From ABC News – “Palin said that the media is “just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying, ‘You know what? It’s time that normal Joe Sixpack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency,’ and I think that that’s kind of taken some people off guard, and they’re out of sorts, and they’re ticked off about it.” Listen Here.
We already had a Joe Sixpack president and that didn’t work out so well.
Yeah, but she’s HAWT. Surely it’ll work out better this time.
“We already had a Joe Sixpack president and that didn’t work out so well.”
I think Clinton did OK.
Im from the Midwest and most just luv her round here!
Populism = relating to the dumbest of the dumb.
Just what I want when Alzheimer’s strikes McCain.
Maybe she will end up being a tough cuss just like roslin from battlestar galatica.
Throw Putin out the airlock!
Palin is the 13th Cylon.
Damn it…I grew up in a town of 3,500 in downstate Illinois. I knew, and still know, a lot of “Joe 6 packs”. Wonderful folks. But I don’t want the high school drop out I go bowling with to run the f**king country or have our nuclear launch codes. Grow up. He may be a super loyal friend and nice guy, but I don’t want HIM doing my brain surgery either.
For GODS sake, JUST being a “Joe 6 pack” doesn’t make you qualified to be President.
And Iowa and Illinois, the “heart” of the heartland is going for Obama. 😉
It would take a lot more than a six pack to get me to vote for her… what a tool.
It is amazing that my party was able to find someone dumber than Dan Quayle to be Vice President.
We Americans deserve everything we get.
I have to say that your elections are much more entertaining than ours, but have to agree with @whatever above. You don’t want Joe Six Pack running your country. You want the best and brightest. The idea of representation is not to have the average in office, but the best person who can give you what you really need, not necessarily what you want.
In Canada, our leaders lack charisma, but they are surely smart. With our parliamentary system, we have more than two parties at the party. Two of the leaders are PhD’s, one holds a Masters of Economics (our current Prime Minister) and the outsider from Québec only holds a Bachelor’s but brings the labour type experience that has proven successful in the UK.
Sarah Palin would not make it to the polls, much less any kind of leadership position here. Hopefully for all of us, she will not make it anywhere near the White House either.
I too grew up in Southern Illinois.
We were taught to respect people of all faiths, race, and cultures.
I didn’t hear her call anyone a name, and expressed what I would
of expressed about what the media is saying about her and her
family.
Gosh, you mean her family has a 401K ??? And it went down ??
wow,
I wonder if Joe six-pack Biden or NOBAMA’s was affected ?
Perhaps their “ACORN” stock was hit @!! LOL
you go girl, !!!
#11
In any type of elections, ours or other countries, the best and the brightest are not generally what get elected. The people that are best at getting elected get elected. Being bright and at the top of your field certainly helps as you per your examples, but that is not necessarily what will get you into office.
I give up. I am exhausted. At this critical moment of our nation we have 2 amateurs, 1 plagiarist and a “please just make me president cause I put my country first” is what we can find as presidential material.
There is no point in setting the bar, just wait for more kooks to run for president in the future.
Whoa. I’m from Southern Illinois. Wild.
Anyways, I don’t understand why we wouldn’t want to put the smartest person possible in office, not the average Joe.
Clinton wasn’t the Joe Six-pack President.
He was a kegger!!
#15 – putting the smartest person in office is a great idea – unfortunately we’re stuck with Idiot #1 or Moran #2
#13 & #16 – At least get someone with a little common sense. It looks like Obama is just letting them hang themselves by standing back. Not necessarily the best tactic, but with the competition he has, it is working…
I successfully survived abortion in 1957 and I have spent most of the following years in observation and analysis of my surroundings here in America. I have concluded that we here in America have never elected an intelligent and effective POTUS in my lifetime. I do not understand why anyone would think that we would this time around. The two major political parties of the last fifty years have never nominated the most qualified person in their ranks to run for the office because, in my opinion, one must be insane to want the damn job. Having made that statement, each election cycle reminds me of the Gubernatorial Election in Louisiana when David Duke opposed Edwin Edwards for the office. Most bumper stickers in the state simply stated: Vote For The Crook, It’s Important. We ultimately vote for the person we believe will do the least harm to the United States in the belief we will have better options four years down the road. That has never happened to date.
her trying to be the “joe 6pack” would be the exact reason I wouldn’t vote her. I would want someone who carries themselves better. A person of higher then average inteligence. Not some “average 6 pack drinker” wacked out of her head, drinking every night cause you can’t cope with reality soccer mom. That kind of mentality keeps this country in the past and makes us a laughing stock. At least have a sophisticated pallette to drink better beer then the “typical 6pack”. Life’s too short to drink shitty beer. Drink a hoegaarden or something.
Yuengling
You Dems crack me up. You latch on to every thing so literally. Palin didn’t say she was Joe 6-pack. She said she is representing that portion of the country. That is, small town America, with normal middle class families. Not career politicians and the crooked laywers who hold most of the elected positions. That is one reason she was elected as Governor of Alaska.
She (the VP candidate)has far more experience and accomplishments than Osama, oops, Obama, (the Pres candidate). And she is hot…
#21 – Brian
>>She (the VP candidate)has far more experience
>>and accomplishments than Osama, oops, Obama
You forgot to say “Hussein”.
And if she’s got all that experience, why does she come across in every single interview as being a witless know-nothing? Why doesn’t she have a coherent answer to any of the questions?
Is she just dumbing herself down, playing to the Bud Lite dudes who don’t know anything either?
“You like me because we’re both retarded.”
Putin?
Airlock Sarah.
Mr. Mus.,
Like the debate results, there are very differing opinions on performance of the candidates. Dems hate her, so will pick any words that seem to support their opinions while ignoring the rest of her speeches and thoughts.
Repugs, just the opposite for Obiwan.
We are partisan and see our candidates through our filters. It will be the difficult choice of the undecideds to make their choices, while slogging through the Dem-centric media reports.
In the end, in the private space of the polling booth, we shall see…
I guess W would be a-case-of-beast-and-an-eightball type of candidate.
@ #21 Brian
“Palin didn’t say she was Joe 6-pack. She said she is representing that portion of the country.”
Actually she said she was Joe Six-pack. Direct quote from the interview:
“…we put government back on the side of the people of Joe Six-pack like me….”
Now maybe she misspoke. It’s hard to tell with her talking point mash-up answers that go around in circles.
Here’s what I think will happen tonight. Palin will pull a Jane Curtin and flash us her tits. It’s all she’s got left to use as clearly her brain ain’t worth a pile of cold moose diarrhea.
I have a small diploma that says I learned first aid. Would you like me to diagnose your cancer?
I also keep a small fire extinguisher in the kitchen and a larger on in the garage. Want me to come put out your house fire?
I never went to Law School, but I did go to court once for a parking ticket and won. Want me to defend you on your kiddy porn charge?
I’m not a rocket scientist, but I did change the oil in my car a few times. Want me to design the next space shuttle for NASA?
So why the hell would you want “Joe Six Pack” leading this country?
I’ve seen it asked here “If she has so much experience and intelligence, why does she come off so dumb in interviews?”
Well…it worked for Bush. Do you think Bush is some stupid redneck? He wasn’t raised with that accent, he was born in Massachusetts and lived there most of his childhood. His public record SATs show him to be smarter than Kerry. I don’t give a shit who your family is, they don’t just give out degrees at Yale. Yet he comes off as a dumbass. Why? Because that’s what got him elected.
What about Joe 12 pack? Joe 6 pack is a wuss just like all the fruity republicans…