How Palin Could Be Useful

[lisasmall]

Now, I loathe the woman as much as I loathe the Republican Party as a whole, which is a whole lot of loathin' goin' on.

However.

It occurs to me that there is one way that Palin can be actually useful in a big way and do her party a huge service: she can quit the party itself.

No, I'm not being rude. I mean it. If Palin quits and tries a

Comments

[tx_cronopio]

You want to know the extent to which I've lost all reason on this topic? I DO think she's being investigated by the FBI and I think this investigation is being carried out completely without the participation of the FBI Alaska office, because the feds know that that office is full of her corrupt cronies. I mean, really. The director of the Alaska FBI breaks precedent and makes a statement supporting Palin on the Sunday of a holiday weekend? Oh, yeah, he's impartial.

If this doesn't resolve soon, I'm going to turn into a full-fledged conspiracy theorist :)

Cronopio's Notion: FBI Outside of AK

[lisasmall]

Oh, no! Because if you do that, the black helicopters will surely come take you away.

I have no faith in anyone left in Alaska state, county, or municipal law enforcement.

The FBI is our only hope, and they have not exactly covered themselves with glory, Alaska-wise. Your theory intrigues me, my dear... and besides, I've never gone on a helicopter ride before.

[mehitabelmmoss]

I can't agree with your premise: Palin needs the GOP more than anyone needs her. The religious right has money and organization but not enough to support an entirely undisciplined and nutty Palin. She needs the GOP support structure and she needs the MSM and kid gloves, which would only be there is she were the GOP candidate. The MSM and the GOP power structure (and the Democratic for that matter) is corporatist more than they are anything else. If she leaves that haven she will not be protected.
Though possibly some of the other wingnuts would bolt also......

I Think You're Right

[lisasmall]

Oh, heck yes, you're dead on: she needs the Republican Party for all the reasons you describe.

However, I think she doesn't know that. I think she believes she has been lifted up by her pet deity (who, miraculously it seems to me, always wants for Sarah what Sarah wants for Sarah, at least in the political realm) and is destined to lead the people, one way or another.

I mean, come on, this is a couple who really believes that Alaska can and should secede from the Union, while also believing that publicly espousing such a view shouldn't hold a person back from running for president of that same Union. (Did the Palins and Rick Perry share the same bottle of koolaid at some lunatic-fringe get-together?)

It just made me queasy this morning to think that Palin's hubris could indeed save the Republican Party, by draining off the extremist poisons which contaminate their primaries.

I still owe you a response to your earlier comment, which was half-written when she resigned and knocked me off-topic.

[mehitabel1]

I have thought that she probably suffers from Boarderline Personality Disorder. It includes a craving for notice (Marilyn, e.g.) delusions of adequacy, bailing when the going gets hard, "they are all against me" mentality, and certainty that all problems are someone else's, the sufferer is perfect. I think such ideas would lead someone to seek the presidency, when it is a ludicrous idea. Then again, perhaps she is just a wing-nut.

I think McCain showed his senility in his choice, and contributed to Obama's win, so she has already been useful to more than the comedians. That, though, is where she shines!

Mehitabel! Something About Sarah

[lisasmall]

Look at this, two Mehitabels in a row! Did you see the comment above yours? I'm partial to the name for so many reasons. Thank you for posting!

I agree with you about McCain showing some form of dementia in choosing her, though I think it may have been induced by desperation more than senescence. Though on that topic, I'll say flat-out that senile or not, McCain was just plain too old and frail for the job of President, and that I would have said so even if he was my dream candidate in every other way. (But of course, he emphatically was not.)

The Vanity Fair writer, Todd Purdom, included this bit:

More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”-and thought it fit her

[jharish]

Hey, I just saw this and wondered if it was for real:

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2957.htm#007

Essentially, Sarah's family had a down's syndrome kid that died and they quietly buried it in the back yard and a dog dug it up and ran around the neighborhood with it.

It sounds too weird to not be true.