Sarah Palin Stepping Down

[Greenday]

Refreshing because she's a female candidate who "acts like a woman" (aka isn't Hillary) and is a mother and isn't one of those dry old men who are usually running.

Since I'm pretty sure Palin hates women based on all her anti-woman stances when it comes to certain issues, I'll take the woman who doesn't act like a woman but cares about women than the woman who acts like a woman but doesn't care about women.

[Lachrymose]

If she did run, I don't think her opponent would have to mudsling. I don't know of anyone who'd want Palin to be president.

I won't post a link here, but check out a certain right-wing Christian forum that's getting "ready" for the "rapture".

Almost every single person who posts there is gaga over Palin and convinced that Obama is a Muslim and/or the antichrist.

[blas87]

Someone please explain to me how Hillary Clinton doesn't act like a lady?

I'm not a Hillary fan by any means, but I think she acts like a lady.

[AdminAssistant]

Someone please explain to me how Hillary Clinton doesn't act like a lady?

Oh, you know, having her own ideas, being independently minded, not dressing up like a little plaything for male viewing pleasure, and when her husband got caught fooling around, she took the stance of "I'm not divorcing him but I don't support him" instead of the "Ooooh, I forgive him and love him sooo much and I'll stand right beside him". Of course, most of the people I know in Little Rock have told me that it's an open secret that the marriage has always been purely political, anyway.

[AFPheonix]

I'm reading this issue right now and actually just finished this article at lunch today.

Holy crap is this a paranoid woman. I am so glad she's not anywhere near the big red button.

[protege]

I admit, I liked McCain...but I thought Palin was the *wrong* choice as his running mate. What the hell was he thinking? And no, I don't like Hillary either. She's just a bitch

[Talon]

I won't post a link here, but check out a certain right-wing Christian forum that's getting "ready" for the "rapture".

So what else is new? The batshit crazy faction has been getting "ready" for the "rapture" for 2000 years. They've had their finger on the button for too damn long

Since I'm pretty sure Palin hates women based on all her anti-woman stances when it comes to certain issues, I'll take the woman who doesn't act like a woman but cares about women than the woman who acts like a woman but doesn't care about women.

Hating women is a bit of a reach. I think that Palin's first and foremost priority is Palin. Her image, her political capital (among the batshit crazies), etc. Everything and everyone else is expendable.

But I will miss her. To paraphrase youtube's Thunderf00t, it will be hard to find someone other than Palin more deserving of the title Poster-girl for Ignorance and Stupidity. And I hope she does run in 2012. She'll crash and burn, and further disintegrate the Republican party in the process. But of course, none of it will be her fault.

[Dreamstalker]

My mother would. She thinks Palin is "refreshing."

So does the ex He thinks Palin would be a "perfect president".

[Flyndaran]

I admit, I liked McCain...but I thought Palin was the *wrong* choice as his running mate. What the hell was he thinking? And no, I don't like Hillary either. She's just a bitch

I hated how McCain becam Bush's lapdog. The fact that he didn't more loudly decry his pro-torture postion, I will never understand.
I've always been for Kucinich, not that he ever had a chance in hell of winning in this fear-mongering, overly-religious, uneducated nation. Do I sound bitter?

So does the ex He thinks Palin would be a "perfect president".

An anti-choice, corrupt, religious nutjob? He wanted a female Bush? 'nuff said.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I want to be Sarah Palin when I grow up.

[Depot Denizen]

Whelp, she's being brought up on corruption charges by the folks in Alaska so she'll have some work to do.

Palin is charismatic, and unfortunately extremely conservative and ill-informed. A horrible combination. The GOP loved her because she'd allow them to subjugate women again just like 50 years ago. Subjugate is probably too harsh of a word, but it gets my point across.

Then again, I'm a gun-toting Democrat. :P

[Flyndaran]

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Palin is charismatic, and unfortunately extremely conservative and ill-informed. A horrible combination. The GOP loved her because she'd allow them to subjugate women again just like 50 years ago. Subjugate is probably too harsh of a word, but it gets my point across.

Then again, I'm a gun-toting Democrat. :P

I'm not sure that that would be too harsh of word. We are talking about a time when wives weren't allowed to legally call date rape or rape by a husband crimes.

[tropicsgoddess]

If she did decide to run in 2012, her opponent (most likely Obama) could probably use the fact that she stepped down with 18 months left in her term against her.

That'll be a helluva comeback after all of Obama's opponents constantly went on about how his only experience in politics was as a Illinois Senator. I agree with Protege on McCain's bad decision for picking Palin as his running mate. They're uninformed of the issues at hand and besides that they're right-wing morons. I honestly think that McCain chose Palin to garner more votes from women after Hillary lost the Democratic nomination to Obama.

[Flyndaran]

That'll be a helluva comeback after all of Obama's opponents constantly went on about how his only experience in politics was as a Illinois Senator.

Who really believes american voters have that long of memories?

[tropicsgoddess]

Who really believes american voters have that long of memories?

You never know, but then again that's why Obama constantly reminds the public of how he inherited this mess from Bush and how it could take a while to fix it. But also if nobody can forget how Bill Clinton was fooling around with Monica Lewinsky, then the right-wing nutjobs certainly won't forget any transgressions Obama makes and still would think no matter what that he's a Muslim, terrorist and that his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii was a fake. Idiots.