Support Sarah

November 10, 2008 / 2:15 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Public service can be thankless work if you’re a conservative who lives the values. Your very existence is viewed as a threat to the power brokers and the entrenched smarty-pants set. This country is still a Republic governed by and for the people. I thought it might be nice to let Sarah Palin know that her valiant efforts to get John McCain elected did not go unnoticed and that she’s supported by the people who matter–the voters.

Here is her address:

Alaska State Capitol Building
Third Floor
P.O. Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811-0001

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  • Glynn W.

    Dear Sarah,

    Thank you so much for everything you did.

    Sincerely,

    The Left

  • Mat

    Yup, the “cream” always rises to the top…

    I knew there was a reason why it’s pointless to talk to the other side. It’s like punching air…

  • Mr. Chuckles

    Support Sarah!

    Please send all donations to:

    Sarah Palin’s Neiman Marcus Repayment Fund
    C/O Truthiness Division, You Betcha! Wink!
    PO Box 110001
    Juneau, AK 99811-0001

  • Steve

    Mr. Chuckles are you really that much of a dumbass. Why don’t you do some research and see how much Obama pays for his suits. I think you will find it shocking. I am also convinced this is very important information when deciding how Obama will lead our country under his socialist rule. I think he should sell some of his high priced clothes and share the money among the poor that he represents.

  • brs

    Let me make it plain: support of Palin is support for anti-intellectualism. There are plenty of really smart conservatives – Newt, Mitt Romney, Christie Todd Whitman, etc.

    Palin simply does not have the intelligence required to be a decent POTUS. Her encounters with the media aren’t gaffes – they expose that she simply does not know very much about anything – and the fact that people don’t look dimly on that is astonishing.

    There’s nothing “folksy” about being a moron, and there’s nothing “elitist” about having knowledge.

  • Chalmers

    brs,

    Like not knowing that Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council?

  • http://daniel.summershome.org Daniel

    I swear, if I hear one more person talk about how “smart” the President-elect is, my head may explode. It blows me away that pseudo-intellectuals cannot grasp the difference between intelligence and culture. President George W. Bush is a highly intelligent person, who was never given a chance because he says “nucular” instead of “nuclear.” Then, who do they nominate for VP but someone who makes our curent President look like an amateur gaffe-er? (Just saying – both parties have members who are prone to humorous slips of the tongue.)

    I was watching a re-run of Larry King Live that was taped the day after the election. He was interviewing Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Magic Johnson, Jesse Jackson, and Pat Robertson. (Of course, Maher, Moore, and Jackson got double segments, while Robertson got a half-segment and an “I’m sorry our time is so short” – bah…) Anyway, that was the prevailing sentiment. “We’ve finally got a smart President!” “Science will return to America!” (as if not doing experiments on aborted babies means that science has left)

    I just can’t understand why the arguments from people who are supposed to be so smart regularly sound so stupid. Then, when we call them out, we’re mean-spirited. They insult our intelligence, we insult their tactics, and we’re the bad guys. Go figure.

    The next four years are going to be interesting…

  • http://mkfreeberg.webloggin.com Morgan K Freeberg

    Paraphrasing the criticism directed toward The Right, from The Left…

    “You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! You’re dumb! …

    “And you’re not sufficiently mature, civilized and sophisticated to appreciate all points of view…like WE are.”

  • Trish

    brs–
    I hope that support for Palin is a rejection of intellectualism, because intellectualism is the enemy of knowledge.
    She is far brighter than Joe Biden, the person against whom she was running.

    Remember that, anybody? Sarah Palin was not running for President.

    The man who has just been elected believes there are 57 states in the union. So that makes everyone who disagrees with him a “moron” ? Apparently, by your lights, it does.

  • grubbsi

    There seems to be a slight problem with tro!!s in some of the earlier comments. I knew a little about Governor Palin before she was nominated, because I follow Oil & Gas issues and have seen her at work for a number of years. I was constantly amazed by how little people were actually told about her. sort of like a reverse of the treatment of BarryO You didnt hear things all the bad or questionable things about him. you never heard about Sarah’s work as chairman of the Alaska Oil & Gas conservation Commission. You never heard about her work on the Interstate Oil & Gas Commerce Compact either. Any of you guys out there ever heard of the Point Thompson Gas field ? If you cant tell me who sat on those leases there for 30 years, who’s land Point Thompson is and what Sarah did about it then maybe you dont know as much as you think you do since you are soo scared of this lady you will be glad to know she’s going to be on the national news a lot for years to come…..get used to it

    A lot of the PUMA’s love her and as they find out more about who she really is, the less teh democrat elite can take their votes for granted

  • Glynn W.

    Dear Sarah Palin,

    Help! When I was in the country of Africa, dinosaurs tried to eat my plane before Putin reared his head over the airspace and where do they go?

    Sincerely,

    Your Biggest Fan

  • Trish

    Yup. PDS is still with us.

  • MtnGoat

    Sarah, thanks for getting in the blender and taking one for the team. They sifted your trash, said your son was your daughters kid, and joked about blacks gang raping you, hung you in effigy.

    We both know what this means…the more these folks hate you, the more you have going on. My hat if off to you. Scare tactics and slamming only work for so long, and I know you’ll be back. You’re our pit bull. You should have been the nominee.

    Thank you.

    Now a word to BRS. It seems the canard about conservatives being ‘anti-intellectual’ carries some currency with this poster. I’m sure the left loves to pat itself on the back with this kind of self aggrandizement, it’s what they’re best at, and after all, opposing the Smartest People On Earth must mean you oppose intellectualism and knowledge. Of course, because you embody it, right?

    Not at all. We don’t oppose knowledge…we oppose know it alls. Know it alls who think that everyone else around them needs the benefit of their great big brains, imposed upon them via the fist of State.

    We don’t oppose intellect, we oppose know it alls. Big Difference.

  • brs

    “Like not knowing that Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council?”

    So what Obama doesn’t know makes Palin smart? I didn’t realize that Obama and Plain were linked in some sort of telepathic zero-sum game of intelligence. Thanks for that.

  • brs

    Trish:

    Explain, please:

    “I hope that support for Palin is a rejection of intellectualism, because intellectualism is the enemy of knowledge.”

  • brs

    And Mtn goat has a problem w/ the English language:

    “Now a word to BRS. It seems the canard about conservatives being ‘anti-intellectual’ carries some currency with this poster.”

    Right, which is why I said this:
    “There are plenty of really smart conservatives – Newt, Mitt Romney, Christie Todd Whitman, etc. ”

    “I’m sure the left loves to pat itself on the back with this kind of self aggrandizement, it’s what they’re best at, and after all, opposing the Smartest People On Earth must mean you oppose intellectualism and knowledge.”

    I said this? Did I, now. Please show me where.

    “We don’t oppose knowledge…we oppose know it alls. Know it alls who think that everyone else around them needs the benefit of their great big brains, imposed upon them via the fist of State.”

    I said this too? Wow, I said a lot of things I didn’t say.

    Palin demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge on an incredibly large range of issues. The drosophilia comment alone – my God! Should I go on? It has nothing to do with conservatives being stupid or any of that (which is why I EXPLICITLY stated that). She does not know very much about anything as far as I can tell. She doesn’t even know what paper she reads – we could go on.

    “We don’t oppose intellect, we oppose know it alls. Big Difference.”

    So you prefer know-nothings? Like I said – you have plenty of really smart and capapble conservative to choose from. No one said anything about John McCAin’s intellect – he’s quite sharp, actually. But Palin is an idiot.

  • jim

    I’d still fuck ya!

  • MtnGoat

    The basis for my statements was not claimed to be specifically what you stated other than your claim of attacks on intellectualism, all rooted in the same inferences….if you oppose know it alls, you must be anti intellectual.

    I have plenty of experience with shadow boxing folks making these claims, where every inference is backed out of by ‘i didn’t say that’.

    No, you didn’t…and you don’t need to, because the claims made are rooted in the reasons I explain. Never actually placing a stake in the dirt to defend, is a core feature of these kinds of vapor attacks.

    Palin’s every word had been hyperscrutinized by legions of attack dogs bent on blood, yet Biden’s repeated misstatements barely even made the press. The double standard is stunning. If you apply the same standard, you should necessarily conclude he is a moron as well. Instead, what I see is plain old people in high stress positions making mistakes like anyone.

    Do I prefer know nothings? Not necessarily. What I prefer is people of any stripe, with the humility to *refuse* to push their ideas onto others via State proxy in areas where people are not violating anyone elses negative rights.

    This isn’t about intellectuals or know nothings..it’s about the willingness to use other people’s lives, property, actions, and choices to serve your own ends because you think your judgement and goals are superior to theirs. We’re not here to be servants, tools, or means, and neither another citizen, the State, or Society, is our god, owner, or creator.

    Get the heck out of the lives of people who aren’t violating the rights of others, and you won’t be tagged as the bad kind of know it all.

    I don’t hate smart people or knowledge. What I, and others, *oppose*, is the use of free citizens lives as tools for ends that are not specifically their own and literally chosen by them. No matter how smart you or anyone else is, that is wrong.

  • brs

    Your first three paragraphs are completely empty speech that neither address any of my points nor advance any new points, possibly save for a ad hom attack via hasty gen of what you “think” my politics are. My advice: instead of defending a straw man from your previous comment, withdraw him and move on.

    Special acknowledgement should be given for ignoring that I said my judgement of her has NOTHING to do with her being conservative and pointing out specific conservatives whose intellect is to be admired – not once, but twice. Ignoring what’s inconvenient is always a good dialectic tactic.

    “Palin’s every word had been hyperscrutinized by legions of attack dogs bent on blood, yet Biden’s repeated misstatements barely even made the press. The double standard is stunning. If you apply the same standard, you should necessarily conclude he is a moron as well. Instead, what I see is plain old people in high stress positions making mistakes like anyone.”

    1. Biden can make Palin neither dumber nor smarter.
    2. But if we are to compare – Palin didn’t understand the foreign policies of the Bush administration, couldn’t identify 1 periodical that she reads, didn’t know that the fruit fly was the model for immense amounts of bio research (and isn’t researched for – ya know – knowledge about drosophilia per se), etc. These are low-level things that someone in the position she wanted to be in needs to know. Biden may be a schmuck , but he understands basic knowledge about the world. Remember: he was asked the same questions by Couric and answered them – maybe not with position that either of us might agree with, but showing that he UNDERSTOOD what the basic facts were.

    “Do I prefer know nothings? Not necessarily. What I prefer is people of any stripe, with the humility to *refuse* to push their ideas onto others via State proxy in areas where people are not violating anyone elses negative rights.

    This isn’t about intellectuals or know nothings..it’s about the willingness to use other people’s lives, property, actions, and choices to serve your own ends because you think your judgement and goals are superior theirs. We’re not here to be servants, tools, or means, and neither another citizen, the State, or Society, is our god, owner, or creator.

    Get the heck out of the lives of people who aren’t violating the rights of others, and you won’t be tagged as the bad kind of know it all.”

    OK, that’s fine. But you need someone who can function as the arbiter thereof in an intelligent manner, and she cannot. Any of the other conservatives I named (and they were but exeamples, as I said) could serve these ends effectively. But Palin has demonstrated that she simply is not intelligent enough – or at the least does not know enough – to do the job. You have to at the least have 0 intellectual ciuriosity to be here age and still not know these things.

    It’s not conservative vs liberal. She’s a dolt, and i really cannot understand how you’re not disturbed by the simple things that she doesn’t know. She could name ONE supremem court case!!!!! Not ONE?

    Legions of attack dogs bent on blood? For asking here what newspapers she reads, or what SCOTUS rulings she disagrees with, or what she thinks of the Bush doctrine? Should they NOT have asked her those questions? And it’s not that I didn’t like the answers – it’s that she didn’t even understand the questions.

  • Cynic13

    If this is still “…a Republic governed by and for the people…” Then the people have spoken, we don’t want Palin anywhere near the White House!

    I recognize that Palin has made great progress as a woman in a male dominated field; is a strong woman who lives her beliefs; is a woman who has exercised her right to choose to have as many children as she and her husband decide; is a likeable person outside of the political arena….

    HOWEVER I do not support, nor ever will support, a candidate (male or female, white or otherwise) who wishes to destroy the environment, demonize his/her opponents based on their appearance or acquaintances, or take away MY right to live MY beliefs and make MY OWN choices for my family.

    Why is it the far-right thinks that LAWS should force everyone to believe as they do? This country was founded on religous FREEDOM – NOT Christianity! Many of our founding fathers (like Franklin) were agnostic, and they were certainly products of higher education and intellectualism…why have we suddenly turned away from our beginnings to demonize those who work hard to become educated and knowledgeable? Don’t we want the smartest and brightest to be in charge??

  • Mr. Chuckles

    Steve,

    You asked:

    “Mr. Chuckles are you really that much of a dumbass.”

    What you meant to say:

    “Mr. Chuckles, are you really that much of a dumbass?”

    Proper punctuation will keep you from looking like, well, a dumbass.

    And yes, I’m sure Obama’s suits are expensive. Frankly I don’t really care. It was just a joke. Take a deep breath and try to relax. After all, $150,000 is a perfectly reasonable amount to spend on a wardrobe. It’s what all “regular Joes” spend anyway (that was a joke again).

    P.S.
    The grammar lesson is free of charge.

  • grubbsi

    I see that you guys are busy arguing about how many anti-intellectuals can dance on the head of a pin, and that nobody has the brains or courage to respond to my questions about Point Thompson ect. guess you want to belive what you have been told rather than try to learn something on your own

    I personally thought the Bush doctrine was that what you shave depends on the cut of your bikini

  • brs

    “brains or courage to respond to my questions”

    I have no idea what the whole point thompson business is – I guess this means I have no brains or courage? That’s pretty silly…

    She may have been a great negotiator of oil and gas contracts. She may have even been fine to run Alaska – or lead a seccesion movement for Alaska or whatever. I’m not saying that she’s not good at anything or that she’s the anti-Christ here.

    The fact of the matter is, however, that she demonstrated her cmoplete lack of simple facts re: every topic from science to foreign policy to SCOTUS rulings, and that should disqualify here from being VPOTUS.

    Do you have the “brains or courage” (whatever that means) to defend here answers to the questions that were posed to her by either Couric or Gibson? Please.

  • grubbsi

    If you would take the time and trouble to actually root around on the web some and find out the truth, instead of being spoon fed by the media you will know more than you do now. Pt Thompson is a 2nd year level question. but it is all about what this lady really did do as AO&GCC chairman and then governor. It is the entry level question to a higher level discussion. If that is too hard, how about name 2 international associate members of the Interstate Oil & Gas commerce Compact who have been in the news lately. peferably the one that was in a shooting war this summer.