Enough of SPalin, victim

[julia]

Enough of Sarah Palin, the victim


Debra J. Saunders

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I wish Sarah Palin would just go away.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, I wrote about the unfair personal treatment to which the political press corps subjected Palin and her children. Now I just want her to stop milking her role as GOP martyr. Palin should stick to her day job - by which I mean, governing Alaska, not being fodder for talk-show humor.



Both parties have their umbrage industries - thanks to true believers, who love nothing better than to see themselves as victims of a perceived double standard. Last week, comedian David Letterman's two off-color jokes about a Palin family trip to New York led to an orgy of indignation.
Yes, I know that a politician's family - especially their minor children - is supposed to be off-limits. Letterman apparently thought he was joking about 18-year-old teenage mom Bristol Palin, unaware that 14-year-old Willow Palin went to Yankee Stadium.
Which, of course, gave the Alaska governor license to huff: "Laughter incited by sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us (that) some Hollywood/NY entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands - that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone's daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others."
In that any sex act between an adult male and a 14-year-old would constitute statutory rape, father Todd Palin chimed in, too: "Any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable."
Now there's a firedavidletterman.com Web site and a planned protest outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City today. If anyone thinks these antics will help Palin in the 2012 GOP primary, guess again. These stories don't tell voters that Palin has the smartest energy policy or that she's been a more successful governor than California's Arnold Schwarzenegger - they tell voters that Palin's life is a nonstop soap opera.
Republicans who want to win back Washington would do well to look for a winner. Not a victim.
Speaking of too much drama: I wish Newt Gingrich would just go away, too.
It's not just his messy personal life and crash-and-burn House speakership. It's his oral opportunism. One year, Gingrich is sharing a public-service announcement two-shot with Democrat Nancy Pelosi that warns about the dangers of global warming, the next year, he's attacking "environmental extremism." The man will say anything to get on TV. He is shameless.
The worst of it is, Gingrich is not the right's most shameless talking head. That dubious honor belongs to Dick Morris, who turned on Bill Clinton years ago, so now he's supposed to be a great political mind on the right. That's right, he's our sleaze bucket.
How low the party of Monica jokes has fallen.
Why Sarah Palin isn't laughing

This is what David Letterman said on his show last week about Palin's visit to New York:
"During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
"The toughest part of her visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter."

To comment, e-mail Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@sfchronicle.com.


This article appeared on page A - 11 of the San Francisco Chronicle

[Heretic]

And they bust on Obama having a messianic complex.

"You know what mom? Next year I'm going to get you a big wooden cross, so that whenever you don't feel appreciated for all you do you can crawl up there and nail yourself to it." -Kevin Spacy, The Ref

[julia]

He can't claim to speak in tongues, tho.

[BillCosby]

Palin speaks in tongues???

[julia]

Palin speaks in tongues???

Am not sure if she does but her church believes in it as well as casting out demons, and all that fun, mainstream stuff!

[BillCosby]

I saw a clip of her talking @ some assemblies of God church in Alaska...

I had really never heard of her...

She was talking from the stage telling ppl to support-pray for the big oil companies drilling & said it was from God~ what God wanted.... (Essentially be a good christian like the oil companies)..

IMO it reeked of straight up manipulating those ppl..... Little or no pretense.....

From what I recall the denomination "assemblies of God" is part of the Pentecostal movement but now days they all don't have/ are about speaking in tongues....