IS THIS A PREVIEW OF THE “FIRST IN THE SOUTH” PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY?
By WILL FOLKS || I hope Sarah Palin runs for president in 2016 …
Don’t get me wrong, I would never vote for her. She’s had multiple chances to emerge as a substantive voice in the limited government, individual liberty movement … and has failed repeatedly to do so. Rather than engaging in grown-up policy debates, Palin chose the path of least resistance (i.e. pandering to the intellectually incurious in the same vein as Barack Obama did – albeit from a vastly different ideological direction).
And Palin isn’t a genuine less government gal … she’s one of those “neoconservatives.”
So why would I want Palin to run? That’s easy: Hits. Sessions. Page Views. Unique visitors (i.e. all the metrics that make the internet go). Were Palin to run for president in 2016, this website would be littered with traffic.
How do I know this? Because Palin is always saying off-the-wall stuff, like her recent suggestion that Obama should be spanked for his derogatory comments about stay-at-home mothers.
“On behalf of former and current stay-at-homers, including my girlfriends who still get together to bake cookies for the bake sale … and volunteer to coach kids ball teams, and man the church’s food bank, and entertain latchkey kids, and all that other obnoxiously ‘housewifey’ stuff, the President needs to be spanked,” Palin said this week.
Ummm …
Let me be clear … Palin is absolutely right on this issue. Obama is way out of line for his suggestion that a mother staying home with her children is “not a choice we want Americans to make.” My wife stays at home with my four kids … and on top of that she manages to find time to run all of my businesses, craft like a fiend and volunteer at our church.
She – and millions of stay-at-homers like her – are exactly what America needs.
Obama’s comment is indeed insulting – and indicative of a liberal mindset that seeks to cede more and more control of children’s lives from the home to the state (were education takes a back seat to indoctrination).
But Palin’s “spanked” comment – while a boon for web traffic – does little to advance the debate. It’s vintage Palin – pandering to the lowest common denominator on the right wing of the American ideological spectrum in an effort to maintain her personal relevance.
Still, I hope she runs. While the national debate doesn’t need Sarah Palin, my advertising sales do.
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39 comments
Remember when McCain lost an election by picking her to run as his VP?
Palin made McCain a credible candidate. HOWEVER she is out of control with her comments and is as narcissistic as Obama.
Palin and Rand Paul want to destroy the Republican Party with their 3rd party nonsense.
No, Palin made McCain a laughing stock candidate.
She energized the base and made McCain a viable candidate.
Please let me do the thinking, Rocky.
More lies, myths, and fables. McCain is forever stained by a decision he never made for he person he never wanted. And the people who buy your lies are the same people who don’t think when they vote. They are called low information voters. God help up if people like you, and the person who liked your comment, do the thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rOCDG_btk
I did not know that R’s have low information voters!
She did. He learned a lot from her and has done an exemplary job of keeping up the tradition without her help since then.
Palin was the only reason I voted for McCain. And I am a lifelong Republican.
Yes sir. Rouge please read all these profane and hateful comments about this lady and our country-and flashback tonight when we take America back from Lucifer Obama and his playmates from Hell. :-)
Haha. I think it’ll be funny if they only get to 50. And Biden breaks the tie everytime lol.
Joe Manchain in West Virginia is prepared to switch parties if that happens.
Oh the irony. The epic, epic irony.
Funny, she was the only reason my wife voted against him. And the lifelong republican vote is not what McCain needed to get anyway.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
Haha she provided enough energy for Barack to win by nearly 200 electoral votes.
Um. Rand Paul is going to seek the GOP nomination. Make no doubt about that.
Spanking? What? That sounds like something Bill Clinton would ask for.
I volunteer for the job.
I wish she’d just go ahead and pose for Playboy and get it over with
Hustler! They show “pink”.
You and “one_big_dude” have stole my lines!!
I’ve been saying/expecting her to pose for years – just like that girl (seems like her first name was Jessica) who the far right used against Clinton and then posed for either Playboy or Hustler.
Seems like I recall her getting a nose job and then spreading for a mag. The right-wing nuts immediately shut the hell up about her and put her back on the bus to Arkansas..
If she figures she can make as much or more from showing pink as going around the country and “energizing” those who cannot see through her, she’ll do it. I bet if Larry Flynt made one of those $1,000,000 offers he is famous for to her, she’d do it.
The far right was not the only ones going against Clinton and using his many indiscretions with women to do it. It was pretty much the whole GOP — which was nowhere near being all far to the right at the time. btw, Clinton was then and still is a scumbag.
I’ll bet that something along those lines could be made into a vote getting strategy.
A Palin sex tape could be as successful as a Kim Kardashian sex tape, who knew of her before then?
Maybe she and Bristol will do a two-fer!!!!!!!!!
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For anyone wanting to hear the actual quote, with context:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/sahm.asp
Apparently it is “insulting” for Obama to say Americans being forced to drop their careers to stay at home with the kids, thus hurting their earning potential later on, kind of sucks and we should probably do something to alleviate that where we can. You know, because wanting someone to have more than one option is totally being a dick.
He is more interested in putting kids in daycare away from parents than helping those who want to stay home or helping them return to their career after caring for children.
Does her “housewifey” stuff include drunken brawls with the kids?
She wants to spank him? I think she’s huntin’ for the other dark meat. Guess Todd just don’t have the tube she wants.
She’s getting sassy. She’s gonna go Wassila redneck on Obama.
Palin gave up her credentials as a politician to become a” celebrity”……
Sarah Palin? Spanking? Didn’t they already make this movie? I think it’s called “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?”
A walking talking statement of everything that is wrong with US politics. She is literally the lowest common denominator.
What do I have to say to Palin to get her to spank me?
I’ve been a bad, baaaaaad boy.
The Republicans have Sarah Palin and the Democrats have Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
If she didn’t use the word “spanking”, there is no story. Do we blame her or us.
She should have spanked her kids. And normally I wouldn’t say that.
Sarah Palin should be slapped.