Sarah Palin, Armageddon, and Hunting Wolves and Bears From Airplanes
It seems as if the prospect of having an extinction-level-event proponent running the country won’t keep people from voting for PALIN / McCain. Since Sarah Palin apparently has no problem with secessionist movements, do we need one in the saner parts of the continental U.S.? I really thought we’d made inroads against the Jesuslanders in the past several years, but apparently not.
During the course of the GOP convention, I was accused of being “over the top” and mean spirited when it comes to my views of Sarah Palin. I’ve been quite clear why the woman scares the beejeezus out of me. She’s an end-timer. Her church and her religion believe that the end of the world as we know it will happen during the course of her (and presumably, my) lifetime.
There was a time in the not so distant past when such religious views would be regarded as extreme. It’s not that someone shouldn’t be able to hold those views - that’s fine, and even religious beliefs borne from the Book of Revelations are constitutionally protected - but a more thoughtful (and informed) American electorate would not let anyone holding those views anywhere near the “Thermonuclear War” button.
This past week, the Republican Party nominated such a person to the Vice Presidency of the United States of America.
Think about that for a moment.
This is not so far removed from nominating Rev. Jim Jones or Marshall Applewhite (or David Koresh, or even Osama bin-Laden) to run with John McCain:
Heaven’s Gate believed that the planet Earth was about to be recycled (wiped clean, refurbished and rejuvenated), and that the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately. While the group was formally against suicide, they defined “suicide” in their own context to mean “to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered”,and believed that their “human” bodies were only vessels meant to help them on their journey.
The group believed in several paths for a person to leave the Earth and survive before the “recycling”, one of which was hating this world strongly enough: “It is also possible that part of our test of faith is our hating this world, even our flesh body, to the extent to be willing to leave it without any proof of the Next Level’s existence”…
They are / were all religious nuts and armageddonists. But you wouldn’t let any of them near the nuclear trigger, would you? Of course not. So why would anyone vote to let someone like Sarah Palin inside a security controlled environment with that level of access and potential command-and-control authority? It’s insanity writ large.
But that won’t keep the GOP from touting her as the second coming of Maggie Thatcher Ronald Reagan. In fact, if the PALIN / McCain ticket does lose this year, expect her to assume Reagan’s mantle during the next election cycle in 2012.
Anyway, the prospect of having an extinction-level-event proponent running the country won’t keep people from voting for PALIN / McCain. But this might:
Then again, probably not. Anyone appalled by the above video isn’t voting for the GOP anyway. It’s not going to change any GOP hearts and minds. (But it might spur a few Dems to work harder.)
So, I have a question. If you were king (or queen) of the Democratic Party response team, how would you recommend framing Sarah Palin as unfit for the presidency (because that’s what we have to do)? Or do we just need a friggin’ secessionist, nuclear-free movement here on the East Coast, because we’re never going to be able to adequately respond to the radicalism of the Jesuslanders anyway? Help me out here.
Adding: Or, does Sean Quinn, hockey aficionado, get it right?
No, we need the movement on the west coast far far away from the crazy GOP-ers out in New England through Florida.
Dan Qayle was actually the vice-president for four years and after Clinton won, basically disappeared from political life. I am having a hard time believing Palin will be around in 4 years if McCain loses this election. Besides, all indication point to a waning of conservative power, with a mental shift of the electorates describing themselves as moderates.
Via Rising Hegemon we find out that the”Jesuslanders” are praying for McCain to move on to his reward so Palin can take over.
Instead of a secessionist movement, we should be cordoning off Texas, rename it “Fundamentia” and move all the fundies there… cut off from the outside world… let them fend for themselves and set up their own “society”.
The “framing” message for Ms. Palin??? Well, the repubs / media are starting to attempt to tie the “Maverick” label to Palin as well as McCain…. which we all know is a bald-faced lie…
What is true is that they are both liars — about pretty much everything.
Since the Repubs are playing up her “experience”, that might be the way to go…
her “experience” took a town of 5,000 people with a budget of 6,000,000.00 and 53 city employees and ZERO debt and during her term left them over $20,000,000.00 in debt.
her “experience” left that town with a “sports arena” that is a continual financial drain on the small community.
ect…
That’s the kind of “experience” George W. Bush brought to the White House… It’s “experience” we CAN’T afford.
I agree with sukabi. Hit her on the issues, run almost as many anti-Palin ads as anti-McCain ads. Spell out her political stances on EVERY major issue. Do NOT be seen attacking her as a woman or a mother, just as an AMATEUR with NO CREDENTIALS.
Above all, do not COMPLIMENT her in any way, as in “She is a fine mom”, etc. Just don’t.
And why not expose what goes on inside her church? Run ads showing these loonies in action. The people in the Wasilla Bible Church are far crazier than Rev. Wright, that’s for certain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K_1Eit0pxM
And who cares if a bunch of crazy Third Wavers would be “offended?” NONE of them will be voting for Obama anyway!
Wish all the televisions into the cornfield? Dunno. There just isn’t time for Obama to personally talk in every church in redneck America while the mainstream media can spread propaganda about both candidates 24/7.
I’ve been afraid, very afraid, of Palin from the moment I read her Wikipedia vitae last Wednesday. Sure, she is a joke to thinking America but she’s also tasty red meat to the lower-class wolf pack who want some excuse, any excuse, not to vote for the uppity “urban” Harvard professor-type. Hunting bear from airplanes? Heck, who wouldn’t want to? Moose meat stew, snowmobiling, beauty pageants, guns and Supply-Side Jesus. What could be more American?
I had the misfortune to grow up in a small rural town and those are my instincts. So, very possibly: goodbye Supreme Court, goodbye Roe vs. Wade, goodbye separation of church and state, goodbye constitutional human rights and Hello to eternal war, empire, and the largest third-world nation in the history of our planet.
Extreme would descirbe Palin. The barracuda has a ruthless killer instinct who takes no prisoners. Cross her or get on her “enemies list” and she will destroy you. That works real well in a town of 5000 and a state of 660,000, but not a nation of millions. Remember Nixon’s enemies list. Palin’s disrespect for nature is deploreable. Aerial hunting is deploreable. Palin is dangerous just like her running mate- who she would stab in a heartbeat to acheive power.