the makeout hobo

During the presidential campaign, Governor Sarah Palin made many comments about parts of America being "pro-America parts of America", and about there being "real Americans". We saw how badly Obama was bludgeoned with his "bitter comments." What do you think the chances are of these quotes coming back and haunting Palin in 2012 when she runs for president? I can see how these quotes can be taken to be very insulting to urban Americans, and to people who aren't conservatives.

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American

Will Obama's words every come back to haunt him?

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independent_thinker2002

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American

So we can't ask the identical question? Can you predict whose and which words will haunt whom? Do you have a crystal ball or some other method to peer into the future? I don't, so who can answer such a question without just guessing?

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independent_thinker2002

You may ask what you like. As can I. I did. It was my creative way of pointing out that your response was a deflection from the topic. This isn't a "Things people say that come back to haunt them." Sure, we all say things that come back to haunt us. This thread is more specific.

"Obama" isn't the answer to every question about Palin.

I've lived in "real America". It's pathetic. My crystal ball says that this will haunt her.

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Ikari

I think so, maybe not those specific ones, but all her "answers" to questions and things of that nature will come back. Palin should just walk away, we don't need any more mental midgets in Washington. I'm not so sure the "real America" thing is as damaging as all the other things she has said.

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Reverend_Hellh0und

where is Captian? I want to show him how it's the conservatives who won't let Palin go....

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Zyphlin

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Zyphlin

I don't think it'll come back to haunt her really. I dont think there's a lot to really be haunted about.

Those in the extreme left wing will be offended by it, but then they wouldn't have been part of the voting block Palin could be expecting in 2012 anyways.

I think most people see it as someone complimenting and proping up small town America, hardly an evil thing. I don't see her calling those that live in city unamerican, or evil, or bad.

But I think the biggest reason they won't come back to haunt her is because most politicians know you can find this kind of stuff on any politician. All of them say these sort of platitudes when they visit small town areas, as a means of trying to "connect" to them.

Obama's comment about guns and religion wasn't so much a "this'll sway people to vote against" him moment, it was a "this may piss off those on the right that were apathetic and not going to vote to actually stand up and vote". With that in mind, I don't see these comments by Palin having a similar affect to those on the left.

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Yep, gotta love the "Change from politics as usual" in this "post-partisan" era.

independent_thinker2002

Talking up small towns can be done in a way that is not devisive. "Real America" is devisive. It's akin to religions that claim to be the "one true religion". By default, that makes others inferior. She could talk up their values all day long and it would be fine. By using the word "real" it is unmistakeable that she was drawing a line that was previously set up for her by the sycophantic pundits that have chortled this devisive garbage for years on end. It wasn't the platitudes that got her in trouble. It was the modifier.

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