Cons are now unabashedly yelling “Palin not Hussein” at McCain/Palin rallies. What an odd cultural artifact they’ll be in less than 70 hours.
In the likelihood of an Obama win, this will be the most dominant wing of the Republican party - likely much to the chagrin of the Junior Rove Society at TheNextRight.com.
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Sarah Palin told a news organization she’d be interested in taking over the GOP after a possible McCain loss. That left the McCain folks speechless.
Man, Sen. Biden may stick his foot in his mouth, but you don’t hear him going around plotting Machiavelli style to take over the party.
I swear, the McCain campaign now has more in common with a supermarket tabloid or Laguna Beach than a presidential campaign
However, there is a significant rift inside the McCain campaign.
Those loyal to McCain believe they have been unfairly blamed for over-handling Palin. They say they did the best they could with what they got.
They point [...]
She’s pretty unintelligible as usual. Seriously, can’t understand what she’s saying for 90% of it, but its intriguing the way they can’t just come out and say an abortion clinic bomber is a terrorist.
Guess they don’t want to offend the base of the base.
UPDATE: Ricky Gervais says Palin is David Brent. Kind of makes sense [...]
It is not adding up. The stores listed aren’t finding those purchases in their records.
Curious.
I can’t imagine why donors would be upset.
>> RNC appears to shell out $150K for Palin fashion
>> A Pitbull in Valentino, Karan, Armani…
>> Sarah Palin Doesn’t Shop at Wal*mart Anymore.
McCain supporters won’t like seeing this at the same time they’re pulling out of swing states. Couldn’t they have used that money in Michigan? Sheesh!
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in [...]
When asked out the role of the veep, she proceeds to describe…
.. the senate majority leader. Please, America, lets not go dumb this election.
Colbert will support her, but I’m guessing most people won’t.
When we look back at it, Palin could deliver the election to Obama. (via)
Rachel Maddow can’t understand what the hell Sarah Palin is saying either.
Somebody else figured this out. She’s Nell.
>> Sarah Palin Cannot Speak
>> No, Seriously
>> The Other Thing About Palin
Score.
‘It’s disappointing, and I hope it’s a slip of the tongue and she doesn’t mean it, but she said it. It was reported she said that she likes to visit, quote, pro-American parts of the country,’ said Biden, leading into a lengthy dissection of the remarks.
‘Ladies and gentlemen, I, like your senator and governor, have [...]
Not that she actually takes questions from the press, but… “Governor Palin, could you please tell us which parts of the country you think are anti-American?”
Look at this bowl of mush. This is supposedly an adult. This is supposedly someone running for national office. This is supposedly someone running for vice-president of the United States.
‘And I, I begged our speech writers, ‘Don’t make me say ‘Joe the Plumber,’ please, in any speeches.’ And I was asked, ‘Just one time, just [...]
The hate keeps building
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a threatening remark directed at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during a political event in Scranton.
The agency followed up on a report in The Times-Tribune that a member of the crowd shouted, ‘Kill him!’ after one mention of Mr. Obama’s name during a rally Tuesday for [...]
Sarah Palin cannot speak. She cannot construct a clear, adult sentence. It is impossible for her to do. In ways its worse than Bush. Bush sounds like an idiot, but can form simple sentences. Palin cannot make a sentence that sounds remotely coherent.
One heartbeat away? You gotta be kidding me.
Finally a reason to watch hockey.
Although many Philadelphia Flyers fans cheered and clapped as Sarah Palin took to the ice at the Wachovia Center on Saturday night to drop the ceremonial puck kicking off this town’s NHL season, their warm reception was no match for the 90 seconds of sustained booing that rumbled through the [...]
Here. (or you can read it after the break)
Finding #1: “Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”
ABC: Troopergate Report: Palin Abused Power
Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her Public Safety Commissioner this July, a state investigation has concluded.
The Alaska legislature voted to [...]
They’ve fed red meat to the mob and are now shocked that the mob wants blood.
I too thought the story about Sarah Palin issuing a report absolving herself was an Onion headline the first time I saw it. I’m still having a hard time believing that someone in the real world created such a thing and sent it out with a straight face.
Adam Savage of Mythbusters (one of my favorite [...]
Hardball, you betcha!
In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Mr. Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.
‘To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear [...]
Here’s the base everyone. These are the people who form the heart and soul of the Republican party. That is why we must win.
This is the other side, folks.
It’s what McCain wants in order to win. Whatever it takes.
John McCain’s campaign is just George Wallace in this century.
Put aside the crazy attacks coming from Palin intended to whip up terrorist/racist feelings, and simply look at what she does as a political character. What the hell kind of person is this to run for national office? I’m serious. She could be pro-choice and anti-war and I would say Sarah Palin sounds like a [...]
Yes… Yes… Give In To The Dark Side…
Sarah Palin’s been unleashed.
In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving [...]
Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick.
‘And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,” she continued.
‘Boooo!’ the crowd repeated.
‘Kill him!’ proposed one man in the audience.
Palin went on to say that ‘Obama held [...]
See what happens when she doesn’t have talking points or a cheat sheet? This.
‘They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,’ she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.
Sigh
‘The pundits today on TV—one of them was saying, check out the vice president’s schedule, check out where she’s going—she’s going to Nebraska,’ Palin said. ‘But the pundit was saying the only reason she’d be going there is ‘cause they’re scared, so they gotta go there and shore up votes. And I so wanted to [...]
Sarah Palin had a rally yesterday, and a lot of people attended… in California.
They said Sarah Palin did well enough in the debate that Tina Fey wouldn’t find anything to parody. Um, no.
For me, the other funny clip was the Mary Poppins one. Anne Hathaway did a good job, and poking fun at Disney is always a good laugh.
For the second time in as many days, Sarah Palin has publicly expressed disagreement with the McCain campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan (a decision the state party is lamenting in public as well). This gives McCain two options:
1) Stay the course: This makes his running mate look like more of a ninny and [...]
ThinkProgress has compiled all the instances of robot Sarah Palin reading off her answers in the debate last night. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter because conservatives have convinced themselves that she’s awesome the same way they convinced themselves Bush is awesome. The facts don’t matter for them.
But progressives, Democrats, honest Republicans, [...]
Joe Biden won that debate. Period. Joe Biden, the real deal. Sarah Palin didn’t trip over herself but she was a talking points machine. Biden brought the heat.
Joe Biden talks about being a single father, the top moment of the debate.
Shorter Sarah Palin: I won’t answer your question. But I’ll recite this talking point.
Joe Biden [...]
The thing is, the McCain camp is trying to spin this as a “quiz”. But a candidate - at any level - should know more than one supreme court case. This is stuff we all learn in elementary school.
Palin’s biggest mistake is when she doesn’t know the answer she talks more and more nonsense.
UPDATE: This [...]
Something to think about.
She discusses new energy and new ideas versus an older candidate. Gold. (via)
Oh yeah, she also lied again to inflate her resume.
Gov. Sarah Palin cites vigilance against Russian warplanes coming into U.S. airspace over Alaska as one of her foreign policy credentials. But the U.S. military command in charge says that hasn’t happened in her [...]
BWAHAHAHA. (via)
Senator McCain is 25 years older than Sen. Obama, but they are the ones engaging in school yard tactics. Now they want a do-over for the introduction of Sarah Palin after McCain’s failed time out last week.
One brilliant idea is to put her on Rush Limbaugh’s show. But Limbaugh’s show is largely comprised of those [...]
Trade mission to Russia? There’s no evidence she went on any trade mission to Russia. Maybe she hollered to the Russian guy she can see from her porch.
Gov. Palin, Admiral Stockdale and Dan Quayle salute you for making them look good in retrospect.
Sen. Biden will be at the debate and will be giving post-debate interviews. Sarah Palin… wil not according to reports I’m seeing.
From Matt Damon to reality…
That’s what she said
‘The only flag at my office is an Israeli flag,’ she was quoted as saying, ‘and I want you to know and I want Israelis to know that I am a friend.’
Then again, we know her husband doesn’t recognize America’s jurisdiction over sovereign Alaska, so why would she fly the symbol of [...]
Why? Because every time Palin talks to someone who isn’t in the tank like Sean Hannity we get one of these.
Go Keith! Go!
Why?
Appearing on Fox last night, Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity a heartwarming story of how she asked her teenage daughters for their opinion before accepting the vp offer.
‘So ask the girls what they thought and they’re like, ‘Absolutely, let’s do this, Mom,’’ Palin recounted of her daughters, Bristol and Willow.
Yet, according to the campaign-provided timeline [...]
The McCain/Palin lies continue to melt under the heat of the truth.
In a monthly status report to the city on March 7, 2000, newly hired ‘City Lobbyist’ Steve Silver describes how the Palin administration had requested $6.6 million in federal earmarks for water and sewer improvements for Wasilla, and another $1 million for police equipment. [...]
Sarah Palin has cancelled a big ticket fundraiser out in Orange County, CA because apparently she needs to prop up McCain on the trail.
Sarah Palin, outdrawing her running mate, people leaving campaign events early because they are bored with McCain. So clearly, she thinks she’s in control and today debuts the “Palin and McCain administration”.
Ok, having a stump speech is one thing, but Sarah Palin is giving essentially the same speech she gave at the RNC convention still. Of course, the crowds keep yelling “we want Sarah” interrupting her. And that’s what the GOP crowds do want. The problem is John McCain is the candidate.
UPDATE: 9/18/08 campaign rally - [...]
The trip to Iraq that never happened.
Think of Bush, change “President” to “Governor” and put him in Alaska and you’ve got the crony conservatism of Sarah Palin.
Everything. Everything they say is a lie.
Sarah Palin’s visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidate’s campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America.
Following her selection last month as John McCain’s running mate, aides [...]
McCain/Palin is turning to Republican propagandist Sean “Talking Points” Hannity for Sarah Palin’s next interview. Sample question: “Governor, whats it like standing up to negative sexist attacks from a secret Muslim terrorist like Barack Obama?”
I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy that day.
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Perhaps they need John McCain to explain it to them, but this conservative whine in the wake of Sarah Palin’s flub during her interview with John Gibson that gave us what is now being called the “moose in the headlights” moment, is just ridiculous. Anyone paying attention to politics knows what the Bush doctrine of [...]
Perhaps if she had done a Google before the interview she would have known the answer.
Granted, the Bush doctrine is bunk, but as someone running for the vice presidency I would guess someone should know what the heck it is. “Hockey mom” with “executive experience” or no.
Joe Biden is the vice presidential candidate, who, [...]