I understand the Palin ad will air a lot on Thanksgiving Day as well..

Is it true that James Steinberg will likely be Hillary's Deputy Chief of Secretary of State?

Are Rich Lowry and Mark Steyn in that ad?

Sully seems to think so (unless he's joking).

That Palin ad is so hokey I could almost imagine that Sarah designed it herself. Really, it looks and sounds just like she looks and sounds on TV...awkward, simplistic and just plain dorky.

I'm torn about whether I want to see it linger on the airwaves. I totally don't want to see her smirking mug on the tube anymore, but people will grow to loathe her so much more after watching this thing for a while that it will destroy her chances for higher office forever.

What to do, what to do?

I don't know how I got on the Our Country Deserves better mailing list, but I am. Their hero worship of Sarah Palin is more than odd. It's so ridiculous, I can't help but wonder if the whole thing is an Andy Kaufmanesque put-on, designed to see what neocons are stupid enough to give them money to produce borderline-erotic patriotic love letters to Palin.
I was also getting their emails and solicitations throughout the election. While it could've been typical campaign bravado, they seemed quite convinced that they had Obama on the ropes throughout the election, and if they're on the up and up, they really haven't grasped the enormity of how much Palin sucks. It's the media's fault, it's black people's fault, it's sexism, it's reverse racism, it's gender inequality, it's misogyny, it's the intimidation from having a strong "competent" woman fighting on the same level as a man...everything except Palin sucks.

Thousands took advantage of the opportunity, but neglected to sign the cards

Sweet. The GOP printed confusing cards, and now the elections officials are sending letters telling these people to print new applications from a web site and return them by Wednesday. I suspect a lot of GOP GOTV workers are going to be met at the door with one-finger salutes.

The effort to build Palin's brand nationally puzzles me. Is there really a group to which she is the next President? What does she offer to them?

If there is a group she appeals strongly to (as opposed to being an empty vessel for a PR campaign to make her into such an individual), who makes up the group and why choose her rather than some other individual? Is it a "conservative woman" thing as opposed to just a social conservative thing? Or is this just an effort to take advantage of Palin's national exposure in the Presidential campaign?

And who's paying the freight for the PR campaign? The Dominionist backers of the Discovery Institute?

the Republican National Committee sent cards to GOP voters, which they could in turn send in for absentee ballots.

What's that? Improperly completed absentee ballot requests? Wouldn't we be hearning people holler about voter fraud if ACORN was involved instead of the RNC?

It's the media's fault, it's black people's fault, it's sexism, it's reverse racism, it's gender inequality, it's misogyny, it's the intimidation from having a strong "competent" woman fighting on the same level as a man...everything except Palin sucks.

That sure sounds like Southern Conservative victimhood to me. Maybe this is what replaces the "We really won the Civil War but the Yankees just outnumbered us,starved us into submission and wanted to make the Negroes our masters." attitude that was prevalent in much of White race East Texas as I grew up.

Southern conservatives have had a lot of practice in victimhood, though nothing like the Serbs who still look back at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo to justify their existence as a tribe. Could this PR effort be an attempt to spread the victimhood suffered by conservatives outside the South?

If so, then it might make sense to throw out a whole set of possible justifications for victimhood and see which ones struck a chord with parts of the public. Palin's exposed flaws would then become proof that her enemies were attacking her. That might make Palin an ideal candidate instead of a flawed one - the exposure of her flaws by her enemies proves her victimhood, making her representative of the victims and a fighter in their names instead of weakening her as a candidate by demonstrating her incompetence. Being a fighter for the victimized conservatives trumps being a competent Governor who gets budgets done.

You guys may have already figured this out, but I am only just now beginning to understand the pattern.

Hey, isn't that Georgia absentee ballot scheme a lot like union card-checks?

It would be funny to see a skit on the Palin Ad--

Thanks for...uh, wait a minute...you couldn't put together a coherent sentence, you repeatedly lied and flat out turned the truth on it's head, you think it's cool to shoot moose from the plane and refuse to name one newspaper you read, you accused the media and the entire east coast of being against you while deciding parts of the country were more patriotic than others, you singlehandedly unleashed tremendous fear and bigotry against Obama...

Thanks Sarah for dumbing down the entire country and especially for glamorizing mean Pit-Bulls with lipstick. What a 'gal' you are to inspire young women everywhere, to remind them that mean is cool, so long as you have the heels on and keep smiling!

Oh--and that open door you are waiting to plow through? I think it's sealed shut. But you know, I could use some entertainment, so why not go for it--try plowing through that bolted door--it might be good therapy for me to see you try.

Thanks Rick. Both your posts are right in there. I spent some time growing up in the Texarkana area, too. Always thought it should be its own state -- the undeclared Weirdest Part of the Country.

"The Dominionist backers of the Discovery Institute" and their fellow travellers are indeed who's behind this. Although popular with their base, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson weren't exactly appealing to the rest of the country. The DI types have been looking for an even farther right version of Reagan for years; they thought they'd found one in Shrub but ended up as disappointed as everyone else; now they think they've got one Fer Sher. Cute, perky and thinks the Earth is 6000 years old -- what's not to like? If you're not killin' a turkey with her, you must just be a hater, and God has a place for people like that. Same as where he puts those who aren't real Americans. Yes, they really are crazy, but when they cluster together they're capable of believing it's not them, it's everyone else. Bullies when they're in control, pathetic whiners when they're not. Reference the earlier post on how Democrats just aren't bipartisan enough.

The effort to build Palin's brand nationally puzzles me. Is there really a group to which she is the next President? What does she offer to them?

Posted by: Rick B on November 24, 2008 at 1:00 PM | PERMALINK

In a word: Legitimacy.

Sarah believes what they believe. She preaches against what they hate and preaches for what they love. She's just like them on the inside and jes' cute as a button on the outside. So when Sara, or someone like her, is elected to higher office, it means they're way of life is best. It means there's someone in power who won't think they're stupid when they insist on teaching Creationism in schools, or that America is still this all-encompassing generic "Number 1" even though we're getting lapped in any metric worth measuring in everything except maybe consumption of saturated fats. As long as Sarah's out there, fighting the good fight, they don't have to feel guilty of being dumber than a sack of wet hammers.

And if you disagree, you're probably a communist, or a lesbian. Maybe both. They don't care, you're different, evil enough for their narrow worldview.

Cobb County received about 7,075 of the cards from voters that were not signed, about 44 percent of the cards received. “We’ve never seen anything near that ratio,” registration manager Beth Kish said. -- from the article on Georgia absentee ballot requests.

To me, this sounds as if it was RNC who sent these cards directly, in other peoples' names, stopping just short of falsifying the signatures. As someone mentioned above, it's worse than ACORN's screw-ups.

That black guy in the Sarah Palin ad? He seems a little light in the loafers, if you know what I mean.

"I understand the Palin ad will air a lot on Thanksgiving Day as well.."

Didn't read the other comments first, but will her standing in front of the turkey slaughter also been run?

"the Republican National Committee sent cards to GOP voters, which they could in turn send in for absentee ballots.

What's that? Improperly completed absentee ballot requests? Wouldn't we be hearning people holler about voter fraud if ACORN was involved instead of the RNC?"

Posted by: Quaker in a Basement on November 24, 2008 Pat 1:06 PM

Big difference between registrations vs. actual votes. Hard for you to discern the difference though, huh? This is one reason your party if going down the tubes....inability to reason and analyze. Repeating talking points doesn't count.

From the Out Country Deserves Better pac website - the "who we are."

http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/whoweare/index.html

I think I'll get myself on their mailing list just so I have something to amuse myself.

As a happy Dem, I, too, say "Thank you Sarah Palin".