Originally Posted By Mr X Warning: Subject to New Politically Correct Language Police Censorship Today at 1:59pm March Madness battles rage! My family and I join millions of Americans enjoying college basketball’s finest through March Madness. Underdogs always get my vote as we watch intense competition bring out the best in these accomplished teams. The Final Four is an intense, contested series (kind of like a heated, competitive primary election), so best of luck to all teams, and watch for this principle lived out: the team that wins is the team that wants it more. - Sarah Palin <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=375184908434" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/note.p...84908434</a>
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Damn. Now we're going to see old folks parachute from jumbo jets upon Congress to save social security while condemning other government programs they don't benefit from.
Originally Posted By pecos bill Talk about trying to incite civil unrest, and these gun analogies are getting to the point of madness! Is that the only way she can make a point? Seriously, this primitive fool is sowing the seeds of anarchy.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt She's the typical American dumb ass - equating our political differences to bombs, guns, defense tactics, and bloodshed. Why do people listen to this woman again? It must be her phony pageant smile and the short hem of her designer skirts. Or maybe she's smarter than I think and knows the IQ of her audience all too well.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Why do people listen to this woman again? >>> Because their radios and Fox News tell them to do so.
Originally Posted By Mr X Oh, I think it goes beyond the noise machine though. She is prominent on ALL forms of media, for good or ill (if you think she's "good", then the negative stuff seen on some other stations just reinforces the "lame-stream-media" meme she promotes), and until THEY discontinue the continuous coverage, people will continue paying attention to her.
Originally Posted By Mr X side-note...I seem to recall a time when it was somehow unpatriotic for a politician to attack the press-at-large. That pesky first amendment and all that. I suppose those days are gone.
Originally Posted By fkurucz My mom is still convinced that Sarah Palin will outlaw abortion iof elected. What's also disturbing is that one hears this sort of vocabulary in the hallways of corporate America. I remember the first time I heard the expression "War Room" used at work to describe a simple strategy meeting. And of course we "pull the trigger", "take out the enemy", etc. I am so glad to be out of that Darwinian environment.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I hear you fkurucz, we too used to talk about the war room in my old PLC. Heck, even at the hospital I work out now, we talk in terms of strategies, tactics, battles and capaigns. And that in health promotion.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Man, I think she used every single analogy to war in that rant about basketball...
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Wait a minute - you mean this was really Palin? I assumed it was a parody when I read it.
Originally Posted By alexbook ...or perhaps a member of her staff. She probably has a "social media director" or some such, to write her tweets and FB posts. And would that make it better or worse, to think that somebody might have gotten paid for that?
Originally Posted By Mr X Nope, Dabob. It's her FB page. Not a parody at all (sad to say), rather it's her ramping it up in the face of criticism that her irresponsible rhetoric could serve to make things dangerous. This is her answer to that.
Originally Posted By mele I like how she says to get in people's faces and argue with them. Sure, cos she's so good with facts.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I wonder if she's going to end up shooting herself in the foot. With her recent campaigning for McCain, and trying to insert herself as a leader in the Tea Party movment, that might backfire on her. Recently, the Tea Party has started to bristle at her, and they think she's using them, which...she is. So, with her trying to manipulate them, they might just turn on her further, and then what base does she end up with? She certainly isn't a favorite with moderates. So, without the Tea Party, what is left for her?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan When I hear Palin speak, especially screaming into a microphone to teabaggers, I swear this is all I can hear... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a> What a voice.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "So, without the Tea Party, what is left for her?" Well she still has Fox News, although I've yet to see her appear there in any significant roll. Of course I kind of tuned out after Beck lost his marbles. Frankly, I'm quite surprised that she's still relevant. I predicted that she would vanish after the Presidential election.
