Bears Repeating: Rosemary Weathers Burnham Explains It All
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No other links. No arguments. No whining, no excuses.
Listen to somebody real. She signs her name to her op-ed. She explains why Sarah Palin isn't all the GOP cracks her up to be, and a bag of chips. Here's an excerpt to whet your appetite:
I hadn't given the Maysville library much thought in a while until the marketing gurus of the Republican presidential campaign launched their "small town USA" spin. Unfortunately, the tinselly "small-town values" glittering in their marketing blitz don't seem to have much to do with the real values of my hometown.
In Maysville, no one considered censoring library books, as GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin did as mayor of her town. No one tried to fire the town librarian, as Palin did. Why would anyone go after the town librarian? That is what happened in German villages in the 1930s under Adolf Hitler, when people struggling out of an economic depression burned books and turned against their neighbors.
The small-town Americans I know wouldn't dream of such vengeance against their own. The first mayor I remember was a man who lost a leg in World War II. He came home after the war, settled down and served his community. My father spoke well of him, and he was respected. I don't recall that anyone ever spoke publicly of his injury or called him a "war hero." That kind of chest-pounding would have been unseemly in our town.
Say what you want about her looks, her naughty-librarian "vibe," her youth, her sass. Sarah Palin is the antithesis of everything small-town, live-and-let-live, patriotic American. The absolute antithesis.
Spit on the Constitution and vote for McCain/Palin if you want to. Just know what you're doing and be willing to own what you've done after it's over.
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Frank Capra Lives
Shorter Rosemary Weathers Burnham: Sarah Palin = Nazis. That's not the small town America I know!! (if i make absurd analogies to Nazis maybe people will listen harder!!!)
I'm sorry, Rosemary is probably a very nice lady, but this essay is just bad writing. And personally, any writer who plays the nazi card like this just doesn't know how to reason well.
Really, I am not sure what causes the following outburst, "Spit on the Constitution and vote for McCain/Palin if you want to. Just know what you’re doing and be willing to own what you’ve done after it’s over." Surely it cannot be a defense of the Weathers Burnham piece...?
And since Obama voted for FISA (dismembering the 4th Amendment) would I then be spitting on the Constitution by voting Obama/Biden and I will have to "own what I've done after it's over"?
[edited to correct the spelling of Constitution]
dupager
Newsflash: Smalltown life sucks.
You're 100% wrong. She's 100% in tune with the reality of small-town life, where "LOCAL CONTROL!" and live-and-let-live is the cynical mantra of the local gang in power, and there's no nasty feds sniffing around in your private garden keeping anybody in line.
This reminds me of the three days after McCain's Palin announcement - it took half a week for the reality to sink in among the Whole Foods crowd and the "liberal" blogosphere that the Palin nomination was not about them or their internal psychodramas surrounding Hillary.
Get over it: Whoever picked Palin knew exactly what they were doing. All the dog-whistles her _true_ story sends - be it the library, the bridge, or the rape kits - have now been heard loud and clear. And she has done what she was picked to do - bring in the base, and give GOP women who briefly flirted with voting Democrat a reason to come home.
And, unlike the Democrats, her party circled the wagons around her like a pack of rabid dogs when the smart people started going sexist on her ass.
John McCain is a serious contender today a mere six weeks before an election that was only the Democrats' to lose.
We know the real Palin. The people who like that woman aren't going to be swayed by your posting. The people who don't like that woman have figured it out already. Come out of the Whole Foods. The air is a lot fresher.
Triple fucking Vegas-style pony bingo
For this part of what Tony wrote, modulo the mixed metaphor:
Sure, motivated by tribalism, no doubt, but so unlike our tribunes of the people in the progressive blogosphere.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
WAAATEV, babes. McCain/Palin uber alles, if you so desire.
I'd damn near rather the GOP wins this time around anyway, because the next four to sixteen years are going to MASSIVELY suck.
Don't be dismissive if you're not even going to read.
I can't think of a sufficiently pithy way to respond to you that you'll actually read to the end, so let me just say, of what you said of Palin:
You act as if this (her history) is a bad thing, when clearly, for lots and lots of people, who have tended to swing elections, it is not.