Does anybody really believe that the “classmate” actually said such a thing. “Everything she does and says is right”?  Putin would “fall before her”? Not even lawyers talk that way. Methinks Mr. Nordlinger is simply pulling a PG-rated Rich Lowry.

I have relatives in Alaska. Palin’s antics make them want to go put their heads in a paper bag, and they’re hardly in a tiny minority. They’re acutely aware of how she’s making people in the Lower 48 think “Alaskan” means “oil-welfare-check-taking, moose-shooting backwoods yahoo,” and they’re not terribly happy about it.

There’s steel beneath the attractive warmth.

I don’t see the warmth.  She seems like a vindictive bitch to me, and the winks and ‘you betchas’ don’t really soften it that much.  I really don’t see how anyone could see her as a ‘nice’ person, unless they were VERY naive and shallow.

Oh, we love her — everyone in Alaska does.

Really? So who were all those people who showed up to protest her a couple weeks back, in one of the largest rallies in the history of the state?  Were they all out of state agitators?

Everything she says and does is right.

What an odd statement. I thought that Palin’s fans were mostly good Christian folk, you know, not blasphemous heretical fuckheads. Is there seriously any functioning adult out there who believes that Palin (or anyone else) is completely perfect and never, ever makes a mistake?

And, I tell you: If she ever came up against Putin, he’d fall before her.

Yea, verily, and the LORD spoke to Sariah and said, “Raise your staff and strike the glacier, that all may know I am the lord!” And lo, Sariah raised her staff and struck the glacier, and the ice parted and milk flowed forth, and the milk flowed over Putin and his armies, and carried them into the Bering sea. And Sariah praised the LORD, saying, “Give thanks to the LORD, you know, for he has laid low the godless Russians, you know, and caused mighty Putin to fall before me, you betcha!”

(shudder)

The Alaska-based Stanford Law alumnus/alumna must have been a legacy student.

Weren’t these the same people getting on us for “worshipping” Obama? I mean, just making sure I didn’t hallucinate that.

Maybe the classmate was being sarcastic and no one got it.

“Oh, we love her — everyone in Alaska does. Everything she says and does is right. And, I tell you: If she ever came up against Putin, he’d fall before her.”

The natural reaction to such a statement is not “Yup. I hope she goes far, far.” The natural reaction is, “Those old classmates of my friend are really, really weird.”

Seriously, if someone said this about Obama, Nordlinger would be having an apoplectic fit about how the Democratic party was in the raptures of a cultleader. Then again, self-awareness and a capacity for thoughtful reasoning is not exactly a Republican strongsuit.

Actually, Tyro, the natural reaction would be “Waiter, please call 911. I think somebody slipped a hallucenogenic into my friend’s mojito.”

I mean, really, if an old friend of mine said that about a candidate I liked and agreed with, I’d think he was either high or messing with me. It’s barely even English. Duckspeak, maybe.

I’m sure Nerdlinger is telling the truth…

I don’t think Palin is either steely OR warm.  I think she’s as fragile and whiny as she is petty and mean.

She seems like a vindictive bitch to me, and the winks and ‘you betchas’ don’t really soften it that much.  I really don’t see how anyone could see her as a ‘nice’ person, unless they were VERY naive and shallow.

I think she’s as fragile and whiny as she is petty and mean.

I didn’t know this thread was about VH1’s Rock of Love: Charm School . Hope Sharon Osbourne goes easy on her or else it’s totally sexist!

And lo, Sariah raised her staff and struck the glacier, and the ice parted and milk flowed forth

Is this an allusion to her denial of global warming? Whatever her staff does, it can’t be very good for glaciers.

Immediately after talking to this friend, Nerdlicker probably hailed a cab, and the black driver told him that he and all his black friends are actually really annoyed with Obama for being such a reverse racist.

It’s crazy how you don’t hear about these absolutely true stories from the liberal elite media.

When I was six years old I had an imaginary friend. He too always said all the right things. And in just about the same tone as Nordlinger’s friend. (Weird!) My friend and I are still pretty tight and we chat often, ‘specially when I’m feeling blue, but I had the good sense to stop quoting him to others.

The Alaska-based Stanford Law alumnus/alumna must have been a legacy student.

No, the geographic affirmative action admit…

Don’t forget that Putin is a Judo master.

Just sayin’...

Don’t forget that Putin is a Judo master.

and Sambo, which is judo, but MEAN.

if Palin thinks shooting wolves from a helicopter is outdoorsy, Putin is scary. He just takes off his shirt, walks into rivers in winter, and pulls out fish.

I wish that was a joke. The man is GAR as hell.

Putin does THAT?!?!? That is teh awesome!

“She seems like a vindictive bitch to me”

It is perfectly possible to criticise Palin, and her vindictiveness, without using sexist language to do it.

“Alaska: The Biggest Cult On Earth

yeah, but when you look at population density, the Mormons are doing a lot better . .

if Palin thinks shooting wolves from a helicopter is outdoorsy, Putin is scary. He just takes off his shirt, walks into rivers in winter, and pulls out fish.

In Russia.

Apparently, he also shot a tiger with a tranq gun when it escaped the trap it was in, while actually on the ground, not in a helicopter.  That man is scary.

Putin is hardcore enough to do without Palin’s phoney-baloney brand of “attractive warmth,” you betcha [wink]. Forget about being out her league when it comes to Putin—Palin’s not even playing the same game.

“What would Sarah do?” is a funny satire of her first days in office. It’s a quiz, with prizes, at www.homelanddecency.com. Putin isn’t in it, but Joe the Plumber is.

Jesus christ, those sychophants should get a room and jack off privately…

Does anybody really believe that the “classmate” actually said such a thing.

I don’t believe that that quote can possible be verbatim because if you read it out loud no one talks that way.  Even in a bad movie no one would talk like that.  It almost sounds like something you might hear from a guy at the airport extolling the virtues of his savior Rev. Moon, but not quite.

I guess it could be a paraphrase of an actual quote - rewritten in Nordlinger’s words - but if so, he probably missed the sarcasm dripping off the whole “If she ever came up against Putin, he’d fall before her” line.

But I’m going with “made it up whole cloth - up to and including his friend in Alaska”.  Because this is Nordlinger we’re talking about.

Yeah, Pseudo-Adrienne, I know, I’m guilty of criticizing personality and performance style over policy and such.  But even Palin’s defenders skip from her policy positions to her (supposed) charm, and, yikes, I really don’t see it.  I guess if a person likes frat-boy sales-rep types, they might take a liking to Bush, but Palin’s stylings are even less appealing, and they’re _so much_ of what we’re told is her political usefulness.  So many of her fans talk about how she’s just like them, and I can’t fathom seeing Sarah Palin as someone just like me.  I think it’s genuinely puzzling.

-“Oh, we love her — everyone in Alaska does. “

Well, I love in Alaska, and I can tell you that this is categorically false. There are many, many of us who are embarrassed by our governor, especially now that sh is on the national stage. That being said, I would much prefer her to continue being our governor than becoming our vice president.

Well, I love in Alaska
Yes, but do you actually live there?

Hey now, there’s not much else to do cooped up inside during those long winters.

MikeEss, thank god he shut up before he got to the part where he describes his studly body in detail. Heave.

@FlipYrWhig

No, no, no! My snarky comment was meant to agree with your earlier comment. Palin is better suited to be a contestant of a “reality-show” given not only her personality but for her serious lack of knowledge and competence, with regards to public policy and the general world around her (shorter me: she’s a joke). Just as Dubya is better suited to be “keg-king” of the local frat-house, though I’m sure even in that “job” he would find a way to run it into the ground and fuck over the innocent bystanders of the frat-house and possibly neighboring frat- and sorority-houses.

Speaking on behalf of my friend who’s the president of her local Planned Parenthood chapter out on the Last Frontier, not everybody up there is fucking nuts.

@ Pseudo-Adrienne—got it.  I was preemptively apologizing for doing the stuff that Bob Somerby hates so much, turning political discussion into mind-reading and hackish theater criticism.  I try so hard not to—and then I just get dragged right back into it!