How is the left dealing with their petty Palin criticisms doing a boomerang and coming right back at them?

Question

Been away for a few days, trying to get the temperature of the bitter, defeatist, depressed, angry left before I wade back in.

Answer 1

I think a lot of dogs and cats got abused by emotional Obamabots last night. Ill bet the vet clinics are busy today..  

Answer 2

I've heard criticisms of Palin, but none of them petty.  All are pretty pertinent.

So- please point out the ones to which you are referring.

It's clear she was selected for two very valid reasons.

1.  She's a woman- so will pick up disenfranchised hillary supporters.

2.  She's a bonafide evangelical christian, and will pick up the religious right voters who in polls indicated that they wouldn't come out and vote for McCain.

Those two items are pretty unarguable, and I'd say put a couple of chinks in McCain's armor.  

Answer 3

Welcome back buddy. They're not doing too well apparently.

Answer 4

Welcome back Memo!  Well, as you can imagine....they are not too happy at this time, so I would walk lightly until they chill out a bit.  Palin was excellent last night!

Answer 5

They're whining like little mary and running away crying with their skirts over their head in defeat.  It's grand.

Answer 6

What petty criticisms?  First of all, she offered no substance in her speech last night.  She just took really immature pop shots, noun verb P.O.W and noun verb Hockey Mom. Whoopee doo.  She's not a reformer, she loves government pork from D.C more than any other state in the country, she lies about her experience and her being an advocate for people who have teenage daughters who are pregnant or for people who have special needs kids because she cut the funding for special needs education and programs by 65%.  She cut the funding to Covenant House, a place where teen moms go to keep up their education and learn how to take care of their child when it is born by over 60%.  How are these petty things when the country is finding out that she isn't who she claims to be?

Answer 7

They are realizing they should of vetted Obama before they anointed him the savior of the world. Palin makes his accomplishments look small when compared to her. She is more qualified than Barry today, tomorrow, and the rest of our life time.

Answer 8

What are you talking about?!?!

I was starting to get bored but this is better than "CATS"!!!!!

Answer 9

Sometimes a creature (like a GOP elephant) goes into outlandish seizure death-throes as it gets too close to death.

The left is starting to have some new sympathy for what the right is going through. We are so many of us learning how to watch such a startling sign of decay.

Answer 10

Welcome back.

She's still wrong for America.

Answer 11

Well the red faced media is singing a few praises. Still think the rest of them are trying to figure our how they didn't see it coming. The labeled the right the sexist party and for the right not to fit into their stereotype makes them a little wacky.

Answer 12

Well, they are still in denial about what a wonderful pick she is.

Answer 13

They've just realized that their emperor has no clothes and are currently in denial over it.  

Answer 14

If you really want a lying, negative person who is currently under investigation for abuse of power as your VP, be my guest.

Answer 15

We need to know about your problems because?

Answer 16

Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

Meanwhile, we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

Answer 17

I feel good we are just pointing out your hypocrisy and somehow people are opening their eyes.

Answer 18

It's not.  I've been unable to locate a Republican who can combat my arguments against Palin.

McCain sealed his fate by choosing her.  There is NO WAY he will win now.

Answer 19

They should fight back. So many half-truths told at the RNC!

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

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Some examples:

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

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Answer 20

It is not boomerang at left. Take a look on national polls. Republicans want to dress nothing with some thing but the dress is very thin and can be seen through. They lost this elections and that is not a surprise for me.