My “silly little narrative” came from a conservative website.

My, aren’t we a bit dim. You stated explicitly, “Daniel Larison gets it right, too”. That, dearie, is you taking ownership of the ‘narrative’. The politics of the individual who wrote the words is irrelevant; you agree with its ideas. His words are now your words. Also, you offered up more than just a single post, so your overarching theme of a sinister, dastardly GOP manipulating a brainless electorate and trying to pull a fast one encompasses all your posts.

Nice try, though.

What “real-world experience” do you imagine you have over myself or the persons I’ve quoted?

‘Real-world experience’ means simply that most of the ‘conservative’ posters here, as you would refer to them (although that is often not the case), have been around enough and are sharp enough observers of the political scene to know that your claim that you know “many conservatives, liberals, and moderates alike who regard the choice of Mrs. Palin as nuts” is utter and complete horses**t. There simply is not that kind of groundswell opposition from any quarter that is not primarily liberal. You’re simply not going to assemble a representative sampling of conservatives and moderates who would characterize the pick as ‘nuts’. It was a surprising pick to be sure, but Palin appeals to too many people on too many different levels and is too non-threatening personally to be able to make that kind of statement and expect people to believe it.

In other words, you’re a liar. Unless you’re from Alaska, and hang out with some of the political enemies whom she has left in her wake, you simply don’t have any evidence to back up the claims you’re making. (Remember, even in Alaska, where people know her VERY well, 83% approve of her job as governor.)

If you had any kind of experience with this board, you’d know that you just can’t get away with those sorts of nonsensical claims. You need to be rather insulated to believe otherwise (i.e., inexperienced).

Still, if you want to do a experiential compare and contrast with me or any of the other posters on this site who are game, you go right ahead. You start, sweetie. Tell us your background.

The snide tone of many of the comments here — perhaps it is apropo the fawning approval of Mrs. Palin …

The word is ‘apropos’, not ‘apropo’, and your sentence structure in the use of the word is wrong. You’re missing a preposition.

Nevertheless, it’s revealing that you don’t consider statements such as calling Sarah Palin Hugo Chavez, comparing her Christian beliefs to those of Hitler, and calling her racist while implying that those who support her are stupid and ignorant, you don’t think that these count as ‘snide’ commentary?

… who has been described by some of her fellow Alaskans as racist, vindictive, and mean.

Citations, please. Barring those, or alternatively revealing where you live in Alaska and what your true motives are, we simply must conclude that you are full of it.

Frankly, you’re rather embarrassing*.

* The language you use is quite effeminate/effete. You wouldn’t happen to be the girlfriend of that fired trooper, would you?