With the massive and desperate MSM attack upon Sarah Palin, there is a lot of competition in the venom spewing department. However, Baltimore Sun columnist Susan Reimer seems determined to make a strong bid for the most seriously deranged of all attacks upon Palin in her most recent column which starts out on her assumption that the Alaska governor is unqualified:
So. This is what being pandered to feels like.
John McCain picked Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and mother of five, to be his running mate to woo women like me.
He seems to think that my girlfriends and I are so disappointed that an utterly qualified woman is not going to be president that we will jump at the chance to vote for an utterly unqualified woman for vice president.
So does that mean Reimer thinks Barack Obama, with no executive experience and a less than stellar incomplete Senate term is also "unqualified?" She doesn't say as Reimer warms up for more attacks upon Palin:
Does McCain think we will be so grateful for a skirt on the ticket that we won't notice that she's anti-abortion, a member of the NRA and thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution?
His selection of Sarah Palin is insulting on so many levels that I am starting to feel like the Geico caveman.
Reimer might be feeling like a Geico caveman because that is exactly how she is acting, especially when she brings up the condition of Palin's youngest child to make political points:
You want to look good to the evangelicals? Choose a running mate with a Down syndrome child.
You will feel even sicker when you next read what makes Reimer sick:
When James Dobson, the conservative Christian radio host who fancies himself a kingmaker, jumped up to say that the selection of Palin means he can now "pull the lever" for John McCain, I almost felt sick. I don't know what I'll do if she trots out the story of her 5-month-old baby to shore up the Republican base.
Reimer proceeds to boil down Palin's entire life to a "movie pitch":
Palin's personal story is very compelling, but it reads more like a movie pitch than a resume for national leadership.
Cultural condescension is then pulled out of Reimer's bag of attack tricks. You see, Sarah Palin is not (gasp!) Ivy League:
Barack Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, for heaven's sake. And the best McCain can do is a woman who minored in poly-sci at the University of Idaho?
Finally, Reimer sneers that Palin is "in over her head":
Palin might do just fine during the campaign. And she might do an excellent job of going to diplomatic funerals. (Which McCain once said is the only job description for the vice presidency.)
But it is more likely that she will be in over her head, and all the women McCain thinks he is courting will be cringing for our sister instead. And then we will be furious at him for setting one of us up to fail.
So what is the motivation of Susan Reimer and others in the MSM for their over the top venomous attacks upon Sarah Palin? Simple. They fear her and will go to any lengths to destroy her candidacy even at the risk of appearing to lack any sense of civility. And the ironic thing is that the more Reimer and her ilk attacks Sarah Palin, the more popular she becomes.
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.
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Obama on abortion
September 3, 2008 - 06:55 ET by ZachJonesIsHomeI am reposting this article because unfortunately a
teenager's pregnancy is in the news. It is shocking that Obama's campaign
would attack a teenager with vicious unfounded rumors that claim Gov. Palin
faked her pregnancy with her 5th child to cover for Bristol Palin. So it looks
like Abortion is in the news; and therefore, I am revisiting Sen. Obama's
position. The media has been covering these attacks against Gov. Palin's
teenage daughter and continues to hide the negative news about Obama. Please
consider:
http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/obama-would-evidently-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater/
zachjonesishome.wordpress.com
Any chance you could post
September 3, 2008 - 07:01 ET by BruzillaAny chance you could post where the Obama campaign said anything about this? To the best of my knowledge it was some nuts on the Daily Kos who were discussing this, and of course the media started talking about it (as they usually do). But I didn't see any references to it from the Obama campaign.
→ Zach
September 3, 2008 - 07:05 ET by Cool ArrowThis VP choice fits too perfectly into the gaping hole McCain's nomination created.
To wit: The demonstrated differences between the campaigns on how Down Syndrome children should be treated.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
"You want to look good to
September 3, 2008 - 06:59 ET by Troika37"You want to look good to the evangelicals? Choose a running mate with a Down syndrome child."
So only evangelicals have babies with Downs? Every other Downs baby out there was born to a Christian family? The rest were aborted?
I'm rather confident the data wouldn't support Mrs. Reimer's vitrol.
Susan Reimer v/s Peggy Noonan
September 3, 2008 - 13:31 ET by HillbillyKingSusan, "You want to look good to the evangelicals? Choose a running mate with a Down syndrome child."
Peggy, "And leave her kid alone, bitch."
Game, set and match to Noonan.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis 1878-1937
I think McCain should listen
September 3, 2008 - 07:00 ET by BruzillaI think McCain should listen to her comments as I think they are indicative of the folly of believing that the women who so vehemently supported Clinton would switch sides just to support any woman. These are mostly hardcore feminists, and the idea of voting for a conservative, pro-gun, anti-abortion, former beauty queen is as appealing as gargling razor blades. These NAGs want a woman president, but they want a woman like Hillary.
With respect, I disagree
September 3, 2008 - 08:40 ET by KC MulvilleIt's a straw man argument that McCain is only going after Hillary's voters. Unless you can prove to me that all women are Hillary voters, that might be true. But I don't think McCain is gambling his presidency to attract such a small slice. Instead, he's reaching to all women. Again, the media's most glaring evidence of bias is that they never even consider conservative or independent women.
I read an article recently that a substantial majority of undecideds are women. (I apologize, but I can't find the link.) He's not going after the women who had alredy committed to Hillary. He's going after the ones who were independent in the first place. McCain is targeting them, and if he gets a couple Hillary supporters, so much the better.
Exactly. It torques my
September 3, 2008 - 08:50 ET by Ruths husband BenExactly. It torques my wife no end when people assume because she is a woman and a professional she must be pro-choice. She isn't (and would never have voted for Hilary although she expressed concern to me about the media bias against HRC) and she is very excited about Palin as VP.
“it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” - Justice Antonin Scalia
There is no doubt that
September 3, 2008 - 08:57 ET by BruzillaThere is no doubt that McCain is going after all women voters and not just those who were upset that Hillary lost. But I think it's pretty obvious what McCain's strategy here is. His Palin vetting folks didn't start vetting until last Thursday, he never invited her to his VP enclave meetings, and Palin's speech is being re-written to make it less masculine as it was originally written for a man to speak. There's no doubt in my mind that McCain intended to name Lieberman as VP, and had to nix the idea after all the flack he got from fellow Republicans.
There is also no doubt in my mind that McCain and his advisors watched the DNC convention and heard all those Hillaryites pissing and moaning about how she had been mistreated and how they would vote for McCain, and decided that putting a woman on the ticket would get even more of these gals to vote for him. I think this was a major miscalculation as it's highly doubtful the NAGs who were ranting for the cameras would actually vote for McCain. They were mad, but they would get over it and vote for Obama as NAGs don't vote Republican. So the McCain crowd seriously misread the tea leaves and rushed to get a woman on the ticket, circumventing the vetting process in their haste, and now they're having to tell lie after lie to make it look like having Palin was the plan all along.
Palin's personal story is
September 3, 2008 - 07:08 ET by motherbeltPalin's personal story is very compelling, but it reads more like a movie pitch than a resume for national leadership.
Compared to Obama's, you mean?
<insert hysterical laughter>
Why is it that those who are the most insulting to Gov. Palin are women? It just proves that liberalism trumps womanhood.
The funniest part of this whole column is that after ripping Palin through the whole thing, she has the unmitigated gall to call her "our sister" at the end.
<best wide-eyed, wide-mouthed Chris Matthews imitation>.....
HAH!
Reimer
September 3, 2008 - 07:42 ET by BubbaJThe Baltimore Sun is a liberal rag only good for lining your bird cage. Local radio show commentator Tom Marr calls it the "Baltimore Scum".
Columnists like Susan Reimer are the reason my husband and I cancelled our subscription to the Sun years ago.
not even reading anymore of this
September 3, 2008 - 07:57 ET by kdizzydazeRidiculousness by this 'journalist'.
Palin was not chosen to pick up disaffected Hillary voters. Sure, she will help with the truly disaffected as opposed to the lying through their teeth trying to look "middle of the road" disaffected Hillary voters that are simply shills for the Obama camp and are there already.
Actually, I think this and all the other arguments for why Palin was chosen were all manufactured by the MSM. I really believe that McCain chose her for the simple reason that she is a true outsider and a reformer.
btw - Harvard Law Review editor is a compelling argument for a guy having more experience over a Governor for President??? Talk about reaching. This stuff would be hilarious if it weren't so serious.
Fixing the Obamanation of Abortion is the top priority
September 3, 2008 - 08:02 ET by c5thenJust imagine the leaders and visionaries of today and tomorrow that were murdered over the last 35 years. 40 million people who were not even given a chance to succeed.
The sad reality is that the Democrats can't pick someone with a Downs baby to cynically try and appeal to the evangelicals because they've killed all theirs.
Maybe Sarah Palin will be in over her head, but at least she knows how to swim. Barrack Obama would be even more significantly over his head and has no clue how to swim because he's been the affirmative action choice in most of his elections. He only has experience in following, not leading.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
I guess the left wing forgot something very important
September 3, 2008 - 08:39 ET by AndyRSomething that has been conveniently left out is the following:
Sarah Palin has more governing experience then Hillary Clinton. The thought that Clinton should be President because she was married to the disbarred, impeached former President is a joke. She is in her second term in the Senate. Still not what I would call "experienced."
Reimer is only following
September 3, 2008 - 09:47 ET by ConservativeRexReimer is only following her religion. As is well documented, the liberal religion is the state. It always has been. The most important sacrement in the liberal religion is Abortion. Attack abortion and the left fights back because to them it is an attack on their religion.
Reimer is a joke
September 3, 2008 - 10:03 ET by DanSI subscribe to the left wing Sun, and Reimer has always been ultra-left. I recall one whiny column where she complained that her teenagers could get into trouble at home while she was at work. It never dawned on her that she could pay for child care, quit work or get a job that allowed her to be home after school. She wanted taxpayers to pay for child care for her kids. It's a safe bet that McCain never intended for Palin to bring him votes from Socialists like Reimer. I doubt that she ever voted for any Republican in her entire life.
Reamer Should be her true last name...
September 3, 2008 - 10:20 ET by UtherpendDoes Reimer actually think that anyone believed she would ever consider voting for a Republican when she is a Ultra Liberal Democrat?
Susan should go back to doing...
September 3, 2008 - 10:47 ET by Ole_SargeSunday Living, family columns, about her garden, her kids, including a son that attended and graduated from the USNA and is now serving on active duty, and married.
I came late to reading her and I was shell shocked with her last column. I "thought" she was a nice lady about my age, boy was I ever wrong.
She's as vile as any of them. For shame.
The lady writing the
September 3, 2008 - 11:07 ET by Right2thePointThe lady writing the article sounds like she has a high threshold that doesn't include for her any of the qualification tests that Palin could easily pass.
Fine she is free to have her choice of candiate and is welcome to them, but the near outright trashing of another with little basis in fact undermines the credibility of the 'reporter' doing the column.
The "Lady" writing these
September 3, 2008 - 13:10 ET by NL207The "Lady" writing these criticisms has proven through doing so that she is no lady. In fact, this woman exactly fits the stereotype of the feminazis originally popularized by Limbaugh. I can think of no better description for Susan Reimer than 'sweat hog'.
She's clearly terrified.
September 3, 2008 - 13:51 ET by Reality CheckReality Check
"Does McCain think we will
September 3, 2008 - 13:58 ET by soulpile"Does McCain think we will be so grateful for a skirt on the ticket that
we won't notice that she's anti-abortion, a member of the NRA and
thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution?"
This is why they don't like her? She's pro-life, doesn't have a problem with guns, and asks that creationism be mentioned (not taught, as I can recall from the quotes I've seen) alongside a THEORY that is taught as FACT. (Look, evolution is a good theory, but it's not proven. Other viewpoints should be addressed in school, not ignored and put down. Just a tiny mention would be nice, like, "some people believe...." If you say such in a classroom now, you are in danger of being ostracized and attacked.)
These silly little jealous
September 3, 2008 - 14:07 ET by bigtimerThese silly little jealous specks of whiny leftist creatures of so-called women are making it easy for real women to let them know...
Hell hath no fury like women scorned...
We women out here will get you all my pretties...watch and see.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
BT
September 3, 2008 - 14:24 ET by MrShy"We women out here will get you all my pretties...watch and see."
Does this include their "little dogs", too?
:)
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