Sarah Palin is so “not ready for prime time”. The woman is an absolute train wreck…
Alan Colmes’ Liberaland
Speaking at a centennial event by the conservative Young America’s Foundation honoring Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin gave the opposite of a “morning in America” speech.
Revisiting themes familiar from her 2008 campaign, she said the nation was being shackled by high debt and taxes, dense government regulation and rising spending, often for programs that don’t work. She said a rush toward green energy was overlooking the nation’s oil and natural gas reserves, a choice that will cost jobs and drive up pump prices.
She blamed Washington leaders – an apparent reference to the Obama administration – for doing “everything in their power to stymie responsible domestic drilling.”
“This is dangerous. This is insane,” she said. “This is not the road to national greatness, it is the road to ruin.”
Palin seemed to equate our current direction with socialism, whining, “We could choose one direction or the other, socialism or freedom and free markets.” Not everyone present thought she invoked the spirit of the late president, particularly Reagan’s son Ron.
“Sarah Palin is a soap opera, basically. She’s doing mostly what she does to make money and keep her name in the news,” Ron Reagan says.
“She is not a serious candidate for president and never has been,” said Reagan, a political independent whose politics lean left.
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I bumped into your blog by accident and want to write about your sort of introductory post, that included references to racism in the U.S. I sometimes find that even progressives miss how virulent and widely distributed racism has become in the Obama period. May I suggest you go to Google Images and just enter “Obama” and the classic racist epithet of our era. Look at the numbers Google returns and remember that each represents not just a racist attitude but one held by people proud enough of their racism to want to post racist graphics on the Internet.
I also think that a core reason Palin is so useful to reactionary political forces is precisely because there’s nothing there. They can build support for Palin around each rightwing citizens own internal fears by having that person “read into” or project his or her own desires onlto Palin’s content-less by feel-good rants.
Both reflect different aspects of the authoritarian personality that the political right in the U.S. is increasingly pushing.
Hi Kacy and welcome to The Fifth Column.
You wrote: May I suggest you go to Google Images and just enter “Obama” and the classic racist epithet of our era.
Kacy, as a person of color, I’m quite aware of the escalated racist attacks from racists, Tea Partiers and in fact, the general public at large.
In fact I havent seen such virulent and blatant racism since the late 50′s and early 60′s (my coming of age era.)
Since Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the office of POTUS, and certainly after his campaign became viable and possible, the open vitriol, innuendos and hate has grown exponentially.
However, this blog is more about the craziness that goes on in politics beyond the racist aspect. I suppose by being a Black woman, some would hope that I shine a bright light on the issue. In fact, I do from time to time. However, there are many websites like Black Voices and The Grio that address these issues on a day to day basis.
I want this blog to be an all encompassing look at the insanity of our new idiocracy type governing systems and the craziness that perpetuate it.
Once again, thanks for stopping by.