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Maybe she has someone ghostwriting the twitter account.

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No, it’s because she’s a fucking retard.

But close. Thanks for trying.

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^^ This.

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Thanks for the link. Reading through it now though it’s huge!

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Wow, that was a good one. Thanks Brett!

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Thanks, Blackadar. We were all thinking that, you just gave it voice.

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That Vanity Fair article is amazing.

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This woman made $13M this year, but this is how she treats the help (from the Vanity article linked above)

Palin does not always treat those ordinary people well, however—it depends on who is watching. Of the many famous people who have stayed at the Hyatt in Wichita (Cher, Reba McEntire, Neil Young), Sarah Palin ranks as the all-time worst tipper: $5 for seven bags. But the bellhops had it good in Kansas, compared with the bellman at another midwestern hotel who waited up until past midnight for Palin and her entourage to check in—and then got no tip at all for 10 bags. He was stiffed again at checkout time. The same went for the maids who cleaned Palin’s rooms in both places—no tip whatsoever.

This is what we want in a President?

On the 2008 campaign trail, one close aide recalls, it was practically impossible to persuade Palin to take a moment to thank the kitchen workers at fund-raising dinners. During the campaign, Palin lashed out at the slightest provocation, sometimes screaming at staff members and throwing objects.

Yeah Brett, you can have her.

After reading that article, I think that she’ll self-destruct, sooner rather than later. And that one day, people will wake up and realize she’s doing nothing for them, she isn’t interested in anything they have to say or what they think, and she’ll flame out. In the meantime, she does sell advertising for news outlets, so that’s something, but I’m 100% sure that’s as far as she’ll ever go toward helping anyone else.

What a farce.

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Good read but nothing really surprising. She’s selling an image that people are swallowing whole and making a fortune because of it.

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Do not take this as an endorsement of Sarah Palin as it is not, but being a “Nice Guy” isn’t really part of the “Good President” equation.

Otherwise George W Bush would be one of the best :)

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See, I feel it’s more than just being ‘nice’. But that’s probably a different discussion. Suffice to say that I never heard that about George W, nor about any other person who was running for President. Refusing to tip simple workers when you’ve made $13M in one year is just reprehensible.

I also take back something else I said…after reading that, she’ll never ever be the Republican nominee for President.

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Afraid I’m going to have to quote this as well.

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What people are afraid of is that there are legions of people who follow her every word, even though her every word is either completely off-the-wall crazy, completely divorced from reality, or completely concocted and tailored for her by William Kristol or Newt Gingrich.

Yeah, I’ll admit it, I’m afraid of her. I’m afraid of the possibility that someone with absolutely no qualifications, knowledge, understanding, or ability to think for herself can get into a position of power solely because she’s attractive. I can’t deny that she’s female, but she’s no conservative. She’s not anything. She’s a mouthpiece for other people.

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The article goes much deeper into who she really is. It was long, but I am no longer afraid of her. She cannot win a national election. Period.

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Criticizing her on grounds of how much she tips is the sort of shit that got Bush re-elected.

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Ha! This is what I get for assuming this thread jumped the shark. It must have jumped back again while I wasn’t looking :)

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Hopefully she’ll stand in the primary against someone who won’t pull any punches and who has the media clout to get his message out (like Huckabee) and her political career will be burned to a crisp as soon as someone from her own side of the aisle shines the blowtorch on the craziness and lies.

The downside to that kind of scenario of course is that we get someone competent, media savvy and utterly immoral as the R candidate.

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…is this like a spoof on all those liberals who complain that everyone on the right who protests against Obama is “just being racist!!1!”? If so: hey, nice try, dude!

I don’t know anyone who hates or fears Palin, liberal or otherwise. I think she’s a media-savvy idiot* bleating her inane patter - a bizzarro mix of jingoistic patriotism, evangelical religiosity, xenophobia, mindless platitudes to “traditional” values (whatever the hell those are), and fear & hatred of Big Government Run by Dirty Heathen Commies (aka Democrats) - to other idiots who lap it up like cheap booze on prom night. She makes me mourn the dea®th of serious conservatism in this country (which I disagree with but can at least respect) and she provides a convenient target for ridicule - not just to liberals, but to anyone with half a brain who pays the least bit of attention to the nonsense she spews - but that’s about it.

*It is vaguely possible she is a media-savvy genius who just plays the fool as some sort of convoluted Master Plan on her part. But I’m not quite paranoid enough to give her that much credit.

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The Vanity Fair piece is getting savaged by the left and right. Few sets of folks are protesting to Ben Smith that the article is simply wrong. And there’s this:

From Politico
Some of the coverage of Palin is so bad that even her harshest critics are leaping reluctantly to her defense, in this case former Edwards aide and founder of the feminist, progressive blog Shakesville Melissa McEwan:

What makes [the Vanity Fair] the worst thing I've read all day is the fact that most of what's in it is the sort of sh** that is considered (rightly or wrongly) the mundane business of doing politics, and yet is somehow ZOMG SHOCKING when done by Sarah Palin.

Monika Bauerlein, the co-editor of Mother Jones, tweeted: "I didn't think anything could make me rear up in Sarah Palin's defense, but this VF profile is close."

It's a sentiment I share.

I remain constantly infuriated at the number of pieces written about Sarah Palin that compel feminist/womanist women to come to her defense, or, at minimum, point out the absurdity of the coverage. (Bauerlein also tweeted: "'Sarah, these aides say, seemed comforted by having the children around, and she seemed lonely when they were gone.' Truly a monster.") To have feminist writers mock the paucity of legitimate criticisms in a hit piece on Palin can't have been the point.

And yet here we are again.

I will continue to defend Sarah Palin against misogynist smears not because I endorse her or her politics, but because that's how feminism works.

But I'd prefer not to be obliged in the first place.
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…“womanist women?” What the hell does that mean?