Is it OK to point out that Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot? She went in front of a world-wide TV ...

[11 Bravo]

audience and revealed her kid's MOS, his exact date of deployment, and the site to which he will be deployed. Trust me folks, this just isn't done. My Mom found out that my Dad had been off the coast of Okinawa with his fighter squadron in 1944 only after he got home. She found out that the aircraft carrier that he skippered was on Yankee Station (off the coast of North Vietnam) after he got there. She found out that I had been in the A Shau Valley only after I got lit up.
People, anybody with even a passing acquaintance with military family life knows, you just don't do what Palin did. She's a fucking idiot, and not only her judgment is now called into question, so is that of the man who decided that she's qualified to serve as the second highest elected official in the United States of America.
I could give a flying fuck about her reproductive history. I just know that in a transparent and pathetic attempt to mine a few votes, her words put grunts at risk, and that pisses me off!

[Coexist]

1. I was wondering about that.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Nope. It offends some of DU's fucking idiots....

Which is how idiot-dom is perpetuated.

[Pamela Troy]

14. No, just those who object to attempts at scoring political points by going after a candidate's kid.

Do you really need to have this explained to you?

[Virginia Dare]

42. They're going after the candidate's lies..

does this have to be explained to you?

[11 Bravo]

46. Did you, or should I say, can you, read and comprehend the OP?

I made it crystal clear that I don't give a tinker's dam about "babygate". I care that a woman who wishes to stand a heartbeat away from the CinC of our armed forces, violated OpSec in such a way as to put our troops at increased risk. Do you really need to have this explained to you?

[POAS]

26. Yep, we can't have any

poisonal attacks, as "Bugs" might say!

Just talk about her record, which is non-existent.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. She thinks the Founding Fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegience.

http://eagleforumalaska.blogspot.com/2006/07/2006-gubernatorial-candidate.html

Look at her answer to question 11. She's a flipping moran.

[redqueen]

7. ...

:wow:

[vaberella]

8. Her intelligence is something to take into consideration. Apparently Iraq is "The Iraq". n/t

[lonestarnot]

31. I thought they added s to everything there in AK tubes, bridges, oils, Iraqs

[DangerousRhythm]

20. But, but... Thomas Jefferson would be so mad if we took "Under God" out. :\

What a damned idiot. For that, I question whether she even deserves to be a GOVERNOR, let alone a potential VP.

[BigAnth]

24. That is too funny! I knew that it was coming and I still laughed out loud when I read her answer.

Durn it all, if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enuf fer me.

Hey Sarah, what do you think about this: "If it was good enough for a 19th century socialist, then it's good enough for me."?

Edit: fixed typo

[EC]

27. She also seems to think marriage is defined in the

Constitution..

[Greg K]

38. it is

In the Alaska Constitution.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. Really check out her answers...

On abortion - she actually DOES believe in it:

SP: I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending an innocent’s life.

Oh my. Even conservative Catholics have let the mother go to have no abortions whatsoever.

Then for another question:

7. Do you support statewide restrictions on the use of eminent domain to transfer property from one private owner to another?

SP: Yes.

This from the woman who used "eminent domain" to try to get land for a stadium after she was unable to buy the land from a private owner.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/1223/87119/35/57863

:crazy:

[FatDave]

39. Fucking idiot fundie

I hope Biden makes her cry.

[redqueen]

4. Of course it is.

After all, she's so kindly given us a few examples of her idiocy... right there in her introductory speech.

[dchill]

5. But but but...

it gave her the chance to use "Iraq" and "September the 11th" in the same sentence in at least TWO stump speeches (that I've seen) already! That's gotta be worth more than a little security.

[vaberella]

6. Of course it is. Her judgement is definitely up for question.

Whether or not trigger is hers is my problem which I do not get invovled in. Anything else is fair game.

[Kittycat]

9. Oh WTF?

Are they now trying to set up a super mom, negotiator segment. Where her son is kidnapped, and she earns her foreign experience cred by blowing the shit out of the terrorists, all while nursing Trig in her pouch sling? Maybe "maverick" McCain can be the pilot that swoops to drop the fatal bombs?

[Cleita]

10. Amen. There is so much to really criticize instead of gossip.

K&R

[napi21]

11. You're right of course, and I appologize that I hadn't thought about it.

My son was in the Navy, and I know the closest info you ever get is the general vicinity of where the ship is sailing.

I wonder if her son now will be redeployed with a different batallion? One still going to Iraq but a diff. destination.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. I don't think this is an issue...

We have TV news reports all the time of Wisconsin National Guard Unit thus-and-such being deployed to somewhere, along with video of the boarding the plane. I think the rules are different now that in previous conflicts.

But that Pledge of Allegiance response (downthread). That's a classic!

[11 Bravo]

15. It's all about the judgement.

DoD asks families to keep things quiet. She didn't. Judgement. If your local news team reports on deployments, that's too bad, but the last time I looked, they weren't running for Vice-President.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

23. What I'm saying...

is that I'm not certain the DoD requires confidentiality about the generalities -- Unit, Date of Deployment, and Theater. Given that a good number of these troops are Guardsman, it's not like you can keep the unit and date of deployment a secret (they have to notify their employers). And to say "we're going to be in Iraq" really isn't providing valuable information to the enemy -- it's going to be pretty obvious where they are when several hundred of them appear in Anbar Province at the same time.

BTW, Joe Biden's son is being deployed to Iraq on October 3. He's in the 261st Signal Brigade of the Delaware National Guard.

Guess how I know that...

[11 Bravo]

40. I guarantee you didn't hear Joe Biden announce it on television.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

47. It was printed in an interview during the Iowa Primary

He either told the reporter or the reporter is a really good guesser.

Here's a http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12028">Link to a DoD Press Release announcing the deployment of several units (not Biden's). Just an example that this information is not as secret as some people think. If you Google on "DoD" and "Depoylment Announcement" you'll find dozens of examples of the same thing.

[Native]

25. My brother's been deployed several times to "that area" -

the family was never told where - until he got there.

[medicswife]

36. It's an issue. Trust me. Husband is active duty and deployed right now.

It's called Operational Security. The National Guard is different. They go and train somewhere first. Her son is Active Duty.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. And McCain just stood there and didn't try to interrupt her, right?

He just had a goofy popeye the sailor grin on his face. Embarrassing for someone who seems to claim that he's a veteran's veteran.

[jgraz]

21. He was too busy staring at her ass and twirling his wedding ring.

This Repug ticket has officially gone from tragic to creepy.

[nycmjkfan]

16. wouldn't this answer

3. Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?
JB: We should not exclude abstinence-until-marriage education programs.
SP: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.


Make the supposed babygate relevant? Also the possibility that she was prego when she got married?


Not that they're true, but wouldn't this make them relevant if either was?

[Pamela Troy]

17. Not by much.

[underpants]

18. "First Dude" couldn't make the grades to play college hockey

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6843783

[Cha]

34. Thanks, Underpants!..

<snip>

"How could anyone select a VP candidate currently under investigation?"

"By now everyone knows that she fired Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

After over 1.5 years of service by Monegan, Palin told residents that the firing stemmed from her desire to "move the department in another direction". After immense outrage from the public and media to explain the new direction she was referring to (Walt is very experienced and loved throughout Alaska), she finally came out about a week later saying that "he wasn't filling needed trooper positions".

Oh, she's a "cunning" one ..that one.

[eshfemme]

19. Yeah, that was kinda dumb. I have a friend who's over in Iraq and whenever he has info

it's usually a date range. There's actually a whole lot of waiting around. About the most specific he's been is to give the month, which is exactly the case with Beau Biden-- the date they gave was possibly October.

[moondust]

22. Extremely poor judgement at best.

She may just be that ignorant.

[Top Cat]

28. She put her son in immediate danger revealing this information.....

and she has put his company in danger.. She is a very dumb Mom

[totodeinhere]

43. Look for the army to find some excuse not to deploy him to Iraq after all.

They will cite security concerns now that the kid has a famous mother.

[Cha]

29. And that's not the only reason she's a fucking idiot as

we've been posting about for the last couple a days. The evidence is mounting exponentially.

[lonestarnot]

30. Holy cow/moose! When did she do that? I d i o t.

[HughMoran]

32. ...or, you could say that she is a typical dedicated Republican

The moran party strikes again.

Amazing how stupid Republicans are - I see it proven every day in the real world too.

[medicswife]

33. I pointed this out the other day too.........

My husband is in Iraq on his second 15 month deployment. And trust me, I noticed.

[bullwinkle428]

37. YES - my ex-wife was previously married to a guy in the Navy,

and those types of details regarding deployment were ALWAYS maintained as hush-hush for security purposes. Palin was practically jumping out of her skin just to get that "9/11" talking point out there that she couldn't keep her yap shut about it!

[blondeatlast]

41. Yes, indeed, ESPECIALLY, but not exclusively, on that issue. nt

[invictus]

44. K&R

[bridgit]

45. I hear you & agree, I also think it's a component of the way republicans frame their unending war...

They're so liaise faire blasé about death & chaos they push it like a traveling medicine show i.e. Dr. Hoodwink and his barrel of snake oil will be in such & such a place on the prairie at 3pm...it's very strange to be so passive/unthinking about things so dangerous.