once booked Ken Starr! Now there's a fun guy to have speak at your wine and spirits convention! :wtf:
The rank and file membership of the association aren't so smitten with right-wing fuckwads, apparently, judging from comments on one of their blogs:
http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2010/04/sarah-palin-and-americas-wine-wholesalers-a-bust.htmlEvan Dawson said...
Tom,
Governor Palin has been drilled carefully to use certain buzzwords, and one of them is "deregulation." She has never demonstrated an ability to explain how it relates to certain industries, what effects it might have, how much regulation is appropriate, etc. It's as simplistic as you can imagine.
The disappointing thing here is that she clearly didn't feel compelled to do any homework about issues of importance to her audience. This is not an attack on the GOP or ideologies; in fact, I don't think she has much ideology. She doesn't have many ideas. She is a kind of blank canvas for the most basic tropes, and curiously she doesn't seem to have a desire to go deeper than that. That's her choice, ultimately, but it makes one wonder what possible value she had today.
Reply April 06, 2010 at 11:28 AM
John Kelly said...
Funny, Tom - has MAZ ever commented here before? Looks like another tea-bagging Rethuglican out trolling the interwebs for any mention of Palin, just so they can post the same vile anti-democratic anti-American invective they are spewing everywhere else.
Good point about WSWA doing and saying whatever is necessary to maintain their stranglehold on free trade. It is WSWA's take on which way the political winds are blowing that interests me. Did they engage Palin to speak because they are so sure the GOP is going to sweep the 2010 election cycle?
Reply April 06, 2010 at 11:35 AM
Thomas Pellechia said...
"...one of the most intellectually incompetent national political figures to arrive on the American stage in years."
Does this statement suppose that she has an intellect at all? Evan says she's a blank canvas. I think she's a vacuum, except where money is concerned.
John, don't you find it all so funny how tea baggers and their ilk are so easily persuaded to give money over to obvious con artists, and against their self interests. Remember that famous HL Mencken quote in an earlier century: "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
Reply April 06, 2010 at 01:09 PM
karen marie said...
Hey, Thomas -- Palin is a vacuum especially where money is concerned!
LOL