I'm sorry, but I feel sorry for Sarah Palin

[Th1onein]

I know that she's a religious nut. She's crazy, but she's still kind of pitiful.

[southpaw]

1. Bless her heart

She's just as dumb as a sack of hammers.

The poor dear.

[tosh]

8. Yeah. Bless her heart!

Southern minds think alike, LOL!

[KamaAina]

48. She's spent her whole life in Alaska and Idaho

she'd probably think you actually meant it!! :rofl:

[tavalon]

81. Having lived in the south for more years of my life than north

Ouch! The queen of all disses: Bless her heart!

[MrCoffee]

90. MOM?!?!?

:rofl:


Bless her heart...:thumbsup:

[Solly Mack]

2. I don't. She's dangerous to women

Don't have time to pity people like that

[hisownpetard]

7. And to polar bears and wolves. And Democrats.

[Solly Mack]

11. Exactly...pity will get you killed with her

[torbird]

22. yes. never forget that.

these people do not want to be your buddies. "culture WAR" is not a metaphor to them.

[Solly Mack]

25. Thank you! It for damn sure isn't. They mean it just the way it sounds

WAR

[La Lioness Priyanka]

57. and children, and gay people, and the poor.

[PDJane]

3. Both she and McInsane are kind of pitiful,

I agree. Well in over their collective heads.

That said, if the two of them manage to steal the white house, God help the rest of the world.

[hisownpetard]

4. Thanks but no thanks for the Palin-pity. She doesn't deserve it.

[thereismore]

5. Not another "sorry" post. I know what you mean. But she said Yes before McLame finished asking. nt

[Me.]

6. She'd Be Pitiful

If she was so damned arrogant and full of herself.

[tekisui]

9. I'll feel sorry for her when she is securely back in the tundra

far far away from the levers of power.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. SNAP OUT OF IT!!!!!!!!!

<SLAP!>

She's a presumptuous, wildly ambitious, disloyal, intolerant know-nothing who will do anything, say anything to get power.

She's in a position to kill all of us. Or make our lives so bad, we'll kill ourselves.

Pitiful?

Hell, no. She's a blight.

[lonestarnot]

17. See #14.

[wryter2000]

12. How sweet and liberal of you :-)

I know what you mean. She's being forced to defend the indefensible. I would feel sorry for her if I thought she had an ounce of integrity or emphathy for anyone but herself. I'm not sure she gives a s__t for her own family. So, no sympathy for her.

[greendog]

13. I feel sorry for us.

She's dangerous.

[lonestarnot]

14. Beware of coiled rattle snakes. They preemptively strike.

:evilgrin:

[PeaceNikki]

15. Jerry Falwell with a pretty face.

Hatred in the name of religion. She believes Jesus will return in her lifetime.

I feel no pity for her.

[Taverner]

16. I don't - she has a great furture guesting on the CBN "News"

[Avalux]

18. I don't. Her ambitions landed her in a situation she can't handle.

Remember her talk about not blinking? She selfishly accepted the position without any thought to her family and how it would change all of their lives (especially that little baby).

I don't feel sorry for her at all.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. She's performing a public service. Comic relief in troubled times.

[Obamanaut]

80. Could this have been why she was selected? nt

[ShortnFiery]

20. That makes ONE of us. No Slack! eom

[lpbk2713]

21. How much sympathy do you think she would have for you if elected?

Not a damn bit. She would trample all over you like the rest
of the rethuglicans have been doing for the past eight years.

The hell with her.

[geiger]

23. she's the only sacrificial lamb they could come up with. eom.

[geiger]

24. she's the only sacrificial lamb they could come up with. eom.

[Warren Stupidity]

26. No she is not pitiful. She is a vicious ignorant threat to our nation.

Go watch her lick her finger and put it in the air to demonstrate to Katy Couric what a lame-ass flip-flopper Obama is, and then get back to me with your pity party.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII



Oh wait, not that interview, this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qppZnw9nEGw 0:40 in.

Main Entry: vi·cious
Pronunciation: \ˈvi-shəs\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vicios, from Latin vitiosus full of faults, corrupt, from vitium vice

[Th1onein]

38. I know what she is. But I still feel pity for her.

She's so obviously out of her league. And so frightened.

My pity for her doesn't mean that I want her anywhere near the White House, and I sure as hell won't vote for either her or McCain, but as a human being watching another human being squirming in fear, I feel sorry for the woman.

[Neecy]

41. Rewatch her convention speech

Where she mocks us and our values, trashes our cities, ridicules community organizers and reignites the culture wars - with all of the requisite sneers and snickers - and see how much sympathy you feel at the end.

I have none.

[electron_blue]

27. Feel sorry for her after she loses. Not before.

[The Stranger]

28. She's a snake and a monster.

Fuck her.

[wryter2000]

32. Why does everyone blame the snakes?

Snakes are wonderful creatures. :evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

33. Ackety. They have their purpose and place but not in the oval office or vicinity or planes!

:evilgrin:

[wryter2000]

37. At least, the snakes would eat the rats

We'd need a big one to swallow Rove. :evilgrin:

Poor snake.

[lonestarnot]

45. This is one snake I want nothing to do with nor will I waste my sypathy on the belly crawler.

Slitherine freak. I will offer it a Red Rover though. Looks like the mouth is big enough. :evilgrin:

[Left Brain]

29. I'm sure she appreciates that pity

all the way to the bank.

[wryter2000]

30. Hartmann is sorry for her

Just said it on his show. :rofl:

[TahitiNut]

31. I had compassion for the NVA and Viet Cong when I was in Nam ... but I still shot back.

Believe it or not, it's entirely possible for a mature person to feel compassion for people with whom we're at war ... and still fight back. (It's the minds that can't straddle that gap that fracture and get disturbed. It takes effort. Believe me.)

[crossroads]

34. Guess she is kinda pitiful! She is in over her head! nt

[rucky]

35. I'll get my mother-in-law to pray for her.

I'd do it myself, but God would know I'm up to something.

[H2O Man]

36. I feel so sorry

for flies. A life of ingesting feces and spreading germs. Poor things.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. She is so out of her depth and too stupid/and or so morally bankrupt to admit it.

[VWolf]

40. I feel sorry for her kids. That's where it ends. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

42. She's not really a religious nut, she just plays one on TV.

Fuck her, and any stupid shit who votes for her.

[fascisthunter]

43. All Fundamentalists are Crazy....

Bin Laden is too.... don't feel sorry for her.

[anitar1]

44. Narcissists never see themselves as wrong and would

not even discuss that. Hence the lies and having others take care of business. If the others are wrong, then she fires them.

[marions ghost]

62. Yep that's the mold she's cut out of (Malignant Narcissism)

that's why the fundies and NeoCons love her--all that righteous self-luv turns them ON...

[pipi_k]

46. Maybe a better word would be

pathetic.


The only people I feel sorry for are true victims. People without power. People without someone to speak out for them and protect them.


Sarah Palin is none of those things.


The only one she's a victim of is herself. I have a real hard time feeling sorry for people who aren't powerless.

[Batgirl]

47. In her interview with Couric, Palin had moments of pique at having to explain herself

that revealed her to be an Authoritarian. I saw a hard, patronizing edge to many of her answers. In particular, her explanation of why Alaska's proximity to Russia and Canada OF COURSE meant that she had foreign policy experience, were given in a tone of mocking anger.

You're right about her being pitiful and I can even understand your empathy but can't bring myself to share it. Too disturbed by how this personality type is by nature utterly abusive of whatever power they manage to obtain.

[Spritz57]

49. Actually though there is an interesting angle here. . .

Sarah Palin is obviously out of her league but instead of attacking her for her obvious deficiencies, thus angering those who support or are empathetic towards her, why not refocus the debate (and the focus of that anger) to those who put her in this position? The McCain campaign has set her up for failure by putting her in this position. Their lack of vetting, by both writing speeches filled with lies and deceptions and demanding she repeatedly stays on script ad nauseum, they have created an untenable position for her. They have treated her terribly, raised her up to be an object of disdain and will eventually destroy her. She has no say in who to speak with, what to say, nor with the myth they created around her. In short she is a victim of the RNC, where apparently they eat their young for the good of John McCain. I think this might resonate with a host constituencies. Just my two cents. . .

[marions ghost]

65. That kind of reasoning

sounds like it makes sense but what audience are you trying to reach exactly?

Why refocus the debate? Why not go for the jugular, like they ALWAYS do?

Are you afraid we Dems will look too tough on poor little Sarah? (that kind of belittles her as well--I mean she's supposed to be a big girl who can take care of herself, right?)

:shrug:

[Spritz57]

105. That's precisely my point. . .

There are many ways to "go for the jugular." Sometimes you can be direct and blunt and sometimes you can attempt to be clever and operate on several levels. In this "angle" as I stated, it absolutely posits Sarah Palin is unequivocally out of her element as it calls into question John McCain's reasoning (or lack thereof) of her selection as VP candidate. It goes further though, because truthfully, most of the concerns over her gaffs are always focused upon her as an individual who as a liability to John McCain as an individual. In this scenario, John McCain is the victim in the conservative and MSM articles. By shifting the focus to John McCain and his extremely poor handling of Sarah Palin, the focus is shifted from McCain as victim (e.g. she let him down), to Sarah Palin as the victim (e.g. he let her down). This idea began to germinate as I watched and listened to the MSM on her repetitions of her campaign speech. She doesn't write her speeches, it has been reported the campaign will not allow her to speak to the MSM--she doesn't make those decisions, the myth created around her, gleaned from both their acceptance speeches were written by the campaign, again she is powerless. She has to sell the now debunked lies. I'm not suggesting the course of current exposes' on the VP candidate end, but I am suggesting, in addition, one could make an argument, the campaign and John McCain have bungled this in a way which scapegoats her. When I read conservative pundits calling for her to fall on her sword to save John McCain's candidacy, perhaps a credible response would be to appear somewhat supportive of her as the focus shifts to the campaign's missteps.

Whether accurately or contrived, it is reported constantly she has energized their base. Many people still like her. If this identification is accurate, then use it to vilify the ineptness of Straight Talk Express at her expense. I'm not going soft on her, I see an opening to exploit an obvious avenue. Whether it is a jab, a right cross, or an upper cut, a blow is a blow.

To directly respond to your last sentence, I'm not afraid of looking too tough. I'm suggesting an additional tough line of attack which may resonate with her supporters. If it is true, she is the magnet for John McCain with conservatives, this simply becomes a tactical (or is that strategy? lol) wedge issue to disillusion those supporters who come to their events to hear her and as reported, leave when he begins to speak. In essence demagnetize the magnet for John McCain.

Some years ago, I watched an old community activist on Tony Brown's Journal (I think) describe a tool he uses to explain racism. In a video, he asked for a volunteer from the audience to come forward and balance a cup of water on her head as she knelt and sang the Star Bangled Banner. He then asked the audience for their observations and comments. To a person everyone attacked the young volunteer for her foolish stunt. He then thanked her and as she returned to her seat, he addressed the audience. He said this was an experiential lesson on racism. Everyone attacked the young volunteer and no one attacked him for asking her to submit to this humiliating exercise. As long as he was allowed to remain above the focus (and critical thinking) of the audience, he wins and nothing changes. He said it was American as apple pie to blame the victim. I wondered if this would work so I tried this very exercise with a large group of high school students following an incident in the community. The results were identical. I believe it was Alcott, an American Transcendentalist Writer, who said if you don't think you are brainwashed by societal norms (poetic license here) try singing the Star Spangled Banner to the tune of America the Beautiful.

[Iggo]

50. Not me.

Fuck her.

[Lucian]

51. Why would anyone here feel sorry for her?

I certainly don't feel sorry for her.

[ailsagirl]

54. Her problems are of her own making-- no pity

:nopity:

[Lucian]

59. Exactly.

[ellie]

52. I don't.

I feel sorry for McSame. Sure he's a douchebag, but his quest for power has blinded him to the fact that he is completely unsuitable for the job. It is sad to see someone in decline. I will feel even worse if he wins because then we are all on the decline with him.

[dorkulon]

53. Oh yes, it must be awful to be on track to become president

After getting a BS in communications from a state school. Poor thing.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

55. she is arrogant and deceitful. why are people feeling pity for such

blatant arrogance, i don't understand.

[closeupready]

56. If she were enslaved, yes, I would feel sorry. Since she is free to withdraw at any time, no deal.

n/t

[NoodleyAppendage]

58. Fuck that. She needs to be destroyed. Why should we pity someone who is a Xtian FASCIST?

She, and her ilk, are the types who lead countries down the path of fascism. In my opinion, she's a danger to society. Fuck her and her dumbass followers. I'm ready to take my country back and relegate these idiots to the social backwaters.

J

[TheKentuckian]

60. How can anyone feel sorry for such a dangerous nutcase

She promotes some of the most heinous things that I've ever heard of forcing a young teen molested by an uncle, father, or grandfather to carry a child to term.
Hunting defenseless animals from a helicopter.
Wants to establish a theocracy.
Tells rape victims to sit and spin and suck it up.
Tells women they are worth less than a man doing equal work.
Pretty comfortable starting wars.
Pro-censorship.
Would drive the country off a cliff.
Part of the 'let them eat cake' posse.
Is a full throated liar, that continues to lie in your face after being roundly called on it.
Rilled up the culture war proponents.
Wants to continue to dismantle the country under the insane GOP philosophies.
Endangers nation with incompetence, inane world view, ,sewing of division, itchy trigger finger, and an unbelievable lack of knowledge.


I say burn the witch at the stake! Feel sorry for her? I want her to suffer for trying to destroy America and if she's too stupid to know then its too damn bad. Maybe some compassion can be felt but only after she's safely back in Alaska as a private nut job.

[ColbertWatcher]

61. Hey, maybe she's speaking in tongues?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NGXlsqPL2A

[knowledgeispwr]

63. I'm sorry she's *this* close to becoming the president,

if, heaven (and everything else) forbid, McStunt were elected.

[canetoad]

64. If she had the grace

to call a news conference and announce that she has neither the character nor experience to be VP, I may consider feeling a slight twinge of sympathy for her.

[Disturbed]

70. Hell, no. She is not even qualified to be Gov. Impeach her!

At the very least, Alaskans need to mount a Recall Petition & & toss her out. She is corrupt & inept. The vetting process of her becoming Gov. must have been almost non existent.

[DFW]

66. Before you bless her heart

You had better make sure she has one first.

[EFerrari]

67. Sarah Palin is a viper with big hair. n/t

[book_worm]

68. I remember her cocky put downs of Obama in her speech and frankly I'm happy to see her self destruct

[Eurobabe]

69. She's dumber than a box of rocks. n/t

[Zavulon]

71. I really mean no offense when I say this, sincerely, but

aren't you the same DUer who feels sorry for / corresponds with / certain death row inmates? If I'm right in that, then that would explain how you could feel sorry for her.

(If I've confused you with someone else, I apologize, and if I haven't, I remind you that I really do mean no offense - just making an observation)

[Th1onein]

89. Absolutely, that's who I am. And proud of it.

I am proud that I can feel pity for even the dirtiest, vilest creatures of this Earth, Sarah Palin included.

I am sorry for you, that your thinking is so black and white, this or that, either or, them or us, with no in-betweens, that you can't feel sorry for this person and the embarrassing position that she often finds herself in (whether of her own, or another's making), while at the same time, fight to keep her out of power.

[PaDem]

98. I don't feel sorry for her, however.........

I tip my cap to you for writing to death row inmates. In my view that is a wonderful thing to do. As for Palin, she not only wants to be queen of the world, but seems to almost have a sense of entitlement. I cringed during the Couric interview, but never did I feel sorry for her. She's a very dangerous, take no prisoners politician. I hope she embarrasses the American electorate so much that they overwhelmingly repudiate her ticket on election day.

[Tutankhamun]

72. She's coasted on her looks her whole life.

She's done it for so long that she doesn't know it's her looks that got her where she is. That served her well until she was forced to do interviews.

Now she's a household name, and rapidly becoming a world famous punchline. She's seriously screwed, but that's how it should be. If she weren't so dumb she'd be dangerous.

Her unmitigated and glaring stupidity is great for Dems.

[mitchum]

102. And that Peggy Hll lookalike was only able to coast on her looks in a sparsely populated place

[muriel_volestrangler]

73. I feel sorry for Alaska

They have another 2 years of her. Unless they have a recall machanism?

[ulysses]

74. history will treat her poorly.

I don't envy her, but I don't pity her either. If you're going to step up, then step up.

[codjh9]

75. I can never feel sorry for people who've given me MANY reasons to hate them.

[On the Road]

76. I'm Starting Too, Also

I mean, good for her to get elected governor. If they like her up there, that's their business.

If you're a politician and get asked to be VP, you take it. Period. Let the top of the ticket worry about the vetting. It's too good an opportunity.

She's completely unprepared for the big time, but I don't think she realizes it. In her more parochical environment, the kind of answers she gives may be considered fine. IMO, it especially shows the influence of her church. You can get by with all kinds of fuzzy answers as long as you nod with everyone else and use the right code words.

She's going through an absolute buzz saw. This is becoming worse than Quayle or the Eagleton situation. It's completely and utterly fair, but McCain's the one that got her into it.

[slor]

77. That power-hungry wacko does...

NOT deserve your sympathy. She surely would not have afforded any pity for us. If you know you are unqualified for a position such as POTUS or VPOTUS, you should really decline the offer. She brought this on herself.

[gingersnaps1]

78. I feel bad for her as well. It's one thing to be incurious and borderline stupid but to have the

whole nation know that you have nothing between your ears, is just painful.

Not to mention, Sarah Palin is giving pretty women a bad name. She is reinforcing all the negative stereotypes about beauty queens and pretty women.

Pretty women are the real losers in this thing. Not to mention she may have set all women back. Damn you moose hunter!!!!

[tavalon]

79. She only became pitiful because her ambition is bigger than her ability

She's Icarus.

[lunatica]

82. Picture her aiming her high powered rifle at a wolf from a helicopter

Imagine her accepting the front paws of wolves from hunters to prove they killed one. Imagine her petting the pelt of a grizzly bear she has draped artfully across the back of the couch in her office.

See her signing legislation in Wasila that makes rape victims pay for their medical examination rape kits.

She would gleefully use the pity you feel to help her get exactly what she wants.

that's what I make myself think of when I find myself having pity for her.

edited to add the last sentence

[yardwork]

83. She put a bounty on wolf legs. She encourages hunters to kill baby wolves.

She sued the government to take polar bears off the endangered species list. She sold her hometown to corporations and now her own lake is so polluted it doesn't support fish. She made women pay for their own rape kits.

Reserve your sympathy for the people and animals she killed and maimed.

[tavalon]

84. Even Evita fell on her ass once in a while

She's been remade as a sympathetic character but she was just a ruthless social climber, much as Mooselini is.

[WritersBlock]

85. She's too dangerous to be pitied. The woman will destroy what's left of this country if she

gets the chance. Please don't waste your empathy on her. She is not worthy of it.

The Republicans are hoping many people will feel as you do, and will vote out of sympathy for one who appears to be so out of her depth.

[MrMickeysMom]

86. Blech

Hold still for a second....




Okay, there's feeling pity and then there's observation. This woman is seriously out of her element, and toys with people's lives meanwhile. That is a recipe for disaster in the run for Governor, much less Vice Presidency!

[bac511]

87. i don't pity her...

she should have KNOWN she was in over her head...she's a arrogant repuke and I don't respect her values.

[Blue_In_AK]

88. She could have spared herself ALL of this

by just saying "Thanks, but no thanks," to John McCain. She (and he) seriously overestimated her capabilities.

[babylonsister]

92. Amen; my feeling exactly. nt

[demokatgurrl]

91. Funny, a friend said the same thing to me today

and try though I might, I could not conjure up one iota of sympathy for her. She's a weasel who earned everything she's getting.

I do, however, really feel for her daughter and her unfortunate shotgun "fiance".

[mitchum]

93. Fuck her and the moose she rode in on

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

94. What's wrong with her doesn't stem from religion

Being a religious nut didn't make her a vapid, ambitious, power-hungry little liar.

Vapid, ambitious, power-hungry little liars are good at latching onto religion to sell their scams.

Feel sorry for her? Not in a million years.

[Uncle Joe]

95. I find it easy to snap out of those feelings, by just remembering how

she treated her subordinates.

Thinking of her in the most powerful job in the land and I start feeling sorry for virtually everyone else.

[dkofos]

96. I'm sure you will get over it. Did you know she kills puppies?

[hfojvt]

97. "The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth like gentle rain

on the ground below. It is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives and the one who receives." Shakespeare "The Merchant Of Venice"

The lack of sympathy on DU is sometimes dismaying. It's perfectly honorable to have sympathy even for a declared enemy, and it's not a good thing to become as heartless or remorseless as your enemy in order to defeat a heartless or remorseless enemy (or their footsoldiers, dupes, shills and sycophants).

Just don't let your sympathy lull you into easing up in the battle and doing all you can to defeat her.

[Th1onein]

104. I am a left wing RADICAL.

And I live what I believe in. It is not just rhetoric for me. I'm sure it's not for others here, either. I've worked very hard to get Obama elected, as has most of my family. There is nothing wrong with having pity for those who are in a tight spot, even your political enemies.

[REP]

99. Awww, good for you

:puke:

[Beaverhausen]

100. I know what you mean but she thinks is OK to shoot wolves from planes

fuck her.

[dana_b]

101. I feel sorry for those losing their homes...

those losing jobs, life savings, the men/women in the Middle East, the wolves that are getting shot at due to a cray woman's command.

Palin?? Screw her.

[G_j]

103. a cold blooded killer

it scares me to think what she is probably capable of..

[spanone]

106. i'm not sorry and i don't feel sorry for her....

[Bluenorthwest]

107. Let's play quantification!

Do you feel more sorry for Palin, or for the women who had to pay for their own rape investagations under her administration?
I myself feel sorry for this country having to deal with the likes of Palin and her religious unkindness toward the least among us.
She asked for this. She prayed for it with passion. She did not blink. And you pity her? She who is in a position of power, holds a good deal of wealth, she who is having all of her dreams come true, you pity. And not only do you pity her, you take the time to make that emotion public, for attention. If not for attention, then for what? What is the objective of your announcement of empathy with this vile woman? What do you seek by posting this?