative than Huckabee, or at least she professes to be. Of course we know that Alaska is basically a socialist state, but Palin has hoodwinked the Republicans into believing that she is the second, female coming of St. Ronnie while Huckabee is a big-spending, convict-releasing, Fair-Taxing populist (which he is).

Still, Huckabee is a million times as talented as her and shouldn't lose, though they could split the fundie vote and let a "moderate" like McCain get the nomination again.

[saltpoint]

45. Agree that it is there and also that it is irrational.

what is interesting is the fight I expect between Palin's fundie celebrity power and Mike Huckabee's already-established Iowa turf.

That could turn into a bloody mess real quick.

[leeroysphitz]

28. As long as it takes.

I mean somebody has to pretend to lead the Republican party for the next four years.

Let us all, as sensible political animals PRAY that it is Palin and her mouth breathing followers.

If we can't beat them then we deserve to lose!

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[saltpoint]

47. Gov. Palin may be in for some hunting -- with herself as the

prey.

Huckabee fought hard in Iowa last January to win the fundie base and did a good enough job on the ground to defeat Brownback, the other Republican vying for that demographic.

It was a very close finish. Huckabee prevailed and Brownback dropped out.

Palin will have to almost move to Iowa to do as well as Brownback versus Huckabee, and Brownback came in "clean" with no national ticket defeats on his record.

Palin will be dragging not only her own reputation as a witless fool but also the extravagant clothes budget. If the recession is deep and long-lasting, that isn't a very good combination for a victory in the Iowa caucus.

There is also the hunting party itself -- GOP power-brokers who will be choosing the nominee to whatever degree they can. These folks will be hearing not only from Palin but also from Huckabee and likely Romney. They have a big say in what happens, and I'm not seeing anything about Palin's profile -- including any organization or ground game to speak of -- that would make her especially competitive.

Way, way too early to say, but if I were forced to lay my cash down on the barrel right now, I'd say Huckabee is going to blow her out of the water in Iowa. And then things get really difficult for her in New Hampshire.

[lies and propaganda]

50. shit.. we still havent dealt with Katrina

if were going back to shit they should be paying attention, were taking quite a stroll down memory lane!

[Sugar Smack]

53. I reckon it'll last until we stop posting & kicking threads about her.

;)

[saltpoint]

57. Republicans these days don't fare very well when they're given exposure.

Giuliani was a case in point. The more he went out to campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, the more people got to see what a sinister thug he was, and his numbers, which were top-of-the-heap for almost all of 2007, began to drop. Pretty soon he pulled out of Iowa, then New Hampshire, then South Carolina, and made his famous "last stand" in Florida.

No one to blame but his own self.

I think Palin is similar. She is not like Giuliani per se, but the longer she stayed in the headlines the less people liked her, up to the point where polling showed her dragging McCain and the ticket down.

If she is going to re-work her image, she has a great deal of work to do. I am not seeing her pulling it off.

[dkofos]

54. Until the end of the world. 12/21/2012

[yardwork]

56. Through 2012 and longer, I predict.

[saltpoint]

58. Often in politics I have to upgrade my opinion of a politician but in Paln's

case, I've had to downgrade it.

She's way worse than I imagined.

I think there is a feak-show attraction -- mostly because we just can't finally accept how spectacularly unqualified she really is for public service.

[Karenina]

59. I just. so. don't. get. that.

Truly, after her tabloid worthy roll out, I didn't think she'd last a week... :shrug:

[saltpoint]

60. Well, I hoped that she wouldn't, but now that she has, I'm eager

to see her set out by the curb for the trash guys to pick up and haul away.

She's too much of a flirt and not enough of a thinker.

My hope (and guess) is that the more experienced GOP party power brokers have already arranged her expedition to obscurity.