Quotes of the day

takeamericabackin10 on March 18, 2009 at 11:12 PM

And let us not forget that right up until the polls closed on Election Day in 1980, claims were the race was too close to call. Meanwhile, Reagan wiped the floor with Carter. I can certainly foresee this bit of history repeating itself. Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda, a.k.a. the MSM, will have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to reality. They and specious polling outfits like PPP are going to cling to their Obama fantasies until Sarah Palin lays her hand on the Bible and takes the oath of office. They’re certainly not going to report the obvious, which by 2012 will be that Barry is an abject failure as a president and save for a few remaining Kool-Aid drinkers, every American voter knows it. So I am sure we will be hearing all manner of spin during the 2012 election cycle about how “close” the race is, and I’ll be LMAO if the Cuda wins a landslide.

NoLeftTurn on March 19, 2009 at 12:05 AM

I find it quite interesting that, according to the crosstabs in the poll, women find Palin so unpalatable. Apparently there’s something about Palin that drives women away…

unclesmrgol on March 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM

I can answer that question: Women are our own worst enemy. It’s the same reason shows like “American Idol” or those other call-in-and-vote type shows are so top heavy with male contestants. Women don’t vote for other women. They vote for the hot guy. There is just a natural competitiveness inborn in women toward each other. Old habits die hard. And the same behaviors that inform the gossipy, backbiting actions of a pack of 7th grade “mean girls” are still in play as adults. And woe to the successful and ambitious woman who also happens to be attractive, as the governor certainly is. There is a special level of scorn from the “sistahs” for committing THAT unpardonable sin.

I don’t know if it’s biological or what, but it certainly is frustrating. I was no fan of Hillary (tho it pains me to admit I think she would have been head and shoulders above this asshat), but politics aside, I would have been pleased to see her break the glass ceiling. Most women I dare say wouldn’t feel that way. In her own way, Hillary was just as divisive as Sarah is, even if the criticism manifested itself differently. Sarah has been portrayed as a stupid rube because she happens to be pretty, and conservative, and hails from a sparsely populated state far removed from the mainland. Hillary was portrayed as a conniving, unattractive, power mad hag who wears ugly pants suits. It’s two sides of the same coin. A successful, ambitious woman is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t in politics, which is apparently one of the last remaining forums in the public discourse where outright sexism is practiced daily and is perfectly acceptable. And women are the worst offenders in the bunch.

It’s my personal opinion, BTW, that liberal women are more likely to bash other women than conservative women are. When someone on our side is bashing Hillary, it’s very often a man. Meanwhile, some of the most eviscerating attacks leveled on Gov. Palin come from other WOMEN, either Democrats or RINOs in our own ranks. This could possibly be because liberals in general are more apt to resort to emotion over reason when forming an opinion, and women in particular are. It doesn’t surprise me then that a liberal woman would dismiss Sarah Palin based on a scurrilous assessment of her personality. At this point, I doubt anyone knows enough about the REAL Sarah, the actual person, to be able to form an opinion of how genuine she is (although to me it certainly appears that she is). Besides which, I’d like to meet a politician who ISN’T fake, at least some of the time. That would be a rare species indeed.

NoLeftTurn on March 19, 2009 at 12:43 AM