This is Reason One Why Sarah Palin Was a Great Pick
By Jimmie on Aug 31, 2008 in Featured, Our New Democratic Overlords, Sarah Palin
You want to know the Number One reason why I think that Sarah Palin was a brilliant choice by John McCain?
She is scaring the progressives to death. They have gone well past bowel-emptying fear straight to Level Four of the McCoy Freakout Scale. The amount of vicious flailing from the left in the past two days has been truly amazing to see. As see-dubya notes, it’s not just a couple leftist nutballs peddling the smears either.
Jeff Goldstein has done the nasty work of cataloging all the smears, insults, and plainly stupid rumors currently being spread about Governor Palin since Friday morning. His post is definitely worth your time, if for no other reason than to see the depths to which the allegedly tolerant left will sink when threatened by a smart, accomplished, happy, conservative, woman. It’s also worth reading because there aren’t many people who can stomp progressives with their own hypocrisies like Goldstein.
My friend Grace asked why I thought Sarah Palin was a better choice than some other Republican women who could have been considered. Though I plan on writing a longer answer, the short answer is that I can’t think of another Republican woman who could panic progressives as badly as they are panicked right now.
(The frame from the McCoy Freakout Scale is courtesy of James Lileks and can be found here)
Stumble it!
Three out of four Starfleet doctors agree! The leftards are all hopped up on Cordrazine!
(Ref: “City on the Edge of Forever,” Star Date: 3134.0, Star Trek episode #28)
MarkJ | Aug 31, 2008 | Reply
Considering the subject matter of the current Palin smear, perhaps it’s best if we retired “leftards” from the lexicon for the duration.
Steven | Sep 1, 2008 | Reply
Yeah it was a really dumb fight for the leftards to pick!
leftardssuck | Sep 1, 2008 | Reply
“If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance” – Sarah Palin.
They don’t know much history in Alaska, do they? The Pledge of Allegiance was written well after the Founding Fathers were dead. That rivals Tom DeLay’s claim that if English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for America. For the record, Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic (maybe Greek, too), and English wasn’t even a language back then. But if you think dinosaurs and humans lived together, I guess you can think just about anything.
And this person is not only considered to be sane and competent, but ready to lead the country. She may be ready to lead us into obscurity, but that’s not where I want to go. She’s an American Ayatollah. And she has no business being anywhere near Washington.
fostert | Sep 1, 2008 | Reply
“I can’t think of another Republican woman who could panic progressives as badly as they are panicked right now”
Trust me, I’m not panicked. I’m still trying to hold back the laughter. Now, if Hutchison were the nominee, I’d be panicked. She was unfortunately my Senator for three years. And she’s a good politician. She may be wrong, but I wouldn’t want to run against her. Hutchison is a genuine politician and a genuine leader.
Palin, on the other hand, is collapsing faster than Democrats can destroy her. The jokes on the Daily Show write themselves. Those of us who want to snark about her are in serious trouble because we can’t keep up with the steady stream of material. We’re being drowned. For someone with such a short career, she sure has a lot of skeletons.
But there is really only one thing that matters: when a person puts the Bible above science, they are not qualified for public office. She failed that test with flying colors. Everything else is just humorous gravy. My only concern now is having health problems due to excessive laughter. But that’s okay, I’m sure my bet that she doesn’t make it to the election will pay for my medical care.
fostert | Sep 1, 2008 | Reply
Wait, are you saying that Democrats are laughing at us? That the Daily Show is making fun of Republicans?
Oh this is terrible. Why, this has never happened before….whatever will we do? Jimmie…did you know the lefties were laughing at us? What can we do to stop this madness?
Lori | Sep 1, 2008 | Reply
Lori, I’m sorry. I’m no help here. I just heard today that Jon Stewart was making fun of conservatives and have only now come out of my dark room where I was laid up on my bed in the fetal position, crying.
Jimmie | Sep 1, 2008 | Reply
fostert wrote:
“But there is really only one thing that matters: when a person puts the Bible above science, they are not qualified for public office.”
Too bad all of us bitter, gun and bible clinging Americans disagree with your opinion, which must seem self-evident to your enlightened consciousness. The founders of our country did not require adherence to the bible or to science, but they did find it self-evident that human rights are bestowed by our creator, not by government. Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it!
fogdog | Sep 2, 2008 | Reply