What? No mainstream media covering this? Shocking!

[kandrathe]

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride, and if we assume Sarah Palin is qualified to be President, then all we're doing is making an ass out of u and me, because the whole point is her spectacular lack of qualifications for one of the hardest jobs on earth.

I agree, she wasn't spectacularly qualified to be President, and neither was Obama. I still have questions on whether the other two were either.

We can judge her based on her performance in her last major elected post, where she decided to up and quit a job she'd been elected to. How does *that* read on a resume?

I guess some combination of; A) She would have a hard time settling back into the wee life she had in Wasilla, B) she was burdened with so many lawsuits she needed to earn the better income that her national prominence afforded her, C) she felt she could further her political and personal cause by remaining in the national spotlight.

She was probably correct that it was best for Alaska, and rather than go through 2 years of continual political warfare in Alaska, she's taken Alaska out of the equation. Gov. Sean Parnell seems to be doing a fine jobs, and with less bravado.

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From CNN,

You'd have a point if they actually did this. The NAACP resolution has never alledged that every person that associates with the Tea Party is a racist. The resolution specifically condemns extremist and racist elements that have arisen in the movement and calls for all people associated with the Tea Party to condemn and repudiate these acts.

Their final resolution was a watered down version. Mr. Jealous hardly used that language.

Like Stormfront.org, a website founded by former KKK leader Don Black, the Council celebrates its allegiance to and influence in the Tea Party. The avowed racist David Duke notes that thousands of Tea Party activists have urged him to run for president. When the Tea Party marches by, Duke thinks it’s his fiesta.

Our members know too well the pain and the potential danger of white supremacist groups. Since our resolution was publicized, a number of our branches and our corporate offices are reporting violent threats.

We have all seen the blatantly racist signs portraying President Obama as a monkey. We have seen the press conference with the civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis describing how he was spit on and called the N-word, or Rep. Barney Frank being called a vicious slur for gay men.

Dick Armey and other Tea Party leaders have not only refused to disavow the racism — they have denied it.

How do you prove you are not a racist, nor do you support racism in any form when the NAACP calls you a racist organization and compared you to Neo-Nazi's and the KKK?

Edit: FreedomWorks, headed by Dick Armey, is a Republican organization founded in 1984. A common tactic of the left is to intentionally lump all non-left organizations into one basket, which makes it easier to Demogogue them.