OK, I'm not sure what your motive was behind your exchange with Ziegler the magical Palin salesman, but he said sooo many things you could've jumped on, and that prove for me how pathetically transparent SP supporters are in their quixotic defense of her. First off, he never once defended or explained SP, let alone answered your question. Notice that every time you asked him about her, he replied by bagging on Obama. And the only times he conceded something about SP was in reference to utterly meaningless trivialities, and in one of them he turned it into the awful Obama-teleprompter claim. "Obama's not qualified enough!" "Obama didn't run a state!" "Obama said this!" "Obama said that!" You should've said "I'm not talking about Obama, I called you here to discuss SP. I'm asking you about SP. Can you answer these questions about SP or not?" Every single one of his answers amounted to "it's someone else's fault". He sounded like a used car salesmen, literally. "Ah c'mon! Whattya cryin' about?! It's fine, trust me!"

Maybe you wanted the exchange to go this way to show how crazy those people are, but Ziegler was so defiantly indefensible and non-committal it's disgusting. These people apparently have never watched themselves argue, because they never make any points, they only try to redirect and pull curtains over issues. As if I wasn't already convinced by watching Palin herself talkeven outside the format of "liberal media interviews", Zielger confirms for me how bad of a candidate SP really is. The entire subtext of his argument, whether he would admit it or not (and I know he wouldn't), was that A) she wasn't ready, B) she was unqualified, C) when asked on national TV, gotcha question or not (which none of them were), she thought only of how to deflect and not to express whatever supposedly good, intelligent answer she had regardless of the situation, D) that she couldn't handle Katie Couric or Charlie Gibson (or by simple deduction certain foreign leaders/countries), E) should I go on? Asking her about the Bush Doctrine is a "gotcha" question? Asking her about shit from her own goddamn party platform and leadership is "gotcha"??

To make matters 100x worse, I had never seen the clip where SP made that reprehensible statement that intelligent people were the problem, that higher education was suspect, and that everyday joes were the answers simply because they "worked hard". Every time I get more information on this woman, I wouldn't go near her with a pole of increasingly unmanageable length. We're three years away from the next presidential term; we are truly F'd if a republican like SP gets into office. The experiment will be over. I've seen plenty from this woman to know she would run roughshod over everything, wouldn't listen to anybody, would stick her fingers in her ears for four years even more than Bush 2, and would spend us further into the elephantine (in more ways than one) financial oblivion that Republicans got us into. For apathetic voters, this is no longer about two milquetoast choices every two years; 1996 was the last time that happened. Now, it's about one OK choice (apparently), and one detrimentally bad one.

by paulang on 12/12/2009 11:46:53 AM EST