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Palin: Huge Liar or Narcissistic Megalomaniac?

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2009
    I'm watching an Anchorage news program and they just said that Going Rogue could set some first day sales records. Even factoring in the online price-war stuff, I find it hard to believe that it could be getting anywhere near a Harry Potter or Twilight book.

    Never underestimate the right-wing think tanks buying out entire store's stocks, just so they can crow about it selling well.

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    No, no. Build her up, make her the spokesperson for the right.

    She perfectly encapsulates an enormous amount of what is wrong with them.
    She needs to be introduced, in person or in report, as "Sarah Palin, former Republican Candidate for Vice President" every time she's mentioned.

    Tie them to this. To her. Never let anyone forget that the Republicans wanted her to be one 78 year old heartbeat away from the Presidency.

    McCain turned 73 before the election last year. Just for the record.

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  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    McCain turned 73 before the election last year. Just for the record.
    Hmm. I must have misremembered his age.

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  • TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    To be fair, Vietnam POW camps add, like, 5 years easy.

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  • Loren MichaelLoren Michael Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    MAINSTREAM MEDIA

    MORE LIEK LAMESTREAM MEDIA

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  • pyromaniac221pyromaniac221 this just might be an interestin YTRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Phrase?!

    More like slightly different phrase!

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    MAINSTREAM MEDIA

    MORE LIEK LAMESTREAM MEDIA

    She probably thinks that is a witty debating tactic.

    Healthy Panel

    MORE LIKE DEATH PANELS!

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  • Loren MichaelLoren Michael Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Her kids voted on that one.

    Or did they?

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  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Her kids voted on that one.

    Or did they?
    Actual, real, credible, politically-wrong-but-not-crazy people are saying "no."

    I'm going to go with them.

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  • NartwakNartwak Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Couscous wrote:
    Huge Liar or Narcissistic Megalomaniac?
    What do you mean, or?

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  • werehippywerehippy Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    No, no. Build her up, make her the spokesperson for the right.

    She perfectly encapsulates an enormous amount of what is wrong with them.
    She needs to be introduced, in person or in report, as "Sarah Palin, former Republican Candidate for Vice President" every time she's mentioned.

    Tie them to this. To her. Never let anyone forget that the Republicans wanted her to be one 78 year old heartbeat away from the Presidency.

    McCain turned 73 before the election last year. Just for the record.

    He still would have been the oldest person ever elected to a first term, and that's ignoring the chronic health problems and battle with skin cancer.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Nartwak wrote: »
    Couscous wrote:
    Huge Liar or Narcissistic Megalomaniac?
    What do you mean, or?

    I'm thinking of narcissistic megalomaniac as in this:
    http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/224098/

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Couscous wrote: »
    Nartwak wrote: »
    Couscous wrote:
    Huge Liar or Narcissistic Megalomaniac?
    What do you mean, or?

    I'm thinking of narcissistic megalomaniac as in this:
    http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/224098/

    So... Sarah Palin gets credit for making the joke?

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    werehippy wrote: »
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    No, no. Build her up, make her the spokesperson for the right.

    She perfectly encapsulates an enormous amount of what is wrong with them.
    She needs to be introduced, in person or in report, as "Sarah Palin, former Republican Candidate for Vice President" every time she's mentioned.

    Tie them to this. To her. Never let anyone forget that the Republicans wanted her to be one 78 year old heartbeat away from the Presidency.

    McCain turned 73 before the election last year. Just for the record.

    He still would have been the oldest person ever elected to a first term, and that's ignoring the chronic health problems and battle with skin cancer.
    Ayup. But boy did I get tired of people saying he would be the oldest President ever, if elected.

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  • Andrew_JayAndrew_Jay Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I'm watching an Anchorage news program and they just said that Going Rogue could set some first day sales records. Even factoring in the online price-war stuff, I find it hard to believe that it could be getting anywhere near a Harry Potter or Twilight book.
    Never underestimate the right-wing think tanks buying out entire store's stocks, just so they can crow about it selling well.
    So you're saying they're as bad as the Scientologists?

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Andrew_Jay wrote: »
    I'm watching an Anchorage news program and they just said that Going Rogue could set some first day sales records. Even factoring in the online price-war stuff, I find it hard to believe that it could be getting anywhere near a Harry Potter or Twilight book.
    Never underestimate the right-wing think tanks buying out entire store's stocks, just so they can crow about it selling well.
    So you're saying they're as bad as the Scientologists?

    No I think the Scientologists are on higher ground on this one. They'd actually buy the books to say it sold well.

    The right-wing nut tanks will simply say it sold well when all historical evidence says otherwise and if anyone points out that they're wrong they're labeled socialists, nazi's, acorn and other crimes against God.

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  • FiziksFiziks Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    "Let us not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Fiziks wrote: »
    "Let us not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

    "Let us not confuse foolishness with independence."

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Fiziks wrote: »
    "Let us not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

    "Let us not confuse foolishness with independence."

    "Let us not confuse Chance the Gardener with an intelligent person."

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  • ClipseClipse Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    On the topic of first-day sales: the first printing of Going Rogue was 1.5 million copies. Even if every single copy of the first printing sold on day one, it weighs in at about 10% of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at ~15 million books sold on day one.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Her resignation speech will forever be one of the most surreal things I have ever witnessed

    If I hadn't seen her before I would have sworn she was some meth addict who stumbled in frontof the podium.

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  • FiziksFiziks Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Couscous wrote: »
    Fiziks wrote: »
    "Let us not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

    "Let us not confuse foolishness with independence."

    "Let us not confuse Chance the Gardener with an intelligent person."

    What's funny is that Chance would make an excellent president.

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Well, it's certainly broken the record for books sold in the category of "books by Sarah Palin".

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  • AlectharAlecthar Alan Shore We're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Fiziks wrote: »
    "Let us not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

    I hardly think that accusing the president of disloyalty to the highest ideals of the nation he leads can be called genuine dissent. All Palin has ever done is launch ad hominem attacks at her opponents, shrouding herself in a kind of aw-shucks, down-home "patriotism" that, in addition to its perilous proximity to outright racism, should be seen for what it is: a self-serving, cynical appeal to a part of the population she believes is too dumb to figure it out.

    The reality is that Palin is apparently not particularly brilliant. She makes foolish decisions, is at times barely coherent, and apparently is divorced enough from reality that she believes those things are either untrue, or the fault of those "out to get her." Despite all that, she is possessed of a particularly malicious brand of cunning that has allowed her to climb out from under her considerable idiocy.

    I doubt Sarah Palin is the kind of woman who can get elected president. I doubt she's the kind of woman who could be nominated to run for the office. However, many of the same things were said about George W. Bush, and it would be wise to remember that fact.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Thing she lacks that GWB had was is the solid backing of the GOP.

    She has some grassroots but the bigwigs in the party must despise her at this point.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    What the hell do you call corporate populism, anyway?

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    What the hell do you call corporate populism, anyway?

    An oxymoron.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I hardly think that accusing the president of disloyalty to the highest ideals of the nation he leads can be called genuine dissent.
    She is only defending what she imagines the constitution to be.
    http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man_passionate_defender_of

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  • ProPatriaMoriProPatriaMori Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    What the hell do you call corporate populism, anyway?

    Deceit.

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Nartwak wrote: »
    Couscous wrote:
    Huge Liar or Narcissistic Megalomaniac?
    What do you mean, or?

    Boolean or. Its still true when both are true
    Well, it's certainly broken the record for books sold in the category of "books (maybe) read by Sarah Palin".

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  • Loren MichaelLoren Michael Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    What the hell do you call corporate populism, anyway?

    Nationalsozialismus?

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  • SkyGheNeSkyGheNe Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I think the real gift will be if McCain passes before 2012, thus allowing all of us to imagine how history would have passed had he been elected.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Well, it really depends if she got bored and resigned first.

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    SkyGheNe wrote: »
    I think the real gift will be if McCain passes before 2012, thus allowing all of us to imagine how history would have passed had he been elected.
    2016. You age faster when you're President, unless you delegate all your authority to other people. *cough* Reagan *cough*

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2009
    Thing she lacks that GWB had was is the solid backing of the GOP.

    She has some grassroots but the bigwigs in the party must despise her at this point.

    After how thoroughly George Bush destroyed the Republican party, the GOP bigwigs would be fucking insane to back her at this point.

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Thing she lacks that GWB had was is the solid backing of the GOP.

    She has some grassroots but the bigwigs in the party must despise her at this point.

    After how thoroughly George Bush destroyed the Republican party, the GOP bigwigs would be fucking insane to back her at this point.

    You mean, not thoroughly at all, given how many Republicans are still in power?

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2009
    Thing she lacks that GWB had was is the solid backing of the GOP.

    She has some grassroots but the bigwigs in the party must despise her at this point.

    After how thoroughly George Bush destroyed the Republican party, the GOP bigwigs would be fucking insane to back her at this point.

    You mean, not thoroughly at all, given how many Republicans are still in power?

    The GOP is feeding on itself, engaging in loyalty purges, and losing seats that they've held for over a century. Rome didn't fall in a day, but it still fell.

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Thing she lacks that GWB had was is the solid backing of the GOP.

    She has some grassroots but the bigwigs in the party must despise her at this point.

    After how thoroughly George Bush destroyed the Republican party, the GOP bigwigs would be fucking insane to back her at this point.

    The problem is there are no such thing as "party bigwigs" or at least they are so few that they don't really matter. There are some who are just playing at this insanity but they make up a very small part of the rank and file party officials. If you look up red state county GOP committees, its going to be stocked with teabaggers. That's why we keep getting "X County Republican Chair sends out racist emails/comparisons to the Holocaust/birther" stories. There isn't a clear division between the Republicans and Republican Party leadership except at the very highest levels and those levels can't act without county/state level support or support from the office holders who are also either de facto tea baggers or terrified of them.

    Its an inmates/asylum situation. There's almost no one left who isn't a whackjob to be mad at the whackjobs.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Thing she lacks that GWB had was is the solid backing of the GOP.

    She has some grassroots but the bigwigs in the party must despise her at this point.

    After how thoroughly George Bush destroyed the Republican party, the GOP bigwigs would be fucking insane to back her at this point.

    They may not have a choice lest they be set upon themselves. The teabaggers were taking notes as to not only who didn't flock to Hoffman's aid, but also who got there later than the others.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PantsB wrote: »
    Thing she lacks that GWB had was is the solid backing of the GOP.

    She has some grassroots but the bigwigs in the party must despise her at this point.

    After how thoroughly George Bush destroyed the Republican party, the GOP bigwigs would be fucking insane to back her at this point.

    The problem is there are no such thing as "party bigwigs" or at least they are so few that they don't really matter. There are some who are just playing at this insanity but they make up a very small part of the rank and file party officials. If you look up red state county GOP committees, its going to be stocked with teabaggers. That's why we keep getting "X County Republican Chair sends out racist emails/comparisons to the Holocaust/birther" stories. There isn't a clear division between the Republicans and Republican Party leadership except at the very highest levels and those levels can't act without county/state level support or support from the office holders who are also either de facto tea baggers or terrified of them.

    Its an inmates/asylum situation. There's almost no one left who isn't a whackjob to be mad at the whackjobs.

    A large part of it is that the scandals that occured in the middle of this decade, like Abramoff and ARMPAC, pretty much decimated the GOP leadership, creating a vacuum. Seriously, think about where you were in January 2005, and do you really think at that time, the GOP would have in 2008 a three way fight between Mittens, McCain, and Huckabee? A lot of these guys are punching way above their weight class, and that's in large part because they got promoted up before they were ready.

    The other problem is that a lot of these leaders have power bases that may overlap with the GOP base, but are not of the base. Pat Toomey is a great example - being a leader in the Club for Growth, he has his support base from there, meaning that Ensign had few options for getting him of Specter's back, even if he hadn't been schtupping his mistress.

    The compination of the two means that in many ways, the GOP is no longer in the drivers seat of their movement, which is not a good place for them to be.

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