View Full Version : Sarah Palin: the Paris Hilton of politics?
disorderlyvision
07-29-2009, 09:55 AM
“Everyone has a take on Gov. Sarah Palin’s recent resignation. Here’s mine: I think she likes the ‘kitchen’ a whole lot but can’t actually take the heat, loves the adulation but not the scrutiny, likes power and fame but not the hard work and detail-orientedness it usually entails. Probably never before in American politics has there been so much political buzz about someone who seems to know little about policy and issues and less about how to articulate them. … Now, Palin who doesn’t want to be a lame-duck governor who ‘milks’ her position, wants to be an ex-governor who milks her national celebrity status. In the narrative running in her head, she is the aggrieved heroine who has been wronged by the hated liberal media, who will storm the national stage, and rescue and ‘progress’ the nation. Realistically, she may turn into the Paris Hilton of politics: one who is famous for being famous.”
http://www.rationalreview.com/content/67181
Deborah K
07-29-2009, 09:59 AM
When is this witch-hunt ever going to end? :rolleyes:
disorderlyvision
07-29-2009, 10:07 AM
When people around here quit trying to push Palin as a viable liberty candidate
Deborah K
07-29-2009, 10:15 AM
The calls for her as a viable candidate are drowned out 1000 to 1 on this forum. There is serious overkill here.
BenIsForRon
07-29-2009, 01:02 PM
Good analogy.
Vessol
07-29-2009, 01:21 PM
In that both are incredibly unattractive? SUre, why not?
LibertyEagle
07-29-2009, 01:29 PM
When people around here quit trying to push Palin as a viable liberty candidate
We're not going to win anyone over by bashing Palin. If we we do a good job of showing how our principles will fix what is ailing America, then they can weigh Palin against those principles for themselves. Bashing rarely wins allies.
disorderlyvision
07-29-2009, 01:43 PM
We're not going to win anyone over by bashing Palin. If we we do a good job of showing how our principles will fix what is ailing America, then they can weigh Palin against those principles for themselves. Bashing rarely wins allies.
Bashing is about the only thing the sheeple understand....
LibertyEagle
07-29-2009, 01:45 PM
Bashing is about the only thing the sheeple understand....
The question is, does it win them over? I don't think it does; it just pisses them off and increases the likelihood that they're not going to listen to a thing you say on any subject.
Feenix566
07-29-2009, 01:51 PM
In that both are incredibly unattractive? SUre, why not?
Are you kidding me? Paris Hilton and Sarah Palin are many things, but "unattractive" isn't one of them.
disorderlyvision
07-29-2009, 01:51 PM
Walks like a duck, talks like a duck....
Why call her something she is not? She is not a liberty candidate, same with all the Kucinich nut huggers
Everybody is always saying "principals" this and that, yet they always want to compromise them to make the sheeple feel better. Palin is what she is.
BenIsForRon
07-29-2009, 01:58 PM
I think the difference between Palin and Kucinich, is that Kucinich actually believes something. Palin just cares about her image and her career.
Vessol
07-29-2009, 02:01 PM
Are you kidding me? Paris Hilton and Sarah Palin are many things, but "unattractive" isn't one of them.
To each their own I suppose.
I'd rather sleep with a man then either of them.
youngbuck
07-29-2009, 05:39 PM
To each their own I suppose.
I'd rather sleep with a man then either of them.
And I was just going to post, before reading your reply, ARE YOU *****?! :eek:
Peace&Freedom
07-29-2009, 06:21 PM
Palin is not a liberty candidate, but she clearly does not fit the fully conforming model of neocon orthodoxy that the GOP leadership appears to want, so they have been ardently trying to marginalize her. The Dems only want a female President who follows a Hillary model of arrogant secularism, so they have no use for her either.
Rank and file Republicans want a charismatic, energizing figure, and Palin does fit that bill. We want Ron Paul, who better fits the bill, but it does not follow that because she is not ideologically compatible with us, that she must be ugly or without talents. Put your thinking caps on, folks, her spliting up the party should help pave the way for Paulites to dominate, the same way McCain split up the conservative vote so he could win the key primaries. Her political success should help us, flaws and all.
Vessol
07-29-2009, 07:37 PM
And I was just going to post, before reading your reply, ARE YOU *****?! :eek:
No. But, what if I was? Would that be a problem?
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