Sarah Palin’s Titanic

Sarah Palin’s departure from her sworn duty to carry out her responsibility to Alaska is tantamount to the captain of the Titanic stepping onto the iceberg "for the good of the ship."

I predict Caribou Barbie will launch a talk-radio show called "Winking from Wasilla." From this venue she’ll caress the erogenous zones of the right side of the body politic while she lustily ogles the White House.

When Palin gets to the Iowa Caucuses in 2012, pragmatic Midwesterners will promptly send her back up the Al-Can highway kicking moose scat and Molson Beer cans.

She is an attractive package who has attained a loyal fan base. However, recent events show she lacks the thick hide to run for national office. Ambition puts politician’s families through a meat-grinder.

Sarah Palin has the charisma to attain celebrity. John Updike said, "Celebrity is a mask that eats the face."

Norence A. Nelson

Waverly, Mo.

Comments

[JoCo]

WHAT SOL!!!,

Hollywood is a notorious COMMIE breeding ground!!

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Right JIm, they are equally qulaified according to the US Constitution. However of the two, Obama is the lesser expereince and least grounded. He is FOS and FOH though.
He does have experieince in chasing welfare money, that's the height of his experience.
He's an Ivy league ambulance chaser, that's it. 99% of lawyers are deadbeats that care only about money, power and their personal status.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

BFD Casady, I know plenty about Ivy League institutions. I know several people that have degrees from Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth. Only one of them has ever held a job, the other two sit on their duffs and write books that do not sell.
I had plenty of ambition, serving this nation. University is not the only place that is difficult nor the only venue for obtaining experience or knowledge. NO s**t Casady I knew Bush was an Ivy Leaguer, an MBA no less. I also know many a MBA, and just like anyone else some are more talented than others. So you think because someone does not have an MBA they are below someone that does? So what did they teach you about energy production and the scopes of work involved implementing the projects in these related industries?
BTW - Jazz - Expereince DOES count. Ho do you figure experience does not matter? Juyst because someone gives speeches that sound promising does not mean squat either. S**t what genius it takes to spend OPM and write checks you're a$$ can;t cash.
Obama has none. Explain why Palin is not "material" but Obama is?
Joe Biden is equally as retarded as Bush.

[solomon]

Yes, I did.

[JoCo]

Sol,
Did you say, not Pabst?!

Casady,

Your point IMHO, is still valid; NMMNG's rant that makes H. and C. "commie farms" is over the top at least for most.

[JoCo]

Casady,

Please don't lay 'Student Bush" at Harvard's doors. He was an Eli.

[JoCo]

I read Mr. Nelson's allusion to the Titanic captain as tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, the captain having stepped off the ship for IT'S good when in theory, the captain goes down with the ship. Maybe a unique take, but I don't think "one of the dumbest ever". And I've just contributed to the Palin campaign by wasting this little cyber-ink.

[EL]

''Sarah Palin’s departure from her sworn duty to carry out her responsibility to Alaska is tantamount to the captain of the Titanic stepping onto the iceberg "for the good of the ship." ''
This has to be one of the dumbest comparisons ever.
Palin has a lt governor, he will take over.
Only someone who thinks Palin is the best politician ever could rationally claim her quitting hurts Alaska.

[solomon]

....Casady,...our 28 year old daughter is graduating with her MBA next month, earned while holding down 2 jobs seven days a week......it is an accomplishment that takes harder work than this guy has or is ever likely to see.

[Casady]

Sorry Sol, I just get really miffed about people going off on institutions they know nothing about. Yes, I received my MBA from a top 10 school. It was hard as hell to get in and it was hard as hell to get through it and I'll be damned if I'm going to let some nutjob make me feel ashamed about it. My experience there have served me well.

Back on thread, Nixon went to Whittier but other than that, you are pretty much correct.

[solomon]

......damn, Casady......give the poor guy a break.....we all know he has p&a-word envy.....

[p&a stands for personality and accomplishment]

[he'll be here any moment discussing how much he makes]

When you look at the schools that our recent Presidents have attended you can really only look at Reagan and say he didn't go to a breeding ground.

[Casady]

"So what if he went to Harvard and Columbia, two ULTRA liberal commie farms."

Um, NM. Bush went to Harvard.

I'm also sick and tired of you bashing places you know absolutlely nothing about. Just because you chose to screw around in high school or didn't have the brains or ambition to get into a good school does not make you better than those of us who did have the brains and ambition to get into a good school. Yes, an MBA from a top 10 university is not a prerequisite for success but to constantly insult those of us who pursued that path does nothing more than show your ignorance.

[Jazz-Man]

Just because some has a little experience at something doesn’t mean they are qualified. If that was the case I would be Post master General by now. She is not Presidential material, what she gonna do quit to hold press meetings about basketball and whale hunting. Obama may have not been qualified either but there has to be a better choice out there.

[solomon]

It is always a weak argument to bring someone else into a discussion that doesn't pertain to them. My comment on Palin was about Palin, not Obama or Bush or FDR or PBR......

Everyone who thinks Sarah Palin is the best Presidential material the GOP has to offer us please stand up and say so now!

[Jim]

"Palin's true talent is for bringing out the Crazy in her enemies."

Thanks, Roger. I'd forgotten the other excuse Palin's fans have thought up to keep them from justifying or explaining her bizarre statements and habitual lying: her critics are just crazy.

Palin's personal and family life don't interest me. Her deep dishonesty and the depth of her lack of knowledge do, as does her lackluster record as governor.

"I've never seen anything even close."

The rightwing reaction to Obama both during and after the campaign was worse.

[Jim]

"According to the US Constitution she is qualified, in fact MORE qualified than the current clown we have writing hot checks."

Perhaps you can enlighten us with the Constitutional qualification she has that he doesn't. They both appear to be equally qualified as far as the Constitution is concerned (at least to sane people).

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

According to the US Constitution she is qualified, in fact MORE qualified than the current clown we have writing hot checks.
How do you figure she is not "qualified"?
SOmewhere sheep have been indoctrinated to think lawyers are somehow magical and all knowing, defaultly qualified. More elistist lameness. So what if he went to Harvard and Columbia, two ULTRA liberal commie farms.

[solomon]

"because she is...?"-NE

....never going to run for President...

There will be qualified Republicans running for the office in 2012 and the Palin sideshow....

[JoCo]

There's that ""---Marxist, again.

Kee, demonstrate some knowledge of original Marxism.

Marxism's been tossed around from the 1918 Kremlin to the 2009 Kee. Then it was for favor; now it's for fear.

Don't fear perfection, which is all that Marx's dream was. Utterly impossible in the real world, just like pure free-market capitalism.

[Roger Lambert]

Palin's true talent is for bringing out the Crazy in her enemies. I've never seen anything even close.

[Jim]

Hilarious Palin fan talking points in a nutshell:

Don't dare criticize The One. She is infallible! Those who take issue with even the slightest thing she does are obviously hateful people who are afraid of her.

Peggy Noonan must be positively terrified, then:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html

[Jazz-Man]

I only saw the headline but there was a break in tradition just not sure what that was. I’m not a backer of all of Obama’s policies but It seems to me as people call him the great O, O-mighty one, they are the ones making him out to be this way. Certainly the backers treat him this way but I don’t think he’s the one doing it to himself. He’s made mistakes like every other president.

[Kee]

Palin certanily could do no worse than Neo-marxist Obama!

BTW when the Yo met with the Pope who kissed who's ring? Anybody know?

[Arminius]

Wow, Norence is a hateful, little person. Didn't Obama depart from his sworn duty to represent the people of Illinois after saying he would not? I guess it's different when Democrats do it.

[Jazz-Man]

NM YOU SURE CAN GO OFF ON TANTRUMS!