Glenn Beck….Interesting? ya, only if the oxygen to your brain has been cut off for 5 minutes.

But picking Gov. Sarah Palin was not stupid:

Her common sense position on offshore drilling (a position she actually believes in, in probable contrast to Sen. John McCain) was favored by 68% of the voters, as compared to only 19% who opposed it.

Even after so much effort was put forth by certain forces to reduce the cost of gas, and thus make that issue less relevent to the voters, they (the strong majority of voters) STILL agreed with Gov. Sarah Palin.

Also, among voters who said McCain’s selection of Gov. Sarah Palin mattered to them, McCain won by 3 points.

Whereas among voters who said the selection did not matter, McCain lost by 8 points.

Picking Sarah Palin was one of the few smart things John McCain has done in his life (thus far).

And the people working for McCain who decided to stab Sarah Palin in the back by spreading lies about her are smart enough to know this, or at least smart enough that they figured it out after looking over the exit polls.

Therefore they simply could not have anything but an evil motive for their slander, and they deserve to be punished, to a reasonable extent.

That is not to say they need be purged, just that they should be utterly deprived of any responsibility in the field of politics until the end of time.

Or perhaps you Democrats want them?

I doubt very much that you do.

Put them in the same wilderness as Lieberman (I), where the weeping and the gnashing of their teeth shall be.

What Malkin is talking about is nothing, and 100% reasonable, compared to what the hard left did to the neoconn.

“But this isn’t just any political cause; we’re talking about the long-term viability of the woman who is guaranteed to lead the GOP to crushing victories in at least half the states that border Appalachia, and crushing defeats absolutely everywhere else”

Now you can see into the future?

You don’t even know what the great lady actually believes on foreign policy (as distinct from the McCain Campaign line she was decent, caring, and in some ways naive enough to think she had to put forward out of loyalty to a war hero who gave her a chance on the national stage), much less how successfully she’ll govern Alaska over the next 4 years, and the conditions that we’ll have in 2012.

Sounds just a little like Obama saying he looks forward to dealing with the Iraqi government over the next 8 to 10 years.

He already knew he would be elected, that he will be reelected, and that the constitution will be “corrected” to give him an “oppurtunity” to run for a third term, and finally that he’ll have to step down for yet undetermined reasons less than more than halfway through his first term.

The hubris of both you and him deeply troubles me.

It almost makes Bush look humble, if such a thing were possible.

And perhaps even more importantly, the model you put forth for the 2012 election could never occur as long as 2012 sees an American National Election, for it is politically impossible to be crushed in most states and and yet crush your opponent in “half of Appalachia”.

And as for Goldberg, I have a feeling his eyes were recently opened to something the half-Jewish fellow was just too blind to see before.

Vis a vis the FBI.

Simultaneously, Palin can be a moronic opportunist. It doesn’t necessarily exonerate the people calling her out, but certainly it is hard to find much merit in her candidacy.

Palin is the type that we all know from high school — if she was your lab partner or somehow on your team for a group project, she would add no value and take all the credit. You would cringe when the teacher put her on your team.

McCain got what he deserved, but Palin is being scapegoated and made to look much stupider than she otherwise would.

You can’t make chicken salad from chicken sh*t.

Then they should have resigned, but no, they rode it out, waiting to see what would happen. So, if things were as bad as they say, they were willing to hide it so that she could become VP. Now that things went bad, they want to use Palin as a human shield to cover for their own incompetence.

No matter how you slice it, they’re disgusting backstabbing weasels. The one thing worse than McCain’s picking Palin is his having picked them.

And since I’ve long favored Obama over McCain and criticized Palin since her selection, I don’t see how I’m being “dismissive.”

It wasn’t their candidate. McCain’s VP choice was thrust on them and they were told to make her over. Pointing out there wasn’t enough substance there for them to work with isn’t sour grapes and it’s not excuse making.
Stop being dismissive, it’s what got you guys into this mess to begin with.

That said, if Palin still wants to run for President after the past two months’ performance, she is as stupid as everyone says. She needs to go back to Alaska and do the job she was elected to do.

A number of the folks working on the McCain campaign disliked Palin because she was a maverick. Strangely, McCain named her as his VP for this very reason, and he stuck by her (for good reason since she energized the base of the party) until the end.

Could it be that the folks insulting Palin simply wanted to blame someone for McCain? Could it be that their true allegiances lie with other GOP primary candidates who failed to get the nod, and they don’t want Palin reappearing on the scene in two or three years to get in their way? I agree that these folks have been working for themselves rather than the GOP or what it stands for, and they deserve to be treated as lepers by candidates in 2012.

I am genuinely torn by all of this because I defended Palin from the smears of the McCainiacs looking to CYA and save their sorry careers. However, knowing that Africa is a continent and not a country, isn’t that something you have to nail at the beauty pagent? Not knowing which countires are in NAFTA? Oh yuck!

I have also said, as I live in a small rural county in Wisconsin, that while I know a lot of fine people here, most of them are not presidential or vice-presidential material, including myself. Not just anybody can do this job and the right has to be very careful not to descend to the level of identity politics practice by the left, which is the selection and support of candidates no matter how unqualified they are by the basis of racial solidarity. Do we really want to reach Al Sharpton-level politics?

Palin deserves credit for basically saving the GOP ticket from an electoral tsunami on Tuesday. Had Lieberman or Romney been on the ticket, Obama would have probably carried Montana, Alaska, both Dakotas, Arizona, Missouri, maybe even Georiga too and the Dems would have had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. Yet if Palin was the on on top of the ticket, she wouldn’t have done much better than McCain did.

She may very well be the favorite of the GOP but so was Vice President Dan Quayle in 1992 as he was portrayed as martyr persecuted by the “liberal media.” However, after he left office, the word began to trickle down from his former staffers (Bill Kristol being one of them) and other Bush I officials that yes, he really was a stupid rich kid. The word came down from them and spread to GOP party hacks and then to rank and file voters so that by the time Quayle did run for president he couldn’t make it to the year 2000 because he had such a miserable finish in the 1999 Iowa GOP Straw Poll. Only John Sununu supported him and that’s not saying much.

Palin may be popular with the base right now but that doesn’t guaratee anything and a lot of her popularity is based in large part on who her enemies are. The bottom line is she can’t win a general election right now. McCain-Palin was clobbered in Pennsylvania and Ohio, the two states that was thought her presence could help the ticket. Unless there’s a great reclamation project over the next four years that restores her credibility on issues like foreign affairs, she will not win the GOP nomination in 2012 because it won’t be just the left or the media criticizing her, it will be her fellow Republicans. And if she can’t match-up with them then rank and file GOP primary voters are not going to vote for her no matter how much they like her or her background.

But, they just don’t seem to get it.

And for that I am starting to wonder if they don’t deserve the long winter they are about to endure or if they are worth saving at all.

Thing is, Obama is probably better for them as not many of them make more than 50K/year, let alone 250K.