I noticed the other night that Fox News is making the dreadful mistake of posting transcripts involving Sarah Palin. Now we all know how difficult it is to follow Sarah Palin while watching her speak. But seeing it in black and white — wow. I really think she must have a learning disability or she’s dyslexic or something. Feast your eyes on this exchange after the State of the Union:
VAN SUSTEREN: And Governor Palin, in terms of the speech, do you think he managed to reach across the aisle, even though you used the word “lecture,” are any Republicans persuaded, let’s try to work together?
PALIN: Not necessarily Greta, because the remembrance here has got to be that he and the Democrats, they’ve been in charge of Washington this last year. So the common sense reforms that he is looking to Republicans to join him on, he could have implemented many of those “common sense,” as he calls them, reforms all along. Nothing has stopped him from doing that.
His mention of offshore drilling, considering that, and new energy plants, and other things that do make a lot of sense, and I appreciate he mentioning those in the speech tonight. Those things that again are common sense he could have implemented. And I think that was a bit condescending as he spoke that received by Republicans, who are saying, wait, we wanted to do that all along. Where you been?
January 29, 2010 at 12:47 pm
I’m at a loss for words, aside from she’s apparently dumber than a box of dirt.
January 29, 2010 at 1:15 pm
she is not right.
January 29, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Has she had a stroke?
January 29, 2010 at 5:01 pm
When I was younger and in the car with my mom, and we were listening to NPR and GW would have a clip, she’d snap of the radio. His voice and his idiocy just made her blood boil so much that she was in danger of swerving into oncoming traffic. After a couple minutes, she’d switch it back on. I felt the same way about GW, and I feel the same about Palin: fucking traffic hazards.
January 30, 2010 at 12:04 am
Yes. She triggers instant frothing rage in me. I can’t believe we came so close to having such a spectacularly, unapologetically stupid woman in high office, that so many of my fellow Americans were spectacularly, unapologetically stupid enough to vote for her, and that that was the respect John McCain had for me. “Here, have a dumbass with boobs — what, why won’t you vote for her? You’re a dumbass with boobs, aren’t ya?” THE RAGE.
Which is what bothers me most when These People (conservatives) take time out from being the party of obstruction and complain that Dems aren’t bending over backward to include them. IT’S DANGEROUS TO INCLUDE YOU PEOPLE. YOU’RE IDIOTS, AND UNDERHANDED ONES TO BOOT. Yes, good people, good intentions, blah blah. Bottom line is that they stuck me with GWB (oh, the flashbacks) and tried to stick me with Palin, and that I cannot forgive! Snork.
(This is why the Matalin/Carville pairing confounds me so. DUDE. [I know they don't have kids but] I cannot imagine exposing my children for their entire lives to the idea that bigoted, science-shunning, selfish, and CRAZY is as legit a viewpoint as mine.)
February 1, 2010 at 9:28 am
Mary Matalin and James Carville actually DO have children — two girls.
At least Mary Matalin is smart. I know lots and lots of smart Republicans who are pretty horrified that their party has been co-opted by these dumb loons.
There is a great anecdote in “Game Change” in which John McCain comes off stage after one of those lunatic town halls and he says something like: “I cannot believe I am leading this party of assholes.”
Even though I hate that he thrust this donkey upon us for purely political gain, I still cannot hate him. He’s a moderate and he’s smart. So are lots of them.
The best thing that could ever happen to Obama in ’12 is if Palin gets the nomination. I am cheering for her.
“Where you been?”
February 2, 2010 at 4:14 am
Really! I could’ve sworn they were sans offspring. Huh. Well, that must be/have been a lively house!
Yeah, my big sticking point is my ex’s former business partner and my current boss. One of the nicest, smartest people I know, but his politics are abhorrent to me. I’ll see a Facebook update mentioning…something that is anathema to my very soul and it just locks me up solidly — how can you be such a nice man, but also so NOT nice about SO many things, including…charity, humanity, basic human rights, and what constitutes what to me is just human decency? MAH HED, IT HURTZ. Dude’s the ultimate confounding variable. Every time I make some blanket statement in a fit of pique and incredulity, he comes to mind. The only things that comforts me is that I’m not married to him. He’s a great guy in a lot of ways, but I just don’t think I’m the kind of person who could make a life with someone I disagreed with on…basically all of life’s pillars, yanno? Then my ex says I’m too political and inflexible, while he sleeps with a woman who’s super-uptight about swearing and thinks only people like her should have human rights. He puzzles me as much as I do him. Takes all kinds!
February 3, 2010 at 11:36 am
I was willing to give McCain the benefit of the doubt but after the crap he said in yesterday’s hearing about “Don’t ask, don’t tell”…I give up.
February 3, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Oh, he definitely has some good points, I’ll totally admit. However, he’s pro-”traditional”-marriage, pro-DADT, and…tried to stick us with Palin. Palin Palin Palin. And he had something like a 77% chance of dying during his first term, so he really MEANT Palin. Unforgivable.
Oh, and he opposed Lilly Ledbetter. Anti-women, anti-gay, and anti-competent-veep. I have all the respect in the world for his military service, end of sentence. And I know he’s only doing what he thinks is right, but so was GWB, fer chrissake. He might be a heck of a good guy [to people whose rights he affirms], but the Palin pick (and the Basic Human Rights issues) convinced me that his judgment is far, far too poor to trust with an entire country, let alone one in such a mess.
And then there was the calling his wife a cunt thing. Not a reflection on his leadership, but on character, perhaps.
January 29, 2010 at 10:55 pm
She is like a walking tablet of madlibs.
February 1, 2010 at 9:29 am
Bwahaha! That is so true.
January 30, 2010 at 11:21 am
I’ve taught English for over 25 years to lots of different types of students mostly foreigners of all levels, plus my first job at a community college to people who had some developmental disability or who were under heavy psych meds. But I’ve NEVER seen syntax like that.
January 30, 2010 at 1:59 pm
oh SNAP!
January 30, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Do you still get to claim the title of Governor when you don’t actually finish out your term? That seems unfair.
January 30, 2010 at 3:03 pm
She’s a whirling dervish of nonesuch.
TOG