Happy,
Thanks for the classist snobbish inaccuracy.

She received her Bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism. This is not some defense of her, just trying to stay within the bounds of reality.

BTW, do Harry Truman’s credentials satisfy you?

She has to know the bear is pushing down ice, possibly ten times its own mass, deeper, deeper…I’ll get back to ya.

If Sarah Palin is so ridiculously stupid, why do you spend so much time assailing her? It seems to me that many of you feel threatened by this “idiot” from Alaska, which makes me wonder why.

It is obvious why she must be attacked by the left. She draws a crowd and can easily beat any Democrat put up against her. You guys have lost, Copenhagen is a bust, no matter the argument. Politics trumps junk science, great bed fellows really.

Of course what with this miserable failure of a president, it will all too easy for her, if that is what she wishes to do.

Speaking of greed and war mongering, progressives have 1 of 2 choices, it is Obama in charge of the Afghanistan debacle, or he is just a Cheney pet, puppet.

http://www.bushstole04.com/Obama_Presidency.htm/obama_escalate.htm

Glenn “I am not smarter than a fifth-grader” Hoefer :
It is obvious why she must be attacked by the left. She draws a crowd and can easily beat any Democrat put up against her.

Again, we invoke the Barney Frank rule….

i personally don’t feel i spend any time assailing her.

pointing at her and laughing is really just a way to assail people stupid enough to support her for… well, anything. she is a moron, and shockingly her supporters are morons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk

Reality, her supporters need to find it.

ya know glenn, the fact that you say making fun of her us a bad idea is about the best endorsement i can imagine.

Richard, that means 29 percent of Americans are too dumb to walk and breath at the same time.

I think a study should be done on the left’s obsession with Sarah Palin. It seems that she gets more mentions and press coverage on lefty sites than on conservative sites. My prediction is that she would have drifted back to obscurity in Wasilla if it were not for the left’s obsession with her. The obsession of hating her so much.

I suppose on conservative sites they do the same thing. They probably obsess on the clownish figures on the left which are easy to make fun of and make some political hay about. Not like there is any shortage of Bidens, Pelosis, Reids, Murthas, Rangels, Franks, Jeffersons, etc.

Dude,
I read more about Sarah Palin on this site than TMZ, E! and Inside Edition combined.
Totally.

It’s called pushback. The Washington Post is trying to endow Palin with credibility, even though I’d bet actual money that she didn’t even write her own op-ed. The op-ed itself is an attempt to peddle the false “climategate” story in order to get in the way of a major worldwide effort to address climate change.

Point taken, Richard. Nevertheless, I don’t agree that WaPo is trying to endow her with credibility. She is a public figure who has a strong following across America, and could potentially run for president in 2012. I would think that it’s only fair to give her a chance to express her views. And by the way, did you read WaPo today? As far as I could tell, one of the op-ed pieces seemed to pose a challenge to Palin’s take on Climate Change. Hardly a deliberate attempt to “endow” Palin with credibility.

Federal Farmer’s rhetorical comments mark a new evolving tactic among the right-wing as it slithers deeper into the underworld.

This new tactic involves questions which beg other questions, none of which have to do with substantive issues but are rather designed to self-validate the questioner’s own cleverness and impugn the targets character and intentions.

Frank Stahali is fast becoming a master at this. Federal Farmer is not far behind.

I celebrate this new low by the same people who promote greed, war, torture, destruction of the Earth and general meaness.

Cliff, reading your comments always makes me roar with laughter. If it isn’t the hyperbole, it’s the overwhelming hypocrisy.

I’m actually kind of flattered that you would interpret my words as some kind of subtle “tactic” for furthering my clandestine Right-wing agenda.

For the record, I don’t support Sarah Palin, I have no desire to read her book, and I would never vote for her if she were to run for the presidency in 2012. I do think it’s a little ridiculous, however, that you and your like-minded rabble feel so threatened by her that you would feel inclined to constantly demean her intelligence and refer to her fans as something less than human.

It is truly revealing that my couple of sentences would be interpreted as a shameless promotion of “greed, war, torture, destruction of the Earth and general meaness.” Isn’t that a little hyperbolic, Cliff? I especially like the “general meaness” part. This condemnation coming from the man who frequently demeans those who do not agree with his narrow-minded ravings by referring to them as “idiots,” “morons,” and “bad Americans,” among other things. Sounds pretty nice, doesn’t it?

Sorry, Cliff, call it a subversive tactic originating from the depths of hell, but I can’t help but roll my eyes when you constantly harp about Sarah Palin’s lack of intelligence. It just seems kind of desperate. I don’t like Sarah Palin, and thus, I ignore her. It works for me.

We spend so much time assailing her because we refuse to permit a repeat of allowing the equally stupid republican populace to elect the equally stupid George Bush into the White House.

And I’m sure that the “equally stupid Republican populace” gives a flying f**** what you have to say on a blog which they have never heard of. Let’s face it, you fancy yourself some kind of suburban intellectual and you gratify yourself by assailing the intelligence of those who don’t agree with your worldview. You know, we can easily find any political figure from any party or movement, and determine that the individual is a complete idiot. But by doing so, we really aren’t making much of a difference, and we are simply displaying a contemptuous attitude of arrogance and high-minded hatred.

They are a lot more factual than MSNBC, the Daily Kos or most of this site.

I hate to admit it, but I agree with Glenn’s initial statements. In brief:

Sarah Palin isn’t brilliant; she isn’t informed; she isn’t a leader; she hasn’t the brains of chutney pineapple sauce when it comes to doing more than smiling and waving. She is simply a figurehead for a movement that centers itself around self-perceived martyrdom. Her cult of personality is the perfect validation for a people who want to be outraged and seek every opportunity to do so. She is like a handicapped child placed at the front of a marching army to force the enemy to commit an atrocity; she isn’t “fighting the good fight” or any other such nonsense, but her presence and the natural gall of the opposition fuels her followers’ insistence on their own persecution. She serves to march the Christian’s into the lion’s den to prove that they’re still dying purposelessly in the name of integrity. It’s a ridiculous spectacle.

Fortunately, most of the country (even conservatives) is too smart to put a symbol of martyrdom in a key government position simply to validate self-perception. But there will always be those Carrie Prejean, Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin worshipers who find more stock in similar accents, clothing, and (mostly pretended) circumstances than in actual meanings–who value nationalism more than patriotism. For the media, they are an intensely marketable minority. For they’re followers, they’re precious manna, to be saved and savored day after day. For the rest of us, the influence they have on perspective, regardless of their concrete political power, is too great to just ignore.

So what do you do when a threat arises that gets stronger whether you fight it or not? I think Glenn knows, as we all know instinctively by now, that if Palin were ignored, a new kind of outrage would be found, and the threat she poses would be nourished. Are we to dither between caring and not caring? Outrage and nonchalance? They all feed her purpose, because demagoguery is self-reinforcing. Cults of personality last long after death. I foresee Palin becoming the female gipper–we’ll call her the “chipper,” and liberals and conservatives alike will fondly recall her endless Miss America pageantry and winky, angry smiles.

Dwight Sheldon Adams

Lo siento, senor. <:(

God’s plan: defeat.