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How is she any more of an attention whore than any other public figure?

So really, the big objection to her is the nature of the figures of speech she uses?

She goes on the teevee, can't tell her *** from a whole in the ground...

No. My big objection to Sarah Palin is, as President Bartlett put it - she's a 22 caliber mind in a 50 caliber world. Or something to that effect. Sarah Palin is good at two things. ...

She goes on the teevee, can't tell her *** from a whole in the ground, blames the media, and once again gets a deluge of conservative spunk-covered money filling her coffers.

Really?

No. My big objection to Sarah Palin is, as President Bartlett put it - she's a 22 caliber mind in a 50 caliber world. Or something to that effect. Sarah Palin is good at two things.

First, she's good at winking conservatives into believing that she will a) **** them and b) is just like them.

Second, she's great at cashing in on conservative stupidity. And yes, I mean stupidity. If you are a conservative, and you think that Sarah Palin is a serious candidate that's qualified to be president, then you are, in fact, stupid.

Sarah Palin never met an office she couldn't walk away from. As Mayor of Wasilla, she signed **** paychecks. Also, if you are stupid enough to believe her and her handlers, she had massive staring contests with Valadimir Putin. Or maybe that came with the half term she spent as governor...I forget. Her failures are so hard to keep track of.

She does, however, make 100k a pop on the speaking tour circuit. She says "grizzly moms" and bored 55 and over white conservatives essentially orgasm cash at her. She goes on the teevee, can't tell her *** from a whole in the ground, blames the media, and once again gets a deluge of conservative spunk-covered money filling her coffers.

She's a joke. But more than that, the people that worship her like the second coming of Mary Magdalene (cuz Glenn Beck is Jesus) fall for it every time. She can cash in, though. I give her that.

Sorry, but "handwaving" does not mean "pointing out that what you said doensn't make your reasons one bit clearer."

So yes, when I see examples of her drama-queening

Let's explore this a bit.

I don't like Palin. I was asked for my reasons why. I gave them. They are why I, specifically (to use Screeling's terminology) don't like her.

The conversation then shifted to where I expected: deconstruction of those reasons. Like it or not, those are reasons. What you're attempting to do, presumably just for the sake of argument, is to try to somehow disprove away the specific comments, positions, and actions that built my opinion of her. I honestly see no reason to provide you those, particularly all of them. There are just too many; it's a waste of my time and a waste of yours (as you're not going to change my opinion of her).

So yes, when I see examples of her hypocrisy ("It's time to bury the divisive politics of the past.", despite her unyielding adherence to divisive politics to shore up her popularity), her attention whoring (Sarah Palin's Alaska, a new reality show coming soon to TLC!), her drama-queening, her victim-carding (quitting half-way into her only gubernatorial term), etc. etc. etc., it makes me dislike her. Other people view those things I despise about her as good traits. It's like trying to to paint a negative picture of Obama as a socialist to a socialist. Cutting words hold no sway if the recipient of them holds different values. *shrug*

@Diamondeye
I was asked for reasons. I gave them. Reasons are not examples.

"Specific" reasons. Don't forget the adjective, what with it implying the questioner (Screeling I think?) that they were looking for, you know, specifics.

The quote is "What do you, specifically, have against her?" Emphasis Screeling's. Given said emphasis and the placement of the adverb in the sentence, "specifically" modifies "you," not "what."

In order for it to say what you say it says, it would need to be structured as thus: "What, specifically, do you have against her?"

How is she any more of an attention whore than any other public figure?

So really, the big objection to her is the nature of the figures of speech she uses?

I don't like Palin. I was asked for my reasons why. I gave them. They are why I, specifically (to use Screeling's terminology) don't like her.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

A grand jury on Friday indicted U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene on a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student, according to court records.

Greene was indicted for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity, court records show. The Democratic nominee was also indicted on a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials to a person without consent.

Greene told FoxNews.com that "my lawyer's dealing with it" before hanging up. When reached again by phone and asked who his lawyer is, Greene said, "It doesn't matter."

Greene was arrested in November after authorities say he approached a student in a University of South Carolina computer lab, showed her obscene photos online, then talked about going to her dorm room.

Greene has not entered a plea and has refused to talk about the accusations in interviews.

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Greene, 32, won a shocking victory in the June 8 Democratic primary. The unemployed military veteran handily defeated Vic Rawl, a former lawmaker and judge who had been considered an easy win by the party establishment.

Up to that point, Greene had done no visible campaigning and had no website, fundraising or staff.

In the months since, Greene has given a series of awkward interviews to reporters clamoring for more information on the unemployed man who lives in Manning with his ailing father. In one interview, he suggested that the state's economy could be improved by making and selling action figures depicting him in his uniform.

Last month, Greene gave his first public speech, a 6 1/2-minute recitation of his previous comments and commitment to jobs and education. He now has a website and says he has raised less than $1,000.

He faces Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in the fall. The popular incumbent has raised more than $3 million.

2) insult the woman's intelligence when she's demonstrated she's actually pretty smart and capable of learning things quickly (i.e. the training she given in prep for McCain's campaign).

Well, she does every interview she can, she writes books, she's everywhere. She's one tour through Europe shy of an Obama.

Heh. Its been interesting watching the Dem party scramble to fix this mess.

Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems -- saying she had to intervene with the Treasury Department on behalf of minority-owned banks seeking federal bailout funds -- including one tied to her husband -- because the Treasury Department wouldn't schedule its own appointments.