With her new book out, and a whirlwind speaking tour, Sarah Palin is on the media front lines this month. She’s talking about John McCain, her bad interview, what she did right, and what she did wrong. Now, I’m not here to promote Sarah Palin. In fact, I didn’t vote for her. And, I hope the country isn’t in such a mess that Sarah Palin gets the Republican nomination. The Republicans are stupid, but only something truly horrible in the bowels of the Obama Administration would permit them to put her front and center. While an Obama Presidency imploding would be terribly entertaining, it would sort of be like hoping a serial killer stays on the loose to prolong the tension. Breaking a tooth and continuing to stick your tongue in the hole. You get the point. Not real healthy.
That said, what my column is really about is all the Heavy Breathing every time her name comes up. And, quite honestly, all the puffed up, soft sexism, and the pretense that everyone shares the same notion about this political figure are really grating. The hatred and vehemence that springs from fear about a strong female candidate and that her popularity may make it more difficult to spread your victimology, government dependency dogma really just wants to make me puke. Some reality for ya.
She’s polling 40-44% nationally, depending on what poll you read. That’s the same place Obama was in September, 2006. Now, I’m no tea leaf reader, but by January when Health Care is locked up in the Senate, she may have better numbers than our ELECTED leader. I’ll do a Snoopy jig that day.
Now, if you’re revelling in only 40% like Sarah Palin, fine. But let’s just see where popular leftist and progressive viewpoints lay among Americans as a whole.
If you oppose the death penalty? 35% of Americans agree with you.
Support special rights to homosexuals to an exclusionary definition of marriage? One third of americans agree with you.
Atheist? You have 15% of the American people with you.
My favorite. Avoid church? 58% of you support the rights of terrorists over Americans. Somehow, I wouldn’t be overjoyed at finally being in the majority of your fellow like-minded citizens if I were you.
In 2006, Barack Obama was polling 17% among likely Democratic primary voters.
Sarah Palin polls at 29% this far out.
Somehow, it doesn’t look like conservatives are the ones who have to worry about being out of touch.
Hitler was popular too.
Art ,any body but that Indecided obama would be doing better job in this times!.At least Palin had the Executive experience,righ?.
Art,
Look what that bastard got away with. I may be conservative but I’d rather see a conservative demo in the front office than someone that I have yet to be convinced is stable. Sarah ain’t it.
#3,
Indeed. I think Palin is dangerous to our well-being. Obama less so since he cannot seem to get anything done, despite owning Congress.
Palin is a complete nutter. Any party that embraces her has a death wish.
I loved that Sarah Palin whined that she was being badgered by Katie Couric. Badgered. Katie. Couric. LOL!
I am sure being out front and dealing with the REAL press would somehow be a big fat cakewalk for her. NOT.
I have seen her book being advertised for less than five bucks, btw. The Knockoff Parody, called Going Rouge is selling for five cents less than her book price, too.
Yeah, she’s REAL popular.
Red,
Scary ain’t it?
Yes, Art, and people cried when Stalin died. Being on the Left means never having to say you’re sorry. A Death Wish is voting for candidates who’ll never hold office. Enjoy the warmers and truthers where you’re at?
Terry, I think you may be mistaking Heavy Breathing for oxygen deprivation; the kind that makes people yawn.
Me, comment on Sarah Palin? “Too starved a subject for my sword.” (Troilus and Cressida, I 1)
Round 1773 Terry woulda been the Tory going “Independence from the Motherland? You have 28% of the colonists with you.”
Round 1850 he woulda been the Democrat going “Abolish slavery?” You have 32% of the North and less than 10% of the South with you.”
Round what, 1910, it woulda been “women vote? Give me a break! You got like 31% of men with you.”
And yet progress still happens, in spite of the Crowleys of the ages.
LOL! Yes, and Vern would have been happy to tag along with Karl Marx when less than 1% of Russia was Communist, or with Hugo Chavez, when he had less than 10% of support, or Mao, when Chang Kai-Shek had all the cities, or right along with Che and his merry band of men. Give me a break. Yes, freedom gets eradicated. But, over time, the majority are always right. Ask a crowd how much a cow weighs, the crowd will get a better answer than a group of butchers standing nearby. Know it alls know nothing. Elitists go nowhere.
Do you even read articles before you cite them? From the Paliban Daily article:
The article is about a correlation between membership in a dogmatic religion and the support of American use of torture. The more dogmatic the religion, the greater the support for torture . . . even though it’s been shown repeatedly to be an inferior way of obtaining accurate information.
And from the Wikipedia article, if you look at the statistics, 15% identify with no religion. A total of 1.6% of American adults identify as atheist or agnostic. Do you understand the difference?
It seems you and Sarah have one thing in common . . . your degree of reading comprehension.