My recent post on Palin hate was less about Sarah Palin than on the reaction to her and what that bespoke of the sufferers from Palin Derangement Syndrome. I concluded, thusly:
Sarah Palin, agree with her or not, is a symbol of the apolitical American citizen who wants to live their life, go where their talent and ambition takes them, provide and protect their families and does not want to think every waking moment about a bloated, hostile central government poised to control their every waking behavior.It comes down to power and the Palin-haters reveal their deep-seated conviction that “soccer moms” and everyone like them should have none. Even over their own lives.
Ever.
It didn’t take long for one of the cut-n-paste trolls to litter the comment section by slapping down the race card with a couple of risible links. When I dismissed them, along came Scott Kaufman to attempt a full hand of race cards in libeling me directly a “racist” because my post approves of people controling their own lives. In Progspeak that
“advocates creating and maintaining structural inequalities that disproportionately affect people who just happen to not be white.”
Oh snap. Shorter SqEK: If everyone doesn’t get to the finish line at the exact same moment, the race was rigged and the winners cheated. Q.E.D.
Of course, SqEK decided to add “proof” of Palin’s [and anyone that doesn't want her dead] racism by providing links to a handful of photos of the Fort Bragg without SqEK-approved levels of melanin. William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, takes a ginsu knife to both of SqEK’s race-mongering posts.
Scott Eric Kaufman, at the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, thought counting non-white people at Sarah Palin book signings was a cool way to prove that Palin and her supporters were racist because there were so few non-whites pictured in available photos.In fact, all Kaufman proved was that he was capable of playing the race card. Dividing and classifying people by skin color for political purposes has become the most convenient political tool of the American left-wing. [...]
What nonsense. Even if true that the crowd did not match the local demographics, it would prove nothing other than that Kaufman has a fixation on race and suffers from Palin Derangement Syndrome.
It is so easy for the Kaufmans of the world to falsely accuse people of being racist. In his post, since it was not enough to smear the crowds at Palin book signings, Kaufman also maliciously and falsely referred to one conservative blogger as a “noted racist.” Kaufman was so emboldened because this is the internet, and no one is held accountable.
Mr. Jacobson links to this MSNBC reporter covering a Palin book signing and at 1:45 the reporter states:
“I can tell you this crowd today was very, very diverse, a lot of people from different races, ages, all coming to see Palin and wanting get a glimpse of who this lady is that says that she’s going rogue.”
Reporter on the scene? PFFFFT! Scott “I see white people!” Kaufman knows better sitting at his desk in his office at University in Irvine checking the melanin level of crowd shots.
Not that this kind of nuclear option towards Palin is new. It certainly came out almost as soon as her first public appearance regardless of who attended. As Jeff pointed out then when analyzing a remarkable, even for a progressive, bit of demagoguery equating the linking of Bill Ayers to Obama as “racist” against Palin and non-leftists
And of course, Mr Daniel, in his self-righteous pique, fails to mention that “portraying Obama as ‘not like us’” is — rather than “another potential appeal to racism” — another instance of Obama’s own racial demagoguery: after all, it is Obama who peppers his stump speeches with accusations that the ideological opponents he caricatures will be frightened that we don’t see anyone like him on our currency, or that he has a “funny name.”I shouldn’t have to remind Mr Daniel that one doesn’t see many who look like Sarah Palin on our currency, either — and that she’s been drawn in the media as everything from a ditzy bimbo to a snowbilly trailerpark queen, a shallow Inuit-humper playing government in the great frozen kindergarten state of Alaska.
Because that kind of bigotry is acceptable — particularly when the target falls outside the establishment idea of who gets to be a “feminist”, and so who is member in good standing of a “protected” class.
Indeed. And it is that kind of ubiquitous bigotry that must be addressed and exposed at every opportunity.
Progressives are desperate to marginalize, demonize, threaten and even physically assault people who politically disagree with them.
We can’t let them.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 11/28 @ 4:58 pm #
Kaufman masks his gutter-level self-importance in the tired, transparent veneer of intellect. It’s such an easy ticket into the club for nauseating white liberals: get to the front of the line to be the one noticed touting your ‘anti-racism’ credentials. Plus it serves the double purpose of marginalizing your critics as beneath contempt in polite company. As intolerant as the finger-pointing in Salem, it’s like Bobby Hill winning every fight with a kick to the nads. Pompous snots like Kaufman are insufferable.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:01 pm #
I don’t think it’s out of the realm of the possible that rallying around the flag of Sarah Palin is sort of soothing and comforting to white people who feel rejected by their countrymen’s selection of Barack Obama. Not all the Mooseketeers, but certainly some. There’s something going on there other than an appreciation of her experience and track record of leadership. This is a phenomenon that eerily and ickily parallels the dirty socialists’ embrace of their Chicago street trash messiah.
Inexperienced. Charismatic. Bestselling author of fluffernutter.
This never ends well.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:01 pm #
countrymens’ I mean
Comment by Darleen on 11/28 @ 5:03 pm #
hf
Have you read Palin’s memoir?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:05 pm #
of course I haven’t… I just finished Marilyn Manson’s… his uncle was bad news
Comment by Darleen on 11/28 @ 5:06 pm #
hf
then you don’t know it’s “fluffernutter”. You’re speaking from your prejudice. I would hope for more from you.
Comment by BumperStickerist on 11/28 @ 5:09 pm #
My problem lies with the math.
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Which isn’t to say that whites make up the balance, but – damn – I think the Liberals and Race Watchers are making some unfair demands on 13% of the country — they need to be everywhere, doing everything.
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Comment by BumperStickerist on 11/28 @ 5:09 pm #
that looked a *lot* better when it was all lined up neatly in the comment
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:10 pm #
I have no appetite for revisiting that insipid and useless campaign and honestly Sarah Palin was nothing more than a hapless cat toy… she got batted around by … everybody. It was pitiful.
I don’t have to read her ghost-written book to know it’s another ghost-written book published to cash in on a fleeting notoriety. I didn’t read dickwad’s books either.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:15 pm #
That geriatric piece of shit loser she signed up with is as responsible as anyone else for the lack of oil development in our little country. If Sarah Palin can be said to have a signature issue, it’s oil development. Yet there she was, supporting his useless and destructive ass. This is not a woman of conviction.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:18 pm #
You don’t quit your governorship just cause you get a better offer. And if you do it reflects badly on you.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 5:21 pm #
i’ll take “by the bootstrap” miss sarah anyday over the “affirmative action” poster man/child
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 5:23 pm #
hf
how about the senate
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:24 pm #
If she had run against Lisa that would have been useful. Very useful.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 5:31 pm #
baracky left the senate before his term was up mr. burris bought baracky’s seat
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:32 pm #
baracky is not the gold standard I don’t think
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:33 pm #
sorry… grumpy cause of still sick… there’s carrot juice on the way over
Comment by Darleen on 11/28 @ 5:35 pm #
hf
did you ever answer my question on if you thought it was better that Palin remain governor and let the state of Alaska suffer and her family be destroyed?
I get it. You don’t care for her. But at least get with reality.
Comment by Carin on 11/28 @ 5:39 pm #
I just don’t think HF has much use for Sarah.
I don’t know exactly where I place her, and I’m actually torn as her being a figurehead. But, she is one. Like it or not.
I do say, though, aside from her running for office or whatever, she was a pretty normal conservative woman. The attacks on her were, basically, an attack on every conservative woman out there. The vitriol directed at HER is directed at “us” as well.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/28 @ 5:41 pm #
This is not a woman of conviction.
I don’t think even you really believe that, hf. VP candidates don’t go around dissing their Pres. candidate’s or party’s policies in the middle of a campaign.
If anything, Palin’s apparent convictions and character are her strongest feature. Coming off the bench– hurt — to score the winning basket in her state high school championship, working her way through college, resigning a lucrative state job to expose corruption, challenging and overthrowing a corrrupt state GOP mafia, deciding to have a Downs Syndrome child. This woman talks the talk and walks the walk.
She did the right thing resigning as governor. She was costing the state money and progress because of the kind of hate we see exhibited on this blog every day. Better to do what she’s doing now and use her influence to fight the
RINOs and help in the big fight. She’s having a much bigger influence right now than if she was a beleagured governor. I think it was great move.
Is she my first choice for Presidential candidate — No. Do I wish she’d tone down the sexy and learn some Maggie Thatcher/Kay Bailey Hutchison gravitas — yes. Even so, I’m confident Palin’s basic political instincts are conservative and freedom-oriented and free-market oriented. She doesn’t have that polish and word-play coolness that comes from having the free time to hang around in coffee shops with the cool kids, but underneath is somebody who is on the side of the right things.
Why in hell some people on the right of center feel a need to tear her up escapes me. She’s on our side.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:42 pm #
She owed a half mil… she may have owed more if she stayed … she had a legal defense fund … the total expense for the state of Alaska was fairly minimal … a couple mil at most … so, to spare herself some inconvenience, she let herself be hounded out of office… which, that’s an awesome precedent to set I think. This is a very self-serving woman I think. Her son Mr. Track told her not to bail. She should have listened.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:43 pm #
I love her politics though.
Comment by Darleen on 11/28 @ 5:46 pm #
she had a legal defense fund Which was the subject of yet another lawsuit that would have, at minimum, cut off her access to it until the suit was settled.
does the phrase “SLAPP” mean anything to you?
the total expense for the state of Alaska was fairly minimal
oh, you’re an expert on AK finances now?
This is just an area where we are not going to agree, hf.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 5:48 pm #
“the total expense for the state of Alaska was fairly minimal … a couple mil at most ”
that’s what demorats do
“After Wurzelbacher sued the three, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, a Democrat, decided to use taxpayer money to pay for the defense.”
here
Comment by B Moe on 11/28 @ 5:48 pm #
Even with a legal defense fund, if my legal bills reached 4X my annual salary and were still climbing it would make me reconsider my strategy.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 5:54 pm #
miss sarah at least got things done even after she left office while everything baracky touches turns into feces
Comment by Darleen on 11/28 @ 5:55 pm #
The attacks on her were, basically, an attack on every conservative woman out there. The vitriol directed at HER is directed at “us” as well.
Well said, Carin.
For all the talk of “soccer mom” votes that the Democrats nattered about during the Clinton presidency, there was always an underlying tone of smarmy condescension. Sort of the equivalent of patting family-oriented women on the head and saying “Don’t worry your pretty little head about this. We’ll take care of everything… just go back to ..to…well, whatever it is you really do all day. Continue on!”
It is the same kind of nastiness “feminists” aim at stay-at-home-moms and certain “professional” male “conservatives” aim at stay-at-home-dads.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:59 pm #
The attacks on her were, basically, an attack on every conservative woman out there. The vitriol directed at HER is directed at “us” as well.
I agree with that. But there’s still room for criticism and I think my criticism just sort of skews vitriolic. I could work on that.
Comment by guinsPen on 11/28 @ 6:01 pm #
This is a very self-serving woman I think.
List of non self-serving people:
1. Mother Theresa
2.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 6:03 pm #
…I’m actually torn as her being a figurehead. But, she is one. Like it or not.
I don’t think she’s discouraging her figureheadedness. I don’t know what her agenda is. I wish I knew what her agenda is.
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 6:06 pm #
“I don’t know what her agenda is.”
It just can’t possibly be better decisions in the governance of our fair nation, hf?
Comment by B Moe on 11/28 @ 6:06 pm #
Her agenda is to try to save our little country from dirty street trash socialists, ‘feets. She is just trying to do that as effectively as possible, but nobodies perfect.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/28 @ 6:06 pm #
so, to spare herself some inconvenience, she let herself be hounded out of office… which, that’s an awesome precedent to set I think. This is a very self-serving woman I think.
Not following you, feets. A precedent for what? It can’t be a precedent for the governorship. So you must mean a precedent for her future career, but I don’t think the woman is nearly as concerned with her own future as her country’s future. That’s her “agenda.” Yeah, I’m 56 and know full well the danger of investing that kind of trust in a politician, but that’s my assessment of her. And her agenda is why resigning the governorship was a great move. Who else is pulling the GOP away from the RINO’s? Newt? Romney? Where else are we going to get the leverage on these good old boys?
Again, I don’t think Palin’s perfect, but to paraphrase Rumsfeld, “You take back your country with the politicians you have at hand, not the politicians you wish you had.”
Comment by guinsPen on 11/28 @ 6:06 pm #
Read her book for clues, maybe?
Comment by B Moe on 11/28 @ 6:08 pm #
That was beautiful, man.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 6:08 pm #
I just meant she empowered people who would use those tactics. She confirmed that they work. In future only people who are capable of handling those tactics will seek the governorship. Not exactly a blow for democracy, and somewhat hypocritical given her narrative.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/28 @ 6:09 pm #
I didn’t mean any offense to our troops with the comparison, B Moe. ;-)
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/28 @ 6:14 pm #
I just meant she empowered people who would use those tactics. She confirmed that they work.
Hell, feets, those people/dirty fascists don’t need any confirmation on the tactics. They’ve been using them for 30 years now. I’ve watched it from inside academia the last 20. The most effective way to fight them is — like Jeff’s said — find a way to take back the entire narrative, and that’s what Palin’s attempting on a broad scale, I think. Oprah needed her more than she needed Oprah last week. To go on that show and start changing the narrative inside the lion’s denn — that’s what it’s going to take.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 6:16 pm #
“She confirmed that they work. ”
worked for whom? miss sarah’s agenda for ak is being pursued by the current gov. miss sarah’s making money and seeing her fans and the shitty little blogger in ak who was suing miss sarah used up their 15 minutes.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 6:29 pm #
i think it would be fun to have miss sarah field dress a moose on the white house lawn. more teddy roosevelt. without the progg stuff
Comment by Carin on 11/28 @ 6:33 pm #
Sort of the equivalent of patting family-oriented women on the head and saying “Don’t worry your pretty little head about this. We’ll take care of everything… just go back to ..to…well, whatever it is you really do all day. Continue on!”
Yep. The idea(!) that a woman can have opinions and be (reasonably) informed yet not be a bitch or a feminist or fugly … that’s a very frightening idea.
Feminists have built their castle on the idea that women who married and had babies are stupid, useless folk. Their “superiority” is simply assumed. That’s why they have to cut Palin down.
It’s all ironic and shit because Jenny Granholm was a beauty queen who’s really fucked up Michigan but good. Yet, Palin is the idiot, right?
And don’t even get me started on Debby Stabenow.
Comment by B Moe on 11/28 @ 6:36 pm #
No. If she would have stayed in her little office way up in Alaska, fighting bullshit little local ethics battles far from the mainstream media, then the tactics would have worked. You really think what is happening right now is what her opponents wanted? A best selling book and massive media prime time media attention?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 6:38 pm #
that’s a good point…
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 6:39 pm #
But I think it’s to be expected that she gets lots of media attention. They want her to be the nominee I think.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/28 @ 6:42 pm #
“But I think it’s to be expected that she gets lots of media attention. They want her to be the nominee I think.”
That’d be kind of backfirey, I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 6:47 pm #
It’s not like if she’s the nominee I won’t pretend I was her #1 fan all along you know.
Comment by Bill M on 11/28 @ 6:47 pm #
Ok happy, you incur half a mil in legal fees and climbing at your job and see how long you stay. Kind of hard to work for free or pay to do your job. Some AK legislators are trying to change the current law to stop that from happening again.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/28 @ 6:50 pm #
They want her to be the nominee I think.
I think you’re right, but I’m hoping she’s giving them a shoulder fake and then passing it to someone else (who?) for a layup. But if she’s the nominee, I’m going to war for her. Obama until 2016 means the end of the first American Republic.
Good night, everybody.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/28 @ 6:50 pm #
Cut your pet trolls some slack. They are bound to have a bit of a hangover from all the O! crow they’re shamefully eating in secret.
Their response to the impending demise of their political cult will be to post even more venemous hate notes than usual. Watch for the extra long knives to come out for our leaders now that even liberalisms house organ, The New yourk Times, has figured out what a disaster Barry is turning out to be.
The Times’ latest op-ed regarding Obama’s dithering (great word that) on a wide range of issues lets the rest of the legacy media know that it’s time to quit handling this administration with kid-gloves and puff pieces about Michelle’s Potemkin garden.
The tone of the coverage will change overnight to one of guidance and ‘constructive’ criticism.
Internecine warfare is always the bloodiest, so get some popcorn and settle in to watch the two wings of the Democrat party tear each other to shreds.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 6:51 pm #
mostly I just hope that all of the support for Sarah Palin is sending powerful signals to where we don’t end up with a Meghan’s useless daddy again… Pawlenty was a co-chair of M.U.D.’s campaign. That’s gonna be a hard thing for him to live down I think.
Comment by Random Lou Bega on 11/28 @ 6:51 pm #
self-serving [women]
I vote a hearty “yea.”
Comment by Mr. W on 11/28 @ 6:58 pm #
The New ‘York’ times said the same thing the New ‘yourk’ Times did.
Comment by Mr. W on 11/28 @ 7:03 pm #
I wouldn’t worry about RINOs running rampant in 2010. That particular herd will be very thin soon.
The Secular Savior, Barack Obama, being responsible for ‘producer’ America’s newfound embrace of conservatism is delicious irony.
Trolls unite!
Comment by guinsPen on 11/28 @ 7:05 pm #
We’ve been waiting for you, Miles.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 7:09 pm #
pawlenty for dog catcher 2012
Comment by greg on 11/28 @ 7:16 pm #
I’ve looked at some pictures taken during 0bama’s book signing events in 2006, and guess what, the overwhelming majorithy of people shown in the pictures are — gasp — white people. Same goes for the pictures i’ve seen of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s book signings. Maybe we should just outlaw book signings, or go out and round up black folks make them buy books, and make them stand in book siging event lines.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/28 @ 7:31 pm #
SEK just wants to get anyone not on the prog team in the search engines as a “racist.” This is what “good people” like him do.
There’s no use arguing. He’s not looking for a debate. He’s looking toward getting people not aligned with him politically preemptively dismissed from the debate.
As a good person, that’s his obligation.
We could respond by writing hundreds of posts labeling SEK a racist. But because he’s part of the “correct” political group, he can count on the “correct” people dismissing such charges against him without further digging.
This is the world of will to power — the world of consensus meaning, of the progressive usurpation of language.
You can thank Patterico and his ilk for providing cover for moral opportunists like SEK — all with the hope that they maybe won’t find themselves on the list.
Silly rabbits.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 7:53 pm #
i likes being a “tea bagging racist” makes see demorats plunging off a cliff
Comment by BumperStickerist on 11/28 @ 8:09 pm #
I was unaware that Patterico had ilk.
Comment by DEO on 11/28 @ 8:31 pm #
Oh yeah, her POLITICS…outstanding…
Sarah Palin/Fabio 2012!
Comment by Hvy Mtl Hntr on 11/28 @ 8:42 pm #
“I don’t know what her agenda is. I wish I knew what her agenda is.”
It is amazing to me that even up here in Alaska many of the fiscally conservative republican party people have a real gut-reaction dislike for Palin- she did govern more as a populist during her stint at the wheel up here; but I think the polarizing effect is due to her unabashedly pro-life stance.
She made the correct move by stepping down from the governorship- her administration was tied up with un-ending BS ethics complaints and going nowhere.
Politics at the national level is 3/4 showbiz, and Sarahcuda can deliver the red-meat soundbites it takes to energise the roots and raise $$ with the best of them. Do I agree with her stand on matters of faith and politics? Yes. Would I encourage her to run for higher office? No.
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 8:54 pm #
“I was unaware that Patterico had ilk.”
good man there
Comment by SDN on 11/28 @ 9:16 pm #
What’s really funny is that for all of her “unabashedly pro-life stance” — and it seems to be real — no one seems to be able to point to any official act / law / etc. of hers to get government to enact that agenda. That’s a text book example of what this country needs to have in its’ government.
Comment by geoffb on 11/28 @ 9:36 pm #
TPC!!!! Run!
Comment by newrouter on 11/28 @ 9:42 pm #
“That’s a text book example of what this country needs to have in its’ government.”
don’t offend the folks crushing baby’s skulls gotcha
Comment by Pablo on 11/28 @ 10:43 pm #
She enabled those people, and that’s where she fucked up. That was her ethics reform they passed and they left a loophole where any douchebag whatsoever could file an ethics complaint for free, and then the government had to play it all out with all the bells and whistles. That’s where it gets expensive, but they made it so you can get the ball rolling for free, even if you’re completely full of shit. That’s a mistake she ought to admit.
That shit is frigging Canadian. They need to fix it.
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 10:46 pm #
It’s sort of best to assume that the uses to which any ethics reform will be put will themselves be unethical, is the way that works out, it appears.
Comment by Pablo on 11/28 @ 10:58 pm #
What B Moe said. She failed them, in a good way. Plus she’s secured her family’s future for a good long while. Good for her.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 10:59 pm #
nauseous
Comment by sdferr on 11/28 @ 11:04 pm #
Captains of Industry make themselves corporals of unicornia, hf. Sad, that.
Comment by Hvy Mtl Hntr on 11/28 @ 11:08 pm #
“nauseous”
I’ll volunteer…. to kick some marxist prog ass!!
Comment by Great Mencken's Ghost! on 11/29 @ 12:59 am #
That number, 13%? Just wait a bit. African-Americans have a 55% abortion rate nationwide, approaching 70% in some states. Between that and black-on-black violence, the Margaret Sanger/Woodrow Wilson dream of a self-exterminating black race is coming true. Why do you think the Democrats are cozying up to illegal immigration so eagerly? Hispanics are a growing demographic, African-Americans a dwindling one.
Comment by SDN on 11/29 @ 6:21 am #
newrouter, no one, certainly not me, said anything about not offending them. Name them, shame them, preach against them, and don’t let them use the government for their agenda either. “No, we won’t remove the Catholic Church from the list of agencies getting grants or placing kids for adoption just because you are offended.”
Comment by JHo on 11/29 @ 7:32 am #
RACIST!
Anyway, I want to know when it’s safe to refer to the left as the slaveholders they are. Oh, was that aloud? See, left, you clowns endorse the country enslaving a disproportionally large percentage of a minority class in your welfare state, shouting they and us down when we protest.
Kinda like I did to BumperStickerist there, as obvious parody on leftism. By now it’s an obvious truth, this bullshit measure on your parts to lie through your teeth at the expense of millions. And their kids, and theirs, and…
I take it you find this class inferior.
You want to label Darleen or I or anyone a racist, SQEK? From your enclave? Depending on what national policies you support, I think probably you should rethink that.
Comment by ef on 11/29 @ 7:44 am #
no one seems to be able to point to any official act / law / etc. of hers to get government to enact that agenda. That’s a text book example of what this country needs to have in its’ government.
I really would love the chance to vote for someone who’s platform for president was “I’m going to pass absolutely nothing for 4 years.” That would be a major improvement over anything else that’s come to D.C. in the past 20 years.
Comment by Rusty on 11/29 @ 7:46 am #
11.Comment by happyfeet on 11/28 @ 5:18 pm #
You don’t quit your governorship just cause you get a better offer. And if you do it reflects badly on you.
Say. Has anyone seen Joe Biden lately? They got him locked up in the attic at the Whitehouse folding paper bags or something?
Comment by B Moe on 11/29 @ 7:47 am #
I would like to see what response the Fair Tax would get from a legitimate contender. I think it was more responsible for Huckabee’s strength than his religion was.
Comment by Pablo on 11/29 @ 7:49 am #
I’ll go you one better, ef. Give me someone who says “If elected, I’ll work to sunset every single law on the books, and then we’ll get down to figuring out which ones we really need and we’ll spend our time passing those again before they expire.” I’ll vote for them repeatedly, and I’ll pay people in cigarettes and crack to do likewise.
Comment by Pablo on 11/29 @ 10:18 am #
This is beautiful. HuffPo headline: Sarah Palin Quits Turkey Trot 5K Race In Kennewick, Washington
Then, the first article linked in the hit piece: Palin participates in Turkey Trot
Note the 2800+ comments on the HuffPo piece, each more bilious than the last. God, how they hate her. You don’t see them hating John McCain like that. How could you not love her?
Comment by B Moe on 11/29 @ 10:41 am #
Pictures of the quitter.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/29 @ 11:31 am #
Those would be the “sanctimonious pragmaticrats”, as Jeff dubbed them.
Comment by SDN on 11/29 @ 3:03 pm #
So, ef (and others), it isn’t that you don’t like Big Nanny government; you just lurves you Big Nanny as long as the other kids are the ones getting spanked. Textbook definition of “hypocrite”.
The government has a real narrow range of powers, and getting involved in your religious disputes ain’t in there. No tax money to pay for abortions, and no tax money to close down people who want to provide them.
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Comment by JD on 11/29 @ 5:38 pm #
Fucking douchenozzle comment spam from that smegma eatin’ twatwaffle, SEK.
Comment by Darleen on 11/29 @ 6:29 pm #
No, SqEK isn’t about supporting The Narrative
Shorter SqEK: non-Leftists should SHUT UP
Comment by Alec Leamas on 11/29 @ 6:33 pm #
Hey – you know what’s really raciss?
Saskatchewan.
It’s like someone made a province and no black folk showed up!
Comment by Pablo on 11/29 @ 7:19 pm #
Has anyone gone over to Squat’s Facebook page and checked out his friends and their melanin level?
Let me put it this way: Squat is a racist racist racist. Or a dipshit. Or both.
Comment by Grammatiknazi on 11/29 @ 7:20 pm #
So, after it was less about Palin, it was about this other thing?
(I believe the word you’re looking for is “than”. What a difference a letter makes.)
Comment by Darleen on 11/29 @ 8:21 pm #
#88 Gramma…yikes. mea culpa.
Comment by sdferr on 11/29 @ 8:50 pm #
As it happens, I picked up on the same error in the Alicia Colon article.
It’s a too rapid typing error for the most part, I think, though there are a few native English speakers I’ve run into who have the habit of making this substitution in speech as well.
Comment by Darleen on 11/29 @ 8:57 pm #
Actually, thinking a bit more, SEK is doing more than just trying to shutup people who don’t agree with him. His mendacious charge is along the lines of people who say America itself is to blame for 9/11…that “root causes made terrorists attack us”. Or that Jews make Arab-Palestinians blow up buses and pizza parlors in Israel.
Scott is perverted.
Comment by SBP on 11/29 @ 9:07 pm #
Sorter SEK: “Won’t someone PLEASE read my crappy, formulaic blog? Please?”
Sorry.
Comment by SBP on 11/29 @ 9:08 pm #
I’d love to see Jeff do a Heart of Darkness parody in which SEK embarks on a mission to find a black person somewhere on his campus.
Psychodrama at its finest.
Comment by JD on 11/29 @ 9:12 pm #
Or a spin-off of 6th Sense, where SEK wanders around mumbling “I see … RACISTS”!
Comment by Curmudgeon on 11/30 @ 9:18 am #
Progressives are desperate to marginalize, demonize, threaten and even physically assault people who politically disagree with them.
Our response should be to hit back harder on the “progressive” Communists. They threaten us? We threaten them. They attack us? We attack back harder, until they are smashed. They are communist thugs at heart; it’s all they understand.
Comment by Bilwick1 on 12/1 @ 9:14 am #
If Tomas Sowell ran for president against Nancy Pelosi, which candidate do you think Palin and her supporters would back, and which candidate would “liberals” (i.e., State-fellators) back? Who’s the racist now?
Comment by The Lost Dog on 12/1 @ 2:38 pm #
Racism?
I am a Jerkist. I HATE F’ing jerks. No matter the content of melanin…
Too bad that I am white – and therefore, not worth listening to…
Comment by The Lost Dog on 12/1 @ 2:45 pm #
Hep me! Hep me!
I must be hypmotized!
Comment by vladdy on 12/7 @ 7:43 pm #
If you’ve never had a job where the nasty folks (employees, clients, whatever) made life so rotten for you that you just left, you’re lucky. Quitting has such a stigma, but sometimes it’s the only way to make your life and the lives of others around you better.Should you stay and be miserable to prove a point? How ’bout if it effects your family, too?
Who’s really the winner in a case like this? You just told people to find a new doormat, ‘cos you’re not interested in the job anymore.