Religion is the single greatest fitness enhancer for the left side of the bellcurve of IQ in existance.
That is why relious belief is hardwired, and why it evolved in the EEA (environment of evolutionary advantage).
Jesus H Christ inna handcart.
Ross and Reihan and the rest of the soi disant conservo intellectuals pimped Palin as Elle Woods.
She would have been America's darling if she had actually the chops to be able to lead.
She didn't.
Shorter Douthat -- can't fake the substrate forevah.
And Stein is wrong.
That spate of hastely contrived Heartland Pageant Speak is just cover for her real reasons, w/e they might be.
Its like Miss Congenality or the second runner-up doing a facesaving climbdown from her ambitions.
"I didn't really want the crown anyways."
She didnt jump, she was pushed.
Guess we'll find out the push-force.
She continues to be absolutely clueless.....that "prayed on it" is the kiss of death in American politics.
sowwy, her character and temperament, and her judgement and decisionmaking and problemsolving abilities ARE relevent to the position she is applying for.
so far she is 0 for 5 in my estimation.
okfine, JB. I believe in reproductive freedom, myself.
All Palin has to do come up with a reasonable, rational explanation of why she drove that extra 45 minutes to an inferior hospital while leaking amniotic fluid and in labor with a special needs child.
;)
Let her answer the question then.
I don't think she can.
Palin/Jindal-- the exorcism ticket
Palin/Cryogenically Preserved Head of Jerry Fallwell-- evangelical ticket
Palin/Chuck Norris-- roundhouse kick to the face ticket
It is not odd.
From schmuckler's thread--
Look, Schmuckler (lol).
The reason this story persists is a question of temperment.
Sure, Sully got spoofed by by Palin concealing her pregnancy for 7 months.
He should climb down from the who-is-Trig’s mom thing.
But the important part is how Palin reacted, which is a template for how she might react to say, a threat of global-thermonuclear war.
How could Palin have defused this situ?
By opening her medical records, of course.
Why didn’t she?
Well….perhaps Sully is correct and there is something in there that won’t bear public scrutiny from her fanbase.
The question I think SHOULD be asked, is…. why did she drive from Anchorage to Wasilla. The answer to that question would be informative for modelling Palin’s reasoning process in a crisis situ.
The answer is not..”so Trig would be born in Alaska”….Anchorage is in Alaska. Anchorage has better facilities for a special needs child.
So why?
There may be a reasonable answer, but Sully is correct that Palin did not act in a responsible or reasonable manner in this instance.
She could just answer that one question for meh....why drive to Wasilla from Anchorage, in labor with a special needs child, leaking amniotic fluid?
If the answer is…that Palin was distracted by her pregnancy and not thinking rationally….then should she have her tubes tied before running for national office?
Seriously.
;)
Poll data.
"Another tidbit from Pew's findings: public impressions of Palin haven't changed much since October, with her total favorability climbing three percent since then, compared to 10 percent for Romney since Feb. 2008. Those time periods are far different, but the way Pew presents it, Palin's public image has crystallized in a polarizing fashion, and the public has more or less made up their minds about her, one way or the other."
AND....Palin blew up the myth that a non-elite could lead.
Team McCain thought they could groom her into another stealth elite....FAIL.
She is going to get the nom, and she will lose.
But the base is already tightbeamed onto the anti-elite mantra. So they won't be spoofed anymore....they are going to insist on the "realdeal" from here on in.
A viable political party cannot survive without elites.
Well Jaybird....shez running.
That is why ppl are talking about her.
She has to run in 2012...she will be post-menopausal if she waits until 2016.
Survival of the Prettiest doesn't work without the fertile factor.
I said, last summer, that Sarah Palin would split the republican party right along the intellectual faultline. Even before she made her convention speech, my friends and I called her Stepford Barbie and joked that her prairie bun 'do concealed a controller so Team McCain could manipulate her. We thought her heartland pageant speak was super-hilarious. From our college-educated youth demographic perspective she was simply ridiculous. We didn't think she was hawt......she looked like our mothers.
My demographic? We have always thought Palin was a joke.
When people persist in declaiming her manifest glories, we lose patience, and just tell them what we really think.
She is a retard.
And we mean that in the Urban Dictionary sense of course.
You don't get it E.D.
Brooks was right, Palin is the cancer that is going to destroy the GOP.
She has blown up the model.
Republicans always led the base by pretending to be noble yeoman farmers, when they were really stealthy elites.
You and I know Jill Sixpack can't lead the country, but the base believes the myth of the noble yeoman farmer as leader......after all, the GOP has been telling them that for years. So...GOP RIP.
Game ovah.
/sigh
Well I'm super-tired of it.
Like I said, bad conservative memes seem to be the orphan puppies of Reihanistan. All his stuff is like this at the Beast.....Cheney for president, Beck is really a good guy instead of the second coming of Jack Lucas without the self-examination, Obama is a closet neocon, crazypants stuff.
This stuff is political satire, not political commentary.
And it is badcraziness for the low information base, like the Sarah Palin crack Ross and Reihan were dealin' last summer.....my studied hypothesis is that Ross and Reihan killed the GOP by not denouncing Palin for the big-hair-and-mall-bangs ex-beauty queen that she is in the beginning.
If all the conservative intelligentsia could have presented a united front you could have got rid of her.......now you are doomed.
Anyone who tells you that this is something that only Democrats do, or only Republicans do, is full of it.
The reason it is WAAY funnier when Republicans do it they are the "family values" party and this dude was one of the head whited sepulchres of legislate penises and ovaries brigade.
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On “Department of Silly Inquiries”
Religion is the single greatest fitness enhancer for the left side of the bellcurve of IQ in existance.
That is why relious belief is hardwired, and why it evolved in the EEA (environment of evolutionary advantage).
On “are you kidding me?”
Jesus H Christ inna handcart.
Ross and Reihan and the rest of the soi disant conservo intellectuals pimped Palin as Elle Woods.
She would have been America's darling if she had actually the chops to be able to lead.
She didn't.
Shorter Douthat -- can't fake the substrate forevah.
On “Sarah Sarah Quite Contraire”
And Stein is wrong.
That spate of hastely contrived Heartland Pageant Speak is just cover for her real reasons, w/e they might be.
Its like Miss Congenality or the second runner-up doing a facesaving climbdown from her ambitions.
"I didn't really want the crown anyways."
"
Also...Obama started running with his speech at the DNC convention.
In 2004.
"
She didnt jump, she was pushed.
Guess we'll find out the push-force.
She continues to be absolutely clueless.....that "prayed on it" is the kiss of death in American politics.
On “the things people say on the internet”
Dead.
All you have left are failmemes and they are on life support.
And you will never get the base off the Sarah Palin crack.
Its ovah.
;)
"
she is already maxed out with the base.
the poll is showing her support has crystallized, hardened.
"
sowwy, her character and temperament, and her judgement and decisionmaking and problemsolving abilities ARE relevent to the position she is applying for.
so far she is 0 for 5 in my estimation.
"
okfine, JB. I believe in reproductive freedom, myself.
All Palin has to do come up with a reasonable, rational explanation of why she drove that extra 45 minutes to an inferior hospital while leaking amniotic fluid and in labor with a special needs child.
;)
Let her answer the question then.
I don't think she can.
"
Loozer ticket.
Palin/Jindal-- the exorcism ticket
Palin/Cryogenically Preserved Head of Jerry Fallwell-- evangelical ticket
Palin/Chuck Norris-- roundhouse kick to the face ticket
"
It is not odd.
From schmuckler's thread--
Look, Schmuckler (lol).
The reason this story persists is a question of temperment.
Sure, Sully got spoofed by by Palin concealing her pregnancy for 7 months.
He should climb down from the who-is-Trig’s mom thing.
But the important part is how Palin reacted, which is a template for how she might react to say, a threat of global-thermonuclear war.
How could Palin have defused this situ?
By opening her medical records, of course.
Why didn’t she?
Well….perhaps Sully is correct and there is something in there that won’t bear public scrutiny from her fanbase.
The question I think SHOULD be asked, is…. why did she drive from Anchorage to Wasilla. The answer to that question would be informative for modelling Palin’s reasoning process in a crisis situ.
The answer is not..”so Trig would be born in Alaska”….Anchorage is in Alaska. Anchorage has better facilities for a special needs child.
So why?
There may be a reasonable answer, but Sully is correct that Palin did not act in a responsible or reasonable manner in this instance.
She could just answer that one question for meh....why drive to Wasilla from Anchorage, in labor with a special needs child, leaking amniotic fluid?
If the answer is…that Palin was distracted by her pregnancy and not thinking rationally….then should she have her tubes tied before running for national office?
Seriously.
;)
"
Poll data.
"Another tidbit from Pew's findings: public impressions of Palin haven't changed much since October, with her total favorability climbing three percent since then, compared to 10 percent for Romney since Feb. 2008. Those time periods are far different, but the way Pew presents it, Palin's public image has crystallized in a polarizing fashion, and the public has more or less made up their minds about her, one way or the other."
"
AND....Palin blew up the myth that a non-elite could lead.
Team McCain thought they could groom her into another stealth elite....FAIL.
She is going to get the nom, and she will lose.
But the base is already tightbeamed onto the anti-elite mantra. So they won't be spoofed anymore....they are going to insist on the "realdeal" from here on in.
A viable political party cannot survive without elites.
That is why I think the GOP is doomed.
"
Well Jaybird....shez running.
That is why ppl are talking about her.
She has to run in 2012...she will be post-menopausal if she waits until 2016.
Survival of the Prettiest doesn't work without the fertile factor.
"
we don't have any control over the junta....unless you think we should bomb them?
"
Nope mike.
My initial reaction.
My demographic? We have always thought Palin was a joke.
When people persist in declaiming her manifest glories, we lose patience, and just tell them what we really think.
She is a retard.
And we mean that in the Urban Dictionary sense of course.
"
You don't get it E.D.
Brooks was right, Palin is the cancer that is going to destroy the GOP.
She has blown up the model.
Republicans always led the base by pretending to be noble yeoman farmers, when they were really stealthy elites.
You and I know Jill Sixpack can't lead the country, but the base believes the myth of the noble yeoman farmer as leader......after all, the GOP has been telling them that for years.
So...GOP RIP.
Game ovah.
On “wedding pics”
awww...
may you both always be as happy as you look in that picture.
On “the big tent”
pfft
Redstate is nuthin', errone gets banned there.
I been banned at TAS!
Now that takes talent.
On “Sanford’s folly”
Your bench is shallower by the day.
Perhaps you need to listen to what Duffy sez.
"
Poor Republicans.
hehe, not relly
;)
On “good intentions”
I doubt it.
"
/sigh
Well I'm super-tired of it.
Like I said, bad conservative memes seem to be the orphan puppies of Reihanistan. All his stuff is like this at the Beast.....Cheney for president, Beck is really a good guy instead of the second coming of Jack Lucas without the self-examination, Obama is a closet neocon, crazypants stuff.
This stuff is political satire, not political commentary.
And it is badcraziness for the low information base, like the Sarah Palin crack Ross and Reihan were dealin' last summer.....my studied hypothesis is that Ross and Reihan killed the GOP by not denouncing Palin for the big-hair-and-mall-bangs ex-beauty queen that she is in the beginning.
If all the conservative intelligentsia could have presented a united front you could have got rid of her.......now you are doomed.
On “Sanford’s folly”
Lies.
He is the Pope of Bad Conservative Apologia.
"
Anyone who tells you that this is something that only Democrats do, or only Republicans do, is full of it.
The reason it is WAAY funnier when Republicans do it they are the "family values" party and this dude was one of the head whited sepulchres of legislate penises and ovaries brigade.
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.