You know, all of Sarah Palin’s actions make perfect sense if she’s a vampire/werewolf hybrid. Palin is still my favorite Republican right now, but some of her supporters are starting to creep me out. I mean, we’re not to Ron Paul levels, but it looks like it’s getting there. I can understand people being protective of her since she’s taken some of the most vile attacks I’ve ever heard any politician get, but nothing excuses freak outs. Not if you want to be called a conservative.

If you ever go to the Daily Kos and read the stuff there, if anyone disagrees with someone on one thing, they assume the person must be evil and disagree with them on everything. That’s how a liberal mind works. I...

You know, all of Sarah Palin’s actions make perfect sense if she’s a vampire/werewolf hybrid. Palin is still my favorite Republican right now, but some of her supporters are starting to creep me out. I mean, we’re not to Ron Paul levels, but it looks like it’s getting there. I can understand people being protective of her since she’s taken some of the most vile attacks I’ve ever heard any politician get, but nothing excuses freak outs. Not if you want to be called a conservative.

If you ever go to the Daily Kos and read the stuff there, if anyone disagrees with someone on one thing, they assume the person must be evil and disagree with them on everything. That’s how a liberal mind works. I don’t care if you can parrot the right things to say on taxes and support the right candidates - if you have a tendency to freak out over politics, you have a liberal mindset. As conservatives, we’re supposed to have too many actual problems to deal with in our real lives to have time to freak out over every little thing in politics. Also, we’re supposed to have more sense than to get than emotionally invested in a politician (I give an exception for Reagan since he’s dead; everyone else I’m prepared to disagree with).

When we rebuild the Republican Party, I’m all for getting rid of the squishes - or, at least, ignoring them - but we don’t need freaks either. If you can’t keep be rational or keep any perspective, then you’re not helping. You’re just scaring people. We need a Republican version of Daily Kos like we need syphilis. I have moons to nuke and dinosaur to arm; I need practical people on my side.

clip-on-tie, That is by far the best comment I have read at clipmarks. I agree with you. I have never thought of myself as a Republican. I've always voted for moderates or Democrats. I've been paying really close attention the last couple of years and my heart is changing. McCain is the first Republican I voted for in a National election. I voted for him because of Sarah Palin. My admiration for Palin is grounded in her connection with reality. I love her humility. I love the fact she is always cheerful, even after all she has been through. I love her sincerity and that she is not cunning or calculating. I love the idea that she is not part of the political machinery. I also love that the pu...

clip-on-tie, That is by far the best comment I have read at clipmarks. I agree with you. I have never thought of myself as a Republican. I've always voted for moderates or Democrats. I've been paying really close attention the last couple of years and my heart is changing. McCain is the first Republican I voted for in a National election. I voted for him because of Sarah Palin. My admiration for Palin is grounded in her connection with reality. I love her humility. I love the fact she is always cheerful, even after all she has been through. I love her sincerity and that she is not cunning or calculating. I love the idea that she is not part of the political machinery. I also love that the pundits think she is stupid. It says more about them than her. I feel strange saying this. I think I am now a Republican because of Sarah Palin and the fact that Democratic Party really let me down during the Bush years following 9/11.

You do ROCK, clip-on-tie. Thanks.

As in, she lied to us about being opposed to earmarks and opposed to the bridge to nowhere while running the largest per capita federal money grab of any state in the union.

Not to mention her bluster about "redistribution of income" and "socialism" while her state writes checks for thousands of dollars to every one of its citizens for doing nothing at all.

Not to mention her gross exaggeration about Obama "palling around with terrorists" - when he had an acquaintance who was never convicted of a few violence against property crimes that happened 40 years earlier.

Or that she reads "all of them," when asked about what periodicals she frequents.

She's a masterful demagogue, whose greatest...

As in, she lied to us about being opposed to earmarks and opposed to the bridge to nowhere while running the largest per capita federal money grab of any state in the union.

Not to mention her bluster about "redistribution of income" and "socialism" while her state writes checks for thousands of dollars to every one of its citizens for doing nothing at all.

Not to mention her gross exaggeration about Obama "palling around with terrorists" - when he had an acquaintance who was never convicted of a few violence against property crimes that happened 40 years earlier.

Or that she reads "all of them," when asked about what periodicals she frequents.

She's a masterful demagogue, whose greatest skill is creating feeding frenzies while appearing so perfectly innocent as to create outcries of sympathy when asked serious questions.