Stop Bashin' Palin! (another double standard)

Wow what a discussion. i read through the responses and I went from laughing to anger, to sadness, back to anger.... well you get the point. I am a registered Republican woman. I have been voting for 20 years. This last election was almost the first time I did not vote Republican for President. I do not vote party, I vote for the candidate. Sarah Palin is the only reason I voted Republican. I felt McCain was more liberal than half of the Democrat candidates. Obama just scares the bejesus out of me and is clearly proving me right every time he gets near a pen or camera!. Some of the comments you received showed alot of why people do not like her. Someone even quoted Tina Fey for cryin out loud! If you watched any of the poll interviews on election day, they said it all. The people that voted for and supported Obama, had no idea who Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank are. These same people blame Bush for the economy. they need to look at their 9th grade civics books. The President can not spend a penny. It is Congress. The last two years of Bush's Administration was predominantly Democrat. They take a wild guess, like the movie star quality, drink the kool-aid and vote the way the main stream media tells them.

I agree that her family should never be bashed, but the fact is that she ran for Vice President of the USA and was ill prepared and made many stupid statements that is just asking for her to be extremely criticized. She bombed on interview after interview during the campaign and just could not give a direct answer on simple things such as "what do you think of the Bush Doctrine?" or"What magazines do you read?" and the best of all, her response to whats her take on foreign policy was that she could "see Russia from her back yard" or something like that,,,,the point is that as a politician, she should do research and have sounded a lot more intelligent than she did, and not winked over and over during debates that decided something that her party had spent millions of dollars campaigning for Mccain.

Yep, just think what would have happened if Letterman had said what he said about Palin's 14 year daughter about one of Obama's daughters. There would be no Letterman show now.

When someone who is *supposed* to know something about government and who just ran for the second highest office in the country makes a totally stupid comment in an interview about the "Department of Law" in the White House...which does not exist...that in and of itself leads rational people to have serious concerns about her intelligence.

I will bash Palin because she is giving the female gender a bad name. She is by far not smart as far as I'm concerned at least not smart enough to run a country. Where as Obama is a very intelligent man trying to do the best job that he can after the republicans and Bush drove this country to the ground. Palin is all about power and usually when a woman gets into power they let it go too their heads. We don't need someone like that in office. It would be horrible. However, I believe there are enough people in this country who can't stand her so I don't have to worry about her trying to run for President. She needs to go home and stay home and take care of her family.

Let me just say, after reading some of the comments here, I think a lot of women are so jealous of Palin that they are foaming at the mouth! Palin is the greatest thing to happen to this country in a long time. Thank you.

I hope you don't mind me asking WHO has been telling you to stop bashing Obama? Surely not here at myLot because Obama-bashing is the favorite activity in the politics interest followed closely by Obama-supporter-bashing...lol! The number one person on myLot who must NEVER be criticized? Why, Sarah Palin, of course! The relatively few of us who ever do post anything in the least bit negative about her are told we're jealous, if we're female, we fear her or that we don't like her because she's a conservative, pro-life woman. We're accused of never criticizing her on the issues but when we do the spin can make you dizzy. She never does anything wrong! It's always somebody else's fault or the media lied. I've been accused repeatedly of attacking her kids, which I've never done. Swashbuckle, you're a young woman so you may not understand what women had to go through to get where we are today. My mother's generation fought for the right to vote and my generation has fought for equality in other areas. I was already grown up and voting when we had the first ever female V.P. candidate. Same goes for the first woman on the Supreme Court, the first female Secretary of State and Attorney general. I remember when a woman in the House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate was almost unheard of and forget about female Governors! To women of your generation it may not be a big deal at all, which is actually a good thing in a way. However, to me seeing the second ever female V.P. candidate and the first from her party winking and flirting her way through their only debate was like a slap in the face of all the women who had worked so hard and sacrificed so much to give her that opportunity. Annie

oh my goodness...thank you!!! I am a proud Alaskan, and I love Sarah Palin. I was excited when McCain chose her, disappointed in the media when they said horrible things about her, which, I can assure you, were untrue, and happy to get her back after the election. Now I am sad she has resigned, but I understand why she did it, so I will support her. I don't care for Obama...and I think that time will prove that right...or wrong...I understand people have opinions, but when someone is in politics, lets keep it to politics. Most of the people who bash her because Britol got pregnant...how many of their teenage daughters are out there having s e x?? And how many aren't pregnant because their mom put them on birth control when they were 12?? So, thank you for your post...it was like a breath of fresh air on mylot!!

Fair point.

No kidding. After all the B.S. they gave her for not being home with her kids, that this was her fault or that was her fault, making horrid comments about her son and daughter, she turns around and does something to spend more time with them to get them out of the spot light so again she is wrong! Obama has lied to the people, sent Biden out to claim they didn't realize what they got themselves into and the media down plays it. OMG if Bush had made that admission the hounds would be on him in seconds. If Palin had come out as VP and said something like that they would have eaten her alive. They should back off her and her family it's not like she's on the campaign trail or anything at the moment.