Poor, Pitiful Palin

[classicman]

I can see why the left would want to keep pumping her up as viable because she is unelectable, but the stupidity of the right to give her even a cent for any election is a total waste of time, effort and money.

[TheMercenary]

I don't care what she does. I don't think she will get elected to squat. I think that if she stuck out her governership she would have had a shot at a senate seat in congress for alaska, but not now. She has been marginalized.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

She has been marginalized.

And yet her book is huge success and she appears to have a large and loyal following in what remains of the base of the Republican party.

If the Republicans were still committed to 'big tent' moderation, I would agree that she has been marginalized. If, however, they continue to woo the right in the partially correct assumption that the far right are more committed voters, then she still has power.

The far right strategy may win the Republicans primaries and possibly off-year elections where the rest of the population is too apathetic to vote.

This is why the Republican's only hope is anti-Democratic sentiment, saying in effect that they are the only other game in town. IF they pack themselves up with far right candidates, even this strategy may fail.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's a mistake to assume her fans are all in the "base of the Republican party", though. I've met educated liberals that think she's a breath of fresh air, to a system they're disenchanted with.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by richlevy

And yet her book is huge success and she appears to have a large and loyal following in what remains of the base of the Republican party.

So basically you and the liberal left fear her?

[classicman]

Not at all - I think they love her because she is so unelectable to the masses.

[ZenGum]

It is just that, as Darling E-girl understood, all liberals are wankers. If you'd ever tried tossing off to a picture of Hilary, you'd understand why they like Sarah.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

I did write what I mean. Again, you read it wrong. I never said anything about plain conservatism, I said far right. Do you really think you're moderate?

Yes, MTP, I do. I amount to center right. I'm not timid about it to be sure, and all the less so for the best my opposition here can muster. Their want of wisdom amazes. Their inability to maintain their argument is... routine, that's the word.

The center-right is the bulk of the people at the TEA Parties. Middle America goes to TEA Parties.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

No, you're comparing Germany's Fascism with the USSR, which was not Communism, but another dose of Fascism... and neither are left. (no pun intended)

Bruce, I'll trust Erik von Kühnelt-Leddihn's judgement on that one over yours, slightly sorry to say -- however much easier your handle is to spell than his. He was as bright as both of us put together, maybe with Wolf added in. (I wouldn't add Radar except as a make-weight.) Were you to bother to get his Leftism Revisited you'd have the understanding of it that I do: he makes the case that both are in the leftward end of the spectrum. Until you do this bit of required reading, you're flailing away in disgraceful ignorance. Not a problem I have.

The left side of the aisle began as a French enthusiasm for using a large, activist, much-empowered State to right social ills. Nothing, really, more than that. In the beginning.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You'll believe anybody that says what you want to hear, silly boy.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Until you do this bit of required reading, you're flailing away in disgraceful ignorance. Not a problem I have.

Oh, quit whining, UG. WE all know that you are quantum leaps above the rest of us when it comes to IQ. You have read every book in the library of congress at least three times. This is in addition to your usual persual of the Congressional Record, never mind the Federal Statutes and any pertaining slip laws.

I, on the other hand like those large comic books with the big crayon. No doubt you will call me a fellow traveler with the other commie cunts. Or with any luck you'll label me a "natterig nabob of negatism."

I am mostly mad at you and your cronies boring Redux to tears, so that he departed from these groups. Between Mercenary, Classicman, and you, all there is left to read is anti-commie propaganda. Why don't you just go down and picket Wally World and leave the rest of us in peace.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by SamIam

I, on the other hand like those large comic books with the big crayon.

Hey! I like those. Don't judge a book by a single issue. {or would that be a magazine since it would be published more often?}

[classicman]

Originally Posted by SamIam

Between Mercenary, Classicman, and you, all there is left to read is anti-commie propaganda.

Would you like some cheese with that?
Redux and I have had both good and negative discussions both on the board and off. Please leave me out of your petty little squabbles. mmmkay?

Sorry that everyone isn't all aboard the Obama train.

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Sounds like a name calling fest with both sides pointing fingers. The Demoncrats in power in Congress are as much Nazi's as the Republickins who were last in power. I wouldn't piss on Pelosi or Bush if they were copulating and on fire.

Would you like some cheese with that?

No, but I would like to see you with a mop, cleaning up after your own over active imagination.

[TheMercenary]

I think my statements were quite fair. I wouldn't change a word. You have a problem with them?