Things you like about Sarah Palin

Speaking as a Canadian, I like it that she's not one of us.

Oh, and she's very funny and quite engaging on 30 Rock. Too bad she's so stupid outside of that show. I guess it proves she can really act.
 
The main thing I like about Sarah Palin is that her popularity ensures that when future archaeologists dig us up, they'll alternately laugh and cry.
 
I'm not really attempting to sound sexist at all here, but here goes...

She is one very beautiful woman. Really, she is. If I didn't know her from Eve and she walked by me on the street, I'd do a double (perhaps even a triple) take. In addition, once you get past all the political b.s. she seems to have a rather fetching personality. I'm sure she'd be a very pleasant person to have a conversation, or dinner, with in a relaxed social atmosphere. But, based upon what I've seen, I wouldn't agree with her political views on much of anything.

In short: I'd date her or consider her a friend, but I'd never vote for her.
 
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What I like Sarah Palin is the reasons she drives the left nuts: she is more qualified than Obama and lives a life that totally ignores the standard progressive cliches about how one "should" live (avoid guns, like abortion, go to an Ivy league school, live in/next to a big city, have 1.5 children).

She exposes hypocrisy, in other words. The hysterical attacks on her, and especially on her family, show clearly the naive rock-star adoration of The One that is the real reasons for the Obama cult among self-identified "sophisticates", the intolerance for any really alternative lifestyle among the champions of "diversity" and "tolerance", and the contempt for those who are not of their own set among those who see themselves as being for "the people".

The problem is that, while all these are very nice and I wish all Republican candidates would have them, surely they are secondary qualities that should not be the main ones for a POTUS. As honorable as her employment record and life's choice are, they aren't, in my view, nearly sufficient for the top job in the world. After all, merely being more qualified to POTUS than Obama is a bit like being more qualified to be a gym instructor than the fat lady in the circus.
 
What I like about Sarah Palin, is how she drives the right nuts with fevered adoration. Her 'down to earth' lifestyle, allows the right to continue to attack those 'evil elitist liberals'. She shows the lack of intellectualism among the right.

She also manages to expose the hypocrisy of the right. For instance, mocking President Obama for using a Teleprompter, while she has 'talking points' written on her hand to refer to during a Q&A. It simply shows how she is really just 'one of the people'. After all, if you aren't 'one of the people' like Sarah Palin, you aren't a real American like those on the left, showing just how shallow the right can be.

The blind worship by the right is really quite boggling, she is less qualified than President Obama to be POTUS, showing that when things get difficult, you can just quit, as she did when Governor. Though I'm sure she'll be quite successful on FOX news. Then again, her lack of education, lack of intellectualism with her blind faith, and apparent disdain for science does seem to fit in well with the growing fundamentalism within the right.

I'd rather have someone well educated to run the country, than someone who wants to bring God back to the country. I'm sure she's a nice person though.
 
As a transplant from the midwest who misses chopping wood I admire her love of the outdoors. I also admire that she will take on Republicans and their typical allies upon occasion. She seems to be less tolerant of the machinations of politics which I think is good.

I don't support most of her positions though.
 
Democrats and RINOs are getting teabagged by the Tea Party movement.

Sarah? What's not to like, compared to Democrats and RINOs?
 
She nice to look at. That's about it.

Otherwise she is a silly lady who is opposed to same-sex marriage because it's only for pregnant teenagers. ;)
 
I love her eyesight...

I mean come on, she can see Russia from her house... wow!

:D

Pat
 
Skeptic said:
What I like Sarah Palin is the reasons she drives the left nuts: she is more qualified than Obama ...
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Obama was, in my opinion, underexperienced. He should at least have spent more time in the Senate before running. Other than experience, he seems pretty qualified. For example, and by contrast, he demonstrates an understanding of the US Constitution.

Palin is nowhere near as qualified as Obama. She's not even in the same league. besides her glaring ignorance, there's her performance record. She was not a particularly competent small town mayor. She was clearly not qualified to be governor of Alaska. Her failure to be able to do that job should immediate disqualify her from consideration for President by anyone with a rational mind.
 
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Whiplash said:
I'm inclined to believe that all the stuff about "shes our dream candidate, I hope she runs, it'll ensure us an Obama victory" is actually just bluster that is for their own benefit, not for anyone else. They seek to convince themselves of that. My reasoning? If they really believed what they were saying, they wouldn't also bend over backwards to insult and bring her down every single chance they can get. You don't bother with destroying someone who is absolutely no threat.
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That's like saying we're fascinated by Britney Spears' antics and enjoy laughing at her misfortune because we're intimidated by her. Palin had a shot at getting one of the most coveted positions in government. In 2008, the left was scared because of her politics and the very real possibility that she might be elected. As time wore on and it was obvious that she wasn't White House material, she became a joke.

If she just went back to her job as governor, things would have returned to normal for her. The reasons she's being bagged on are because she's still in the limelight and because she's become a bit of a train wreck in the past year or so.

The media and the left aren't simply fascinated by Palin. She puts herself out there and gets caught in these little hypocrisies over and over again. At this point it's just entertainment. The republicans don't even want her to run at this point.

Now, for the OP. What do I like about Sarah Palin? Not a whole hell of a lot. One thing is for sure, she knows when a door opens for her and she knows how to walk through it. She did it in 2008 with McCain and she did it in 2009 when she bailed out on her elected duties Alaska to pursue her book and her future career as a pundit.

At the very least she's savvy with her career. Given the job of governing until a 2012 run versus quitting and capitalizing on her popularity, I think she made the smartest choice for her financial future.
 
Skeptic said:
What I like Sarah Palin is the reasons she drives the left nuts: she is more qualified than Obama and lives a life that totally ignores the standard progressive cliches about how one "should" live (avoid guns, like abortion, go to an Ivy league school, live in/next to a big city, have 1.5 children).

She exposes hypocrisy, in other words. The hysterical attacks on her, and especially on her family, show clearly the naive rock-star adoration of The One that is the real reasons for the Obama cult among self-identified "sophisticates", the intolerance for any really alternative lifestyle among the champions of "diversity" and "tolerance", and the contempt for those who are not of their own set among those who see themselves as being for "the people".

The problem is that, while all these are very nice and I wish all Republican candidates would have them, surely they are secondary qualities that should not be the main ones for a POTUS. As honorable as her employment record and life's choice are, they aren't, in my view, nearly sufficient for the top job in the world. After all, merely being more qualified to POTUS than Obama is a bit like being more qualified to be a gym instructor than the fat lady in the circus.
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1. A half term governor of ALASKA is more qualified to run the country then a constitutional Lawyer/State Senator/US Senator? okie dokie. Well I guess given intellectual competence and concern for something outside your backyard are not qualifications, she at least qualifies, but she is not more qualified then OBAMA. Guess it must bug you that someone so "unqualified" got in then.

2. Your plethora of grandiose strawmen is unfitting for a member of this forum.

Like abortion? Believing in a woman's right to choose is hardly the same thing.

Have 1.5 children. No, so we should simply have 12 kids each, make the place over populated, let millions starve from it, and let nature take its course, rather then do the reasonable, smart thing, and control the population ourselves.

Getting an Ivy League Education??? Come on. You try to get the best education you can, so your country can compete with the rest of the world, or else keep doing what you've been doing, and fall further and further behind the rest of the world in that area.

City living? I like it, but it is not for everyone.

Where do you get this stuff????

The rest of your post is not only stupid, but clearly inflammatory for the purpose of entering a flame war with a lefty...well not this one. I hear there is a rock that requires someone under it...seeya.

TAM:)
 
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Anyways, it's clear why people like her.

They identify with what they see as an embodiment of the American ideal of individualism and self-reliance. She also strikes a chord with the neo-conservative notion of restoring America's greatness through traditional values (e.g. religious values) and the embrace of American exceptionalism.
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I think you nailed it. The problem is that the "embodiment" they see is illusion that is barely covering a typical self=serving politician. Wishful thinking - just like the kind that sells homeopathy - is the reason she has any support at all.
 
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