Interesting that you would quote Gertrude, especially that quote. Oh, and the line is "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." any Idea what the context of the quote is?
Honestly, that's pretty unfair to her, and this is coming from someone who grew up in Hawai'i, is heading back there in 10 days, and is also one of those people who make her "feel uncomfortable". Being from Hawai'i, the locals can be pretty harsh to haoles; particularly if you're aggressive and step on people's toes, as I would imagine an 18 year old Sarah Barracuda would. Moving to Philadelphia for college, it definitely took a lot of getting used to meeting and interacting with Black and Indian people, and I'm pretty sure I probably said or did something stupid then as well. I'm of the opinion that pretty much everything a person does up until they're about 30 or so should be taken with a huge grain of salt; people in college do really, really dumb stuff, and it's usually not a reflection on who they're going to be when they truly mature. I don't really give a damn whether a politician smoked, got a DUI, made a racist mixtape, or cheated on their girlfriend. If they're still doing that stuff as they hit their late twenties, then yeah, that's a problem. I enjoy having Palin on the political scene because I hope there's little chance of her ever holding a position of real power, and she makes great SNL, Daily Show and BBS material. I'll save my real venom for those people who might have a real chance of harming what I believe America should be.
There you go -- a liberal showing off education like so many gold teeth in a grill. Well, we've got news for you, buddy. Sarah Palin would never know that exact quotation and never minus one know the context. So that means we don't need to know it either, particularly if we're going to use it to score some snarky points. It's even better in argumentation to misquote things and change them around to sound more folksy, or even to fit your position better.
The context of the quote in my post above is consistent with the topic of the thread, unlike your response to it. If you want to hijack this thread and spin it into a thread on your trivial insights into English literature, I am not going to help you. Start a new thread, and perhaps someone will want to come over and join you in that discussion. The context of the quote as it applies to haters of Sarah Palin, who have infested this thread from beginning to end, is that the constant insistence that she is an irrelevant and petty person is a bit too loud and shrill to be taken at face value. These relentless bleatings are plainly disingenuous, regardless of whether the bleaters are willing to admit it or not.
I honestly don't give a flying frack about this thread, but this is golden ownage. Props, Mark. :grin:
This post is addressed to the individual posting under the Clutchfans.net User ID of "MojoMan" I have added Shakespeare to the list of things you have never read, along with the U.S. Constitution.
Quoting something in a thread only works if the quote is applicable. McMark did a nice job of showing that the quote isn't applicable because you don't know what you're doing with the quote. It is relevant.
highly irrelevant: : [rquoter]Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point December 8, 2009 Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, look what the pollsters just brought in. A pair of new surveys revealing that President Obama is still declining and has hit a new low in job approval among Americans just 56 weeks after they elected him with a decided margin. And -- wait for it -- Republican Sarah Palin is successfully selling a whole lot more than books out there on the road. Even among those not lining up in 10-degree weather to catch a glimpse of pretty much the only political celebrity the GOP has these days. First, el jefe. Facing double-digit unemployment, rising spending, deficits and Afghan war casualties plus a keystone but stalled healthcare reform effort that caused a rare Sunday presidential visit to Capitol Hill, Obama recently fell below 50% job approval for the first time. Then, last week's deft dance of rhetoric over sending reinforcements to Afghanistan but, on the other foot, bringing them home quickly maybe gave him a brief boost. That, however, collapsed with equal rapidity. Obama's new Gallup Poll job approval number is 47%. Last month it was 53%. Regular Ticket readers will recall how in this space in late November we pointed out that Obama's closely watched job approval slide was coinciding with Palin's little-noticed rise in favorability. And it appeared they might cross somewhere in the 40s. Well, ex-Sen. Obama, meet ex-Gov. Palin. The new CNN/Opinion Research Poll shows Palin now at 46% favorable, just one point below her fellow basketball fan. (The same poll, btw, has bad news for Dick Cheney-haters; the outspoken former VP has climbed out of the 29% basement, back up to 39% now. How do you suppose he's done that without a new book? But that's another story.) Not that either Palin or Obama will admit caring about such trivial things as disparate political polls.... ...1,071 days before the 2012 election, when Republicans will have the concept of change on their side. Obama's camp is already using the looming Palin pall as a fundraising tool. Never let any potential threat go unmonetized. The new numbers seem to indicate that despite oft-cited predictions about the dire impact of Palin resigning her Alaska governor's job in July, a lot of people who don't live in Alaska (and, come to think of it, most people don't live in Alaska) don't seem to care. She wasn't their governor then and she still isn't. Palin's low favorable poll point of 39% came right after the midsummer resignation and she's been slowly climbing since, fueled by media attention, eager reader response over her book contents, her tour and the spontaneous outpouring of support at her carefully-calculated bus stops along the way -- 31 appearances in 25 states, many of them politically crucial. Imagine what critics would be saying now if Palin was neglecting her elected Juneau job to sell books in the Lower 48 and talk to an elite club of Washington journalists, if there is such a thing. The view, Palin told the capital's Gridiron Club Saturday night in her self-deprecating and at times pointed remarks (full text right here), is a whole lot better from inside the bus than from under it. Palin critics -- and, by golly, there still are some, believe it or not -- say that she's a polarizing political figure. And they're dead-on correct: 46% like her (including eight of 10 Republicans), 46% don't (including seven of 10 Democrats) and only 8% are undecided (no doubt including many who've been living underground since John McCain unveiled his VP GOP running mate in Dayton, Ohio, some15 months ago). But here's the fascinating, little-noticed catch: The very same polarization now holds true for Obama, the fresh fellow from the old Chicago Democratic machine who was supposed to bring hope and change to a nation tired of divisive politics and the harsh partisan tone of Washington. Fully 83% of Democrats approve of him, but only 14% of Republicans do. Among independents, who provided the crucial winning boost for the Democratic ticket in November 2008, Obama's support has melted to 42% today, in large part over immense spending and deficit concerns. And as political veteran Dave Cook points out over on the Vote blog, just since last month, 3% of Obama's own Democrats have abandoned his ship, another 4% of Republicans and fully 7% of independents. Other recent polls have shown Republicans leading for the first time this year on the generic congressional ballot and self-identified Republicans closing the gap with self-identified Democrats. Meanwhile, Palin continued her book/celebrity sales tour across the heartland, stopping Sunday in -- oh, look! -- Iowa. "No politician comes to Iowa by accident," Republican strategist Tim Albrecht told AP's Mike Glover. More significantly, Palin was in western Iowa, which is ruled by the Republican Party, which in the Hawkeye state these days is ruled by conservative evangelicals, who form a large chunk of Palin's evolving base. As another ex-governor, Mitt Romney, learned to his dismay in the 2008 GOP caucuses won by another ex-governor (and Baptist preacher), Mike Huckabee. Obviously, not every politician visiting Iowa each election cycle ends up running for president. And not every Iowa winner collects the big prize. But no one gets to the White House without going to Iowa. Which Palin has now done on her own. Purportedly selling a book.[/rquoter]
^ only a complete idiot, or somebody who is trying to lie to you, woudl take a FAVORABILITY rating - and compare it to an APPROVAL rating, which measures something totally different - and say they are the same. As we have documented, you are both. PS bring her on.
I see you are spreading around that dumbass "this post is addressed to" crap.... But mostly you are just spreading dumbass.
Not relevant. She doesn't have a job (she quit her last one and left her constituents hanging out to dry, remember?). Even if her favorability rating were as high as Obama's (approval rating is not the same, but you know that), it's really easy to be liked when you don't have to make any tough decisions because you quit after half a term of governing the nation's 47th most populous state.
