A Feminist Look at Palin’s Military Jargon
I don’t think I’ve ever been so repulsed by the shameless liberal media as I am today, watching and reading the purely “hate-hate-hate-!!” rhetoric blaming Sarah Palin’s “targeting” of Gabrielle Giffords’ Arizona district for Saturday’s tragedy.
When a mentally unbalanced young person commits a violent act, it is nothing but a horrible tragedy. It is human nature to try to make sense of a senseless act, to try to place blame and make all the circumstances add up to some sort of false-security “solution” to block similar tragedies in the future. But none of that excuses those who indulge their human bent without restraint. Restraint in matters such as this is the function of reason.
Commentators, who have indulged in political finger-pointing in the aftermath of tragedy, using familial and national grief as a leftist revolutionary tool, ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
And just to set the rhetorical record straight, many conservative bloggers have already dug up the violence-laden political speech of many well-known liberals, including most famously, the president himself.
Howard Kurtz has a great column today on the Daily Beast, refuting most of the liberal commentators’ charges against Palin.
I have one bone to pick with Kurtz’ assertions, however. Kurtz labeled Palin’s use of the “crosshairs” political target map as both “unfortunate” and “dumb.”
It still amazes me that so-called enlightened people fail to see the obvious when it comes to the obstacles women actually do face in seeking powerful positions.
If Sarah Palin does intend to run for the presidency – ever – then she faces a built-in obstacle to her aspirations that no man faces. She must overcome deeply embedded psychic archetypes which tend to discount a woman’s ability to be firm and tough, especially in foreign policy and military matters. Our reluctance to trust a woman in the role of commander in chief is no small thing. And this reluctance is firmly positioned in the thinking of both men and women.
There is indeed a glass ceiling and nowhere is that ceiling thicker or more feminist bullet-proof than the presidency of the United States. The barrier to women as national leaders has been broken elsewhere, but elsewhere is not the United States – the world’s lone superpower.
“At the very least, Palin has made it abundantly clear that she would never be photographed in flip-flops with a slurpee or all shriveled up and bony in an oversized Nike get-up or on a pansy bike in a helmet.”
LOL!!!!!!!
True enough. Palin has more toughness than 1000 doh!’bamas.
Don’t forget the “mom jeans”.
Bahahahahahah!
Between Barry’s Mom-Jeans and man-boobs (‘moobs’) and Michelle’s “Camel Toe Oopsies” we have a couple of real crotchety old, saggy numb-nuts (*boo hiss* at my poor and raunchy humor).
Thank goodness I have never seen a Palin Camel Toe (because you damned well know that’d be plastered on every g-derned gossip bag and snooze network)! TMI. TMI. TMI. Palin always comes off lady-like even when she is wearing a flak jacket and military garb or in a mid-length skirt that shows off her gorgeous gams (in tennies no less).
Palin is an enigma.
This was an excellent article. I really like Sarah Palin but I pray she doesn’t try to run for President. She will only open the door for the other party to win because there are too many people who would “crucify” her. She’s smarter than any man out there but society would ostracize her.
She’s smarter than any man out there
Is this just an involintary gynophile platitude, or what? Really? Did you write that, re-read it and say “Yes, that is a complete rational statement?”
Dude, have you seen the PUA (pick up ‘artist’ *cough-cough*) idiocy being promulgated through the ‘manosphere’ of stupidity?
All these idiots do is live and breathe scoring ‘poon’.
It’s embarrassing.
Yeah, a lot of you men are really, really DUMB. Get over it, you cry-baby pissant. What? Your mama didn’t breast-feed you? NEXT!
I totally agree, smarter. And the proof of that is in your sexist, stupid remarks so brilliant in their dumbness dumber men would agree you are smarter indeed. We in the vagiosphere applaud you for standing up for women with anti-women mama jokes that pass for intelligence in prisons. Go biatch. Next.
I guess you do not get laid very often! I bet you ran to your mama when as a child you got hurt. Men are stronger but women are diffidently smarter, than men.
Perhaps he’s saying that Palin’s smarter than any current male politician of comparable name recognition, with comparable ’12 Presidential ambitions. That statement still might get you a debate, but it’s not a transparently silly statement to make. (In fact, it’s setting the bar mighty damned low.)
I did not know you could set the bar lower than Obama has it on the ground!
Worse yet, the plight of the mentally ill gets ignored generation after generation as our political leaders virtually stumble over each other to protect the rights and provide for the health, education and welfare of those who are in our country illegally. The true message gets lost once again by those who want nothing more than to promote their own political desires at the expense of others.
Their ill intent is further underscored by the incredibly huge and naked leap of logic it takes to tie a long past metaphorical political advert.to this event.
I covered that here:
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2011/01/i_blame_marijua.html
and here:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2011/01/they-dont-have-politics.html
I love Sarah Palin, her toughness, her Conservative values, her family lifestyle. But I fear for her safety and hope that she will NOT run for President. She will be a target for every progressive wing nut out there and sooner or later regardless of how much protection she gets someone with a real animosity for her will get through. Perhaps she would be better off in joining a Conservative Presidents cabinet or a staff member.
I think you’re right about the vacuity of progressive politics. You have to wonder who they think they are kidding.
#6 Steve
I am of the mind, two elections past, the libs hoodwinked a goodly
number of useful idiots. The rhetorical query ‘Whom do they think
they’re kidding?’ is quite plain to see.
jl
Publishing a map of targets marked with crosshairs while yelling “DON’T RETREAT; RELOAD” sends a strong message. It’s something a crazy person would do.
Ya might wanna review this before your moral outrage gets the better of you.
I’m brangin’ a knife to your gun fight…cuz I izzzzzzz crazy!
Aww shoot!
No. Not literally! I only gotz me a knife!
Azzhat.
Really, Alaskan? I’m sure you felt the same outrage on the occasions Obama stated..
“They bring a knife..we bring a gun.”….”Punish your enemies”…”I’m itching for a fight.” Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”.
How about the oldie but goodie “Get in their faces”…
So your excuse for your failed precedent is that he is crazy?
Since there is no violence or aggressive rhetoric on the right, how lucky it is that the media can pretend that metaphors used by conservatives are much worse real threats and violence from liberals.
When you cross the line to suggest violence. You are no longer a Right Wing or Left Wing nut job, you are just another idiot that can not hold a civil discussion!
this is another example of how the left operate.
they know full well that the shooter is a nut.
they also know if they pump out their bull … associate guns with conservatives that the conservatives will fall into a difficult task of trying to defend guns and conservatives since the left keep bringing it back to “guns and conservatives”
this is what I mean when I say that job one is get off the defensive and challenge the left’s right to language.
“I really like Sarah Palin but I pray she doesn’t try to run for President. She will only open the door for the other party to win because there are too many people who would “crucify” her.”
“I love Sarah Palin, her toughness, her Conservative values, her family lifestyle. But I fear for her safety and hope that she will NOT run for President. She will be a target for every progressive wing nut out there and sooner or later regardless of how much protection she gets someone with a real animosity for her will get through.”
And this is exactly why we are in the position we are in now with Obama as president. We let them yell us down. We let them set the parameters. I say if Sarah is not afraid, then I am not afraid for her. If she decides to run, then for the first time in my life I will go out and knock on doors, stand on corners with signs or do what has to be done to get the truth out.
Have you all seen this:
http://americanpatriotscommission.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/boyblue.pdf
Why do we have to be silenced like sheep and meanwhile they call for our death in more ways than one. This link may very well be the killer’s link but if not, it certainly would do more to entice a murder than Sarah’s targets.
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/01/09/how-to-turn-a-tragedy-into-an-emetic/
Read Roger’s piece today. The Democrats started the whole “target” thing themselves. Even Gifford used an interview to spout the good little Democrat’s talking points by bringing up Sarah’s map. Of course she never mentioned the Democrats maps. Anything to silence us and like good little lemmings, we are calling for Sarah to go into hiding. Thank GOD the early Christians had more backbone or there would be no America.
Maybe this is where I throw in my two cents worth about Sara Palin.
In the stereotype the female of the species is the one who will pull out all the stops to protect her cubs. The male is indifferent especially if he is a politician concerned with political correctness.
Palin has proven this by resigning her position as Governor (given her life, as it were) to protect the interests of her citizens against the irresistible force. She, the immovable object, just re-adjusted her position to allow the force to push against nothing. In doing this she ascribed to herself a win,win situation. This is one very formidable person. Knows how to win, how to sacrifice and when to re-reorient her her immovable wall (the flexible shield on a multi-pivot).
I would want this soul, this ruthless but compassionate Lady to take care of my interests.
Do not ever forget that when Margaret Thatcher had to defend the Falklands she did not bat an eye, she just did it.
There is no such thing as a weak woman when defense is paramount.
Well said.
Here, here! Well said! Who besides Sarah is our voice?
Is there anyone in any enemy country at the moment who does not dread a possible Palin presidency? I don’t think so.
Yeah witness the Iranian Hostage thingy…
No hesitation to breach standard diplomatic protocols with Jimmah…..but promptly released the hostages as Reagan was inaugurated……
Nuf Said……
It’s been two years since the left has been this happy.
this is another example of how the left operate.
they (marxists) know full well that the shooter is a nut.
they also know if they pump out their bull … associate guns with conservatives that the conservatives will fall into a difficult task of trying to defend guns and conservatives since the left keep bringing it back to “guns and conservatives”
with them it is about control. didn’t obama tell us he would mobilize a civilian army with the equipment of the military. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT !!
this is what I mean when I say that job one is get off the defensive and challenge the left’s right to language.
Let me be clear: I like Gov. Pailn alot. So it is with the utmost respect and consideration that I say I would rather have Gov. Chris Christie as President. There is something about his prosecutorial nature and background that I feel is necessary for these times. Much tom-foolery was conducted during the Obama Administration, and I think we need much wisdom and skill to unearth the “poison pills” deposited by what is arguably, the most corrupt administration since, well, “Tricky Dick”.
Christie’s most egregious flaws are what Theresa (14.) has already noted. Those flaws are simply unacceptable and especially for us gun totin’ ‘mericans unless he changes his stance on that, there is no way I can vote for someone who would so easily and willingly take gun rights away from the citizenry.
I’ve been a gun owner since I was 24 and I’ve yet to shoot my eye out (or anyone else’s either for that matter) and when the lawless and police are the only ones with guns…well, that just spells big trouble.
To Phil D, Chris Christie is for Amnesty, Cap and Trade, and stood staunchly for Castle. Castle voted to spite the Republicans on his way out.
While I respect Chris Christie as Governor, no way would I want him to be POTUS. His gun rights views are also suspect.
If I am wrong about these reported policy standings he takes, I would be happy for you to give the facts against what is reported. Just like Sarah, there may be false reports on his positions.
I don’t really want someone with Chris Christie’s commanding presence and no-holds barred personality to be President UNLESS he’s firmly in the conservative camp; and given the points you note on various extremely important issues, he is NO conservative
Well stated, Theresa. Maybe I’m just a bit too eager for adjudicating the “high crimes, and misdemeanors” of this Administration.
The left is sitting back now thinking they have finally been able to neuter Sarah Palin. I tell you it would be the greatest victory over the left we could have if, in spite of all the challenges these last two years that we have had to endure with their smearing, we were able to elect not only the first, but the best woman for the job over their “historic” failure of a president.
I like Christie too but Sarah is the one they despise the most.
Notice how they suddenly want to tone down the rhetoric. Notice how they suddenly want bi-partisanship. That is because they got everything they wanted and never had to consider our voices once. I do not want to see us all “get along” because that always means we have to move left for bi-partisanship. We have a voice now. At least in the house. Let’s not miss an opportunity.
Everyone is talking about how conservative Gifford is. She voted for the most damaging piece of legislation this country has seen in my lifetime. And if she is like most of the democrats she didn’t even read the bill. And worse, if she did read it, she voted for it knowing how it would restrict our freedom and hurt business. She is not stupid. So what was that about. That is not conservative. She voted on enough conservative legislation to get reelected in a very conservative state. It is very possible that the link at Daily Kos did inspire a nut to take a shot at her.
While my heart goes out to Gifford, her family and all the other victims
of this senseless violence, don’t forget that Gifford herself blamed Palin.
Hmm, no, I’d still rather have hillary negotiating with putin. Hillary really IS tough. She doesn’t need a gun.
But, then, it has been a while since international politics was sorted out with muskets at dawn. To misuse scott adams – the ability to fell an antelope with a single blow to the jaw becomes less important every week.
I used to give Hillary some cred for tough, too….no more. Not since I saw the photos of her giggling like a school girl because the campus jock, hugochavez, was smiling at her and sweating over her. I’m surprised she didn’t collapse at his feet.
..so would Vince Foster
Guess what, Matthew. We like guns. Big guns and small, we like them all. We like them for target practice, hunting, and hanging on the wall just to show them off.
Know what else we like, Matthew? We like people who have courage. Women, men, doesn’t matter. We like John Wayne and Charleton Heston. We like Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. We like men who stand up and fight for their women, and we like women who stand up and fight for their families.
We like people who have integrity, Matthew, and who speak their integrity with words like “crosshairs” and “reload,” because Matthew, these are words we understand. These are direct words, words of courage, words that mean more than the figurative throwing your man-purse at someone because they irritate you type words of the left.
We are praying for Rep. Giffords and her family, and we’re praying for you, so that you may open your mind and see the light, or at least stay out of the way.
That’s the scariest, funniest thing I’ve seen on this site. Ever.
Thanks. I wonder if anyone else will get the joke.
Listen, Matty boi. If you can’t come up with anything more clever than “Nonny-nonny boo-boo, you are rubber and I am glue” then, you are going to be officially voted off the island, you jack-wagon.
“I wonder if anyone else will get the joke.”
Oh, we do. Every time you splat down your words onto this website.
Boy, you ARE the joke.
well done , Kathy!! I doubt, however, that it will do much to change little Matthew’s mind.
If only Matty had a mind to change. All he’s got is a skull full of dried leaves, dead insects and leftist talking points. Dodges all of the tough questions. Pathetic.
Ask me a question. I promise not to dodge it.
Heck – ask me a few. Just make them actual questions, and not statements and you’ll get an answer
Please give me an example of Hillary toughness. Was it her teary-eyed boo-hoo session in New Hampshire? Oh, I’ll help you. Was it here ability to look the other way, an ignore her husbands rampant philandering? Is that what a “tough” woman does? Oh, I forgot, her and Chelsea were under Sniper fire in Kosovo (wink, wink).
Hillary would be doing the walk of shame through Red Square the morning after she tried to get “tough” with Putin.
Is this the same Hillary currently on what she describes as an “apology tour” to the Persian Gulf in the wake of the WikiLeaks? There she made the obscene comparison between Tucson shooter Loughner and Islamic terrorists – claiming “we have extremists too” – as if they’re the same. The former is subject to wall to wall condemnation, while the latter get broad support, if not state sponsorship.
Oh, and hillary did come withing a bee’s whisker of taking the oval office. No need for hunting metaphors. Not a crosshair in sight.
Apparently, those on the left are able to measure women for who they are and what they can do, not how well they fit male fantasy stereotypes.
How does that fit with the feminist critique?
Totally pathetic. Matthew, you remind me of another male with a “crush” on Hillary. He sings in the chorus line on Broadway.
Thanks for a content-free response. It saves me the trouble of having to think about what you’re saying if you’re not saying anything.
Might I refer you back to this eloquent and well thought out post:
Matthew the pearl clutching pansy
Hmmm. You should try clicking on that link and see if it takes you anywhere.
Indeed. Without reference to guns, Hillary was able to leverage her husband’s past success in order to almost get the nomination in a primary that everyone believed, going into it, would just be a formality to her coronation.
She lost to a complete nothing of an inexperienced Senator from Illinois.
Truly, Hillary knows what she’s doing!
Matthew is really pumped up about these murders isn’t he?
Leftists are never happier than when they think they have cause to blame their own misery on adults.
Yeah, leftists like death.
Thanks for that.
*hug*
Yeah, leftists like death.
Actually, they do. It’s in the pedigree of their ideas. If you care for a real spanking, try gainsaying that. It’s gonna leave a mark.
Only if you equate everyone who thinks there’s a positive role for government with mao and stalin.
I could just as easily claim that all conservatives equate to franco or tsar nicholas or kaiser wilhelm, and everyone to the right of that with il duce, or hitler.
Now … if you want to get a spanking, try to claim that mussolini or hitler were leftists
Or secular, for that matter.
So. How about we stop being silly and debate modern realities, yes? Or you can keep being ridiculous … it’s up to you.
“a bee’s whisker of taking the oval office.</i."
Remind us all again how many electoral votes she won in Nov 08?
'Bee's Whisker' my ass.
Possible a few more than obama did, had she won the nomination.
Be thankful. You dodged that ball.
I think that I have come up with a reasonable theory as to why the punditry, Left AND Right just despise Palin. They use words like ‘dumb’ and ‘silly’, words they don’t apply to comparable men.
Well. Listen up. Pundits were nerds in high school. They worked on the school newspaper. They wrote ABOUT the exciting stuff like the prom, and the basketball game. And they all had a crush on the MOST POPULAR GIRL IN HIGH SCHOOL, who of course, would never have given any of them a second look (she was too busy having the Life the nerds wrote about.)
Now, here is THAT POPULAR GIRL, and NOW, she’s working the cultural hotspots like a pro, she’s active, with 5 children, a great husband, she’s athletic, STILL GREAT LOOKING, sparkly, and she worked hard for new Republican nominees throughout the USA and MOST OF THEM WON the election.
Horrible. The nerds sulk in their corner. Everyone knows that the nerds were smart, the popular girls were popular and stupid. Otherwise, the world just is NOT FAIR!!!
It’s worse than that. While I was an electrical engineering student (I admit I flunked out after Dad died), we used to make fun of the journalism majors, so you’re talking about the people that the nerds regarded with contempt.
["Now, here is THAT POPULAR GIRL,..."] Who graduated from college with a degree in JOURNALISM.
Just couldn’t pass your “nerd pundit” comment by….sorry!
Umm, no. BROADCAST journalism, and a minor in PoliSci. And she has worked in both fields.
Thanks Marc! It shall remain in my world however, that journalism is journalism and “Broadcast” a medium for journalism.
Political Science degree’s are akin to basket weaving and pottery degree’s.
Heather, it runs deeper than high-school envy.
It is no accident that Ms. Palin is their target of first choice … for any success on her part in shaping the thinking (as opposed to mere acceptance of The Narrative) of the nation is a direct threat to the credential-based self-esteem (not to mention their mellow regarding their lifestyle choices) of the Re-, er, Progressive base …
… as well as a direct threat to the relevance and meal tickets of the professional/political class of both parties, who (rightly) see such success, by someone not groomed and controlled by their conventional wisdom, as having the potential to render their services as obsolete as the buggy whip.
That is why electing her, or someone like her who refuses to passively accept the conventional wisdom of the DC elites, would be the real game-changer.
Hillary certainly did “reset” our relations with Russia. She always looks to see which way the wind is blowing before she takes a stand. Yep. She’s the new “One”. Remember how she snuggled up to Arafat? That’s our Hillary. I remember when she said Bill was certainly not having sex with an intern. My leftie sister said Hillary has to play the game so she can become president and then she can really “do good”. Isn’t that what all good tyrant wannabees do? The ends justify the means. Just like they are plotting now to use this massacre to denigrate the Tea Party. It ‘s for the good of the “little people”.
Both the left and the right need to tone down the violent rhetoric precisely because there are unhinged people out there. A call for a “target” or “crosshairs” can result in the kind of tragedy in Arizona, especially if put out there on the “social network”. What message does our bitter non-cooperation send to the rest of the world about America? I’m hoping that we can have a civil discourse in 2011.
I know. Politicians target their opponents every day for elimination, except they and pundits are sane enough to know it doesn’t involve actual elimination, only a voting out from the halls of power.
No one has quoted anything Rush Limbaugh has supposedly said that incited this political illiterate to murder.
And another thing, this “crosshairs” symbol is a standard Microsoft symbol and standard mouse cursor for certain architectural CAD programs.
Coincidence? Are Bill Gates and computer programmers seeking to have people murder others? Why is that any more absurd than the accusations that come out of the mainstream media?
How
#2 Ms Davis. You are obviously of good heart and show it in your concern regarding the dangers inherent by a run for POTUS by Sarah Palin. However it is precisely your type of well meaning concern that has defeated more than a few very good people almost before they got their political feet wet. You/we didn’t give them a chance because we feared defeat and ridicule from the left. The lesson here is one so well stated by Harry Truman, “if you can’t stand the heat then get out of the kitchen”, and from the same source the famous desk plate, “The Buck Stops Here”.
Sarah Palin is more than aware of the problems she would face but Sarah Palin is no Sharron Angle or Christine O’Donnell.
She has already faced these dragons and won hands down.
She Has had her family, including a wonderful gift from God (as she calls him) in Trig, scathingly debauched in print.
She has shown a strength and resilience almost completely absent from the Political Elite/Rulers who would tear her to shreds. I, for one, would welcome the “bare fisted” style of this frontier lady and I think she would win hands down.
As always Kyle-Anne does a magnificent job of putting together a really fine piece of commentary replete with facts and good ole Southern Fried analysis. This is particularly in evidence in treating the hypocrisy of the left as they try to marginalize (read: destroy), in the finest of the Alinsky/Chicago way, anyone who dares to threaten their self proclaimed Manifest Destiny to rule over this country.
Anyone who says they really like Sarah Palin but they believe she should not run for office. If you think this way you must see Sarah Palin as weak. When the left complain like they do in hope the right will stop. Sarah Palin need to run as president. When the bullies knock you down do you stay down. President Obama has done so much to divide this nation. It totally sickened me to hear newscasters talk the way they have. People like Olberman need to be held accountable when they lie. Some of the left bring up the map with the targets on it. They don’t say anything about them having the same kind of map. This country needs Sarah Palin because of her honesty. WE need a politician that is honest that says what she means, believes in america and the people in it.
See #9.
People who see Palin as someone who needs to polish up her ‘act’ and better hone her political skills aren’t “haters” by any stretch. This is the same kind of sloppy, overly-sentimental, mawkish thinking that got us a “First Black President” by refusing to identify and discuss any flaws in then senator and now current POTUS.
And, anyone who believes there is such a thing as an “Honest Politician” must be living in the land of skittles rainbows and unicorn fairy-dust.
Sorry, folks, but, power corrupts every time. It’s human nature. That is why the founding fathers made sure we have checks and balances in place.
Let’s call Politicians by their real name, “LIARS”.
Now, can you with a straight face say the oxymoronic sentence, “I want an honest liar”? Of course not! What is sad is America left wringing hands and hoping one liar is not as bad as the other liar and that is about it. The abyss of corruption is systemic.
You are wrong. Corruption is not exactly dishonesty, even though dishonesty is a kind of corruption. Take Hitler for an example, he was very HONEST, when you read his “Mein Kampf” he was telling exactly what he wanted to do and what he did. And he is not the only honest politician that existed.
Corruption often goes to the place where people want to govern the people: You can’t choose for me, I choose for myself, but then many politicians feel entitled to chose what is better for other people.
Sarah Palin is always going to be a target because she is so dangerous to the far left which has a lot invested in the idea that republican’s and conservatives are old, white men. Being an attractive, young, charismatic women and being conservative makes her a big threat and as such, the media will put on the full course press to destroy her credibility. It’s unfair, but they can’t paint that picture with whatever color brush they choose. I think we have all seen how “fair” the media has been with Sarah Palin and many other conservative women. There is likely nothing Sarah Palin can say or do that would be presented by the mainstream media in a positive light.
Some commentators say they like Sarah Palin, but they don’t want her to run for the presidency because they fear for her safety. Me too – except I’ve been following her for a while. She’s even brave for a regular person, never mind a politician. Any threat to big government, will be targeted equally. She believes this, and if anything, this will make her step up to the challenge.
As much as the Left and their media attacks Sarah Palin, they will attack whoever takes her place as their primary threat in the same way. They too, will get the ‘Palin’ treatment. So we might as well stick with the leader whom we know can take it, and give it right back double.
We might think another can do it, but we’ve already seen Sarah do it.
Those weren’t crosshairs they were crosses. Oh wait that’s even worse!
Just saw the last Palin’s Alaska. What an amazing woman.
Give those radical feminists hell Sarah. Godspeed.
January 9, 2011
The Chicago way-
BARACK OBAMA:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
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Those of us that are religious gun carrying patriots need to watch our rhetoric,
or someone might take us seriously.
The Tucson shooting is simply a repeat of history by a mentally ill subject and really irrelevant to any political party or elements.
That said, the populist “movements” of the past couple of years has spent a great deal of time playing to [emotions] with all their superficial rhetoric and precious time playing to rhetoric solving the real underlying problems that has brought the nation to this point in time and circumstance.
Sarah Palin, I suppose, is to be admired for her personal Christian beliefs and moral qualities but is simply NOT relevant to politics and running the nations government within the purview of the Constitution.
1. The Founders and framers of the Constitution, though they did not include the specific language in the Constitution, had NO intent for the new government of the Republic to be ran or influence by any degree whatsoever of theocracy. The “religious right” of the GOP, who now have re-labeled themselves as “conservatives” are simply on the wrong side of the Constitution.
2. Morality, when necessary, is to be regulated by legislating criminal and civil tort laws, that are based upon individual rights abuses and NOT Christian beliefs…thus all Mrs. Palins theocratic political rhetoric is far off base. It is the churches responsibility to teach and shore up religious beliefs and morality within society….not the government!
3. Mrs. Palin’s political rhetoric is as superficial as any other politicians out there today, lacking the ability to address the real underlying cause(s) and their strategic resolve.
4. Mrs. Palin is NOT a strategic technician in any known area’s of national governance by any definition and prides herself in declaring she will do things her way without technical and professional advice. THAT IS SIMPLY A DANGEROUS MINDSET!
In my thinking, Mrs. Palin needs to reassess the superficial path she is on and consider a more relevant and substantive path if she want to continue leading a national movement…..or God forbid, run for president. Her political ineptness has placed her in what I believe will become a self defeating position that will continue to allow her opponents (approximately 50% of voting population) the opportunity to make her their national punching bag….especially in domestic economics and global affairs…not to mention horrible tragedy’s like Tucson.
If she was a great deal more substantive on the real issues rather than playing to emotions, she would not be the punching bag she has become.
So much of the “technical and professional advice” in DC is the equivalent of the flashy swordsmanship in that famous scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark … while it looks impressive, it fails when it’s time to get the job done.
For too long, we have tolerated that kind of flash (“OOOH, they’re so smart!”) instead of reacting as Indiana Jones did … by SIMPLY shooting it down and moving on.
What you perceive as a lack of nuance on Ms. Palin’s part, I see as both perception of, and intolerance, for the idiocy behind the flash, and advocacy of action based on sound, fundamental, SIMPLE principles that don’t impress others as deep thinking, but are the right answer nonetheless.
And BTW, understand that evangelicals like myself cherish our freedom of thought as much as you do, and will be the first to stand and repel theocracy … including the theocracy derived from the blind faith in one’s own omniscience that so many mis-define as “reason”.
Ritchie…I always appreciate everybody’s positions. However, the federal government is far to large and far, far to complex for a single person of average OR far above average intellect to grasp from either a management or strategic premise. It is always wise to seek broad counsel in all walks of life to gain wisdom. I give little if any serious consideration to folks seeking to acquire title and position who claim they solely have the “right answers” and approach to grave responsibilities…as Mrs. Palin seemingly purports with regularity.
To the best of my knowledge Mrs. Palin has never spent time with foreign leaders, foreign economists, domestic leaders of the many departments, agencies, and corporations of the Executive Branch, the leaders of major political parties, has never spent time within the various fortresses of think tanks who are internal/external formulators of government and private sector policy and the list goes on. A good and effective leader is one who can listen to all the counsel given, evaluate it against their own independent knowledge and conclude a right decision.
Do we need yet another inexperienced, unknowledgeable political idealogue running the government as President in these times?
The intent of the founders of the Republic and framers of the constitution remains very clear concerning the function of government versus [any] religion, yet we continue to hear the name and subject matter of Christianity invoked into nearly every aspect of the dialog by the far Right of the GOP, the Tea Party….and Mrs. Palin. I shall continue to get my Christian religious counsel from my chosen church and NOT from any politician or government. Their ONLY constitution right should be that of DEFENDING against government encroaching INDIVIDUAL and collective religious freedoms as defined in the constitution and to a degree, the non binding Declaration of Independence!
I meant to say…
…..and precious *LITTLE* time playing to rhetoric….
According to ABC News (no great promoter of Mrs Palin):
It appears that Loughner’s hostility towards Giffords dates from August 2007, which was a full year before Sarah Palin was nominated as John McCain’s running mate.
So, not only does Mrs Palin naughtily promote political assassination, she does so as a time-traveller!
Now it’s definitely not time to retreat, duck and cover; it’s time to reload.
I was reading the gun forums over the weekend, and amazingly many over-my-dead-body types had removed the Μολὼν λαβέ sig line and whining about the assassination attempt of Rep. Gifford as if it were planned by the NRA or GOA.
The Republicans or conservatives, not to mention the Tea Partiers have nothing to be shame of; at least we did not declare more than half of the Americans,from vets to gun-owners to Tea party people, as potential domestic terrorists.
Cling to your guns and religion.
I’ve written about violence and weapons in the United States at
http://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/violence/
related to the Tucson, Arizona, case …
As usual, the loony right-wingers wash their hands and look the other way when one of their own acts on his criminal instincts. The right-wingers got their adrenalin jolt and rejoiced when they heard the news, but can’t hide their feelings with ‘philosophical’ analysis. We know what they think and know how they will act. The worst losers are the ones that believe all their crap.
Really?!? “One of their own”?!? First of all, Giffords is a fairly centrist Democrat — hardly an ideal target for a right wing whacko. More importantly, the shooter is clearly mentally unstable and therefore trying to apply a rational explanation (right-wing rhetoric pushed him over the edge) to an irrational act is foolish at best. His internet ranting may be anti-government, which alone wouldn’t make him right wing either, but those rantings include burning of the flag and the phrase “Terrorist America”, both of which would more likely be inspired by HuffPo than Hannity.
The violence-laced political rhetoric on both sides is regrettable and should be done away with. I heartily agree with that sentiment. And just like the need to speak reasonably in the political domain, we should speak reasonably and factually regarding this incident. In that vain, there is no indication of any causal link between Palin’s map, or any of the President’s rhetoric for that matter, to what happened in Tucson on Saturday.
‘…when one of their own acts on his criminal instincts. The right-wingers got their adrenalin jolt and rejoiced when they heard the news, but can’t hide their feelings with ‘philosophical’ analysis. We know what they think and know how they will act…’
Another sick liar from the progressive sheep cot chimes in with the same pre-programmed bleating.
You, Matty, Praetorian….just eating this up aren’t you? Getting the vapors are you? Yyou’ll make this work to your advantage by…what exactly are your handlers telling you the long run payoff will be?
Thinking you’ve ‘got’ the evil right-winger conservatives? That the MSM’s hissy fit the last two days will bring it home for you? Finally in out of the wilderness as long as the Alinsky tactic of endlessly repeating the lie pays off with it’s entry into the conventional wisdom?
Those days are done for a bit. Look around the news today. Plenty of the MSM propagandists are whoring hard for you, but the push back is just as aggressive. There is no logic, fact, or common sense to what the left is caterwauling and the public isn’t buying the tone of smug and smarmy. Your main man’s rhetoric the last year takes him off the squad. The bully pulpit of the house is lost to you.
Palin is quietly letting you marching morons on the left herd play follow the leader over the cliff without any input from her. She is one smart lady.
Loony right wingers???
You need to take another look at Jared’s professed beliefs – he resides in the kook far, far Left.
You will note that when they searched his abode, they found that he was a reader of Marx and Hitler, among others.
It has been said that Progressives read Marx, but Conservatives understand Marx.
Jared is one of those loons that really don’t understand anything; or as a classmate described him: a Left-wing Pot-head!
Hey – Vivo’s back!
Let me get my popcorn….
Your answers prove my point. Regardless of Loughner’s beliefs and mental instability you come in his defense because your crutches are guns and demagogy. Conservatives are called conservatives because they don’t change, just like dinosaurs.
too lame to be a troll
change to a lefty = conferring abstract rights that empower the state and deny man his unalienable rights
who is coming to loony-toons laughner’s defense?
what does change have to do with dinosaurs?
this entire episode is the “Cant let any crisis go to waste…” strategem
and the libs will dutifully conjure up all the necessary changes to 1st and 2nd amendment rights blah blah blah
they will press for anything and everything to fall under the tent of “threatening” a congressperson so basically the people who spoke up at town hall meetings could be declared an enemy of the state
Sounds like a classic case of projection to me. How did that old Bolshevik saying go? “Accuse others of what you do.”
Commentators, who have indulged in political finger-pointing in the aftermath of tragedy, using familial and national grief as a leftist revolutionary tool, ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
In order to be ashamed, you’d have to have a moral compass in the first place.
All people like Krugman and that idiotic Pima Co. sheriff (et.al) have is their narrow little political agenda, in service to which they’ll trot out anything.
How about the rhetoric of that angry old President who, among other incendiary urgings, recently told Latinos to “punish” their enemies?
(“enemies” are any American citizens opposed to illegal immigration)
The root of the illegal immigration problems is lack of jobs in other countries and the sheer inability of the American government to deal with immigration demand. People are not going to sit and wait when they see inefficiency and unfairness.
the root of illegal immigration is a failure to enforce the law ffs
“Root often denotes what is considered the fundamental cause of or basic reason for something: “Lack of money is the root of all evil” (George Bernard Shaw).”
Physical immigration has to occur before the laws fail; therefore, failing laws are not the ‘root’, they are part of the problem.
And if more than ninety-something percent of illegal immigrants get jobs, what does it say to you? And millions have been here for many years, why not just check for criminality and legalize them if clean?
33. (vivo)
Look who is talking
** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
** Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
** Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
** Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
** Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
** Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
** Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
** Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”
Only those ignorant of both printing and rifle scopes would fail to recognize that the images on the map are not crosshairs but crop marks (or, color printing, registration marks). Their meaning is not “here’s where I’m aiming” but “this is the location.”
Even if crosshairs had been used, so what? We should be able to count on our fellow citizens not to shoot us in response to a symbol just as we should be able to count on them not to steal our cars if we leave the key in the ignition.
The shooter’s biggest mistake was not yelling “alah akbar” or however you spell it. He would have immediately been given a lot of special pleas from the leftist media to “not rush to judgment.” He would have been given the best attorney the government could find and then hailed as being “misunderstood” and “mistreated” by Americans.
Palin knows how to mobilize political supporters, and I generally like her views, but I’m not sure she can really govern. It worried me when she resigned as gov before her term ended, since it seemed like getting out of the kitchen when she couldn’t stand the heat (this is not a feminine reference, I am thinking of the Harry Truman quote). Before I vote for her for prez, I would like her to finish a term for some important public service job, like house/senate, another run for governor, an important appointment under a repub pres (like Hillary serving as saec of state), or another run as a vice pres candidate.
Any of you kooks calling those symbols “crosshairs” looked at your cell phone lately? There’s “crosshairs” on the display denoting the GPS is on.
Crosshairs have also been used on navigation maps as compass roses for centuries; But I don’t expect any of you sensationalizing kooks to know anything about that.
Just keep hammering with your juvenile prolixity.
So long as the left continues to remain in the hog-waller of hypocrisy of finger pointing to the anybody on the “Right” while ignoring the past inflamed rhetoric of “kill-Bush, hang Bush” the last four years of the President Bush therm in office is….well, dregs of the earth! They conveniently ignore the nearly ten years of [extreme violence] their party radicals brought upon our nation during the 60′s and 70′s.
When with the GOP “machine” and citizens quit being their own worst enemies and falling into the intended ‘traps” of their opponents. Rhetoric playing to emotions of division and hate rather than relevant central issues is self defeating under ANY circumstance!
Bush was a criminal idiot that deserved every name calling available.
if bush was such an “idiot” , how can he be a criminal when he is “incapable” of discerning right from wrong?
Exactly my point. He didn’t care what was right or wrong. And you know he didn’t act alone. Leaders are just the face of a group, directly or indirectly behind them (i.e., NRA sounds familiar?).
Vivo….Opinions are a lot like farts…only a few don’t stink! Now, can you kindly direct me to the transcript from a court of law that convicted President Bush of any crimes? If not, you have simply unleashed stinky gas in violation of global warming making your daddy, Algore very unhappy with you.
vivo – now there’s an example of someone who shouldn’t even be allowed to have a pair of blunt scissors, much less a gun.
And what’s more, Palin’s website didn’t even correctly locate Tucson on the map! She MUST be an idiot!
Do you people know the difference between “crosshairs” and “target”? When you say you are going to target someone, it does not necessarily mean you are going to shoot them. When you target a financial goal, that is a good thing and nobody or no thing gets hurt.
When it is said something is in the crosshairs it means something bad is going to happen (to what is IN the crosshairs). The DCC map used the target symbol and targeted a position-Palin’s map had a list of NAMES under it, that somehow all the conservative blogs seem to omit. AND, she stated 3 opponents were quitting, lucky for them…
FYI: those “targets” are default map markers in most GIS programs used for creating maps…shmucks
For those of you who are familiar with English gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, if you enter Sarah L. Palin, which is her full name with the middle initial, you will get the numeric value of 666. For those who don’t understand, Google gematria. I have included two separate links to two separate gematria calculators below for you to see it first hand for yourself. See it and heed its meaning. I had always foreseen this since the 2008 election campaign. Now I proved it for everyone to see.
http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/count.html
http://real-world-news.org/numerics/english-gematria.html
Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden in English gematria has a numeric value of 660, which is the approximate number of the beast. But only Sarah L. Palin has the numeric value of 666, which is the biblical number of the beast.
http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/count.html
http://real-world-news.org/numerics/english-gematria.html
According to Hebrew gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, the name Sarah Palin, without the middle initial, also has a numeric value of 666.
The name “Sarah” in Hebrew is spelled:
Shin = 300
Resh = 200
He = 5
The name “Palin” in Hebrew is spelled:
Pe = 80
Aleph = 1
Lamed = 30
Nun = 50
Total = 666
Edgar Cayce, a world renowned psychic in the twentieth century, who was also known as, “The Sleeping Prophet” had this to say when asked the question below while in a self induced state of sleep –
Question :
In what form does the Antichrist come, spoken of in Revelation?
Answer:
In the spirit of that opposed to the spirit of truth. The fruits of the spirit of the Christ are love, joy, obedience, long-suffering, brotherly love, kindness. Against such there is no law. The spirit of hate, the Antichrist, is contention, strife, fault-finding, lovers of self, lovers of praise. Those are the Antichrist, and take possession of groups, masses, and show themselves even in the lives of men.
*sheesh* Wouldn’t “Wiki-gematria” be THE authority on such measures of predicting the style of “The Emporor’s New Clothes”, and the exact time the sky will fall on top of Henny Penny?
For those TRULY interested, cross reference the (mistranslated) mystic
#666 with Nostradamus’s charts on the day BEFORE the Mayan calendar predicts the “missing” astronomy sign. Then ask MSNBC to run a special
from the hours of 6:00-11:00 Eastern Time, with reruns all night long for
the basement/attic-dwelling gamers.
Surely some important folk like co-”founder” Huffington, Ed Shultz, and Frank Rich can “panel” this on Bill Maher?
42 CRJ Nice try at providing a rationale for thuggery and censorship.You surely know hown to target the first amendment. Patriots have Obama’s “death care” bill,and his failed presidency in their crosshairs, and something BAD will happen to them,and to you as well; no more hopes for free crack!BTW: Demtard,Obama’s Black Panther Goons scream fot the death of white people as they intimidate them at the polls, and Obama orders Holder not to prosecute them; yet you worry over crosshairs? Hypocrite!
I agree with your assumption.