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Sarah Palin and the reptile within

Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 10:17 PM

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Everywhere we look these days Sarah Palin seems to be in the headlines.

Yesterday it was at the National Rifle Association, before that it was speaking to a group of conservative women.

She's so popular that The New York Times this Sunday reveals that merely writing her name into a story headline guarantees web sites more readers than almost any other major figure.

Why has Irish American Sarah Palin struck such a chord?

Because she speaks to the reptile within.

Let me explain.

Top lawyers have long since learned that we think with that 90 per cent of our brain that is the subconscious, which they refer to as the reptillian part.

That's the part we share with every living things, that controls the need to survive, stay safe, keep breathing, pass on our genes.

These lawyers know that while jury members will swear to be rational and impartial they will really decide guilt or innocence based on a reptillian response.

Does finding this doctor guilty of malpractice make me safer? Does letting this person go endanger my family?

Politicians have learned this game too and Republicans are so much better than Democrats at it. No one does it better than Sarah

President Obama appeals to reason and logic. Sarah Palin does the reptile bit.

Remember the "death panels" to describe health care choices for the elderly?

Everyone logically rejected her stance, but she turned millions against health care reform right there by evoking the reptile response that it could damage the family unit.

Equally with immigration, the word 'amnesty', means people may not be safe any more and it is the word that has come to dominate the debate.

Palin is master of the craft and her enthusiastic audiences embrace her.

Much more however, she is able to articulate those fears beneath the surface that Americans feel but will not logically admit to.

That is why she is such a successful politician right now and we should not rule out her out for any position any time soon.

She has got the goods - and the reptile.

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krisdaly | Jun 05, 2010, 12:42 AM EDT

I hope someday to refer to Sarah Palin as Madam President. She is one tough cookie and would make an outstanding President of the USA!!!!!!!!!!!

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manofaran | Jun 01, 2010, 10:34 PM EDT

Instead of name calling why not argue the point?

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irishwxman | May 18, 2010, 08:41 PM EDT

We surely do not wish to give amnesty to millions of illegals when there are those of us who did it the LEGAL way. So while we may be "reptiles" the lot of ye are what I like to lovingly refer to as moonbats. Has a nice ring...dontcha think?

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irishwxman | May 18, 2010, 08:40 PM EDT

I wouldn't go so far as to say "smitten"..more like in "agreement". See the herpetologists as you seem to so eloquently refer to those of use who do not wish the government to spend us into oblivion, take the money of the hard working wealthy and give it to the lazy and uninspired.

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McNamara31 | May 18, 2010, 02:28 PM EDT

Patrick, Sounds like you have some very "smitten" herpetologists responding.....

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irishwxman | May 18, 2010, 12:38 PM EDT

You are all morons. After reading all of your ridiculous banter, all I could o was laugh at how idiotic the liberal mindset it. It really is hysterical. And when November comes and the American people come out in droves to run out the radical socialists in Washington, Myself, and those with like minds will sit back and laugh and laugh and laugh.

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DennisQ | May 17, 2010, 11:14 PM EDT

Fox News doesn't grapple with real issues; they just put on a show. These guys are just pretty faces saying things people like to hear. But their "solutions" are just rhetoric. We won't get the economy rolling again until we rebuild the labor movement and working people once again have discretionary incomes. Scapegoating immigrants won't work, because that's not the source of the problem. We have to face reality - right wing government is America's ruin, not its salvation.

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McNamara31 | May 17, 2010, 09:31 AM EDT

The conservative lobby loves the distraction of Sarah Palin with her drill baby drill rhetoric, the real facts are generations of Americans will pay for their plunder of the economy and the environment. An example is how Cheney “deals” gave preferential treatment to the oil companies, putting people and the environment at risk. “In secret meetings with the oil company officials in 2001, incoming Vice President Cheney set the foundation for a permissive, welcome mat with the oil industry.

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McNamara31 | May 17, 2010, 09:27 AM EDT

After stocking the Federal government’s Material Management Service with his cronies, this agency “reversed an earlier 2000 decision requiring a mandatory accusatorial regulator,” allowing BP and others not to install a $500,000 acoustic switch to automatically shut down oil gushers” www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/14/gulf-oil-spill-ties-to-cheney-and-acoustic-switch-not-installed/

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McNamara31 | May 17, 2010, 08:46 AM EDT

DennisQ.. I totally agree. The Republicans raised the national debt by 73%, putting two wars on credit cards, they deregulated the SEC, enabling the banks to take on debt ratios of 40 to 1. They also cozy'd up with big oil to allow Americans rigs in the Gulf to be built without backup safety valves required in all countries "except" the United States.

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DennisQ | May 17, 2010, 06:00 AM EDT

Republicans are likely to wander in the political desert for the next forty years if they don't connect with voters. Their idea of "liberty" was to send millions of American jobs overseas. Their idea of "patriotism" was to start unwinnable wars and get thousands of soldiers killed. Comes now beauty contest winner Sarah Palin to entertain the disaffected. Keep those cards and letters coming!

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hollabackgurl | May 16, 2010, 09:24 PM EDT

The GOP hates Mexicans and is now officially Anti-Immigrant as well as being Anti-Choice and Anti-Gay.

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KansasGirl | May 16, 2010, 03:55 AM EDT

Patrick, what nonsense. Sarah Palin has great concern about the direction this country is headed. I only wish our elected class had the same concern. Remember November!

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DennisQ | May 16, 2010, 01:15 AM EDT

Sarah Palin abruptly quit being governor of Alaska because the money was better as a celebrity. Her views don't stand up to any kind of debate; they're not supposed to. If she were a working politician she'd have to make deals, because that's what politicians do. As an entertainer, however, she'll do or say anything for a laugh or a headline. So long as the checks keep coming, she'll keep doing what she does.

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hollabackgurl | May 15, 2010, 10:58 PM EDT

Her one single political idea was drill, baby, drill - and look how that's turned out. The party of No have been counting their chickens way too early. We all still remember what eight years of Bush looked like.

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