Saturday, December 17, 2011

Like a dog chasing his tail

OK, Herr Rott, so what do you really say we should do now? Besides crying and drinking, that is?
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10 comments:

Mr roT said...

I think we're stuck with Ging if he can pull >40%. Otherwise, we're just electing a Dem. (and we might be anyway).

12/17/2011 4:44 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Pine for Palin.

12/17/2011 5:48 PM
Mr roT said...

Palin is the only the one with logic and courage. What a throwback.

12/17/2011 5:49 PM
Tecumseh said...

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. OK, guys, if she's so ballsy, how come she didn't run? Explain that one to me, slowly and patiently.

12/17/2011 6:59 PM
Tecumseh said...

Bring back Jeb Bush, says David Brooks.

Keep chasing that tail...

12/17/2011 8:50 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

She shoulda run....but then for nearly two years she got a straight shellacking which took all the venom spewed on Bachmann, Rubio, Perry, Cain, Gringrich, condensed into a single-minded target for the Versailleans, DC Republican as well as the Dems, with the full marshalled force of the MSM and the PP Blog Gauteliers, culminating with that "Conventional Wisdom" that the PP sickass Arizona shooter was Palin's stepchild. This included stalkers moving next to her family, and her daughter's "husband" exchanging drolleries with Stewart and Al Franken, while the deVoorhies types snickered at this Peasant Bitch.
Without the support of one single fucking major non-Tea Party figure in the GOP, not even one daring to criticize the shitpile PP was pouring on her, and too often, from NR to Rove to the House of Bush, nevermind the DeVoorhies, seeing them join in with glee at debasing and denouncing her.
So she gave up. Two years into that crud. And now the GOP is stewing in its own shit. And now we are wishing to heck she'd been the Titanium Lady.

12/17/2011 10:03 PM
Tecumseh said...

She had it tough, I agree -- and clearly undeservedly so. Now, she also made mistakes, let's face it -- like, resigning from her official position as governor, which gave her a certain gravitas, especially as opposed to all these other guys who have nothing else to do (all, with the exception of Perry, Bachmann and Paul, that is). And, by definition, anyone running as a GOPer will be savaged by the MSM, no matter what -- it's like saying the sky is blue.

But, even discounting for all that, la Palin got a raw deal, that's for sure -- not just from the usual suspects, but from the GOP itself, to a large extent. Are we seeing now some of the bitter fruit of that unfair treatment? Not sure, but could be.

12/17/2011 10:47 PM
Mr roT said...

Are we seeing now some of the bitter fruit of that unfair treatment? Not sure, but could be.

Uh, yeah. People taking Romney seriously...

12/18/2011 8:53 AM
Tecumseh said...

Non-sequitur. As usual.

12/18/2011 10:01 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

It was her biggest mistake, leaving the governorship of Alaska. I can understand it, for as you may remember the initial attacks on her after Obama's victory were [a] The GOP establishment trying to blame her for McCain's loss [yes, it was that early and that farcical, these attacks], and [b] The Dems trying the line of attack that her increasingly influential national was coming at the expense of her fellow Alaskans who had an "absentee" governor. Unlike the corrupt bastard she replaced, for example.
I suppose she thought she would kill two birds with one stone; let there be no question that she was shorting the citizens of her State, and no question as to her being able to play an influential role in GOP success [as she very much did with her work with the Tea Party].
But, in retrospect, a serious mistake. For "gravitas", perhaps, [although I believe that term has functionally, in current use, not much meaning beyond being a code word for "Liking the Cut of His Jib"]but more surely because in being Governor there would be inherent limitations in what her opponents could do to her. For example, rhetoric from Rove-istan would have to take into consideration that gratuitous insults would be against a high ranking GOP official and against the citizens of a State with vast economic and hence, disproportionately, political clout. And the Dems, through the MSM, would be similarly held to a line they otherwise were able to cross with impunity.....Governor Martinez, for example, who politically is similar to Palin, is loathed just as much but, as Governor, it is unwise for her opponents to go truly apeshit in public over her.
For Sarah to give up the natural defenses of a sitting office, to trust on the kindness of strangers, even if they wore the smiling face of GOP DC apparatchiks pretending their friendship, was oh so very much the wrong thing to do.

12/18/2011 11:33 AM

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