Sarah Palin struggles with facts

[angrysoba]

I find her amusing. She is a complete idiot...and an embarrassment to the United States.


we had our own a while back....they don't last forever, thankfully.

Palin is the USA's answer to Pauline Hanson?

 

[angrysoba]

yes, thunder, she is really this moronic.....
that's why the far right love her, because she makes them feel smart.

No, it's the "One of us!" feeling. The anti-academiac-liberal-literati-snooty-elitist ignorance-is-a-virtue feeling.

 

[a_unique_person]

Dog struggles with door-knob.
Rock struggles with paper.
Snake struggles with mongoose.
Bug struggles with windshield.
The Spanish Armada struggles with Sir Francis Drake.

Student struggles with algebra.
Lindsay Lohan struggles with fame.
Bob Dylan struggles with Harmonica.
Evel Knevel struggles with motorcycle.
Bill Clinton struggles with Sex Drive.

 

[The Fool]

Palin is the USA's answer to Pauline Hanson?

yes...except that Hanson didn't get the support of the far right wing as easily....Our far right appears to recognize an idiot better than the US far right.

 

[keale]

As dumb as she is she seems to have a large group of dedicated fans that seem to be equally dumb.....not sure which one is more scary.

 

[Snide]

No, it's the "One of us!" feeling. The anti-academiac-liberal-literati-snooty-elitist ignorance-is-a-virtue feeling.

And we can have a beer with them! That's who we want: someone to have a beer with!

Unless it's a Guiness in Ireland during tornado season; that's unforgivable!

 

[leftysergeant]

As dumb as she is she seems to have a large group of dedicated fans that seem to be equally dumb.....not sure which one is more scary.

Start worrying when somebody really bright but evil find a way to appeal to the ones who are following Ms Moosemeat.

 

[angrysoba]

And we can have a beer with them! That's who we want: someone to have a beer with!

Unless it's a Guiness in Ireland during tornado season; that's unforgivable!

Or that time that no-good-Islamo-Bolshevik-Manchurian-Kenyan forced a policeman to drink a beer on the White House lawn with some liberal-elitist-PC-police-professor who mockingly owns an expensive house. Grrrrrrrr... them liberals!

 

[dropzone]

I suspect I'm one of the youngest people to have been expected to memorize Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride."

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,–
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."

Etc.

I know Sarah Palin didn't.

ETA:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast...s-and-bells-the-world-according-to-palin.html

What can one say? Paul Revere warned the British not to take away our guns. Yet another in a series of shoehorning every patriotic trope into whatever populist resentment is clanging around in that empty skull.

I was beaten.

 

[kerikiwi]

Is she just acting stupid to appeal to her less-informed, anti-science, anti-technology, anti-advancement base?

Or is she really this moronic?

No. Yes.

 

[Puppycow]

She does struggle with facts, but whoever wrote that article struggles with English:

Palin appears to assume that the United States simply hands out dollars with little idea about what happens to the money. This is a common misnomer. Actually, there are often strings attached.

That should be 'misconception' not 'misnomer.'

 

[hgc]

That should be 'misconception' not 'misnomer.'

That's penultimate!

Wut?

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

Palin is the GOP's equivalent of pointing and shouting "LOOK! A MONKEY" during a fist fight. Her only purpose is to deflect the media from the people who are organizing the base and getting real campaigns organized.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Palin is the GOP's equivalent of pointing and shouting "LOOK! A MONKEY" during a fist fight. Her only purpose is to deflect the media from the people who are organizing the base and getting real campaigns organized.

That, and making otherwise outrageous candidates appear to be sane and thoughtful by contrast.

ETA: OTOH, given that no clear front runner has yet emerged, it wouldn't bother me if people kept looking at the monkey and forgot about the fistfight, to use your image, resulting in another GOP ticket with "Palin" on it.

 

[Denver]

If she ever gets around to quoting Benjamin Franklin, I hope she goes with:

It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

 

[hgc]

But ... but ... Obama said 57 states! He's so stupid.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

That, and making otherwise outrageous candidates appear to be sane and thoughtful by contrast.

ETA: OTOH, given that no clear front runner has yet emerged, it wouldn't bother me if people kept looking at the monkey and forgot about the fistfight, to use your image, resulting in another GOP ticket with "Palin" on it.

I think that would guarantee a 2nd term for Obama.

 

[NoahFence]

She doesn't actually think she can win anything beyond prom queen, does she?

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I think that would guarantee a 2nd term for Obama.

Which is why it wouldn't bother me!

 

[Thunder]

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