Comments on: With advocates like this, who needs hate radio?

By: Tera Powers

Tera Powers — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:33:55 +0000

If Palin were truly an activist for children with disabilities, she wouldn’t have made a point of mocking federal funding directed at fruit fly research. The abject moron apparently was unaware that it provides some exceptional potential into understanding and eradicating autism — a condition her nephew has.

All the more delicious, she delivered this one-two punch to an audience full of … yep, parents of autistic children.

I’m sorry, but they broke the stupid mold after they made her.

By: aleks

aleks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:39:37 +0000

Bob,
McCain picked her because the other option was to lose with dignity and he was having none of that. His campaign was a series of wild Hail Marys and Palin the was the wildest and most desperate of all.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:17:33 +0000

I think was just fine where she was, Governor of Alaska. Doing a good job for her people there. She had apparently done a good job in the lessor posts she held before that. But, for reasons I do not understand, McCain picked her to be his running mate. She was then out of her league. Kind of an an example of the Peter Principle. She does not get it though. Or does she? Can’t you see the anxiety? Even when interviewed by friendly forces, she appears unsure and afraid. Her speech is awkward. She uses nouns like verbs. She cannot maintain a train of thought. She has no sense of history. She has accepted a mishmash of conservative ideological principles, but it is like a house with no foundation. She doesn’t understand her own philosophy; it’s just catch phrases. She could never lead a nation.

There was thread about her on the physician forum where I hang out. Even the hardcore conservatives hate her among intelligent voters. Notice how she kept her mouth shut and did not endorse Massachusetts senator Scott Brown. That would have probably cost him the election. I’ll bet somebody had to muzzle her.

By: aleks

aleks — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:37:38 +0000

Let’s also be clear that Palin (and Bush before her) aren’t “stupid”. They’ve chosen to revel in extreme ignorance, prejudice and illogic. They have chosen not to think and perhaps they’ve forgotten how, but it isn’t really a matter of “intelligence”, it’s ego and intellectual laziness and dishonesty.

By: Cassi

Cassi — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:36:01 +0000

@Mefly, thanks for the pointers. I’ve read a lot of FWD, but hadn’t caught the post on “intelligent”. Whenever I read stuff like that I can feel a little part of my brain going, “but, but, but… “ because I’ve been so trained that we do need some way to sort people into categories. It’s something I need to really watch in myself.

Thanks to everyone in this thread, it’s been fascinating. For myself, next time I want to insult someone who has pissed me off, I think I’ll stick with asshole and douche. Perhaps not the most creative insults, but at least it doesn’t drag a whole bunch of perfectly lovely non-neurotypical sex-workers into the thing.

By: catgirl

catgirl — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:04:08 +0000

Well, I’ve been a little hesitant to make this accusation, but I really think that Palin is using her son as a token special-needs child. I really feel bad for that child and the way he is being used as a prop. It seems like she thinks of him as a burden for the sole purpose of making herself look like a martyr because she chose this burden instead of having an abortion. Of course special needs children will present some additional challenges to parents, and some people choose not to face those challenges. However, choosing to have a special needs child doesn’t entitle you to a medal. You don’t a get prize for it, especially if you’re only doing it to make a political point. No child deserves to be treated the way she treats her child.

By: aleks

aleks — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:42:53 +0000

Jamie,
Welcome to the club. The problem with culturally accepted cruelty is that it trains otherwise good people not to recognize it for what it is until someone does us the favor of punching us in the nose.

By: aleks

aleks — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:42:55 +0000

AnthroK8
No, no, Puffalo. They are Mavericky Mavericks. That’s not the same as In Government at all.

Technically she’s a Rogue, as in she went rogue from being a Maverick, as in she stopped investing in John McCain’s presidential bid and started plotting her own about two weeks after he nominated her.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:05:26 +0000

Oh, my apologies for using “whore.’ I didn’t think through before I posted. Sigh. I’ve tried really hard to root things like that out of my vocabulary, but they still slip out sometimes. It’s a little scary how ingrained in our culture those kind of insults are, when someone like me, a committed feminist who tries to avoid calling anyone any kind of insults based on racism, sexism, ablism, etc., still uses words like that without realizing how denigrating they are to women. I wasn’t thinking about the expression as representing promiscuity, but rather as someone who is constantly doing outrageous things to get media attention, and the implications didn’t even register for me until you pointed it out, Sasquatch. Thank you for calling me out, and I’m sorry for using that phrase and will be more careful in the future.

By: Aurora Erratic

Aurora Erratic — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:55:26 +0000

I am glad you wrote this, because it very valuably calls out the hypocrasy point by point. I’ll be gladder still when Sarah Palin is not newsworthy anymore.