Sarah Palin Taking A Hit On This One~Her Laughable Take On Paul Revere

Thereby proving the old adage that it is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

People think she's presidential timbre? Seriously? You really want this woman representing us to the world and proving our exceptionalism? Elementary school children know more of our history than this woman.

I know I voted the past presidential election by VPs and if she runs for president she certainly isn't getting my vote...

I think people are just wanting to see a woman in the office and are willing to cling to any woman willing to take the chance...

There are certainly better female candidates out there though, in both parties

So did I. I thought McCain was old enough that it was necessary to consider that he might die in office. I also had to consider that Obama is black and would be a target for assassination so I voted based on the competance of their VP choices. I did not vote for the no-brainer.

"Thereby proving the old adage that it is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

I've always liked this quote!

very good quote Susan !

It's a rather favorite quote of mine as well. :)

I got a sock puppet that would make a better president than she would - of course, my cats and my bunny would be much better than she would....She can't possibly win, can she?

There's a tinge of fear in me that says she could...

I don't think she could win a presidential campaign...perhaps something else though...

I just don't think she could. Hilary definitely had a lot more support and she couldn't get the nomination....and please don't say "Republicans will vote for anything republican" cos I'm a republican and did not vote on her for VP

I get what she was trying to say...I don't think she's very intelligent though...and she most definitely cannot think on her feet...not someone I want as any kind of politician

instead of saying warn us of the British attack she was trying to say he was sending a message to the British that we were going to fight for our freedom...Well, at least I am giving her the benefit of the doubt and hoping that is what she was trying to say and the words got all jumbled up...

It really irks me when the Pubs and some Gather members chide Obama for using a teleprompter, but practically anybody & everybody on TV uses them, even on our local news. And, so I agree to some extent about giving her the benefit of the doubt, but I also agree with Susan G's point above.

August;

You're going to draw the ire of the FOPs (friend of Palin). I'm going to pull a up chair, get some popcorn, and wait.

LOL - yes, I suppose this could get interesting ;)

I'm grinning ear-to-ear with your comment, but this faux pas is beyond me. But I'm from Massachusetts, and maybe not everyone was taught the history of Paul Revere. I mean, Russia is closer to Alaska than Boston is! :->

hey, I remember the lines of the poem and I'm here in Maryland...of course, it was probably a brand new poem at that time;)

Miss Red Riding Bus :-)) Thanks for sharing :-) the photo is faked/photoshop hat placed upon a background :)

It's still appropo to the post, no?

Also sp. apropos :-)

Amazing how we waste time on vapid celebrities and ignore true Americans like Robert Gates.

She's a news-maker~ya gotta give her that!

She's bigger than you boi. Praise the lord.

Democrats are cheap: you wish it wadn;t.

Were are those nerds??

''TURN OUT THE MILITIA ...

TURN OUT ... TURN OUT ...

TO ARMS, TO ARMS - THE YANKS ARE COMING!''

Your next president.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

You wish!

We'll all be laughing about that one for a while ...

'Jabbering imbecile' sums it up pretty well.

All she had to say was 'Really, he lived around here? Cool!'. But no, she had to make a Statement.

She's not very good at that, is she?

I find it interesting the her proponents here on Gather don't usually find these posts to suggest that 'liberals must feel threatened by her again'. On most of the less ambiguous posts suggesting that she isn't qualified, that's the immediate reposte. I don't especially feel like she's threatening, more like she is, once again, going off half-cocked. Which she has a tendency to do. I expect, given her education compared to the average fifth grader, she knows better than what she said. But her mouth tends to overshoot her mind and, I expect, this is exactly what happened here. For exactly that reason, I find her unsuitable to elected office... of any kind really. Much less President (or Vice-President) of the United States.

It just makes my heart sing when she does stupid stuff. What an idiot and a phony. Even Canadians can't stand her.

For that matter, even Alaskans!

Did you catch my paraphrasing?

Yikes, where'd you get this??? You should post it & watch a few Gatherers go wild!

Some time after she began her one-fanatic campaign single-handedly trying to push canis lupus to the brink of extinction, I found the image on the internet. She provides a never-ending stream of inspiration for comics, cartoonists, and caricature artists, and pity or anger from the rest of us.

Let's hope Elli-mae and the other Clampets are finished destroying american history and will ride off into the sunset.

I wouldn't count on that happening anytime soon~Palin's having too much fun...and, making too much $$!

The Midnight Ride of Palin’s Revere
(an homage to Henry Wadsworth Longellow's poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere")
Copyright, Mark Tyne, 2011 www.marktyne.com
6/7/11

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Palin’s Revere
On the second of June, in two ought one one,
Not a school child stopped giggling at Palin’s conundrum.

In a fit patriotic showing colors don’t bleed
Sara spoke of the ride of Paul’s lightning fast steed,
Said Revere warned the British by ringing those bells
And while riding his horse, through the hamlets and dells

Fired off warning shots (and bells), to make sure we’re all free
So we all can be armed as the bells ring tra-lee!
And the school kids fell silent, at this badly told tale,
Every one of them knew, Palin should be in jail

For forgetting the simplest of tales known by all
Of how Paul Revere rode to stop Concord’s great fall.
For the Brits were invading, but by land or by sea?
If the colonists knew, they could ambush them see?

No church bell was rung from the tower for a warning
It was one or two lamps in the bell tower’s adorning
‘Member “One if by land and two if by sea”?
Perhaps Sarah should have studied more diligently.

Sarah’s liberty bell trip might have caused her confusion
But her Paul Revere story was mostly illusion.
For the war was not fought for the right to bear arms.
But to free up the colonies from Britain’s great harm.

‘Twas for national independence, revolution was struck
Not for bells ever tolling, and the right to bear glocks.
The colonists were warned, not the British, by Paul.
Revolutionary colonists, don’t like England at all.

Brits invaded by sea, with a mighty dark ship
Two lights in the bell tower, set Revere on his trip.
Paul rode through the night, to warn coming invasion
And in his swift ride, held the fate of the nation

By midnight he warned colonists, in the small town of Medford
By one warned in Lexington, by two had warned Concord
And the Lexington colonists gathered with arms
And drove back the British with shots from their guns.

Revolution was on! The first battle a win!
Thanks to Paul Revere’s ride, on that midnight quite dim.
And speaking of dim, back to Palin we go.
Where the children are mocking her confused tale of woe

For every child knows Paul Revere’s famous ride
Palin’s run Presidential should now be denied.

You should be awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for that gem!

:)

Yeah, 'tis quite good!