I just posted this on another thread but it may have been better suited to this one.

Seems to me that she's a sort of circuit breaker only meant to change the the direction of the current debate.

This presents a little more depth to her background, but of course it's always in the eye of the beholder.

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%e2%80%9cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%e2%80%9d/#more-954

There’s a difference between being spunky and being snarky, being able to inspire and being able to get a laugh.

I suspect when voters consider a candidate’s abilities, the best substitute for competency won’t be sarcasm - but then again, this is the USA.

Col

Please lift your head from that plate of tripe and wipe that black bean from your upper lip..... thank you.

My questions to you are as follows:

Was Margaret Thatcher a creationist?

Sarah Palin is.

Like yourself, was Maggie pro-choice?

Palin most definitely is not.

Margaret Thatcher is well educated and an intellectual giant in comparison to Palin. Therefore, I very much doubt Palin is about to don her mantle any time soon.

Have you no discernment at all?

You can put your snout back in the trough now.

Cheers

COL! if I don't give you a hi 5 next time we meet.. remind me I'm supposed to :) *the awful and the offal* :) awesome mate!

poorrrrr CJ.. aah well.. we lub ya. Don't worry. you give your share of snide remarks.. getting a few back should at least keep the balance.

If a PM is a creationist or an evolutionist.. does it matter?

If it matters to some that he/she might be a Creationist..then.. WELCOME to our world of worry about PM' s who might be evolutionists and who have nothing but 'survival of the fittest' as their foundation for policy making. Yes..I can imagine how THAT might turn out if let loose from the assylum.

-cull the deformed.
-cull the disabled.
-brothels next to schools
-legalized hard drugs

etc etc ad absurdum.

Gday PaulL thanks for the grin, its me Belly over here on your left, not quite loony but much further left than you.
Want to bet me the lady from Americas far north will win?
Oh I am an Obamma idiot too, lets include him in the bet.
You seem to be saying after 8 years of an idiot running America we are now to get 4 more years of heading in the wrong direction.
I have more faith in Americans than that.

Since Sir John Winstone retired (albeit involuntary) the left have been looking for someone else they can hate. The Feminist, the earth worshipers, the homosexual lobby, the god haters are lining up in droves to vent their displeasure against Sarah. Why? Because she values the disabled and the unborn. She calls sin sin and that just exposes the hypocrisy of those judging her. Even Oprah is showing her true colours refusing to give her any airtime. I actually find it all very funny. NO doubt Sarah will also expose how dumb and unscientific the high priests of global warming are.

Well, there's no accounting for taste.

Heehaw!

We can only keep our fingers crossed
that the gun-toting "Annie Oakley,"
and her old "military" cow-poke running
mate, don't appeal to the greater majority
of Americans.

I'd like to see her in an honest news-conference,
instead of "barnstorming" safe crowds with
socko punch lines.

To me, more is required of any serious candidate
for such a high office than the,

"When Ah itches,
Ah scratches," mentality

that's been displayed by Palin to date.

There are candidates out there who are aware
that there is a world outside the borders of
the United States. Palin's not one of them.

And Col, What's with you making a comparison
to Maggie Thatcher? The Grand Dame would
seriously take you to task over such an insult.

Maggie was democratic enough to talk down to
anyone. Palin, has to be taught the finer
rudiments of the English language. Maggie
could answer questions. Palin wouldn't
know how.

As Maggie once stated, "Tact is the ability
to tell someone they have an "open mind," when in
reality they have a hole in the head!"

The subtlety would be lost on Palin.