Sarah Palin: 'If I were in charge ... waterboarding is how we'd baptize terrorists'

Sarah Palin would like all terrorists to know that if she were in charge, waterboarding is how the United States would baptize them.

At least that's what the former Alaskan governor and ex-vice presidential nominee told thousands of attendees this weekend at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Indianapolis.

"If I were in charge," Palin said Saturday during a Stand And Fight rally at Lucas Oil Stadium, "[our enemies] would know that waterboarding is how we'd baptize terrorists."

Palin mocked what she called the Obama administration's coddling of suspected terrorists.

"Enemies, who would utterly annihilate America, they who'd obviously have information on plots, to carry out jihad," Palin said. "Oh, but you can't offend them, can't make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen." The White House, she said, has failed to put "the fear of God in our enemies."

The conservative firebrand also warned the pro-gun lobby that they — "intolerant, antifreedom leftist liberals" and "clownish, 'Kumbaya'-humming, fairytale-inhaling" Democrats — are seeking to "strip away our Second Amendment rights."

Sassy wrote:She must be clinically insane!

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Sassy wrote:She must be clinically insane!

Insane, wrong, stupid, hateful and famous. Talk about a witch's brew

gerber wrote:She is as sane as me.  Maybe the other way round  lol

What is wrong with her comments...................  terrorists are evil.

Couldn't open the vid btw if it makes a difference.

Waterboarding is a Guantanamo Bay pastime..................  All for it.

Bout time the terrorists knew who was in charge and the results of their efforts will be this instead of a slap on the wrist and a hot slice of toast for tea,.

gerber wrote:She is as sane as me.  Maybe the other way round  lol

What is wrong with her comments...................  terrorists are evil.

Couldn't open the vid btw if it makes a difference.

Waterboarding is a Guantanamo Bay pastime..................  All for it.

Bout time the terrorists knew who was in charge and the results of their efforts will be this instead of a slap on the wrist and a hot slice of toast for tea,.

gerber wrote:She is as sane as me.  Maybe the other way round  lol

What is wrong with her comments...................  terrorists are evil.

Couldn't open the vid btw if it makes a difference.

Waterboarding is a Guantanamo Bay pastime..................  All for it.

Bout time the terrorists knew who was in charge and the results of their efforts will be this instead of a slap on the wrist and a hot slice of toast for tea,.

smelly_bandit wrote:Give that woman a fucking medal

She has more balls than Obama

Ben_Reilly wrote:

gerber wrote:She is as sane as me.  Maybe the other way round  lol

What is wrong with her comments...................  terrorists are evil.

Couldn't open the vid btw if it makes a difference.

Waterboarding is a Guantanamo Bay pastime..................  All for it.

Bout time the terrorists knew who was in charge and the results of their efforts will be this instead of a slap on the wrist and a hot slice of toast for tea,.

Torture is sick and inhumane -- you can't do that to another human being and call yourself a good person, no matter what they did. In the case of Gitmo, the vast majority of them did nothing, but they didn't even get a trial before we broke our own law and subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

gerber wrote:She is as sane as me.  Maybe the other way round  lol

What is wrong with her comments...................  terrorists are evil.

Couldn't open the vid btw if it makes a difference.

Waterboarding is a Guantanamo Bay pastime..................  All for it.

Bout time the terrorists knew who was in charge and the results of their efforts will be this instead of a slap on the wrist and a hot slice of toast for tea,.

Torture is sick and inhumane -- you can't do that to another human being and call yourself a good person, no matter what they did. In the case of Gitmo, the vast majority of them did nothing, but they didn't even get a trial before we broke our own law and subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment.

BigAndy9 wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Torture is sick and inhumane -- you can't do that to another human being and call yourself a good person, no matter what they did. In the case of Gitmo, the vast majority of them did nothing, but they didn't even get a trial before we broke our own law and subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment.

Gitmo - lmao

"I will close it, it's evil"

"But Mr President, there's bad Muslims there"

"Oh, sh1t, really?"

BigAndy9 wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Torture is sick and inhumane -- you can't do that to another human being and call yourself a good person, no matter what they did. In the case of Gitmo, the vast majority of them did nothing, but they didn't even get a trial before we broke our own law and subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment.

Gitmo - lmao

"I will close it, it's evil"

"But Mr President, there's bad Muslims there"

"Oh, sh1t, really?"

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Sassy wrote:She must be clinically insane!

Insane, wrong, stupid, hateful and famous. Talk about a witch's brew

gerber wrote:She is as sane as me.  Maybe the other way round  lol

What is wrong with her comments...................  terrorists are evil.

Couldn't open the vid btw if it makes a difference.

Waterboarding is a Guantanamo Bay pastime..................  All for it.

Bout time the terrorists knew who was in charge and the results of their efforts will be this instead of a slap on the wrist and a hot slice of toast for tea,.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Actually what happened with Gitmo was, Obama campaigned on closing it, but after he was elected our RW politicians started scaring people by saying if it was closed, they'd find Osama bin Laden prowling around in their backyard stealing the laundry off their lines one day. So there was an uproar and they made it so that Obama couldn't legally close it by passing new legislation on the wave of public terror they'd created (National Defense Authorization Act of 2012).

Sassy wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Actually what happened with Gitmo was, Obama campaigned on closing it, but after he was elected our RW politicians started scaring people by saying if it was closed, they'd find Osama bin Laden prowling around in their backyard stealing the laundry off their lines one day. So there was an uproar and they made it so that Obama couldn't legally close it by passing new legislation on the wave of public terror they'd created (National Defense Authorization Act of 2012).

And don't the very people that did the waterboarding now say that it produced no 'good' information, because as Les said, people will say anything under torture to make it stop.   The worst thing about this stupid woman is that she panders (as does every RW fanatic, because that is what she is) to the very worst and basest feeling and fears and instead of looking at the subject from a deeper perspective, simply has a knee jerk reaction to something that is actually very complicated.   The West are not whiter than white and have treated many regions of the world extremely badly.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Sassy wrote:

And don't the very people that did the waterboarding now say that it produced no 'good' information, because as Les said, people will say anything under torture to make it stop.   The worst thing about this stupid woman is that she panders (as does every RW fanatic, because that is what she is) to the very worst and basest feeling and fears and instead of looking at the subject from a deeper perspective, simply has a knee jerk reaction to something that is actually very complicated.   The West are not whiter than white and have treated many regions of the world extremely badly.

Absolutely correct. The people who got the information that led to bin Laden being found said it came after the torture program had ended; one high-profile terrorist interrogator said he never got any useful information until he and his subjects got to the point where they could talk to one another like human beings.

The idea of putting a killer through an inhuman amount of pain is a psychologically satisfying revenge fantasy that most people realize is best used in movies and novels, but doesn't apply to the real world. Right-wingers seem to have a real problem with the concept, though.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Sassy wrote:

And don't the very people that did the waterboarding now say that it produced no 'good' information, because as Les said, people will say anything under torture to make it stop.   The worst thing about this stupid woman is that she panders (as does every RW fanatic, because that is what she is) to the very worst and basest feeling and fears and instead of looking at the subject from a deeper perspective, simply has a knee jerk reaction to something that is actually very complicated.   The West are not whiter than white and have treated many regions of the world extremely badly.

Absolutely correct. The people who got the information that led to bin Laden being found said it came after the torture program had ended; one high-profile terrorist interrogator said he never got any useful information until he and his subjects got to the point where they could talk to one another like human beings.

The idea of putting a killer through an inhuman amount of pain is a psychologically satisfying revenge fantasy that most people realize is best used in movies and novels, but doesn't apply to the real world. Right-wingers seem to have a real problem with the concept, though.

BigAndy9 wrote:I like her!

My god - get a white man who has touched a woman up and you'd have them hanging from hooks and slicing them open.

And all she wants to do is hurt some guys who are trying to end our kids' lives.

lovedust wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:I like her!

My god - get a white man who has touched a woman up and you'd have them hanging from hooks and slicing them open.

And all she wants to do is hurt some guys who are trying to end our kids' lives.

So saying you show a concern for child welfare notably absent from your many pronouncements on the Jimmy Savile scandal.

BigAndy9 wrote:I like her!

My god - get a white man who has touched a woman up and you'd have them hanging from hooks and slicing them open.

And all she wants to do is hurt some guys who are trying to end our kids' lives.

Original Quill wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:I like her!

My god - get a white man who has touched a woman up and you'd have them hanging from hooks and slicing them open.

And all she wants to do is hurt some guys who are trying to end our kids' lives.

Do any of your words make sense, andy?  "Touched a woman up?"  "Hanging from hooks?"  I have no idea what you are saying.

And all she wants to do is hurt some guys who are trying to end our kids' lives.

BigAndy9 wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Torture is sick and inhumane -- you can't do that to another human being and call yourself a good person, no matter what they did. In the case of Gitmo, the vast majority of them did nothing, but they didn't even get a trial before we broke our own law and subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment.

Gitmo - lmao

"I will close it, it's evil"

"But Mr President, there's bad Muslims there"

"Oh, sh1t, really?"