Why Sarah Palin Really Quit Us
EmailThe online magazine Slate takes a fairly entertaining stab at answering the biggest political question to come rolling out of Alaska since…..well, since ever! Dahlia Lithwick, a contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate, calls the soon-to-be ex governor “gorgeous, charismatic, warm, and funny.” Adding that Palin “has a remarkable ability to connect with her listeners.”But Lithwick ultimately explains:”Once you understand that Palin's only actual message is the importance of loving and understanding Palin, it becomes easier to understand why she quit. The more Palin tries to explain herself, the more we all fail to get her. Every time she goes off script, she makes less sense. No wonder she didn't want to do debate prep or be coached by the McCain communications team. Instead of thanking those who packaged, explained, and spun her, Palin resents them. And because she believes she has been crystal clear all along, she's come to resent us, too. The enduring political lesson of Sarah Palin may simply be that for most of her political career she's been lost in translation, without fully appreciating that only in translation was she ever, briefly found.”
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I’m sorry but what Lithwick is saying is lost in translation.
I’m trying to follow the points she is trying to make about Palin but they ramble on incoherently lost without a compass pointing towards any logic.
If Lithwick can’t understand the talk of the common man then perhaps she shouldn’t be writing for Newsweek.
Posted by: Noz | July 10, 2009, 12:12 am 12:12 am
I agree with Lithwick, she has no platform. Oh and remember commenters; you should have atleast a 4th grade education to understand this news story. Um k?
Posted by: Jim | July 10, 2009, 12:57 am 12:57 am
4th grade?!?! That leaves Sarah Palin out.
Posted by: AMaitrejean | July 10, 2009, 3:40 am 3:40 am
Sarah Palin can’t even figure out Sarah Palin, so how are the rest of us supposed to sort out a shallow little mud puddle that’s fast evaporating under the heated gaze of the critical public/media?
All we’re gonna accomplish is get increasingly muddy by staring and what can you do at the end of the day with mud except make more mud?
Posted by: DontCallMeDumbo | July 10, 2009, 3:42 am 3:42 am
And yet even if you accept the Liberal smears Palin is just as qualified as the clown currently leading the country.
Posted by: Neo Politicus | July 10, 2009, 5:22 am 5:22 am
Neo Politicus – Palin is NOT qualified to lead the country. She does not have the knowledge for one thing.
Did you listen to when Gibson interviewed her – asked her a question and she goes on for 10 minutes and didn’t answer the question. Did you listen when Couric interviewed her.
She can’t finish being govenor – pressure, criticism????? What would she do in higher office? Quit in mid term. There are more pressuress being President and criticism.
Posted by: smt | July 10, 2009, 6:32 am 6:32 am
Sarah has been cloberd by liberal news with all kind of insinuendos, reporters just guessing as to what is true, so if they happen to be right , they will get a feather in their hat and a nice raise on their paycheck.
Leave her alone, now you have humped on her with a lot of layer fees to defend herself. I don’t hear any of you perpetrators backing off on your claims,
Be civil, admit your dirt and apologize,
if you can be human for once.
Posted by: Charles Burns | July 10, 2009, 7:32 am 7:32 am
The ability of the Right to delude itself over Sarah Palin is astounding. Palin got it just like everyone else did. Obama had to go through hours and hours of Rev. Wright footage, McCain basically got called old and dottering, and Hillary went through a ringer 10 times worse than anything Palin ever faced. Hell, Romney had to deal with basically being called a heretic by the very people he was trying to win votes for. The difference: All of them went through it longer.
They endured, Palin wilted. She doesn’t have the chops for the job, and we’re better off knowing that before an election, instead of after its too late.
Posted by: Opus Die | July 10, 2009, 7:49 am 7:49 am
Again, why are we discussing this insignificant person? She has had nothing to add since she flubbed the VP nomination. (Thanks McCain for creating that monster!) The media is following her around like she is someone important. Trying to figure out why she dropped her “bombshell”! Who cares!!? Aren’t we facing more critical issues than trying to analyze this person’s selfish motives? I agree with Mr. Burns. “Leave her alone”! Let me add “let her go and forget the loser!”
Posted by: js45601 | July 10, 2009, 9:08 am 9:08 am
Comparing Obama and Palin just feels ugly. She’s had a remarkable rise from no one to Governor, and should get credit for that. But between the two of them, there’s only one who’s even remotely qualified to be President.
Posted by: tomd | July 10, 2009, 9:49 am 9:49 am
The ability of the Left to delude itself over Sarah Palin is astounding.
I agree. Even a 4th grader understands that.
: o )
Posted by: Noz | July 10, 2009, 9:49 am 9:49 am
I don’t get it. I really don’t.
Sarah Palin and her daughter both get pregnant before marriage but Sarah is revered as standard bearers of Christian belief.
Sarah Palin hired a firm that flooded Congress with requests for earmarks yet she’s revered as an anti-earmark politician.
Sarah Palin accepted the federal money for the “Bridge to Nowhere” then, because she spent it on something else is revered for not building the bridge.
It’s almost as if people flock to her simply to spite those who oppose her.
There are a lot of good GOP women worthy of such devotion who actually study issues and speak from knowledge. Sarah, meanwhile, says that if she’d been elected in November the White House’s “Department of Law” would have handled her legal problems. Of course, there’s no such department in the White House!
Posted by: The_Mick | July 10, 2009, 10:46 am 10:46 am
Why are you still talking about her (Blogging)? If she is not qualified, doesnt have a chance, why keep her in the news to bash her and her family?
I think you are afraid of her gettin elected. The more you bash her and her supporters it strengthens her, her supporters and any possible campaign.
Alot of hate out there
Posted by: kevin | July 10, 2009, 11:02 am 11:02 am
Sarah is the “best and brightest” Republicans have to offer.
She, also, is God’s gift to Democrats. She’s the best insurance Democrats have against a Republican president being elected any time soon.
Sarah is morally and intellectually bankrupt, as is the current Republican Party…………..and, I suppose, as are the folks who think she’s so swell. I suspect those folks find her Christian hypocrisy most attractive.
Sarah makes the U.S. the laughing stock of the world. Only in America could political dreck like Sarah Palin thrive.
Posted by: Sammy | July 10, 2009, 11:37 am 11:37 am
Truth, Justice and the American Way? As in Superman’s calling?
Hold on a second! Could this be the higher calling that caused Sarah to resign? Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SuperSarah in her new role as superheroine crime-fighter!
Actually, it doesn’t surprise me that Palin supporters imagine her with a big S emblazoned across her chest. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if Sarah imagines that very same thing.
Posted by: WWW | July 10, 2009, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
“Only in America could political dreck like Sarah Palin thrive.” – Sammy
Huuummmm . . . . I’m not so sure about that Sam my man.
I think other countries are full of Political Dreck™ not just the USA.
Still, you may have a point.
Al Sharpton
Barney Frank
Nancy Pelosi
Charlie Rangel
Chris Dodd
John Edwards
Posted by: Noz | July 10, 2009, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
Noz…….Let us not forget the Republican Party………more political dreck.
Posted by: Sammy | July 10, 2009, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
No kidding Sam.
Do me a favor and name a few.
Just make sure they are qualified Dreck™ and not just wannabees.
Posted by: Noz | July 10, 2009, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Noz……….ya’ mean there are folks who aspire to be dreck?……Wannabe’s?
How about these folks as full-fledged Republican dreck: Sanford, Ensign, vitters, Craig, Limbaugh, Steele, Gingrich, Rove, Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Yoo, Libby, Addington…………the usual folks.
Posted by: Sammy | July 10, 2009, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
So it looks like we may be agreeing Sam.
Get rid of the Dreck™ from both sides and we have a better chance at effective government.
From the lists though, there’s more Demo Dreck™ serving than Repug Dreck™.
Hey Libs, ya got some work to do!
Get busy and get rid of your Demo Dreck™!
But when you do make sure you don’t elect any more lawyers.
Posted by: Noz | July 10, 2009, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
Lithwick, where are you coming from? You have completely missed where mainstream Americans are. There is a major groundswell of support in middle America for Ms. Palin.And where do you get this idea that it’s only about her? If that were true, she would have gotten out of politics months ago.
Unless we see that our suport should go elsewhere, she has the votes of middle America! Wake up!
Posted by: AC | July 12, 2009, 1:17 am 1:17 am
Why does the left keep pounding on this woman. Please show me any one in public office that has over a 80% approval rating and I’ll be glad to hear their comments. The left has put her in debt for over $500,000. With 19 stupid charges that she is forced to challange. How much would you put up with if it was your money. The left is never happy untill the destroy all challangers.
Posted by: Jim McCauley | July 14, 2009, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm