Red State: Palin Resignation Opens Door To The Left "Gang Raping" Conservative Politicians With Children
By Logan Murphy Saturday Jul 04, 2009 2:00pm
(image courtesy of bjkeefe)
The right is collectively imploding over Sarah Palin's resignation, and as with any sort of passing there comes a period of grieving. Two major stages in that process are denial and anger, and the always-classy Erick Erickson of RedState is already showing signs of both:
1. Sarah Palin resigned, I think, to spare her family from more attacks. I don’t think it is a coincidence that Sarah Palin is doing this just days after a very nasty Vanity Fair article where folks like Nicolle Wallace and, according to Bill Kristol, McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt (though I’m told Schmidt is not involved), savaged her.
2. Unfortunately, by resigning, I think the left and national media will be emboldened to ritualistically engage in the metaphorical gang raping of conservative politicians, particularly those who are female and have children. They’ll decide savaging Palin’s family drove her from office, so the sky’s the limit on the next conservative with kids.
Finally, Erickson goes flat out delusional, comparing Palin's resignation to Obi Wan Kenobi taking one for the team and sacrificing it all to fight the dark side:
4. I’ve had this running thought all day, perhaps because I was watching it on TV in HD for the first time, that this is kind of like Ben Kenobi letting Darth Vader strike him down. Palin is not going to run in 2012, but by doing this she can now become Barack Obama’s worst nightmare, and help rebuild the opposition to Obama. How? Because were she to remain a 2012 contender, she’d keep having stories by anonymous McCain campaign staffers and other 2012 contenders going after her and her family. Take that ambition off the table and it neutralizes a lot of that. So she can focus on candidates and ideas without an ulterior motive focused on 2012.
Read on...
Really? Erick, you know this wasn't about her children. She used them as political props all through the '08 campaign and continued to do it till the bitter end. And in the end, it was her ineptitude and ethical shortcomings that did her in. Perhaps the enduring lesson from this tragic political tale with be that going forward, politicians of all stripes should think twice about exploiting their children for political gain.
Is there an indictment coming for Palin? That remains to be seen, but one thing seems certain -- Sarah Palin is now toxic. She walked away from the people of her state when the going got tough and has shed any remaining crumbs of credibility she may have had left.
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at this kind of Right Wing rhetoric and ignore it and get busy making a better world.
Something happened obviously
I am so busted.
Do you ever feel yourself up?
Maybe Sarah Palin intends to become the Republican party leader, since all the news reports are saying there isn't one.
What she may not realize is that she needs the support of Republicans holding national office to fill such a position, while they're struggling to bring the party to a more reasonable and mainstream political position. Reasonable and mainstream she ain't -- she would instead take the Republican party even farther down the garden path of utter failure while more deeply dividing Americans.
Republicans need to watch out for Sarah Palin and not let her into the halls of national politics where she can complete their massacre -- they're already sorely wounded by many in their ranks and so are very weak.
Then let's hope that's her plan!
when you try to use pop culture science fiction (improperly I may add) to defend your point of view, you come off as a total whiny loser.
Nuf said?
we have a right to Free Speech in our country, but I believe there are constraints on incitement to violence or murder. What will happen when some insane righty murders a reporter for gang raping SnowJob?
realize I was referring to Erickson's inane comment don't you? Please reread the article, then reread my post.
but don't you agree this illustration is an affront to ginger kids everywhere?
Is somewhere weeping.
his fishing pole in anger.
entire Weasley family then?
. . . bicycles would fly, so square wheels are no problem there.
That's ET
Did he ever gut a fish?
...treat 'em all like a red-headed stepchild.
But meanwhile, back at the topic... The Conservatives are really doing us Progressives the biggest favors, every time they open their mouths.
McKinney, still in jail, expected to see judge Sunday
By RHONDA COOK
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, July 04, 2009
With Cynthia McKinney due to appear in an Israeli court Sunday, the mother of the former congresswoman decided to skip a weekend family reunion in Alabama just in case State Department officials need any documents to get her released from jail.
McKinney has been in custody since Tuesday when she and 20 others were swept up by the Israeli Navy while allegedly trying to sail through a navy blockade. The group says it was attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb...
That wouldn't be her first encounter with Israeli forces either, there was that other time when their boat got rammed by the Israelis as well.
Hopefully she'll make it out ok.
I really like to think that SomethingAwful goons had some hand in her demise, in addition to Levy's expose' book-shopping and the potential for indictments:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...
http://forums.somethingawful.com/attachment.p...
"I've now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin's house and the Wasilla Sports Complex, built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the "same windows, same wood, same products." Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources."
rumors of this going around when she was still playing trophy veep to Grampa grumpy pants.
O god. I came to Crooks and Liars and got a Somethingawful link.
I'll be back. I need to go shower now.
(no offense to you, just SA is....ugh.....)
Making obtuse offensive remarks a short while ago?
I mean, this shit is coming so fast and so often that it's hard to keep track of all the bullshit that they're spewing.
it's to bad people buy into it.
I never understood the love affair with Palin? She made all conservatives look bad with her stupidity, ramblings, and very little knowledge. Her attacks on Obama "palling around with terrorist" made her seem more vicious and nasty then politically savvy. Her hokieness wasn't even endearing. It was annoying as hell you betchya. I think it was all based on one thing, having a trig and being anti-choice.
masturbatory fantasy.
That's her appeal
Every Sperm is Sacred!
refuses to put a sock on his John Thomas.
Levi's negligence in that regard.
She is perfect in a society based on surface not substance. In a consumer based throwaway culture she is ideal, easily marketable and appeals to the lowest common denominator. She is a walking talking sound byte, a Walmart inspired blow up toy who tells working men and women to vote against their own best interest...and it works!
The right doesn't care if Palin is hokey, makes no sense, lies, doesn't know shit, refuses to answer legitimate questions, etc. Sadly, I was at the forum for my local sports page today, and even otherwise intellingent-sounding people fawn all over her.
People who don't want to think and or don't believe in listening to the reasons of those they disagree with love her; some men because they think she's "hot" (gag me), but most people because she's a burr in the side of anything Democrats--and even some Republicans, like McCain--do. She's dumb, she's defiant, and nothing anybody says will dissuade her because she's too un-self-aware to see beyond her own nose. She doesn't care, and she'll do anything--including pimp out her own kids--to advance her agenda...which is mostly just about herself.
She'll be around for a long time. Unless she's indicted, she'll probably run for office again. I don't think our "friend" at Red State is so wrong about #4...Palin would be more than happy to assume the role of "permanent fund-raiser in chief" for the party of Limpballs. She can tell outlandish, nonsensical lies that the media will love, and she can't be touched. You can't reason with her, and you can't reason with people who love her--they just do.
..eh?
Now I get it. They're use to the old ugly hags of the GOP. When they get a hot one, they can't contain themselves. I may be in the minority but I really don't find her that attractive. She reminds of the guy from Maniac Cop, Robert Z'Dar, with her chin and Jaw.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120494/
She is not attractive at all. They can throw some make-up on her and dress her up, but there is no classic beauty there. She's really very plain. Nothing wrong with that, but I fail to see how so many men drool over her.
Of course, if she's competing against other Republican women (or men, for that matter), she's smokin' hot.
Palin was in Columbus in October and the gushing comments that were coming out of the party faithful, mostly women in the Dispatch article I read were frightening.
Western Hemisphere. They can't see anything deeper then the surface level. Symbolism, imagery, etc, etc.
for most shallow in the East?
the mythical "left" (slightly harder to nail down than a jackelope) is going to "savage" or figuratively rape conservatives, in particular, female conservative politicians with children.
Aside from Palin, who does that leave?
Geez, there's no bottom to the stupidity well, is there?
Also, if they cannot handle words from unwashed, dope smoking hippies, how is they going to handle...well, anything?
Never mind. The last 8 years answered that question.
A Berke Breathed fan. I've been a fan since the Bloom County days.
You would think Palin was some kind of pop icon that just died after living a freakish life or something. She's everywhere. She was nothing more than a looney Governor, that was picked by the Rethuglicans to ensure their loss in the election. Nothing more. Hell, now she's a household name. Good luck on your future porn endeavours Sarah.
span, but they also have zero memory retention she'll probably make another big splash somewhere down the line.
I am glad you said that because I still can't believe McCain never had to answer for the Keating Five scandal during the campaign. I can't remember anyone saying anything about what was described by prominent Republicans as "the worst ethics violation in Senate history."
McHale's Navy was NEVER Swiftboated.
Erickson is in full meltdown mode, and some others are as well - but as Balloon Juice noted, a fair number of right-bloggers have been disappointingly sane about the whole thing.
As much as right-wingers disagree with those of us on the left, I think I'd rather hear them be sane about Palin's "demise" (if that's what it turns out to be), than lament it.
We're never going to iron out some of our ideological differences, right? I can deal with that. What I can't deal with is the people who don't see that someone like Palin is absolutely dangerous. There's nothing she wouldn't do--and that includes screw over her own constituents/admirers/lackeys/kids/supporters/you-name-it to advance whatever agenda she has: "what's good for Sarah?"
She's pathological. In a place like Alaska, she can be contained. Holding national office, she's a danger to all of us because she's an idiot, she's ruthless, and she's USABLE. Burns my ass that some people don't see that as a problem for the whole country.
And, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm grateful to Katie Couric. Whatever else her flaws are as a "journalist," she recognized this in Palin, and she didn't let up. She kept letting the rope out until Palin hung herself. Because she's a very middle-of-the-road news person with a following among many women, other "middle-of-the-road" women who had been at least intrigued by Palin saw her exposed for what she was--a dangerous, vapid fraud.
Couric was masterful. The body language between the two was priceless. Kudos to Katie for a job well done!
And no, that's not a sexist comment - well, it looks sexist, but it's actually a known phenomena.
It's been noted time and again when dealing with sociopaths that gender comes into play. Male hospital staff dealing with male sociopaths are able to spot the game-playing and are relatively immune to it, while they are far more easily fooled by female patients. Female staff are more likely to be taken in by male sociopaths, but more able to see through the women. No one knows why, but it's been seen again and again.
Of course, Greta van Susteran proves that it's not infallible....
muscular proponents of the GWOT, unafraid to lead the nation even in the face of GTNW are now the potential victims of RMGR by the pinheads in the press. And it is all because they bowed to political correctness and placed a menses ridden cutie in a position of power. When she got into the foxhole she flinched. Leave the ladies out of politics and the parlors where they are discussed. We once knew that lesson (see Tara).
David Letterman's fault!
"...this is kind of like Ben Kenobi letting Darth Vader strike him down. Palin is not going to run in 2012, but by doing this she can now become Barack Obama’s worst nightmare, and help rebuild the opposition to Obama. How? Because were she to remain a 2012 contender, she’d keep having stories by anonymous McCain campaign staffers and other 2012 contenders going after her and her family. Take that ambition off the table and it neutralizes a lot of that. So she can focus on candidates and ideas without an ulterior motive focused on 2012."
That's it, make it look like a grand strategy that only works after telling the world.
making sure his e-mails to the Senate campaign manager did not become an issue before the death star could be stopped.
did Ben hide Luke on Anakin's homeworld with the family of the man that married his mother, and not even bother to change Luke's or his own last names?
Yet Vader STILL didn't make the connection til later on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqPNpUhxPY
Vader believed his child died with their mother. Why look for someone you think is dead?
And he didn't strike me as the sentimental type; he wouldn't go back to the armpit of the galaxy, where he lived as child, for nostalgic purposes. Therefore, what Yoda/Kenobi did was hide Luke in plain sight. Rather ingenious, no?
... think about what he said in comparing Palin to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
1. Kenobi smiles as he sacrifices himself, not because he's experiencing some benign moment of nobility, but because of the irony of his personal history - when he was a novice, he saw Darth Maul cut down Qui-Gon Jinn. He's smiling because he's playing a card and FORCING Luke to see things in a certain way - Vader as the irredeemably evil villain. He's as married to his story as anyone on the left or the right.
2. What was Kenobi? Oh, that's right, he was one of the few survivors of a religious order that started a war without thinking about the consequences, conscripted troops without thought to where they came from, expected them to obey orders without question, and basically made a hash of the Republic.
3. Luke Skywalker goes on to defeat Darth Vader and rebuild the 'New Jedi Order' - is Erickson suggesting Palin is uniquely qualified to be the guardian of conservative/Republican/Christian ideals? Really?
Here's another lesson from Star Wars for you:
"The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
-- Princess Leia
Anakin Skywalker (aka Vader) say, "If you're not with me, you're against me."?
Sounds kinds familiar don't it?
Anakin basically believed in the model of wiser heads dictating the actions of lesser beings.
"And if they don't listen, then they should be MADE to listen." (Attack of the Clones)
He also has a bit of an obsession with fixing things. He sets himself the high and noble goal of 'freeing all the slaves' on Tatooine, yet throughout his education as a Jedi, and even as he apprentices with Chancellor Palpatine, he is made to have to wait, and follow orders, and acknowledge people as superior.
When he fails to save his mother, he promises himself that he won't ever fail again.
He is also played expertly by Palpatine, who stokes his fears and doubts, always sounding like the Voice of Reason, but actually thinking long-term and manipulating those around him through greed, fear, and innocence.
But Erickson ignores one of the primary tenets of the Jedi. "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge. Never to attack."
A fellow SW geek, are you?
who got what was coming to him
throughout epi 1, i kept yelling at obi wan to kill that little punk before he grew up
but did they listen to me??
the critics were yelling that also.
They figured us out!!
Sarah Palin is stupid... no one cares about her or her kids!
Her kids had as much to do with her downfall as smoke makes fire!..
Red State is even dumber...
Nothing to see but more sick and perverted right wing projection smothered in hysteria...
That don't fly anymore!
This is all they got.
Compared instead to Michelle Bachmann, Palin has the wisdom of Socrates.
and i do love how the wingnut echo chamber works
they keep restating the same talking points over and over, in hopes that they are picked up by the msm....and most times they are
we have got to do better at that
too many individual thinkers on the left
time to become robots people
btw, the blog that totally unhinged palin is a rather small blog out of alaska...run by a woman who prides herself at living off the land...true salt of the earth stuff
there are many fine alaskans...none of them ever deserved palin or the other crooks they end up with
i hope halcro runs again...one of the only conservatives i can truly stand
You can't grow any crops on earth that's been salted.
I'm tired of seeing "Brand Palin's" mug staring at me every time I open a web page sheesh already. Talk about milking . . .
you can decide what to post
blogs are just like tv and radio shows...they all would like an audience
this topic has crashed servers on two blogs that i know of
its big news
and its like watching a train wreck in motion
but you dont have to watch or comment
its a free country....until we start building the fema camps
Slow news week. All of "ahem" the good jounalists are celebrating our, "ahem" democracy.
The male conservatives support her because they think she's hot, period! The female conservatives support her because she's a female, period. No other reasons. One group thinks with their dick and the other with their gender. It doesn't matter that she's dumber than a box of rocks and destroy this country. Is it no wonder that they voted for Bush's three times. They are either ones issue voters or no issues at all.
The male conservatives supported Bush because he is their idea of macho, period. (See codpiece and Mission Accomplished-- "got the job done".) The female conservatives supported Bush because he is hot, period. (See codpiece.)
PS Let's not forget the Bush action figure doll
In your dreams...
Unless you think conservative women like stupid drug- and alcohol-addled men who like to fart at their staffers to make them uncomfortable and is a war-criminal to boot. And that codpiece revealed a bunch of grapes rather than substantial ammo.
And nevermind that, probably, the majority of conservatives who voice their fantasies of Palin are married too.
What more could you expect from the Party of Family Values?
Sarah, could I cop a feel before you go off to Club Fed and become some Mammy's Momma?
It amuses me to no end to see and hear the wingnuts on the Right fawning endlessly over Sarah Palin in what they think she means to the conservative movement. Christ almighty, the women is a non entity and yet, listening to these pundits, you would think she was the female reincarnation of someone like Reagan. If we were to use a baseball analogy, she didn't even make it out of Class-A ball.
. . . you meant to write T-Ball, did you not?
I was more or less giving her the benefit of the doubt. But yeah, T-Ball sounds about right!
Whassis facination with rape?
conservaturds should join the army so they can rape the people they're protecting.
What the hell did Sarah Palin EVER do that was heroic?
You have to be a hero before your "self-sacrifice" is a tragedy.
And she certainly isn't a rebel against the system. She's more like one of Darth Vader's faceless Storm Troopers.
I think Ed Schultz should call Jackass Jackasson out Monday like he did the other day when Rush went there. Ed was right on the money about how the r word is an ugly, awful word, and shouldn't be thrown around lightly by the Republican cry-babies...
"Finally, Erickson goes flat out delusional, comparing Palin's resignation to Obi Wan Kenobi taking one for the team and sacrificing it all to fight the dark side"
That's about as good as what they are doing over at ConservativeforPalin.com where they are comparing her to Moses. They think she left the evil of politics for the mind clearing desert and that she'll come back soon to free her people. They probably think she can part the Red Sea too.
Adios Palin and watch out, Bristol's boyfriend is writing a book about you and your family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8IX6oYUb3s
I'm sure Erickson and his mouth-breathing followers are equally upset about the way the right treated/treats Hillary Clinton.
In fact, I'm sure if you typed in Vince Foster into a search engine on Redstate, there would be pages upon pages of archived comments screaming in rage at people like Rush for spreading rumors about her being a murderer.
The fact that this sort of psychotic invective even warrants a response is a tragic indication of how far American political discourse has fallen. That article is the political equivalent of a man with his pants around his ankles warning people about tiny thought-controlling magnets placed inside teabags and yet it demands a response (which I understand). Simultaneously you have mainstream news pundits responding to Rush Limbaugh's theory that Micheal Jackson's career flourished under Reagan but failed under Clinton and died under Obama. It's beyond bonkers! This soul crushing indulgence of corporate, intellectually rendundant patsys will actually destroy us all. I cant properly articulate just how ridiculous you look to the rest of the world when good & thoughtful folk are reduced to debating this sort of abject nonesense. De-iconify your political debate and let civil discourse work it's magic before you destroy the whole world.
Too true.
Many Americans can't see it clearly because they are in the middle of it and seem to think it's normal. It's crystal clear outside the box.
(folks at C&L get it, but stroll on over to YouTube and it's downright frightening: blithering idiots abound.)
An article at whatreallyhappened.com is saying that Sarah Palin has bowed out because of a brewing scandle involving Spenard Building Supplies, who constructed the $13 million hockey rink for the town of Wasilla when Sarah Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, and then afterwards, built a house for the Palins. There are questions about how the building supplies and the labor costs were paid for, if at all, for the Palin's house.
Hypocrite tastes really good with a side shot of bad Tequila.......
Is it me, or does it seem like every time a Republican is caught in a scandal, they point their finger at the media as the cause of it?
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling media."
Even if that were the case, and that guy from Red State is correct then that just says that Palin can't take the heat. Every politician faces this when they enter office. If Palin didn't know that before she ran then she is a bigger twit than I thought.
Because Fox News and Rush, etc., etc., have been sweet to him, always being nice to him and calling him a Muslim extremist or a Socialist Fascist dictator or calling for a violent overthrow or wishing for his failure or organizing mass rallies to dump tea in protest of his policies.
She doesn't know what heat is.
Sarah Palin is now toxic. She walked away from the people of her state when the going got tough and has shed any remaining crumbs of credibility she may have had left.
We the People have to take back our government.
We have let, big money, and career pollititcians, Turn a government, Of, For, and By the people, into a very high paying, lifetime career with full perks and a good chance to pass it on to a family member or sell it for more money.
Of, For, and BY, the People! That means you and me. It is supposed to be us. What we have now is a two party greed fest. They the career pollitician equate a highly paid and perked job with public service.
It was not supposed to be like this. It was not supposed to be a career. It was supposed to be a shared civic duty. What we have now is a hand me down, where money = free speach and generation after generation of parasites have been feeding on the blood of the country.
Districts should be Geographic according to population not carved up to give some advantage to one side or the other. A congressman/woman represents about 600,000 people. As close as you can get to that amount of people in nearby counties that should be the division of districts. As a matter of fact we don't even need a party. We don't need a dividing line. Strict limits on how much money can be given by any one person or group. Requirements for PSA's public service anouncments, a certain amount of time set aside on the TV, Radio, News paper, even the internet to inform not deceive.
We don't even need parties, we could draft by lottery every two years say a dozen people from a district just to ask them if they would like to serve for two years. Any American could do a better job then what we have now for 25% of the cost, and than go back to your life knowing you served your country and your people. We can change what we have today and make it better for everyone and not just a few!
"Erick, you know this wasn't about her children. She used them as political props all through the '08 campaign and continued to do it till the bitter end."
You can't have it both ways: by parading those chillun before the TV cameras, with all of those news photogs snap, snap, snappin', you INVITE criticism not only of yourself but your chillun too. This dumbass woman actually holds herself up as some sort of symbol of Christer purity when her own daughter's boyfriend, the father of her daughter's child, told the media -- I mean, TV talk shows, for Jebus' sake -- that he and Bristol were screwing right there in the house "and [Sarah] knew all about it."
Compare: Obama, giving one pre-election interview with his daughters present and later saying he regretted doing it.
Palin brought on her own undoing. Why doesn't she do herself a favor and STFU, get off the stage, and go back to Wasilla and hunt moose?
The right wing-nuts are really big bedwetters now and chugging the kool-aid right now.
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