Open Mouth, Insert Foot...

[Sandy]

It's what Sarah Palin does better than anyone else.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/pos ... -metaphor/

And here she is, doing one of her favorite things, an imitation of a donkey's back side, pandering to a whole audience full of donkey rear ends.

[Haruo]

It was a very poor metaphor poorly placed, but I do think the intended audience look more like Elephants than Donkeys.

[Dave Roberts]

Palin's comparison of baptism and waterboarding ought to be abhorrent to every Christian. The idea of putting the two together cheapens baptism into something that can be compared with torture. I think Palin totally blew her credibility in her effort to get applause from the NRA.

[Mrs Haruo]

I think the woman is addicted to toe jam and her own toenail clippings. She sure spends a lot of time with her foot in her mouth.

[Haruo]

Have there been any supportive comments? How do William, ET, Ed P., Fox News etc. feel about it?

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

The extremist right wing dee-jay radio announcers are gearing up to defend this pathetic position, though by and large, Christian faith is only something they use when it is convenient. When its principles actually get in the way, and don't lend themselves to supporting the extremist right wing agenda, they usually dismiss them as not being important, ignore them altogether, or twist it out of shape into something they can use. And unfortunately, most Christians do not know their own faith well enough to realize that advocating the physical torture of anyone, regardless of the reason for it, is totally and completely contrary to anything Jesus modeled or taught. I'm having trouble finding "Waterboard your enemies" in the Bible.

Individuals of Sarah Palin's ilk are the main reason why the Republicans are not gaining any poll traction in an election year in which they should be comfortably ahead. The one good thing that she might actually do is say something really stupid at a time when people will remember it before they go in the voting booth. She has a knack for driving voters over to the other side.

[KeithE]

[Tim Bonney]

[Cathy]

I couldn't stand to listen to the whole speech. Can someone tell me about where in the speech this quote occurred.

[Jerry_B]

She is such a joke. That people would pay to hear is beyond me. She's a terrible politician and a seemingly worse professing Christian. I wonder what her pastor will have to say.

[Tim Bonney]

[Jerry_B]

Ugh! All I can say, ugh.