...Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit

[babylonsister]

The pitbull in lipstick is back!
She's "tired of hearin' the talk talk talk" but Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit
By Joan Walsh

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Wow. This was the Palin we saw at the 2008 Republican convention, the snarling pitbull in shimmery lipstick. I know journalists aren't supposed to use words like mean and dumb, but I can't help it. Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest. But mean works, and so does dumb. And so do lies, and there were many mean, dumb lies in her speech.

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How rich that she read her talk in a sing-song voice as she ripped Barack Obama for using a Teleprompter. Once she left the speech for the Q&A, she really went off-message, as well as nearly off-English. (Even though it looked like, at one point, she was reading answers off of her hand.) "They're not knowin what are we gonna do if we don't have Tea Party support" was one of my favorite head-scratchers, a great echo of "when Putin rears his head."

But it was also in her brief Q&A that she made one comment she might regret, if anyone in the Republican Party ever held her accountable. She told the crowd her husband Todd -- according to recently released emails, the non-elected former governor of Alaska -- is "much too independent" to be a Republican, because he's even "more conservative" than she is. What a great way to revisit the controversy over Todd's membership in the secessionist Alaska Independent Party! Remember how Palin dogged poor McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt, trying to get him to denounce Salon's reporting on the Palins and AIP? She tried to get Schmidt to lie and say her husband checked the AIP box on voter forms mistakenly, and he refused. Now she's bragging her husband isn't a Republican because he's so "independent."

She lied about rejecting stimulus money for Alaska (apparently she rejected a small home-weatherization project, which as it is sounds kind of mean for the governor of Alaska.) She lied about Obama's position on terrorism and the Christmas Day would-be bomber. She mixed up Alaska and America at least once. It was hilarious to hear her denounce political "talk, talk, talk" and also brag about the job she did as governor, when in fact she quit that job to talk, talk, talk, for money, at wine shows and for-profit tea parties and of course for Fox News.

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/sarah_palin/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/02/06/palin_speaks

[Crazy Dave]

1. I do hope she is the republican nominee or at least in the primaries a while

I can't wait to see who is funnier. Palin as herself or Tina Fey as Palin.

[Raven]

2. She was very shrill. Worse than I remember. And the 'divine inspiration'

crap scared the hell out of me. This is a "perfect storm" of racists, religious extremists, freestaters, and haters of anything not them. There is going to be a "have you no shame" moment for this country in the next few years.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. the neocon doll

she serves their purpose

[cilla4progress]

4. Cracks me up that

she actually believes she is smart - of the same caliber as Obama! At least GW knew he was a stupid ass, frontman for Cheney. Liked it that way. So he could go off and fall off his bicycles and stuff and let the big boys run things!

[Peacetrain]

5. Unfortunately there is a sizable part of the population that responds to the kind of

rhetoric.. even on our side.. 25% of the voters if dedicated will get you elected.. because a good 25% just vote for the latest flavor making the news..

How else could we have gotten Reagan.. and the little Bush.. the guy did nothing but run a bunch of businesses into the ground.. and do drugs.. but he could goober..

Hell I can goober with the best of them.. Palin is good with cutey sound bites..but I could have her going in circles talking to herself in 10 minutes.. though believe you me.. I am not qualified to be dog catcher of our little town..and neither is Palin.. but she does have some big bats starting to swing in her corner.. people who really know how to play the populace..


All we have to do , is stay awake, and be aware of what is happening. Palin may not run, but if she gets enough juice, her backing of a canidate, could swing him the election. That is what I find worrisome.

As long as we do not fall asleep at the wheel and think we have this next election bagged we will be fine..

[tanyev]

6. She's now a pitbull with a Sharpie!

[Cha]

7. We found out one thing..palin is scared of rush limbaugh..

and not afraid to stand out like a fucking hypocrite.

"Crib Notes? This potential presidential candidate and "movement" leader was using crib notes to answer basic questions? This would mean:
A) That she knew the questions beforehand and the whole thing was a farce. (Likely.)

and

B) That she still couldn't answer the previously agreed-upon questions without a little extra help.

If true, this is supremely rich coming immediately after a speech in which Palin took a shot at President Obama for using a teleprompter to read his prepared speeches."

http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2010/02/sarah_palin_goes_to_opryland_a.php