AlterNet: 'If You Can Run the PTA, You Can Run the Country' - Repubs Explain Their Palin support

[marmar]

'If You Can Run the PTA, You Can Run the Country' -- Republicans Explain Their Support for Palin

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted September 30, 2008.

Interviews with supporters at a McCain-Palin presidential rally in Ohio share their heartfelt reasons for embracing the vice presidential candidate.




Sarah Palin's vice-presidential candidacy has provoked no shortage of strong opinions. But while critics on the left and in the mainstream media have found ample reasons to criticize her, Palin's Republican supporters have their own heartfelt reasons to embrace and defend her candidacy.

In a series of interviews with Palin supporters on Monday before a Bexley, Ohio rally featuring Palin and GOP presidential nominee John McCain, Palin fans detailed many reasons why they like -- if not love -- her candidacy.

They said she was feisty, plain spoken and not afraid to take on fights others shirk from. She was from the middle-class, balanced family and work, and had worked at thankless jobs -- like her local PTA -- and exemplified Christian family values. They said Palin was a fast learner, was undaunted by her critics, and gave hope to women who see her rising to the role given to her by McCain. And, most notably, they said she would be a good president.

"I've been there," said Ellie Plessinger, a real estate consultant from Saganaw, Michigan, who extolled Palin's work on local schools. "If you can run the PTA, you can run the country."

"She's real. Everyone can identify with her," said Karen Rinehart, from Pinkerton, a suburb of Columbus, who praised her clarity. "She has five kids. I have six."

"She is a go-getter. She is adorable," said Diedre Smalley, from Lancaster, also near Columbus, who was enthralled by Palin's values. "She is conservative. She is family oriented. She is pro-life. She is her own woman. She makes me feel proud." .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/election08/100871/%27if_you_can_run_the_pta%2C_you_can_run_the_country%27_--_republicans_explain_their_support_for_palin/

[TwilightGardener]

1. Absolutely frightening. Yes, anybody can be President now. Chimpy lowered the bar that much.

[jimshoes]

2. Yet 3 weeks ago they were screaming Obama

did not have enough experience to run the country. A classic example of Orwell's doublethink.

[zeemike]

7. That explains why they doublespeak.

[dhpgetsit]

3. My dog has some adorable qualities too!

Jasper for President!
:rofl:

[norepubsin08]

13. Yes and so does my cat

let's make a deal...we'll run Jasper for Prez if he takes my Lynx Siamese "Baby Stewie" as Vice Pres.

They'll on: His bark is worse than his bite and he'll scratch and claw his way to the top.

[Retrograde]

14. nah, my cat is definitely VP material

He's got the hiding in an undisclosed location down pat. And his ability to nap is positively Reaganesque!

PTA? Sufficient preparation? Did someone tell these people that Sarah Palin never actually ran the PTA?

[Aunt Anti-bush]

4. Great.

Maybe they can sell cookies and hoagies as opposed to this bailout plan. :banghead:

[PVnRT]

5. If you can dodge a wrench, you can be Vice-President!

[Alter Ego]

15. This is even funnier if you imagine Rip Torn as Patches O'Houlihan saying it.

[radfringe]

6. Great - we can do away with taxes completely

and fund things by having baked alaska sales and snow-machine washes...

[OneGrassRoot]

8. We must remember: these are not people who can be reasoned with...

It's dangerous dumbass America to the extreme.

[ellie]

9. That's great, but Palin

wasn't in the PTA.

[gatorboy]

10. Morans. She never ran the PTA.

I read that they can even find her name on a roll call. :eyes:

[Blue Diadem]

11. There you have it folks..the INFORMED voters of our country.

Well..they think they're informed. I'd laugh but it's too darn frightening.

[Poseidan]

12. palin is a common twit

Which is why she's so popular.

[Overseas]

16. Those sound more like reasons to choose a talk show host. //nt