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- niradg, on 06/30/2009, -16/+495despite all that has come out about Sarah Palin's obvious shortcomings, she still remains the most popular politician among Republican voters. That tells you a lot about the Republican Party.
- holesome, on 06/30/2009, -20/+237The GOP ploy was evident to many, yet it nearly succeeded anyway because Palin was managed so carefully, and what passes for news coverage on most TV stations is nothing more than sound-bites and entertainment. It's all about TV ratings for the networks, not truth, because the TRUTH is they're in it for the money.
- amoirae, on 06/30/2009, -13/+208They love the slutty stewardess look?
- donjacko, on 07/01/2009, -12/+153"The facination is global and viral"
seriously? the vast majority of people outside the US think she is a nut job - MikaStar, on 07/01/2009, -12/+152I thought Palin's 15 minutes of fame were up. Why is she still in the news?
- downinit369, on 06/30/2009, -18/+133Great read! Proves what a nutjob she is.
- randypanda, on 07/01/2009, -7/+121Thank god they published this information so soon before I casted my vote.
Oh wait... - DangerCollie, on 07/01/2009, -10/+90That is a really long article. My impression after reading it is that Palin is incompetent. Not because she's incapable of learning, in spite of her less than stellar educational achievements, but because she's unwilling to learn and doesn't listen.
Not only was she an astoundingly poor choice for VP, but she will continue to be an anchor on the Republican party for decades. She appeals to the most extreme and least attractive elements of the party, lending them legitimacy they don't deserve and publicity they don't manage to their advantage.
The Republican party really is on the verge of collapse. Sarah Palin is not so much a cause as a symptom of deeper problems. - Rotzooi, on 07/01/2009, -7/+86Not the vast majority.
Everyone. - dafragsta, on 07/01/2009, -4/+82Who doesn't?
- evodevo1, on 07/01/2009, -8/+64It's the same across all demographics...sex sells. That's her brand. Just give her a few years when the skin starts to sag and she puts on another 30lbs. Lets see how popular she becomes.
- hanglerfig, on 07/01/2009, -8/+59Long article, but well worth the time. Well written and informative.
- njb444, on 07/01/2009, -10/+60Palin is a ***** moron.
- teebird, on 07/01/2009, -6/+53And you can, of course, back up your claims with a closely reasoned and brilliantly written critique showing exactly where the VF article went wrong and enlightening us all as to the truth about Gov. Palin.
We're all waiting eagerly. When will it be published? - datajedi, on 07/01/2009, -6/+53Too bad McCain staffers, but McCain himself blew the election when he "suspended" his campaign to go back to Washington so he could spend "OUR" money. When he started talking about bailing out homeowners who did not pay their mortgages during the second debate he made Obama look conservative. He made himself look like an idiot when he said the economy was not his strong point. McCain lost because he abandoned all conservative principles. The fact that his staffers blame Sarah Palin is just a strawman to distract for how incongruous his message was, and have poorly his campaign was managed. It was his campaign staff that picked Palin, right?
The bottom line:
All that McCain maverick crap was just that .... crap. He is a war hero and a good man, but just a typical politician with no core values. When the economy supplanted Iraq as the main issue campaign, the fact that he did not stand up for the American people and show fiscal responsibility ultimately doomed his campaign. - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -3/+48It is difficult to encapsulate the depth of the ignorance of a person who claims that a 5-times community college dropout has more experience than a Constitutional Law professor. It stands as laughable delusion.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -12/+54John McCain is a complete sociopathic necon, he voted for the Iraq war and remember how he sang "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran". I would never vote for a nutjob who sings songs about comitting mass murder. I'm not a big fan of Palin, but it seems like McCain is trying to pin his loss on Palin. This seems typical of that arrogant ***** and the extremist lunatics who supported him.
- WasabiBomb, on 07/01/2009, -4/+453The3Dude3, paraphrased: "Oh, uh... well... neener neener!"
Seriously, dude- telling people to look up your arguments for you really just makes you look weak and petulant. - KMye, on 07/01/2009, -11/+50I was terrified about voting for Obama, which I did, but even with things with him and a Congress controlled by his same party turning out as badly, if not worse, as I'd feared, if I could go back, I'd still HAVE to vote for him...solely because of Palin combined with McCain's age...
I hate conspiracy theory, but I'm also just confounded by how and why anyone or any team would pick her as a running mate unless they were literally trying to lose the election... - teebird, on 07/01/2009, -2/+40Because she won't do what any politically savvy person with her ambitions should be doing...her homework. Gov. Palin wants to run for national office and she appears to believe that all she has to do is keep her name in the papers and blame everyone else under the sun for her inability to give coherent answers to even simple non-technical questions when being interviewed.
I don't believe Sarah Palin is stupid, as some say she is. I do believe, however that she is deeply ignorant and lacking in grace and polish. If I'd been advising Palin, I'd have told her to go home after the election, get out of the national spotlight and firm up her position in Alaska while I and the rest of her staff rounded up a cadre of experts who could work with her over the next two years to sharpen her skills, her knowledge, her presentation and her image.
But, as we've heard many times in the past months and the VF article makes the point yet again, Sarah Palin insisits on having her way and her way appears to be seizing every opportunity to get her name in the papers, whether it be a laughably off-target opinion on a policy abouth which she clearly knows nothing, inappropriately grabbing center stage at the RGC or repeatedly calling attention to the sordid little soap opera going on under her own roof in spite of the fact that she's supposed to be a "Family Values" candidate. - Moralogic, on 07/01/2009, -1/+39Yeah, if they are willing to play games this dangerous with the presidency of the US, I don't see how we can allow them to nominate a candidate ever again.
Just look at McCain, he looks like he is near death, and getting closer every day. I highly doubt he will live for 3 and half more years. If he dies within 2 years, that means Palin would have been president for over a year, that is scary. Them knowingly putting someone like that in position is inexcusable. - HCProgramr, on 07/01/2009, -0/+37Funniest bumper sticker I saw during the campaign: "McCain/MILF '08"
- AndrewDB, on 07/01/2009, -3/+39Why is there a picture of a man and the caption "Who is the most powerful woman in the G.O.P.?" in this article?
- AndrewDB, on 07/01/2009, -5/+39Was there really any doubt?!
I mean.. seriously.. was there? - acknotSW, on 07/01/2009, -5/+39She is a Pentecostal, which is the definition of nut job.
- ApokalypseNow, on 07/01/2009, -2/+34To be fair, Biden's gaffes are mostly due to the fact that, frankly, he's just not a good public speaker. Palin's gaffes, on the other hand, are just failed attempts to appear competent.
- acknotSW, on 07/01/2009, -2/+34Nope, she is bush all over again, an idiot who is hopelessly unprepared and unequipped to be president.
- acknotSW, on 07/01/2009, -3/+35It would have only been a matter of time before McCain died in office and god started whispering in her ear that it’s time to push the "bring Jesus back now" button.
Pentecostals are not like your typical evangelicals. Evangelicals make fun of Pentecostals for being too fundamental. These people are out of their ***** minds. They honestly believe that god talks to them and tells them what they should do. The amazing thing is, god ALWAYS tells them to do exactly what they wanted to do in the first place.
I dated one of these fruitcakes for about a year and met a lot of them in that time; they all spew the same phrases in certain situations. I used to amuse myself at penty parties (as I used to call them) by trying to get as many people as possible to sprout off the same phrase by leading the conversations to certain subjects. Usually my girlfriend was right there next to me when I would do it and she never noticed what I was doing. - LightPhoenix, on 07/01/2009, -0/+31Don't worry, the majority of people inside the US think that too.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -2/+33This is really about McCain's judgement.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 07/01/2009, -2/+32I voted for Obama but there's no one that I want to see in the White House for more than 8 years.
- noderunner, on 07/01/2009, -1/+31I still remember them calling John Kerry the most liberal senator in Washington. Then I heard them call Obama the most liberal senator in Washington. Maybe the republicans should have changed their slogans for those of us who can remember spans of time greater than 4 years.
Also, Palin was the deciding factor for me and would've gone McCain if not for her. I liked him in 2000(voted Gore in the election though) and even though his rhetoric changed for 2008 I thought it was just a political tool to try and get the Bush backers that kept him in office for 8 years. His concession speech was beautiful and really showed who the real McCain was.
I'm happy with Obama and don't reget my vote; I think either him or McCain would've been an improvement...but the thought of "President Palin" would've caused me to leave the country. - jareddennis, on 07/01/2009, -20/+49Purdum has done the impossible. He has made the story of Sarah Palin interesting.
- CaptainNoPants, on 07/01/2009, -0/+29Kinda early for mommy to be letting you use the pc isn't it?
- WasabiBomb, on 07/01/2009, -12/+39The problem is, of course, that we really need a Liberal in the office, but the Republicans have managed to make "liberal" a dirty word. Obama is supposedly "the most liberal President ever"... but compared to the rest of the world, he's at best just right of center.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 07/01/2009, -2/+29I agree that Biden has his share of foot-in-mouth moments. But he didn't fall on his face because someone asked him what news sources he reads. He didn't claim to have foreign policy experience because his state is next to Russia. The people who support Palin would support a corpse with a nice suit so long there's an (R) after the name.
- Rotzooi, on 07/01/2009, -6/+33It's a long-ish read, but so worth it! Holy *****, the amount of quotable idiocy is fantastic!
- rpgmakr, on 07/01/2009, -2/+28@charlotte: No, she didn't remarkably well. If you read the article you would know. She wasn't even willing to play like she was in a team. And her Couric interview was just aweful and that wasn't because of couric. How in hell she couldn't come up with a newspaper that she reads, she could've said anything on that question. It all came down that she didn't have the basic political communication skills, that's what the Couric inteviews showed. Someone with that skill (like, say, a politician) would've given an answer that if not the best at least wouldn't be the punch line of late night tv shows.
My concerns come from people like you charlotte that on top of knowing all this, reading articles like this and seem to be smart (even if I disagree with you) support this joke. Can't you see that she is unfit for office? Why don't you support Romney or whoever? They at least are more qualified (even if I don't agree with them). Look, I get it, the Mccain campaign needed a boost and they picked her up, now they know it was a mistake, they are acknowledging it publicly. Mccain won't endorse her for office, he is moving on, why can't you people? - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -5/+31Ron Paul believes the world was created in 6 days by an invisible man, he does not believe in evolution and has stated that it is unimportant for a President to be versed in scientific knowledge. He has stated that "the notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers," which is provably, categorically wrong. He has stated the Constitution is 'replete' with references to God - it has no references to God. At all. Ron Paul has also said "The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian America". This also is 100% wrong, the Founding Fathers envisioned a nation in which all religions were had equal freedoms.
We know this because the Founding Fathers wrote about these things at length, and are on record.
That Ron Paul proclaims these things indicates that he is either nuts, or profoundly ignorant; the latter would therefore make his stance as a strict Constitutionalist dishonest. Take your pick.
Ron Paul also allowed racist rants and blatantly bigoted statements to be published in his newsletters, under his name (ghostwritten by Lew Rockwell) for *years*. When called to explain these distasteful sentiments, Paul claimed that he had no control over what was published in his newsletters, since his office was 60 miles away from where they were produced, so on top of everything else, Ron Paul has not heard of a telephone.
I put it to you that there is enough evidence to put Ron Paul's sanity in extreme doubt. - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+27"spineless losers" - there, I fixed i for you.
They should have stepped up BEFORE she was selected. I guess they were afraid of losing their jobs. But you can't really blame them because they had poor judgment to begin with. After all, they supported McCain. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 07/01/2009, -1/+26Before McCain cozied up to teh crazy he was a formidable moderate candidate with the potential to garner massive mainstream support. I don't fault his staff for supporting him. Whoever advised him on selecting Palin did a terrible disservice to the Senator, but ultimately McCain is the one who decided which advisers to listen to.
- deadasdisco, on 07/01/2009, -2/+26if she ever became president of the united states then earth would commit suicide.
- babar77, on 07/01/2009, -0/+24Except now a woman who helped bring about the torture regime and warrant-less wiretaps is a heartbeat away from the presidency. Say what you want about Obama - at least he didn't have a heavy hand in two of the biggest crimes to basic American liberty as Rice did.
And yeah, I'm also very disappointed in how Obama is handling those two issues. But he's still nowhere near Rice territory. - cygnus2112, on 07/01/2009, -28/+52In my opinion, regardless of their choice, McCain would have lost the election anyway. Obama had too much momentum, and McCain had the Bush-shadow lingering over him.
But does it really matter? Everyone can now see that there is little difference whether a Democrat or Republican is in office, American policy largely remains the same. - Mujokan, on 07/01/2009, -4/+28A fascinating nut-job. Haven't you noticed the news is *always* full of horrible accidents?
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -3/+27exactly, i knew that when i voted for him, but apparently alot of people didn't. he's probably less liberal than even bill clinton was, and bill was practically more republican than mccain.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+24Sarah Palin will never become President of the United States of America. Not a chance. She won't even get the Republican nomination.
- bsmang, on 07/01/2009, -4/+26Obama was the brightest and (therefore) best qualified candidate available.
- mattfairw, on 07/01/2009, -1/+23rignopolis is a ***** moron
- AmazingSteve, on 07/01/2009, -0/+21"I don’t understand why there are so many HUFFTARDS on Digg........"
Care to show us all how Vanity Fair is Huffington Post at all? Sit down moron, the adults are speaking. -
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