You are correct. “Sickening” doesn’t describe it. However (assuming you are referring to the comments, since the article itself is one line) irrational, illogical and mind-numbingly stupid (on both sides) strike me as good adjectives.

And that. I think, is the real objection many of the commentators here have. She lost, therefore it was some kind of plot.
The fact that she isn’t particularly articulate, lacks vision and isn’t qualified for the job is irrelevent; it was all some kind of liberal plot…

Sheesh…

How about a nice Conservative t-shirt!! Liberal t-shirts have been returned due to fraud. LOL

“It’s easy to say that the Liberal media are caving in on her, and, yes, yes they are. But the woman has given them a lot of raw meat. She’s inarticulate, undereducated…I think a lot of this criticism is well deserved. She just begs for adjectives like flaky and whacky… This is a woman who has used her good looks and her gender to get ahead in the poltical world…We’re not talking about a great statesman of profound experience: we’re talking about a flashy person who, right from the get-go, gets in a lot of trouble, and really has no credentials for any job.”

I repeat, this is a Fox News commentator – the one who [allegedly] called for the assassination of Obama.

Face it, folks – Sarah has tanked.

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AB girl: “So I would still maintain that links can be provided that show any other candidate being subjected to the same inane questions, set ups, jokes, interviews, headlines, background digging that Sarah Palin was subjected to.”

FWIW I was completely immersed in the primary coverage of both parties in the US elections. Biden was running in the primary as well, but left early. Biden has 30+ years experience as a senator and lots of history – some good, some not-so-good (eg. running of the mouth) and has taken many hits from the media over the years (i.e. he’s been vetted, many times over).

Coverage of the Obamas (B&M, not the kids) was brutal pretty much all around until he won Iowa and almost won in New Hampshire. Prior to that he was written off as an “also ran, but WTF is he thinking.” While he was only a US senator for a year or so prior to jumping into the primaries, he WAS a state senator for at least one term (not sure if that’s 4 or 6 years).

Hillary took massive hits, particularly toward the end of the primary when she refused to give up. She took a LOT of flack over Bill.

While I have some sympathy for the Palin family, I would point out that she chose to parade them all, bringing them on stage all the time, etc. And when the first hits were made against her daughter, BO was the first to say “the kids are not fair game.” Note that he did NOT parade the kids around, have them on talk shows etc and stated, after the one & only televised interview with them, that he’d made a mistake in doing that and would not do that again.

Sarah, on the other hand, has used her family as political props. Has the media been fair to her family? Probably not, but she set them up. A misjudgement on her part.

As for her accomplishments, they aren’t that great (signing a pipeline deal and then leaving before the details are worked out isn’t something “fully accomplished”). If you read either the Juneau or Anchorage papers, you’ll see that the citizens of Alaska are not all that happy with her performance, particularly since she didn’t want to live in the state capital and spent most of her days in Wasilla. She has had to repay expenses to the state for flying family members around on political trips. She has charged the state for the nights she stayed in the family home in Wasilla. The biggest cost to the state for defending ethics charges were for Troopergate, an investigation that SHE initiated. The town of Wasilla is in debt for the sports centre and will be for some time. And btw, the town of Wasilla has a population of +/- 7,500. To think that being mayor of a small town, and governor of a small state for less than 2 years (when picked by McCain) compares in ANY way to a full term in the state senate (a much bigger state) and 1-2 yrs in the US senate is a bit of a stretch IMHO.

I doubt that many women either in politics or considering entering into politics would think of Sarah as any kind of a role model, not even as a “cautionary tale.” If anything, she is an example of how NOT to run a campaign if you have a family, young or otherwise. Keep the kids at home and away from the fray. It’s not rocket science.

MaryT: not ONE commentator on this site, unless I missed it, “defends” the media treatment of Palin, especially excrement like the Huffington repost.

(All of which, of course, is contingent on the degree of credibility we choose to accord to the late Mr. Hussein, which is close to zero.)