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lib_wit_it

(2,222 posts)
1. Good grief, please warn us before suggesting we watch that much Palin! I thought it was going to be
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 05:38 PM
Mar 2012

the Obama campaign's rebuttal. Listening to that screechy bitch is like hearing nails on a chalkboard. Steve Schmidt should have his own special circle of hell for leashing this grifter upon us.

exboyfil

(17,865 posts)
2. It is really bad when you can do an attack ad
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 06:23 PM
Mar 2012

without saying a single thing about your opponent.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon I

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
3. Mrs. Palin's rant was just another one of her word salads
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 04:05 AM
Mar 2012

It's only an incoherent string of words, a bunch of casually related nouns without a verb. What she said made no sense at all.

It's hard to argue with that kind of crap. How is any one supposed to get an handle on it to answer her accusations? On the end, there's nothing there.

lib_wit_it

(2,222 posts)
10. Unfortunately, the right has been conditioned to accept this kind of gobbledegook as meaningful and
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 04:42 PM
Mar 2012

reasonable. They don't need no fancy syntactical logic. As long as the general message is "Obama bad." or "Liberals evil" then the message is clear enough for them.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
11. That appeals to just how many people?
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 05:10 PM
Mar 2012

Maybe it appeals to those who were bolstering the Frat Boy's approval ratings into the mid-twenties at the end of his occupation in the White House.

I'm not too worried about the some of the people the Koch Brothers can fool all of the time, unless they're disrupting town hall meetings or lynching somebody. At the ballot box, they're too small in numbers to have a big impact.

All we need to do to defeat the Palinistas is get the truth out. There are no death panels. The economy is slowly improving, not hemorrhaging jobs like it was during the Bush years and middle class taxes are lower, not higher. Such empirical facts may not appeal to right wing morons (that's why they're morons), but they have been known to impress independent voters in swing states.

lib_wit_it

(2,222 posts)
14. I see and hear so much from those people that it's hard to believe they're as insignificant a
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 09:29 PM
Mar 2012

force as your say. I mean, didn't nearly half of the country (who voted) vote for a ticket with McCain (bad enough) and Palin (shockingly bad) on it? And their numbers seem to be growing. I hope you are correct and I'm just paranoid!

 

greiner3

(5,214 posts)
4. So President Obama;
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 09:40 AM
Mar 2012

Will drag us back to 'the past when we had racial and class discrimination."

So Sarah, you are saying it was the whites who were subject to being slaves prior to the American Civil War?

"You repeat a lie ofter enough it becomes the truth and the bigger the lie is the more people will believe it." Hermann Goebbels, Nazi propaganda chief.

SemperEadem

(8,053 posts)
5. well, there is an active movement out there
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 10:18 AM
Mar 2012

that is trying to scrub slavery out of history text books for schools:

http://www.care2.com/causes/tenn-tea-party-demands-slavery-removed-from-textbooks.html

If they can succeed, then this kind of shit rhetoric can succeed.

it was spalin's ancestors who benefited from caste/class distinction the most and using society and shame to keep people "in their place", in spite of their skin color.

remember--the people who watch that network and that show do not read and are not educated... they are on their knees in front of their televisions, sucking furiously. It's what happens when one mainlines fux noose.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
6. I am now dumber for having heard that!
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 10:26 AM
Mar 2012

there ought to be a moratorium on all things Palin...she is so bereft of cogent thoughts that it is borderline criminal...after 4+ years in the limelight she STILL sounds like a junior high school debate team member.

I am sickened by the very sound of her voice.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
9. Me too. Especially since she was on the Hannity show.
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 06:54 PM
Mar 2012

Just watching and listening to him can kill brain cells.

 

marshall gaines

(347 posts)
7. opportunistic individual
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 01:33 PM
Mar 2012

ms. Palin's remarks are part of the silly prattle she has foisted on the intelligence of human beings since being unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Sadly, I fear she will be around for a while with her pit bull remarks. The lady is a dangerous sick joke from the party that gave us 9/11.

eyewall

(674 posts)
8. The fact that she is viewed as an asset by the right,
Mon Mar 12, 2012, 02:33 PM
Mar 2012

tells one everything they need to know about the right.

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