Matt Yglesias

16 Responses to “Endgame”

1. Trevor Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

   “everyone hates Sarah Palin.” (MY)

   C’mon, that’s not true. A lot of people out there in the boonies adore her. I saw a little girl at a Palin ‘08 campaign rally literally jump for joy when Palin patted her on the back. You never such innocent enthusiasm. And, when she was feuding with Letterman, she called him: “Good Ol’ David Letterman” in a kind of mockery of the l’il ol’ me I’m a harmless hick persona he sometimes uses to deflect bad vibes he may have engendered. It was funny. She’d be vile or nearly so if she ever got elected to higher office, but she’s got plenty more going for her than almost all of the so-called educated pols from the liberal class. Let’s put it this way – if a national election was held between Sarah Palin and a liberal fave: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow – I guarantee you Sarah would win.

2. Led Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pm

   Of course it’s not literally true that “everyone” hates Palin, just like it wasn’t literally true that “everyone” loved Raymond. Figure of speech. But she’s got low favorables and high unfavorables.

   Maybe Maddow — if enough people had heard of her — might have a similar (or worse!) favorable/unfavorable split, but nobody’s pushing her as a national candidate. She doesn’t need half the country to like her to be a successful talk show host. Limbaugh has proven that getting 25% of the population to love you and 75% hate you = entertainment cash cow.

3. sacman701 Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   Continetti’s article is mostly wishful thinking re Palin, but at one point he writes:

   “Feeling outrage and impotence over the actions of Wall Street bankers and government regulators is natural and understandable, Palin could say. But the answer isn’t further government control and politicization. It’s using government to break apart concentrations of power (emphasis mine)–and then stepping back to watch as the market imposes its iron discipline.”

   It’s good to see someone on the right endorsing the idea that if you’re too big to fail you’re too big, but I’d be surprised if the idea has much support within his party.

4. hum Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

   Not that I expect actual substance from anyone who attended a “Palin ‘08 campaign rally” (hm, wasn’t there someone else on the ticket?), but: what the hell, exactly, does this mean:

   she’s got plenty more going for her than almost all of the so-called educated pols from the liberal class.

5. Rob Robinson Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

   “…but she’s got plenty more going for her than almost all of the so-called educated pols from the liberal class. Let’s put it this way – if a national election was held between Sarah Palin and a liberal fave: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow – I guarantee you Sarah would win.”

   If you replace Rachel Maddow with another liberal “fave,” say, Barrack Obama, I have some polls that suggest otherwise. Try googling “pollster.com 2012″ A CNN poll suggests that only 33% of “all adults” would seriously consider voting for Palin for president. I don’t know what percentage you’d require to declare some “unpopular”; 33% gives the lie to “everyone hates her,” but it doesn’t speak much to what she’s got “going for her.”

6. Lisa Kelly for President Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

   Sarah Palin will never run for office again. It is just too much work. I will give her credit for turning her experience as the mayor of a city of 5000 and a pageant walk into millions of dollars.

7. Roddy McCorley Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

   That should read “the greatest lesbian identical twin pop duo to ever come out of Calgary.”

8. hugo Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

   I’ve been a huge Tegan and Sara fan ever since having seen them play an acoustic show at the 9:30 club, in support of Ryan Adams of all people, promoting If It Was You. I like the most recent record, but it hasn’t quite clicked for me yet.

9. brendan Says:
   November 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm

   Hiatt is so dishonest (or, wait a minute can anyone actually be that thick? …nah) that his continued tenure is the most impressive piece of evidence that the once-mighty W Post is no more. it is more than halfway to becoming an irrlevant rag, and Hiatt is one huge example of why (Will is another one).
   makes it hard to remember ‘All The President’s Men” without wincing. Or crying.

10. AuroraD Says:
    November 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Lisa Kelly for President got it right. Sarah Palin is poised to become a multi-millionaire, if she isn’t already. That was the point from the get-go.

11. ben Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 2:10 am

    I really like The Con, but I’m having a hard time getting into any of Tegan and Sara’s other stuff. And I understand that they probably actually like girls, but I feel a little bit like I’m listening to an Indy Canadian version of Tatu.

12. rea Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 6:25 am

    Sara Palin has a lesbian twin sister named Teagan? Or has this thread left me confused?

13. Midland Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 9:08 am

    She’d be vile or nearly so if she ever got elected to higher office, but she’s got plenty more going for her than almost all of the so-called educated pols from the liberal class.

    Sadly, it is true that educated, liberal pols tend to lack charisma. Possibly they should have been forced to take acting classes and enter beauty pageants in college?

14. Michael Farris Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    Bah, Tegan & Sara, are only the third (maybe fourth) greatest indentical twin lesbian pop duo to ever come out of Calgary.

    Once more Yglesias shoddy fact checking is on display!

15. Paulie Carbone Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    And, when she was feuding with Letterman, she called him: “Good Ol’ David Letterman” in a kind of mockery of the l’il ol’ me I’m a harmless hick persona he sometimes uses to deflect bad vibes he may have engendered.

    She wasn’t talking like a hick to mock Letterman. She was talking like a hick because she’s a hick. Using her hick status to deflect criticism is her entire M.O. All of which reminds me of my favorite joke about that worthless subhuman bitch:

    What’s the difference between Sarah Palin’s mouth and Sarah Palin’s cunt? Retarded shit only came out of her cunt once.

16. linus Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    “Matt Continetti seems to have forgotten that “being popular” was an important part of Andrew Jackson’s populist political strategy; everyone hates Sarah Palin.”

    does she shoot at indians as well as animals?