Ah, yes, Sarah Palin. The gadfly that sent us into a tailspin of wanton despair so awful we only won the election by a decisive margin.

But who needs facts when you're blonde, conservative and wear short skirts?

Okay, now I've read the article. "...one the cutest little girl anyone had ever seen." Coulter is either blind or has never seen Barack Obama's daughters. Ever.

The actual article, if anyone dare read it, is just stunningly desperate..."god we lost our asses, but some libs got mad, so, hooray?" And Palin's interview with humanevents reads like it could have been done by her Tina Fey doppleganger, except it wasn't meant to be funny. Palin seems to think that the only thing that was ever wrong with the campaign was that she was never in charge of it. If those seasoned RNC staffers had just let her completely freshman ass call of the shots, she says, everything would have been hunky dory.
Please, Republicans, let Palin do this next time. Let her pick her own staff, make all of the decisions and dictate everything down to the tiniest detail. Just do it.

Sometimes I have to wonder about apparently reasonable Republicans. Do they not notice who their spokespeople are? Do they look across the aisle and somehow see the counterparts as even worse? Do they assume that the spokespeople don't actually speak for the movement they follow?

For John Cole, I think it was a mix of the first two options. For a friend of mine in college, it was probably the third. Pro-life, Catholic, ROTC student - you name it, he had every indicator of being pro-war and pro-Bush, and indeed he was. But he was depressed by the feverish ranting of Zell Miller, a key speaker at the RNC. Not depressed enough to vote for Kerry, unfortunately, but he didn't like watching that part or anything. He had been impressed by the cult of personality of Bush as a calm, resolute leader, and Zell Miller, in addition to all his other faults, was anything but.

I bring this up because when I see Palin discussed around here, I wonder about Kevin Willis. We haven't seen him in a while, have we? Except maybe on global warming, he wasn't a nut. He and I might not have agreed about McCain, but I seem to remember that Willis had principled criticisms of him from a conservative perspective. He was unpleasantly surprised to see that an official Republican campaign was accusing Democrats of wanting to ban the Bible.

But he was an enthusiastic supporter of Palin. I never understood why.

One pest should know another, and when was Coulter ever anything but a pest?

But he was an enthusiastic supporter of Palin. I never understood why.

I thought he made it clear why. She was a sex object to him. He wanted to boink her.

I agree with Ann, sort of. Sarah Palin is my Republican heroine too. I would like to personally tell Norm Coleman that the RNC shouldve sprung for matching handbags.

Palin, Coulter, Limpballs, insHanity, O'Liely, Mawlkin.

That conservative ClownCar seems to have an endless stream of wingies to discharge.

(In-)Human Events? Does that still get published?

one the cutest little girl anyone had ever seen

Every time I saw that little shit I wanted to throttle her. She was like every annoying little kid I've ever met rolled into one. I hate little kids but she seemed worst than most. When Matt Lauer went to the Palins' house to interview Sarah, Piper was wearing fucking high heels. Which I think tells you everything you need to know.

No, it was Willow in high heels. With the Caroline Kennedy appointment, Palin now looks like an experienced person whose own energy and ability propelled her to office.

Sorry, is Piper the fifteen year old? I hate myself for even knowing their names.

You don't read Coulter for wisdom or insight. You read Coulter because you're a conservative and you want your worldview reinforced. Her job is to tell all the faithful conservatives that they are much better people than all those silly, terrorist-loving liberals.

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It's not the vacuity that strikes me so much as the malice. I've given Obama some heat about postpartisan nonsense, but Coulter and her ilk see making us upset and unhappy is a goal onto itself.

Willow is the fifteen year old. The birth order (if you are to believe the Palins) is Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig. Got it? With the enthusiastic support of Caroline Kennedy (it's in her blood, she's got leadership in her blood, croon many the blogs) how can there be further dumping on Palin?

Okay, now I've read the article. "...one the cutest little girl anyone had ever seen." Coulter is either blind or has never seen Barack Obama's daughters. Ever.

Those girls aren't cute; they're black.

It's in her genes. It's in her blood. She is of the right ancestry. It's the blood, it's the purity of the blood......

This is not the metric of anything so fearsome as a bully. It's the measure of a mere pest.

That's a really important and well-phrased point, but it's also true that a necessary condition for a bully is that he or she have power.

Another metaphor off the top of the head: those South American army ants that can build bridges and rafts from their bodies, and can reportedly skeletonize any animal in their path. A single biting ant may be a pest, etc.

Ironically enough, do you know what this reminds me of? Abbie Hoffman and his people nominating a pig for president. Pigasus didn't really have any policy positions that anyone could agree with but did it ever make people they didn't like get angry.

Not to elevate the tone or anything.

But Coulter has a point. When you back up and look at Western history over the last four hundred years or so it becomes pretty clear that the fundamental struggle has been between Enlightenment and Reaction. Which isn't a struggle between Light and Dark or Good and Evil (though us Enlightenment types tend to believe we are on the side of light and good), instead it is a struggle between Future and Past. If you examine the world view of Europeans in pre-modern times (i.e. pre-1492) it is clear that history is conceived as a process of decay, the Golden Age of the Greeks was in the past, the real Heros and Founders were almost always traced back to Troy, that is at a time mostly before History. This is encapsulated in the saying "They were giants in those days"

Well by at latest the 18th century much of that had changed, the Golden Age had a new contender whose name was Progress. Which could be encapsulated in the saying "The best days are yet to come".

And the fight was on. Now not all Progressives were nice people, while both the French and Chinese Revolutionaries were undoubtedly focused on the future they let the ends justify every and all means. And not all Reactionaries are evil, just because you want to retreat to traditional values doesn't make you Hitler. None of this reduces neatly to moral superiority.

BUT. Conservatives, the modern day inheritor of the 19th century Reactionaries, as both names imply, want at least to stop the clock of Progress and hope to actually turn it back. Given that Coulter makes sense. At a time when Conservatism is reeling you want someone in the lead who can throw sand in the gears of Progress and do so in a way that makes Liberals/Enlightenment Folk crazy.

And if you can wrap that leader in a pretty, folksy, caribou slaughering package its all the better. Sarah Palin is a walking talking advertisement for returning to the past. That the Golden Age never actually existed is kind of immaterial, for Conservative/Reactionaries it is always something to return to if possible or at least prevent further movement away.

Coulter is not being irrational here. For people like her 'Change' is a dirty word and who better to obstruct it than Sarah 'you betcha' Palin? Because driving Liberals crazy is not just mischief for the sake of it, it is a calculated attempt to block movement away from the past. For these people 'Obstructionist' is a badge of honor. That a President Palin would not actually get anything done is a feature and not a bug of Conservatism.

Okay, someone brave enough to regularly read Coulter's "work" might be able to answer a question I have:

At what point did Ann Coulter become a complete parody of herself?

I know she's always been rather ridiculous. But she's now hit the point where nobody could properly parody her - she just ends up being more ludicrous than anything you could make up about her. It's getting to the point where my feelings towards her are shifting from revulsion to pity.

Is this a recent thing, or has this been going on a while and I've just missed it?

Are we really at a point where the cuteness of young children is to be judged on the basis of partisan identification of their parents?

Piper Palin is cute. Obama's daughters are cute. Biden's grandchildren are cute. Must we get into oneupsmanship about who has cuter kids? That Piper Palin is cute does not make her mother qualified to be president, or make Ann Coulter any less ridiculous.

Okay, someone brave enough to regularly read Coulter's "work" might be able to answer a question I have:

At what point did Ann Coulter become a complete parody of herself?

She hasn't changed much since she first turned up as a panelist on MSNBC. What's changed is that she's burned a lot of career bridges and has started to look physically older. That is, the Ilse, She-Wolf of the GOP act has been getting less and less charming, and she hasn't come up with another one yet.

Anonymous, I have no particular opinion on Caroline Kennedy, but I think you're missing the point by saying she makes Palin look good. With Palin it wasn't all about experience; it was also about basic competence and preparedness. It was clear from interviews that Palin was simply unqualified to be in a position of national importance. I don't think this is true of Kennedy, any more than it's true of Al Franken, another Senatorial hopeful with no direct political experience.

There's also the difference between the two jobs: a Senator is generally more important than a Vice-President, except in certain cases when the VP becomes the most important person in the world. For that reason some might apply a tougher standard in that instance.

Who reads ann coulter anymore? And why?

Palin has been referred to as "the future of the conservative movement." As a reformed conservative, that causes me a great moment of sadness.

As much as it pains me to say this, Palin is one of the 20 or so most likely people to be president of these United States in 49 months. Which, I guess, is an improvement from a few months ago, when she was one of the four people most likely to be president in six months.

The simple fact of the matter is that the country needs to turn itself around economically in the next four years, or else it is darn likely that a republican will win the presidency, whatever the brand looks like now.

When I get down to it, I don't think she can win the republican nomination. Republican partisans felt compelled to defend all the nonsense because she was on the team. But during the primaries, when there is not much disagreement on issues, then things like the abuse of power with firing the police commissioner will be examined more savagely, plus whatever two bit scandals she seems incapable of avoiding come up between now and then.

So I take Palin seriously until she is defeated. She has replaced Guiliani as the "anyone but" candidate for the other side.

Question for you liberals. What do you want from the government? I dont understand your philosophy. Why should the government be deeply involved in our lives? They have only made things worst for us. Please point out something good the government has done for the American people besides the obvious stuff(ending slavery, Jim Crow, etc). The growth of the government has destroyed our liberty

tomemos, what is the sign of Caroline Kennedy's superior competence to Palin? I have not heard anything from Caroline Kennedy that shows a particular knowledge. I'll go further. She just does not have an intelligent sounding voice. But I agree with your point that a candidate for the vice presidency can be reasonably held to a higher standard than one for the senate. A thing that has surprised me about Caroline, as she becomes more of a public figure, is that she actually sounds and seems less impressive and knowledgeable than her late brother -- contrary to widespread public wisdom about the two.

I love it. "Please point out something good the government has done for the American people besides the obvious stuff(ending slavery, Jim Crow, etc)." Reminds me of the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where John Cleese's character rhetorically asks his gang of revolutionaries what the Romans ever did for the local Judaeans. In turn, each member of the group mentions some aspect of civilization - agriculture, architecture, viniculture, toads, etc. Hard core conservatives are like the Cleese character. They are so stuck on the presumed rightness of their ideology that they won't let facts or history stand in the way of their logic. I'd love to see some of these conservatives who rail against "big gummint" live in a place like Somalia, Afghanistan, or some other place with no functional central government. As big crybabies as they are in the comfort of the U.S., I can't imagine what whiny bitches they'd be if they really has something to complain about. I think you'd see them pretty quickly embrace the joys of government in such a situation...

Palin is the year's most important conservative not because she won, or because she came close, but because she provoked the most outrage among liberals.

But did she? I remember laughter and ridicule being a much more prevalent reaction. "I can see Russia from my house!" pretty much nailed her. No need for outrage, when even many conservatives thought she was a crock.

Sure, run Palin in 2012 - we can laugh at her again.

The simple fact of the matter is that the country needs to turn itself around economically in the next four years, or else it is darn likely that a republican will win the presidency, whatever the brand looks like now.

You mean, the way the incomplete recovery from the Great Depression cost FDR his seat in 1936?

Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt would win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current U.S. two-party system in the 1850s, carrying all but 8 electoral votes. Roosevelt won 60.8% of the national popular vote, the second highest popular-vote percentage won by a U.S.presidential candidate since 1820.

Huh. Apparently the American people *are* capable of understanding that big problems may take time to solve.

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