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NorthernLite
12:08 AM

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Palin likes my state because it's so easy to ID on a map. I just wish that in addition to a Thumb we had a middle finger we could point at her.
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bluebears
11/19/09

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Honestly given some of the commentary from the people at the Palin rallies during the campaign I was expecting much MUCH worse.
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tiredfairy
11/19/09

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...liberals have something psychologically "not alive" in them? That's never been "quickened"?

Either they're talking about Highlander, or accusing liberal minded people of being dead.

I may not agree with these folks, but I certainly don't think that sort of thing. Sheesh.
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Caeristhiona
11/19/09

@tiredfairy: not alive + not quickened = sounds like a first-trimester fetus to me.
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BetteD
11/19/09

@tiredfairy: It almost feels like a Scientology thing. Ewww
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Ginmar Rienne
11/19/09

@tiredfairy: If they're not alive, it's okay to kill them for reals.
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tiredfairy
11/19/09

@Caeristhiona: I was thinking something really similar. So. Creepy.
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tiredfairy
11/19/09

@BetteD: If only someone had mentioned volcanoes and Xenu.
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BetteD
11/19/09

@tiredfairy: But really, what conversatin isn't enhanced by the inclusion of volcanoes and Xenu?

#tips
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limber
11/19/09

@tiredfairy: Religious code. Has to be religious code. She's been Touched by an Angel and you haven't, s'there, etc.
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tiredfairy
11/19/09

@BetteD: Also pirates.
I for one am endlessly fascinated by volcano ghost things.
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tiredfairy
11/19/09

@Ginmar Rienne: That what scares. I may really hate a lot of conservative and religious rhetoric, but I don't consider them non people. Ergh.
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Ginmar Rienne
11:30 AM

@tiredfairy: Yeah, I'd like them to stop thinking I'm not a human being but I don't want to kill them. These people do.

#tips
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Lymed
11/19/09

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I hear somebody this morning on who said she likes her because she is regular, like a neighbor. Why do people want ordinary people to run the country? I want the people running the country to be extraordinary. I want them to be smarter than me.

Another woman said you can trust Sarah Palin. Believe the lie.
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KATE!
11/19/09

@Lymed: "Why do people want ordinary people to run the country? I want the people running the country to be extraordinary. I want them to be smarter than me."

THIS. I really don't understand why "intellectual" has become such a pejorative term. I want leaders who are well versed in political theory, history, economics, philosophy, etc. I want leaders who know what the fuck they're doing. This isn't the rotary club, its a goddamn country.
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willwriteforfood
11/19/09

@KATE!: I know, right? I'm IN a Rotary Club (don't ask. It's a work thing) and I would not vote for 99.9 percent of my fellow club members. In fact, I'd be scared.

I remember on Election Night, I was approached by one of the three other open liberals in the club and invited to an Obama celebration party. He had to whisper the invitation to me over our chicken plates, lest someone overhear and we get caught up in a heated discussion about how Palin is genuine and Obama is elitist.
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Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux
11/19/09

@Lymed: My neighbors constantly slam the door, swear, and yell at their dog.
Why would I want one of them in the White House?
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burbere002
11/19/09

@KATE!: It's a new take on the whole Cincinnatus thing. The Roman dictator reluctantly leaves the simple life of farmer to take on the burden of public life in a time of civic crisis -- not for glory or power, but from a sense of duty. There's a deep strain of this in American politics/history...it masks the unpleasant vanity of ambition and lends a virtuous patina to the whole enterprise.

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rachelpi
11/19/09

@KATE!: It'd be nice to think that the anti-intellectualism in campaigning is recent, but Americans have been going for the "guy I'd like to have a beer with" candidate for ages. Except back then, it was the "guy I'd like to drink cider with" candidate. I mean, that's basically the campaign Jackson ran and the "have a cider with me" thing was William Henry Harrison's entire campaign in 1840. He ran very successfully as the "common American" against that dirty elitist Martin van Buren, everyone of course forgetting that van Buren was actually, originally, the working class son of a tavern-keeper from New York and Harrison was born into an extremely prominent and wealthy political family in Virginia (we're talking father was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, related by marriage to the Lees and Washingtons kind of prominent).

I'd like to have the smartest guy running the country, too, but we have a time-honored tradition of not picking that guy.
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merc6point9
11/19/09

@Lymed: I think they want "regular" people who are not smarter than them because people who are not very smart do not see nuance. That means that whenever someone starts talking about things intellectually they become confused and assume that they are going to be tricked. If you don't understand your world then you'll live in a cloud of suspicion. Ergo they don't want to elect politicians who they feel are smarter than they are because they don't believe they can trust them. I also think that's why you keep hearing these people say they feel like they can trust her.
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whynotshesaid
11/19/09

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"Not psychologically alive?" Is that person saying all liberals are zombies?
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la.donna.pietra
11/19/09

@whynotshesaid: We do like brains.
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Diziet_Sma
11/19/09

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The antidote.

Note: I love that she says 'ass-backwards' ass-backwards.
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DexterHaven
11/19/09

@Diziet_Sma: Love love love.
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Elaken
11/19/09

@Diziet_Sma: Oh, I now need to find a reason to use that phrase about peeling back the layers of the onion and there being no onion.
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BearDownCBears
11/19/09

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These people are nutbags, but...I miss Michigan.
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Erda
11/19/09

@BearDownCBears: Jezzie Michiganders unite!
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WashingMyHair
11/19/09

@Erda: Saginaw, represent!
(though I moved east once I became a adult)
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badmutha
11/19/09

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I didn't know that "destiny" was an attribute, that someone "has destiny." Unless, of course, that is your child's name.
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labratintraining
11/19/09

@badmutha: I have "fate" because my parents didn't want to pay for "destiny."
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Diziet_Sma
11/19/09

@labratintraining: I like the idea of 'Fate' as a name…
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Jack_Burton
11/19/09

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Don't you know that we're the right-wing mob? Don't anger us, we have the numbers today and we remember your face.

Oh yeah?
Liberals are psychically well-endowed!
(It comes from thinkin'.
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colormeroutine
11/19/09

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"She's alive inside, and that radiates energy, and people who are not psychologically alive inside are fascinated by that."

So, wait, you basically just admitted that you like Palin because her bounciness appeals to your stupidity?
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cate3710
11/19/09

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As long as I take the "right-wing mob" comment as tongue in cheek, none of these quotes terrify me too much. Is this the scariest stuff they could find?
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hughman
11/19/09

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From Politico :

"Aside from his showing that it truly is a campaign rally rather than a book signing, there are a couple of interesting observations re: the fans. One man notes that Palin is for 'putting the homos back in the closet,'"

[dyn.politico.com]
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whynotshesaid
11/19/09

@hughman: She's also in favor of putting bitches back in the kitchen and Negros at the back of the bus, doncha know.
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hovy
11/19/09

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"Don't you know that we're the right-wing mob? Don't anger us, we have the numbers today and we remember your face."

I bet they also have fancy, 1000-count white sheets and nicely braided ropes too.
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Snowbunny
11/19/09

@hovy: That's a really high thread count for sheets you're just going to be cutting holes in.
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hovy
11/19/09

@Snowbunny: They're the county fair 1000-count sheets for $25 a set.
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
11/19/09

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I have rarely been so embarassed to claim Grand Rapids as my hometown. It's a perfidious place, and a great illustration that the road to hell is, in all point of fact, paved with good intentions.

If you ever want a good demonstration in the very real existence of a right-wing conspiracy, look no further than Rich de Vos. Go ahead, I promise you'll be suitably horrified.
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molly pocket
11/19/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: I'm from a little town just south of Grand Rapids, and I've always loved the city, if not the politics and ideology.
Since you're also a native, here's a funny line from Salon this morning:

West Michigan is, by far, the most conservative part of the state. It was settled by Dutch Calvinists, members of one of the country's most Republican ethnic groups. (Amsterdam may be so libertine because all the religious folks moved to Michigan.)

Link: [www.salon.com]
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
11/19/09

@molly pocket: Ha! That's spot-on. And you're entirely right, Grand Rapids is a beautiful place. The east shore of Lake Michigan is one of my favorite places on the whole globe.

I just wish the politics weren't so...odd. Betsy de Vos? Truly, one of the great American nutbags.
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molly pocket
11/19/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Agreed! What a nut she is. Is that our punishment for lovely Lake Michigan?
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NellMood
11/19/09

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I don't mind the posterity quote, because U.S. history has tons of horrible people. And I love the possible destinies of either being president or hosting a talk show- those are practically the same thing, anyway, right? The quote from the 8 year old, however, is terrifying.
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whynotshesaid
11/19/09

@NellMood: Yeah, the posterity quote was funny. History isn't just made up of awesome winners who did amazing things. It's also got big-time losers who pulled some serious boners. In fact, I'd say that's what most of history is - idiots doing stupid shit.
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