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(Hat tip to the fine folks over at Hot Air.)

Well, we seem to have found Sarah Palin’s Achilles-heel: Her extreme distaste for the word “retard”.

Palin believes Limbaugh’s repeated use of the word “retard” yesterday was “crude and demeaning,” her spokesperson emails.

In the wake of Palin’s demand that Rahm Emanuel be fired for saying the liberal activist strategy on health care was “f–king retarded,” a bunch of people have been asking how she’d react to Limbaugh’s tirade on the air yesterday.

“Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards,” Rush said, adding that Rahm’s meeting yesterday with advocates for the mentally handicapped was a “retard summit at the White House.”

Okay, I’m on board with that.&#160 And I have zero objection to the use of the word “retard” – I mean, didn’t I just get through referring to the Gaia-worshippers & tree-huggers as “libtards”?

Der Sarahcuda, apparently, takes a different view.

I asked Palin spokesperson Meghan Stapleton for comment on Rush’s rant, and she emailed me this:

“Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.”

This all comes on the heels of Our Beloved Sarah&#153 getting a mite peeved at Rick Perry’s use of the word.

Hoo, boy.

Sarah, to employ a Whoopi Goldberg-ism, there’s a difference between a retard and a retard-retard.&#160 If you know what I mean – and while that’s not the absolute best way it could be expressed here, I think you do.

This is not the hill on which you want any political aspirations of yours to die, Sarah (assuming, of course, that you still have them).&#160 Unfortunately, however, to paraphrase the boys on the old Dodge Hemi commercial, “this can’t be good”.


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2 responses to “Sticks & stones, Sarahcuda edition”

  1. Alan K. Henderson says:

    I just hope Perry doesn’t utter the phrase “Trans-Texas Corridor” again.

    If anyone is unfamiliar with TTC, watch Blazing Saddles. Essentially the same plot.

  2. David Hartung says:

    Darth,

    Anyone who wishes to survive in politics, absolutely must grow a thick skin. That being said, I have a niece who is a downs child, and for Sarah to be sensitive on the use of the word “retard” is fully understandable.

    If this turns out to be issue that causes Sarah to steer away from elective political office, I will understand completely.

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