The Supreme Duh

Posted on 10/01/2008 at 8:42 pm by Bob Cesca

Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?

Palin: Well, let’s see. There’s, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but …

Couric: Can you think of any?

Palin: Well, I could think of … any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a vice president, if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.

I thought it was required for all far-right wingnuts to know both Roe v. Wade AND a little obscure decision called Bush v. Gore. And shouldn’t the governor of Alaska know Exxon v. Baker?

And also, I’m flashing back to this:

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  • dontpanic23

    I’d forgotten that horrible gem. He’s been so invisible lately I needed to be reminded that Palin does not have a total monopoly on stupid.

  • PackyJ

    Yes, Bob, you’d think she might have at least remembered Exxon Shipping v. Baker, since it was only last fucking June, and she issued a press release about how bad it was.

  • ceu

    Maybe she didn’t want to piss off any of the SC justices…just in case.

  • J M Ashby

    Hey Bob, I know you don’t do movie reviews, but I’d be interested to get a review of W. from you when it comes out. Maybe call it a “fact check” rather than a review.

  • LeeroyJenkins

    Well, I can see why she wouldn’t mention Gore/Bush as a SCOTUS decision she disagrees with, and who the hell is going to say (at least publicly) that they disagree with something like Brown v. Board of Ed.? But Jesus. Not Exxon/Baker? Not even the recent Virginia case where states weren’t allowed to decide on immigration? You’d think that would be right up her alley.

  • Nanotyrannus

    She should have been able to cone up with the biggies. The ones they’ve always hated deep in their hearts. Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Lawrence v. Texas. You know, the ones that give people rights…

  • LeeroyJenkins

    Can you imagine if she said Brown/Education? I think a bazillion brains would have anuerized. Wait, did I just make up that word? I swear, I am NOT Bush.

  • JG

    I know I am guilty of schadenfreude here, but I hope she bombs tomorrow–so that John McCain’s only Presidential decision as candidate will show him to be unfit to lead. This is jaw dropping–and to put the country in the balance–How our media hasn’t raked him over the coals for the LAUGHABLE “Country First” slogan is beyond me–well, maybe his BBQ is that good.Having said that I do think our MSM is setting this up only to be WOWED by her folksiness and insult laden performance that I am sure we will witness tomorrow.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher whose hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid for the vice presidency.The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin’s a Post Turtle”.Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a ‘post turtle’ was.The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle”.The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued:”You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, she can’t get down, she doesn’t know what to do while she’s up there, and you just wonder what idiot put her up there to begin with.”(This begs for a photoshop)

  • grcratty

    Right up there with that famous Bob Dole insight at the ’96 RNC convention: “The cause of crime in America is…criminals.”

  • IonaTrailer

    Someone should tell Governor Palin (whose husband belonged to a secessionist movement in Alaska until she was tapped) that we worked out the “States should decide” thing in the last century. You can’t have it both ways – otherwise the Feds have to stop busting marijuana distributors here in California – since Joe (and Jose) Six-Pack voted to legalize pot for medical use. Or maybe the South would like to re-invent slavery. Minnesota mandate lukevisk twice a week for dinner. Whatever wacky idea the majority of knuckle-dragging, Joe Six-Packs decide goes.Snap out of it.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    Lukevisk?You trying to get that whole Blue vs. Grey thing going again, aintcha?I mean…a few states revert to allowing slavery – that’s one thing.Lukevisk? That’s another. I WILL pry it from your cold, dead hands!