I remember when people just used to be "odd". Now everyone has to have every disorder and syndrome going.Possibly just attention seeking........
Palin-mania is a very serious disease and I won't have this kind of talk about it, Mister.
You won't have her to kick around much longer...
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Speaking of insanity, she says she's going to run for president.
Actually, she hasn't said that. Ever. She has indicated, at most, a possible interest in doing it someday, but knowing two people fairly close to her (close, as in her press secretary and her lieutenant governor), I honestly believe she hasn't made up her mind on that issue yet.
Truly, I think she was just done having her family (not even her, her
family) ruthlessly attacked. (I mean, why does an infant with a severe disability deserve to be humiliated in public? Bristol I understand--she put herself in the limelight--but Trig? Sheesh. I don't blame her. And to put her $500,000 in debt to and the state on the hook for $300,000 in legal bills for frivolous ethics charges (all of which have been dismissed) is just absurd.
I think she honestly thinks she is doing what's best for Alaska. Knowing personally some of the people she surrounds herself with and having met and discussed issues with her, I firmly believe she is humble at heart and not self-serving at all. She is a person of such convictions that she can't idly stand by and watch her family and her constituents have to go through this nonsense any longer. You can accuse her of naivete or ineptitude or inexperience, and I can to some measure understand and even agree with that, but painting her as a mean-spirited, manipulative, evil, only out for her own political gain (which, if that were the case, would be absolutely counter to her decision yesterday) or whatever is NOT something I can allow to go unchallenged, because I KNOW it to be false.
As to Neil's latest response, which was posted after I started typing the above (and so I can't quote it without flipping between a few windows): I take personal offense to what you posted. Thank you for calling this great state "unimportant." And I know MANY, MANY people who hold similar beliefs to Palin--and, in fact, a very sizable segment of our country (probably more people than are in the UK total) probably agree with her on most of those stances, and if you then attempt to use that fact to paint this entire country--perhaps indeed the greatest country on the non-fictional religious symbol of my choice's green earth--as stark raving bonkers, well, think about what kind of flame war that'll get you on in here. It's easy to label some politician you'll never have contact with with some defamatory label, but if you're going to call her bonkers with a side of nutcase and looney toon, you're going to have to call me that, too, to my [virtual] face. I dare you. But remember, name-calling is never as productive as producing logical arguments against specific beliefs and policies.
