Sarah Palin to GOP: "Man Up" and Support Tea Party Candidates

[harvey007]

Source: CBS News

Former Alaska governor and Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin kicked off a Tea Party Express bus tour on Monday with a plea for Republicans to "man up" and support the movement.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20019948-503544.... ;cbsCarousel

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Sounding more and more like a dominatrix.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. More appropriately, a dumbinatrix

[handmade34]

2. I find this

whole "man-up" craze troubling... same mindset that is the cause of bullying young gay men (resulting in suicides)...

very troubling

[RKP5637]

18. Exactly!!! n/t

[savalez]

22. What's the correct response to that? Seriously.

[CLANG]

23. Tell her only if she will "woman up" first.

[CRK7376]

47. I don't

follow a Quitter!

[No Elephants]

36. Yes. However, men have been equating courage and strength with balls for at least as long

as I've been alive--and I would bet any money a man was the first to say "man up."

I'm more than very sorry if this impacts gay men adversely and disproportionately. However, I wish all people would stop using any term that implies males have a corner on admirable qualities of human beings.

[Roland99]

3. The Twit has to steal material from an obtuse angle?

[Javaman]

44. frankly, I think there is a behind the scenes grudge match of teh stupids going on

between the group of harpies.

[gulliver]

4. She's going to break the sexy librarian spell with that kind of talk

I don't think it will sit well with the mesmerized males in the GOP. Palin forgot she is supposed to be cooing to them, making that startled, wide-eyed, "Baby so cute! Baby so cute!" expression and so forth. Questioning their manliness is a total wood killer, and that's basically her whole show.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I do believe that you are correct

Is there any demographic on the face of the planet as insecure in their sexuality as the average GOOPer male? They won't appreciate having their manliness called into question by assertive females.

[RKP5637]

17. Yep, republican (radish head) males almost always act self-conscious and

insecure about their manliness IMO.

[mcollier]

20. Why is it always a man's manliness is called into question:

Never have we heard the term "Woman Up"...

Note to all: This is the wrong phase for a woman to say to a man.... Essentially its like calling a woman a b1tch, its just calling the man the b1tch... Obviously both are very ineffective.

[No Elephants]

37. Baloney. Women's womanliness is questiioned all the time. Please also see Reply 36.

[SpiralHawk]

24. Wood killer

"Oh noes." - Republicons

[applegrove]

30. So true.

[ladywnch]

5. what is it with this new "man up" meme?

First Angle, now sarah.....do either of them know they're not men?

[MattyGroves]

35. I think O'Donnell started it with the "man pants" comment towards Castle

I've heard the expression "man up" used before in other contexts but this is the first yearI've heard it directed to political opponents and it's just a further example of the decline in political civility.

[robertpaulsen]

66. Wow! Palin is stealing memes from Mini-Me?

I think what the Rude Pundit had to say about this phenomenon is correct:

What the fuck's with the Tea Party women's fixation on men acting manly? Angle told Reid to "Man up" about Social Security. Sarah Palin attacked Barack Obama's balls. Christine O'Donnell implies her male opponents are gay. Honestly, they all sound like they're just begging for a rough fucking.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2010/10/photos-that-make...

[mrs_p]

6. for some reason that statement

really, really bothers me... what the hell does it even mean? do men somehow do better things and make better decisions than women? i am absolutely disgusted, and if any of my preferred candidates said such a thing, i really don't think i would vote for them.

[MattyGroves]

39. I always took it to be similar to "suck it up"

n/t

[ixion]

7. *snicker*

Yeah, 'Man up' GOP!

[RKP5637]

8. No doubt she goes home each night and counts her money since McCain launched her on

this gig.

[Bigmack]

9. I lost any respect I had for Sen. Reid...

when Angle used that phrase on him and he didn't rip her a new one.

"We are in a debate to determine which of us will sit in the greatest deliberative body on earth, where world-shaking decisions are made, and you act like this is a middle-school playground and you're a bully taunting one of the other children.
You will apologize immediately, or this debate is OVER."

And hold her to it.

[Auggie]

11. Remember Bush 1 wanting a "kinder, gentler nation...?"

[HughBeaumont]

15. Thanks to his "Two Term" Lil' Boots Failure Fratster, we got a meaner and dumber nation.

Proof positive: The fact that SarUH Palin is still prominent.

[RKP5637]

19. Is that ever true, we have a "meaner and dumber nation." The nation is

becoming an embarrassment with the political dialog of today.

[CLANG]

25. We truly are comedic fodder for the rest of the planet.

[Auggie]

46. Bill Maher: "Why are we always the stupid country?"

[CLANG]

49. Cuz we have the most idiots?

[thelordofhell]

12. Sponsored by Miller Lite

[lillypaddle]

13. nah, she's too fuckin' stupid

to control anything. Wannabe all the way around.

[Zax2me]

14. Uh oh?! Trouble in paradise!!!

In-fighting, NICE!
Keep it up...

[MessiahRp]

16. Is anyone surprised? Her and her husband were separatists.

They wanted to break Alaska off from America. Now they are trying to break the GOP apart. I'm surprised they have not seen her for what she is: a cancer trying to kill off their party.

[wilt the stilt]

21. Inquiring minds want to know

Todd, What is it like to wear an apron?

[CLANG]

26. and a house dress

[RKP5637]

27. LOL !!!

[No Elephants]

38. Fail. Nothing wrong with ANYone wearing an apron. Revealing post and responses.

I wonder what Neanderthals invented first, misogny or homophobia? Both are founded in contempt for things associated with women and feminity, and the mistaken belief in the superiority of stereotypical hetero males to all other people.

[Gormy Cuss]

48. Is there something wrong with men wearing aprons? n/t

[wilt the stilt]

50. There is another term for this

It's called pu**y whipped.

[Gormy Cuss]

52. Ah. It's called sexist bullshit. n/t

[wilt the stilt]

54. you miss the whole point and you are why we lose

man up is a term to emasculate a male specifically democratic males. In order to fight back you must go after these people at their core which is to turn right around and emasculate the queen bee's male. get with it.

[Gormy Cuss]

55. No, got the point. Fight sexism with more sexism.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

How about fighting back without lowering yourself to their pond scum level?

[wilt the stilt]

57. don't take a knife to a gun battle

[Gormy Cuss]

58. Who said take a knife?

I suggested using better weapons rather than matching the ones they bring.

[wilt the stilt]

59. It's the same argument I had with my wife over Cheney

When Cheney told Pat Leahy to go fuck himself she said it was better to go above board which is what you are saying. I said that he should have wailed off and punched him out. Decked him and layed him out. Men and many people respect fighting in the trenches. It's very primitive. Your argument is the words of "elites" and some times you just need to deck someone.

[Gormy Cuss]

61. Yeah, I'm such an elite. ::rolls eyes::

If Leahy had decked Cheney it would only have given the Repubs more fodder for denigrating Democrats as out of control or too sensitive or something like that. There's always a way to spin any reaction to one's favor.

[wilt the stilt]

62. and that is why you lose

Men don't respect someone who crawls away when someone says FU to your face. Sometimes you need to take a stand and show some self respect.

[Gormy Cuss]

67. I don't lose.

Didn't when I was a kid and pummeling other kids, don't as an adult use adult methods.

Men who don't respect someone because they didn't deck them are just fucked up.

Sometimes it's better to be the grownup in the room.

[TomCADem]

28. If She Were A Democrat, The MSM Would Accuse Her of "Lecturing" and "Scolding" Her Base...

...But since she is a Republican, her actions are called inspirational.

[No Elephants]

40. That's like assuming Dems are the Green Party's base. Tea Partiers are her base.

[wisteria]

29. Ok, it's time to retire that phrase-it is past its prime. nt

[BlueIdaho]

31. Mission Accomplished - Ball Buster Dominatrix Allusion Complete

The spanking will begin shortly.

Edit = Typo

[No Elephants]

41. Jaysus.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

32. Yeah, you pansies! Quit acting like pansies. n/t

[Ian David]

33. What if someone had told Sarah Palin to be more feminine? n/t

[No Elephants]

42. That never happens to women. Btw, what do you think all the posts on this thread about Todd's

feminity really mean?

[mitchum]

34. She's used to talking to Todd The Cuckold in that way

[Javaman]

43. so now the term "man up" is the new catch phrase by the right wing mouth breathers...

it would be fun to think that moron failin quitter would see the sexist irony in that term, but alas, she gave up all personal integrity years ago.

[No Elephants]

45. Playbook time. Someone played sound bites of Tea Party candidates, mostly female, but men, too,

across the nation saying "man up" or some equivalent. Clearly not sheer coincidence.

[6000eliot]

51. "Don't be like those fag Democrats" is what is unsaid here.

[kiranon]

64. That's exactly what she is saying in code. n/t

[truebrit71]

53. Only if she "womans up" and gets back in the kitchen and shuts her mouth...

..you know, like a 'good' xtian woman should...

[Bigmack]

56. Ya know... I have been in sub-cultures in this country...

where saying that to a guy could get you popped in the snot-locker.

Those are fighting words.

Like calling someone a "pussy". You'd better be friends with that person, and just ragging on a friend, or problems could ensue.

[MellowDem]

60. Hasn't there been some beer commercials...

recently which alwys tell the guy to "man up"? Is this what this is all based on? The commercials themselves are your usual macho beer commercial fare.

[and-justice-for-all]

63. It is just one more step to total fucking insanity, so why not..nt

[Canuckistanian]

65. I'm officially SICK of this "man up" meme

Especially when it's only voiced by idiot Teabgger women, trying to score some undefinable points.