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2008-09-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-06 00:21|| 2008-09-06 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Sally's just pissed that she's irrelevant (again). She wuz riding high in the Clinton years as a social maven in DC (married to Ben Bradlee of WaPo "fame") and, once again, the little people out in flyover hickland are ignoring the candidate with her imprimatur. Bitch

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-06 08:25|| 2008-09-06 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 It will take more than one interview on Fox for me to believe Quinn has shifted views. Ditto for Peggy Noonan. THIS is the reaction to a strong, independent and extraordinarily ordinary woman? Pfeh.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-06 08:57|| 2008-09-06 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Quinn's only sorry about the blowback. F*ck her and her libtard lying pals

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-06 09:30|| 2008-09-06 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 You got it Frank.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-06 09:38|| 2008-09-06 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm still wondering how Sally could spend so much time with her journalism career and not neglect her family. Really, did she and Ben need to throw all those parties? Shouldn't they have been home with the kids making cookies instead?

/sarcasm off

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-06 09:50|| 2008-09-06 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 comment #3. Not me, but wish I wrote it.

Posted by ed 2008-09-06 10:19|| 2008-09-06 10:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry. that was comment #2 by edh. PIMF.

Posted by ed 2008-09-06 10:21|| 2008-09-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#9 She said she was wrong in underestimating a woman who did not sleep w/Ben Bradlee to get ahead. She did not recant nor apologize for questioning Gov. Palin's ability to be a good mother. What a horrible human being.

Posted by regular joe 2008-09-06 10:47|| 2008-09-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Instapundit has a link to video excerpts. She's running away from her comments as fast as she can. She even confessed to having eaten a cheeseburger. I'd love to hear Peggy off mike now.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-06 11:29|| 2008-09-06 11:29|| Front Page Top

#11 My wife has pegged, I think, the reason that so many woment are mad at Palin.

They resent her success. They have now lost much of thier victim status. She has set the bar way too high.

Men have had to put up with this since they were little. I had to recognise early on that I wasn't going to be the sports star or the rock star or the genius scientist or or or or.

So I had to get over any resentment that I might have had for those that were and concentrate solely on being "all that I can be" (gee, where have I heard that before) and not worry about what others have accomplished.

Sarah just blasted a huge hole through that "poor little me" victimhood. She wasn't handed a thing and she didn't ride anyone's coat-tails. She did it all herself.

So, it's not jealousy or envy. It's fear that the spot light is shining on their own inadequacies.

I'd be willing to bet that the hardest working women are the least likely to resent her.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2008-09-06 12:16|| 2008-09-06 12:16|| Front Page Top

#12 It is NOT a recant or apology when Quinn ends the clip with "You can't do it all". It is just another insult wrapped in an apology.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-06 12:56|| 2008-09-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 When Quinn repeats that "You can't do it all" she's showing what really hurts her about Palin. Quinn like many liberal women devoted her life to selfishness. She sought career success -- in Quinn's case, not only through work but also through her bed, becoming the mistress to the elderly Ben Bradlee and ultimately persuading him to marry her -- and considered childlessness a necessary part of the path to wealth and power.

Now as Sarah Palin proves you can have love, family, children, and career success and political power, the poverty of her own choices is exposed. Sarah exposes Quinn as a selfish conniver and all her labor and manipulation as so much chaff. It's an unbearable thought. She can't face spiritual reality.

Posted by Skunky Angeack7024 2008-09-06 14:23|| 2008-09-06 14:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Saw this interview. Quinn came off sounding like a penny trying to give change.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-06 14:30|| 2008-09-06 14:30|| Front Page Top

#15 skunky - I think you hit the nail on the head. JohnQC - perfect analysis.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-06 15:49|| 2008-09-06 15:49|| Front Page Top

#16 skunky that's exactly what I was saying. Palin set the bar too high and this highlights the inadequacies of the Quinn type.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2008-09-06 16:11|| 2008-09-06 16:11|| Front Page Top

#17 Damn skunky and Betty!

Jeez, new blood is awesome.

(it is new?)

Posted by .5MT 2008-09-06 18:48|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-09-06 18:48|| Front Page Top

#18
Quinn and her ilk miss a critical component which IIUC Palin says makes "doing it all" possible. She has a large, close and supportive network of family members who help. Not only her husband but also her parents, siblings etc.

Which is how it used to be for most families. But which is totally alien to the Quinns of the world, so alien she cannot even recognize it when it's right in front of her face.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-06 22:10|| 2008-09-06 22:10|| Front Page Top

#19 you just know that if Sally Quinn had a daughter, they'd both be in therapy

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-06 22:29|| 2008-09-06 22:29|| Front Page Top

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