Sarah Palin's America

We're still waiting, of course, for political/national affairs reporters to ask Palin about this "real American" guff, and what all the rest of us are supposed to do about our dissatisfaction with her goal of a cultural dictatorship.

"You wouldn't recognize the place," the recent returnee said. "They don't have any Americans left."
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I know what they mean, Joe. I think you do too. Sometimes it seems that those on the outside, who might have seen us during more coherent times in the past, can see the changes more plainly than we can.

Excellent points, Joe. Will Bunch, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News has written a book about the Reagan fantasy called Tear Down This Myth. Well worth a read. Another thing that is funny is that Reagan raised taxes when he had to and did a number of other things that would get him soundly booed by today's Repubs. Or, they would twist themselves into pretzels trying to square the reality with their pontificating.

All very true. The party's cultural sensibilities are 100% about being all mad about how hard it is for a white guy to get a break in this country.
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However, let's not overlook the fact that their substantive proposals are complete nonsense. Also.

I don't know... As our education funding continues to dry up, maybe the audience for Palin's incoherent rambling will actually grow.
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Hey! She sounds jes like me! An' she's purty!"

"All this talk about Sarah Palin's constituency being 'real Americans' . . ."
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I remember that talk during the election, but I haven't heard anybody use the term "real Americans" since then.
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What are you talking about Joe, or is this just a straw man?

The worst part of the Palin/Malkin wing of the GOP is that they are far less concerned about protecting the interests of Real Americans as they are insistent that Fake Americans get screwed.
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Spob's views on health care are a perfect example of this. For Spob, it is better that ten Real Americans either die from a lack of health care or go bankrupt from medical bills than one Fake American get more medical treatment than he or she paid for.

1. JoeKline is one of the few national figures who's come out explicitly in support of illegal immigration; most try to hide what they support, but ol' JoKe came right out and said it.
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2. The GOP leadership supports immigration of all kinds just as strong as the Dems do. The former are corrupt and paid off by those who want cheap labor. The latter are corrupt, supporting law-breaking in order to obtain power. Both groups are corrupt and support the illegal activity that most Americans oppose.
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For the truth about these issues, visit my site and subscribe to my feed. For just one example of what I cover that you will never in a million years hear from Time Magazine or hacks like JoKe, see this. Compare what I tell you at that page to what JoKe would tell you about the same group.

Joe the Unlicensed Plumber--or Joe, the victim of unscrupulous state officials (Dems) who released confidential info about him. Funny that with all the fetishing about privacy in the media during the Bush years, the official attack on JTP largely went unmentioned. That continues in this blog post. JTP had the audacity to speak truth to power, to borrow a phrase, and Dems attacked him for it. As does Joe Klein.
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This quote is interesting: "I wrote that Palin's America--white folks, small towns, traditional values--was a Republican fantasy, a vestige of Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America" hornswoggle in the 1980s."
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Well, Joe, perhaps you ought to look closer at Barack Obama's views then. His bona fides on race is less than Palin's. Putting aside the abject bias involved in his minimizing the Jena Six assault on Justin Barker as a "schoolyard fight", we have this creepy quote, "The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
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For all the talk about America being a 'melting pot', I see a big part of the problem is that people simply don't travel enough. I still recall encountering people who lived within 60 miles of the Chicago city limit who nevertheless would never think of going to the city except maybe to see a baseball game and only then in the safety of a large group. It's easy to think that you represent the 'real' America if the only people you see who aren't just like you are on the TeeVee.

"Spob's views on health care are a perfect example of this. For Spob, it is better that ten Real Americans either die from a lack of health care or go bankrupt from medical bills than one Fake American get more medical treatment than he or she paid for."
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I havent commented for a while. Yet I still get mischaracterized.

Oh, kattest123, than you for the link to your nearly unbroken stream of genius. It flows from you like the Columbia rushing to the Pacific.
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I just wish I could windsurf in it.

should be bona fides on race "are" not "is"

McCain '08 pondering VP pick…”Hmm, need a woman to reel in Hillary supporters, a milfy type to reel in the men, a small town girl for those rural folks, Mayberry was real, yes? Fey won't return my calls. Yo, Schmidt, know anyone that looks like her? Needs clothes and shoes too. Is the RNC credit card tapped out yet?” Is vetting this easy?

JK
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Republican Party--the party of immigrant bashing... Wonderfully fictitious hyperbole, Joe. How about the party of illegal immigrant bashing? Is there something wrong with seeking to have non-porous borders? Is it problematic to desire admission of immigrants via legally sanctioned entry points? Any nation on earth that does not enforce border security will ultimately be doomed.
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palinatowel -
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Don't go besmirchin' me own, mostly pristine Columbia by implyin' it be filled wi' th' same sort o' sh*t as kattest (an' spongy, fer tha' matter!) be so freely spewin'!
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Speakin' o' which...
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Spongy -
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Go f yerself!
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Arrgh!

ah PW, as charming as ever

neoexile -
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Watch it, matey - their (GOP) rhetoric don't be matchin' yer kind portrayal.
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arrgh.

Joe the Unlicensed Plumber--or Joe, the victim of unscrupulous state officials (Dems)
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I find it amazing how, whenever someone points out that the repub emperor isn't wearing any clothes, the repubs scream about bias and persecution. This is even more bizarre, as it is usually within 3 sentences of a claim to be in the majority.
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..you mean kattest is serious? I always thought he was a liberal parodying the RW nutjobs.

@neo,
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You may try to differentiate racist anti-immigration sentiment from anti-illegal sentiment but it's the same sentiment that drives the immigration laws in the first place.

whatever ohiolib, some ordinary guy responded to St, Barack's question, and slimeball Dem public officials screwed him. They ought to have been put in jail for 10 years.

The way our economy has gone down the toilet, I suspect many illegal immigrants will be trying to sneak back over the wall. Will that please the Republicans? Is Sarah still watching the Russian border every morning in her towel on her porch (or not)?

Interesting how none of you bozos can debate the relative racial bona fides of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin . . . .
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ha ha ha ha

Umm..Neo. I think almost everyone is against illegal immigration. The problem is that the GOP rhetoric doesn't do a good job of distinguishing between legal and illegal. And don't take it too hard when Joe knocks the repubs. He does it almost every time he writes.

PD
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Hold on there a sec. Are you implying that to oppose illegal immigration is inherently racist?