Palin, On Auto-Pilot, Questions Patriotism Of Her Own Supporters
This got some attention late yesterday, but we wanted to flag it here anyway, because it's a fun one. Take a look at Sarah Palin, at a rally, lecturing a bunch of people she took for "hecklers." It's a revealing moment...
Palin's first instinct was to rebuke these "hecklers" by questioning their patriotism, suggesting completely out of the blue that they might be reluctant to show sufficient gratitude towards our veterans. But then her husband gently let her know that these people weren't hecklers at all. They were supporters who were yelling for her to speak louder.
"They just can't hear you back there," Todd told his wife. "That's why they're yelling louder."
Put aside the awful sanctimony on display here. What's interesting is how automatically Palin slipped into playing this culture war grievance card. It's automaton-like -- her default setting. Her eagerness to get on this high-horse is unmistakable -- she seems gratified to have found a target for her faux patriotism, phony outrage and sanctimonious grievance-mongering. Just unbearable.
So it's true that Todd is the brains in the operation.
Scary.
October 14, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not kissing my ass?
Oh, you must hate the troops, Don'tcha know! [Voice of mother from Bobby's World cartoon...]
October 14, 2008 10:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Its also funny how the crowd would chant louder, then another part of the crowd tries to out chant them by yelling Sarah. Then Sarah bashes the back crowd.... and they are all on the same side. I know Obama's crowds are much bigger but it doesn't seem they have this sort of problem.
October 14, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well duh. What else does she have, besides her bimbo looks and her fuckme pumps? All she has is hate.
October 14, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think she just gave the crow a perfect example of what to expect if she and McCain do reach the White House. Just shut up and do what you're told. Anyone who speaks up will be vilified.
October 14, 2008 11:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
she makes my flesh crawl off my bones.
October 14, 2008 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if she will be reelected. I bet not.
October 14, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
The perfect Republican VP, shooting her own supporters in the face.
October 14, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
That made me chuckle. Thanks for that.
October 14, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the words of Nelson Muntz: HA HAAA! Great analysis of this... pretty much an embodiment of what the politics of the last decade has been and a metaphor for what has happened to politics under Bush's administration... How sad.
October 14, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Released a few minutes ago.
GWU/Battleground
Obama 53, McCain 40 (GWU 10/08-09, 10/12-13)
October 14, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
We have passed the "possible to steal it" threshold. There is no way - not the way the polls have trended constantly in Obama's favor by larger numbers every day.
No way in hell they can steal this election.
October 14, 2008 10:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
They can always, always steal it. Constant vigilance, my friends.
October 14, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I'm just putting my feet up and forgetting the whole thing, not voting, telling everybody else not to vote...
[rolls eyes]
;)
October 14, 2008 2:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't see them on 538.com's pollster ratings. Does anyone have any idea about their track record?
October 14, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners added The George Washington University as the sponsor of the Battleground Poll. This project is now known as "The George Washington University Battleground Poll" (GWU/Battleground)
The GWU Battleground Poll is a collaborative bi-partisan survey produced by Republican strategist Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group and Democrat Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners, two top pollsters from different sides of the aisle.
Initiated in June 1991, the Battleground Polls have gained media recognition as reliable as its data projected the outcome of the 1992, 1996, and 2004 presidential race more precisely than any other similar effort in the country, including those of the major TV networks and national newspapers.
Pollster.com timely includes their polls. I don't know how Net Silver rates them, but he does include them. We all know Nate has been behind the schedule in updating the polls, far behind than Pollster.com.
October 14, 2008 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think its evident that Todd is the brains of the family.
October 14, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well hell, you could take Todd out and substitute one of my cats, and my cat would be the brains of the family.
Being smarter than Sarah Palin - so easy, even my cat can do it.
October 14, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well it looked like a big crowd. Once again the McCain people told the media that the crowd size at a rally in Virginia Beach was 25,000 people, but the Convention Center only holds 16,000, and the fire marshal gave an estimate of 12,000.
McCain should just stay in Florida, and campaign there because his organization is so Mickey Mouse.
October 14, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Silly me. I thought the Constitution gave us the right to free speech.
October 14, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Contemptible bitch.
October 14, 2008 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Stole the words out of my mouth. Those power wingnuts were victims of Republican on Republican hate.
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October 14, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Silly BVD! Rights are for repugs!
October 14, 2008 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
The best part- when she feels Todd over her shoulder, he whispers to her what's really going on, and in one millisecond she goes from folksy to basically telling Todd "Go fuck yourslef and get away from me, I know what I'm doing."
The contempt in her voice and look when she responded to him was truly striking.
October 14, 2008 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
It sounded like she said 'Okay, I knew that' or something.
What a total blowoff. She must keep Todd's testicles in her purse.
October 14, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I noticed that, too, and got quite the chuckle out of it.
She was not amused in the least...I'm guessing it was the combined humiliation of doing something so stupid and then being called out on it by her husband.
October 14, 2008 11:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
So, who were the MSNBC goofballs oohhing and ahhhing there at the end of that?
October 14, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I noticed that too.
October 14, 2008 11:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Makes you wonder what she wanted to say to all those booing her at hockey game the other night.
October 14, 2008 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's a subtle psychology here, IMO: it's particularly jarring for an attractive woman who uses her looks to get hateful. People may not consciously be aware of why they feel as they do about it but I think it's because there is something in most of us that says: what is she bitching about? She has everything - looks, etc. Why is she being hateful to others? She has the advantages.
October 14, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
femme fatale
October 14, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
More or less.
Do you remember Anita Bryant? It didn't sit well with anyone really when she went off on hating on homosexuals.
This is where sexism gets dicey - women have to understand that there is no way they can play up their sex and then turn around and try to act like a man. It doesn't work.
October 14, 2008 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's Macbeth in reverse. Todd is Lady Macbeth to Sarah's Macbeth as she loses her shit in the face of the phantom-protesters.
October 14, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ok...is that auto-avatar the Bard himself? How fitting!
October 14, 2008 12:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Two centuries too late for Shakespeare, darlin.
That default avatar is a/la Addison and Steele and 17th & 18th century coffee houses.
October 14, 2008 1:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pollster has Florida as "Strongly Obama"
!!!!
October 14, 2008 11:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
RCP has moved FL and CO along with VA into leaning Obama as well.
October 14, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't really know what their criteria is.
Right now FL is 51.2 - 44.4 (+6.8) for Obama and they have it Dark Blue.
But Wisconsin is 50.4 - 43.6 (+6.8) and it's Light Blue and Maine is 50.7 - 43.2 (+7.5) and it's also Light Blue.
Not really a big deal, but kind of curious.
October 14, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
And Wisconsin and Maine are traditionally blue states anyway. So it’s odd that with similar and better margins that FL, they don’t move them to dark blue.
Right now, they have him at 256 "Strong." If they put WI (10 EV) and ME (4 EV) as "Strong," he'd be at 270. Maybe they want to keep some semblance of a race.
October 14, 2008 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.pollster.com/faq/map_faq.php
October 14, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Palin is a piece of work
October 14, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
To see real videos of real women discussing their reactions to Sarah Palin & the misuse of gender issues in this year's presidential race, please take a look at the following blog:
www.speakoutonpalin.blogspot.com
October 14, 2008 11:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
OT - but what an ugly day - they promised me snow and all I'm getting is cold rain.
October 14, 2008 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Any normal person would just say "sorry guys, I thought you were heckling me, I'll try to talk louder".
Then again any normal person would not have done the "you can't be patriotic and disagree with me" line (from the mouth of Bush).
Wow, could her personality flaws be any more evident?
October 14, 2008 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
I see you caught that too. She had a chance to display some public humility and apologize for the rude comment she made. I suspect her ratings with the crowds will start to drop.
October 14, 2008 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
She and McCain are certainly bringing out the worst in each other -double the pleasure, double the fun - two of the most fucked up people I've ever seen running the most surreal campaign I've ever seen.
If we didn't have sanity on our side, I'd be looking for that heroin dealer right now. Thank god there are grownups getting ready to step up and lead this country,
October 14, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's time for people to start showing up at her rallies wearing Mike Wooten masks.
October 14, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
You get the feeling she's like, "Back off little man, this is MY show now. I let you have your go with fame and fortune in snowmachine racing, when I coulda been a Price is Right girl. Who's yer momma now?!? Huh, huh?!?"
Freakin hysterical!
October 14, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah P. is hoping that if McCain loses this one, she can be Secretary of Hate in the next Republican administration (which should be in about 2050).
October 14, 2008 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Auto-Pilot is right.
October 14, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, now we've got Palin and McLame going after their own supporters. What's next, an Obama endorsement? Couldn't be any screwier!
October 14, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink