Don't get too cocky when it comes to dissing the Queen of the Borg.

[formercia]

Germans used to make fun of one-nut Shickelgruber. They failed to foresee his ruthlessness. Even the people who put him in power paid a heavy price.

How many people were murdered before he put an end to his own miserable existence?

[Warpy]

1. I keep trying to warn people

I remember a B-actor who was so far to the lunatic right no one would ever take him seriously. He not only served two terms, he managed to gut a lot of what kept money moving in the economy, shoveling it toward the rich while overtaxing working people on their Social Security premiums to make up the difference.

I remember a former CIA guy who spoke gibberish and didn't have a clue what a supermarket scanner was. He served one term and put the economy in the toilet and the only thing that did him in was a promise not to raise taxes that he couldn't keep.

I remember a Connecticut preppie who tried to pass himself off as a folksy Texan and who couldn't say a simple declarative sentence if left to his own devices, a booze addled, wet brained Christian rich man radical who probably wore those cowboy boots because he could no longer tie his own shoes and he was rigged into office twice. The only reason he didn't have a puppet successor rigged into office was because the inevitable Republican crash happened at the end of his second term.

You bet I take this fading beauty queen who speaks verbal goulash seriously. Get enough of the stupid and the superstitious behind you, especially when they realize they've been getting screwed without getting kissed and are too damn dumb to figure out who's behind it/them and they'll follow you anywhere, even to a job you're not remotely qualified for, just because you convince them to blame all the wrong people.

If this idiot woman's handlers get their way, this country is finished.

And it's possible.

[Golden Raisin]

4. Yup! If (God forbid) there's

another big, domestic, 9/11-esque terror attack a month or so before the next Republican (or Teabag) Convention this country is going to veer even more sharply to the right, based on fear and abetted and whipped-up to a frenzy by the propagandists and puppeteers at Fox, CNN, etc. This turn to the right could very possibly include a Palin Presidency. I'm like you --- I keep telling people to be careful about laughing at and discounting Palin. She, and more importantly her followers, are no joke.

[Berry Cool]

2. It's not her ruthlessness that I fail to see.

It's a presence of any true ambition other than her own personal comfort.

Big difference between Palin and Hitler, aside from the very obvious:

He wanted to rule the world and was willing to devote any amount of time, effort, etc., necessary to make it happen, until he was defeated by forces greater than his.

Palin? Kinda thinks being president would be cool 'cuz then she'd get to live in the White House 'n' stuff. But isn't really willing to put in the amount of time, effort and hard work that would be required for election by a major political party. Also, even if elected, would soon discover the business of actual runnin' the country, combined with the ever-present media scrutiny, not to her taste, and would quit.

Really, if it's all the same to you, she'd rather just kick back with a diet Dr Pepper.

[Bobbieo]

3. You are overlooking the ruthlessness of her husband and puppeteer, 'First Dude'

[formercia]

5. 'First Dude' works for Big Oil

and belongs to a political party that espouses the overthrow of the US Government.

..and I hear he's the one really in charge.