Aw, give the girl a break. She’s Margaret Thatcher AND the female Ronnie Reagan. She’s the Sybil of Commonplace Conservatism.

After all, Dumbya was Churchillian and Lincolnesque.

I knew Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin is no Ronnie. Also too, I knew Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin sure as hell ain’t no Margie. Or something and everything like that.

And another also too, there is no historical comparison for Sarah, except perhaps Helen of Troy, but then again, she too was a myth.

Frank Rich’s column is about the scary appeal of Sarah Palin — to all those Americans who are in pain and feel like the Dems and Obama have abandoned them.

Even though we can all sit around and “wink” about how crazy she is, she’s a real danger.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

I’m betting that more people in Southwestern Pennsylvania are listening to Rich Trumka than will ever be listening to Mrs. (former) Governor Sarah P. Or looking at her somewhat nekkid, almost sorta son-in-law:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090602292.html

Yeah, these followers of commonsenseSarah were in high dudgeon last year over then candidate Obama behaving like a celebrity….Oh they were soooo offended at the uppity celebrity-ness of it all.

Now they stand in line to watch commonsenseSarah step out of a bus with her image plastered all over it to sign a book about herself that she has been running around promoting on Oprah and every news and entertainment venue in America.

So commonsense, these people.

-G

Commonsense Conservatism is like Compassionate Conservatism. IOW, a myth for the abjectly stupid.
There is nothing commonsense about the idea that if you don’t teach kids about sex they won’t have it.
There is nothing commonsense about the idea that if you reduce taxes over and over again that the government will have all the money it needs for everything it has to do.
There is nothing commonsense about the idea that if we’re attacked from one country, we can beat our enemies by attacking a different country.
There is nothing commonsense about the idea that if we allow people and corporations to voluntarily do or not do a thing which will cost them money that they will do that thing out of altruism and concern for everybody else.
There is nothing commonsense about the idea that we can make defense contractors responsible for all aspects of procurement and sustainment of weapon systems from concept to final disposition and they’ll follow the most efficient, honest, and cost-effective path for the government and the people.
There is nothing commonsense about the idea that if we keep pumping CO2 and CO into the atmosphere that the climate will stabilize.
I could go on and on and on.
stubbornestgeezer–it is commonsense that if you pour gasoline on yourself and strike a match, that you will see starbursts. Go for it.

Female Ronald Reagan? That’s kid’s stuff…

When The Quitta From Wasilla hits “female Jesus” status is when she’ll be really happy.

Mister TBogg –
am 2 weeks in to my first Gin and Tacos bender – wanted to thank you as I first became aware of the site via your blogroll. loved this -

Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead

Well said.

The word “commonsense” to the people it’s intended for means, “everything you already feel and think is correct. You have nothing to learn. The world is exactly as you think it is, and all those other people, from academics to journalists to ‘Hollywood,’ are either inadvertently wrong or deliberately lying. The very fact that you have been nowhere, read nothing, know nothing about history, and react to so-called ‘knowledge’ with suspicion and mistrust *is your biggest virtue.* You are the real Americans.”

Golly, I was starting to get really depressed reading your list of re-commonsenseness, until the end. Nice save!

Which makes one wonder, if these teabaggers are so dedicated to their cause, perhaps they should show said dedication by lighting themselves afire. In fact if they had real balls all the baggers would rally in DC and burn themselves to the ground. Yeah, commonsense at it’s finest….

Don’t look now, but Palin’s tongue bath of Beck as a potential running mate has got his ego in even-overer-over-drive, and now he’s planning on writing a “100 year plan” for how to make American great again, starting with a rally and Beck speech in DC on the same day that MLK delivered his “I have a dream” speech.

Please note that in the same commentary where Beck explains that he’s been “reading a lot of history”, he comes up with his “100 year plan”. Switch out “plan” for “Reich” and we can easily see why the stormfronters are lovin’t them some Beck inspired increases in membership these days.

So the question becomes what explodes first, Beck’s ‘rhoids or his ego?

with a rally and Beck speech in DC on the same day that MLK delivered his “I have a dream” speech.

to be known as Beck’s “I have some dreck” speech

Anyone who waited overnight in a Sam’s Club parking lot to buy this book wouldn’t recognize common sense if it ran them over. An obvious Palinite.

The one thing that will get Palin really fired up is the threat of someone stealing away her marks followers. While many can play smaller roles in the great ripoff, there can only be one Grifter-in-Chief and if Beck becomes a threat she will not hesitate to point out how much he looks like William Ayers – not to mention his shadowy links with ACORN, also.

Heck, you just wish you had the brains AND beauty of Gov. Palin. Mark my words, she WILL be the first WOMAN President and Glenn Beck wouldn’t be a bad Veep…although I personally think Dick Cheney might do another couple of terms in that role under her.

She’s the female Ronald Regan, except that Reagan served two full four-year terms as governor, and being Governor of California in the ’60s/’70s is to being Governor of Alaska in the ‘naughties what being in a PhD program in particle physics is to being in preschool.

Another day, another epic fail fundie prediction.

I thought she was the black Michael Steele.

She’s the human Daffy Duck.

Susan, Daffy doesn’t deserve that.

“I personally think Dick Cheney might do another couple of terms in that role under her.”

That’s an interesting concept. Also. You betcha.

Frank Rich is very hit-and-miss, and he completely strikes out in that column, not only pretending to be shocked, shocked that Levi Johnston isn’t mentioned by name at all (ignoring how assiduously Palin has cut out former friends and political associates once their usefulness to her had passed), but that it was some kind of revelation to her that she’s (figuratively) a starfucker, as if we couldn’t tell that she was celebrity-struck when she went on SNL with Tina Fey.

Also, TBogg’s remark re: Reagan and Thatcher reminds me of the saying–can’t remember who said it originally–that Reagan didn’t spend a minute thinking about Thatcher for every hour that Thatcher spent thinking about Reagan.

Hate to say it, but I think you and Zumpie (and me, too, I guess) are rubbing stubbornestgeezer’s tummy while he wags his tail. Maybe that’s the way it is when a site has a pet troll.

That stubbornestgeezer is a cute little feller. Please rub his tummy all you can….

You keep rubbing his tummy, I’ll keep telling him to sock himself in the nutsack for each wrong prediction he whips outta his ass……

Tummy Rub – Wrong Headed Thinking – Punch to the Ballbag.

Rinse, lather and repeat…..

Don’t let Todd know it was your suggestion….