The girl can't help it!

[lolaraincoat]

So fishwhistle and I were trading comments about, yes, Sarah Palin again, over at idlerat's lj and then I wandered over to his desk:

me: Ah, the comedy stylings of Lola and Fishwhistle! Thank you, thank you, we'll be here all week ...

Fishwhistle, pointing to his own damn comment: And look here, this is even funnierme, chagrined to learn that this was true:

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[fishwhistle]

I'd have to check this, but I think it's pretty likely that Chicago is closer to Canada than Wasilla is to either Russia _or_ Canada.

[lolaraincoat]

to all the pundits and spinners "foreign relations" means "Enemies of the US"

Well, it's not like the US has so many friends left ...

[centeroffate]

I live for Palin updates, you know.

[lolaraincoat]

Happy to oblige! Man, she really is the gift that keeps on giving, you know? Do you know that famous airplance-she-sold-on-eBay-that-made-a-profit-for-Alaska? Guess what? She didn't really sell it at a profit, and she didn't sell it on eBay!

[idlerat]

I've seen that Jesus-Pilate line also - I am worried that it may be Professional Democratic Operative Genius, but it's a fine line these days.

You probably saw the NYT story on her pastor. She was born Catholic, raised Pentacostal, and has belonged to a non-denom fundamentalist church (that entertains Jews for Jesus) since 2002. Anyway, Pentacostals are fundamentalist (Biblical literalists), aren't they?

My friend Jo used to object strongly to the term fundamentalist because they don't know anything about the bible. Still, they know more than I do probably.

[lolaraincoat]

It's a fine line in several senses of the phrase!

And yes! I saw that Times story! Lapsed Catholic! Wow! And I think how it goes is that some Pentacostals consider themselves fundamentalists (although the only Pentacostals I ever knew well did not - they called themselves evangelical but not fundamentalist because to them fundamentalist meant non-denominational) but that other fundamentalists do not regard Pentacostals as fundamentalist, because they're kind of weird and embarrassing.

[idlerat]

because they're kind of weird and embarrassing

I have news for these other fundamentalists...

I am disagreeing with Smallbeer, I think, about whether it's sexist to say "how the hell can she take over the Presidency with 5 kids including an infant w. Down syndrome, an 18-yr-old in Iraq, and a pregnant and engaged 17-yr old?" My feeling is it's a reasonable question.

Plus, she *was* in beauty pageants, she just was, and while not definitely disqualifying it is also certainly a point of interest.

[fishwhistle]

I guess the litmus test is, would you also consider it a legitimate question for a male candidate?

On the other hand, being such a "family values" person, I think if Palin were totally consistent then she herself would have to see it as a legitimate issue. And she is using the hockey mom shtick to score political points, after all.

But I do give her credit for having a son in Iraq. At least she's not like most hawks who just want to send other people's children to war, secure in the knowledge that it will never affect their own families.

She's wrong wrong wrong about a lot of things, and she's a pathological liar, but mostly she's probably not much of a hypocrite. Well, unless you count her lie about opposing the "bridge to nowhere" and things like that in the hypocrisy column.