Sarah “The Barracuda” Palin Polls A Couple Of Slight Percentage Points Higher Than Her G.O.P. Counterparts In Latest Poll
Okay, we’ve already learned the Republican Party is less popular than poisonous snakes in recent polls. Now it appears former Alaska governor (and more importantly, former GTL™ Classmate), Sarah Palin is only SLIGHTLY (if that) more popular than Republicans according to the latest CBS News poll. Poisonous spiders, poisonous snakes, Sasquatch (a.k.a., “Bigfoot“), illegal aliens (“immigrants” for our more “senstive” readers/co-bloggers) and of course, the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster. And folks, that’s not GOOD news for the Palin clan. It means only one out of four of us take the former Miss Alaska runner-up seriously as a politician while the rest of us think of her primarily as a mouthy soccer hockey mom who did a few short gigs as a politician then wrote a book (“Going Rogue: An American Life“).
Good for Sarah. Nothing wrong with exploiting the fact there is “no such thing as negative Press”. Look at all the serial killers (mostly Republicans for some odd reason?) who wind up getting married to some idiotic ignoramous shortly before being cooked in the electric chair or succumbing to lethal injection if you don’t believe me. They STILL have their fans. Don’t ask me why — they just DO.
Tell me why this is? Please. Enquiring minds wanna know…
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2:36 am on November 17th, 2009 1
Go Sarah, she is out there making the big dough for her family. spreading a positive message of conservative values, small government and individual liberty.
Would I vote for her for President? Hell no,not yet anyway. but Vice president. hell ya. Does it really matter? Has anyone seen Joe Biden lately?
10:16 am on November 17th, 2009 2
Actually even though I tend to take shots at Obama, I am much more likely to take shots at the democratic controlled congress. Since the GOP can do nothing but say no, theres not much thats happening right now that could even remotely be misconstrued as their fault.
Our economy is a wreck!!!!….Its not getting any better. GDP is growing? What a measurement joke. When you got 15 percent unemployment and the economy is growing…….yeah….thats government intervention, the printing of money….not anything positive.
The democrats want to burden America with huge tax increases to pay for health care. They ultimately want to put in place an entitlement program that cannot be repealed…and thus has to be funded for ever and ever. 1/6th of our economy they want under their thumb.
They want to then tax corporations with cap and tax. Reduce and eliminate “Corporate Welfare” and slap punitive regulations on corporations….the net result is going to be the mass exodus of MORE JOBS TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES….sound familiar AGW crowd??????
Then as if thats not enough the democrats want to pass immigration reform which is designed to do EXACTLY ONE THING…and one thing only. Legalize 12 million more poor, Democratic dependent Registered democrats to further socialize this country and to go in the direction of socialized Europe. They don’t give one flying flip for these people. They only want an constant stream of more democrats swarming their borders to keep them in power.
Obama…..Hes hardly anything but the ringleader in a 3 ring circus. Most of the time you never pay attention to him as your watching the performances in the THREE RING CIRCUS.
I present to you CONGRESS’S three ring circus.
CAP AND TAX.
HEALTCARE.
IMMIGRATION REFORM.
ODS?……we all need a healthy dose of CONGRESS DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.’
Republicans for Blue Dogs.
10:50 am on November 17th, 2009 3
Baby snakes
Late at night is when they come out
Baby snakes
I’m sure you know what I’m talking about
Frank Zappa
If you will be kind enough to allow me, I would like to propose a toast:
Here’s to Sarah Palin; may she never – EVER – go away.
I am going to go out on a limb here: No woman since Eleanor Roosevelt has done more to further the cause of progressive politics in the United States of America than our Sarah.
Don’cha just love her? I sure do!
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
1:24 pm on November 17th, 2009 4
OK, WHY the constant bashing of her? Is it because she bucked the GoB network in Alaska? Is is because she managed a deal with Big Oil that worked for the benefit of all the citizens of Alaska? Is it because she doesn’t follow some trendoid shamanist religion? What, in detail has she actually DONE that makes the left HATE and FEAR her? Seems like most of the stuff the MSM – including it would seem GTL now – is dishing out at her comes from SNL skits, out of context sound bites, or internet hoaxes. So, Guns, WHY are you afraid of her?
GawdDayumAmerica Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
@Joe Lovell, Sarah Palin is not a Harvard Graduated, Pro Choice, Femminist.
Because she is not…she is not part of the elite media’s dream girl.
How dare someone who is not Harvard Graduated, pro life, University of Idaho…NON TRIAL LAWYER pretend to have charisma and a following in this country.
Obama…Harvard Graduated, Pro choice Lawyer.
Hillary Clinton….Harvard Graduated, Pro choice Lawyer.
Sarah Palin doesn’t fit the mold and the elitist media will never let her forget it. Shes A White Niggah to the left.
The GTL™ Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
@Joe Lovell, Ah, shucks, Chuck — I don’t hate Sarah at all. She’s great for hits, she was a nice girl in school and she’s ALWAYS great for some controversy and discussion.
Oh, and did I mention — she’s easy on the eyes, too?
1:34 pm on November 17th, 2009 5
OH! I think I just figured it out – she exercised her ‘womans right to choose.’ And her CHOICE was to not MURDER her child when tests showed it to have Downs. How DARE she go against the leftist eugenicists and bring a less than perfect child into the world! That must be it. She has the audacity to not only HAVE values, but to actually hold herself to them. And to the amoral thugs that lead the left, and the MSM (is that redundant?), that someone could even have moral standards, not just some vague relativism, is truely frightening.
4:34 pm on November 18th, 2009 6
I think she gets points because she’s something new and shiny. She’s also not a pasty old white guy, so she has been able to — in some people’s eyes — add a bit of youthful panache to the party. They need that. She also gets points because she is as ignorant as most Americans, and they can relate to her. It’s why Bush got elected…
SJ Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
@Shannon,
Ignorant Americans, huh?
Well, that logic explains why Obama got elected also, eh?
2:41 pm on November 19th, 2009 7
To Palinites who like to ponder why “liberals” (i.e., non-Palinites) dislike her:
As someone who is not a Palin fan, I’d like to say that I don’t really care what school she went to (or didn’t go to). Nor do I care what she’s wearing. What I do care about is what she says she would do in office and what she has actually done in office. Any negative attitude I’ve ever had towards her is strictly due to those two things.
11:07 am on November 20th, 2009 8
When those on the left question vigorously that their is no slant or bias in their reporting they are doing so for strictly puritanical and self preserving reasons. If its ever admitted that the MSM is biased then the jig is up and the MSM is done as a entity that USED to have credibility.
The treatment that Sarah Palin receives is not much different then what Hillary Clinton was subjected to by the right….the difference…this time the MSM is actively helping with the smear job put on Palin.
11:31 am on November 20th, 2009 9
I’m just waiting for a crying Palin supporter to put out a video screaming “LEAVE PALIN ALONE!” in between bitter tears.
I think the difference between fact-checking Obama’s second book and Palin’s book is this: Obama was a candidate, and was writing about his positions, as opposed to an account of what happened over the last twenty months or so.
Here’s a copy of Publisher’s Weekly’s synopsis of Obama’s book:
Ilinois’s Democratic senator illuminates the constraints of mainstream politics all too well in this sonorous manifesto. Obama (Dreams from My Father) castigates divisive partisanship (especially the Republican brand) and calls for a centrist politics based on broad American values. His own cautious liberalism is a model: he’s skeptical of big government and of Republican tax cuts for the rich and Social Security privatization; he’s prochoice, but respectful of prolifers; supportive of religion, but not of imposing it. The policy result is a tepid Clintonism, featuring tax credits for the poor, a host of small-bore programs to address everything from worker retraining to teen pregnancy, and a health-care program that resembles Clinton’s Hillary-care proposals. On Iraq, he floats a phased but open-ended troop withdrawal. His triangulated positions can seem conflicted: he supports free trade, while deploring its effects on American workers (he opposed the Central American Free Trade Agreement), in the end hoping halfheartedly that more support for education, science and renewable energy will see the economy through the dilemmas of globalization. Obama writes insightfully, with vivid firsthand observations, about politics and the compromises forced on politicians by fund-raising, interest groups, the media and legislative horse-trading. Alas, his muddled, uninspiring proposals bear the stamp of those compromises. (Oct. 17)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From what I can tell, his book was basically a description of his political platform, a mass-marketed “Declaration of Principles.” The biggest question is not who “fact-checked” it or who didn’t, but, rather, how much stock one puts into a politician’s grandstanding.
Palin’s book, on the other hand, seems to be (from what media coverage has suggested) to be a sort of “tell-all” book about the campaign, internal strife, etc.
I’d argue that it makes more sense to fact check a book involving very recent history than to fact check a book about ideas. A book like Obama’s is more likely to be ripped apart by a critic than a reporter.
I have to say, our MSM is not the greatest in the world. It has its priorities in the wrong place. But I say this to Palin supporters: if the only media who you feel are worthy to critique or ask questions of Palin are organizations that are specifically Palin-friendly (NewsMax, etc.), your grasp of the world is no greater than a little boy who, after being made fun of by the neighbors’ kids, takes his ball and goes home crying.
If Obama has to take flack from Fox News on a daily basis, and Bush had to take flack from MSNBC on a daily basis, then Palin has to suck it up, as well.
1:04 pm on November 23rd, 2009 10
Sarah Palin is a good leader. i can say that because she did some projects in alaska that helped lots of people .
5:33 am on November 25th, 2009 11
Sarah Palin does have a rather large supporter base. Its hilarious when some of them are interviewed and cannot explain why they support her. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/palin-supporters-struggle_n_367800.html