Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter, Sisters in Victimology
08 January 2009 5:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
Oh, it wasn’t her unpreparedness!
It wasn’t Sarah’s glassy eyed look when Charles Gibson asked her about the Bush doctrine.
It wasn’t her inability to name one newspaper she read.
It wasn’t because she talked about Putin rearing his head and… what was it? Coming over Alaska’s air space?
But hell must have frozen, because Sarah Palin actually gets something correct. Caroline Kennedy is getting an easy pass from the media, or at least was until her you know moments burst on to the scene. Now Kennedy is trailing Cuomo by a mile, according to PPP.
Still, Sarah’s like Ann Coulter who continually whines her way on to the best seller list… and on to NBC. I did a long piece a while back on the brilliance of Coulter’s ability to make big money peddling manure. Remains to be seen if Palin can make victimhood her financial salvation, but she’s sure giving it a go.
Ah – now’s my chance.
Having just seen her on Hardball, I’m reminded again. I’ve never been able to get you to comment, Taylor. Now that you’re out of Las Vegas, I’m still very curious what you think of Heidi (who thinks she’s a female Limbaugh, IMO). Surely you butted heads with her in Vegas ?
As far as Palin is concerned – there are a number of ‘levels’ each of us use to judge people — Intellect, Looks, Experience, etc.
Sarah definitely has intellect, as well as looks. She came off stupid at times because she was seriously lacking in experience or ‘exposure’.
But for me, there’s one level that for each individual there are differences – and that is the element of something called ‘class’. I’ve seen many people come out of ‘poor’ upbringings that still had that element of ‘class’ – how they see themselves, as well as how they see others. Meanwhile, some very rich and well-educated people can be seriously lacking of any ‘class’.
Unfortunately – Sarah Palin has no ‘class’ whatsoever. Some people refer to this affliction as ‘trailer trash’ (though that’s unfair to many who live in them) – but it’s still the same thing as ‘low class’.
I am ashamed of your remarks. I was a huge Clinton supporter and found Sarah Palin very likeable and related to people extremely well. I find that the new politics that everyone is talking about appears to be elitest and dismisses the rest of us. As your average american I find it very hard to relate to the elite in this country. Sarah did not have the polish that you are looking for. She was thrown on Center Staged and did not have the training that Obama got runnning for President for over 2 years. Sarah will be back and we will see if this class argument works then!
Taylor:
You forgot to mention Palin’s bitch slap of Katie Couric and Tina Fey… now that was classy.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/08/palin-takes-digs-at-fey-couric/
Palin is pissed that she has been branded as a light weight but really it was her own doing. I
guarantee the GOP will not take her national again. Mark my words.
Diplomats: Arabs and West agree on Gaza resolution
Key Arab nations and Western powers reached agreement Thursday on a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate and durable cease-fire between Hamas militants and Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip and moved for an immediate vote in the Security Council.
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I agree with GeoT about the lightweight branding. I would have been embarrassed to go into a national spotlight and not know the content but apparently this did not bother Sarah. I kind of admire her ability to go for it, knowing so little. I do think she has her looks and folksy way going for her, but without the ability to scrutinize herself and fix what needs fixing, i.e. study, gain knowledge, be curious, etc. I don’t think she is going anywhere, either. But you never know. She is pretty ambitious. How we ended up with GWB for 8 years, I’ll never know – there must be lots of gullible people out there.
Palin is pissed that she has been branded as a light weight but really it was her own doing. I
guarantee the GOP will not take her national again. Mark my words.
GeoT
I’d like to believe it, but the hardcore right loves her. Hell, the hardcore right loves Ann Coulter. I think if you do the math, Palin at the top of ticket would start off in a hole she could never climb out of.
No black votes
Very few Jewish votes
Virtually no appeal in the minority communities
Doesn’t play well with college+ educated people
Plus, they would start looking into her ethical issues. They have refiled her expense reports for 2007 twice since the election. In other words, they realized that they would get caught eventually.
And her gas pipeline deal is starting to look like Alaska gave $500 million to a company that will never actually build it. And maybe they’ll look into the bidding on that pipeline.
I can just picture her debating Romeny and Jindal. She won’t get away with the “I’m not going to answer your questions” crap. I saw Romney the other day, and this guy understands economics, and is a good speaker.
I think she has tons of political savvy, but intellect? Seems pretty low for a presidential contender. I think after Bush people want highly intelligent people as president, and no highly intelligent person could possibly have given the answers she gave in the Couric interview. I have never heard her give non-scripted remarks that weren’t essentially talking points strung together.
One last thought – what happens 8 years from now? Will she still give starbursts to the far right powermakers (Nordquist, Kristol, Lowry, etc.)?
I would fear for this country if a Sarah Palin ever got power.
I would like to think a major network would just say to an Ann Coulter “thanks, but no thanks”. They can always fall back on the “we are afraid you will come on and use a slur like you often seem to do when speaking in public”. She used a anti-gay slur against John Edwards, and has used the “r**head” slur for Arabs repeatedly, including one time at the CPAC convention (it probably went over very well there).
There is a guy here in Colorado Springs that has started a movement to get her to run for Pres. He’s circulating a petition. All the men look at is her pretty face.
I agree with you DaveB, I think people are very skeptical of cowboy and cowgirl politicians now. I don’t think she’s as popular as she was before she was on the GOP ticket. I think people in Alaska finally saw her for what she really is.
There is a guy here in Colorado Springs that has started a movement to get her to run for Pres.
He’s circulating a petition. All the men look at is her pretty face.
I agree with you DaveB, I think people are very skeptical of cowboy and cowgirl politicians
now. I don’t think she’s as popular as she was before she was on the GOP ticket. I think
people in Alaska finally saw her for what she really is.
Betsy
I also notice that she is no longer getting all that much media play. I think there are so many problems in this country that people don’t care about her. Plus, the more she whines the more she appeals to her base but turns off almost anyone else.
I do think that she plays better with men because of her appearance. Professional women started out liking her until she started talking. My mom is 79, and she loathed her (along with most of her friends). These are women who grew up when things were very difficult for women who wanted a career and they see someone like her who couldn’t even name a Supreme Court case she disagreed with (how about Ledbetter? But of course she probably would have agreed with that ruling. I wish Couric had actually asked her about that one, I’m sure she’s never heard of it).
Palin to me showed what the Republican party has sunk to. Not to mention that JTP was a major part of the GOP campaign strategy. Palin and JTP – the short term future of the GOP!
pmichael | 01.08.2009 – 8:01 pm | #
I’ve never even met her. I spent so much time, once I couldn’t get my show renewed, out of Vegas, I didn’t have a single contact with her.
DaveB on a roll!
As far as being illinformed or completely UNinformed Palin certainly isn’t the only one. I worked as foreman in a studio for 9 years. I would ask the apprentices after they were hired “this has nothing to do with your job approval rating but can you tell me how many US Senators there are and how many Supreme Court Justices?” I NEVER had one get both right. And these were ALL college graduates. And let’s not forget that Howard Stern video where his guy asked Obama supporters questions and got some AMAZINGLY uninformed answers. Of course NONE of these people were running for POTUS either!!!
“Obama camp ‘prepared to talk to Hamas”
bravo, let’s see if Hamas can deal in a responsible way when given the chance.
secularhumanizinevoluter | 01.09.2009 – 05:56
“ALL college graduates. And let’s not forget that Howard Stern video where his guy asked Obama
supporters questions and got some AMAZINGLY uninformed answers. Of course NONE of these people were running for POTUS either!!!”
And then you have the crazy Arab lady at the McCain rally and let’s not forget that charmingly bright Ashley Todd and her backwards b crusade against Obama. There are nuts on both sides of the equation. The difference between those people and Sarah Palin is that they didn’t kid themselves into believing that they were qualified to run for the second highest office…without fully understand what the job entails.
live video of Gaza:
http://live1.interoutemediaservices.com/?id=872dc79f-ceba-4132-b40f-ecab2e16b609
Let’s not forget that Ronald Reagan was an intellectual lightweight too yet he was elected and re-elected.
Ugh – the 1980s sucked politically.
I agree with Sarah and don’t think her remarks are playing the victim.
She needs to speak out. The treatment of women this past 2 years was undefendable.
And people saw it. Polls shows, people saw what was going on.
I am dismayed when I see it going on even today.
The election is over. In the words of so many snotty young people, “Get over it.”
Palin in no threat today. She is simply speaking out about the obvious.
The more she speaks out the more obvious it is. She’s even dumber than W.