Let's Help Palin Commit Political Suicide

[the48er]

I would respectfully disagree with the often-stated notion that Obama supporters should maintain focus on McCain and not be "distracted" by Palin.

Barack Obama must, for lots of obvious reasons, stay focused on McCain. I don't think there's been any serious arguing against that.

But I think the rest of us really do need to pour all the effort and ability we can spare into the mission of allowing Palin to disqualify herself.

Because of her speech the other night, tens of millions of "low information voters" are, right now, trying to decide whether or not she's for real. Unfortunately, they (who vastly outnumber the politically engaged), not we, will determine whether or not political deviancy is dumbed down even further than it already has been. On the other hand, the LIV's could conclude to say, "Enough! This far and no farther!" to political insanity and imbecility that is in many ways even worse than that of Bush. (Worse than Bush. Hm.)

There's no need at all to spread scurrilous rumors about Palin. She's already presented the world with innumerable thoroughly-corroborated, indisputable facts showing her to be grotesquely unqualified for high office of any kind. More inarguable facts will come to light. We need to point out those indisputable facts at every opportunity while pushing media of all kinds to do likewise. If Joe and Joanne Sixpack start to become really, really clear about the fact that Palin's grotesquely unqualified, not only will she be finished politically, it'll also be just a little bit harder for the GOP to inflict other pleasant-seeming ideologue-imbeciles on us in the future.

If, on the other hand, she escapes this election with lots of credibility among "low information voters" intact, the possibility of her mounting a successful presidential run four years from now becomes very real.

So I say we do what we can to nip Caribou Barbie in the bud NOW while it should be relatively easy to do so -- thanks to pretty much everything she's done personally and politically to this point.

I suspect that you-all find the prospect of a 2013 Palin inauguration to be about as disturbing as I do.

[Catch22Dem]

1. She needs HELP? I think she's doing an admirable job on her own. (n/t)

[D23MIURG23]

2. 2013 nothing.

If elected McCain is going to die 3 days into his presidency of a mysterious "accident".

[PCIntern]

10. the first time he slips up they'll

declare him unfit for office - the RWers despise him and make no effort to contain their hatred - and she'll be getting the buses and trains ready for ourv removal to re-education camps in Oklahoma or Alaska(!). That's how she'll bring even more jobs to her home state!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Just the facts, ma'am

We simply use the facts--her trying to get her ex-brother in law fired, her trying to censor the town librarian, her appointing cronies with no experience to office after firing qualified people who didn't agree with her politically, her running her town into debt building a sports complex while NOT constructing a sewage treatment plant--all these deal directly with what she has done while in public office. And from what I've been hearing, it is making Republicans who stay informed pause. Again and again I've heard GOPers moan that their party has "lost its way" and is "no longer supporting the values it held dear in years past".

[CBHagman]

12. I agree with you whole-heartedly.

Get out there. Talk to other people, particularly the undecided. Post well-reasoned arguments in newspaper comment sections. Call or write radio and TV programs. Point out what a disaster Palin is, and it's not just her words, it's her record.

[begin_within]

4. Well, she bought the rope for the noose yesterday:

Ignore the rest of the page linked here and just watch the video of her "speech" yesterday:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/05/video-palin-hammers-obama-over-the-surge-in-wisconsin/

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Why link to a Michelle Malkin site?

Can you find another link?

[begin_within]

8. The only other links wouldn't play, or were very jittery, starting and stopping.

Just ignore the rest of the stuff on the page.

[Loge23]

5. True, but is the damage already done?

As insane as the reich has become - virtually creating their own reality - I'm not sure that the brain-dead populace of this country has enough synapses left to see through the fraud anymore. To hear anyone defend the M/P ticket is as jarring to me as the proverbial empty barrel clankering down the stairs.
As exhibit A, I present the current campaigns:
The Obama-Biden camp has stuck to the issues and presented a thorough case for their election.
The Reich has done absolutely nothing but attack their opposition and continuely parrot, mockingly, "change".
But yet the race remains as thin as the collective intellect of the voters.
This country may yet remain under a governement "by and for the people". But it is us that are truly the endangered species in all of this? Has the country gone so far to the right that we are now strangers in a strange land?
If they win, I will assume so - regardless of any of their nefarious methods to win. "To sin by silence...."

[Patiod]

6. I wish more normal people understood Dominionist views

As I've mentioned many times before, my friends, family and work colleagues here in the Northeast not only don't believe in Endtimes and the Rapture, they don't believe anyone would believe in them. So you take the average Catholic or Main Line Protestant, and they can't even wrap their mind around the fundamentalist belief system.

They don't understand that if you think we're living in "End Times", then it's pointless to worry about global warming, polar bear extinction, or anything else - we'll all be Raptured soon anyway!

They don't know that these people WELCOME the end of the world, and are ACTIVELY WORKING TO BRING IT ABOUT in Israel.

In addition, a lot of us up here think "creationism" just means acknowledging that God was behind the creation of the Earth, however it started ("and who doesn't accept that, right?") They do not understand that Fundies think the Earth is 6000 years old, and think our kids should be learning that.

So there's an education hurdle - how do you tell people that Sarah Palin is a batshit crazy Pentecostal fundamentalist Christian, when they don't even know what that would imply for views on policy and governing?

[samsingh]

9. sure

[yorkpadem08]

11. Obama camp could accuse McCain camp of sexism

They could come out and state that McCain is not allowing this woman, here in 2008 to speak her mind by being interviewed and responding as a grown woman would.