“Jokes” about raping her daughter? “Jokes” about photo-shopping heads onto her disabled son?

18 ethics cases files in a year? For stuff like wearing clothes with a logo? The FBI (for goodness sake) having to state on the record that they have no investigation into her? Half a million in legal fees in a year? She couldn’t afford to stay governor. She’d have been bankrupt.

And as regards Obama and terrorists, he served on a board with Ayers (a bomb-maker), and Ayers wrote in the 90s that Obama was writing a book in his house. That’s not politics of personal destruction, that’s calling attention to gross errors of judgement.

I used to think theagitator.com had really quite thoughtful commenters. Like me, they’d be anti-drugs-war, pro small government, anti police abuse. And I’m way to the right on this one. Either you’ve changed, or I’ve changed.

Wow, a couple of Chelsea jokes-that’s comperable.

Don’t mistake me-any cheap shots at kids is wrong and stupid.

But really-equivalency?

Also, the Palin kids aren’t ugly or akward looking so it would make no sense to try and make that kind of a joke.

During the campaign an MSNBC reporter who made a comment about Hillary pimping out Chelsea had a ton of shit come down on him-and Chelsea is in her 20′s.

Sarah and Piper went to a ballgame in NYC recently-no campaign going on mind you- and, well, you know the rest. Only a groundswell of complaints got Lettermen to apologize. I suppose that will teach Palin to display her kids like that.

Bill and Hillary Clinton. Let me ask you this – did the Presidential candidate of a major political party ever crack a joke about how ugly any of Sarah Palin’s children were? Because I don’t remember that happening. Of course, Democratic families are all fake anyway, since they’re not the Family Values party, therefore I suppose it never counts when John McCain is making Chelsea Clinton jokes.

…does this mean we won’t have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore?

Although her interviews with Gibson and Couric were awful…it didn’t much matter to me. My family was really pulling for her, so naturally I was too. But after awhile the far fetched attacks were just too much for me. I need something more and she never provided anything for my inner policy wonk (it ain’t very wonkish, but it’s there). I don’t need a lot on that, but I need something, anything to show me a candidate has thought about the pros and cons of their positions.

As a small “l” libertarian, I view the culture war as one of the lowest forms of political dialogue…and Palin swims in that stuff. I view the drug war as absurd and the PATRIOT Act as intrusive on liberty. I think both sides of the abortion debate are creepy. I don’t trust folks who want to mix their religion with my govt. And I certainly don’t trust those who wrap themselves in the flag when they’ve never bled or lost a personal treasure for it no matter how genuine they may be about it. In my view, Palin loves all of that stuff and makes absurd arguments and statements which includes the above issues.

And she’s not the only one making arguments like that. Limbaugh, hannity, et al make those arguments, but there’s one difference. They’re not running for a leadership position in the United States government.

Now that’s my reason for not liking her, others may have different reasons, but I really can’t speak to those.

Eh, not so much. Maybe by contrast with others in the political world, but I could stand on any downtown corner in any major city for five minutes and see many more-attractive women pass by. Not that I’m calling her repulsive or anything–at least she’s better-looking than Coulter or Ingraham, who also generate starbursts for being “hot”–which probably says more about the beholder than anything else. As for shmince, there are probably a lot of sheep farmers who are glad he doesn’t live too close by.

I’m sure you guys will tell me what I’m missing. If it’s her inexperience that causes you to hate her, I challenge you to look at our sitting president and realize he has lowered the bar on experience needed to be elected president.

Just my thoughts…

It’s official — I’m suffering from a horrible case of Palin fatigue. Andrew Sullivan isn’t ready to let it go; he links to Radley Balko, which is cool; and all roads, of course, lead to memeorandum. The show must go on … but I’m for re-runs….

By mainstream media do you mean Sean Hannity?

The State of Alaska leases land to oil companies and receives a royalty based on whatever deal is negotiated. This is the same thing that happens with private landowners who own the mineral rights.

It’s the same thing that happens in my old home state of Wyoming. They have a mineral trust fund that invests revenues for future needs and to keep taxes in the state low. The only difference is that Wyoming chooses not to distribute money from the fund to the citizens.

I believe that with Alaska they choose to make distributions to the citizens because the prices are so high there.

You shouldn’t let Palinphobia overide good sense.

I also didn’t vote for Obama, but I’d prefer him to Palin.
I’ll take corrupt and bright over corrupt and willfully ignorant.
We can claim we’ve got an intelligent president, even if he does seem to actively work at sucking. At least he seems to have a natural talent for it.

With the sexism the far right projects, it’s pretty iffy for one to use sexism as a defense.
As an added bonus, it wouldn’t be sexism no matter who it was. The people that mock her don’t do it *because* she’s a woman. They do it because she’s utterly ignorant. She just happens to be a woman. The sexism defense also doesn’t work all that well when you’re defending a known bigot.
It’s funny, someone mentioned she was a libertarian. My idea of libertarianism involves, you know, not hating minorities and gay people. It’s weird how that was a major part of her personality, the only real opinion the woman seemed to hold, yet people still claim she was a libertarian. If libertarians aren’t socially moderate/liberal, what seperates them from neocons?

As far as ganging up on her goes…She’s a public figure. Mocking public figures is what people do. Especially when the person gives them as much ammunition as Palin does. Doubly so when the person was as willing to attack other people relentlessly to further their own goals. I’m not actually sure what to make of the “very manly” bit. It seems a bit silly. Are you claiming no man should ever comment on anything a woman does? Did you apply the same rule to women you don’t agree with?

I don’t hate Sarah Palin. I found her anti-intellectualism and bigotry insulting, but I don’t wish for anything bad to happen to her.

Maybe, but she ought to have been able to name, say, the Economist, whether she really reads it or not. That’d likely be highbrow enough to impress, potentially relevant to her job as governor thanks to its international coverage, but ideologically safe/neutral – not like citing the NY Times or NBC.

Barring that, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes would have been good GOP-safe answers.

I mean, “what’s on your ipod” is now a standard softball question for candidates (whether they’re from podunk Alaska or Manhattan). Especially from an interviewer like Couric. I’d think minimal interview prep would include going over some answers for musical tastes, favorite TV shows, and reading material.