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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 06:50 PM
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Rolling Stone: The scariest thing about Palin is...what her candidacy says about America
Edited on Wed Oct-01-08 06:53 PM by Bluebear
"It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag."


MATT TAIBBI

I'm standing outside the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Sarah Palin has just finished her speech to the Republican National Convention, accepting the party's nomination for vice president. If I hadn't quit my two-packs-a-day habit earlier this year, I'd be chain-smoking now. So the only thing left is to stand mute against th fit-for-a-cheap-dog-kennel crowd-control fencing you see everywhere at these idiotic conventions and gnaw on weird new feelings of shock and anarchist rage as one would a rawhide chew toy.

All around me, a million cops in their absurd post-9/11 space-combat get-ups stand guard as assholes in papier-mâché puppet heads scramble around for one last moment of network face time before the coverage goes dark. Four-chinned delegates from places like Arkansas and Georgia are pouring joyously out the gates in search of bars where they can load up on Zombies and Scorpion Bowls and other "wild" drinks and extramaritally grope their turkey-necked female companions in bathroom stalls as part of the "unbelievable time" they will inevitably report to their pals back home. Only 21st-century Americans can pass through a metal detector six times in an hour and still think they're at a party.

The defining moment for me came shortly after Palin and her family stepped down from the stage to uproarious applause, looking happy enough to throw a whole library full of books into a sewer. In the crush to exit the stadium, a middle-aged woman wearing a cowboy hat, a red-white-and-blue shirt and an obvious eye job gushed to a male colleague — they were both wearing badges identifying them as members of the Colorado delegation — at the Xcel gates.

"She totally reminds me of my cousin!" the delegate screeched. "She's a real woman! The real thing!" MORE......

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin
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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 06:53 PM
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1. I read that article. If that doesn't scare the bejeebies out of people,
I don't know what will. "Scary" is the word I've heard most when SP's name comes up.
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demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:27 PM
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2. So true.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:31 PM
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3. That has to be the most overlooked qualification to be President of the United States.
The fact that a candidate reminds you of the offspring of your parent's sibling.

Yippee!
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 02:17 PM
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4. Love the illustration
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 02:19 PM
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5. kicking
so I can finds it later
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 02:46 PM
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6. Good article, pretty spot on - though he focuses too much on "individual characteristics" rather
than platform.

Which makes him a hypocrite.
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