Community | October 03, 2009 | 15 comments

"I'm a Palin fan, because she irritates just the right people for me," says Dennis Miller.

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/02/blogs/coopscorner/entry5360238.shtml

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Ever since John McCain catapulted Sarah McCain onto the national stage in the summer of 2008, I've watched my lefty friends here in San Francisco threaten to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge if the former Alaska Governor ever became president.

Their standard refrain: "She's just too extreme, she's just too dumb, she's just too snarky - she's just too..too!"

Suffice to say that this crowd does not get `Sarah-Appeal' and never will. So leave it to a comedian to solve a riddle that still flummoxes liberals. During his appearance on Bill O'Reilly's Fox television show Wednesday night, Saturday Night Live alum (and now radio talk show host,) Dennis Miller, summed it up with lapidary precision.

"I'm a Palin fan, because she irritates just the right people for me," he said.

Exactamundo.

Democrats may equate the name Palin with the sound of sharp nails clawing a chalkboard but so much the better, says Miller, a show business pro who understands a thing or two about shtick and the art of pushing peoples' buttons.

"I mean, she drives the right people crazy," he told O'Reilly. "Do I think she's going to outsmart you? No. But do I think that, in some way, she has an appeal with people that practiced politicians might never have? Yes, I do."

If you judge by the numbers, there's no debate he's right about that. Palin's upcoming memoir Rogue is ranked No. 1 both on the Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble bestseller lists - and this, still a full month and a half before the book is scheduled to go on sale.

As they look to 2012, the Republicans already have a media superstar in their stable. The one caveat: Palin remains a lightening rod for controversy. So it was that after readers responded to our post reporting the advance success of Rogue, I came across a post by one person who goes by the handle "two-cats." He wrote: "Comic book, soap opera baloney is more like it. I shall not be reading anything by this woman...not interested in anything she has to say (or, rather had written for her) and it infuriates me that a ding-a-ling like her gets so much media attention."

Harsh. But in slamming Palin as an undeserving dolt, Mr. or Mrs. "Cats" (or two-cats, as the case may be) supported Miller's thesis. Palin has this knack for sending the liberal-left into knee-knocking spittle-inducing convulsions. More than any other Republican, Palin stirs passions. Most important, she has the sort of sass that attracts big crowds of true believers willing to open their wallets for her. Can you say that about the likes of Tim Pawlenty or (gasp!) Bobby Jindal? Not with a straight face.

Rogue undoubtedly will make Palin wealthy overnight. It also provides a springboard for a political comeback and a possible run to lead the party as its presidential nominee. (Just as Six Crises did for Richard Nixon.)
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15 comments // "I'm a Palin fan, because she irritates just the right people for me," says Dennis Miller.

  • RFIDemocracy
  • Chique
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      Chique  

    • @RFD -

      I heard enough of her words during the election to satisfy me, but yes I hear the same. Almost makes me curious enough to read it. Was it Mark Morford you heard of? I confuse easily! ;-)

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
  • Chique
  • RFIDemocracy
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      RFIDemocracy  

    • Chique

      I just heard of this person this morning.
      Rachel Maddows was on Meet the Press.

      Have you read any excerpts from Palin's book? I hear it is written in tongues.

    • 2 years ago
  • Chique
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      Chique  

    • Mark Morford OpEd Excerpt . . .

      Speaking of which, it turns out Sarah Palin's ghostwriter on the grammatical/intellectual nightmare that's surely going to be "Going Rogue" is, as you might've already guessed, not exactly a bastion of ideological balance and integrity herself.

      Palin's ghostwriter, Lynn Vincent, also co-wrote a book with beloved white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain (no relation). She also wrote an article championing creationism, Richard Dawkins be damned, and described abortion among minorities as "black genocide."

      Vincent's contribution to Palin's cartoon legacy will likely be that "Going Rogue" sells a truckload of copies to the hardcore GOP base in the first week, and then quickly piles up in the $1.99 remainder bin in bookstores across the planet, where it will serve to embarrass the GOP for the next six to eight years straight.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • " I'm a Palin fan because she irritates just the right people for me " Swell. Wasn't Dennis Miller the brainiac who was pushing for Bob Dolt during the 1996 Election in which Bill Clinton was the incumbent ? Another one of the then Saturday Night Live crew I recall was doing his impression of Dole with that pencil in his hand. How'd that turn out for you, Dennis ? You sure can pick winners can't you ? Well here's one for you Dennis. Like Palin, you irritate me, I understand that birds of a feather flock together. So why don't you put on some special SNL "fecal vision" eyeglasses then look in your mirror.
      You might see Palin along with yourself staring back at you. My point ? Backing someone for President because she irritates the sort of humans he disdains
      doesn't even apporach commedy. It's trajic. I'm a dyed in the wool cycnic. I believe that humans and their commedy of errors are a living stage play for the amusement of the Gods. Because if we all had to take as seriously grave the human trajedy that plays out every day realy is, there'd be noone left to relocate any of us to the funny farm. Palin IS a joke, but not one I was ever even tempted to laugh at. She's not funny any more than Dennis Miller is imho. There's a saying: "Everything you say and do always reflects the inner you" I wish we had intelligent, thoughtful people sponsoring fit candidates so we'd know who was worthy of our vote because as Theodore Roosevelt said: "A public office is a public trust"
      When people like Dennis Miller reduce a public trust to show business, and people yawn, we sure have fallen a lot further than we know.

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
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      RFIDemocracy  
    • PressCore:

      Dennis Miller.
      I think he told a joke I inadvertently laughed at a joke he told back in 1989.
      It's amusing seeing otherwise semi-intelligent celebrities trying to rationalize supporting a douchebag like Sarah Palin. 90% of the conservative political establishment has kicked her to the curb, which makes it that much more of a challenge.
      Palain is still OK with Bill Kristol, the King of Wrong.

    • 2 years ago
  • hpseaton
  • dudefromtherock
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    • dudefromtherock:

      "Men over 40 will vote for her, yada, yad, yada" Suuure they will. She's such a fan of Ronald Reagan's fraudulent "trickle down" that she implemented that in Alaska.That same Ronald Reagan who was against health care reform, and who helped the uberrich transfer the wealth of the middle class into the hands of the obscenely wealthy. That same middle class is hurting badly now for it. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. They're not going to forget they betrayed themselves for some cheap hack politician who was the puppet of the others who duped them. During the last election she came on the scene only 3 months before November and blitzkrieged her way to failure for McCain. Ron Paul is the only one of them who has any real integrity and they wouldn't even allow him to speak at their convention. Her public immage already looks like a piece of swiss cheese because of all the scutiny we've given her. How much better is this looser Palin going to look like when she has years of intensive Press scrutiny to get through and not months ? Her political career will be as DOA as a bad cliche'. Rots of ruck.

    • 2 years ago
  • hpseaton
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      hpseaton  

    • lol..."More than any other Republican, Palin stirs passions."? Mostly that's because she never has to think before speaking. I didn't even know she could spell 'Rogue'.

      How far has the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower fallen? Here's your answer.

    • 2 years ago
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