Is Sarah Palin really this fuckin' stupid?

[Sandy Eggo]

To answer the original question..highly intelligent people realize that she is...even moderately intelligent people think that she is...I don't wanna say where that would leave the people who think she isn't.

[Bo D]

Exactly my point.  It's all speculation so why all the discussion about her when it is Obama who has ran and is in the White House we should have been and should be asking the questions about.

Isn't it perfectly natural to speculate on the next election cycle? Isn't that what we do?

[Bo D]

To answer the original question..highly intelligent people realize that she is...even moderately intelligent people think that she is...I don't wanna say where that would leave the people who think she isn't.

To restate a quote from an earlier post ....

"The latest Post-ABC News poll shows that 71 percent of Americans -- including 52 percent of Republicans -- think she is not qualified to be president. "

[me]

Isn't it perfectly natural to speculate on the next election cycle? Isn't that what we do?

Speculation is normal but trashing and demeaning someone isn't.  It is called fear from the other side that she might be a threat.  Ya'll are concentrating so hard on trashing Sarah Palin you're not even noticing what's going on now.

[me]

To restate a quote from an earlier post ....

"The latest Post-ABC News poll shows that 71 percent of Americans -- including 52 percent of Republicans -- think she is not qualified to be president. "

And that poll was important because?  Why did they even bother to take a poll about it?  Are the elections going to be this year or even next?

[Henry Hawk]

to smear the charactor of Palin, before she gets too strong...THAT is why there is so much hype....imo

[Locutus]

It is called fear from the other side that she might be a threat.   

That is the most baseless accusation that I continue to hear from Palin's dittohead supporters.

Given this:

"The latest Post-ABC News poll shows that 71 percent of Americans -- including 52 percent of Republicans -- think she is not qualified to be president. "

... I'm left to wonder what exactly there is to fear. 

[me]

That is the most baseless accusation that I continue to hear from Palin's dittohead supporters.

Given this:

... I'm left to wonder what exactly there is to fear.

If there is no fear and no one thinks she'll even be nominated or elected if she does chose to run then why bother with all the trashing and news coverage?  Why not be reporting something else like current events and things that matter?  Why waste the air time?

[Palehorse]

If there is no fear and no one thinks she'll even be nominated or elected if she does chose to run then why bother with all the trashing and news coverage?  Why not be reporting something else like current events and things that matter?  Why waste the air time?

Why does she continue to impose herself within the public arena then? Why doesn't she just go back to Alaska and prepare for the spring bear hunt? Why quit a job she took an oath to do, then travel the country, write a book, and lend her support to those who would undermine the authority and position of the POTUS?

Hey, she's the one putting herself out there. She gets what she wants; attention.

[Bo D]

If there is no fear and no one thinks she'll even be nominated or elected if she does chose to run then why bother with all the trashing and news coverage?  Why not be reporting something else like current events and things that matter?  Why waste the air time?

Just to get under your skin!

[Bo D]

It is called fear from the other side that she might be a threat. 

Fear? What fear? What part of ....

I hope the Republican party picks her to run!!!!

As George F. Will wrote this morning "She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states. "

do you not understand?

[me]

Why does she continue to impose herself within the public arena then? Why doesn't she just go back to Alaska and prepare for the spring bear hunt? Why quit a job she took an oath to do, then travel the country, write a book, and lend her support to those who would undermine the authority and position of the POTUS?

Hey, she's the one putting herself out there. She gets what she wants; attention.

That has been answered over and over and over.  Should she have stayed  hounds would have still been after her and it would still be costing the State so she chose the correct solution IMO.  Why isn't the news media paying any attention to Mitt Romney since he's a possible candidate?   Or even Mike Huckabee who might also decide to run again? 

[Palehorse]

That has been answered over and over and over.  Should she have stayed  hounds would have still been after her and it would still be costing the State so she chose the correct solution IMO.  Why isn't the news media paying any attention to Mitt Romney since he's a possible candidate?   Or even Mike Huckabee who might also decide to run again?

Okay, clearly she runs from conflict. But what about the rest of the posts questions?

Why does she continue to impose herself within the public arena then? Why doesn't she just go back to Alaska and prepare for the spring bear hunt? Why quit a job she took an oath to do, then travel the country, write a book, and lend her support to those who would undermine the authority and position of the POTUS?

Hey, she's the one putting herself out there. She gets what she wants; attention.

The fight or flight instinct weighs heavily on the flight, clearly. I don't know about anyone else but to me this is a clear indication that this individual has no business in a public office of any type. So why does she continue to do things to attract attention to herself? (Hint: Attention Whore).

[me]

Okay, clearly she runs from conflict. But what about the rest of the posts questions?

The fight or flight instinct weighs heavily on the flight, clearly. I don't know about anyone else but to me this is a clear indication that this individual has no business in a public office of any type. So why does she continue to do things to attract attention to herself? (Hint: Attention Whore).

Um, it's the media's choice to pursue her not hers to have them do it.  Yes, she chose to be a Fox contributor, so what, a lot of other people work for Fox too including Mike Huckabee and they don't pursue him.  The media is paying an awful lot of attention to someone who they are calling an attention whore and then calling her that because they choose to put everything on the air or in print that she does.  Mitt Romney is still going out and doing things publicly and so is Mike Huckabee and some of the other potential candidates, some also Fox news contributors, and they aren't following them around and calling them attention whores.  Why is that?

[Bo D]

So why does she continue to do things to attract attention to herself? (Hint: Attention Whore).

Another example of said behavior ...

"In March, she came roaring out when President Obama joked on late night TV that his bowling skills were like the Special Olympics.

Palin wasn't wrong about the inappropriateness of the remark, for which the president apologized to the Special Olympics before the segment aired. But were her objections primarily those of a wounded mother -- or those of a heat-seeking politician? Will we be hearing from Palin every time someone uses the R-word or makes a lame joke?

Well, no, not every time. When Rush Limbaugh used "retard," suggesting a "retard summit" at the White House, it was "satirical," Palin recently explained to her Fox News colleague, Chris Wallace. When Emanuel used it, it was name-calling. It isn't clear whether Palin considered Rush's memorable mimicry of Michael J. Fox's "fake" Parkinson's disease symptoms another demonstration of satire or mere hideous cruelty.

Given that Palin obviously made an excuse for Limbaugh, whose stab at humor was nothing resembling satire, means that her "teachable moment" via Emanuel was really using her child as a political tool."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/12/AR2010021204006_2.html?sid=ST2010021202633