Comments on: Legitimate Concern on Palin

By: brie

brie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:59:17 +0000

Well, I’d start right there - the comparison to Bush.

Make a commercial that runs clips of him as a Texas governor in 2000 with clips of Palin this year:

Another inexperienced Republican governor. Who’s barely been out of the country. Who lacks a basic understanding of foreign policy and the economic worries that America faces. Given the last eight years, can we really take the chance? Again?

Run that clip of her thinking that Fannie May and Freddie Mac are paid for by taxpayers. Run the clip of her not understanding what the veep does. Take her down the dumb, right wing governor track if you have to.

The easiest way to do this is to ignore the fact that she’s a woman. That automatically leaves out the vagina-based attacks and allows one to go for the jugular.

How about: Sarah Palin - Unfit to Lead.

By: dannygutters

dannygutters — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:48:59 +0000

I’ve been seeing posts around the tubes suggesting that the rolling attacks on plain represent an insecurity of the media to know how to temper or pace attacks on a woman candidate’s character. It seems further compounded by the fact that a short on resume and bush-esq candidate like Palin’s attack points are less policy related and more character related. I mean with hillary they could attack the record if you didn’t like or even the ethics scandals, but here we just have a candidate who gives you the willies in the same way Bush did. How do you call a woman totally unqualified without a detailed history to call up? I suppose these are questions that will continuiously come up in future campaings starring female candidates. I look forward to when my children can burn a paper mache effiage of a woman not because of her gender but because of her content of their character.

By: dannygutters

dannygutters — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:42:22 +0000

true, anticipating whims of the unwashed masses damns you if you do and damns you if you don’t.

By: brie

brie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:09:22 +0000

But isn’t what I wrote more or less the point of the link you posted earlier today? Don’t fall for the Palin bait?

By: dannygutters

dannygutters — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:14:58 +0000

a calm and pointed dismissal of unqualified candidates is the rocket fuel that put Bush in the white house Twice!

By: Chris Kelly

Chris Kelly — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:40:06 +0000

My favorite quote of the week in reference to Palin came from an online source that I’m too lazy to look up right now. I’ll find and e-mail it later. But the basic aim was to put community organizing in terms she and her voting base could relate to. “Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.” BURN!