Why Palin Matters
To Andrew Sullivan. It’s an interesting question, because aside from Prop. 8, Palin is almost all you find on his site these days. Blah blah blah, Palin this, Palin that. McCain, GOP in disarray. Obama, post for post, line for line, expended emotion for expended emotion, barely rates, even though it’s his job for the next four years. I voted for them and I don’t even care that much about Palin or McCain … or for that matter about the GOP’s post-loss garment-rending, tooth-gnashing and back-stabbing. Sullivan’s obsessed with her. In fact, delusional:
Some readers think my continuing attempt to expose all the lies and flim-flam and bizarre behavior of Sarah Palin is now moot. She’s history - they argue. Move on. I think she probably is history. Even Bill Kristol and his minions in the McCain-Palin campaign may not be able to resuscitate her political viability now. But even if she is history, she is history that matters.
Let’s be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. She was incapable of running a town in Alaska competently. The impulsive, unvetted selection of a total unknown, with no knowledge of or interest in the wider world, as a replacement president remains one of the most disturbing events in modern American history. That the press felt required to maintain a facade of normalcy for two months - and not to declare the whole thing a farce from start to finish - is a sign of their total loss of nerve.
I’m not sure which nation’s media he’s refering to. He wraps up his explanation calling her veep campaign a “nightmare.” A tad overwrought for someone rooting for the other team. Anyway, I think the pathology here is that yapping on at length and emotionally about Palin, who isn’t currently in the running for anything, helps him avoid talking about Obama. Hey, let’s try it that way …
Let’s be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. He has yet to demonstrate he’s capable of running anything. The impulsive, unvetted selection of a total unknown, simply bcause he made a great speech in 2004 and he’s black, as a president remains one of the most disturbing events in modern American history. That the press felt required to maintain a facade of normalcy for two years - and not to declare the whole thing a farce from start to finish - is a sign of their being totally in the tank.
So, moving on, well might you ask, why does Crittenden keep posting on Sullivan? Well, I have to entertain myself somehow. I admire someone who is willing to admit he is clueless … “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle” … and the constant struggle provides pretty good mockery opportunities. Sooner or later he’ll manage, if only briefly, to actually focus on what is in front of his nose and flip again, and you have to watch for it, because minutes later he’ll flip back again. Look, let’s try it this way …
Let’s be real in a way the lefty blogosphere and various national maggies seem incapable of: this person should never have been allowed to have a keyboard. He has yet to demonstrate he’s capable of adhering to a single position that doesn’t have to do with gay marriage. The impulsive flitting from one side of issues to another remains one of the most entertaining events in modern American blogostry. That he continues to maintain a facade of normalcy - and not to declare himself to be a farce from start to finish - is a sign of his total lack of self-awareness.
Prior Sullivan scholarship:
Meanwhile, a warm embrace for Sullivan’s Plain bash by another waste of Internet ether, TBogg.
No More Mr Nice Blog wonders why it took gaptoothed Republican inbreeds so long to choose a backwoods ignoramus as their leader. Good point. Democrats shone the light down this path a long time ago, with the Georgia peanut farmer, the Arkansas trailer-park troller, and now with an urban twist, the Chicago community organizer. Though in fairness, Carter, Clinton and Obama all have multi-syllabic vocabularies, thanks to elite educations … which may be where they lost whatever common sense they may have once had a grasp on.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:58 pm on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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November 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Sully’s protest seems so queer. Must be a flaming hemorrhoid or so.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
What’s in front of Sully’s nose is his duodenum. I’ve started a Facebook group dedicated to getting rid of this pernicious jackass. If The Atlantic had any pride–or really any compassion–they’d boot Sully now.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Sullivan’s problem seems very clear to me.
What is a far greater puzzles is bloogers obsession with Sullivan.
That is unfathomable. The best I have been able to do is quit reading people that keep bring him (like a dinner of bad fish) every time I turn around.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Do people repeatedly bring you bad fish, Larry? If you had a Nexrad Gaydar Map, you’d be more concerned.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Actually Palin has accomplished more in twenty months as govenor of Alaska than Obama has accomplished in his entire political career, including the period he spent as a Communist revolutionary (ie “community organizer”). She cleaned up the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of members in the pockets of the oil companies, got a better deal out of the oil companies in terms of royalties for the Alaskans, renecgotiaed the sweetheart gas pipline deal so that it is cheaper to build. We should also note that when she found corruption in the Oil and Gas commission as a new member, and the GOP governor would not do anything about it, she resigned o run against him on a platform of cleaning up the corruption. She quit a job paying $118,000 a year for a long-shot campaign for clean governmen. Conrast that with Obama’s go along to get along career with the corrupt Chicago political machine, including cozy deals with Tony Rezko. She is a person of integrity, no wonder the liberals and the media hate her so.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Sullivan always goes apeshit on whatever scares him at the moment. Obviously he’s not terrified of Palin simply because she was a little underqualified for the VP slot. It’s her potential that is scaring the bejeezus out of him.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Sullivan hates her because she’s obviously better at making a man happy than he is.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Good Treacher, good! Smack him across the chops with that cluebat.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Really- who’s Andrew Sullivan?
November 13th, 2008 at 9:18 am
[...] Posted by Stephen Green on 13 Nov 2008 at 07:18 am Jules Crittenden on Jules Crittenden: “Why does Crittenden keep posting on Sullivan? Well, I have to entertain myself somehow.” [...]
November 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am
[...] Governor Palin should be commended, not attacked, by the G.O.P. She had the guts to put her neck out and take one for the team. If McCain had a chance to win, the list of viable V.P. candidates with experience would have never included a first-term governor from Alaska. The bottom line is that the experienced people stayed out of harm’s way in 2008 while Palin took the bullet for the party. Sarah Palin deserves a medal, not a firing squad. [...]
November 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Andrew Sullivan is simply the most vociferously vocal symptom of a larger implacable movement seeking to wrench any inkling of “center-right” ideology from the heights of influence in the American state. The left wants nothing more than the utter destruction of the Alaska Governor. Once that’s complete, the continued ideological escalation of the culture war will branch out from there, with further attacks on “Christianists,” Mormons,” to the Fox News “ministry of propaganda” and beyond.
Is it any wonder why conservatives have no interest in transcending partisan divisions to join hands in an essential surrender to the nihilism of the left’s progressive ideology program?
November 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
People used to think insane asylums were entertaining, too. Personally, Sullivan just disgusts me. I believe anti-Christian bigotry and misogyny are at the root of his obsession with Palin.
But Treacher wins the thread.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Is it just me, or is Andy’s lisp becoming more apparent?
November 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden: Why Palin Matters To Andrew Sullivan. It’s an interesting question, because aside from Prop. 8, Palin is almost all you find on his site these days. Blah blah blah, Palin this, Palin that. McCain, GOP in disarray. Obama, post for post, line for line, expended emotion for expended emotion, barely rates, even though it’s his job for the next four years. I voted for them and I don’t even care that much about Palin or McCain … or for that matter about the GOP’s post-loss garment-rending, tooth-gnashing and back-stabbing. Sullivan’s obsessed with her. [...]