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What The Left Needs Is A Sarah Palin Of Their Own

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August 29th is a big day in recent American history. Five years ago today Katrina hit New Orleans. Two years ago today Sarah Palin was introduced to the world as John McCain‘s running mate. Needless to say, where Palin in concerned what a difference two years makes.

So, who’s responsible for Palin’s meteoric rise to the top of the media, and arguably political, food chain? Jezebel founding editor Anna Holmes and Salon’s Rebecca Traister — who just published a book on the 2008 election and what it meant to American women — have penned a provocative op-ed in the New York Times today arguing that progressive leaders are as much to blame (or thank, depending) for Palin’s dominance:

Since the 2008 election, progressive leaders have done little to address the obvious national appetite for female leadership. And despite (or because of) their continuing obsession with Ms. Palin, they have done nothing to stop an anti-choice, pro-abstinence, socialist-bashing Tea Party enthusiast from becoming the 21st century symbol of American women in politics.

Holmes and Traister further argue that while the Left tends to treat Palin dismissively “by looking down on her as a dim, opportunistic, mean-girl prom queen, all spunk and no policy muscle” they have done precious little to bolster the female leaders in their own party.

But the sad truth is that Democrats often prefer their women fulfilling similarly diminutive models for behavior. Consider how Hillary Clinton has been treated, at times, by those in her own party: Democratic leaders never really celebrated Mrs. Clinton’s nation-altering place in history as the first female candidate to get so close to a major party’s presidential nomination. Indeed, she is most appreciated when she plays well with others in the Senate or the State Department; when she behaves like a fierce competitor, she is compared to Glenn Close’s bunny-boiling virago from “Fatal Attraction.”

So what’s the solution? Here’s a rough outline of a the sort of ideal woman candidate Holmes and Traister have in mind:

Imagine a Democrat willing to brag about breaking the glass ceiling at the explosive beginning, not the safe end, of her campaign. A liberal politician taking to Twitter to argue that big broods and a “culture of life” are completely compatible with reproductive freedom. A female candidate on the left who speaks as angrily and forcefully about her rivals’ shortcomings as Sarah Barracuda does about the Pelosis and Obamas of the world.

And that’s just the beginning. Read the full rallying cry here.

Related: A Palin of Our Own [NYT]

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  • BatBoy

    Helen Thomas isn’t doing anything…maybe she could be your new Sarah Palin!

  • writer

    It should be someone attractive, yet who stirs up controversy. Like Rosie O’Donnell.

  • Big Eddie

    The opposite of Sarah : Alan Grayson with a Harpo wig .

  • JimBob

    I like that! Perfect fit. Alan Grayson!!

    He could use a little mascara, though !!

  • Constantly

    debbie wasserman schultz for the lizard queen!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    writer said:
    It should be someone attractive, yet who stirs up controversy. Like Rosie O’Donnell.

    LMAO

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

    Yikes!!!
    I REALLY don’t want one…..we have $arah PAYlin ALSO TOO, just for different reasons.

  • BowenIsland

    Sarah Palin , democrat archetype.

    That is the kind of take down you don’t get up from.

    ps *snicker*

  • BatBoy

    I just thought of another candidate…. Janeane Garofalo

    Now she is a piece of …………. work!

  • sarainitaly

    This makes me want to puke, for so many reasons.

    First of all, they had a strong female candidate! One who even got more votes than any other candidate in history. But she was thrown under the bus by the DNC and Democrats for a smooth talking empty suit who had his own meteoric rise to the top, with no experience.

    And then, while saying *they* need a *Palin* of their own, they insult the crap out of her.

    After the way Democrats treated Hillary and Palin, they don’t deserve a Sarah Palin. They don’t deserve a Hillary either.

  • writer

    sara, I recall someone’s pastor strutting around the stage mocking Hillary (“that white woman”). But I can’t mention who it was. I’ve already reached my quota of being called a racist.

  • Azarkhan

    “What The Left Needs Is A Sarah Palin Of Their Own”

    Good luck!

    First, all of the Left’s ideas have already been refudiated, so who ever the Left advances will be promoting bankrupt policies (see Obama presidency).

    Second, individuals with the charisma and talent of Sarah Palin appear only rarely in politics. She, more than any other American politician, “is in sync with the centre-right zeitgeist.” Because she is one of us, she instinctively knows what the majority of Americans think about certain issues. This allows her to address those issues with the confident assurance of a natural leader. It may even allow her one day to become President of the United States.

    http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/853122–is-sarah-palin-a-political-savant-or-chicken-s-guts

  • writer

    Thumbs down? Okay, when this certain person was mocking that white woman, I’m sure he meant it in a good way.

  • notsofast

    writer said:
    It should be someone attractive

    That in itself disqualifies anyone from the left.

  • BruceGoose

    Ugh, Jezebel writers. Every time I read one of their bad pun photo captions it takes a year off my life.

    I think Democrat women have been treated just like the guys for years so there’s no need for a Sarah Palin type. Plus, we’ve got Rubik!

    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk"Rubik"

  • Phocus2

    A clear case of palin envy.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Issues make Sarah Palin. Liberal women are on the wrong side of all the issues therefore no Palin dem.

  • tobys mom

    Rosie Odonnel? My favorite comment: Guns are as gulty of killing people, just as a fork is responsible for maKing Rosie Odenlle fat!!!

  • Greg

    Placed into prominence through affirmative action (McCain was desperate to close the gender gap)… Dangerously unaware (her own folks later reported she did not know Africa was a continent) and still viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans… Democrats don’t need a Sarah Palin… Develop strong women with equal access to power sure… Let conservatives have their insular and guarded queen…

  • Constantly

    they should pick the first woman candidate thats on welfare, a minority, and can have an abortion (public paid for of course) while she gets married to her lesbian lover, live on MSNBC. the libpussies would go apeshit for that!

  • DrFunke

    Ah yes, what the left needs is an absolute moron that couldn’t debate another soul because she is too stupid to comprehend actual facts

    Yes, EXACTLY what the left needs

  • Constantly

    DrFunke said:
    Ah yes, what the left needs is an absolute moron that couldn’t debate another soul because she is too stupid to comprehend actual facts

    Yes, EXACTLY what the left needs

    so when she handed biden his ass to him during the debate, how dumb does that make him? summer of recovery eh? you aint the dr of shit, dumbfuck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Needs Sarah Palin? That’s like saying I need a boil on my ass. Thanks – no thanks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Constantly said:
    so when she handed biden his ass to him during the debate

    Just because your crack befuddled mind caused you to conclude Sarah Palin ‘handed Biden his ass’ doesn’t make it so.

  • Constantly

    Bill Adkins said:
    Just because your crack befuddled mind caused you to conclude Biden ‘handed Sarah Palin her ass’ doesn’t make it so.

    fixed…see how that works spermburper?

    BTW bill dont you have to find some kid in the neighborhood you have touched improperly yet? it is sunday after all

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Hey, constantly – your mother says you satisfy her sexually and you can type with one hand. All your children are your siblings and their uncle is your daddy.

  • philipjames

    The lefties and wacko liberals had their heroine in Hilary and they raped her…. typical back biting and hypocritical bull that the liberals talk a good talk, but have no real interest in the real walk.
    Sarah Palin is the perfect example of a woman who could be President and it just drives the liberals nuts that she is a CONSERVATIVE.
    They hate her because she does not spout the abortion, poor me, get the rich bastards puke that the liberals spout while them make millions themselves… i.e. mulit-millionaire entertainment people telling the poor little people how it should be, the absolutely corrupt bull crap artists like Al Gore and Bill Clinton who continue to make millions off of the backs of their idiot followers with phony global warming and holier than thou crap.
    Face it, the liberals are a minority who shamed and blackmailed their way to power and now they are exposed because people like Sarah Palin have called them out… and they are naked in the spotlight and can not find a sewer dark enough to hide in.

  • JimBob

    Debbie Wasserman-Shultz- I had forgetten about her (that is easy to do) until I
    saw her make a complete ass out of herself on Face the Nation this morning!
    Not exactly Miss Congeniality !

  • Constantly

    Bill Adkins said:
    Hey, constantly – your mother says you satisfy her sexually and you can type with one hand. All your children are your siblings and their uncle is your daddy.

    come on dude this is the big leagues, youre going to have to do better than that…

  • Constantly

    JimBob said:
    Debbie Wasserman-Shultz- I had forgetten about her (that is easy to do) until I
    saw her make a complete ass out of herself on Face the Nation this morning!
    Not exactly Miss Congeniality !

    lol jim i wouldnt fuck her with your dick

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Wilcox/1612114406 Mike Wilcox

    JANINE GAROFALO.

    She has all the qualifications…she has tattoos, she is morose, she is ill-mannered, she has NOTHING “nice” to say about ANYONE, and she is of indeterminate sexuality.

    Who better than to represent the Progressives ?

  • BatBoy

    Bill Adkins said:
    I need a boil on my ass

    While you are at it….stick your head in too!

  • felixw

    What an amusing article. And how revealing. Of course, everyone knows that if Palin were a liberal, the same people who call her stupid, evil, etc. would be singing her praises and licking her boots. Indeed, it was the very power of Palin’s appeal that made the Left hate her so much. But it is amazing to read a leftwing pundit saying this in a leftwing paper. I thought they screened out that kind of honest commentary as a matter of policy. I strongly recommend that the Thought Police at the New York Times remove this article from their site immediately.

  • sarainitaly

    DrFunke said:
    Ah yes, what the left needs is an absolute moron that couldn’t debate another soul because she is too stupid to comprehend actual facts

    No, they already have plenty of those.
    The article said they need another Sarah Palin, not Joe Biden.

  • CAconservative

    What the LEFT, and RIGHT need, are people of character who will actually REPRESENT “we the people”!!
    What we have now is an entrenched rats-nest of idiots who couldn’t run a 7-11 store let alone a country! The voters had better start educating themselves about the qualification of their personal representatives. We can no longer tolerate the ideology of sophomoric socialist idiots Obimbo and his merrry-band of misfits.

  • Nachi

    The uneducation, the ignorance, the tastlessness of the unwashed Murcuhn masses are responsible for the rise of this vacuous hillbilly. Murcuhns have become quite satisfied with mediocre, mindless cretins at every level. Other civilized nations do not tolerate this. Education has ALWAYS terrified the right-wing goons.

  • writer

    Nachi, a merkin is what you’re wearing on your head. Oh, wait. Different spelling.

  • Azarkhan

    “two liberal feminists exhibit more than a little anxiety over the Palin juggernaut. To put it bluntly, they have Palin envy…” Jennifer Rubin

    At least that’s better then the “penis envy” that feminists used to have. I think.

    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/349176

  • Patrick Henry

    Nachi said:
    The uneducation, the ignorance, the tastlessness of the unwashed Murcuhn masses are responsible for the rise of this vacuous hillbilly. Murcuhns have become quite satisfied with mediocre, mindless cretins at every level. Other civilized nations do not tolerate this. Education has ALWAYS terrified the right-wing goons.

    Aren’t you so erudite!

  • writer

    Patrick, you left out even-tempered.

  • Patrick Henry

    Writer, how could I have forgot?

  • Raygun

    No, thank you. I don’t want a left wing politician who only goes on MSNBC and sends political statements via tweets and facebook postings. I want a left winger with integrity, conviction and enough political knowledge to go on Hannity or Limbaugh or O’Reilly and completely dissect him. Palin may not be stupid, but she sure is terrified of being asked half a tough question by a Maddow or Couric or any show host not on the media arm of the Republican party, Fox News.

  • Raygun

    I’d much rather desire a William F Buckley Jr. Someone who is actually a fucking political intellectual instead of a demagogue.

  • writer

    O’Reilly and Hannity have guests from the far left all the time. If you’re waiting for Olby to have on someone from the right, it’ll be a long wait.

  • felixw

    Azarkhan said:
    “two liberal feminists exhibit more than a little anxiety over the Palin juggernaut. To put it bluntly, they have Palin envy…” Jennifer Rubin

    At least that’s better then the “penis envy” that feminists used to have. I think.

    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/349176

    Excellent article. Thanks for sharing the link.

  • newzmaker

    The left is a segment of society which neither moderates or the right, likes. The left knows they are a nuisance to society, therefore, they always need a boogieman to attack, because they can’t really defend their abnormalities. Usually, their boogieman is a white person or group, although all other races actually view them as a nuisance, as well. Instead of respecting the views of others, they stay in constant attack mode. The majority in any society, lives by the code of live and let live, but, oh, no, not the left. They harass, attack, and are constantly in your face, demanding that everyone conform to their views. The left also definitely doesn’t need a Sarah Palin, since beautiful women intimidate both the men and women, of the left. Lefty women are jealous and lefty men become bumbling fools, around a beautiful woman. . Once Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, are out of power, the left will have no choice, except to crawl back under their rocks. Let’s not search for a Sarah Palin for the left, but, instead, get down and party, once they’re safely snuggled back under their rocks. Hooray.

  • FearMonger

    Wasn’t sure if anybody had linked this article…. a good read…

    “The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704147804575455090270186082.html

  • redleaf

    Liberals aren’t motivated by the same things as Conservatives.

    Conservatives are motivated by fear and hate and they like their issues framed as wars (War on Christmas, War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Religion). It gets their blood boiling and gets them angry. Framing, sometimes manufacturing, issues in these terms is what Limbaugh and Fox have been able to do so brilliantly.

    Liberals are motivated by peace and people getting along. That’s not a motivating message. That’s why Obama’s ascension was so amazing. It was a heavily crafted, but not be disingenuous, message of hope. But Liberals don’t get pissed off. They’re not fighters. I was secretly hoping Rahm Emanuel would the liberal Karl Rove: a Machiavellian evil genius. But it hasn’t turned out there way.

    So there never will be a liberal Palin. There could be somebody who motivates liberals (like Obama did during the campaign), but it’ll be a different message and a different way of delivering that message (again, like Obama did during the campaign).

    Now please tell me that I hate America.

  • Patrick Henry

    redleaf said:
    Now please tell me that I hate America.

    You hate America…..just kidding!

  • newzmaker

    redleaf said:
    Now please tell me that I hate America.

    You’re so pitiful, that I’m almost speechless.

  • mickrussom

    What the left needs to do is say Democrats are dead, the progressive-Marxist-socialist party is the new name, and admit they hate America, liberty and freedom and love the police state so they can finally be true about what they are.

  • redleaf

    <<<they hate America, liberty and freedom<<<

    Exhibit A in the fight to rid political discourse of idiots.

  • Mr B

    This is revealing. When feminists are talking like this, I’d say Elvis has left the Progressive building.

    I’d love to see a Democrat version of Sarah Palin! If she has honor, values, principles, a love of America, a love of our Founders, a respect for the Constitution, etc…bring her on! I want candidates I can repect, even if we disagree. Liz Cheney is another firebrand that I am fond to hear speak.

  • Mr B
  • felixw

    redleaf said:
    Liberals are motivated by peace and people getting along.

    You are a comedian, my friend. Read the regular posts here by the liberal posters, and try to find the peace and tolerance. They only have tolerance for people who think exactly like them, and spew out the most vile abuse on everyone else. Their ideal is Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, who never has any guest on his show unless he parrots everything Olbermann says in the most servile manner. That is the liberal idea of “peace and people getting along.”

  • Greg

    felixw said:
    You are a comedian, my friend. Read the regular posts here by the liberal posters, and try to find the peace and tolerance. They only have tolerance for people who think exactly like them, and spew out the most vile abuse on everyone else. Their ideal is Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, who never has any guest on his show unless he parrots everything Olbermann says in the most servile manner. That is the liberal idea of “peace and people getting along.”

    This is not an honest assessment… Conservatives very often say vile things on these pages as well… I have been attacked in very vile ways…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Larry-King/100000689413015 Larry King

    Azarkhan said:
    “What The Left Needs Is A Sarah Palin Of Their Own”

    Good luck!

    First, all of the Left’s ideas have already been refudiated, so who ever the Left advances will be promoting bankrupt policies (see Obama presidency).

    Second, individuals with the charisma and talent of Sarah Palin appear only rarely in politics. She, more than any other American politician, “is in sync with the centre-right zeitgeist.” Because she is one of us, she instinctively knows what the majority of Americans think about certain issues. This allows her to address those issues with the confident assurance of a natural leader. It may even allow her one day to become President of the United States.

    http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/853122–is-sarah-palin-a-political-savant-or-chicken-s-guts

    In your dreams!!

  • Morgan

    Mr. B said: > I’d love to see a Democrat version of Sarah Palin! If she has honor, values, principles, a love of America, a love of our Founders, a respect for the Constitution, etc…bring her on!

    The only problem is that if she had those values, she would be a Republican.

  • Helix

    So Hillary didn’t make the cut, huh? Besides, the left has the Anti-Sarah, Tina Fey. Full of spite and mockery, and nothing good comes out of her mouth. See, what makes the real Sarah special, is not her looks or position in life, but her values and what is inside her. The women on the left bring each other down with feminine “green-eyed” jealousy, envy, and hatred rather than grouping up. They also turn this hatred on any conversative woman who has something they don’t. Until this changes, only male leftist leaders will be able to be a compromise candidate for leadership over the left wing. When I talked to some of my female co-workers, in the 2008 election run-up, I was quite shocked to find that they supported BO over Hillary.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    The feminazis whine and wail about their own “rights” to kill their unborn fetuses being threatened while not making a peep about the public stoning to death of their “sisters” in Iran and Pakistan and forced declitorization in Muslim African countries. Not a whisper about “honor killings” even of American-born Muslim teenagers.

    Nothing to say outside of their narrow self-absorbed autistic careerist ambitions. And they wonder why serious people regard them as whimpering narcissistic nobodies trying to play a “victim-card” role. How can anybody take these professional grievance jockettes seriously?

  • redleaf

    Anyone who uses the word “feminazi” is just a Limbaugh shill anyway.
    David Mangan, if I want your opinion, I’ll just listen to Limbaugh.
    There’s no reason for you to post on this site.
    Please move along.

  • felixw

    Greg said:
    This is not an honest assessment… Conservatives very often say vile things on these pages as well… I have been attacked in very vile ways…

    Certainly every political view has rude adherents. But there is a big difference with the “progressive” movement. Following Saul Alinsky’s advice in his Rules for Radicals, the opinion leaders on the Left now believes as a fundamental principle that they should avoid reasonable dialogue with those who disagree with them, and instead rely on ridicule, insults, smears and character attacks. As a result, the Right cannot engage the Left in debate any more — the Left doesn’t want debate, it just wants to attack. Look at how the Left has dealt with Bush, Palin, Beck, etc., and you can see that is the most basic building block of how the Left operates. Watch Keith Olbermann in action. Watch Michael Moore. Read the Huffington Post. They prefer to play dirty. That’s their strategy. In contrast, the Right wants to have a fundamental discussion on the size and scope of government, deficit spending, individual rights, and other important issues….but the Left avoids that like the plague. They just attack. Hence the constant accusations of racism, etc.

  • shootfromthehip

    You have it exactly backwards, Felix.

    Congrats on your delusional state.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Denis-Roussel/1513080544 Denis Roussel

    To be Sarah Palin, a woman would have had to have “been there, done that”. Most Democratic women of any prominence just haven’t. They are lawyers or academics or in the arts. Exposure to the real world tends to make one less prone to Utopian solutions. Sarah Palin’s life experiences are in business – as a doer, not an appointee to a board because her husband is a politician – and the nitty-gritty of being mayor of a town and governor of a state. Hard to keep your myths when you are making a payroll and fixing the potholes.

  • Cecelia

    I think one of the reasons Palin resonates is that she so often pilloried by the press and others in the public eye.

    Rightly or wrongly, people do tend to examine why a woman is being beaten up in such a manner in a way that they wouldn’t a man.

    I think that Palin wasn’t ready for prime time when McCain chose her for his VP candidate and the fact that from all appearances she doesn’t seem to be preparing herself for anything more than the role of Republican spokesperson, would belie the notion of any higher aspirations, but the notions continue in the minds of her enemies, as well as her supporters.

    I agree with Holmes and Taister that the treatment of women in public life is far more personally biting than that of men, but I would go on to argue that it’s not just media attention that has brought Palin to political prominence, but it’s the trial by fire aspects of a normal woman facing the opposition of a professional cohort who are only too willing to go her knees.

  • The Real Royal King

    No thanks. No Drop Out Governor on the side of the angels. If I want to be around women who can’t form a cohesive thought and put on make-up with a snow shovel, I’ll go to a tawdry bar. If I were drawn to self-perpetuating hillbillies, I’d go to Alabama for my vacation. If I were drawn to rambling, xenophobic diatribes and pronouncements of complete idiocy, I’d become a tea partiers. Let the Drop Out Governor be the Drop Out Governor. And, the only one.

    BECKERHEAD SET FORTH HIS CULT OF PERSONALITY,
    DELIVERED VERY POORLY, INDEED, EVEN DREADFULLY,
    AS TO MATTERS OF POLICY: MORE BANALITY.
    AS TO MATTERS OF THEOLOGY: PURE HERESY!

  • Azarkhan

    “Who hijacked the term ‘feminist’? A cackle of rads who want 2 crucify other women w/ whom they disagree on a singular issue.” Sarah Palin

  • VW

    This is priceless. In 2008, the Left hated the idea of Sarah Palin because they felt she was nothing more than the Right’s weak attempt to get their own “Hillary Clinton.” Now two years later the Left is screaming, “We need our own Sarah Palin!!” And to top it all off, they want their version of Palin to not be in the Hillary mold.

    The dems have to realize that you don’t just manufacture people like this. Palin appealled to people because she was organic, plucked out of a small town and was just like any number of woman we see every day. She had a sense of folksy genuineness and people could relate to that. It was also the thing that made her vulnerable to the left. She wasn’t Ivy League, lived in the sticks etc. If the dems want their own Palin that person will just appear on their own. She won’t show up like some sort genie from a lamp.

    The dems’ best choice going forward is Jim Webb.

  • Azarkhan

    I sense more than a little bit of high-school jealousy from the authors. Sarah Palin is more accomplished, happier, and more popular than both of them combined. She chose her own route, made the best use of her own abilities, built a family to whom she is fiercely devoted, and, worst of all, has a vibrant and loving partnership with her husband, whom she considers indispensable. She’s the girl next door who is just at home in heels as she is mud boots, who can go out off-roading all day with her family and show up that night as a fancy dinner and wow everyone she meets. And she does this all without an expensive liberal girls’ college education or years marinating in the poisonous stew that is modern feminism.

    http://www.sundriesshack.com/2010/08/29/palin-jealously-is-such-an-ugly-hilarious-thing/

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    No thanks. No Drop Out Governor on the side of the angels. If I want to be around women who can’t form a cohesive thought and put on make-up with a snow shovel, I’ll go to a tawdry bar. If I were drawn to self-perpetuating hillbillies, I’d go to Alabama for my vacation. If I were drawn to rambling, xenophobic diatribes and pronouncements of complete idiocy, I’d become a tea partiers. Let the Drop Out Governor be the Drop Out Governor. And, the only one.

    BECKERHEAD SET FORTH HIS CULT OF PERSONALITY,
    DELIVERED VERY POORLY, INDEED, EVEN DREADFULLY,
    AS TO MATTERS OF POLICY: MORE BANALITY.
    AS TO MATTERS OF THEOLOGY: PURE HERESY!

    And if were drawn to simplistic bigoted pejorative statements you’d…. oh wait…

  • writer

    King, when you slam the entire state of Alabama, you’re not including the black people who live there, are you? That would be bigoted.

  • felixw

    shootfromthehip said:
    You have it exactly backwards, Felix.

    Congrats on your delusional state.

    How funny, you prove my point by the very way you respond to it. Vacuous, with insults, and avoiding any real discussion. Thanks for making my argument for me.

  • Helix

    Oh, EMILY’s LIST, wherefore art thou????

  • FearMonger

    felixw said:
    How funny, you prove my point by the very way you respond to it. Vacuous, with insults, and avoiding any real discussion. Thanks for making my argument for me.

    Bro, he does it on every thread he’s on. Most of the time you can tell he hasn’t even read the article when he starts in with the Alinsky shit….

    I don’t know what these libs are REALLY thinking (if anything) ….but I’m glad they are doing what they are doing.

    I’m guessing they are just hunkering down their Alamo of projecting hate and waiting for November. Then they can continue, in earnest, with their tried-and-true- favorite strategy of blaming (R)’s / Bush for their multitude of failures.

    Having squandered every ounce of their political capital by failing to lead effectively, they will switch gears and hand the wheel over to the (R)’s and say “LET’S SEE YOU DO BETTER”…..

    What they fail to anticipate is “what comes next”…. and my warning to them is this…

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

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