David Brooks on Sarah Palin: "She's a joke"
November 15, 2009 11:42 am ET
From the November 15 edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
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But if you must tell the truth, well, OKAY.
[apologies to C&W fans...]
Yep. For Tina Fey, David Letterman, and every other comedian who likes to get a laugh out of their audience.
Do you know of another kind of comedian?
Or were you talking about a track star named Dennis?
Would you expect anything else from a Beltway poobah?
Palin has a huge and enraged following, she's honed her intellectual skills, and she's flooded the market--very smartly--with a book that ordinary folks can get for as little as $1.97 on line. This allows folks of lesser means to obtain the thoughts of a dynamic politician.
She's very definitely going to be a factor in 2012.
She is a joke, but a dangerous joke, cause a lot of people dont realize how much of a joke she is.
and in 2012, who else do the Republicans even have? No one. Palin will be the nominee of some party in 2012, and that scares me. A lot.
Still, your point is well taken, Yank. As an electorate, we were stupid enough to put him within striking distance of the Oval Office. We've been paying a HUGE price ever since.
That's OK though, be a good liberal and never let reality stand in the way of your fantasies.
And when it comes to punctured fantasies, Herr Cheney, the 2008 election destroyed your own frenzied dream of a thousand year reich.
So, be a good blackshirt and keep pretending that you have something of value to say here.
Popular vote means nothing, and never will as long as the United States is a republic. Read the Federalist 10 by James Madison and you'll get the idea. Popular vote is direct democracy, and therefore mob rule. It's what happened in Maine earlier this month. Hitler loved using it.
Kerry lost the 2004 election in 1971. There are 6 million Vietnam veterans, and Kerry lost by 3 million votes. You do the math.
Hopefully, the RNC will be as stupid in 2012 as the DNC was in 2004 and actually nominate an automatic loser. You should be more encouraging of Palin.
The Wikipedia article you reference regarding the media recount says "the only way that Gore would have won was by using counting methods that were never requested by any party, including "overvotes" — ballots containing more than one vote for an office". That's not conclusive. You also need to do some research beyond Wikipedia.
I stand by my statement that the election was lost in Tennessee, not Florida.
Finally, listen to me! Don't look a gift horse in the mouth! A Palin nomination in 2012 would be a present to progressives. Just as the Kerry nomination in 2004 was a gift to dubya. Encourage it!
You're still mired in clueless denial, apparently, at how thoroughly your side has been repudiated in the last couple of elections. You and your raging ilk have proven yourselves completely incapable of taking responsibility for your undeniable failures, and, instead, lash blindly out at those who dare to remind you of it. Your way of doing things was given every opportunity to prove itself and resulted in bloodshed, oppression, and financial disaster for the nation, and now, here you are, heaping mindless derision on the man whom we've elected to clean up your neocon mess.
Got it now, right-wing punk?
Got it?
/snark
You wouldn't be referring to these people now, would you?
If he's such big "joke", why are his approval rating still above fifty percent? Why is he the most recent Nobel Laureate? Why is he admired throughout the USA and the rest of the world? Why does the world once again look favorably upon the US?
Let's also bear in mind that Bush didn't have much of a public political history in 2000, and he only had a shot at re-election because of war momentum and an ineffective challenger. Palin is associated with the disaster of McCain's campaign, and is as much of a symbol as anyone on earth of the need for Republicans to cater to the fringe right. I would expect a lot of rumbling within the Republican party over a serious run by Palin at the White House.
Some people are dumb enough to vote for her, but I'm not sure the circumstances are going to make it easy for her to find that many dumb people.
(obvious, much?)