Palin's Book Should Be Called "I'm a Big Whiner"

Are you kidding me? McCain picked her as his running mate! If we are obsessing over anything, it is the simple mystery of it. I admit that it still astounds me. I'm waiting for substance, some rogueness, and there's never anything there.

It is amazing to me, and I am bewildered that I find myself compelled to leave the Republican party, to stop identifying myself as a Republican.

I don't think anyone is scared at all of Sarah Palin.

I am rightfully, however, scared of any national party that would back her for any serious position of power. It is the same wrong-headed track that James Baker initially started us on with George W. Bush.

Baker's group backed Bush in the crtical and early phases of the formulation of his campaign for the Presidency because they thought, quite frankly, that they would be able to control him. What they learned, in contrast, is that you can't control stupid.

Inadequate candidates can, indeed, be pushed into winning positions by coalitions of various interests individually anticipating narrowly defined payoffs that do not require general competence.

This is what worries me, not that Palin is strong, but that she is thin, weak, undefined, and easily transformable by shadowy figures (like Bill Kristol) with illconceived and unexamined agendas.

"Going Vogue" would've been a more appropriate title.

Inadequate candidates can, indeed, be pushed into winning positions by coalitions of various interests individually anticipating narrowly defined payoffs that do not require general competence.

Yes, we're living under it right now.

My reaction to this poor excuse for an MSNBC analyst is his statement that he's bored with Palin and this is the kind of stuff I hear all of time: she's boring, she's irrelevant, she's washed up, she's stupid, she's brainless, she's "inadequate"...yet she is the recipient of the most ruthless and vile attacks of anyone of our time and sorry, even if she doesn't fit the bill, that doesn't make her deserving of that kind of scorn. The mystery isn't that she was picked; she complimented McCain well. The mystery is that for such a non-entity in politics, people are indeed obsessed with tearing her down and making sure she has to claw her way above it.

There are lots of inadequate and irrelevant people in politics or public life. Usually they get ignored or fall to the wayside. The 'fear' is that she's not, that she's actually connecting with masses of voters who aren't snobs and elitists, such as those who show up on these boards, trot out their repetitive complaints about Palin that almost entirely describe the Obama candidacy, and more tragically, the Obama presidency thus far.

She's not topping my list of hopefuls in 2012, but if it means getting rid of this long-running joke currently in the White House, I'll take Palin in 2012. Please.

I think Obama is the most generally competent person that we have had in the White House since Richard Nixon. Obama's and, quite frankly, H. Clinton's ability work the phones and press the flesh with world leaders in late modern times rivals only GHW Bush, who was, if you will so kindly recall, the last president to actually win a war since... and it was also in the Middle East. No joke.

Okay, then I'll ask you what I asked Democrat friends of mine: what's his two or three biggest accomplishments so far? Further, were they fulfilling campaign promises or do they fly in the face of his campaign rhetoric? I hear how inexperienced Palin is and virtually everything I predicted about Obama (based on his inexperience) during the campaign and prior to inauguration has come to fruition.

People who use Democrat as an adjective. . .

Um,ok...I asked some Democrats.

Is that better?

I'll take your response as the standard 'no comment'.

Why does this just apply to women? Why not...Obama? What's the difference? Because he's a man? You basically just described his rise to the presidency.

Wow, I agree with TOS here. Have any of you heard of Persuasive Public Speaking? Or was that the one class in College you decided you didn't need? Obama has done nothing but make everyone who can't see his fallacies believe he is really going to do something for this country. But there is no evidence of any "change" as of yet. And he is already almost a year in. Are all you Lefty Libs seriously that ignorant.

That's a good point - where is the 'change'? Where's the transparency, the elimination of lobbyists and special interests and earmarks, the unity and bipartisanship, the tax cuts for 95% of Americans that cannot begin to happen with this kind of growth in government? EVERYTHING about this guy is a sham and embarrassed people who voted for him under the moronic and stupid ruse of 'change' and 'he's not Bush' are starting to figure this out.

He's making Bush look like a great president.

That's certainly an opinion. I think he's a fool who's adherence is more to an un-American agenda than to the traditional betterment of this nation, who BTW, was elected entirely based on style over substance. Speaking is certainly his style. But he cannot speak with substance, he cannot speak off the cuff. He fumbles more than Bush when he has to think while he talks. It takes him 60 seconds to spit out 25 seconds of dialogue. Are we both looking at the same guy?

He's launched a disastrous economic agenda, attempted destruction of our health care system (counterintuitive to what he campaigned on), the biggest growth of government in virtually all of human history, he's a detached CiC, an American apologist and a radical who surrounds himself with radicals. What has this wonderful president touched that's actually turned to gold? Anything? One thing? His biggest accomplishments were continuing certain Bush policies that he criticized during the campaign.

I'll take Palin's limited government 'style and no substance' any day of the week over his. ANYBODY can appear to be doing something when they show NO restraint on government power and spending. But that check's going to be cashed real soon and Mr. Substance is going to style his way out of re-election.

You're absolutely right - we cannot compare the rising Palin to Obama the train wreck.

Wow, I thought it was because he had the lamestream media carrying his water throughout the campaign and the SEIU, Acorn, and the New Black Panthers out steeling the election any way they could.

Using the name NemocRATS simply labels you as a name caller. The fact is all of us should be scared to death of this woman and her kool aid drinking supporters as well.