This airhead still doesn't get it

[Jackalope]

As her intellectual superior once said, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Superior? Obviously not a direct report.

[Ryantology]

Sarah Palin tells the Republican Party that they're not being conservative enough:

http://news.yahoo.com/sarah-palin-tells-...ector.html

The bulk of Palin's speech was focused on the nation's current political climate. She drew thunderous applause with her sharp attack on Republicans in Congress who voted in October to raise the nation's debt ceiling and reopen the government.

"They promised that they would do everything in their power to fight against socialized medicine, against Obamacare, but when it came time to stand and defund it, they waved the white flag of surrender and they threw under the bus the good guys who did stand up and fight for us," Palin said.

The GOP is already so dominated by the fringe that they have little chance of ever winning another national election ever again. This year's election was a near-total defeat for the Tea Party and its initiatives. The more the Republican party cants to the right, the more severe and common their electoral defeats will become. Preach it, sister!

[Doubting Thomas]

Yes, and every time they get beat in an election they think, "We just need to be even more conservative!"

I've been seeing a lot of articles where big business is shying away from Tea Party candidates and supporting more moderate candidates or even Democrats in some instances. The recent elections in Virginia and Alabama bear this out.

[Polaris]

They're losing the conservative edge to the shitheads known as Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and Feinstein. Only their stupidity separates themselves from the Democrats at this point.

[Doubting Thomas]

You do realize it's the "conservative edge" which is driving away voters, don't you? You know, how their insistence upon Christianity being part of everything is driving away non-Christians, how their anti-abortion stance is driving away women, their immigration stance is driving away Latinos, and their economic stance is driving away blacks and the poor, and their anti-gay stance is driving away gays?

Or I guess I should have said "has driven," since very few members of those groups are Republican voters these days. After the Great Tromping of 2012, they conducted meetings on how to appeal to minority voters. Then they go off and keep holding onto the same policies which drove away minorities.

[Optimistic Mysanthrope]

Well of course, they don't want the minorities, just their votes.

edit: Actually, that's not true. They do want the minorities. They want them to fuck off

[*Deidre*]

Sarah Palin is a human enigma, in my opinion. I can't quite figure her out. She lives her life like a capitalist-feminist, if there is even such a combo, but her speeches don't match her life. It's just strange to me, I really can't 'watch' her when she pops up on tv, because she invariably talks in circles, and makes little sense. She didn't get to where she is however, by being stupid. The ability to fool the public around her, still takes some ingenuity.

I made the mistake of buying her book a few years back, "Going Rogue", and it was so horribly written, I couldn't finish it. No offense, her husband sounds like a pansy. And why that is troublesome, is Palin will have you believing that men and women should be striving to keep the family together, and working on things as a team. There's no team in the Palin house. Sarah tells her husband to jump, and he asks 'how high?' That's my take on their marriage, and from reading her book. I just find the couple and their family to be incredibly bizarre, and not at all a positive depiction of 'an American life,' which is what that book was supposed to be portraying. I've never considered her an "air head", rather she is cunning, like a fox who is thinking of a way to steal all the chickens from their coops, without being caught...and figuring out a way of pinning it on the democrats. If I had to 'define' Sarah Palin, that would be how I would describe her.

[Ryantology]

The only way Sarah Palin makes sense to me is to look at her as self-aggrandizing and to interpret her motives as "promoting Sarah Palin". She loves the attention, the fame and the money. She enjoys being a celebrity. She quit being governor of Alaska because she could get a lot more exposure as a conservative pundit. She flirts with the idea of running for office again, but she'll never do it.

That's not to say she doesn't believe in the stupid things she claims to believe, but those beliefs are less a foundation for her as a person than they are a foundation for her persona.

[*Deidre*]

The only way Sarah Palin makes sense to me is to look at her as self-aggrandizing and to interpret her motives as "promoting Sarah Palin". She loves the attention, the fame and the money. She enjoys being a celebrity. She quit being governor of Alaska because she could get a lot more exposure as a conservative pundit. She flirts with the idea of running for office again, but she'll never do it.

That's not to say she doesn't believe in the stupid things she claims to believe, but those beliefs are less a foundation for her as a person than they are a foundation for her persona.

This is good. I agree.

I also think she is a sociopath. It is a real disorder, and one that describes her well.