House of Eratosthenes

There’s a fair-minded liberal out there who has taken the time to research this quote from Sarah Palin about “I can see Russia from my back porch” (actually, “house”)…and, of course, has found out the line was actually delivered by somebody else. To his credit, and contrary to the dictates of the left-wing playbook, he isn’t being quiet about it.

I found him through notorious factoid-cherry-picker Ed Darrell, who could learn a lesson from him about the proper treatment of inconvenient truths.

Be that as it may: This is the exception, NOT the rule. The effort to slander the intellect and character of Alaska’s former governor, lest there be any doubt, has been an overwhelming success. If we were getting people hired, as quickly as we were getting them convinced Palin was a book-burner, we’d have nothing to worry about with our economy.

And yet her candidates keep winning and winning.

The most devastating point to be made in favor of Palin’s influence, arrives with the admission that her personality has been successfully slimed. At this point, it becomes undeniable that the electorate is working hard to communicate a thought, and she has been carrying the banner on this thought since before it was cool.

Of course, I’ve been bullish on her since before it was cool, so I’m biased in saying this. But it can’t be denied: She is owed her due. Her idea is the logical one to try next, whether she is elected to something or not.

The guy who’s in charge now, is supposed to be repairing the damage done by His predecessor…and yet we can’t criticize what He’s doing, because His predecessor was doing the same thing. That’s supposed to solidify the charges of racism, since He has black skin and His predecessor had white skin, so He gets a pass since He’s just continuing the policies of the guy before. You know, the one whose messes He’s cleaning up.

That makes no sense at all.

Palin’s out there saying, Just stop it already! Stop living life as an American apologetically, stop it with the drilling moratoriums and the disaster of ObamaCare. Make it easier to run a business — easy=profitable, that’s what makes an economy stronger. Stop it with the screeds against “rich people.” Stop treating people who contribute to the economy, as if they’re the enemy. They’re not.

This, contrasted with what came earlier, makes perfect sense.

And if America isn’t ready for it, how come her candidates are consistently winning? The propaganda has been put out there that she’s a religious-zealot dimbulb…more people are buying into it, than not. Even Republicans are believing it…all of it…even the nonsense about “Quitter Palin.” But then they nominate her candidates. And, when these candidates are polled against their opposition, they do alright.

The effort to slime Sarah Palin has been an unqualified success.

But the effort behind the effort, is to make her ineffective.

This has become an irreversible failure. It may be the most failing-est failure in living memory, which says a lot. It has become embarrassing, by proxy, watching the latest “paramedic” try to jump start this cadaver, which is stinking up the joint as the defibrillator is applied yet another time.

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- Saint Carrie Prejean « Chamblee54 | 09/17/2010 @ 09:30
Sarah Palin’s ‘personality’ hasn’t been ‘slimed’.

It’s been revealed.

Given more than ample opportunity and access to present her ‘message’ she has succeeded admirably in demonstrating just how feeble a mind she has, how incurious she is and how poorly prepared she is for doing much beyond mouthing scripted words.

She’ll go far.
- Arthurstone | 09/17/2010 @ 12:22
Yeah, she’s so stupid and ineffective that there’s all this adrenaline involved in reminding us over and over that she shouldn’t be having any effect on anything.

Like never before, the “average” American voter has been crystallized into a discernible, singular image. He just loves Barack Obama’s personality but cannot take any more of His ideas. He slavishly follows the meandering trope that Palin’s overstayed her welcome, is stupid, inarticulate, uneducated, misinformed, ignorant…but he cannot disagree with her ideas unless he puts Arthurstone levels of effort into his attempt to disagree.

Which he isn’t willing to do anymore now that everyone he knows, knows two or three people who are unemployed.

What can I say, pal. There’s a time and a place to tell people “Hey you know this idea is stupid, I know it, I know you know I know it, but you gotta do it because the people pushing it are so charming!” 2008 provided an ideal climate for that message. 2010, not so much.
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2010 @ 12:54
Now. Now. Now.

I know just how much Palin means to you Morgan. You’ve turned her into a pinup for crying out loud.

You introduced the word stupid into the proceedings. I didn’t use the word. Nor did I mention Barack Obama. Two attempts at misdirection. And you introduce the ‘average American voter’. Make that three attempts.

I was discussing Palin’s ‘personality’.

My conclusion agrees with yours. I wrote that she’ll go far. She has. She will.

And the reason she will is that her audience identifies so strongly with her. They share most of the same characteristics as their heroine.

And I’m not listing them again.
- Arthurstone | 09/17/2010 @ 13:34
You introduced the word stupid into the proceedings. I didn’t use the word. Nor did I mention Barack Obama. Two attempts at misdirection. And you introduce the ‘average American voter’. Make that three attempts.

The post is about Sarah being slimed as, among other things stupid. You said her personality has not been slimed, it has been revealed. So stupid is part of the discussion.

The election is about, and ought to be about, Obama’s agenda. He is, ipso facto, part of the discussion.

It is also, by definition, about the average American voter. So that’s part of the discussion.

Three times you say there is misdirection, and three times you are wrong.

And for two years your leftist pals have been trying to make Palin ineffectual…for two years, you have failed. And now, we see all those mean things she said at the RNC/08 about your Special Guy, are right on the money.

Now, as to whether or not you can go far emulating the less desirable personality traits of a constituency, there really isn’t any need to go pointing that out at all. It’s self-evident. Look at our current President for proof of that.
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2010 @ 13:56
I sympathize Morgan.

Truth be told there really isn’t much to say about Sarah Palin so I can’t really blame you for not wanting to talk about her.

But it’s fun to dress her up as Wonder Woman and pretend isn’t it?
- Arthurstone | 09/17/2010 @ 14:30
Ninety percent of the fatigue with her, seems to be felt by the people who are doing ninety percent of the talking.

She’s not going away anytime soon.

What is this primal impulse liberals seem to have, to constantly make these declarations about what the subject of the discussion is? I don’t represent the “average American” any better than you do…but I think the electorate is ready to vote on the best way to revive the economy.

I’m guessing you think anything besides “I can see Russia from my house” is off-topic. Well, you’re out-voted on this one.
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2010 @ 14:36
Relax Morgan.

Your heart throb may well be the next President.

To answer your question though I was only opining as to the subject of the discussion I was engaged in. I don’t, as some do, presume to speak for others. Nor do I, as do too many others, put words into their mouths.

And you’re guessing wrong. The Russia thing is a gaffe. Everyone makes them.

The not holding a United States passport until age 42 is a choice.

And a bad one for a future leader of the free world. Unless one accepts that ignorance of the rest of the world is a prerequisite for the Presidency. And her pitiful, oh woe is me, explanation is worse yet:

“I’m not one of those who maybe come from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduated college and their parents get them a passport and a backpack and say, ‘Go off and travel the world.’ Noooo. I worked all my life. In fact, I usually had two jobs all my life, until I had kids. … I was not part of, I guess, that culture.”

I know plenty of people my age who headed off to see the world with a passport and a backpack. I know very few who didn’t pay for the trip themselves.

Enjoy your weekend!
- Arthurstone | 09/17/2010 @ 15:38
That’s what I like about you, Arthur.

Everything that doesn’t help the point you’re trying to make, is off topic. And then you think you’ve made the point, by demonstrating differences between the people who might actually solve our problems, and the people who are more like you.

Well, at least if she becomes President, we’ll have a President with a background that can be explored. That will be a welcome “change,” huh?
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2010 @ 15:58
And what I like about you Morgan is your ability to ‘help the point one is trying to make’ is to simply ignore any reasonable question or observation which goes against your premise. We currently have, as you know perfectly well Morgan, a President ‘with a background that can be explored’. It won’t be any different if Palin were elected.

It’s just that the results of the search would be so boring.

Now I hope I’m not putting words into your mouth Morgan but do we agree that Sarah Palin is definitely not one of the elite? In any way, shape or form?
- Arthurstone | 09/17/2010 @ 16:21
And what I like about you Morgan is your ability to ‘help the point one is trying to make’ is to simply ignore any reasonable question or observation which goes against your premise.

Pardon me, but observing the age at which Sarah Palin got her passport is simply not reasonable. It is an observation gleaned by those who watch Katie Couric’s show…which is kind of like watching Oprah’s show. Tell me this isn’t the definition of a true intellectual nowadays.

We currently have, as you know perfectly well Morgan, a President ‘with a background that can be explored’.

Really? At what age did He first get His passport? And did He pay his own way when He did His juvenile globetrotting? If not, who picked up the tab, and why? How much did His clothes cost? Google away, try to get some straight answers. Pardon me if I don’t wait for you.

Now I hope I’m not putting words into your mouth Morgan but do we agree that Sarah Palin is definitely not one of the elite? In any way, shape or form?

Well let’s see…she probably wouldn’t uphold the drilling moratorium. Her answer to a frail economy and ballooning deficit probably wouldn’t be to spend more money. She hasn’t said anything like “I just think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody,” or “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”

The point is, Palin is beating the opposition at their own game — which is, be folksy, connect with the hoi polloi emotionally, and then your ideas don’t have to make any sense. Except her ideas actually make sense. And the people who don’t want to be ready for her ideas, are anyway, because the folks in charge have bungled things up so badly that nobody can afford to maintain the status quo.

The people whose political leanings should enjoin some sympathy for the incumbents — they’re more pissed off than anybody else. Bottom line: If this isn’t your idea of failure, I’d hate to see what is.

I’m glad you’re looking forward to a good weekend, Arthur.
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2010 @ 16:48
This demonstrates it is more difficult to argue against weak opinions than strong ones, and more pointless still to argue with people whose opinions are not deserving of respect, and perhaps not intended to be.

I could go on all day why Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President, but I also don’t know anyone who is. Compared to Barack Obama, she is a giant. That, and eight years in the White House, will get us nowhere. But maybe hell won’t be as bad.
- jamzw | 09/17/2010 @ 21:15
Arthur is like the fog, jamzw. He is everywhere, and arguing with him is like punching it.

I think his intended tactic is to remain calm and annoy the competition into some kind of a frenzy. I also think, on this occasion, it backfired.

Between now & November, look for a lot more.
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2010 @ 21:48

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