How has Sarah Palin failed?

[Hans Talhoffer]

No kidding, i know a lot of Democrats who are encouraging her to run because if she does that would be beneficial for Obama.

There is a long list of Republicans who would be a better candidate than Palin, including but not limited to

Mitt Romney
Hailey Barbour
Tim Pawlenty
Mike Pence
Mike Huckabee
Bobby Jindal
Newt Gingrich
Rick Perry
Bob McDonnell
John Thune
Paul Ryan

Nominating Palin would hand Obama dozens of electoral votes from swing states on a silver platter.

Not a woman to be seen on your list. So, we should pander to the misogynist vote?

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Not a woman to be seen on your list. So, we should pander to the misogynist vote?

Do you have any specific female potential candidates in mind?

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

Do you have any specific female potential candidates in mind?

Every female candidate presented by the right is mercilessly ridiculed, regardless of merit. Thinly masked misogyny pretending to be democracy. What is this, the 19th century?

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Every female candidate presented by the right is mercilessly ridiculed, regardless of merit. Thinly masked misogyny pretending to be democracy. What is this, the 19th century?

No, it's the post-Palin, post-O'Donnell, post-Angle 21st century. Humor me and give me your choice for a female Republican candidate.

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

No, it's the post-Palin, post-O'Donnell, post-Angle 21st century. Humor me and give me your choice for a female Republican candidate.

Humour you? Because any female candidate would be a joke to you, wouldn't it?

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Humour you? Because any female candidate would be a joke to you, wouldn't it?

I think that's a figure of speech. What are you afraid of? Just tell me your choice.

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

I think that's a figure of speech. What are you afraid of? Just tell me your choice.

Palin being the topic of the thread, lets start there...

[cue strawman anti-feminist diatribe in 3-2-]

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Palin being the topic of the thread, lets start there...

[cue strawman anti-feminist diatribe in 3-2-]

The most important office Palin ever held was governor of Alaska, a state with a smaller population than the city of Austin. When she ran for vice president, she evidently had no grasp of either economics or foreign policy and she hasn't said anything since that would indicate she now knows more about these issues. She is not qualified for anything bigger than she already did, and I'd say she is most qualified for writing lowest-common-denominator books and clumsily killing animals for TV.

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

The most important office Palin ever held was governor of Alaska, a state with a smaller population than the city of Austin. When she ran for vice president, she evidently had no grasp of either economics or foreign policy and she hasn't said anything since that would indicate she now knows more about these issues. She is not qualified for anything bigger than she already did, and I'd say she is most qualified for writing lowest-common-denominator books and clumsily killing animals for TV.

I knew you'd do that. The instant I mention a female candidate, you respond with nothing but a bunch of ad hominems against her.

 

[MrGoodBytes]

I knew you'd do that. The instant I mention a female candidate, you respond with nothing but a bunch of ad hominems against her.

Pointing out that somebody lacks the qualifications for a political office is not an ad hominem fallacy.

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

Pointing out that somebody lacks the qualifications for a political office is not an ad hominem fallacy.

Of course it is. Didn't matter who I mentioned as a candidate. If it was a woman, you were going to come up with a whole negative thing. You just proved my point. Sarah Palin, and all you do is rubbish her.

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Of course it is.

I don't think you understand what an ad hominem fallacy is.

Didn't matter who I mentioned as a candidate. If it was a woman, you were going to come up with a whole negative thing. You just proved my point. Sarah Palin, and all you do is rubbish her.

None of my objections are gender-specific. I'd criticize any male candidate for the same reasons.

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

The most important office Palin ever held was governor of Alaska, a state with a smaller population than the city of Austin. When she ran for vice president, she evidently had no grasp of either economics or foreign policy and she hasn't said anything since that would indicate she now knows more about these issues. She is not qualified for anything bigger than she already did, and I'd say she is most qualified for writing lowest-common-denominator books and clumsily killing animals for TV.

Not gender specific at all.

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Not gender specific at all.

Oh please.

 

[Staccato]

Not gender specific at all.

Would you consider the gender neutral 'it' to be somehow more appropriate?

 

[jayem]

There is a long list of Republicans who would be a better candidate than Palin, including but not limited to

Mitt Romney
Hailey Barbour
Tim Pawlenty
Mike Pence
Mike Huckabee
Bobby Jindal
Newt Gingrich
Rick Perry
Bob McDonnell
John Thune
Paul Ryan

I'd put a woman at the very top of that list---Olympia Snowe. Without question, she's the best Republican holding a national office today.

And, if it matters anymore, Sarah failed to help Joe Miller get elected to the Senate.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Not gender specific at all.

Are you denying that Sarah Palin is female?

 

[MichaelHelp]

I'd put a woman at the very top of that list---Olympia Snowe. Without question, she's the best Republican holding a national office today.

And, if it matters anymore, Sarah failed to help Joe Miller get elected to the Senate.

Olympia Snowe would be great, but it is not possible for her to get the GOP nomination for President. She fails to walk lock-step with the right wing conservative ideology with a perfect, unquestionable, obedience.

 

[Hans Talhoffer]

Would you consider the gender neutral 'it' to be somehow more appropriate?

Goodbytes claimed not to be arguing in gender specific terms. I am highlighting the eroneous nature of that claim.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Goodbytes claimed not to be arguing in gender specific terms. I am highlighting the eroneous nature of that claim.

So again: You're claiming that Sarah Palin is not a "she"?