Is Palin another Monica Goodling?

[ColbertWatcher]

You remember her? She's the obedient gal in the Justice Department who was really interested in everyone's religion and sexual orientation even though that wasn't in her job description or legal.

Remember, she went to that pretend university to get a degree in law so worthless that she wasn't able to tell Congress whether or not what she did might have been illegal.

The reason I fear Palin will be like Goodling is due to them both being Christers.

Christers believed their obedience to their interpretation of their Bible entitles them to opportunities those who don't agree completely with them should not have.

In other words, their sense of justice and fairness is not based on American law, but what we they've convinced themselves 2,000-year-old desert nomads believed.

Goodling did what she did because she believed the Justice Department should reflect her bible, not the law.

I can totally see Palin being a hybrid between Cheney and Goodling.

[muntrv]

1. In short , she's Talibornagain.

[valerief]

2. Whoa, that's a beaut of a word! Talibornagain. Perfecto.

:rofl:

[fulllib]

5. Wow, nice word!

That is the best word I've heard in the 00's.

Or at least this election season.

James Carville on CNN right now has been just confounded by this selection of Palin. He pointed out how McCain said "once you know her like I do . . ." after he had met her twice.

Good times

[Hekate]

6. Molly Ivins coined that, I believe. It's a great description of a certain cast of mind.

Mrs. Palin seems brighter than Monica Goodling by a long shot, but she is radically right wing on issues like choice and the place of religion in politics, and absolutely clueless on national and international issues. Bad, bad choice.

However she could never be Cheney, as some in this thread have suggested. Cheney is an evil genius with vast experience who is the real power behind the POTUS throne. We won't see his like again for awhile, gods willing.

Hekate

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Palin is obedient, that is her only value to the GOP party right now.

She doesn't like power; that's why her husband does all the work of governing.

Including making phone calls and sending emails, etc.

Palin is the package, not the contents.

The GOP only know how to campaign, they do not know how to govern.

Cheney isn't running for any office; Palin is.

Cheney and Addington and Yoo and Wolfowitz and the whole GOP gang will run everything behind the scenes.

But they won't win the White House.

They believe Palin keeps them in office.

Once Palin is in office, the same "advisors" and "counselors" and "lobbyists" that had the ear of Dumbya will have hers.

[valerief]

14. When a car slams into a tree, it doesn't matter if it was done with intention

or from carelessness. Same result.

[thunder rising]

3. Goodling believed the Justice Department should reflect her bible, not the law

ColbertWatcher ... good sentence

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Thank you. n/t

[Middle finga]

4. I still don't know whats up with that pick. Repubs seems to only

follow and fall in line for male authoritarian figures. I can't even imagine the neocons will be taking orders from her.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. The pick may just be a way to keep McCain in line.

Think about it.

If he doesn't do the GOP party elders tell him to do, he knows full well the obedient one is only a heart beat away.

[KharmaTrain]

7. I Like Harriet Meiers 2.0

Goodling was under the radar...a very low profile aparachnik who played gatekeeper. She wasn't put out in front...I even doubt Pat Robertson knew who she was until her name popped into the headline. I agree that the two are similar in their zealous fundie ideology, but once Goodling was exposed, we saw her vanish, while Palin faces an electorate of nearly 200 million and, if elected :fear: would have the power to plant a dozen Goodlings.

I see Palin more as someone here today dubbed her Harriet Meiers 2.0. She's been trotted out as a symbol...selected on what she is rather who she is. Meiers only qualification for the court was to replace a woman. Palin has been selected strictly for her gender...a cynical attempt by Repugnicans to think that women will vote not only for another woman, but prefer a woman over a black. It's not just playing the gender card, but the race card as well.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. That's a good one too.

I just don't know what the hell Mieres did!

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Saturday kick. n/t

[lonestarnot]

13. And someone else here cleverly identified Anita Bryant!

[libodem]

15. I'd say a Kathrine Harris

She's too dumb to be a Condibot. They want her because she is a Big Oil pawn. She's hot to drill in ANWAR.