Palin Reignites The Culture War

Ms. Cliff, you do yourself a disservice by mentioning Kathleen Parker in your piece. Ms. Parker debased herself as a national commentator, not because she called for Ms. Palin to stand down, but because she did so in sophomoric fashion, and even there, marginally so. Telling the world that one believes that a national candidate should stand down, demands sobriety and cogency. In the face of history???s judgment, a serious writer must be convinced that her facts and evidence would ineluctably lead any reader to the certainty of her conclusion.

Instead, Ms. Parker reduced herself to the level of a amateur blogger such as myself, choosing to publish her historical proclamation as if scratching onto a public toilet wall; e.g. ???If B.S. were currency, Ms. Palin could bail out Wall Street???; or in regards to Gov. Palin???s meetings with foreign leaders: ???Men swooned...Perhaps Osama Bin Laden is dying to meet her.???

One need not agree with Gov. Palin, to respect her achievements. One might even argue, objectively, that she has not yet so mastered her political craft that she is deserving of national office. But her a national female writer to suggest that Gov. Palin is full of BS, and to intimate that she achieved office because she???s attractive and wiggled her hind-quarters is reprehensible. And as befitting these catty iananities, they were flushed down the very toilet from whence they originally surfaced.

I surely regret if Ms. Parker received ???hate mail???. However, notwithstanding her new found ???liberal admirers???, she must now how ALL perceive her as a writer: a charade; vacuous opportunist and cheap shot artist. Thanks for the forum. Vin@www.wegotsarah.com

Ms. Cliff, you do yourself a disservice by mentioning Kathleen Parker in your piece. Ms. Parker debased herself as a national commentator, not because she called for Ms. Palin to stand down, but because she did so in grade school fashion, and even there, marginally so. Telling the world that one believes that a national candidate should stand down, demands sobriety and cogency. In the face of history???s judgment, a serious writer must be convinced that her facts and evidence would ineluctably lead any reader to the certainty of her conclusion.

Instead, Ms. Parker reduced herself to the level of a amateur blogger such as myself, choosing to publish her historical proclamation as if scratching onto a public toilet wall; e.g. ???If B.S. were currency, Ms. Palin could bail out Wall Street???; or in regards to Gov. Palin???s meetings with foreign leaders: ???Men swooned...Perhaps Osama Bin Laden is dying to meet her.???

One need not agree with Gov. Palin, to respect her achievements. One might even argue, objectively, that she has not yet so mastered her political craft that she is deserving of national office. But her a national female writer to suggest that Gov. Palin is full of BS, and to intimate that she achieved office because she???s attractive and wiggled her hind-quarters is reprehensible. And as befitting these catty iananities, they were flushed down the very toilet from whence they originally surfaced.

I surely regret if Ms. Parker received ???hate mail???. However, notwithstanding her new found ???liberal admirers???, she must now how ALL perceive her as a writer: a charade; vacuous opportunist and cheap shot artist. Thanks for the forum. Vin@www.wegotsarah.com

Ms. Cliff, you do yourself a disservice by mentioning Kathleen Parker in your piece. Ms. Parker debased herself as a national commentator, not because she called for Ms. Palin to stand down, but because she did so in sophomoric fashion, and even there, marginally so. Telling the world that one believes that a national candidate should stand down, demands sobriety and cogency. In the face of history???s judgment, a serious writer must be convinced that her facts and evidence would ineluctably lead any reader to the certainty of the conclusion.

Instead, Ms. Parker reduced herself to the level on a amateur blogger such as myself, choosing to scratch her historical proclamation onto a public toilet wall; e.g. ???If B.S. were currency, Ms. Palin could bail out Wall Street???; or in regards to Gov. Palin???s meetings with foreign leaders: ???Men swooned...Perhaps Osama Bin Laden is dying to meet her.??? Does Ms. Parker not even have the fundamental understanding to know taht a reader might question why she has to spit invective in order to make her case.

.One need not agree with Gov. Palin, to respect her achievements. One might even argue, objectively, that she has not yet so mastered her political craft that she is deserving on national office. But her a national female writer to suggest that Gov. Palin is full of BS, and to intimate that she achieved office because she???s attractive and wiggled her hind-quarters is reprehensible.

I surely regret if Ms. Parker received ???hate mail???. However, notwithstanding her new found ???liberal admirers???, she must now know how ALL perceive her as a writer: a charade; a vacuous opportunist and cheap shot artist. Thanks for the forum. Vin@www.wegotsarah.com

Do we really want a president who winks? Is it significant that men hooked up to those little dialers tested significantly more appoving of Palin's little winky-poos and fetching little nose wrinkles? Could there be some "small head thinking" go on out there?

I am amazed that "grown ups" are honestly thinking about putting our country in the hands of Sarah Palin. I'm waiting for the punch line, but as we near the election, I fear that the Republicans are serious. Be afraid, very afraid!

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Presidential? Since when has the race for the White House descended into a minor beauty pageant, where the superficial charm and crowd-pleasing antics of a minor runner up became the qualifications for President of the United States.

What did we learn on Thursday? Palin is good at memorizing a script, but when asked a question she doesn't have notes before her on the podium to crib from....she just doesn't answer, chosing instead to go back to her notes on "how to answer the energy question"....wink, wink, false smile...let's do another doggone or gee whiz to show the base I'm a real Joe-sixpack.

Only, her tax returns my have also shown us not only has he an ethics inquiry coming up, in true Republican style,m she's also a tax avoider. Where, please, are the other 8 years of her taxes? How come with 5 kids and the salary she and Todd claim, they've already built up $1 - $2,000,000 of investments. Something's fishy.
So is Todd's "racing business" hobby, where he managed to claim a big tax write-off. Joe-sixpack?
Na..more like Sarah-rip off the taxpayers of Alaska!!

Compared to George Bush, our darling Sarah is a genius.

I have difficulties wrapping my mind around this concept of America twice electing George Bush, who went on to devastate our America and our world, yet people are proclaiming Sarah not ready for the White House. Strikes me Sarah runs intellectual circles around this pointy head of George Bush.

Some will contend comparing Sarah to George is to compare her to the worst of the worst which will, inherently, make Sarah look good. Not so. Sarah has an acceptable grasp on issues, domestic and international, Sarah is a proven quick learner and, most important, Sarah is an average American and she certainly knows how to connect with mainstream America.

Sarah represents a fresh face and fresh ideas. She certainly represents change.

Strikes me America is faced with a choice between old political ways of Washington, the Democratic ticket, or something fresh and new, the Republican ticket. We know the results of the old school Washington ways; both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for those results.

I am a registered Democrat, a Hillary supporter. I am voting for John and Sarah because I believe those two offer our greatest chance at a change of direction for our country. McCain is not so much an icon of change but he is certainly different than all other politicians. Sarah, unafraid to announce her disagreements with John, certainly is an icon of change, a fearless icon of change.

I am actually voting Sarah. I want Sarah to be in a position to exert her efforts at fighting for Hockey Moms and Joe Six Pack. Sarah will work at bringing Washington down out of its high White Ivory Tower, back down to earth. Sarah is us, Sarah works for us, and we need bring back "us" to USA.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

Someone said that Obama in not qualified to be president? Hilarious! I think that he's more qualified than McCain and definitely more qualified than Palin. Everyone, compare McCain's record with Obama's.

McCain's student record (894 out of 899 in the Naval Academy and who actually got in the Academy using his dad's and grand-daddy's CONNECTIONS since they were both admirals). Oh, by the way, how come McCain got to fly (and recklessly crash) 5 planes if he finished at the bottom of his class? Answer: daddy and gran-daddy connections! After coming back from war, he CHEATED his first wife (since she didn't look all the good after a terrible accident) and married a millionaire who paid for his expenses to get in the Senate. Besides being a POW, which DOES NOT automatically qualify you to be president, he is empty. How many POWs do we have here in the US? Hundreds! That's a HUGE FALLACY, and has no logic. He has no relevant INTELLECTUAL accomplishments! Nothing.

Obama, who wasn't born with a silver spoon like McCain and studied his tail off, is a graduate of Columbia University, has a law degree from Harvard, Editor of the Harvard Law Review, 12 years in politics, four years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and manager of one of the most impressively flawless and forward thinking presidential campaigns ever.

Obama is far, far more qualified and smart than McCain AND Palin combined! Obama has knowledge, judgment, and yes, some experience in politics as he has proven during the campaign and the debate. In case needed, we have Joe Biden who can provide his huge experience. McCain on the other hand has Sarah Palin who can memorize lines and repeat them like a parrot and... a great smile! Can we trust her? Not a minute!

Yes, we it comes to this election Obama and Biden ARE THE BEST TICKET, BY FAR. Period.

Enough with the Culture wars BS... that's so 2004. John McCain is desperate because he sees his last chance at the presidency slipping through his fingers one voter at a time. He's hitting the panic button. In the next 4 weeks John McCain will say ANYTHING in order to win. No attack will be too misleading, no insinuation too crass. Now he's doubling down on class warfare... Excuse me but when did it become a bad thing to try and get the best education you could? Are there really parents out there that if given the chance would deny their kids the chance to go to the best schools? "Sorry Billy... you can't go to Yale with a full ride scholarship... you'll become an elitist." John McCain calling people who work hard to get an education elitist is nothing less than an attack on the American Dream. He's basically telling kids not to get too educated.. Improve yourself but not too much! McCain who through his wife is worth billions is telling people to know their place while at the same time nudging them with his elbow and laughing at the elite like he isn't one of them. Yeah, I'm sure McCain eats Mac and Cheese every other night and has never let that communist arugula pass his lips.

Face it, McCain will lose for exactly the same reason Kerry lost in 2004. His campaign will all be about why you vote against the other guy. Typical McCain speech coming up: 3 minutes of his ideas, 2 minutes of POW stories, 35 minutes of Obama Bashing. He will recycle the same attacks Hillary used and he will get exactly the same result.

As for Palin, she did herself no favors with independants at the debate. Maybe her base laps up the home-spun Palin-Bot talking points machine, but no one who wasn't already planning to vote republican was swayed. To me, the key was when Biden made the emotional point about understanding how tough it is for families and related it to when his Wife and daughter were killed and sons in serous condition. Palin's response was a cheery litany of memorized talking points. People who say Palin won simply for showing up and not crumbling into a pile of ash on stage are the new sexists. She was awful. Do you want your next VP meeting foreign leaders or negotiating with congress and saying "darn tootin!"

Absolutely! It's horrifying how easily Americans can be distracted from painful truths by a wink and a grin. No wonder Rove and Gingrich et al are chortling at having "The Babe" on their side of the ticket. Hillary Clinton would've been run out of town had she tried to pull off this routine, yet sprinkle a little pageant magic and the "compassionate conservatives" are falling all over themselves with glee. What a nauseating display of national ignorance.

Sorry but Palin WAS NOT PRESIDENTIAL at all!!!!! She was appealing to man for sure, but this is not what you want for a VP candidate or potential President, For God Sake!!!! She was not even professional, if any woman behave this way in a job interview (unless is for an adult bar position) don t think it would fly.....
She is not Hillary, far from it..... Class is something you have or don t have, not to learn in a crash course......

"reven if when you listen to what she says, it's mostly gibberish when it comes to actual plans and policies" I have watched you for years on various "Washington wonk" shows....and if someone knows "jibberish" it's you, Ms Clift! If Palin is so lucky to get into the white house you will see more advancement of women's rights around the world then you and Gloria, Barbara, Joy, Whoppi and the rest of your Washington girlfriends have ever wished... You and your "peeps" are full of hot air. Let's get someone in politics that can make a difference!

I love Eleanor, how you assume most Americans are retarded, so therefore Palin did great!
This is pathetic. If she is elected, it will be because pundits and journalists failed the American people by failing to reject this unqualified idiot because she has pretty eyes.

I am puzzled why it would be considered a gaffe that Joe Biden linked patriotism and taxes. If it???s patriotic for our soldiers to give their lives in a war, why is it any less patriotic to give our material riches to pay for it? To win a war, any kind of war, all of us need to sacrifice and pull together toward a common goal. That is the real ???Country First??? and the real white flag is to support a war, but refuse to pay for it.