Sarah Palin has been called many things: touchstone, villain, heroine, MILF, you name it. What cannot be denied, however, is the fact that Palin is a towering public figure—the sort of lightning rod that people are willing to dance with in order to gin up interest in their own causes.
When John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, PayPal was nearly brought to its secure-system knees as millions of hockey moms rushed to contribute to the McCain campaign. Coincidentally, even greater numbers of soccer moms and latte liberals contributed to Barack Obama’s campaign as soon as they heard Ms. Palin open her mouth, you betcha. There’s obviously a fine line between dancing with a lightning rod and sticking your tongue on one.
Such is Ms. Palin’s influence that she is regarded in some circles as the titular head of the conservative movement, casting an even larger shadow than Rush Limbaugh and sometimes making more sense than Glenn Beck. As for RNC chairman, Michael Steele, please, the GOP’s afraid of the dark. (It’s much like Tiger Woods in that regard.) Like it or lump it: there’s nobody who can whip the conservative base to frothy-well quicker than Sarah Palin.
Small wonder she’s the tea party’s cup of meat. Palin is fluent in the double-talk, triple-speak, and the total denial of facts in a way that tea partiers can relate to. They love it that she writes things like “lift American spirits” on her hand and that she isn’t afraid to stand up to liberal bullies like David Letterman and Seth MacFarlane.
The media, of course, love Sarah Palin like a reporter loves a man-bites-dog-story on a slow news day. Indeed, every day is a slow news day where Sarah Palin is concerned. She puts the foot in footloose; the buster in ball buster. She even lent a hand to vegans and their dreadful Tofurkeys when she stood in front of a camera on a turkey farm just before Thanksgiving, chattering on without a clue while a turkey technician fed live birds into a shredder in the background.
It doesn’t get much realer than that, folks!
I know Bobz. Guess I was just in a mood.
P. honey,
Get with the times, sweet — the Truth rant is what happens when you listen to too many Glenn Beck tapes backwards on a DVD. The “magic dust” just comes out.
To wit:
“Another moron that has their lips stuck to Obama’s butt. We have the most unexperience person to ever step foot in the WH and the clown of article is worried about Sarah Palin.”
Need I say more?
Truth – First of all, let me just say name selection is very important, and yours just doesn’t match the writing. I’d try something else.
“Dumbo has been screwing up since the day he stepped foot in the WH.”
“Thank GOD for Sarah Palin. We would have Obamanationdeathcare and Cap and Tax if not for Sarah Palin”
If you are seriously implying that Sarah Palin is more intelligent than Barack Obama and she has a plan for America that can actually get us back on track, other than just talking in generalizations about how bad things are, then by all means, please do share some Sarah wisdom with us. I am sure if you could, you’d never have to write another incomprehensible comment again. This isn’t about ‘trashing’ Sarah Palin. It is about exposing someone for what she is–a person who is just not ready to lead a nation. A person who is intent, however, on keeping a nation divided so that she can continue to make money off the controversy. If Sarah Palin were truly a great patriot, she would get behind the President, offer her wise counsel you believe she is capable of, and help, not hinder the progress of our nation, but, of course, where’s the money in that? And ‘Obamanationdeathcare’? You are implying that our President is trying to get a better healthcare system so that he can what? Help them die? Kill people? Seriously? You need to turn off the Glenn Beck and go get some fresh air. Your message is an affront to everyone with a frontal lobe.
Folks, folks!
Its not worth all this anger!
Really!
Too much of a big deal is being made over these things.
Everybody go take a cold shower.
Jesus Sapwolf, pull your head out and take a deep breath, sonny. Clearly you’re just a reactionary mouthpiece repeating sound bites, so I’ll educate you on your liberal bias delusion. We take shots at anyone in need of a bit of mockery. Pelosi is a scary clown, so we pick on her. Palin is a walking contradiction, so she gets her due. You’re a typically idiotarded whack-nut parrot, so I pick on you.
Neener neener.
Josh Painter=sycophantic TOOL
Yes, yes, everyone loves $arah the tap dancing vaudeville act. The woman who stands for nothing and everything depending on the price tag.
Of course, the founder of the TEAPARTY calls $arah a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, but she has somehow latched on to that anyway. At the same time as respresenting the teaparty she will campaign for RINO McCain. $he will feel kicked in the gut over a CARTOON, and condescend to the down syndrome actress that wants no part of $arah, the actress feels sorry for Trig who handled like a loaf of bread to get sympathy and votes. $arah will whine about Rahm, but tell us with a straight TWO-face that Rush uses the same words satirically.
$he will lamblast the sitting president of the USA for using a teleprompter when she knows full well that she wrote notes on her hand…she wrote words that an 8th grader could remember since they epitimize the Republican party….oh this is just in the last MONTH, I could go on. I could start from that fateful night when she told Katie Couric that she reads “ALL OF ‘EM”.
The article is a slant against Palin and the Tea Party Movement. Not a totally vitriolic one but a slant nonetheless. The media can’t help it. They are leftist when they become majors in most journalism schools, then it gets amplified. Pretty soon, they are too out-of-touch to understand most Americans.
It happens. Sarah is an American through and through and it is alien to most journalists.
Why are most gossip columnists such leftist tools?
– JP
My original comment was ‘well done’, but after reading the rant preceding mine I must say that the article wasn’t even a real slam on Palin. It just shows how reactionary the Right is getting. ‘Truth’ is becoming a stock word lately far detached from its real meaning.
I used to be a supporter of Sarah Palin, but since going national she has become just a pretty mouthpiece for far right conservatism. If she cannot finish out her governorship she cannot be trusted with any greater responsibilities.
“the sort of lightning rod that people are willing to dance with in order to gin up interest in their own causes.”
Or, those seeking attention and hits on their pathetic blogs.
http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/category/?c=TV+Pundits
Another moron that has their lips stuck to Obama’s butt. We have the most unexperience person to ever step foot in the WH and the clown of article is worried about Sarah Palin.
But this is what they do. When the Dumbo in the WH screws up the butt kissers react by trashing Sarah Palin.
Dumbo has been screwing up since the day he stepped foot in the WH.
Thank GOD for Sarah Palin. We would have Obamanationdeathcare and Cap and Tax if not for Sarah Palin.
How did you like Obama picking his nose on national TV during the train wreck Healthcare debate?
How stupid did that Liar In Chief look on national?. All the networks had to go and hide because there was no way to spin how stupid this man is.
You can only hide the Truth from the American people for so long and Obama is a joke that was played on us “the American people” by the lying MSM.