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How does Sarah Palin remind me of George Wallace?

Watching a broadcast of the Nashville Tea Party Convention I could not help but hear Palin’s mocking tone, her empty, bumper-sticker platitudes, and her irrational personal attacks on the president, accompanied by the howls of her receptive audience, and remember where I had seen all this before. Even Palin’s grim visage and set-jaw beneath the Farrah Fawcett hair-do was reminiscent of her true mentor, George Corley Wallace. And the Tea Party crowd is the re-assembled Wallace coalition of 1968 that gathered just enough votes to put Richard Nixon in the White House. Their message was the same then as now; Stop the Socialists and their ideas about Medicaid and Medicare, crush dissenters, oppose the Federal gub’ment in favor of “state’s rights,” and return the black man to his proper place in society. Is the future of politics?…”good ole boy, conservative, christian mockery”. The former half-governor has a chip on her shoulder like a 2x4, and there is a mean-spiritedness about her. She suffers from the inferiority complex of the ruthlessly ambitious but otherwise average in a world of the gifted. She is in open rebellion against those whom she sees as the “elites,” as opposed to “hard-working Americans,” like herself. At least Wallace, at the end of his life, tried to beg forgiveness for his earlier declarations… Will Palin ever see the light? Or will she become the “second biggest loser” to influence a presidential election?

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Answer #1

Considering the opening speech by Tom Tancredo, a former Republican congressman from Colorado who ran for president in 2008, was mostly devoted to illegal immigration. He said the fabric of US society had been eroded by the “cult of multiculturalism”, “Islamification”, and large numbers of immigrants who did not want to be Americans.

In his most incendiary comment, he invoked the segregationist methods of the southern states, saying that Obama had been elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country”. Southern segregationist states used to prevent black people having the vote by setting them restrictively difficult qualification tests, a historical allusion lost on few of the delegates present.

Palin DID NOT separate herself from his comments. A civics literacy test? Sorry, I am from the South and my parents were freedom riders who worked for voting and civil rights. We all can remember these TESTS and how they were used.

Answer #2

I think she should change her party affiliation to the Likud… if she is going to be intellectually honest… also fits better with your racist analogy.

Answer #3

George Wallace was the 45th Governor of Alabama for four terms; 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. “The most influential loser” in 20th-century U.S. politics, he ran for US president four times. Wallace was elected governor in a landslide victory in November 1962. He took the oath of office on January 14, 1963, standing on the gold star marking the spot where, 102 years prior, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America. In his inaugural speech, he used the line for which he is best known:

“ In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

Wallace disapproved vehemently of the desegregation of the state of Alabama and wanted desperately for his state to remain segregated. In his own words: “The President (John F. Kennedy) wants us to surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-Communists who have instituted these demonstrations.”

Wallace promoted the “elitist” idea of the Kennedys and rallied aroun the common man. His speaches were peppered with audience “rebel yells”, just as Palin’s was at the tea party in Nashville.

Answer #4

George Wallace was a Saint by comparison to Sarah Palin. She couldn’t even raise her daughter correctly producing the biggest tramp in Alaska. She just wrote a book, the only things good about which are that people got the chance to throw tomatos at her at book signings and that it is thick enought that when you set it on the floor by a bookshelf It enables you to step high enough to reach a good book.

Answer #5

No idea who that is…but, here’s my problem: None of the mainstream party politicians WANT smaller government. Neither Republicans (who traditionally stood for it) nor Democrats.

What REALLY winds me up is that we’re all broke (government, federal, state, local) b/c of the wars, etc…nobody wants to talk about how the future was mortgaged to pay those, which helped to trigger the big financial collaps (along with Clinton’s dumb tax policy on first time home sales in the late 90’s).

Palin is an idiot. She avoided paying her own tax bill for a few years (yep, read the news reports)…so why we’d trust a tax evading moron to run a public office, we’ll never know.

And there’s still the matter of the lack of proof that it’s her child and not her grandchild, she was trotting out on the campaign trail. Obama’s birth certificate was brought into the limelight…why not Palin’s medical records?

Also reading a summary of the tea party stuff…well, it’s easy to see WHY folks are upset with the US government, I know I am.

HOWEVER, none of these idiots (any of the government officials) is really interested in penalizing the wall street rapists that made off with all our money, from both Bush AND Obama.

!@#$%@#@%

I’ll get excited over that…but, what sickens me is it’s just another testimony to the mounting ignorance of the American populace…we have as a society the ability to become SMARTER than ever…but, it seems the voting public is worse off than ever.

Answer #6

Great analysis Utopia. I think in way she is worse than Wallace. Wallace never hid his true feelings, Palin is just a liar. Plus she is as dumb as a door nail.

Answer #7

Okay I don’t really have anything to contribute to this but I just stopped in to say the title made me laugh like crazy.

Answer #8

True…at least with Wallace you knew where he stood.

Answer #9

So if sarah Palin wins the whitehouse in 2012, she is going to introduce segregation legislation? LOL.