Yeah, Sarah Palin is the left's fault!

William F Buckley called out the John Birch Society; now Charles Blow of the NY Times is calling out Sarah Palin. Well, Blow is the sophisticated African-American conservative columnist of the Times, which is kind of interesting in itself. I guess he is the anti-Bob Herbert. However, their editorial choices are their business. Blow's column is actually about 80% worth reading. He begins by saying he won't ever write the woman's name again until she does something newsworthy, like announce that she's running for President or that she's not running for president. He points out with incredible accuracy that "She’s the Zsa Zsa Gabor of American politics. She once did something noteworthy, but she’s now just famous for being famous."

Then he loses it. Sarah Palin is the left's fault. Really?  He blames the Huffington Post. After all, Megan McCain has called Sarah the Scene Whore out. Seriously? The left is paying her the money, giving her a spot on Fox News, buying her illiterate nonsense? He says that she is seldom heard on the popular Right websites or blogs. Seriously? The bimbo has a horrible reality show, a Fox News gig, and it's not the left that pays her to appear...she's got a standing offer from MSNBC to come on any of their shows, including Lockup! Travis Smiley or  Charlie Rose would enjoy having her on PBS or Bloomberg, although Mayor Bloomberg, being a responsible man, might not want to sully his network. The man is deranged...

Actually, Blow is mirroring the conservatives who tried to ignore the Birch Society. One of the reasons that Buckley's excommunication of the Birchers was of historic note was that the majority of the country club conservative set had tried to go along to get along with the Birchers. Buckley responded as any Thomistic philosopher would -- the Birchers had to go because their positions were repugnant to reason.

The theory that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president is mind boggling -- yet, the majority of Republicans hem and haw and talk about the constitutional requirements and so on and well, that's the reason for the primaries and, and, and...or, come out and say that she is in fact qualified. Bullshit -- she creates a word "refudiation" and compares herself to Shakespeare and Marlowe because English is a living langauage. Well, then fuck and cunt should be used in polite discourse because Shakespeare and Marlowe used those words, ehh?

So, blaming the recession and the jobs numbers on Obama and the stimulus package is OK but Sarah Palin is not? The reason Keynesian economics has failed is because it hasn't been tried. The reason that Mr. Blow will probably have to continue typing her name on his computer is that the people he wants to pretend are not in the Republican party or are not the base of the current conservative movement in fact are in love with her. Sarah Palin is the queen of the flat earthers, the deniers, the folks who believe that if they close their eyes and pray real hard, God is going to give them a pony. Named Bristol.

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[Crusader AXE]

Glover, Old father -- help! Most comments are from these Outlet Store Groupies, and I'm starting to question the viability of existence...I envision some a-sexual folk on the subcontinent reading my stuff to improve their English and then getting jobs calling at dinner time to ask if I've considered buying an extended warranty on a car I wrecked 10 or so years ago...I tend to think Sarah Palin is a long shot since she's intellectually and effectively very lazy. She makes Reagan appear industrious and GWB appear to be a policy wonk. She likes being the brunette Ann Coulter, and I don't think she'll run for anything again. But, she is still frightening, because so many of our fellow citizens would jump on her bandwagon...

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