She’s All Yours

[babylonsister]

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She’s All Yours
Betty Cracker


After viewing the movie version of “Game Change,” WaPo putz Richard Cohen channels the late David Broder to draw this curious conclusion about “the Palin effect” on US politics:

So far, the Palin effect has been limited to the GOP. Surely, though, there lurks in the Democratic Party potential candidates who have seen Palin and taken note. Experience, knowledge, accomplishment — these no longer may matter. They will come roaring out of the left proclaiming a hatred of all things Washington, including compromise. The movie had it right. Sarah Palin changed the game.

What a steaming load of horseshit. While the left has its share of dunderheads, I’m afraid the Republicans have pretty much cornered the market on prideful ignorance. When was the last time a Democrat on the national stage appealed to the base via anti-intellectualism? William Jennings Bryant maybe? We ceded the Know-Nothing vote for good when the Dixiecrats finally got over Reconstruction and switched party allegiance to the GOP a few generations ago.

As for “a hatred of all things Washington,” all politicians rail against Washington because of its dysfunction, but Democrats aren’t the ones peddling the notion that “government” in the abstract is an evil thing. We have tedious purity ponies who’d rather go hungry than take half a loaf, but they don’t run the party. And Democrats have to compromise because our liberal base is smaller than the GOP’s conservative base; most people in positions of actual power get that.

The Democrats are an exasperating, contentious lot who push me past my patience a hundred times a day. But one of the reasons I stick with them is because the Democratic Party, at least in its current incarnation, is incapable of producing a Sarah Palin.

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...Sorry, Republicans: you own Palinism.

[Kber]

1. I couldn't agree more!

That last paragraph of an otherwise decent editorial is just plain silly. It's not even "both sides do it". It's "one side does it and one might, despite all evidence, at some time in the indefinate future, do it".

I call bullshit!

[tularetom]

2. +1

Or maybe it's "one side does it, the other side might possibly raise a feeble objection, and the press doesn't have the guts to report the truth so they tell us both sides do it".

[GopperStopper2680]

3. The Palin is definitely a unique breed of fish

The Palin is a rare creature indeed, found only in the turgent, intellectual-nutrient poor waters of the GOP. Consider after all that parasites need not be intelligent to survive-they need only to wait patiently to find a host.

[JHB]

4. Cohen ignores the fact that there are plenty of reasons...

...to hate "all things Washington", given what it has become. He also ignores that most of that was pushed from one direction - the right.

But the WaPo pays him plenty of money to ignore things like that.

[SemperEadem]

5. seems to me the only roaring I hear comes totally from the right

when it comes to "all things bad in Washington"... and certainly the only ones who have gone on camera and proudly proclaim their aversion to compromise, again, have all been republicans... so this lie Richard Cohen is spewing blows right back into his face.

What spalin changed was turning civil discourse into a fucking Jerry Springer marathon. She put lipstick and heels on rude and the men on the right haven't stopped whacking off to that long enough to get some got damb sense. Makes me want to ask cohen "you still got skin on that?"

[wakemewhenitsover]

6. The reason no Sarah Palin will ever emerge on the left is simple:

We're more intelligent than they are.