Next Stop on Palin's Crazy Talk Express

[CitizenPatriot]

NEXT STOP ON THE CRAZY TALK EXPRESS

Seriously, Republicans...Really?

The Republicans are trying to sell us on their Secessionist Sweetheart, Sarah Palin, as Presidential material in 2012. They're working every media outlet they can, utilizing their "co-opt the language" method of re-branding a bad thing into a good thing.

We're being told that it's not quitting when Sarah quits! It's brave and courageous and brilliant! They tell us it doesn't matter that she quit, or in Republicanese, "She had a higher calling" (the thinking nation shares a nervous shudder at the religious reference). They tell us it doesn't matter that she has a distant relationship with the truth, or in Republicanese, "She's a working class hero!" They tell us that she is a "whack job! diva!", or in Republicanese, "She's is a hockey mom!

What else do the Republicans already know, prior to selling us on the great white dope for President? Let's see: She can't name a news paper she's read. She lied about her husband's seven year involvement with the secessionist party and expected them to lie to us about it. She was found guilty of abusing the power of her office when she fired someone who would not carry out her vindictive punishment of her ex-brother-in-law (by the way, she had been ordered by a judge to "cease and desist" harassing said brother-in-law long before the Troopergate scandal broke). The Republicans told her to charge herself with the Troopergate violation again so they could intimidate the second investigation into finding her not guilty. Just so we're clear, they know she abused her power. They don't care about that. What they care about is the branding of it.

They know she is a liar. They know she abuses her power. They know she is uneducated, misinformed, and incurious. They know she has a troubled relationship with reality. And this is who they are running in 2012?

Just today she claimed she wanted to be in the White House because...(wait for it....no, seriously, you should sit down)......


more:

http://www.politicususa.com/en/node/6940

Full disclosure: I wrote this article hopped up on righteous outrage.

[elehhhhna]

1. She's a Quitbull!

[CitizenPatriot]

3. DUzy!! Love it!! nt

[Demeter]

2. The GOP Has Gone Around the Bend and Down the Cliff

The only people running it now are Fundie Whackjobs, like your funny uncle or my religiously-crazed aunt. It isn't a party, it's a mass delusion.

I fear it not. The people who are not that crazy are running away in droves.

[CitizenPatriot]

4. I hope you're right

as happy as I am to see the Republican's problems finally start to identify themselves and the implosion from within begin, I'd really like to have at least two viable parties...three or four would be even better.

[Demeter]

5. Hell, at this point, I'd settle for One!

I hate to see the Democratic Party in such a state. Suspended animation, I guess one could call it. The Dead-Alive.

[CitizenPatriot]

6. hmph...no kidding. get a spine, dems!

I've long been interested in the way they do it in some EU social democracies -- what if we had Green Dem, Liberal Dem, Socialist Dem, etc ?

[Demeter]

10. That's an Excellent Idea!

In a way, we DO have those subgroups, but they have little to no power in the party. I am hoping that the progressive and active people can break free of the corporate suits and make policy.

[Butch350]

15. Are you going to catch up the slack in payola between the two.

[CitizenPatriot]

17. that's always the issue

since we became a corportacracy (how to spell?)...

which brings us right back to the main problem.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Very nice.

:) The Department of Law thing kind of tickled me, too. Alaska DOES have a Department of Law, so I guess she's confusing the United States of America with the United State of Alaska. An easy mistake to make, I guess, if you're a secessionist.

[CitizenPatriot]

8. ha ha-- yeah, and if you're a Republican

who spent the last 8 years watching Bush illegally politicize the DoJ...It might appear as if the legal and executive branch are indeed one new super branch- the Sarah Palin Defender Department of Law:-)

Glad you liked it-- you have first hand knowledge of all of this stuff. What I think is the more important issue is what she says about the current values of the GOP.

Bankrupt party.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. CitizenPatriot, since you're maybe a little more attuned

to the Palin saga than a lot of people here are (or want to be), you might be interested in this "breakdown" of the alleged $2 million that Sarah keeps claiming as the cost to the state for the ethics investigations. It's kind of long and tedious, but I think you will appreciate it.

http://www.henkimaa.com/2009/07/07/the-2-million-dollar-meme/

Perhaps you can use some of this info in future writings. (Credit to Mel, of course, who did some serious research here.)

[CitizenPatriot]

11. wow, I was wondering about that

Thank you! One of the things that seemed odd was if they are charging private citizens 65,000.00 (at first, before the "discount" after Celtic Diva narrowed her search) for emails, how in the heck is it costing the state anything? Aren't those folks already on staff, and their salary paid by the state?

I'll go check out that list now....

I'd really like to see the Republican answer for Palin. How exactly does she fit their platform, what is their platform and how can they stand by someone they themselves have called a "whack job"?

Interesting research from the Mat-Su Frontiersman for this article, which only proves that the ethics complaints are not the work of party operatives, but rather a result of Palin's governing style:

Wasilla found out it has a new mayor with either little understanding or little regard for the city’s own laws.

Palin seems to have assumed her election was indeed a coronation. Welcome to Kingdom Palin, the land of no accountability.

Mayor Palin fails to have a firm grasp of something very simple: the truth . . . Wasilla residents have been subjected to attempts to unlawfully appoint council members, statements that have been shown to be patently untrue, unrepentant backpedalling, and incessant whining that her only enemies are the press and a few disgruntled supporters of former mayor John Stein.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. It wolld have been so nice

if the Wasillans had been a little more vocal about their previous dissatisfaction with the mayor when she ran for governor in 2006. It seems like the rest of us didn't hear about any of this stuff until it was too late.

[CitizenPatriot]

13. Anotehr aspect involved in her Gov run was

the internet -- there was a huge difference in 2005, 2006 re the internet vs today!

I can see why people were charmed by her. Even when I watch her media blitzes now, I find myself wanting to believe the woman. She's naturally likable until you realize every word out of her mouth is a lie and a whine. But if I didn't know what I know, I can see myself giving her a chance.

I almost can't reconcile the reality of who she is and how she's behaved with her "persona". It's so disturbing -- and that is, ironically, a symptom of dealing with NPD people. You can feel really uncomfortable around them. Some part of you knows things aren't adding up.

We'll see if Parnell can break free from her policies of cloaked govt after she steps down. I know he's a Republican -- so his ideology won't always be one progressives can agree with. But maybe he has integrity??? That would go a long way for Alaska right now.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Unfortunately, the word is he's an "oil whore,"

and that a Parnell administration will be rather like Murkowski II. As some in the Alaska forum have put it, we may be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Parnell may be even more dangerous as far as Alaska is concerned because he appears sane.

[CitizenPatriot]

16. That's horrible news

esp with all of the resources Alaska guards. He has a year and a half? I saw some Democrat (Poe?) who might run for your Gov next election who really impressed me. Any hope of getting him in office?

[Blue_In_AK]

18. I like what I've seen of Bob Poe,

and of the declared Democratic candidates I think he would be most electable here. He's maybe a little more moderate than the others, but he has been working in government under several administrations for years and doesn't have the partisan "baggage" that, say, Hollis French or Ethan Berkowitz have. I like that he's gotten an early start and is getting out into the state to talk to people. He has been a behind-the-scenes kind of guy and doesn't have nane recognition, so I think this is a really good strategy. He's also making good use of the internet. As of right now, I intend to vote for him in the primary.