How Sarah Palin Lost the Election… and Saved America
It sure was smart of John McCain to choose a woman he met in an elevator or something as his running mate for the most important task of his political career.
Yep. She sure is working out like gangbusters with the electorate…
Palin's qualifications to be president now rank as voters' top concern about John McCain's candidacy – "ahead of continuing President Bush's policies, enacting economic policies that only benefit the rich and keeping too high of a troop presence in Iraq," according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
Huh? I didn't see that coming when I pasted that pull quote into this post before reading it. She's the main reason voters have for not voting for McCain? But that can't be! She's all folksy and hockey-mommish. I thought that America was mesmerized by her Tina Fey-esque small town charms.
Could it be that the shine is coming off the puck?
Fifty-five percent of respondents now say Palin is not qualified to serve as president, a five-point jump from the previous NBC/WSJ survey.
To be fair, those are numbers, and numbers are kinda related to science, I think. So, they're really not to be trusted.
You see, there's a whole 'nuther way of looking at this. She's setting campaign records that are just as important and difficult as Barack Obama's…
Mr. Obama's favorability is the highest for a presidential candidate running for a first term in the last 28 years of Times/CBS polls.
Mrs. Palin's negative rating is the highest for a vice-presidential candidate as measured by The Times and CBS News. Even Dan Quayle, with whom Mrs. Palin is often compared because of her age and inexperience on the national scene, was not viewed as negatively in the 1988 campaign.
That might be true, but I don't think you can really compare Dan Quayle to Sarah Palin. For one thing, he wasn't a maverick. Nor a hockey mom. Also, he was neither a pitbull nor a tube of lipstick. Nor, as a candidate, did he ever state his intentions to reign supreme as the God Head of the Senate.
So, it's not really fair to compare their negativity ratings. I mean, there's a big difference between a incompetent vice-president and caricature of a incompetent vice president.
You see, she's not all about "inspiring confidence" or "doin' stuff good" or "not constantly making embarrassing mistakes on television."
She's about… Well, I don't know. Something else. Something that doesn't involve numbers or reality or stuff.
Update: Newsweek weighs in on the donkey scarf mystery.
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IHATEHIPPIES, will your head explode dramatically on Nov 5th, also? I cannot wait. There's gonna be exploded heads EVERYWHERE.
Stock in umbrella and raincoat companies to rise dramatically. Street cleaners work overtime to deal with epidemic of exploded heads. Recovered dura mater makes certain sorts of delicate surgeries more common. Gee, there's gonna be an up-side post-November 5 after all.
I thought John McCain was enough for his downfall and now Sarah Palin has added insult to injury
damn it! she wasn't supposed to wear that scarf til nov. 5th!! oh well, cats outta the bag. she's a democrat plant. we put her in office years ago in hopes mcccain would pick her as his vp and then she would play stupid the entire time losing the election for him. i mean really, you didn't think anyone was THAT stupid did you?
With the carpet bombing she's taking from Comedy Central and the rest of the MSM, I'm surprised she's doing that well. Meanwhile, a certain self professed high IQ type who like to plaigarize and tell paraplegics to get up and take a bow is not viewed as comedy fodder.
Hey I hatehippies, did you see the electorate votes yet? I hope so…
I am glad to see that the country wised up for much needed change and with LANDSLIDE numbers. They put in the right person for the job.
My name says it all!! The RIGHT choice won & we didn't have any mishaps in the vote!(remember 4 yrs ago & 8 yrs ago?) Thank God Bush regime is just about finished!!! Look at how many people wanted change in this country & Obama was exactly what we were looking for!
OBAMA 08!!!!
i feel sorry for sara palin, she actually thought she might win! poor her, now what is she going to do, that spending frenzy on taxpayer $, fancy planes/hotels for the family…. i think she was more upset about losing all those 'perks' than losing the election. i hope she realized how much she drove people to the voting polls to vote AGAINST her, and she stops dreaming of 2012. Please stop while you're able to say you lost becuase of "bush". just stop.
The motif on the scarf looks like the donkeys are standing in a row, licking the arse of the one in front..
Some even have their heads pushed *way inside in to* the ar$e..
That a symbol?
I think free speech is great but it's so sad how we use that to disrespect our leaders matter how bad we think they are. They are still representing the USA.