It’s called “reading your past comments”.

Meanwhile, as I have continued to point out, you whine and scream that Palin is “not ready to be President” based on actions that you laud, support, endorse, and make excuse after excuse for when practiced by Obama and Biden.

Or, in other words, your Democrat candidate for President and Vice President are so pathetically incompetent that they are not able to live up to the standards you require of Palin and must be given excuses and coverups.

What does that mean? Does it mean anything? These are certainly well-know right wing commentators that this blog and the commentators on it have certainly lauded previously. Actually in fairness, not sure whether Parker or Will have been mentioned but Krauthamer certainly has and I suspect any google search with terms “Peggy Noonan” and “Athena” would bring up this site countless times. The fact you don’t want to admit is that after enormous excitement on the right over Palin, her demonstrable lack of knowledge of major policy issues has made her an embarrassment to many reliable conservatives–this is not the so-called liberal MSM but people who have long been counted on for towing the republican line. As I said before, I don’t think Palin is stupid and that criticism as well other more offensive remarks about her are worthy of criticism. But it seems that it is beyond dispute that she has demonstrated that she simply has shown herself to be anywhere near ready to be president.

Christopher Buckley, George Will, Charles Krauthamer, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, the list goes on and on.

Do tell. I’d be interested if you know of any blue-blooders I give a crap about.

That would be the liberal way…

It certainly does not honor the memory of President Ronald Reagan

Oh, like you care about that, Jack.

I mean: even if your point were true, you know what honors Reagan’s memory far less? Hint: Voting for Obama.

Putting aside the rather remarkable abilities you tout to knowing what I have thought for the last 8 years, this is another case of you being constitutionally incapable of addressing someone who disagrees with you–outside of spitting insults. My point was that contrary to the claim that Palin is a great communicator of conservative ideas, she has in fact shown herself incapable of doing so. The fact that more and more people on the right wing appear to be agreeing with assessment is irrelevant to whether I have agreed with them on not on political issues–and yes you are right. I have not.

You really do argue like an intellectual midget.

But of course, when it comes to Biden, Brendan, you insist that Biden’s stupid statements and idiotic responses during a planned interview, especially coming from a self-proclaimed super genius and thirty year Senate veteran, are perfectly OK because of the “grueling schedule”.

“Ambiguities” in your world, Brendan, is code for letting you be a hypocrite. You are namecalling and insulting Palin for behavior for which I have demonstrated, through links and examples, you make excuses and won’t hold Biden and Obama accountable.

The difference with Palin and the Couric interviews is that these were planned interviews in which she clearly prepared for and she repeatedly was unable to respond to relevant substantive questions–it was not an issue of mangling a point here and there. It is not just those on the left who believe this. One of the reasons McCain’s campaign appears to be imploding is many on the right wing are jumping ship in part because of her clear lack of ability to be in the position as VP. Christopher Buckley, George Will, Charles Krauthamer, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, the list goes on and on. These are people who clearly on the political right and they see McCain’s gamble at Palin as being a disaster. I am not saying Palin is stupid and I certainly agree some of the left criticism of her has been quite offensive–most particularly the assholes with the “palin is a cunt t-shirts”.

I am sorry but you have no credibility–you are a right wing hack of the worse sort. You have never posted anything that shows any understanding that there are ambiguities, everything must fit in to your world of fixed ideas and anyone who disagrees with you is to be attacked.

Personally, I think Biden is at best a mixed bag and I am no fan. To my mind far worse than his occasional gaffes is his complete sellout to the credit card companies to support a reactionary bankruptcy bill.

She does connect with average voters as did the Gipper. She is genuine as was he. Study her record and while you’ll see she’s not what Ronald Reagan was when he took office in 1980, she has a lot in common with the guy who helped restore the Golden State to sanity in a turbulent time.

Yet, unlike him at that time, she still hasn’t fully worked out her worldview, but she’s young, more than a decade shy of Reagan when he took the helm of the largest state (population wise).

Yes it does; it says that I judge people on the basis of their actions, while you insult and attack one person for behavior that you support and endorse in another of a different skin color.

For example, if you want to talk about disasters on Katie Couric, you might want to mention Biden’s ludicrous statement that President Roosevelt was going on television and talking to the nation in 1929 — a statement that demonstrates how undeniably ignorant Biden is, which is particularly bad when you think of Biden’s standing within the Democrat Party and his regular bragging about how intelligent he is. But of course, you have to ignore that and trash Palin, because treating Biden fairly would ruin the Obama image.

First act of a socialist tyrant: Silence all opposition.

This is merely another rationalization for your voting on the basis of skin color.”

This is typical of your nasty and thoughtless response to anybody who disagrees with you. I was not signaling out Palin because her speech was prepared–they all are. I said that beyond, she has shown little ability to communicate–this seems also demonstrably true.

As for being “deep in the tank” for Obama, what does that mean? Yes. I will gladly vote for him against McCain/Palin, but I have some concerns about him and I have not been nearly as enthralled with him as others are. As for your unfounded accusation that I must be voting for him on the basis of skin color, well that says more about your racial attitudes than mine.