Sarah Palin 2012

[Hapax Legomenon]

[YMix]

[noddy]

[Tinker]

[Demon of Undoing]

I can't believe that people anywhere are still talking about her. I sign it off to the same sort of retardation in the culture that is responsible for supporting " reality TV". I can't remember ever hearing of someone perpetuated that long for that little content. Its not a rational thing, there's just not enough there, pro or con, to deal with it that long.

I think this is the first time I have put her name in a post for a couple of years, and it's still too much attention for the merits of the experience.

[Tinker]

[Demon of Undoing]

[Tinker]

[Demon of Undoing]

[Tinker]

Who is that? IT'S AL QAEDA!!! Give 'em Hell Al Qaeda!

Our country's getting back to normal and we owe it all to Osama bin Laden.

[Simple Minded]

[Tinker]

[Simple Minded]

[Tinker]

Yes, I am in my early 30s.

The comparison of Obama and Palin just doesn't interest me. I think it's stupid. Comparisons between Obama and Bush are more apt. But I don't really give a shit. You don't like Obama that's fine. Don't like Obama.

It doesn't matter, looks like Palin ain't in on the campaign thing so none of it matters. She can have a long career as an airhead pundit for all I care. She can quit as many ventures as she likes and she'll get no more than a giggle from me when they mention it on the Daily Show.

[Simple Minded]

Tinker,

You never disappoint me. As I have said before, politicians and candidates are indicators of our culture.

The mob on both sides of the aisle demand larger than life candidates, presidents who are only too human, and the trivializing of people "on the other side" with whom we disagree.

We want our candidates to talk about "hope and change," "compassionate conservatism," or to be "the man from Hope!"

Then when they are in office, we want them to go on The View and talk about Snookie, talk about their favorite baseball/football/basketball teams, tell a story, look at pictures of them eating ice cream cones with their families, fly over an area hit by a flood or a hurricane, with a pained look on their face, then deliver a 20 second sound bite about the "horiffic scope" of "tragic disaster" and "human suffering," or talk about how the people we disagree with are treating them unfairly.

Human nature is ubiquitous. Palin and Obama are analogous because that those are the products people wish to buy. Both parties understand the marketing strategy. Emotions are not tools of cognition, but generating that emotional bond, or pulling on those heartstrings is crucial to winning the election.

As I have also said before, the sense of loyalty that people form to a particular "cult of personality" is fascinating. "I'm brand X and we are obviously morally and intellectually superior to those brand Y people over there!"

Now lets argue about whether Chevy or Ford makes the best truck.......

Who do you think would prevail in a fist fight? Ronald McDonald or the Burger King?

[Demon of Undoing]

Burger King would totally pwn that painted freak. Clowns only scare children; His Majesty has a Varangian guard.

[Colonel Sun]

[YMix]

[Ibrahim]

[Sparky]

Yeah. They're the shitest Zaphod Beeblebroxes ever.

[Hapax Legomenon]

[Tinker]

Actually the only news channel I watch is New York 1 which is great for local politics. I think they maybe had something about Sarah Palin once or twice.

But I agree, Sarah Palin's biggest fans are on the left. I've said as much in the past. It's the hatecrushes that drive her popularity.

[crashtech]

Sooo.... you've abandoned the hate, then? Good for you.

[Azrael]

[Colonel Sun]