Does Sarah Palin help or hurt the GOP's "comeback"?

hell im even feeling sympathetic towards them and their kids, i think if it keeps up people will get real pissed and it could effect the way they vote.

She really doesn't deserve it. Always remember who chose to bring those kids out onto the campaign trail. They are nothing but props to her, and if you give in to your sympathetic feelings, she will have succeeded again in using them as props.

she's secretly sold Alaska's soul (what's left of it) to the Devil Exxon.

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/827548.html

im sorry but every politician brings their family on the trail, i dont leave my principles at the door just because of letters after teh politicians name, and a lot of other people will be the same, you attack someone elses children you may as well attack their children. People dont like it.

that Sarah has. There is no comparison.

i try to seperate the politician and any animosity i feel for them from their family, you can chose your friends but not your family. I find the justifying the abuse of the Palin daughters as bad as the original bad taste joke.

because Ms. Palin (unfortunately) is my governor and I know the games she plays. She is a grifter and a fraud, and in my opinion everything about her is fair game.

the kids being attacked due to who their parents are, hell my kids would stand by me if i ran for office does that mean you then have the right to attack them, im sorry but it engenders a lot of sympathy from me, and turns me totally against the attacker, as i said i dont care what initial is at the end of the pols name when it comes to their kids being attacked.

and not continued to this day to exploit them (i.e., Bristol's picture on the cover of People with Tripp talking about abstinence), I would agree with you 100%. I have children, too, and grandchildren, but were I to run for office, I would keep them completely out of it.

When else were her kids "attacked"? I'm not feeling you.

Obama's kids - brief glimpses, and otherwise a serious effort to keep them out of harm's way. I learned after the fact of the election that John McCain had a son or two in the military (still not sure). I don't even know the names of the kids of the Kerrys, or the Edwards, etc.

Actually? Other than Palin's kids, I am not sure I know much about the immediate families of most candidates or politicians,other than I am sure I saw them briefly once or twice, and that was it. Not counting the ones who've willingly made adult choices to be poltically active, like Chelsea Clinton, or Megan McCain, etc.

Palin has taken this to a new level of indecency, in that she is using them to promote her career in garish ways, while protesting anyone else's right to take her and them apart on the issues she herself is raising with them. Like thowing your kids out there as bait, and then acting indignant and poutraged when people point out the obvious, say the obvious, ask the obvious questions. God, I was sickened to hear that young kid's own father, Todd, getting off by pretending to be incensed about something that was never said, made a public statemente re "the raping of his daughter Willow" - holy shit, the sickest stuff that has been said about her children, from the start of this last year, has been said by Palin and her family members.

There is a way to shield children of public figures. Palin isn't interested in doing it. It is solely under her control, and up to her to stop it. Palin expects to get exactly what she is getting from this, so if it is okay with momma, then it is okay with me.

ETA: Here's a thought for Sister Sarah - immediately drop all mention of your offspring. No more mentioning them ever. Then put forth your promised energy program that involves AK helping the rest of the nation with this energy crisis, you know, the plan you said you had while running for office. Knock it out of the park - do what you said, and solve the crisis because remember, you have a plan already. Let's hear it, then have serious national debates on the pros and cons. Everytime you are tempted to start a tabloid surge of interest in your sordid affairs, just stop right there and talk energy. Today Show? Thanks matt, for asking about Willow - she is fine! Now back to the more important issue - my finalized plan to solve the nation's energy crisis and boost AK's potential. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat as necessary. Every other polititican of note has done the same when bad stuff comes up from their personal life - get the real issues back on the table, pronto. Not showing up in every gossip rag, on every morning and evening msm crap show, indulging and rolling up to your eyeballs in this unseemly behavior.

Not. Going. To. Happen. Ever. She is what she is, and that is not someone who is planning on going anywhere soon or becoming a politician of note or holding a higher office. Ever.

The only difference is, you like him, and you don't like her. But they have both used their children as props many times.

I never thought I'd have anything halfway decent to say about Bush, but he didn't exploit his kids NEARLY as much as Obama and Palin do. Granted, his twins aren't as cute as Obama's girls, and he's just a tad less sleazy than Palin, but I think he did a decent job of keeping them out of the public eye...until they brought attention on themselves by snorting coke and drinking their asses off.

Obama using his children as "props"? Could you please explain that one to me or refresh my memory or something? I'm not sure that I ever remember his kids being used as "props"- unless I just happened to have missed something.
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to a convention and sits her with the dipshit father of the baby and then mocks others for their values? she is satan in a dress.

Doesn't it kind of feel like we've been sold out?

mind that we wouldn't be, it was just that I wished they weren't such a bunch of blatant bastards about it. Maybe they should point a gun at the teevee when they talk about this on the news. I would feel better about it if they did. :(

and especially with all this Letterman sideshow nonsense. She always creates all these little diversions as she goes about her nefarious ways. And to see that Mark Begich is kissing her ass on this really burns me up.

You KNOW this isn't going to do one little thing to help Alaska with its energy issues.

In my experience, most average people see her and her fucking family for the white trash grifters they are

well, cant believe its okay to use bigoted terms to desribe people we disagreee with but theres conniption fits if its the other way. Personally i hate michele obama, dont know why just something about her kills me, but im not going to attack her kids or family just because i hate her.

her approval ratings are higher than any first ladies in recent years at least. even higher than her husband who is popular.

and most americans think Palins are phony .

with all the attacks against her she must be thought of a threat. If she wasn't a viable threat why the attacks?

If she is garnering your sympathy, you are not paying attention to how she uses her family as props, and could not care less about their happiness or well-being.

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... and the media that love the train wreck aspect of her. She is not taken seriously by anyone but the GOP base. Everyone outside of that 20-30% thinks she is a walking punchline.

The only reason she stays in the news is because she is a train wreck, yet the GOP has to take her seriously lest they piss off the base.

... just to show that all options were available and the that best one was selected.

Of course, I always miss a few and DU will invariably correct my omissions!

at the fact that it got three votes!

I would understand if some DUers agreed that she might be the nominee, but not that she is the magical solution to winning back the White House. :rofl:

so that I could have a few more good laughs!

Sometimes we have to just accept our comedy in whatever form it comes to us.

Just to rile up any moles that might be on board. Sarah is the GOP gift that just keeps on giving.

taking them down the path they are on to richly deserved political oblivion. I warmly welcome and encourage her leadership.

please oh please oh please oh please

But I do wish her on the GOP.

They, and she, are so deserving of each other.

She can do nothing but harm any cause she attaches herself to.

Come to think of it, it is

One Palin press conference is worth 10 Tom Cruise's jumping on Oprah's couch.

Alright, 5 Tom Cruises. That was pretty fucked up.

Or what "The Half Hour News Hour" is was to comedy.

Or Dick Cheney to mental health.

I don't find Obama a better speaker than Dubya. I don't understand his three word sentences, does he think we are so stupid that we cannot comprehend more than three words at at time?

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You aren't making sense

But when she talks it hurts her. But she's more interested in using the governor's office to go after her grandson's father, than actually helping the people in the floods.

She's failing the good citizens of Alaska, she'll be hard pressed to make reelection. And if she's not governor, she won't make it far into the national scene.

the anti-intellectualism of the GOP. And anyone who aligns with John McCain has to have a screw loose to begin with.

in case anyone missed that fact

She sees it as a feminist thing, which I don't get because no one could be as against feminism as this nut from Alaska. But, I wonder if this reaction exists outside of my girlfriend.