How do you feel about Sarah Palin...

fishbob said:
Demonstrated herself to be inept as mayor and governor, then quit to chase some easy money.

I feel she is last years news, washed up and irrelevant but still wanting the limelight, will soon be spouting even more outrageous stuff aimed at the wackadoodle fringe to keep herself in the news. Sorta like a humanoid Dick Cheney.
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Yes, I know of a few people who said they voted for McCain just because they thought Tina... I mean, Sarah was hot!! For real!!

Don't ya just LOVE the voting public in this land of the free??

Happy Valentines Day!
 
Piggy said:
Um, yeah... I'm just going to have to go ahead and... disagree with you there. </Lumberg>

She is extremely savvy about the media, about her target audiences, about her personal presentation.

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I don't think she is - I think she happens to be at this time (and by happenstance not planning) to be a product the media can sell, the same way she was judged by the Republican party to be a product they could sell during your last Presidential election, her role in all this seems to be rather passive. Happy to be shown my opinion is wrong - in what way do you think she has shown to be savvy about the media?
 
Darat said:
...- in what way do you think she has shown to be savvy about the media?
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At least 6 threads here, and probably thousands of others elsewhere.

Plus millions in the bank, a tv show, and who knows what she'll manage next. Dumb luck? Maybe. She's riding the wave better than most flash-in-the-pans.

Why she enjoys such a visceral reaction, love her or hate her, is getting lot's of print, talk, and pictures.
 
AlBell said:
At least 6 threads here, and probably thousands of others elsewhere.

Plus millions in the bank, a tv show, and who knows what she'll manage next. Dumb luck? Maybe. She's riding the wave better than most flash-in-the-pans.

Why she enjoys such a visceral reaction, love her or hate her, is getting lot's of print, talk, and pictures.
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That seems to support what I think i.e. she is a product the media can sell, not that she has in effect orchestrated such.
 
Darat said:
That seems to support what I think i.e. she is a product the media can sell, not that she has in effect orchestrated such.
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I'd agree. That also seems to cover Obama being elected, although I doubt he has as many current forum threads discussing him.
 
AlBell said:
I'd agree. That also seems to cover Obama being elected, although I doubt he has as many current forum threads discussing him.
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As I said:

Darat said:
I like how (at least by the sampling I've done on this thread) to talk about Sarah Palin and why you like her and think she is good you have to talk about someone called "Obama". You'd almost would think that folk wanted to avoid actually discussing her weaknesses and strengths.
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I think the standard notation is:

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Wouldn't all here prefer a Sarah Palin to lead the angry masses instead of a real demagogue like Huey Long?
 
I love the "Palin is equal (or better) then Obama in experience" argument.

Sarah = Mayor of a tiny town for several years. Governor of ALASKA for 2 years.
Obama = Constitutional Lawyer, State Senator for 7 years (1997 to 2004), and US Senator for 3-4 years (2004 until he gave up his seat for POTUS)

Laughable.

TAM:)
 
I find her to be a MILF that I cannot consider as a serious candidate for president.
 
Skeptic said:
Not really.

First, "on paper", at least, her qualifications (Governor, mayor) as just as good as his, if not better (Senator, law professor).
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Yeah, the person who is not President of the United State is obviously more qualified than the actual President of the United States to become President of the United State.
 
Palin's strengths are physical only. If she looked like Madeline Albright, we would still have never heard of her.
 
Darat said:
I don't think she is - I think she happens to be at this time (and by happenstance not planning) to be a product the media can sell, the same way she was judged by the Republican party to be a product they could sell during your last Presidential election, her role in all this seems to be rather passive. Happy to be shown my opinion is wrong - in what way do you think she has shown to be savvy about the media?
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You got that backwards. The media and the GOP did not go out and find her.

Remember, she's the one who managed to get the GOP interested in her mayoral race. That was her doing.

No one in the news industry was sitting around saying, "Damn, it's a boring news day... what can we drum up... hey, Sam, why don't we go look around for interesting characters up in Alaska?"

When she got on the McCain ticket, the vast majority of Americans were asking "Sara who?"

But she had already brought plenty of attention to herself within GOP circles because she knows how to work hot-button issues, regardless of their relevance (or lack thereof) to the actual office she holds. They chose her because of what she can do with their target audience, not because they thought she was easy to handle.

She totally bombed her VP interviews with the TV press. Nevertheless, she managed to parlay that into even greater devotion among the people who really matter to her.

She's making a ton of cash off her book. She's got a slot on Fox.

That didn't just happen by accident, and it didn't happen because someone else wanted to give her a break. It happened because she worked hard to make it happen.

There's nothing magical about Sarah Palin that makes the Republican Party or the news media pick her out as someone they can use for their purposes. It doesn't work that way. There are such cases, of course, but they're the William Hungs of the world. And Sarah's not that.

Look at where she comes from, and look at where she is. You don't get from there to here just because someone thinks you have a nice face.

The thing about Palin is that she knows who her audience is, and she doesn't care about the rest. She's extremely savvy about the language she uses -- yeah, I'm serious... we look at it and think "what a bunch of disjointed catch phrases", and yes, that's true, but it's a string of catch phrases that do exactly what she wants them to do.

It works, and it works brilliantly.

To her followers -- the people who donate to her, vote for her, and buy her books -- she's not a joke.

She works her crowds like faith healers work theirs, and it's not something that just anyone can do.
 
I like Sarah Palin. She is entertaining. If she became the GOP candidate for President in 2012 (which she won't be), Obama and the Democrats could relax, and just show how little she knows...about the Planet Earth.
 
parky76 said:
I like Sarah Palin. She is entertaining. If she became the GOP candidate for President in 2012 (which she won't be), Obama and the Democrats could relax, and just show how little she knows...about the Planet Earth.
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For her potential voters (you know that kind of people who think New Dehli is a new fast food restaurant chain), it doesn't matter that Palin knows zilch about anything outside the USA. As long as she promotes the "family values" and general accepted "morality issues" she is a potential GOP candidate.
 
I like her ... she certainly has a following. Whatever some feel about her ability to be president, I don't think it matters all that much. What matters, IMHO, is who she might potentially endorse for POTUS.
 
I'm afraid of her, in the same way I'm afraid of being kidnapped by a psychopath and tortured, raped and killed (preferably not in that order).

The chances of it happening are absolutely minuscule, but goddamn would it suck.
 
I don't know about her qualifications to become POTUS, but one thing I liked about her was she did one thing McCain failed to do during his bid for presidency; she was able to energize a crowd, and push back during the VP debate. It made the ticket seem much less boring.
 
Dorian Gray said:
Palin's strengths are physical only. If she looked like Madeline Albright, we would still have never heard of her.
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That's what I always though about Che Guevera. If he looked like Marty Feldman, I don't think you'd see him in any t-shirts.

Michael
 
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