She's still out there, and still just as dangerous

[BR_Parkway]

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/07/saradise-lost-book-3-chapter-31.html

Watching the adoration and rapture on the countenances of the crowd I saw at the picnic in Wasilla on Friday, and have seen in pictures of the Anchorage and Fairbanks events, troubled me too. As did her abdication speech's constant intermixture of military might & sacrifice, the sanctity of corporate power, and her version of "God." As his been Palin's habit of late, she seemed to be repeatedly accusing her opponents of "lies, stupidity and cowardice."

Many familiar with Adolf Hitler's rise between his release from Landsberg Prison and the 1933 German national election are unaware of the extent that Christian organizations supported him. Or of the extent of intermixture between the Nazi state and organized religion. As an example, here's a partial list of Catholic youth organizations alone that supported Hitler's rise from 1931 through 1933:

• The Catholic Young Men's Association of Germany
• The Central Association of Catholic Maidens
• The South German Association of Catholic Females
• The Association of Catholic Bachelors
• The Association of Bavarian Catholic Book Clubs
• The Association of Catholic Students in Institutions of Higher Learning
• Catholic Youth Alliance of German Working Girls

The membership of some of these groups reached into the high hundreds of thousands. Similar Protestant youth groups supported the rise of Hitler. And, of course, adult groups. During Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic and the National Socialists era, the German states ( Bayern, Baden, Nassau, and so on) directly supported the Christian church financially.

During the Third Reich, thousands of Christians served as chaplains in the Wehrmacht. Some fully supported the dehumanization of Slavs, the glorification of Der Fuhrer and the Holocaust of murder of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals. The ideal of "blood sacrifice," alluded to so frequently in recent Palin speeches, was a constant fixture in Nazi pre-war and World War II propaganda.

After all that has happened since she was tossed into the National limelight - reports lately still show an incredible 43% approval rating. Plenty would like to say that she's going to wither on the vine and go down gradually - but there are way too many of these religious followers who will keep her polling numbers high

[Ron Green]

1. I wonder if, as her star fades and she's seen to be the lightweight she really is,

her admirers will realize their own limitations and bad taste, or will they remain convinced that she's been unfairly savaged by an elitist media?

[Blue_In_AK]

4. She will always appeal to a very hard-core base.

Even though many Alaskans, who know her best, have come to their senses and her approval rating has dropped here by over 30 points in the past year, there are still people who refuse to acknowledge her limitations. They see the righteous and God-fearing Sarah as having been victimized by the media and most particularly by the bloggers and ethics complaint filers (never mind that many of her most vocal critics have been fellow Republicans). There's something about her that sparks a blind devotion among certain people -- they CANNOT see that she is a liar and manipulator. She feeds on these people's devotion and she is not about to give it up.

[BR_Parkway]

7. The librul media and the rest of us atheists who want to remove Gawd

from the public square will get all the blame of course.

Alaskan folks were wising up to her because they had to live under her as Governor - easy enough to compare the words (no matter how badly put together and punctuated with winks) with the deeds.

but now it's all road show - constant barrage of how she "would do" this or that - and all of it geared to the religious base. - obviously she'll be Joan of Arc, Gawd's own chosen. I'm guessing she's decided the best way to make the most of it is do the political power first, then the televangelist route so she can siphon the money the easy way

[theoldman]

2. Palin is not going to go away in the near future.

I just hope that she continues to fracture the Republican party. If she accomplishes that we should all cheer her on. I know it's hard to swallow the fact that she will make millions in the process.

[liberal N proud]

3. 43% would give the GOP enough to fudge the rest and put her in office

We would have another Id10t in office.

[elehhhhna]

5. is it a coincidence she quit during Shark Week?

[timeforpeace]

6. Godwin Shrugs

[hfojvt]

9. LOL

Although let's face a couple of things 1) Democrats could lose the Presidency in 2012 and 2) it would not be the first time Republicans nominated a total moron who won. Alzheimer's did not stop Reagan from winning in 1984, for example.

[juno jones]

8. K&R!

I agree she's dangerous.

[earth mom]

10. Gotta hope that Dave Letterman & other comedians keep making fun of Palin on t.v.

Keep showing her as the ridiculous crazy fundie whack job she really is and the support won't be there in 2012.

Otherwise, she is an extremely dangerous jesus freak whack job! :yoiks: