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JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN, A SPOOKY LOOK INTO THE FUTURE: “Palin is ambitious. Very ambitious. And if she wants the job, she’s easily the frontrunner to become THE voice of the angry Right in the Wilderness. [...] Pro-Palin voices will begin to talk a great deal about how the only person to ever come close to beating Barack Obama was Hillary Clinton. Palin will seem to fit the Hillary mold for many Republican primary voters.” [Marc Ambinder]
Is that the Cunt for Red October?
Am I banned now?
Sarah Palin is going to become a Democrat?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.
working link: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/palin_1.php
“Pro-Palin voices”…so Sarah Palin hears voices and Cindy’s on pills. This should work out well for Gramps.
This is such paranoid fluff. Pat Buchanan was all set to be Hitler as well, and we know how that story ended. The conservatives will realize that the country is only like 50% white and you can’t get all 50% to vote for you. Then they will become compassionate and pretend the angry racist base doesn’t exist.
So it’s the “angry Right” now, We Won, yay!
I thought Michelle Bachmann was the angry voice of The Right in the wilderness?
What? Too crazy? pussies…
Trig Palin 2048!
A continued Palin presence in the GOP is the best thing imaginable for the Democrats. She’s that bad.
Ayn Rand is dead… and Wall Street killed her.
freakishlystrong: …and that would make us elites what? The “happy Left?”
If there is justice in the universe she’ll become Geraldine Dukakis.
Yeah, because all the people who thought she was borderline retarded as a VP candidate will just flip for her as a Presidential candidate, what with an extra four years to enact petty grudges on the frozen tundra and have multiple underage pregnant daughters.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
He’s acting as if she won’t be indicted and nationally disgraced when she’s sent back to Alaska on the 5th.
Tool.
So if you look in a mirror and say “Sarah Palin” three times does THAT jump out at you, screamin’ right wing hate speech and winkin’?
She’s going to breed herself into the presidency. Soon Palin, and not Smith, will be the most common name in America. And we’ll all die of the stupid.
“Palin is an enormously talented politician. When she knows what she’s talking about, or even when she knows enough to fake it, she is very, very appealing…”
Um — how would anyone know this?
Palin will seem to fit the Hillary mold for many Republican primary voters.
Image if you’d been in a coma for the last nine years and read that sentence. Great strategy GOP. I know deep down Republicans have always loved Hillz.
no mas blingy por favor!
DoctorCulturae: No, I think we are currently being referred to as “Anti American”, oh, and we are also “the majority”.
I just find his argument to be flawed. HILZ appeal cut across a lot of different lines: she was able to get those under 50k a year bitters, gays, white men, plenty of women of all stripes, well-to-do couples… plus, she had a long history with people. They were comfortable with her. A very small percentage of America seems comfortable with Bible Spice–and that number seems to be shrinking every time she opens her mouth.
My guess: she gets embroiled in a dozen more Moose-gates back home and fades into nothingness by 2012.
bukkake isn’t scary.
Serolf Divad: And thank Christ for that. Not only have Ayn Rand’s reprehensible and nonsensical idea empowered a generation of retards, she was the probably the worst fucking writer in the history of literature. And I include that asshole who wrote “The Da Vinci Code” in that litany of crimes against literacy.
Have you ever read any of Rand’s idiotic novels? Good Christ, she is the literary equivalent of smacking yourself in the forehead with a ball-peen hammer, repeatedly.
And don’t get me started about that “Da Vinci Code” asshole…
OK. I’ll calm down now…
48 Months Later: It Came From Alaska.
(Shivers…)
I think she’ll switch polarities. We can expect her to wind up on the far far left. She’ll be tirading about the Fascists at the Nation and Mother Jones. The uninterruped theme will be Media Conspiracy.
I can think of other examples, but not without stepping on a million tender toesies.
spencer: They’ll go compassionate conservative, to be sure, but they’ll still run Sarah Palin. Then everyone will say “awww, she’s so compassionate now!” and vote for her. Then, once President Palin is ensconced in the White House, the true right-wing agenda comes out and we’re all fucked.
This exact scenario worked for George W. Bush in 2000.
Her childrens are Eskimos! also so said she in People -
And a lot of the Alaskan-oriented books because our kids are Alaska native, they’re Eskimos, so it helps them understand more of their culture, the history there in Alaska.
[huffingtonpost]
It’s the Wasilia Witch Project!
FMA: In fairness to Alisa Rosenbaum - er, Ayn Rand, sorry - English was not her first language, and the prose in her novels reflects that. If she had just been a Russian emigre who wrote a couple of books, I could forgive that. But as we all know, she launched a gigantic personality cult which not only found her a great thinker but also held her out as one of the best authors in all of human history.
I’m just waiting for some dude named Galt to get on the radio and TV one night after the market crashes again and subject the entire world to a 4-hour speech on Plato, Socrates, the sanction of the victim, mystics, inverted morality, blank-outs, rational society, property rights, yadda.
/is a former Rand-head
TJBeck: Thank you!
Gopherit:
Who say that US America hasn’t already (especially if you look into the dull eyes of her supporters)?
Now that I mentioned it, she IS the crazy lady in The Blair Witch Project. Remember? She told them that she worked for the Department of Energy.
Nah, I’m guessing she’ll get a spot on talk radio and replace el Rushblimp.
Sarah Palin and Tall will soon become leader of a roving Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Gang, like Tina Turner in Mad Max. That’s sorta like being President, except with actual responsibilities: KILLING SUCKAS!
TGY: Replace? He just singed some contract where he’ll make upwards of $300M to be a psychotic obese person, didn’t he?
magic titty: was that a reference to that red leather jacket she wore in that interview with the 3rd grader question?
Er, Hillary almost beat Obama because (1) it was intra-party, and (2) he was far less known in the early days of the campaign than he is now. Much different than when he’s got the entire party behind him (not to mention all the indy’s who don’t vote in primaries), and (2) has four years as Pres. under his belt.
I dunno, I mean, I know she’ll be a top contender for 2012, but I think the stank of this defeat is going to be pretty hard for her to wash off. I’m thinking Mittens or Jindal are the top 2012 candidates.
Serolf Divad: I see a future Wonkette headline:
“Greenspan: Whoops! Eh, who knew?”
…Sarah Palin is destined for an Epic Fail of a presidential campaign in 2012 for multiple reasons
1.) She is in the wrong party to be a female candidate running for president. The right does not respect women and during the primaries they will break out every female stereotype known to man to obliterate her. And the whole cry of sexism will fall on deaf ears.
2.) It is HIGHLY likely that she will face some kind of political blow-back from all of the investigations currently ongoing. If she is indicted then her national political career is over.
3.) The venom that she has been spewing for the past 5 weeks combined with her utter ineptitude may forever taint her in the minds of voters. In the same way that Dan Quayle is permanently known as the guy who cant spell potato.
4.) If John McCain is blown out this election(and all indicators point that direction) then she may very well be blamed for it. Her negative favorability rating is dragging more on John McCain’s numbers than George Bush!
Frankly, I see her going back to AK & having seal & polar bear dung thrown at her. She’s made the entire state look like a bunch of backwater, hick, stupid boobs & I’m sure they don’t appreciate it. Oh, & she’s also shown that she’s corrupt as all get out. She’ll be lucky to get elected dog catcher much less re-elected in 2010.
Dave J.: Jindal? What about his ‘otherness’? His ethnic ties to socialist reformer terrorist ACORN, Ghandhi?
OK, just this once, I’m giving y’all a peek into the future:
2009. Todd and meth scandal. Document production in Troopergate litigation scandal. Alaska oil revenues scandal.
2010. Bristol-Levi firearm incident scandal. Todd and the eskimo scandal. Oil revenues scandal.
2011. Wasilla Community Center collapse scandal. Todd-Michele Bachmann scandal. Oil revenues scandal.
2012. Gas pipeline explosion-schoolbus tragedy. Piper video scandal. Oil revenues scandal.
FMA: I read Raynd in college at the behest of a friend who was competely enamored of her philosophy. I think calling her works the greatest crime against literature may be understating the case. Officer Barbrady had it right.
If Palin and Huckabee both run in ‘12, they’ll split the evangelical vote and Mitt Romney will emerge as the “reasonable” candidate. Not to mention, Huckabee can blame Palin for losing the ‘08 election.
However, what I’d much rather see is Alaska secede from the Union, and Palin become president of the Alaska Republic. Then all the far-right closeted boy-bangers can immigrate to Alaska to get away from the coming Socialist Negrocracy, and we’ll be rid of those assholes, once and for all.
magic titty: I didn’t mean ‘on Rushblimp’s show’, but with a show of her own. ‘Palin’s Peoples’ or something.
magic titty: Yeah, ‘colored’ Catholic dude isn’t going to make it with the base.
AngryBlakGuy: You forgot:
5) She’ll 4 years older and less attractive. For years in political life and seven kids (that’s not a miscount, it will be seven by 2012) really wears down a gal’s looks. And lets face it, there’s no way Jonny Mc would have put her where she is now if she was a fat uggo.
Dave J.: Oh, I don’t think to. I don’t think she’ll want to run ever again. Allergic to ‘gotcha’ journalism. I predict she’ll leave the ‘gafferment’ of Alaska, also.
There’s a reason I’m not scared of the “right wing voices in the wilderness.” Because THEY’RE OUT IN THE WILDERNESS! Seriously, who gives a shit how many fascist idiots are on the radio and cable news? I’d rather have control of the white house and congress. Bend over right wing, you’re about get fucked hard by the Shark God’s New Deal II.
Q: Are my methods unsound?
A: I don’t see any methods at all
The horror.
Does Ambinder realize that Palin is and will always remain an idiot, because from reading his post, you’d think he has her confused with a supervillian mastermind.
With Republicans completely out of power, and President Obama running what is likely to be a bigger government that spends more on social programs, Republicans are likely to run the most anti-government, anti-Washington campaign this side of Barry Goldwater.
All factions of the fractured GOP are going to be fighting it out for party supremecy. We’re supposed to believe that in that battle royale Palin is going to be the one to emerge the triumphant leader? Is Marc Ambinder Bill Kristol’s pen name?
This is WONDERFUL news! Thank you Sara for this heart felt endorsement! FER SURE!
-SP
Botswana Meat Commission FC:
Spread the wealth baby, spread that wealth.
FMA:
And by “repeatedly” I assume you mean 1200 times, once for each page in any one of her pretentious and tendentious tomes.*
*And here I must confess to having read only Anthem, as far as her fiction goes, but her philosophical writings (with which I am a little more familiar) remind me of something a clever undergraduate might write, who had read (though not understood) a few classic philosophers, but who had never approached the study of philosophy in any rigorous or formal fashion and thus was all to prone to proposing and defending some very tendentious and easily rebutted arguments. The sad thing about Rand is that her work would have greatly benefited from an open-minded study of the very academic philosophers she so despised. She might have wound up being merely wrong, like Robert Nozick, rather than a crank.
Mrs. Palin has a future as a teevee personality. Newt Gingrich aka “The Thinker” is laying the groundwork for his big comeback in 2012.
Serolf Divad: Does this mean that the myth of self-regulating markets is finally dead, and can we have our economy back now? - Wire me c/o Crawford Hoboville.
She can keep leading them right into the Bering straight… The Repugs will become increasingly marginalized and angry, and she’d make a good spokesmodel for that.
magic titty: I vote no. Wonketteers need your poetry.
Keep in mind that she’ll be a lot more attractive of a candidate because if she runs, she’ll have at least two years to bone up on the issues, several more ethical problems, and at least one more kid.
Serolf Divad: Proven by Greenspan falling on his sword before congress this morning.
Serolf Divad: Getting all conservative on us? 1,200 is low.
The whole thing reads like “the ripple of doom” from Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil. Wait, wha- The AV Club has moved?
FMA: You have obviously never read Everything is Illuminated.
Jerk Cade: Haven’t had the pleasure. A friend did recommend it a while back, but I never got around to it. I take it you’re not a fan.
AngryBlakGuy: ABG - Would you like to buy a vowel with that potato?
Lets face it - Palin is not what we on the Upper East side might refer to as shaved Bush.
Palin ‘12 = Quayle ‘96, without the gravitas. Y’all forgot that Dan ran for Preznit, dincha?
I see Palin as the leader in a new round of militia / religious cults.