curtisdeltablues wrote: > But I> do agree the volume of viral email smears on Palin in such a > short> span of time is one for the Guinness Book of Records. > > Actually that record still stands. It was the more than twenty > million emails I received and continue to receive from my republican > relatives concerning Obama being a secret Muslim who will hand our > country over to the terrorists as soon as he is elected. > The other day I was sitting at the local Starbucks downtown and listening to a discussion at the next table. Seems I had some folks whose business is freight transport discussing the state of the economy and the effect on their business. I took it that they were truckers. They were kinda pissed at what the Bush administration with their silly DHS rules has done to their business and how apparently the cost of gas is raising their prices to where shipping by rail is starting to make more sense (and hey that would get those be f'in behemoths off our highways too). Any the woman said she it was not a left or right argument and one guy spoke up and said he was rather an old fashioned conservative but hates Bush and can't stand McCain. They think Palin is a joke. He said he doesn't know who to vote for *because* he thinks Obama will open the door to Muslims to enter the country. And we wonder about the intelligence of people?
As I see it people vote Republican because they are selfish. It is the "me" crowd. They are concerned about what's in it for them. Liberals, the more evolved of the human species, are the "we" crowd. Why? Because we're smart enough to see if you include everyone then our own boat will of course get raised too. So both concerns get addressed. Perhaps rather than saying that Americans are dumb we should say they are belligerent because that is how they are behaving and it carries a completely different connotation than "stupid" or "dumb." Belligerence is not considered a good trait so they will want to shed that mantle whereas they'll use "stupid" as an excuse. > Saying that Palin is not ready for this job is not a smear. Were you > satisfied with her answers in her first interview with Gibson? > > The local ABC affiliate (actually an ABC O&O) in their 6 PM news last night said they were going to show clips from the Gibson-Palin interview "ABC won't show you" (very interesting since they are an ABC or Disney owned station). They have clips on their website but I haven't located the clip that "ABC wouldn't show you" yet.
