A Britt looks at Palin..A pistol-packin' Looby Loo: the Left's worst nightmare

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A pistol-packin' Looby Loo: the Left's worst nightmare



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Last updated at 5:10 PM on 05th September 2008







Frank Sinatra would have got the joke. In the words of the great political philosopher, they all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round.

They're all laughing, too, at John McCain for choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. The usual suspects took one look at this pistol-packin' momma and reacted like John McEnroe to a disputed line call: you cannot be serious!

Certainly, the pick came, as the Americans say, out of left field. But Sarah Palin is centre stage now, and suddenly it's game on.





Stern, God-fearin', gun-totin' Sarah Palin. Will she get the last laugh?

At the very least, McCain has got a wonderful sense of mischief - a quality sadly lacking in most politicians.

The way the Left, both here and in America, are contorting themselves is a joy to behold. Sarah Palin is every Guardianista's worst nightmare.

It's reminiscent of how they used to patronise Mrs Thatcher 30 years ago. What did this small-town girl know about anything?

How could any woman expect to run a country and raise a family? What does she know about foreign affairs?

Of course, they weren't saying that a woman couldn't be Prime Minister, you understand. Just not this woman.

Shirley Williams would have been fine, but this ghastly, lower middle- class Snobby Roberts woman from Grantham, of all places - AAARGH!

It's been hilarious watching the sisterhood tie themselves in knots over Sarah Palin.

They've been in full Glenda Slagg mode - dontcha just hate her, dontcha just love her?

On the one hand she's a feisty, capable woman shaking up the political establishment, while juggling a family and career. I don't know how she does it.

But on the other, she's a Godfearing, gun-totin', good ol' girl. She hunts, she fishes - she's a Republican, for goodness' sake.



Sarah Palin is every red-blooded redneck's fantasy figure, every randy schoolboy's Mrs Robinson. She could have stepped straight out of one of long-lost cousin Michael's Ripping Yarns.

Cheerleader, beauty queen, dominatrix of the Harper Valley PTA, mother of five, mayor, governor and now a heartbeat away from the Vice-Presidency.

You couldn't make her up. Law And Order's Fred Thompson, once a presidential candidate himself, hit the baby seal on the head when he said the Left were in a blind panic over what to do about Palin.



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Joke's on you: John McCain, displaying a sense of mischief rare in politics, with his choice of Sarah Palin, surrounded by her family, as his running-mate

What they are doing is what they usually do when confronted with something which offends their world view - character assassination. Every 'liberal' newspaper and TV network has sent hatchet men north to Alaska to dig for the dirt beneath the tundra.

What they discovered is that 80 per cent of Alaskans think she's doing a great job.

A supermarket tabloid is claiming she had an affair, which she denies. Apart from that, the worst the scandal-hounds have come up with is that Palin, as governor, put pressure on a police chief to fire her former brother-in-law.

Given that said brother-in-law had beaten up her sister and threatened to kill her father, I'd say that far from abusing her office, she showed considerable restraint. I'm surprised she didn't put a bullet in his head.

The big talking point is the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, who is soon to marry her boyfriend. That's what I call a shotgun wedding.

Still, it kills the wild rumour that Bristol is really the mother of Palin's Down's syndrome baby, Trig.

You've just got to like a woman who calls her son after a character in Only Fools And Horses. Although it's probably fair to assume she doesn't have a working knowledge of Cockney rhyming slang, otherwise her daughter would never have been christened Bristol.

When Palin talks about shattering the glass ceiling, the sisters are supposed to cheer - except most of them suspect her idea of shattering a glass ceiling would be with a both barrels blast from a 12-bore.

She epitomises the 'God and guns' mentality at which Barack Obama and his supporters sneer. They use 'small town' as a pejorative term. That's not how Middle America sees it.

John Mellencamp wrote his hit song Small Town as an ironic take on Hicksville, USA. He even performed it at an Obama rally earlier this year.





Back at you: Democrats say Sarah lacks the experience for the top job - but neither do Obama or Biden

But that hasn't stopped Middle Americans adopting it as an anthem. Mellencamp must be just as horrified as Springsteen was when Ronald Reagan purloined his anti-war Born In The USA as a campaign song.

It's not that the Americans don't do irony, as European 'sophisticates' always maintain.

It's just that sometimes, my dear, they don't give a damn. A good song is a good song - and to hell with the message.

Most Americans were born and raised in a small town. Her values are their values.

The mantra from the Obama camp is that she lacks the experience to be VP. In truth, she has more executive experience than either Obama or his Neil Kinnock-impersonator sidekick mate Joe Biden, neither of whom has ever run anything.

But, wail the sceptics, what about foreign affairs? Admittedly, Palin has never slagged off her country at a mass rally in Berlin. But Alaska's next door to Russia. She's got more experience of dealing with Russians than anyone outside of corporate hospitality at Stamford Bridge.

Who is Putin more likely to be wary of - Barack 'we must negotiate with dictators' Obama, or Looby Loo packing heat?

To paraphrase the Duke of Wellington, I don't know what she does to the enemy, but she scares the life out of me.

Palin reminds me of the old joke about what's the difference between the IRA and a woman with PMT? You can negotiate with the IRA.

What she does have in spades is experience of the energy industry - the number one concern right now. Palin would drill, drill and drill some more - polar bears or no polar bears. And when the oil companies got greedy, she imposed a windfall tax. Unlike Gordon Brown, who'd keep it, she gave every Alaskan a $1,200 rebate.

With all the hoop-la, it's easy to forget that she's running for Vice-President, not President. Not yet.











Sarah Palin: The next Margaret Thatcher? Time will tell...

That's what really frightens her condescending opponents. Not that we've a leg to stand on in Britain. We've got Harriet Harman a chewed fingernail away from the top job - and she's never shot a moose in her life.

Remember, they all laughed at Margaret Thatcher.

But ho, ho, ho, who had the last laugh?

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The tina fey thing aside... the girl aint doing so bad at the moment.

I wonder who thought of her... I'm guessing it wasn't the same person who came up with biden, eh?:wah:

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I loathe her and would like to wipe that snotty smile off her face.

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[QUOTE=JAB;997979]I rather like her. [/QUOTE

Oh well. You can like her as I think she's a phoney.

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JAB;997982 wrote: And Joe Biden, who steals others words as his own, isn't?


I'm not going to get into a debate here with you Jab. But I just don't agree with her positions at all.

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qsducks;997984 wrote: I'm not going to get into a debate here with you Jab. But I just don't agree with her positions at all.
No surprise here.......I just hope you are not talking about sex-xx though???

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fuzzy butt;997952 wrote: I really hope you guys aren't looking in the face of another Eva Perone.....tht' would really suck. Or god forbid.....Pauline Hanson



sounds good but .........oh dear put it into practice...............Not good guys not good at all.


Can I ask why you despise Eva Perone sic (Peron)?

Just wondering as she seemed to have had the working class of Argentina on her side.

[Sheryl]

I like Palin, she's real and down to earth. I think she'd do a good job.

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Sheryl;998028 wrote: I like Palin, she's real and down to earth. I think she'd do a good job.


YIPPERS...........I second that emotion.........

In fact she is MUCH more in-line with my first choice..RON PAUL

[gmc]

This isn't about the left in britain though is it? Why bother posting it?

She's have no chance here in the UK for two reasons 1) she's a creationist 2) She's on the religious right. We don't like religious nutters.

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Sheryl;998028 wrote: I like Palin, she's real and down to earth. I think she'd do a good job.


Just like George Bush.

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gmc;998112 wrote: This isn't about the left in britain though is it? Why bother posting it?



She's have no chance here in the UK for two reasons 1) she's a creationist 2) She's on the religious right. We don't like religious nutters.


Why not post gmc?



You lost me with:



'She's have no chance here in the UK for two reasons 1) she's a creationist 2) She's on the religious right. We don't like religious nutters'



Where did I say (the article say she was running in britain)?

Or maybe you didn't know we TOO have a LEFT and a RIGHT here in the good ol USA.....

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BTS;999198 wrote: Why not post gmc?



You lost me with:



'She's have no chance here in the UK for two reasons 1) she's a creationist 2) She's on the religious right. We don't like religious nutters'



Where did I say (the article say she was running in britain)?

Or maybe you didn't know we TOO have a LEFT and a RIGHT here in the good ol USA.....


Ah sorry. It slipped my notice you were an american. You wouldn't be aware of it but the daily mail is a right wing british newspaper and as such is notorious for it's stories designed to stir things up when it comes to immigration, law and order, scroungers etc etc. Right wing in a UK context means borderline fascist or authoritarian (to use a politer word). It's not relevant now but in the 1930's they supported the british fascist party-gives you an idea what I mean. They show inclinations that way still. They also think Maggie Thatcher was wonderful in reality opinion is polarised she's one of the few British politicians in modern times that inspires both affection and nostalgia and outright hatred in equal measure. You still get those on the right who think her legacy should be honoured./

While most people in this country would find her creationist believes enough of a turn off to make sure she wouldn't get elected in this country she's not standing for election here so it really doesn't matter what we think.

Hence my comment it's not about what the left in the UK think. I didn't mean anything beyond that.

Left in the UK is socialist with extreme being the remnants of revolutionary socialism and communists. Most people are in the middle, right wing about some things (usually law and order) left wing-what you would call liberal-about others. (such as the welfare state)

Right wing tends to mean fascist.

Both our main political parties are effectively social democratic in nature. Neither of them would not dare to try and dismantle the NHS or do away with the welfare state in any meaningful way. That alone makes them left wing/liberal in an american context-it's middle of the road here.

Yes you do have a left and right in US politics but the connotations are very different. Basically you don't have a left wing party at all you just think you do. The term liberal here does not mean left wing. It gets confusing cos I keep forgetting.

Her religious beliefs are what would be the big turn off more than her politics. Any politician making an issue of his/her religion tends to get ignored. There is believe it or not a christian coalition party in the UK. In the scottish elections they lost all their deposits. Christian fundamentalism is not mainstream here it's very much on the nutty fringe and personally i hope it stays there.

Comparing her with thatcher is meaningless and Richard Littlejohn Knows it-so does most of his readers (at least the ones that just don't just read the daily mail or take it seriously) it's typical right wing never mind the reality nonsense his paper is noted for. Basically he's a pillock.