Thought for the Day
Yesterday evening, as I was driving around, I came across a woman whose car was festooned with those little plastic 99 cent American flags. On the back window, in shoe polish was an exuberant "Sarah Palin 2012."
posted by mikevotes at
4:57 PM
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How different is this from some Obama supporters in the run up to the election? People find a relatable, charismatic politician who hits all the right emotional notes (but with few specifics) and assign to that person all their hopes and dreams.
Just a thought.
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-epm, at 6:51 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qE2vJdDw4
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Anonymous, at 8:13 PM
EPM, Yeah. The question is, just how blind is that investment. Obama was semi-blind, but he had been answering sophisticated questions on foreign and domestic policy for the year he was running before the primaries started. In his answeres, you could see that he had some grasp of the subtlety and complexity.
Sarah Palin couldn't answer a question on what newspapers she read. She couldn't come up with a single supreme court decision. She claimed that "seeing Russia from my house," gave her a grasp of the extremely complex multi-issue relationship with Russia.
Yes, many people invested in Obama blind. But there's blind and there's BLIND.
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Anon, Got it.
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mikevotes, at 9:34 PM
Mike, I agree with your analysis and wasn't trying to draw an absolute equivalency. But there is some level of blind faith that has been poured into these candidates by some of their followers. People who have invested their passionate hopes in their candidate and who see them as deliverers of massive change to the status quo.
Regarding Palin's intellectual shortcomings... this is probably seen as a virtue by her base. There is a segment of America that is antagonistic to education and actual learning beyond the gut.
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-epm, at 9:06 AM
But it's been that way since at least TV.
George Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Kennedy.....
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mikevotes, at 10:24 AM
...and Iranians are backing Mousavi 'blindly', because he represents an alternative to religious totalitarianism -- even though he's just one more creature of the Iranian elite.
So there's blind, and there's blind...
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I wonder if Palin intends a 3rd-party secessionist effort?
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r8r, at 12:05 PM
Unless it was an effort to eventually make mi=oney from it, I don't see Palin as going third party because 1) it has so little chance to work. Her odds are better mobilizing GOP primaries. And 2) I don't think she has the work ethic for a third party effort. It's alot of work gathering the funding, writing every policy from ground up, and setting up 50 states, if you're going to be serious about it.
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mikevotes, at 3:15 PM
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