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Over at Townhall (The Clown Car of Conservative Punditry™) Carol Platt Liebeau attempts to mitigate the damage that Sarah Plain’s mouth keeps doing to Sarah Plain’s political prospects:
The chattering classes at The Washington Post and The New York Times are aghast — aghast! — that Sarah Palin can’t name another Supreme Court decision with which she disagrees.
Puhleeze. Neither can any normal American, i.e., one that is neither a lawyer nor a political junkie. Once again, the MSM is showing the distance between what it considers to be the sine qua non of politics, and what normal people believe matters in an elected leader (i.e., her common sense and judgment). My bet is that this will sway the electorate . . . not one bit.
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All the MSM dismay about Governor Palin’s supposed ignorance springs, in large part, from the fact that Sarah Palin is, in many way, the antithesis of their darling, Barack Obama. He is a man of talk, she is a woman of action. He can reel off facts and figures with the ease of an Ivy League professor — it’s not his glibness that alarms, it’s his instincts and his judgment (the kind that would find moral equivalence between Georgia and Russia, or deem Rev. Wright’s virulently anti-American sermons to be A-OK).
Given her experience as a Governor of Alaska, she isn’t necessarily going to be prepared to pontificate on all matters great and small, a la Obama. But she has good values, good instincts and solid life experience.
Unfortunately the readership at Townhall (at least the ones with opposable thumbs) are having none of it:
angel66 writes: Wednesday, October, 01, 2008 10:40 PM like ohmigod! "Neither can any normal American, i.e., one that is neither a lawyer nor a political junkie." I don’t expect my presidents to be "normal" and uniformed about the people they may be putting on the Supreme Court.
I’ve never read a more pathetic excuse for a VP’s ignorance. The GOP is in the midst of mass pathological delusions. Which is represented in McCain’s tanking numbers. Free Sarah!
melissa writes: Wednesday, October, 01, 2008 11:05 PM dumbing down repulicans it is ok to admit that she once agian made herself look bad. it is not ok to excuse it and to say it is b/c she is "normal." truly PATHETIC. i promise it does not make you a bad repulican, it makes you a smart american.
my2centsplus writes: Wednesday, October, 01, 2008 11:52 PM I dont know. My hubby and I had this very discussion tonight. Do I want average in a president, or someone scarey-smart? I’ll go with scarey-smart over average anyday.
Jim writes: Thursday, October, 02, 2008 12:03 AM Yep It’s either narcissism, ignorance, or agenda that keeps people sticking up for her. I’d personally be scared as hell if someone like me was a heartbeat away from a geriatric president. If we wanted Joe Six-Pack we would have a lottery to see who was president.
The ratings would be boffo.
animalgirl writes: Thursday, October, 02, 2008 12:04 AM Your kidding me We don’t want our president or vice-president to know any more than the average person??? Really?
I consider myself relatively intelligent and well-informed, but I definitely want a president who is smarter than me.
Have you been to the DMV lately? Are you really saying that all of those people in line with you could run the country?
But I disagree with Liebau on both points. Not only do I think our president should be above avergaem I also don’t think average is quite as stupid as Liebau says.
I disagree with Liebau. I think many well-informed people would know, even if they didn’t know the case names, that the court just granted the right of habeus corpus to Guantanamo detainees. I think many informed Americans know that the court just established, on a SCOTUS level, that the 2nd amendment does protect a personal right to bear arms. I think many typical Americans know about the Kelo decision, about Lawrence v. Texas, and of course, Bush v. Gore.
Stop calling us stupid, Liebau.
Well, to be fair, you are reading Townhall….
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Not only are they reading it, they’re leaving comments. I’d say that leaving constructive critical comments at ClownHall is like sticking your finger in a dike, but they’d get all upset…
P.S. Clown Car of Conservative Punditry? Genius. Super Genius, even. I started to wonder why not “Commentary” instead of “Punditry”, but then the lights dawned…
P.P.S. I was actually at my local DMV today. What can I say, when you’re right, you’re right. (BTW, did you know that, in CA, you cannot “drop in” to a DMV office after 3pm? Appointments only. Ahnuld signed an executive order. Apparently, a lot of people didn’t get a copy…)
Dred Scott, bitchez…
Digg this!!!
(are triple exclamation points allowed here?)
Why didn’t she just come right out and say that she disagreed with Brown vs. Board of Education, because “you know, I believe these kinds of matters and things ought to be left to states, like Alaska, to decide for themselves…”
She issued a statement two months ago disagreeing with the Supreme Court’s decision cutting Exxon’s damages for the Valdez.
For Sarah Palin, every day’s a new day.
Looking at that photograph I wonder, why would anyone purposely do up their hair like the Bride of Frankenstein?
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One would think that one was a no-brainer. Evidently it was.
Drink every time you hear “Georgetown cocktail party.” That is, if you like to drink.
Oh, as if John McCadaver has never, ever been to a G’town cocktail party!
Sally Quinn must have clutched her pearls (”John said that like it was a bad thing…!”) when she heard that.
i love how were a seinfeld nation now.
“have ya been to the DMV, lately?”
even the town hallers watch it and quote it.
True, unless you’re really good at it. Then they probably wouldn’t mind.
Is there a Carol Platt Liebau? Looks like John Travolta in makeup and a wig, perhaps getting into character for an upcoming movie role.
…or that you gave someone an Identi-Kit and said, “Make me a generic female wingnut. Improbable hair, glassy stare, patently fake smile–you know the drill.”
Here’s another point about the supreme court issue, and maybe part of the reason the wingnuts are getting restless. Dobson and others in Palin’s cheering section are in politics for one reason only: to change the composition of the Supreme Court. Shouldn’t they know a little bit about it, then? Even for the incurious wingnut, you have to know Roe AND Dred Scott, since they are bookend cases in the wingnut view.
Did she really not know Dred? Friends, that’s not fundamentalism we can believe in. And what about the fact she thinks there is a constitutional right of privacy. HELLO? Either that girl is not a fundie or she has been invaded by witches. Since I don’t believe in witches, I think she is just using this fundie stuff for crass political reasons.
“Neither can any normal American, i.e., one that is neither a lawyer nor a political junkie.” nor political junkie or some elitist 8th grader that passed civics.
Christ on crutch! I mean, I may be a football junkie but I’m guessing normal Cowboy fans think Tony Romo should be able to recognize more than one defensive package.
I think Dred Scott died and is buried in St. Louis. Perhaps Sarah “Jo Five-Pack” could visit the grave and take in a little history? Nah, they probably have stuff like that in Alaska, since it’s a microcosm of America anyway…
I guess there is some shit so awful that even the wingnuts won’t eat it. Who knew?
I am enjoying watching the “All ordinary Americans are stupid rubes!” wingnut talking point finally come back to bite them in the ass.
What’s the deal with that lady’s eyes? Is she some kind of mind-controlling mutant?
That’s not Carol Platt Liebau — that’s octogenarian New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams!
What do you all suppose she means by “solid life experience”? Seriously. What the hell is that?