Why the Republicans are Piling On Palin--

[Jackpine Radical]

No good can come from letting her run loose in the imaginations of the droolers.

She's not only an idiot, but is an unmanageable idiot. She wouldn't let them prep her for the Couric interview. She tried to take over the campaign. She's dumb as a rock and too dumb to know it. She has a narcissistic personality disorder. She would be an impossible candidate, and wouldn't take direction once in power. Bush was just about as dumb, but he didn't come with the Igloo Trash persona, and he took direction. He was a reasonable figurehead; she would not be. They don't want her; she's useless, and I bet McCain had buyer's remorse by the second week.

What they're really scared of, though, is that the fundie social conservatives, most of whom have IQ's no higher than Sarah's, could get off the reservation, line up behind her, and take over the Party in 2012. There is no good outcome scenario for that mess. Most likely, a Palin run would crash at the end of the runway; even worse, if she won, she would be clueless and ineducable.

So the Repugs are gonna investigate her Neiman Marcus sprees. They'll probly be up there digging in the tundra, panning for political slime like a bunch of 1898 Cheechakos after gold. They don't care about the $150 K or whatever the final bill turns out to be. They want to make her politicallly radioactive right now!

[Auggie]

1. They don't have to worry. The country knows she's a fraud already.

[patrice]

2. One thing about Republicans, they will use WHOMEVER they can get.

I've talked to wealthy Republicans about their crazies; they don't care as long as they vote and then pressure Congress the way that they are told to.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Yes, they USE the crazies. They do not want that relationship reversed.

Palin is scary because she is so out of control. The Republicans gathered up the Fundies and made a angerous weapon of them. As a group, if they ever manage to get organized and unified, they are large enough to dictate terms to the rest of the party. Palin could be the unifying symbol. A Palin party would not win, but it would put the Repubicans further up on the rocks than they already are.

[Solomon]

3. The fundie social conservatives have already taken over the party.

The republican party is done. They won't be able to recover from this. The fundies have driven the reasonable ones away and Obama's going to be so good he's gonna keep 'em.

[nancyr]

7. You're totally right.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. You may very well be right.

In any case, I see an impending realignment comparable to what FDR did, only maybe healthier. Working class whites and blacks together form an unbeatable force. Racism was always an indispensable tool of the Overlords, and I think they are losing that tool, with the result that the working people are starting to come together, united in advancing their common interests, as they should have done many years ago.

Maybe that's why the fascists are crying "Socialist" and "class warfare," and maybe they are more right than is commonly realized.

[no name no slogan]

14. Right on. They took it over in 1980 with Reagan.

They've spent the past generation running off the last of the moderate/liberal Republicans, and are now running off the fiscal conservatives. They'll go even further right before they swing back.

[Jackpine Radical]

19. I don't think they took it over. I think the party took them over.

The fiscal conservative/neocon wing has always been the brains behind the outfit. They got their payoffs in the form of tax cuts for the rich, som nice, profitable wars, deregulation of corporations, etc. The fundies got nothin'. No overthrow of Roe V. Wade, no re-criminalization of homosexuality, nothin'--because those are the handles by which they are controlled, and the manipulators were not about to give up their handles.

[Bobbie Jo]

5. Yep...shoulda' vetted that one, doggone it.

[jakem]

6. Panning like 1898 Cheechakos! Wow. harsh, yet obscure!

:hi:

[Jackpine Radical]

11. OK, so I OD'd on Robert Service when I was a kid.

[grantcart]

8. hmm retroactive vetting --- get over there and close that barn door -- where is the horse?

[BeyondGeography]

9. An umanageable idiot narcissist?

Sounds like she'll be hard for them to resist.

[bemildred]

12. Good scapegoats are hard to come by.

And Republicans run through quite a few or them.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

13. After reading the New Yorker article about how Moosey emerged on the VP

horizon, I honestly almost feel sorry for McCain. He wanted Moldy Joe, or failing that, Tom Ridge. From an objective, non-partisan perspective, either would have been a reasonable choice. Boring, but reasonable and reassuring to moderates.

Enter Billy Kristol and a bunch of Palin-infatuated fanboys from Weekly Standard and Nat'l Review who had been up to Alaska and developed serious crushes. political and otherwise, it was inferred, on the Malaprop Moose Princess. The fanboys told Grampy that he would not be allowed to have LIEberman or Ridge under any circumstances whatsoever. Kristol and the rest of the fanboys basically shoved the Pole Dancer down McCain's throat and there was virtually nothing he could do about it. I really think poor ole Grampy kinda gave up the ghost when Moosey sank like a stone with Gibson and Couric.

[uponit7771]

15. I'm gonna support Palins 2012 run for president. I know fundies who switched votes because of her...

...and they can't trash her enough to make the fundies lay off.

[TwilightGardener]

16. I agree--they know they created a monster, and if they want to put their

party back together and keep it from devolving even further into a fringe religious/extremist group that celebrates anti-intellectualism, they will have to kill the monster quickly and thoroughly. She got too big for her britches the night of her convention speech, became addicted to the adoration of the crowds, and accepted no responsibility for her own lack of knowledge or preparation--can't be a typical GOP puppet with that kind of ego and narcissism.

[Javaman]

17. Like I said before, after this election she won't be able to be elected to dog catcher.

even those pit bulls, you betcha!

[TheKentuckian]

18. They have serious base issues brewing

Its going to be tough to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one. Their voters are enamored with Phailin/SammieJo the Stooge/Welfare King and it will take a major readjustment to get them back in line again.