Sarah Palin and “Extreme Partisanship”
I must admit, Sarah Palin sounds better (or reads better) when she’s speaking to her fellow Republican governors about “conservative solutions to these economic challenges” than when she’s stirring up vicious mobs at hate-filled rallies on the campaign trail. Not that I approve of “conservative solutions,” but at least she was coherent today. Besides, I’m not entirely against “the federalist principle” (whether in the U.S. or here in Canada). As much as I desire an active/activist federal government on issues such as health care and education, there ought to be responsibility and accountability at all levels of government, and, in some areas, state and local government is indeed better suited than the federal government to address issues effectively and efficiently. And it’s not like I support government bailouts of big banks and big corporations.
And, yes, Palin also said some very nice things about Obama yesterday, things that are completely at odds with what she said about him during the campaign, such as: “If he governs with the skill, and the grace, and the greatness of which he is capable, we’re going to be just fine… [T]his is a shining moment in American history. Sen. Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for our country.” (Sure, but doesn’t he also pal around with terrorists?)
And yet… for Palin to complain about “obsessive, extreme partisanship,” well, that’s just nuts. As she proved on the campaign trail, she is as obsessive and extreme a partisan as there is. Her barrage of attacks on Obama was nothing if not obsessive and extreme. A partisan of the extremist fringe, she’s even obsessive and extreme within the context of her own obsessive and extreme party.
Then again, maybe this entirely self-unaware and un-ironic comment should come as no surprise. After all, it’s not just that she seems to be utterly clueless, it’s that she’s so full of herself, so sure of her own righteousness, that her “reality” is whatever she wants it to be at any given time.
“As far as we’re concerned, the past is the past,” she said. Presumably, then, she’s already forgotten all about the campaign that — if I may put it bluntly — exposed her as a twit, a thug, and a fraud.
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About that Palin-centric Republican governors press conference, though. Seems like some of Palin’s fellow governors weren’t terribly amused by the fact that it turned into The Sarah Show.
She’s obviously looking ahead to 2012 already, as we know from her ongoing and utterly self-serving media blitz, and the press conference, in the words of one governor, “unfortunately sent a message that she was the de facto leader of the party.”
It would not be inappropriate for Republicans to feel a bit like Dr. Frankenstein at this point.
(Cross-posted from The Reaction (and here).)
4 Responses to “Sarah Palin and “Extreme Partisanship””
REPUBLICANS DON´T LIKE HER EITHER!
EISENSTADT May have been a hoax, but the story itself is NOT a hoax.
Senior McCain staffers on the McCain campaign DID LEAK to the media. Stories of Palin´s IGNORANCE to STUPIDITY and DIVADOM.
NOW, the same ANONYMOUS reports are coming from Miami. At the RNC conference Palin seems to be stepping on more REPUBLICAN TOES. I guess she just waltzed in thinking she was still vying for the number 2( with an eye on the number 1 position) position.
Why is this person the new spokesperson for a party that boasts about CONSERVATIVE Values, FAMILY values.
Mrs. Palin has a high school drop out son (who was born 8 months after the Palin´s married and was NOT premature), Mrs. Palin has an ¨unwed mother¨ daughter (who is getting hitched to another high drop out, Levi Johnston), Mrs. Palin has a lovely little girl who just told Matt Lauer on TV that she has missed a ton of school and it´s getting hard for her to catch up, Mrs. Palin also has, bless him, a special needs infant which she uses like a PROP.
Mrs. Palin should, perhaps, start charging Alaska for a live-in nanny, as she has been charging for other family expenses.
Mrs. Palin will not go back to life in the tundra anytime soon, why should she? THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS TOLD HER IT´S ALL ok, she has passed the muster…now I guess they will have to alter those medical records of hers
I have to say this. If McCain/Palin had been elected then the Authoritarian minority would have gotten itself lodged into the WH and they would have become a major player in the govt. If this had happened then I would have said that within 10-20 years the US would have no longer existed in its historical form. Oh, the shell would have still been there, but the bush poliiterizeation of the DoJ would have seemed like a very minor scandel compared to what would have happened under McCain/Palin. Big business would have gotten the entire bailout with nothing left for the people, the military-industrial complex would have run amuck and science would become a dirty word as evangelical theology took over the schools and along with big business would continue the bush practice of censoring all scientific papers to make them conform to the current republician theology. Yes, I could see all that coming as the neocons for a new century would tighten their hold on defense and foreign policy. Myself? If McCain/Palin had won, I was fully prepared to move out of the US forever so that I would not be involved in the rapid decline and fall of the US. Thankfully it did not happen this election, but given the republician policy of attempting to smear any state official who tried to do their job fairly, and after having watched how republician state office holders attempted to use the courts to legitimize their massive purging of the voter roles and their other attempts to insure a lesser turnout-which would favor them-along with the outright politicking from the pulpits of the evangelical churchs, I believe that my version of the future of the US under republician/neocon/authoritarian leadership would not be to far different from what the republicians are charging the democrats of doing ie setting up a theological police state. We came close with bush, but the oligarchs and the theological mavens could not agree on a final course of action in time to steal the election like they did in 2000 and 2004
Step 1: Admitted we were powerless against Sarah Palin and our lives had become unmanageable.
Soon to come tinfoil hats with Palin=Satan on them