Hey, Penny Arcade did it to Jack Thompson, and look how that turned out!

[trinityvixen]

...except I don't want Palin to get fired from the McCain camp. I want her train wreck to cause his campaign to hemorrhage votes like whoa.

$800K raised for Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin's name.

ETA: Oh, and then there's the fact that she couldn't name a single SCOTUS case besides Roe v Wade. Bonus bitch-slapping to the first idiot who defends her by going "Hey, I don't know of any other cases either! That makes her one of us!" Yep, one of you morons.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's the thing. There have been decisions from SCOTUS for as long as this country has existed. She wasn't given a time limit or required to give one from a specific century. She could have picked literally anything--Marbury v Madison, Brown v Board of Education, Bush v Gore--and not looked even 1/10th as bad.

Also, if she couldn't, for some reason, remember any names, why not at least give the "mumble v mumble" and describe the case?

[shell524.livejournal.com]

I was going to say I don't know any other cases either, but I'm not trying to be one of the top officials in the US Gov't.

But then I remembered Brown v. Board of Education and Lawrence v. Texas, so I guess I can't say that.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I was going to say I don't know any other cases either, but I'm not trying to be one of the top officials in the US Gov't.

Hence my comment about bitch-slapping. You're entitled to be as ignorant as you want--the US only requires people be in school until age 16, not that they learn anything while there. However, only the truly ignorant would think someone with their own limited understanding of the world should become a world player.

Plus, you totally aren't ignorant and you could name two cases! Two! That's amazing if you're Sarah Palin.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Bonus bitch-slapping to the first idiot who defends her by going "Hey, I don't know of any other cases either! That makes her one of us!" Yep, one of you morons.

Aw, this is why I live your LJ, TV. :)

I suspect there's only person on your FL who'd rush to her defense, and he has a law degree, so he probably won't try that defense...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No one is going to defend this because they can't. You learn about Brown v Board of Ed in school roughly forty times. If nothing else sticks with you, that should. Then again, there aren't too many "Brown" people (yuck yuck) up in Alaska, so maybe they don't teach them about that.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't even defend that one.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's literally the reaction everyone is giving: "Yeah, I got nothing." Because what the shit? It seems like she's overstudied for the past month and now can't call out any relevant facts because she's too distracted by details. Yikes.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

There is one possible defense, but I haven't watched the clip so I don't know if it's plausible--she may have thought she was being asked for SC decisions that she disagreed with. On that question, very few people can go beyond 1--for right wingers, Roe; for lefties; Bush v. Gore. (and of those who can get to 1, they usually can't coherently explain why.) The fact that this defense isn't being marshalled by the campaign means it's probably not plausible.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Correction--go beyond 1 that's still good law, if you interpret the question that way. Obviously Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson should be easy answers if you allow overturned and repudiated cases; Lochner is less easy.

The day a politician answers that question with "Carolene Products", on the other hand...

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Kelo ought to be up for somebody's grabs in that...

Tho' really, for most politicians it's like the "what's your favorite book" question; if you want to be elected, you've got to avoid giving any answer that'll make you seem too much smarter than the Mythical Common Person.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That would be my guess. If there was any way to defend this, any reasonable campaign would be doing so, not least of all McCain's team.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

It doesn't even matter if *we* know or not. It's like my coworker Eric (the same one who only had good things to say about her looks), who after one of her earliest comments that she'd need someone to "tell [her] what exactly the vice president DOES on a day-to-day basis," said, "Well *I* don't really know what the vice president does on a day-to-day basis..." I didn't have to call him a moron, or uninformed, I simply had to say, "Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't really think you're qualified to be vice president, either." He conceded.