I have something positive to say about Palin

[dixiegrrrrl]

Pls bear with me.

The book and the movie Game Change ( I watched the movie last night again) point out what Palin's attraction was to her supporters..
Voters, esp. women, felt she related to them.
Or they related to her, sorta the same thing.
We can giggle and point to it, but that is a mistake, cause it is important...she connected to them, in ways McCain did not.
Even after McCain lost, she was still popular.
Right or wrong, that is a fact.

Now, fast forward to this election.
Which of the 2 leading candidates on the Dem. ticket is relating best to the voters?
Who is coming across as more engaged with people and more trustworthy?

and, for that matter, who on the Repub. side is speaking what those supporters are thinking and feeling?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. I think of her as the little girl who dreamed of being a princess. And, never grew up.

Some people think they live in glass houses when they are really living in a house full of mirrors. Fritz Perls

Narcissism on display.

[guillaumeb]

2. Exactly.

Palin talked about workers who are worried about their jobs due to trade deals. One of the two Democratic candidates talks convincingly about those same trade deals.

Palin, for all her faults, comes across as approachable. Again, only one of the two Democratic candidates comes across as approachable.

Palin, for all her intellectual incoherence, feels authentic. Again, only one of the two Democratic candidates comes across as authentic.

Nice post

[imanamerican63]

3. Nicely thought out!

[Takket]

4. Seems a heck of a lot more people "connected" with mccain before he picked her

don't have any polling data to back that up, but it seems to me the narrative after Obama won was that she helped torpedo his (McCain's) campaign.

[SheilaT]

5. I certainly never connected to Palin.

Her almost total incoherence when speaking made me wonder if her IQ hit 3 digits. And it was obvious to the most casual observer that she had never read a book that wasn't assigned.

What was most disturbing about the movie "Game Change" was how the Republican operatives were all so proud of having selected a woman for the VP slot, and kept on saying what a game changer this was -- hence the title. But first off, they were clearly completely ignorant of the fact that the Democrats had had a woman VP choice twenty years earlier -- clearly Republicans don't read much either, and definitely don't read any history, not even political history. And then, of course, what comes through so strongly is what a terrible choice she was. They'd been captivated by her good looks and her back story, without ever trying to find out if she had more than two brain cells to rub together.

And in every interview she came across all too clearly as the former beauty queen, the one who needed to be just good enough to answer the judge's questions without being a total fool, and she'd win the title. She approached all of her dealings with the press in that same way. She never once got it that running for the second highest office in the land bore zero resemblance to a beauty pageant.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I read this am that SHE contacted Trump about endorsing him..

and that she also failed to show for her scheduled appearance with him in Iowa today...

Palin the Predictable.

[snooper2]

6. She had maybe a million hard core supporters out of 330 million, everyone else saw her as-

A BIG FUCKING JOKE!


Check out how many people she has on Palin TV maybe LOL