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Old 10-22-2008, 01:05 PM   #34 (permalink)
aceventura3
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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
filtherton and asaris already said more or less what i was thinking about this pseudo-question.

i don't consider it a big deal, ace---but i do think it's kinda funny. mostly because, if you sniff the air close to your monitor, maybe you smell a bit of char. that's palin's "outsider" claim after it burned up.

to be clear, if her politics were not so lunatic--as they are in my view--i wouldn't care about this stuff at all---if anything, i would probably find the account of her wending her way through the conservative patronage network a bit reassuring----but the fact is that her politics are nutty and the "outsider" nonsense is of a piece with those nutty politics. and it's conservative political discourse that ties identity to political positions so tightly. so in a sense, watching the outsider persona burn is watching the nutty positions that are wrapped up in it burn a little as well.
So, Palin is a hypocrite. Which do you think is the real Palin, the one to spend $150,000 on clothing or a rather unsophisticated "hockey mom"?

Oh, and is it possible that she was not responsible for the decision to spend $150,000 on clothing? Is it possible that as a VP candidate that she is following the directions given to her? do you think she has been spending a lot of time shopping since the convention - in addition to running for office, being governor, being a mother of a baby, sending her son to war, being a wife, dancing on SNL, impossing her will regarding troopergate, getting to become a Washington insider, etc, etc, etc. gee - I can see why she has not been reading Supreme Court cases.
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