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Eat it bitches.
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Don't she want the wikileaks guy treated as a terrorist, that's all that need to be said, she's talking about direct authoritarian behaviour, I don't need this bitch going ape shit, every time she bleeds.
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I love how you make politics, into some sort of wierd sideshow, than get all whiney because everything falls apart do to, childish bullshit.
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I love how you make politics, into some sort of wierd sideshow, than get all whiney because everything falls apart do to, childish bullshit.
Serious question - have you graduated high school?
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Face it pussies- first female POTUS!
Obama was the first mixed race prez - she is the first female.
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Serious question - have you graduated high school?
Yep we read about this thing called deomocracy, they said that one of the foundations was freedom, of the press she might be aware of that, if she had more than a c average.
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Why are trashng my tribute thread?
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Why are trashng my tribute thread?
Why are you trashing adult politics?
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Tough as nails.
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Awesome - she has been a winner since HS. She wins while Obama nurses a fat lip. Fucking pussy.
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Sarah wins contests while barry = getting blown by twinks in a limo
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Haha you're really losing it 333 starting this thread shows just how far you've been had by mons and co.
The joke is on you buddy they've trolled you into a Palin thread making meltdown.
Ouch. Those guys are idiots and yet they've got to you, step away from the computer for a while.
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:)
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Haha you're really losing it 333 starting this thread shows just how far you've been had by mons and co.
The joke is on you buddy they've trolled you into a Palin thread making meltdown.
Ouch. Those guys are idiots and yet they've got to you, step away from the computer for a while.
He can't help it he's dago, they have an inbility to show restraint. It's not there fault. It's there cultural heritage stop trying to be a fascist.
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He can't help it he's dago, they have an inbility to show restraint. It's not there fault. It's there cultural heritage stop trying to be a fascist.
Um yeah okay unintelligible garbage post right there. ::)
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What a great speech this was.
She called it like it is: Obama cares more about the rights of terrorists than american ciizens.
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adult language
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Can't wait to volunteer and donate. I'm putting aside $100 a week just so i can donate the max.
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You commies are finished.
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:D :D :D
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Um yeah okay unintelligible garbage post right there. ::)
Lol 333386 makes the most imature shit ever, have you been looking at what he post here on a daily basis. He has no abilty to restrain his emotion, I wouldn't hold it against him if he could simple admit to it.
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this is way too easy :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D palin for pres. 333386 for vice pres. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Lol 333386 makes the most imature shit ever, have you been looking at what he post here on a daily basis. He has no abilty to restrain his emotion, I wouldn't hold it against him if he could simple admit to it.
Just go with it an appreciate the first female POTUS. You got your first bi-racial POTUS now its time for the first FEMALE - breaking glass celings one crack at a time.
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Just go with it an appreciate the first female POTUS. You got your first bi-racial POTUS now its time for the first FEMALE - breaking glass celings one crack at a time.
Lol I would of voted for ron paul, but nice try.
THis is the unrestrained shit you get on with I even stated so earlier today, and yet you still continue on your neurologically deprived politics bullshit. That's all based on fear and childish rhetoric, you don't debate on here, you simply troll, and lash out at people with complete nonsense remarks like I'd ever vote for obama.
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Why are you trashing adult politics?
BABABABABABA
HAHAHAHA
Oh shit htat's funny!!!!!!!!!!
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Lol I would of voted for ron paul, but nice try.
THis is the unrestrained shit you get on with I even stated so earlier today, and yet you still continue on your neurologically deprived politics bullshit. That's all based on fear and childish rhetoric, you don't debate on here, you simply troll, and lash out at people with complete nonsense remarks like I'd ever vote for obama.
Is tis you bro?
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Is tis you bro?
Could you act on reason for just one day, would that be possible. Your everything that's wrong with a american politics, you dilute reason with a bunch of knee jerk nonsensical bullshit, than act like an immature child when it all blows up in your face when you get stuck with some guy like obama.
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Could you act on reason for just one day, would that be possible. Your everything that's wrong with a american politics, you dilute reason with a bunch of knee jerk nonsensical bullshit, than act like an immature child when it all blows up in your face when you get stuck with some guy like obama.
So pick an issue in one of the other threads and debate on it.
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She s going to beat you marxists and libs like the halibut.
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So pick an issue in one of the other threads and debate on it.
I can't because the second I get into anything he starts trolling with his Partisan bullshit,
P.S. any second now he'll just say I can't handle the heat, in truth I just have zero desire, to have a man with obvious sexual frustration take it out on me. :P
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I can't
There, I fixed it for you.
I ask because I'm can think of maybe 3-4 posters on this entire site that it might be more ironic than you calling someone out on immaturity and the inability to put forth a compelling argument.
Prove me wrong. Debate him on an issue, and see if he bails like you said.
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I can't because the second I get into anything he starts trolling with his Partisan bullshit,
P.S. any second now he'll just say I can't handle the heat, in truth I just have zero desire, to have a man with obvious sexual frustration take it out on me. :P
Stop Crying Molsens' boy - Sarah called it exactly right.
Bama is a pofs who needs to go back to kenya and STFU.
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I can't because the second I get into anything he starts trolling with his Partisan bullshit,
P.S. any second now he'll just say I can't handle the heat, in truth I just have zero desire, to have a man with obvious sexual frustration take it out on me. :P
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;D
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There, I fixed it for you.
I ask because I'm can think of maybe 3-4 posters on this entire site that it might be more ironic than you calling someone out on immaturity and the inability to put forth a compelling argument.
Prove me wrong. Debate him on an issue, and see if he bails like you said.
I'm an blatant troll in G&O but when I come here I would like to actually discuss something more relavent, than would you hit it.
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She looks and delivers thwe point great in this clip. She was 100% correct.
Fuck Obama and his TERRORIST buddies.
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I'm an blatant troll in G&O but when I come here I would like to actually discuss something more relavent, than would you hit it.
Interesting, since I've never seen a post from you that actually does this.
Start a topic. See where it goes.
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Interesting, since I've never seen a post from you that actually does this.
Start a topic. See where it goes.
Deal :)
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I remember this day like yesterday when she was announced for VP. I was so proud of McCain that day.
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Deal :)
Why don't we start with why you refuse to go to work and pay your bills?
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Awesome - charting her own course from day 1 bitch.
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palin
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thats the ticket :D :D :D
theme song
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remind you of anyone? :D :D :D :D
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Look - she is far from perfect - but i can see it now, clear as day -
Palin 2012 - "RESTORING DUTY HONOR & PATRIOTISM TO THE COUNTRY"
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remind you of anyone? :D :D :D :D
Laugh all you want - by 2012 the nation will be ready.
I think I should make my reservations for the innaugural now no?
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Nice one blacken - way tobe cmpassionate to the mentally ill.
BTW - if and when she wins - will united behind her and give her a chance they way we gave barack a chance?
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2,500,000 Man/Woman Army
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin
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Nice one blacken - way tobe cmpassionate to the mentally ill.
BTW - if and when she wins - will united behind her and give her a chance they way we gave barack a chance?
don't blame me she's the one that named her kid ;D
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don't blame me she's the one that named her kid ;D
If she is elected with you call "Your POTUS" ? ?
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she will be the first to take the oath in tongues :D :D :D :D :D :D
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she will be the first to take the oath in tongues :D :D :D :D :D :D
ha ha ha- you know what bro - I used to be bothered by your antics - but know think you are alright.
Ha ha - good one
but as an aside - as much fun as we have at Obama's expense - don't worry - you will get the same chance in 2 years. ;D
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2,500,000 Man/Woman Army
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin
Osama bin laden has a lot more than 2.5 mil followers.
number matter? ;)
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Osama bin laden has a lot more than 2.5 mil followers.
number matter? ;)
The Palinistas are nearly as devoted and committed. Fired up - Read to go!
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palin never gave birth as governor. trig is bristol's 1st child.
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Here we go.
CT's
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The Palinistas
are you one of them?
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Of course. I'm the like the tank commander in the palin panzer division.
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Of course. I'm the like the tank commander in the palin panzer division.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Or how about the saracuda sniper squad.
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Or how about the saracuda sniper squad.
gayer than strawberry pankcakes with honey, brah.
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Great picture of Mama Grizzly
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Is the bear symbolic of her being a Giant Killer?
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Look - she is far from perfect - but i can see it now, clear as day -
Palin 2012 - "RESTORING DUTY HONOR & PATRIOTISM TO THE COUNTRY"
Hilarious.. it will never happen
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Great speech. Get used to it Whack Shades, many more to come.
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Sarah knows her shit on energy policy - that is for sure.
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Makes far more sense that the Anti-Semite piece of shit in the WH.
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She freaking nailed it on this yet you jackasses voted for the communist hack obama. Good job morons.
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She freaking nailed it on this yet you jackasses voted for the communist hack obama. Good job morons.
dude she quit her job... she= fail
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dude she quit her job... she= fail
you = whack ass shades.
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you = whack ass shades.
Those are kind of fresh
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Yeah - Sarah does not know what sh is talking about. ::) ::)
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Yeah - Sarah does not know what sh is talking about. ::) ::)
but she quit... tell us why again?
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but she quit... tell us why again?
Did you read her book?
She spent a whole chapter on it. Do you need me to lay it out for you?
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Did you read her book?
She spent a whole chapter on it. Do you need me to lay it out for you?
yes
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she quit because she could make more money doing something else plain and simple.so that makes her a quitter.and what kind of person names their baby retard >:(
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Upon going back to alaska after the election - the far left freaks started a flood of bogus lawsuits that shut the ovt own. She has been cleared on like 26 out of the 27 and even the one she was repreimanded on she was fine on.
Under alaskan law she was personally liable for the costs, expenses, attorney fees, etc, which at that point quickly ran up to 500k and was going to well over $1,000,000 to her persnally. She was not wealthy at that point and was making 130k a year with a family of 5.
The govt being shut down, being sacked with legal fees, hving her family trashed, she decided that it ws better to leave the state in the hands of a great lt. governor.
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thats one sick bit h!!!!!!
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Great legs and speech. She is going tomake our nation strong again after th darkness, debt, and dreadful disgrace Obama has ushered in.
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The Patriot Palin & the Pussy Obama
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If she is all the Rep's have, it's going to be another 4 years of Obama.
I cannot stand a single thing about her, and i have tried. I read her book and listened to all her bullshit, but still could never take her seriously as a Presidential candidate.
She drives me nuts.
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Great legs and speech.
you demean and belittle her.
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you demean and belittle her.
did you when you got a hard on for obama when he was pictured on the beach with no shirt?
how about when matthews got a tingle up his leg?
hmmm
do you think its more demeaning to used the nat enq as proof that she cheated?
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333 is the Cortland Finnegan of the GetBig site. He comes on here and does some dumb shit, get pounded into the ground completely, then hops up clapping to himself and thinking that nobody else saw what happened.
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333 is the Cortland Finnegan of the GetBig site. He comes on here and does some dumb shit, get pounded into the ground completely, then hops up clapping to himself and thinking that nobody else saw what happened.
I couldnt have said it better myself
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Upon going back to alaska after the election - the far left freaks started a flood of bogus lawsuits that shut the ovt own. She has been cleared on like 26 out of the 27 and even the one she was repreimanded on she was fine on.
Under alaskan law she was personally liable for the costs, expenses, attorney fees, etc, which at that point quickly ran up to 500k and was going to well over $1,000,000 to her persnally. She was not wealthy at that point and was making 130k a year with a family of 5.
The govt being shut down, being sacked with legal fees, hving her family trashed, she decided that it ws better to leave the state in the hands of a great lt. governor.
And, as stated earlier, the left-winged goofies thought this would drive her into obscurity. But, to borrow a line from the movie, Ricochet " regarding Baby Girl, "You didn't kill her life and you didn't f$#& her mind. You know what you did? YOU PISSED HER OFF!! You really f$&#(@) pissed her off! And, now, YOU'RE F&*#&)!"
One has to wonder if the Tea Party would have ever lifted off the ground, resulting in the GOP mopping the floor with the Democrats, if Sarah Palin had been left to govern Alaska and whack caribou in peace.
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Seeing some of your posts lately, you are probably right bro - no way you couyld have said it, or anything for that matter, much better.
As for lickerevermore, what else should one expect from the getbig supertroll?
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That is what dolts like lickerevermore and whack shades don't get. Had they just left her alone, she would be in alaska doing her thing.
But they poked and poked at the mama grizzly and now she is eating their lunch and helped the gop wipe out the communists in the mid terms and will do so again in 2012 in one for or another.
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That is what dolts like lickerevermore and whack shades don't get. Had they just left her alone, she would be in alaska doing her thing.
But they poked and poked at the mama grizzly and now she is eating their lunch and helped the gop wipe out the communists in the mid terms and will do so again in 2012 in one for or another.
lmao who is "they"
The only reason palin is on the radar is because of idiots like yourself who think women with guns are qualified to be president.
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lmao who is "they"
The only reason palin is on the radar is because of idiots like yourself who think women with guns are qualified to be president.
Yeah - getting a marxist community organizer who never so much as ran a lemondae stand has really worked out. ::) ::)
On the issues tat matter most - Sarah is infintely better than Barry.
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Yeah - getting a marxist community organizer who never so much as ran a lemondae stand has really worked out. ::) ::)
On the issues tat matter most - Sarah is infintely better than Barry.
um ok.. she quit
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um ok.. she quit
See bro - I gave you a detailed explanation - and no matter one says - you won't even listen as to why. Thats cool.
Once she is innaugrated in 2013, it will all be brushed aside like all the crap with obama.
Just look at this way - we get 4 years to laugh our asses off at the incompetence of obaa - an you will get the same chance shortly.
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See bro - I gave you a detailed explanation - and no matter one says - you won't even listen as to why. Thats cool.
Once she is innaugrated in 2013, it will all be brushed aside like all the crap with obama.
Just look at this way - we get 4 years to laugh our asses off at the incompetence of obaa - an you will get the same chance shortly.
but like... she quit... and youre making excuses. Nice
ill do it for you
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but like... she quit... and youre making excuses. Nice
ill do it for you
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Just drop it. Would you keep a job that paid 135k a year and you were personally indebted to over 1 million dollars with no way to pay it off?
YES or NO?
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Just drop it. Would you keep a job that paid 135k a year and you were personally indebted to over 1 million dollars with no way to pay it off?
YES or NO?
So Quit for the money?
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So Quit for the money?
Are you playing dumb on purpose?
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I just dont understand.. you said "if yall would have left her alone she would be in AL doing her thing" but then the next post "she quit and threw herself in the spot life to pay off debt" so like what is it man
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I just dont understand.. you said "if yall would have left her alone she would be in AL doing her thing" but then the next post "she quit and threw herself in the spot life to pay off debt" so like what is it man
I don't even know why i bother with someone as dense as you are.
I explained it in detail, but for some reason it went right over your head.
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it's weird that she is the only governor in the history of america to ever be sued out of office.
You have to think - if she'll "blink" and retreat when attacked by left-wing bloggers in alaska...
Is she really tough enough to deal with Russia and CHina talking about currency devaluation and threat of war?
If she whines about how relentlessly she is attacked by the media - does she really think Iran and Hugo Chavez and Castro and others will play nicer than the media?
This whole thing reeks of effort. You can't "play the victim" and be an effective leader. no, an effective leader grabs the bully by the ears and facfccks them into submission. They don't whine. Imagine Reagan being sued out of his governr job by bloggers. Geez.
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it's weird that she is the only governor in the history of america to ever be sued out of office.
You have to think - if she'll "blink" and retreat when attacked by left-wing bloggers in alaska...
Is she really tough enough to deal with Russia and CHina talking about currency devaluation and threat of war?
If she whines about how relentlessly she is attacked by the media - does she really think Iran and Hugo Chavez and Castro and others will play nicer than the media?
This whole thing reeks of effort. You can't "play the victim" and be an effective leader. no, an effective leader grabs the bully by the ears and facfccks them into submission. They don't whine. Imagine Reagan being sued out of his governr job by bloggers. Geez.
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240 & Mal - bringing the stupid to a whole new level.
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240 & Mal - bringing the stupid to a whole new level.
Dont insult.. explain
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I just dont understand.. you said "if yall would have left her alone she would be in AL doing her thing" but then the next post "she quit and threw herself in the spot life to pay off debt" so like what is it man
That's called playing dumb. You rack up a million dollars in legal fees, fending off bogus lawsuits and let's see what you do.
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it's weird that she is the only governor in the history of america to ever be sued out of office.
You have to think - if she'll "blink" and retreat when attacked by left-wing bloggers in alaska...
Is she really tough enough to deal with Russia and CHina talking about currency devaluation and threat of war?
If she whines about how relentlessly she is attacked by the media - does she really think Iran and Hugo Chavez and Castro and others will play nicer than the media?
This whole thing reeks of effort. You can't "play the victim" and be an effective leader. no, an effective leader grabs the bully by the ears and facfccks them into submission. They don't whine. Imagine Reagan being sued out of his governr job by bloggers. Geez.
Yet, you've been slobbering over the crybaby-in-chief for close to two years, now.
The Russians and Chinese aren't going to hit Palin with bogus lawsuits, costing her tons of money.
You don't get it. These bogus lawsuits were designed by the left, to make Palin shut up and go away. She did NEITHER. Instead, Mama Grizzly came back with a vengeance, galvanized the Tea Party, and they laid the SMACKDOWN on the Democrats a month ago.
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That's called playing dumb. You rack up a million dollars in legal fees, fending off bogus lawsuits and let's see what you do.
Im not elected gov of a state
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Yet, you've been slobbering over the crybaby-in-chief for close to two years, now.
The Russians and Chinese aren't going to hit Palin with bogus lawsuits, costing her tons of money.
You don't get it. These bogus lawsuits were designed by the left, to make Palin shut up and go away. She did NEITHER. Instead, Mama Grizzly came back with a vengeance, galvanized the Tea Party, and they laid the SMACKDOWN on the Democrats a month ago.
It has been revealed to me that you are a Tom brother, McMoron. Is this correct? :-\
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Im not elected gov of a state
Thank God!
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i like it when they call her mama Grizzly,what a bunch of pathetic losers :D :D :D :D :D
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Beats calling obama "The One"
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333's love of all things Palin is the same as his irrational hatred of all things Obama
just two opposite sides of the same crazy coin
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333's love of all things Palin is the same as his irrational hatred of all things Obama
just two opposite sides of the same crazy coin
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It has been revealed to me that you are a Tom brother, McMoron. Is this correct? :-\
Based on your Obama-sword-swallowing, you have revealed yourself as a homosexual, which means it's time for.....
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333 is the Cortland Finnegan of the GetBig site. He comes on here and does some dumb shit, get pounded into the ground completely, then hops up clapping to himself and thinking that nobody else saw what happened.
Board idiot still continues clapping for himself. Unaware the rest of the universe just saw him get his ass handed to him.
Palin = Pavlov's bell for idiots.
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Lurkinmenstoilets you voted for bama.
Case closed.
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Yep. Mention Palin and the idiots come running.
As stated, the only bigger crybabies and whiners than Palin herself are her supporters.
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Lurkinmenstoilets - had you clowns simply left her alone and ignored her - she would still be in alaska.
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Too entertaining as a trainwreck to watch.
Having her around clearly makes it much easier to identify who the idiots in the nation are by those still cheering for her.
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Lurkinmenstoilets - had you clowns simply left her alone and ignored her - she would still be in alaska.
As Gov?
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^^^ Delusional thinking at it's finest.
When you have to resort to photoshopped pics, you really don't have a leg to stand on.
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oh, FML.
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Lurkinmenstoilets you voted for bama.
Case closed.
More like...SLAMMED SHUT!!!
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Advertise on NYTimes.com.Op-Ed Columnist
She Who Must Not Be NamedBy CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: December 3, 2010
This is it. This is the last time I’m going to write the name Sarah Palin until she does something truly newsworthy, like declare herself a candidate for the presidency. Until then, I will no longer take part in the left’s obsessive-compulsive fascination with her, which is both unhealthy and counterproductive.
Graphic There’s Something About Sarah.Readers' Comments
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She’s the Zsa Zsa Gabor of American politics. She once did something noteworthy, but she’s now just famous for being famous.
She was a vice presidential nominee. But she lost. She was the governor of Alaska. But she quit. Now she’s just a political personality — part cheerleader, part bomb-thrower — being kept afloat in part by the hackles of her enemies and the people who admire her resilience in the face of them. The left’s outsize and unrelenting assault on her has made her a folk hero. The logic goes that if she’s making people on the left this upset, she must be doing something right.
Yet the left continues to elevate her every utterance so that they can mock and deride her. The problem is that this strategy continues to backfire. The more the left tries to paint her as one of the “Mean Girls,” the more the right sees her as “Erin Brockovich.” The never-ending attempts to tear her down only build her up. She’s like the ominous blob in the horror films: the more you shoot at it, the bigger and stronger it becomes.
Yes, she’s about as sharp as a wet balloon, but we already know that. How much more time and energy must be devoted to dissecting that? How is this constructive, or even instructive at this point? What purpose does it serve other than inflaming passions to drive viewership and Web clicks?
As Politico’s editor in chief, John F. Harris, and its executive editor, Jim VandeHei, very candidly expressed in August: “More traffic comes from an item on Sarah Palin’s ‘refudiation’ faux pas than from our hundreds of stories on the complexities of health care reform or Wall Street regulation.”
So left-leaning blogs like The Huffington Post plaster pictures of her and her family all over their sites with entries about her latest gaffe or sideswipe. But she’s barely mentioned on popular conservative blogs.
The same leftward skew is also true on television. An analysis of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News from Nov. 3 to Dec. 2, using data from ShadowTV, a monitoring service, found that CNN mentioned the name “Sarah Palin” nearly 800 times. (O.K., I had to write her name there. Sorry.) Left-leaning MSNBC mentioned it nearly 1,000 times. But Fox News, which employs her, mentioned it fewer than 600 times. (Secondary mentions like “Sarah” or “Palin” are not included in the count. Neither is “Mama Grizzly.”)
People on the left seem to need her, to bash her, because she is, in three words, the way the left likes to see the right: hollow, dim and mean. But since she’s feeding on the negativity, I suggest three other words: get over it.
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I invite you to join me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter, or e-mail me at chblow@nytimes.com.
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badass
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She's a poseur. Accept it ;)
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We will see tonight. Tomnight is the hunting episode. My mom called me up and is pretty excited to watch it too.
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badass
Schmuck
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I'm sorry, I geuss I should have included a picture of barney frank too.
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Hahaha, all 333 has to do is log one pro-Palin post and he puts half the far-leftists that post on this board on suicide watch.
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Show coming on in ten minutes. Can't wait. I'm dvr ing the ravens game.
Can't miss this episode.
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Show coming on in ten minutes. Can't wait.
LOL at Palinitespeak.
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Great episode. Kicking caribou ass and taking names.
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Sarah Palin Takes Aim at 'Anti-Hunting Hypocrisy' (ABC allows violent threats on website)
abc ^ | 12/5/2010 | John Berman and Mary Bruce
In tonight’s episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” the former governor showcases the Alaska tundra while caribou hunting with her father. Beyond proving she’s a great shot, the episode is giving Palin an opportunity to “proudly” take aim at “anti-hunting hypocrisy.”
“Tonight's hunting episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska ‘controversial’? Really? Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather couch or eaten a piece of meat, save your condemnation of tonight's episode. I remain proudly intolerant of anti-hunting hypocrisy. :)” Palin posted on Facebook and Twitter today.
Palin’s pro-hunting posts began on Friday when she urged fans to tune in to “see how we fill our freezers and feed our families with home-grown tundra-roaming Alaskan wild game. We'll show you how Alaskans hunt. As my friend Sue says, ‘the tundra is the type of landscape that will make a man out of anybody.’ And, PETA...” she wrote on Facebook.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
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If she becomes president, will she still be a victim everyday, or would that change?
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If she becomes president, will she still be a victim everyday, or would that change?
ah yes. that won't change. she'll be the victim of mean world leaders, mean media, mean everyone.
That's what I wanna know. At what moment does she become tough? You can pose with all the rifles you want in front of dead moose, but it doesn't make ya tough.
Ask anyone here - who would you rather have facing down Putin and China as the dollar collapses and the nations are ready to fight - Hilary or Palin?
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ah yes. that won't change. she'll be the victim of mean world leaders, mean media, mean everyone.
That's what I wanna know. At what moment does she become tough? You can pose with all the rifles you want in front of dead moose, but it doesn't make ya tough.
Ask anyone here - who would you rather have facing down Putin and China as the dollar collapses and the nations are ready to fight - Hilary or Palin?
Hillary is not running and if alens invaded the earth I would prefer Hillary over anyone. Bama would just hide under the desk.
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If she becomes president, will she still be a victim everyday, or would that change?
Nah, she can just follow the current presidents lead in that regard......they talk about him like a dog..... ::)
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Posted on Sat, Dec. 04, 2010
Democrats are creating some fertile turf for Sarah Palin
By E. THOMAS McCLANAHAN
The Kansas City Star
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I have my doubts about Sarah Palin as a potential presidential candidate, but you have to hand it to her. Her instincts are wonderfully diabolical. She’s trapped our friends on the left in a no-win debate on American exceptionalism.
Nothing drives liberals battier. Some of them are prone to revolt at the mere suggestion that the United States has any redeeming qualities.
Bill Maher’s outburst on the Larry King show a few years ago is a sample. “You know, this country is — I’ve said this before, I’m going to keep saying it — it’s a pitiful, helpless giant … it’s a stupid country, with stupid people who don’t pay attention.”
Now, Maher is a comedian, a funny guy, and this really makes you smile, although he wasn’t trying to be funny. I imagine he thought that with this little outburst, he could show everyone exactly how smart he is. Memo to Mr. Maher: You succeeded!
American exceptionalism usually isn’t much of an issue in politics, but President Barack Obama changed that his first year in office. During a visit to France, he mishandled a question from a reporter who asked whether the president subscribed to “the school of American exceptionalism that sees America as uniquely qualified to lead the world.”
The answer is now well known. Obama said he believes in American exceptionalism, “just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
As James Q. Wilson dryly noted in a Washington Post interview, Obama “did not understand how Americans feel about this.”
The idea is buried deeply in the national psyche and arises from the language of the Declaration of Independence — and from the notion that the settlers who came here, unlike colonists of other ages, were concerned less with aping the mother country than creating something better.
The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, who journeyed here in the 1830s, conveyed something of this spirit in his “Democracy in America.”
Obama himself noted the link between the Declaration and the national character in his 2004 speech before the Democratic National Convention. Apparently, when he got the question in France, he forgot.
But let’s consider the other part of the reporter’s question — the suggestion that American exceptionalism implies some sort of warrant to run the world. Actually, it doesn’t, and I don’t think the people that Tocqueville met would have made any such assertion.
America was still new and hardly a great power. But if I recall correctly from my reading of the book some years ago, those Americans had a very clear understanding that they had something going that was indisputably better than Europe and the rest of the world.
The qualified-to-run-the-world idea didn’t arise from American exceptionalism, and it’s possible to argue the opposite. Prior to World War II, many Americans believed that far from trying to run the world, we shouldn’t get involved at all. We should hold ourselves apart.
Yet the isolationism that gripped the country in those years turned out to be a contributing cause of World War II. After the first World War, we retreated behind our ocean barriers, leaving the British and French — weakened by years of trench warfare — to supervise weak security arrangements that couldn’t cope with the rise of Hitler.
By the time we got involved, things were too far gone to fix without massive sacrifice and slaughter. We learned from our mistake. We were a great power, and everything done by a great power has consequences — including an irresponsible refusal to assert leadership. Better to influence events and try to head off trouble before it festers.
While American exceptionalism doesn’t necessarily “make us uniquely qualified to run the world,” Palin’s emphasis on this theme has prompted some commentators to assert their lefty bona fides with amusing articles exhorting readers to get with it: We’re really just another run-of-the-mill country. Headline on a recent Michael Kinsley piece in Politico: “U.S. is not greatest country ever.”
The genius of Palin’s strategy is that it also hints at the ambivalence many Democrats feel toward the use of military force.
This is a party, after all, that has all but barred the old Truman Democrats —strong-defense figures like Sam Nunn or Scoop Jackson — from its presidential primaries.
Now we have a president who not only makes people wonder if he’s ill at ease with one of the nation’s basic ideas, but makes noises as if he sincerely believes in the fairy tale of nuclear disarmament — and hires people who describe wars as “overseas contingency operations” or invent clanking euphemisms for terrorism like “man-caused disasters.”
Palin is plowing some very fertile political ground.
To reach E. Thomas McClanahan, call 816-234-4480 or send e-mail to mcclanahan@kcstar.com
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Awesome tribute vids
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lol.. and she quit...for money
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lol.. and she quit...for money
Mal - if she wins in 2012 - will you consider her "your president"?
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Mal - if she wins in 2012 - will you consider her "your president"?
Yes.. if i choose to stay in America, Because I'm a real American and thats what Real Americans do
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Yes.. if i choose to stay in America, Because I'm a real American and thats what Real Americans do
I considered obama my president until he went to Germany and said welcome fellow citizens of the world at that point he seemed to indicate he did not want to be my president as an american citizen, but the leader of the NWO. :P :P
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I considered obama my president until he went to Germany and said welcome fellow citizens of the world at that point he seemed to indicate he did not want to be my president as an american citizen, but the leader of the NWO. :P :P
Shut the fuck up.. no you didnt. You interpret shit to justify your idiotic views and excuse your treasonist talk.
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Shut the fuck up.. no you didnt. You interpret shit to justify your idiotic views and excuse your treasonist talk.
KRS 1 & Cornel West idiots too?
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Is KRS 1 & Cornel West idiots too?
No they can comment on an issue.. Same as i have. But you are on a whole different level
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Tribute videos?
Dude, you are now Peggy and Julio.
Tribute videos? Really?
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Great family.
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Shut the fuck up.. no you didnt. You interpret shit to justify your idiotic views and excuse your treasonist talk.
LOL!!! QFT!!!
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LOL!!! QFT!!!
Oh lookey here - how cute - lickbigmalsassmore has something to say.
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Its coming you far left nut jobs - whether you like it or not.
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Oh lookey here - how cute - lickbigmalsassmore has something to say.
Too bad you don't. At least anything of importance or of credibility.
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Palin tributes. Wonderful. You (and those like you) are going to be the sole reason that Obama gets in. You're cheerleading a shitty candidate with nice legs because you let your hormones dictate your actions.
Spend some time here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnThune
This man is doing a lot more to halt the Obama regime BS than Palin, who is too busy supporting amnesty on Oreilly factor and propping up unelectable candidates like Sharon Angle, Joe Miller, and Witch ODonnell.
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Palin tributes. Wonderful. You (and those like you) are going to be the sole reason that Obama gets in. You're cheerleading a shitty candidate with nice legs because you let your hormones dictate your actions.
Spend some time here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnThune
This man is doing a lot more to halt the Obama regime BS than Palin, who is too busy supporting amnesty on Oreilly factor and propping up unelectable candidates like Sharon Angle, Joe Miller, and Witch ODonnell.
240 - Jump on board bro - it is what it is.
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You guys can thank me later for this.
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a few months back, you admitted you were a palin-ite, a groupee, etc.
Then you spent a lot of time saying she is a great cheerleader for the party, but you hope someone else runs.
Did your jimmy jump while watching her shoot a deer, and now you want her to be president again?
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a few months back, you admitted you were a palin-ite, a groupee, etc.
Then you spent a lot of time saying she is a great cheerleader for the party, but you hope someone else runs.
Did your jimmy jump while watching her shoot a deer, and now you want her to be president again?
Being just a cheerleader and figurhead for the country - I think she would be good. make people feel ome self respect again, back to hard work, etc.
Obama just makes people look for a welfare check.
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so given the options of A) Palin or B) any other repub -
who do you choose in the 2012 primary?
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Yeah, let's make her President and then she can quit a couple years later. ::)
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Yeah, let's make her President and then she can quit a couple years later. ::)
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Yeah, let's make her President and then she can quit a couple years later. ::)
I would be eternally grateful to Barry if he quit at this point after the damage he has done.
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back to hard work, etc.
Yeah, she knows all about hard work doesn't she? How many jobs and colleges did she quit again? That's what I thought.
Just face it, you are an idiot as you have proven time and time again. No wonder it is so easy for Obama to light your tampon on fire.
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Palin ‘Absolutely’ Electable, Republican Governor Jindal Says
Monday, 06 Dec 2010
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that Sarah Palin is “absolutely” electable as president, a topic of debate among Republicans even though she has yet to announce her intentions for 2012.
“It’s up to her to make the case to voters,” Jindal said in an interview on “Political Capital With Al Hunt” on Bloomberg Television.
Jindal, 39, was asked about recent comments by Joe Scarborough, an MSNBC commentator and former Republican congressman from Florida, who said it was time for Republicans to “man up” and recognize the former Alaska governor is a reality TV show star who cannot be elected.
“I think there are several strong contenders,” said Jindal, who stopped short of endorsing Palin.
Palin, the Republican Party’s 2008 nominee for vice president, has said that she is considering a campaign for president in 2012.
Besides Palin, a number of Republican governors and former lawmakers are already considering presidential bids. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, led the “Republican Revolution” in 1994 when the party gained 52 House seats, said he’s leaning toward running for president in 2012 and may decide as soon as February.
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http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/palin-electable-jindal-says/2010/12/06/id/379042
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Palin ‘Absolutely’ Electable, Republican Governor Jindal Says
Monday, 06 Dec 2010
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that Sarah Palin is “absolutely” electable as president, a topic of debate among Republicans even though she has yet to announce her intentions for 2012.
“It’s up to her to make the case to voters,” Jindal said in an interview on “Political Capital With Al Hunt” on Bloomberg Television.
Jindal, 39, was asked about recent comments by Joe Scarborough, an MSNBC commentator and former Republican congressman from Florida, who said it was time for Republicans to “man up” and recognize the former Alaska governor is a reality TV show star who cannot be elected.
“I think there are several strong contenders,” said Jindal, who stopped short of endorsing Palin.
Palin, the Republican Party’s 2008 nominee for vice president, has said that she is considering a campaign for president in 2012.
Besides Palin, a number of Republican governors and former lawmakers are already considering presidential bids. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, led the “Republican Revolution” in 1994 when the party gained 52 House seats, said he’s leaning toward running for president in 2012 and may decide as soon as February.
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http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/palin-electable-jindal-says/2010/12/06/id/379042
And who will be Palin's puppet-master running mate? Wonder if Dick Cheney wants to do another term as her handler VP? ::)
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Yeah, she knows all about hard work doesn't she? How many jobs and colleges did she quit again? That's what I thought.
She couldn't afford to go to college full time. She went to college when she could afford it, took a year off when she couldn't it, saved some more money and returned.
Bottom line: She persevered until she got her degree. And, thanks to the screwballs on the left and their bogus lawsuits, Palin went on to galvanize the Tea Party. End result: The Dems got the taste slapped out of their mouths; and the GOP (left for dead just two years ago) is BACK IN THE SADDLE.
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Why you guys hatin on the tribute vids?
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Why you guys hatin on the tribute vids?
Because this is more their speed:
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I like the image and message the family portrays.
Cohesiveness, togetherness, hard work, and traditional values.
This chicago - kenyan - alinsky - psuedo progressive crap aint working out.
Bama seems like a good family man and as a person a decent guy - but he is to wedded to the far left.
I am happy with the deal on taxes and think he is on the right path, but we will see.
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I have to order a few for gifts.
http://www.cafepress.com/+the_definitive_sarah_palin_2011_wall_calendar,339321873
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DONT RETREAT - RELOAD!
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DONT RETREAT - RELOAD!
Dont say retard...rahm emmanuel.
its cool for you to say retard Rush, its satire
Dont say retard Family guy (but they are the definition of satire)
waaaa waaaa waaaa
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;)
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DONT RETREAT - RELOAD!
As we have seen... that dumb bitch can't even reload.
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Nice one.
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As we have seen... that dumb bitch can't even reload.
good one... very nicely done
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Funny how a "C" hs student with a shit degree, quitter and dumb as a box of rocks has accomplished more than ANYONE in this thread ever will......both monetarily and professionally... LOL
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As we have seen... that dumb bitch can't even reload.
she can't reload her own gun. wow. that's sad.
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Funny how a "C" hs student with a shit degree, quitter and dumb as a box of rocks has accomplished more than ANYONE in this thread ever will......both monetarily and professionally... LOL
So has Flava Flav
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So has Flava Flav
Nah, he smoked all his up..... ;D
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Nah, he smoked all his up..... ;D
you didnt say maintained.. you said accomplished ..and he has
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so by your argument.. Flava Flav is qualified to be president...nice one bro
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so by your argument.. Flava Flav is qualified to be president...nice one bro
Sure he is.....you aren't "racist" are you? ;D
Honestly, just for the state of the union address, it would be worth it...... 8)
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;)
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Sure he is.....you aren't "racist" are you? ;D
Honestly, just for the state of the union address, it would be worth it...... 8)
nice... could see it now...put a necklace on this and we are good to go
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It's only 2010 and 333 has the Obamabots all riled up. 2012's going to be hilarious. 8)
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nice... could see it now...put a necklace on this and we are good to go
Chuck D would be blabbering some incoherent CT stuff.....but the S1W's would keep things in check.....
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Chuck D would be blabbering some incoherent CT stuff.....but the S1W's would keep things in check.....
Professor Griff replaces CIA
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This is why she is going to win. Great clip. Right on message.
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This is why she is going to win. Great clip. Right on message.
Win What?
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Win What?
Watch the video. 2012 is coming.
BTW Mal - yo might enjoy this oemore.
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You sure that moose doesn't need three more stars? Seeing how she had to shoot it six times.
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You sure that moose doesn't need three more stars? Seeing how she had to shoot it six times.
Got to admit - her shooting skills need work, or maybe the scope was not sighted in?
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Maybe as stated it was all posing and bullshit. Who goes hunting without sighting their scope in first?
Keep making excuses for her. It's nothing new for you.
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Maybe as stated it was all posing and bullshit. Who goes hunting without sighting their scope in first?
Keep making excuses for her. It's nothing new for you.
Maybe it was her dads' rifle and in his old age forgot to sight it in or thought it was already sighted in?
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Funny how a "C" hs student with a shit degree, quitter and dumb as a box of rocks has accomplished more than ANYONE in this thread ever will......both monetarily and professionally... LOL
Even funnier is how the Harvard guy with the Nobel Peace prize (for whom Team Kneepadder has been slobbering and...welll....see the unofficial-official theme song) has been exposed for the weakling that he is.
And, because the left decided to pester Sarah Palin, they now must live with watching their party get slapped silly as the GOP now has Obama by the nuts (even with Team Kneepadder's lips in the way).
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Even funnier is how the Harvard guy with the Nobel Peace prize (for whom Team Kneepadder has been slobbering and...welll....see the unofficial-official theme song) has been exposed for the weakling that he is.
And, because the left decided to pester Sarah Palin, they now must live with watching their party get slapped silly as the GOP now has Obama by the nuts (even with Team Kneepadder's lips in the way).
Lol.. um ok
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Lol.. um ok
So concludes our daily trip to Wacky-Wacky land and it's citizens huh.
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Maybe it was her dads' rifle and in his old age forgot to sight it in or thought it was already sighted in?
Awwww... yet another excuse.
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Just sayin.
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So concludes our daily trip to Wacky-Wacky land and it's citizens huh.
Lol.. um ok
We've been laughing at the Obama sack riders (namely the two of you) for the better part of the six months, watching his policies crash and burn, one after the other.
And, we've watched the Democrats get PUMMELED last month. Now the coup-de-graz, Obama cracking and extending the Bush tax cuts for everyone.
Of course, unable to watch your knight in shining armour RUST before your every eyes, you've resorted to the Palin-bashing stuff.
But, to lift your spirits, I give you once again.....The unofficial-official theme song for you and the rest of "Team Kneepadder":
Or if you prefer:
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We've been laughing at you for having no material other than the same video to post.
Wacky Land doesn't register around here. Keep trying though. It gives you something else to do besides sitting in the garage rubbing one out to your 20 year old stack of magazines of men in thongs.
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Talking from experience lurker?
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We've been laughing at you for having no material other than the same video to post.
Wacky Land doesn't register around here. Keep trying though. It gives you something else to do besides sitting in the garage rubbing one out to your 20 year old stack of magazines of men in thongs.
I'm sorry! I had trouble understanding you. Please don't talk with your mouth full.
Oh, I have plenty of material. But, the more we watch you slobber over Obama....I mean one video pretty much sums it up. Something has to console you after watching Team Obama get the brakes beaten off them last month.
Of course, lacking the spine you usually do, it's little wonder that you keep your "lurking" on the Palin threads. But, I have to fix my lunch for work tomorrow. So, I'll let you return to your nut-gobbling.
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Talking from experience lurker?
His magazines are only two years old.
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I find it funny that you guys keep calling other people "kneepadders" while you psychophants drool over a mindless wonder, posting tribute after tribute to her.
I would say that every time you profess a love for Palin we respect you guys a little less, but you bottomed out long ago.
Go read a porno mag if you need to beat your little peters, we have a country to run here.
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Lol.
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Don't worry guys, in two years you will all have the same barrell of laughs we have enjoyed.
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I find it funny that you guys keep calling other people "kneepadders" while you psychophants drool over a mindless wonder, posting tribute after tribute to her.
I would say that every time you profess a love for Palin we respect you guys a little less, but you bottomed out long ago.
Go read a porno mag if you need to beat your little peters, we have a country to run here.
And the guy you picked to do it, whose sack has been swallowed for nearly two years, has been every bit the train wreck that we said he would be....AND MORE.
333386 makes the Palin threads to draw out "Team Kneepadder", because it's about the only thing that gets them to come out and play. When he posts Obama's litany of failures (or bumps an Obama "tribute" thread from 18-24 months ago), TK goes MIA.
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And the guy you picked to do it, whose sack has been swallowed for nearly two years, has been every bit the train wreck that we said he would be....AND MORE.
333386 makes the Palin threads to draw out "Team Kneepadder", because it's about the only thing that gets them to come out and play. When he posts Obama's litany of failures (or bumps an Obama "tribute" thread from 18-24 months ago), TK goes MIA.
You guys will love this one.
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Talking from experience lurker?
No from his own words. Your's too as you don't have a woman in your life and those self loathing queer tendencies you bring up are a big clue.
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His magazines are only two years old.
A schmoe such as yourself calling someone else a kneepadder... the irony.
Thanks for making yourself look stupid. Once again. Now come back with the standard 3rd grader reply involving a mirror or reflective surface that rounds out your little bag of reason.
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333386 makes the Palin threads to draw out "Team Kneepadder", because it's about the only thing that gets them to come out and play.
Nope. He does it because he seriously worships her and truly seems to believe she is the answer in 2012.
Which is fine, if he enjoys complaining about obama so much that he wants 4 more years of it.
I find it funny that you guys keep calling other people "kneepadders" while you psychophants drool over a mindless wonder, posting tribute after tribute to her.
I would say that every time you profess a love for Palin we respect you guys a little less, but you bottomed out long ago.
Go read a porno mag if you need to beat your little peters, we have a country to run here.
Quoted for MFing truth. Bravo!
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240 - I believe that the POTUS is more a cheerleader than anything and she has the core values that most regular people can relate to, working regular jobs, struggling through life, carrying on, adversity, etc.
Obviously Bam has failed in that role, so its time for a change.
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No from his own words. Your's too as you don't have a woman in your life and those self loathing queer tendencies you bring up are a big clue.
Dead wrong, and painfully boneheaded, as usual, O slurper of sack.
333386 and I have actual women in our lives (he has a long-term girlfriend and I have a wife and several beautiful children).
So, we leave you to keep fantasizing about Obama doing to you LITERALLY, what he's been doing to this country fiscally for the last two years.
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Nope. He does it because he seriously worships her and truly seems to believe she is the answer in 2012.
Which is fine, if he enjoys complaining about obama so much that he wants 4 more years of it.
How many times does he have to state that Thune is his preferred pick for president? BUT, if Palin's the last one standing in the GOP, he'll support her all day and twice on Sunday, to get Obama out of the White House.
Quoted for MFing truth. Bravo!
We both dig her. We've never denied it. Thanks to her work with the Tea Party, the Democrats got the red-headed-stepchild treatment last month; Obama cracked like cheap glass and will extend the Bush tax cuts; and the left-winged goofies are in full sackcloth-and-ashes mode.
Baby Girl just keeps delivering the hits.
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240 - I believe that the POTUS is more a cheerleader than anything and she has the core values that most regular people can relate to, working regular jobs, struggling through life, carrying on, adversity, etc.
In that case, here is some breaking news.
Aside from "being a cheerleader", the president has to do things like stare down our enemies and allies, and debate huge issues which affect military and economic conditions for the USA.
I don't think Palin is prepared to do that job. Neither is Obama. Savage said it right - we just had a training wheels presidency - why do it again? (cause she has nice legs?)
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In that case, here is some breaking news.
Aside from "being a cheerleader", the president has to do things like stare down our enemies and allies, and debate huge issues which affect military and economic conditions for the USA.
I don't think Palin is prepared to do that job. Neither is Obama. Savage said it right - we just had a training wheels presidency - why do it again? (cause she has nice legs?)
No....she also has some booty!!!.
;D
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In that case, here is some breaking news.
Aside from "being a cheerleader", the president has to do things like stare down our enemies and allies, and debate huge issues which affect military and economic conditions for the USA.
I don't think Palin is prepared to do that job. Neither is Obama. Savage said it right - we just had a training wheels presidency - why do it again? (cause she has nice legs?)
Bro - she stares down grizzly bears and rips hearts out of living animals. I'm sure she will be vicious against our enemies.
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A schmoe such as yourself calling someone else a kneepadder... the irony.
Thanks for making yourself look stupid. Once again. Now come back with the standard 3rd grader reply involving a mirror or reflective surface that rounds out your little bag of reason.
This coming from you, a guy who thinks Obama's sperm is one of the four basic food groups.
It appears Obama Girl's old booty shorts have cut off the circulation to your head.....AGAIN
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No....she also has some booty!!!.
Baby Girl just keeps delivering the hits.
this is what the U.S. has come to the dumbing down of the repub party :D
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this is what the U.S. has come to the dumbing down of the repub party :D
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this is what the U.S. has come to the dumbing down of the repub party :D
What it has come down to is the Democratic party, getting its clock cleaned, and the GOP having Obama by the nuts (once they're able to pry you, Lurker, and the rest of TK off them).
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:D :D :D THE DUMBING DOWN TO A TOWN NEAR YOU :D :D :D
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Sarah Palin's Alaska Fake Hunter Episode hits Ratings Low
Here's what we are learning from ratings roller coaster that Sarah Palin's Alaska appears to be on: the country is not interested in hunting and fishing, but is very interested in Palin's family dramas.
The ratings scorecard thus far:
2.8 million viewers on Sunday, which was down from 3.5 million last week, which was up from 3 million in the second week, which was down from a record-breaking 5 million for the premiere.
Both drops -- the second and fourth week -- were episodes that centered around Palin's outdoor activities and killing animals. In the second week she was clubbing halibut and this past Sunday the entire episode was dedicated to a hunting trip that culminated in Palin shooting a caribou.
If Palin was hoping to use this show to bolster the pioneering woman image she's been so keen on since entering the spotlight these ratings would suggest that the country is interested in the image more than the reality of actual pioneering (at least where hunting is involved). Sort of the political equivalent of liking your steak served rare without wanting to know how it got to your plate.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palins-alaska-hits...
I imagine the ratings will go up a bit just to watch the train wreck of the Palin's & the Gosselins. Looks like Kate Gosselin might make even Sarah look sympathetic.
BTW - hunters are calling out little miss fake hunter. Her dad actually had to load and work the bolt on her rifle between each shot. What a phoney!
• Palin's father chooses a "varmint rifle" for the expedition, even though they are going caribou hunting. Why did Palin not question this choice?
• Palin fails to 'sight-in' her rifle before setting off on their hunting trip - a basic error which might help explain her four misses
• Palin doesn't carry her own rifle or load her own rounds - a point picked up by a commenter on her Facebook page, who feels this shows she isn't a "true hunter".
• Palin is clumsy with her rifle and doesn't look like she regularly handles one. A Facebook commenter points this out, mocking her for asking her dad, "does the rifle kick?"
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• When Palin is handed the second weapon, with which she finally bags her caribou, she immediately puts her finger on the trigger. As all hunters know, this is dangerous: one should only finger the trigger when one is ready to shoot.
:D :D :D :D
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Maybe she is used to shot guns and semi-autos?
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Meanwhile, we've spend the last two days, watching the train wreck known as the Obama Administration. Watching the liberals, wail and bleat. Watching Obama blast his own party, basically admitting that the GOP has him by the Yes-we-cans.
And, to think, just a few months ago, the left-winged goofies were yapping about the schism between the Tea Party and the GOP. You can't pay for comedy this good.
Yesterday was one of the few times I actually watched MSNBC, just to see if the hysteria was rampant as advertised. Olbermann's tirade was unreal, foolishness personified.
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maybe she's a phony palin adds fake hunter and gun doofus to her resume :D :D :D
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maybe she's a phony palin adds fake hunter and gun doofus to her resume :D :D :D
Blacken - what if I give you $5 and a pack of smokes to vote for her? Yes or no?
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Meanwhile, we've spend the last two days, watching the train wreck known as the Obama Administration. Watching the liberals, wail and bleat. Watching Obama blast his own party, basically admitting that the GOP has him by the Yes-we-cans.
And, to think, just a few months ago, the left-winged goofies were yapping about the schism between the Tea Party and the GOP. You can't pay for comedy this good.
Yesterday was one of the few times I actually watched MSNBC, just to see if the hysteria was rampant as advertised. Olbermann's tirade was unreal, foolishness personified.
i thuoght you would be in kentucky building the ark :D
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Great damn vid. Go Sarah!
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and a Colt 45 Malt Liquor ;D
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and a Colt 45 Malt Liquor ;D
Look Out, Sarah....Kate Gosselin Wants a Guy Like Todd Palin
Celebs Gather ^ | 12/6/10
Look Out, Sarah....Kate Gosselin Wants a Guy Like Todd Palin
December 07, 2010 07:04 PM EST
Look out, Sarah Palin....Kate Gosselin wants a guy just like your husband, Todd. Should Sarah Palin be worried that Kate Gosselin will swoop in and steal her husband?
According to a report from Popeater, absolutely not. Todd Palin is 100% in love with his wife Sarah, and Kate Gosselin and Todd Palin are just friends. The two got to know each other when Kate plus her eight little Gosselins traveled to Alaska to visit the Palins for Kate's TBS show, "Kate Plus 8."
That's welcome news to many, because a cat fight between Sarah Palin and Kate Gosselin wouldn't have a very nice outcome. Both of those ladies can fight sans the gloves and do some damage. (It would be fun to see who would win such a battle, however, wouldn't it?) Sarah Palin might go at Kate Gosselin with a seemingly benign "golly, gee," but she'd be toting a shotgun that could blow Kate all the way to....well, Russia. After all, it can be seen from the Palin's back yard, right?
What Kate Gosselin really meant when saying she'd like to have a guy just like Todd Palin, was that she liked the fact that he was quiet and reserved, as well as a "yes" man. He also likes staying home with the kids while Sarah is away on book tours and sipping tea with some party she's affiliated with.
So Sarah needn't worry about Kate, but Kate better worry about her own business, because those eight little Gosselins are proving to be a handful. And since she doesn't have a husband like Todd Palin, since Jon Gosselin is out with a much younger girlfriend these days, who Kate has never even bothered to say hello to, Kate Gosselin has to handle things (with help from her nannies) all on her own.
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1st Dude would be better than 1st Chewbacca.
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Baby Girl might want to dedicate this song to Kate:
Edit - Actually, since Todd never went out with Kate, this song (same title) may be more appropriate:
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Maybe she is used to shot guns and semi-autos?
yeah, it's perfectly safe to handle a shotgun by the trigger? hahahaha
and a gun nut like you should have picked up the fact she posted with an asslong of bolt action rfles in past photo-ops ;)
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yeah, it's perfectly safe to handle a shotgun by the trigger? hahahaha
and a gun nut like you should have picked up the fact she posted with an asslong of bolt action rfles in past photo-ops ;)
I have only seen the ones with the shotguns and AR.
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This coming from you, a guy who thinks Obama's sperm is one of the four basic food groups.
It appears Obama Girl's old booty shorts have cut off the circulation to your head.....AGAIN
Your obsession with Big Black Cock has been noted. Not surprisingly since you drool over 20 years of magazines featuring thong parading black men in your garage every night.
I used to think you were an idiot by accident, now I see you put a lot of effort and practice into becoming one.
Meanwhile, instead of flapping your gums nonstop, you can help Palin prove that little story about the cavemen and dinosaurs existing together.
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Your obsession with Big Black Cock has been noted. Not surprisingly since you drool over 20 years of magazines featuring thong parading black men in your garage every night.
Projecting again? I think it's couch time for you. Put the pom-poms down and get a clue.
I used to think you were an idiot by accident, now I see you put a lot of effort and practice into becoming one.
Meanwhile, instead of flapping your gums nonstop, you can help Palin prove that little story about the cavemen and dinosaurs existing together.
Once again, take off Amber Lee's old booty shorts. You ain't getting enough oxygen to your head.
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Your obsession with Big Black Cock has been noted. Not surprisingly since you drool over 20 years of magazines featuring thong parading black men in your garage every night.
I used to think you were an idiot by accident, now I see you put a lot of effort and practice into becoming one.
Meanwhile, instead of flapping your gums nonstop, you can help Palin prove that little story about the cavemen and dinosaurs existing together.
:D :D :D :D :D
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blacken - if Palin promises you Colt 45, smokes and $5 - you are on board the Grizzly Express right?
Get used to it - Mama Grizzly is going to take you clowns out.
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blacken - if Palin promises you Colt 45, smokes and $5 - you are on board the Grizzly Express right?
Get used to it - Mama Grizzly is going to take you clowns out.
Throw in some gub'ment cheese and it's a done deal.
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:D :D :D :D :D
What you think? McWacky sits around shooting the pud to JJ Marsh or the former Ray McNeil?
Won't matter anyway, as I suspect she has as much sperm cells as she does brain cells. Which isn't saying much.
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Donald Trump: I respect Sarah Palin
The Daily Caller ^ | 12-8-10 | Alex Pappas
The Donald thinks Sarah Palin is one classy lady.
“I like Sarah Palin. I respect Sarah Palin,” Trump says on a segment of “Extra” airing Wednesday night.
The New York City real estate mogul made the comments while discussing how he’s taking a hard look at running for president in 2012. “I am seriously considering running,” he said.
Trump added: “I hate what’s happening to our country. Our country is being ridiculed all over the world.”
This is not the first time the businessman and reality TV star has hinted at a run for the White House. In 2000, he flirted running on the Reform Party ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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I like Trump. Speaks his mind. Palin/Trump works fine for me.
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Thursday, Dec. 09, 2010
Palin in Progress: What Does She Want?
By Jay Newton-Small
For the longest time, Sarah Palin was leery of Facebook. Some of the comments left on her page during the 2008 vice-presidential campaign were so withering and unpleasant that it took months of coaxing by her staff and her daughters Bristol and Willow to convince Palin that she should give it another try. So she waded back into the digital fray just after she resigned the Alaska governorship and as her aides were compiling a new press list. Her first Facebook post, in August 2009, accused the Obama White House of creating "death panels" as part of health care reform.
That offhand remark, as inaccurate as it was incendiary, helped incite weeks of embarrassing town-hall meetings for Democrats, which in turn nearly brought down the Administration's top priority. Palin, working at the time in San Diego on her first book, was surprised by her post's galvanizing power. With just a few keystrokes, she discovered, she could ruin White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' day, or as she puts it, "I find it a great way to communicate with people directly without the media filter."(See pictures of Sarah Palin's life since the 2008 election.)
There was no more talk of press lists. Since then, Palin has posted 307 messages to her 2.5 million Facebook fans, reaching her base much as Ronald Reagan reached his in the 1970s with his weekly radio commentaries. Eight Palin lieutenants scattered across the country were quietly given the job of policing her site. To this day, they scrub anything that is threatening, pornographic or unfit for children; that questions Barack Obama's citizenship or the parentage of Palin's toddler son Trig; or that hints that the government was behind the 9/11 attacks. Beyond that, though, pretty much anything goes, and over the past year, she has used her page and her Twitter account to promote her books and television show, endorse nearly 100 Republican candidates and blow Denali-size holes in the daily news cycle.
While other Republicans followed predictable and even plodding paths toward the White House this year, Palin has moved along two parallel tracks, one befitting a candidate, the other designed for a celebrity. It is often hard to tell where one stops and the other begins, and that is by design. A presidential candidate used to need a central headquarters and satellite offices in all the early primary states; now all a contender like Palin needs is a cable modem. Working largely from her lakeside house in Wasilla, Alaska, Palin raised millions of dollars, produced three viral Internet videos and endorsed more than seven dozen Republican candidates (most of whom prevailed). (See pictures of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.)
At the same time, however, she worked more on her profile than on her platform, releasing her second best-selling book in two years and starring in her own cable television series and in the process putting as much as $13 million in the bank. Palin has been particularly adroit at keeping her name front and center on both stages, whether jabbing Washington Republicans for their pork-barrel spending or turning up in Hollywood to watch her daughter Bristol advance to the final round of Dancing with the Stars. (Bristol's ribald safe-sex PSA, meanwhile, became something of a YouTube sensation.)
Palin's maneuvering has Republicans a little stressed out. Barbara Bush, who recently expressed hope that Palin might stay in Alaska, isn't the only GOP elder voicing concern over a potential Palin run for the White House. "The same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private," wrote Joe Scarborough, a former GOP Congress-man and host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, in an op-ed. "Enough. It's time for the GOP to man up." Only Obama seems unfazed by Palin's game. On Nov. 24, he was quoted as saying that he doesn't "think about" Palin, but even if that statement is accurate, he is perhaps the only person in politics who can reasonably make the claim. (Comment on this story.)
If anything, Palin looms even larger in the public consciousness now than she did two years ago, a fact that has implications for the Republican Party, Obama and the rest of the nation. There is little sign that she has a master plan to capture the GOP nomination, and yet her moves over the past year suggest that her political intuition is easily as good as that of her more experienced (and all male) rivals. Indeed, her go-with-her-gut confidence is something many voters think Obama often lacks. "She has amazing instincts," says Rebecca Mansour, Palin's speechwriter. "That said, they're never uninformed decisions ... She knows what's at stake."
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So what exactly is at stake? Does Palin really want to be President and assume the burdens that go with the job? Or is she just teasing the Grand Old Party while she lays the foundations for a more comfortable life as a public provocateur, doing TV, writing books, making speeches and dabbling in politics as it serves her greater goals? The former scenario is what many in the Republican Party are dreading; the latter one is freezing the likely GOP presidential field until she clarifies her plans. And Palin, naturally, wisely and consistently, is coy about the answer. "I would run because the country is more important than my ease, though I'm not necessarily living a life of ease," says Palin, who answered questions from TIME via e-mail. And in a shot at Obama's habit of playing golf during the "recovery summer," she added, "I'm very busy helping people and causes. So busy, in fact, I haven't had time to hit the links in quite a few years."
Inside Sarahland
The golfing dig at Obama is exactly the kind of barb that has delighted Palin's fans and infuriated her detractors from her first moments on the national stage more than two years ago. She has a sixth sense for her opponents' weak spots — a useful tool in politics but perhaps an even more valuable one when considering life as a permanent pundit. She doesn't act like a candidate: she hasn't kissed the rings of GOP leaders in Washington, hasn't hired pollsters and Svengalis or made a habit of spending her weekends in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. GOP veterans say she may be the first Republican hopeful in a generation who doesn't need to bother with these prerequisites. She does have a growing staff with roots in the conservative wing of the party. But one clue to the Mystery of Sarah is that her circle of aides looks less like a campaign in the making than a quirky family business in which Palin is the chief product. (See pictures of Sarah Palin's fashion looks.)
At the center of the enterprise is her husband Todd, 46 — part Mr. Mom, part manager, part consort. As she writes in America by Heart, "He has been a partner to me in every conceivable way — in life, in love, and in doing battle with the New York Times." (When asked about divorce rumors in the summer of 2009, Palin gasped, "Have you seen Todd?") In the past few years, Todd quit his job on Alaska's North Slope as a production operator for BP, began handing the family's modest commercial-fishing business to the couple's 21-year-old son Track and became CEO of Sarah Inc., functioning as chief of staff, top adviser, lead scheduler and family enforcer. The Palins still drop everything, though, for his annual participation in the Iron Dog snow-machine race.
If Palin has no Karl Rove or David Axelrod whispering in her ear (she says she doesn't need one), only her husband comes close. His small-business experience makes him a strong advocate for small government and lower taxes. He listens in on most of her interviews and preps her for TV appearances from the studio Fox News built in their Wasilla home. He's the one who will leave staffers with a kind word or the family's thanks; he's also the one who, when it's required, does the firing. He is often more passionate than his wife when he perceives a wrong. He monitors the news about her with a Google alert that goes to his BlackBerry. (See pictures of Sarah Palin's reality-TV show.)
Below Todd, the lines of authority blur and then largely disappear. Palin's inner circle consists of four far-flung staffers who have little in common other than their loyalty to her. Thomas Van Flein, 47, has served as the family lawyer for several years and has expanded his portfolio from personal matters to everything from endorsements to a prospective presidential bid. Mansour, 36, is a former Holly-wood screenwriter turned political blogger who is based in Los Angeles. Her fierce championing of Palin online won her a spot on Palin's staff soon after Palin resigned from office. Andrew Davis, 33, was brought on to help Palin vet Republicans seeking her endorsement in 2010. A former campaign aide to George W. Bush, Davis works out of Sacramento, and his role has steadily grown from researcher to general political adviser. Virginia-based Tim Crawford, the treasurer of Palin's PAC, worked in the Reagan White House and, at 58, is the oldest and most experienced of the group. (Comment on this story.)
Like most retainers, Palin's crew is not a team of rivals: it is devotedly, self-effacingly protective of its boss. Palin has hired some people virtually sight unseen, and yet the most important credential appears to be loyalty. For example, Joshua Livestro, a bombastic Dutch conservative living in England who used to blog at Conservatives4Palin.com, won a spot doing research at $4,000 a month after Mansour noticed his ferocious defense of Palin online. (He has never met Palin or any members of her staff face to face.) Foreign policy aide Michael Goldfarb, a former McCain staffer, has met Palin in person only "once or twice," he says, but has become one of the few staffers trusted enough to speak with reporters. Palin's wildly popular videos, meanwhile, were shot and produced by Eric Welch, a country-music-video specialist Palin met backstage at the National Tea Party Convention earlier this year. "The staff," says Crawford, "has grown organically. We don't have titles. When something's needed, we all pitch in, from xeroxing and collating to weighing in on endorsements and speeches to traveling with her."
The main gang of six — Sarah, Todd, Crawford, Mansour, Van Flein and Davis — has settled into something of a routine this year: Palin and her husband receive a daily morning briefing from Davis and Mansour via e-mail. It includes links to articles on candidates she's endorsed, what's happening inside the Beltway and around the world, and local sports news in the areas where she's traveling. The staff holds three conference calls a week —usually without Palin — but the conversation via Skype, e-mail and cell phone is continuous.
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Palin expects long days from her staff, and she has lost nearly a dozen part- or full-time aides in the past year. Many, such as spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton, speechwriter Lindsay Hayes and domestic-policy adviser Kim Daniels, have left on amicable terms or for personal reasons. But she can be an exacting taskmaster and like most pols is quick to freeze people out if she doubts their fealty, several privately say. Still, comebacks by prodigal staffers aren't unheard of. The current constellation of staff, Palin recently told TIME, suits her fine. "I don't need 'handlers.' I don't like traveling with 'an entourage.' I have a few very good people who work for me, and I really don't see the need for a large, expensive bureaucracy."
Sarah 2.0
The most intriguing thing Palin has done since 2008 is march steadily to the right. Once a moderate Republican who proudly appealed to Alaska's independent voters, she is now much more overtly conservative. Though her powerful videos, meant as they are for mass audiences, usually lack specifics, her speeches and tweets are far more pointed. She has mocked Obama's "vast" nuclear-arms experience acquired as a community organizer and slammed him for apologizing to the world for America's greatness. In a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in April, she hit Obama for "coddling our enemies and alienating allies" and for offering "tepid sanctions" on North Korea. (See winners and losers from the 2010 midterm elections.)
Palin has lately folded into her Facebook posts a healthy dose of kitchen-table economics, as when in early December she called on governors to resist federal bailouts and get their budgets in order. She has accused the Administration of bankrupting the government by trying to hire its way out of the recession. She delights in pointing out the inconsistent scrutiny of the "lamestream media." "The biggest change I've seen in her in the last year is that her scope is much broader," says Van Flein. "When I first met her, oil and gas, making the state more efficient — those were the issues that consumed her. Her focus has broadened to where her targets are national, foreign and economic issues."
If Palin has shrewdly anticipated the Tea Party's rise, the mechanics of her operation are a little pokier. She hasn't made a big fundraising push, holding just two events for her PAC this year, compared with Mitt Romney's nine. Still, her popularity has helped her rake in the cash online and by mail: through her PAC, now 23 months old, Palin has raised $5.4 million, more than Tim Pawlenty and Haley Barbour combined, but less than Romney, who has raised $8.8 million. The bulk of her funds have gone to pay for her travel, staff salaries and fundraising itself, and she spent about the same amount on 2010 candidates as her likely rivals did: less than 10%. But Romney has devoted the past two years to building a much broader network of statewide PACs, which will enable him to raise millions more if he proves successful in the early contests. Palin has not moved beyond her simple federal PAC. (See pictures of Tea Party souvenirs.)
The pattern of Palin's endorsements in 2010 signals that she at the very least wants the option to run. She endorsed 92 GOP candidates this year, some after careful consideration, others on the fly. Palin favored hopefuls much like herself — underdog conservative women, or mama grizzlies, as she called them — but she had a checklist too: she looked for those who were pro-life and anti-stimulus and backed expanded oil and gas drilling, including opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Comment on this story.)
Her picks were not strictly ideological; when it came to states that are important in the 2012 GOP presidential calendar, Palin was much more pragmatic. She backed Terry Branstad for governor in Iowa and Kelly Ayotte for Senate in New Hampshire over candidates preferred by the local Tea parties. And where she was bold, she was strategically bold: she got behind South Carolina gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Haley very early in 2010, when Haley was trailing her rivals. That was a long-shot bet in a state that has been the make-or-break contest for Republican presidential hopefuls. Governor-elect Haley now owes Palin a debt.
There is something unmistakably improvised about the way Palin operates. Eleventh-hour decisions mean that her team has had its share of missed flights, misspelled candidates' names, appearances canceled at the last minute, endorsements in races attributed to the wrong state, to say nothing of made-up words like "refudiated." Her endorsements often took recipients by surprise, and when she did campaign for a candidate, it was often so late that the local reporters didn't even know she was in the state. Three days before the elections in November, Palin was in New York City for a series of Fox News interviews. She had hoped to add a day trip to New Hampshire on Nov. 1 to appear on behalf of Ayotte but discovered that her Fox commitments were more demanding than she had expected. So the Ayotte trip was scrubbed. It was not a big decision as these things go, but it was a reminder that political chits are a much smaller consideration for Palin than they might be for other presidential hopefuls at this stage.
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That a politician of Palin's stature often wrestles with her schedule is a reflection, aides say, of her being a mother of five without a nanny. The Friday before the elections, for example, 2-year-old Trig had a routine operation related to his Down syndrome, and Palin did not want to commit to any events until she was sure that he was recovering. That's a decision every parent can understand — and that constant calculation is a part of her unusual appeal with women. Her aides say family issues will be a big factor in Palin's decision about her future, but which way they cut is anyone's guess. Even her close advisers acknowledge that Palin is playing by a new set of rules. "Sarah does things differently," notes John Coale, who set up her PAC. "She doesn't hire a lot of consultants. She, as they say, listens to the beat of a different drum."
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Asked via e-mail what she would do if elected, Palin carefully says the first priority "of the next Republican President" should be "to sign a bill for the repeal and replacement of Obamacare with true free-market, patient-centered reform." Obamacare's repeal, she adds, "would help to cut future deficits. It would also send a strong signal to America's workers and employers that government is back on their side and is no longer seeking to impose its one-size-fits-all 'solutions' from above." Palin says she would "also look for entitlement reform, as well as a systemwide audit of government spending with a goal to move us toward zero-based budgeting practices and, ultimately, a balanced budget. We need to start really living within our means. As any mother or father will tell you, don't spend what you don't have." (See 10 health care reform ads.)
Palin implies that she is unworried by the way she has become a lightning rod to both the right and the left. "My positions are not at all controversial. The majority of Americans agree with me across the board on the issues. I think it's a personal thing that probably stems from media demonization of me and mischaracterization of what I stand for," she says. "Shoot, if I read and believed all the lies these guys write about me, I wouldn't like me either!"
Such statements suggest that Palin may get into the race just to set the record straight. Her new book — a folksy mashup of Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Calvin Coolidge, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times — argues that the U.S. under Obama has lost its sense of pride and come unhinged from the values of family and small government. She continues to attack the Washington crowd, by which she pointedly means both Democrats and Republicans. Palin has used this playbook before. When she ran for governor of Alaska, she abruptly resigned her chairmanship of the statewide board on oil and gas conservation to protest the commission's corruption and then launched a revolt against the "boys' club" in Juneau. She is poised to run a similar play against GOP insiders in Washington. "Some in the GOP establishment have a problem with me because I've been taking on the good-ol'-boy network for a couple of decades now," she says, "and some of the good ol' boys obviously don't like it." (See pictures of Republican memorabilia.)
Palin has time on her side. Her popularity among conservatives means that she can wait until the last minute — perhaps as late as a year from now — before jumping into the Republican sweepstakes. And she could raise millions of dollars overnight. A number of veteran GOP operatives think she could win the nomination, even if polls today give her no chance of beating Obama. If Palin does run, "there would be excited thunder from the grass roots, celebration in the White House and despair among GOP leaders," says Mike Murphy, a longtime Republican consultant. (Comment on this story.)
But Palin thinks Obama is vulnerable, and she implies that she is the one to take him on. "In battleground states, he's polling at 40% or below," she notes. "The country is rejecting his agenda ... My vision of America is diametrically opposed to his. He sees America as the problem. I see America as the solution." Asked what she makes of Obama's presidency thus far, Palin quipped, "Two words: Jimmy Carter." Asked who can beat him, she needed seven more: "Someone who can draw a sharp contrast."
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And in a shot at Obama's habit of playing golf during the "recovery summer," she added, "I'm very busy helping people and causes. So busy, in fact, I haven't had time to hit the links in quite a few years."
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What you think? McWacky sits around shooting the pud to JJ Marsh or the former Ray McNeil?
Won't matter anyway, as I suspect she has as much sperm cells as she does brain cells. Which isn't saying much.
Oh look, Obama Girl 2.0 is projecting again. Isn't that nice? Continue your dry-humping of Obama's image, while moaning "Yes-we-can".
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How do you feel knowing Jesus hates schmoes? Does that bother you while you are thinking of the BBC and thumbing through your collection of men in thongs?
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How do you feel knowing Jesus hates schmoes? Does that bother you while you are thinking of the BBC and thumbing through your collection of men in thongs?
Bro - you make a living taking pictures of them on nude beaches. You really are in no position to be casting stones.
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And in a shot at Obama's habit of playing golf during the "recovery summer," she added, "I'm very busy helping people and causes. So busy, in fact, I haven't had time to hit the links in quite a few years."
She does have time to dangerously handle weapons, however. ;)
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Bro - you make a living taking pictures of them on nude beaches. You really are in no position to be casting stones.
Ain't that the truth. Only his favorite isn't a bodybuilder at all (though you wouldn't know it, based on a certain news article about Obama's chest, rippling in the sun).
So, Lurker, slant your eyes; grab the karaoke machine; and keep belting out "Me So Horny" to your life-sized Obama cut-out, so you can continue to love-him-long-time.
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Bro - you make a living taking pictures of them on nude beaches. You really are in no position to be casting stones.
I do? Since when.
Please provide proof of this so we all know you are not talking out of your ass again. But we already do know that. So please anyway.... PROOF.
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Ain't that the truth. Only his favorite isn't a bodybuilder at all (though you wouldn't know it, based on a certain news article about Obama's chest, rippling in the sun).
So, Lurker, slant your eyes; grab the karaoke machine; and keep belting out "Me So Horny" to your life-sized Obama cut-out, so you can continue to love-him-long-time.
Sorry, wrong. Not the first time you are, won't be the last time either. The only person who is obsessed with male nudity is you. As been proven.
God really hates schmoes you know.
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Sorry, wrong. Not the first time you are, won't be the last time either. The only person who is obsessed with male nudity is you. As been proven.
God really hates schmoes you know.
What are you part of the Westboro cult now?
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What are you part of the Westboro cult now?
Waiting for your proof on those claims.
And it is where? Or do you have to busted as liar on the board ONCE AGAIN?
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What are you part of the Westboro cult now?
Nope!! That would be that Obama-worshipping cult (I believe you posted the video to them, not that long ago).
The only difference is that he's the only one, dry-humping the cutouts.
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Waiting for your proof on those claims.
And it is where? Or do you have to busted as liar on the board ONCE AGAIN?
You seem a little senstive over the subject bro. Don't worry - the police were not called over the photos you take of underage boys as well.
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Poor baby, hasn't gotten home from work yet to rub one out in the garage so she has sex on the brain and can't stop thinking about it.
Don't worry, 5 oclock will be here soon enough and you can rush home and take care that urge.
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You seem a little senstive over the subject bro. Don't worry - the police were not called over the photos you take of underage boys as well.
You made an accusation, I asked for proof. You supplied none.
Don't worry. It's not the first time you have been branded a liar. I mean, I could be doing worse things. Like passing off photos of someone else and claiming it is me right?
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You made an accusation, I asked for proof. You supplied none.
Don't worry. It's not the first time you have been branded a liar. I mean, I could be doing worse things. Like passing off photos of someone else and claiming it is me right?
Damn - Bro - did you get too much sand in your panties? You seem very uptight lately.
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Damn - Bro - did you get too much sand in your panties? You seem very uptight lately.
Of course!! The object of his lust hasn't had the best of weeks. In fact, the President has become ALMOST as emasculated as Lurker is (and that takes some doing).
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Damn - Bro - did you get too much sand in your panties? You seem very uptight lately.
Again, no proof.
Can't really post on a single thread without lying huh?
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Of course!! The object of his lust hasn't had the best of weeks. In fact, the President has become ALMOST as emasculated as Lurker is (and that takes some doing).
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*YAWN*
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Again, no proof.
Can't really post on a single thread without lying huh?
I was busting balls - if you cant tell the difference - geez - why so tense bro?
The inevitability of Palin winning in 2012 got you messed up in the head?
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I was busting balls - if you cant tell the difference - geez - why so tense bro?
The inevitability of Palin winning in 2012 got you messed up in the head?
Oh... I see. Now rather than admit you were lying and making up shit (oh boy big surprise) we want to swap to the old "just playing" routine?
Don't worry, your credibility hasn't changed. You still have none.
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Oh... I see. Now rather than admit you were lying and making up shit (oh boy big surprise) we want to swap to the old "just playing" routine?
Don't worry, your credibility hasn't changed. You still have none.
You voted for bama - you are in no position to say a word to anyone.
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You voted for Palin. That would apply twice as much to you.
Not that who one votes for has any bearing on personal credibility and truthfulness.
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Damn right I voted for her - and will gladly do so in 2012 if she is the nominee.
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Damn right I voted for her - and will gladly do so in 2012 if she is the nominee.
Didn't Heart have a cow, when this song was played for Palin at the 2008 GOP convention?
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yeah - they freaked.
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do you blame them having a retard associated with their song :D
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do you blame them having a retard associated with their song :D
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That is the next POTUS you are talking about fool.
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a grown man with a law degree, tons of guns and a big bald head...
starting 'adoration' threads.
I mean, was justin bieber just too overplayed, you wanted to go in a new direction? LOL
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a grown man with a law degree, tons of guns and a big bald head...
starting 'adoration' threads.
I mean, was justin bieber just too overplayed, you wanted to go in a new direction? LOL
Probably too much drinking.
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it is true. when i drink, i always remember what BB said about my wife's nipples 4 years ago, and consider dropping the hammer on him. Then I usually find you and devote my energy toward dissing baby girl. I only drink 1-2 times per week, but it is glorious sobering up on getbig.
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yeah - they freaked.
Heart should be thankful anybody would play any of their shit at any time....... doesn't one of them weigh 350 now?
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what does weight have to do with singing ???
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what does weight have to do with singing ???
nothing...... I didn't say she couldn't sing because of the weight....
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it is true. when i drink, i always remember what BB said about my wife's nipples 4 years ago, and consider dropping the hammer on him. Then I usually find you and devote my energy toward dissing baby girl. I only drink 1-2 times per week, but it is glorious sobering up on getbig.
Do you do our drinking when you kneepad obama?
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what does weight have to do with singing ???
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was elected to manage the largest state in the union and quit :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :Dpriceless
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Blacken - face it - you want her as POTUS just as much as I do. Just for different reasons.
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:D :D :D :D
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Blacken - face it - you want her as POTUS just as much as I do. Just for different reasons.
See thats the difference between you and others. You are on some party line told ya so shit. Dude if i feel someone has the best intensions for my country.. as a whole... i go with them. You think blacken wants Palin to be elected so she can fuck up and he says i told you so... but no.. thats not the case. Thats a pretty valuable thing to Play "gotcha" with..
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See thats the difference between you and others. You are on some party line told ya so shit. Dude if i feel someone has the best intensions for my country.. as a whole... i go with them. You think blacken wants Palin to be elected so she can fuck up and he says i told you so... but no.. thats not the case. Thats a pretty valuable thing to Play "gotcha" with..
No, I think he would greatly enjoy the entertainment.
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No, I think he would greatly enjoy the entertainment.
No.. not at the cost of his country
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No.. not at the cost of his country
I only wish you clowns on the left would have applied the same standard before voting in a clown like obama who had no, never had any,and still has no business being POTUS.
This Admn is a pathetic joke and Obama should have taken his own advice when he was elected in 2004 that he had no clue what he was doing.
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OK. Time to lay it all on the line.
Who's it gonna be in 2012?
Obama or Palin?
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OK. Time to lay it all on the line.
Who's it gonna be in 2012?
Obama or Palin?
I am not convinced that Bama is even running at this point. After the presser yesterday with clinton, I am convinced something very strange is afoot.
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Should we take Palin seriously? You betcha
The Kansas City Star ^ | December 11, 2010 | Steve Kraske
See Sarah talking to big crowds.
See Sarah shooting massive elk.
See Sarah ripping President Barack Obama.
See Sarah moving into the White House in January 2013?
Some may cringe at that idea. Or some may think it would be the greatest thing since Abraham Lincoln.
But here’s the deal: Many card-carrying members of this country’s political intelligentsia — even some who believe the republic would never be the same after a President Sarah Palin — no longer regard that possibility as wildly far-fetched.
In fact, the conventional wisdom is in rapid realignment mode based on an array of realities.
First, consider the state of the GOP presidential field. No clear front-runner. No leading candidate without a fundamental flaw (or two).
On paper, Mitt Romney comes as close as you’ll get to an early leader. He’s got money, organization in early primary states and chiseled features aligned just right for Mount Rushmore.
But as governor of Massachusetts, Romney pushed and passed a near-universal health care plan. So you’ve got to wonder if the GOP, which has castigated the Obama plan, would go with a nominee who did much the same thing.
In Iowa in 2008, conservative Republicans ripped Romney as a flip-flopper on abortion and not a true believer in the conservative cause. Those arguments haven’t gone away.
Thrice-married Newt Gingrich is widely seen as wildly undisciplined and incapable of repeating the same talking points day after day, month after month, which is what running for president entails.
Mike Huckabee is popular in Iowa and with religious conservatives, but his Achilles heel may be an inability to raise the kind of serious campaign jack needed for a national campaign.
Dark horses abound. John Thune. Chris Christie. Mitch Daniels. Haley Barbour....
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
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If elected, do you think that she would complete her first term?
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If elected, do you think that she would complete her first term?
there is a good chance no...because of money..
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there is a good chance no...because of money..
::) ::)
We already went over this many times. Would you work for a hospital to where they would not cover your malpractice insurance and all of the patients could just sue you into oblivion fo bogus reasons without repurcusion right after you leave Med School?
YES or NO? ? ? ? ?
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December 13, 2010
Sarah Palin and the Haters of American Normal
By Stuart Schwartz
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We are just south of Christmas, and the nation's insiders -- self-proclaimed blue-bloods by birth and/or worldview -- have declared open season on Sarah Palin. Crazed left and sclerotic right have united in common purpose -- "hellbent," as Politico put it -- to rid this nation of the possibility of a presidency that would most assuredly end in "apocalyptic disaster" after which "the survivors will envy the dead" (or so says that fading leftist icon, The New Republic). Stop her now -- or we may end up with a normal American at the helm.
Sarah Palin is just too dumb to understand how lousy it is to be in this materialist and fascist society, this hateful America, the Atlantic tells us. Scorn laces the left as New York Times opinion writers let us know that behind the deceptive Palin smile "lies anger" and an unwillingness to accept the decline that those who know better have visited upon us out of wisdom and necessity. Shut up and bowl (or hunt or fish or tailgate, or any one of the thousands of pursuits those with little culture and no brains participate in), they say, and leave the decisions to us.
[b]Meanwhile on the right, MSNBC's house conservative, Joe Scarborough, says it's time for Republican insiders to "man up and confront Sarah Palin." She's poison for responsible (read: insider) government. Bush consigliere and FOXNews analyst Karl Rove is leading the charge to stop this outsider, whom he regards as "unsuitable" for the presidency, which is a job best left to those who brought us porous borders, intrusive regulation, and exploding government spending. (In some respects, the Obama reign is simply the Bush presidency on steroids.) From left and right, insiders all, the anger is palpable at what James Lewis of American Thinker terms "American exceptionalism in the flesh -- and downright attractive flesh at that." [/b]
Why do they hate her? Lewis hits the nail on the head. Sarah Palin is quintessentially American. She is a throwback to the days of the founders, when citizens became politicians because the common good demanded service -- not because political office offered wealth, power, and a pool of Beltway interns ripe for sexual exploitation -- and followed their tenure with a return to private life. But we now live in the age of professional politicians, the self-proclaimed best and brightest who make decisions for an electorate too simple to understand "the facts or the truth." Or so says Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts politician who is to "haughty" what Paris Hilton is to "self-involved."
And so anger and angst bubble over, spilling out as the grandees realize Sarah Palin is just so darned...normal! Lewis describes her as a "beautiful, strong, intelligent, articulate, healthy-looking, truth-telling...gun-totin', sports-lovin', all-American woman." And that "sunny disposition" sets them off, for Sarah Palin is a fiery red poker plunged into the pasty white of the collective metrosexual gut. Elizabeth Wurzel, the best-selling author who blogs for the Atlantic, howls with pain at the realization that Palin is actually "the most visible working mother and female politician in America, that she is the best exemplar of a woman with an equal marriage, that she has put up with less crap from fewer men than those of us who" are the official feminists within the media and political elites.
That's not fair, Wurzel screams, admitting that the truth "drives me absolutely bonkers." This mainstay of the New York literati oozes the anger and jealousy so typical of what New York Times columnist David Brooks proudly calls the "educated class." And so they scream and whine and put out milk and cookies in hopes that God and the Santa they've chased from the public space would please, please, please...stop Sarah Palin!
What gives her the right to be happy, asks Wurzel? Palin, who is "not very thoughtful, not very bright," is so darned ordinary that she doesn't understand the horrors of American life. But Wurzel does, having first attracted attention with her New York Times bestseller chronicling the depravities visited upon her by the fruits of American exceptionalism. You see, Wurzel survived the horror of being raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the shame of enduring the nation's best private schools, the depravity of having parents who paid for summer camps and Harvard -- small wonder she plunged into "catatonic despair, masochism, and hysterical crying." Doesn't Palin know, Wurzel cries, that...America sucks? Karl Rove knows, Keith Olbermann and Kathleen Parker and Elliot Spitzer and Barack Obama know -- that's why they're smart.
But Sarah Palin is not Elizabeth Wurzel smart. Nor is she Karl Rove savvy, Keith Olbermann articulate, or Barack Obama cool. No, Sarah Palin is just plain normal. And not just any normal -- she is American normal, the kind of normal that wrenched a nation away from a calcified European aristocracy and established what Abraham Lincoln described as "a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." It is no coincidence that the United States is the single nation that, for the entirety of its existence, has had immigrants fighting to be included in a community structured upon individual "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," as our Declaration of Independence puts it. And now that normal is being challenged by those who want to control every aspect of American life.
Enter Sarah Palin and American normal. Their reaction, James Lewis notes, is "Oh, Gawwwdd! Is this 'Father Knows Best' or what?" And the only answer is...yes, and "Leave It to Beaver" and "Happy Days," too. It's a basic respect for American values and Judeo-Christian tradition and the belief that each one of us matters. And now throw in a bit of "South Park" and you have a cutting-edge conservative savvy that recognizes that this country, as rude and crude and flawed as it gets, should be admired and preserved.
Sarah Palin for president? The screams of the elites are in a crescendo, and it's not even 2011. The roar is deafening: She's not a Karl Rove or Nancy Pelosi, they cry, a John McCain or a Barack Obama, a Hillary Clinton or a Lindsey Graham. She's not Washington or New York or Manhattan or San Francisco. She's Sarah Palin, and she's Alaska, for Obama's sake!
And your point is...?
Stuart Schwartz, formerly a media and retail executive, is on the faculty of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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After seeing the piece on 60 minutes about Lula from Brazil, all bogus shit about her education disqualiffying her needs to be put to rest.
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Should we take Palin seriously? You betcha
The Kansas City Star ^ | December 11, 2010 | Steve Kraske
See Sarah talking to big crowds.
See Sarah shooting massive elk.
See Sarah ripping President Barack Obama.
See Sarah moving into the White House in January 2013?
Some may cringe at that idea. Or some may think it would be the greatest thing since Abraham Lincoln.
But here’s the deal: Many card-carrying members of this country’s political intelligentsia — even some who believe the republic would never be the same after a President Sarah Palin — no longer regard that possibility as wildly far-fetched.
In fact, the conventional wisdom is in rapid realignment mode based on an array of realities.
First, consider the state of the GOP presidential field. No clear front-runner. No leading candidate without a fundamental flaw (or two).
On paper, Mitt Romney comes as close as you’ll get to an early leader. He’s got money, organization in early primary states and chiseled features aligned just right for Mount Rushmore.
But as governor of Massachusetts, Romney pushed and passed a near-universal health care plan. So you’ve got to wonder if the GOP, which has castigated the Obama plan, would go with a nominee who did much the same thing.
In Iowa in 2008, conservative Republicans ripped Romney as a flip-flopper on abortion and not a true believer in the conservative cause. Those arguments haven’t gone away.
Thrice-married Newt Gingrich is widely seen as wildly undisciplined and incapable of repeating the same talking points day after day, month after month, which is what running for president entails.
Mike Huckabee is popular in Iowa and with religious conservatives, but his Achilles heel may be an inability to raise the kind of serious campaign jack needed for a national campaign.
Dark horses abound. John Thune. Chris Christie. Mitch Daniels. Haley Barbour....
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
I have spent a big part of my life, listening to my fellow liberals tell me, 'Isn't it GREAT? The Republicans are going over the cliff again. Look! They nominated Orrin Hatch in Utah. He's going to be SO EASY to beat. Hey, LOOK!! They might even nominate Ronald Reagan for President. He's such a winger; we can beat him easily!' I've heard this all my life and always what happens is the enthusiasm we're watching there goes right into the general election. And I don't see Democratic events like this tonight. I want to look around and see if we see any in the closing hours tonight, where Democrats are that happy about anything". - Chris "Thrill-Up-My-Leg" Matthews
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I have spent a big part of my life, listening to my fellow liberals tell me, 'Isn't it GREAT? The Republicans are going over the cliff again. Look! They nominated Orrin Hatch in Utah. He's going to be SO EASY to beat. Hey, LOOK!! They might even nominate Ronald Reagan for President. He's such a winger; we can beat him easily!' I've heard this all my life and always what happens is the enthusiasm we're watching there goes right into the general election. And I don't see Democratic events like this tonight. I want to look around and see if we see any in the closing hours tonight, where Democrats are that happy about anything". - Chris "Thrill-Up-My-Leg" Matthews
(http://themilwaukeedrum.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/stepin-fetchit.jpg?w=497&h=348)
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Well, it's that time once again for Benny:
A-one, and a-two, and a-three:
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Eat it bitches.
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great post blacken!!
:D :D :D :D
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LOL. Was Mons finally killed?
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Mons is probably off winning the Medal of Honor in Afghanistan taking out taliban and saving lives. ::)
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LOL. Was Mons finally killed?
Mons = Cohibia.
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Well, it's that time once again for Benny:
A-one, and a-two, and a-three:
Chill out Toby, we may not slit your throat first when the Revolution comes. Time will be given for you to state your case on decades of spit-shinin' The Man's shoes before the brothers and sisters vote whether or not to cut off your nuts before cutting off your head. ;)
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Mons = Cohibia.
Well at least it wasn't someone else deleting their account because of the Axio bust. LOL
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Chill out Toby, we may not slit your throat first when the Revolution comes. Time will be given for you to state your case on decades of spit-shinin' The Man's shoes before the brothers and sisters vote whether or not to cut off your nuts before cutting off your head. ;)
Revolution? YAWN!!! You and your lazy ilk will do absolutely nothing but WHINE like babies, just as you are now and as the left has been after watching the GOP all but bring Obama to his knees.
The only one who has had his nuts cut off is Mr. Hope-and-Change, thanks to the Tea Party and the GOP.
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Revolution? YAWN!!! You and your lazy ilk will do absolutely nothing but WHINE like babies.
The only one who has had his nuts cut off is Mr. Hope-and-Change, thanks to the Tea Party and the GOP.
Who is lazy?
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Who is lazy?
Take a guess.
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Take a guess.
Tell me who the fuck is lazy
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Tell me who the fuck is lazy
The current occupant of 1600 PA Ave. for one is one of the laziest people I have ever seen in my entire life.
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The current occupant of 1600 PA Ave. for one is one of the laziest people I have ever seen in my entire life.
Is he lazy or is he Hell bent on destroying the country....you cant be both
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Is he lazy or is he Hell bent on destroying the country....you cant be both
I think he is the tip of the spear and figurehead more than aything and is just there to fool people into believing all sorts of bogus shit that they otherwise would never go along with.
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Mons = Cohibia.
Nice try "Pea Brain 2" ::)
I spoke with Mons shortly before he quit getbig.
He quit GB because quote: "Beach Bum is a coocksuccking motherfuckking racist peice of shiit who tosses black mans salad on the island of Hawaii."
Cohibia happens to disagree with Mons.
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Nice try "Pea Brain 2" ::)
I spoke with Mons shortly before he quit getbig.
He quit GB because quote: "Beach Bum is a coocksuccking motherfuckking racist peice of shiit who tosses black mans salad on the island of Hawaii."
Cohibia happens to disagree with Mons.
So, you voting for mama grizzly or no?
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So, you voting for mama grizzly or no?
I'll let the primary take its course; but, Baby Girl definitely has the inside track with me.
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Sarah Palin, genius of the year (Subtle as a hand grenade)
The Daily Caller ^ | December 15, 2010 | John Schlimm
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: No, REALLY, Sarah Palin is a genius!
The fact that this puts a big smile on millions of faces out there while making millions of others want to wipe the smirk right off mine for declaring it only further confirms the magnitude of what this woman has managed to pull off. No Richter scale could even begin to register the ongoing culture shocks induced by the Hockey Mom who exploded onto the national scene nearly three years ago.
But why is Sarah Palin THE Genius of 2010?
Well, for starters, she maintained a one-step lead on all the politicos running around out there. The former half-term Alaskan governor and former vice-presidential candidate should have been relegated to a footnote in history by now, but instead once more made herself the most newsworthy figure in the country, across numerous genres of interest.
Scoff if you will, but we are witnessing the most brilliant political striptease performance in history. And, admit it or not, it’s an act that no one (not even the Palin haters) can take their eyes off of.
This 21st-century vamp is on center stage and she’s slowly peeling off one layer of designer camouflage at a time. Meanwhile, we are all on the edges of our seats just watching to see if a “Palin 2012” bumper sticker is lurking under there somewhere.
As we wait with bated breath, let’s count the top three pathways to Sarah’s triumph as Genius of the Year.
FIRST, Sarah’s tweets and Facebook posts continue to rival any official statements from the president in terms of sheer media salivating alone. The press could ignore her if they wanted to, but they don’t. We are all helpless against her wiles! Even my friends who have no interest or clue about politics know who she is.
Translation: SARAH PALIN IS THE NEW SUGAR, which as we now know triggers the same part of the brain that succumbs to cocaine and morphine.
Diagnosis: We are in for a long, one-day-at-a-time, Sweet Jesus! rehab stint on this one. A tweet here, a Facebook post there and “Pistol Palin” seduces us into tumbling right off the wagon.
Furthermore, Sarah has a slight edge here because she can make up words while the White House, and anyone else over the age of five, really can’t do that. Just try to refudiate that point. In fact, the New Oxford American Dictionary recently awarded the New York Times bestselling author the honor of “Word of the Year” for that little homemade ditty. Shakespearean, indeed!
SECOND, while Sarah wisely realized she’d risk making a fool of herself (STOP your snickering, you haters!) by hitting the dance floor, Momma Grizzly managed to still infiltrate the hottest reality show competition on the planet with a Manchurian Candidate contestant of her own. Teen mom sensation Bristol Palin not only gyrated her way to the coveted number three slot on Dancing with the Stars, leaving a trail of teary-eyed and shocked has-beens in her wake, she fulfilled her daughterly mission by further cementing the Palin brand. And now there’s talk of Todd Palin shaking his tush for DWTS.
THIRD, Sarah still added reality star to her own resume this year as the queen of the deadliest hottest Alaskan adventure show on TV. And just like the poor caribou’s life that she ended on a recent episode, this is where I can bring the argument for her deserved accolade of Genius of the Year to a logical, albeit less violent, ending.
I live in Northwestern Pennsylvania where during the airing of Sarah’s caribou bloodbath episode (not to be confused with her earlier halibut-clubbing-to-death episode) it was hunting season. Yes, I’m from the land where then-Candidate Obama observed that the people cling to their guns and religion, and, I might add, where students get off school for the first day of hunting season.
Do you know what it does to a certain likeminded segment of the population to see a beautiful woman (a.k.a. “Caribou Barbie”) clad in fatigues and full-on makeup, on her stomach in the wilds, handling a BIG gun, all while stalking and blasting away a helpless animal?
Let’s just say it’s the same effect that whips, chains, leather, and handcuffs might have on another segment of the population. (At least with whips and handcuffs no one is harmed, unless they beg for it.).
Aside from this Pubic Relations stunt hunting porn Sarah gifted her devoted base with this holiday season, she was sharp enough to know that by airing the horrific slaughter of a majestic caribou, she would incite the wrath of PETA and animal lovers everywhere. Since the majority of those in this category wouldn’t vote for her anyway should she ever run, they merely, and unknowingly, served as easy pawns in her headline-grabbing game of “LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!,” which she continues to champion. The joke is once again on us!
All said and done, mission completed, she then went off on a year-ending tour to promote her latest blockbuster book and on a humanitarian mission to Haiti — with a big, glossy smile on her face!
Candidates have taken many roads to the White House. However, Sarah Palin’s 2010 strokes of genius may very well contribute to the first time in history where Pennsylvania Ave. is paved with award-winning fake words, reality show antics, and shot-clubbed-gutted-butchered carcasses.
By the way, considering we haven’t heard from Levi Johnston in a while, maybe Sarah went all caribou on his little tush too, off-camera, which would be a bonus reason for bestowing her the honor of Genius of the Year (At least no intelligent life form would have been harmed in that case).
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John Schlimm is a member of one of the oldest brewing families in the United States, meaning he sees life through sudsy, gold-colored glasses. A former celebrity publicist, educator , and artist, John is the award-winning author of several books, including his latest, Harrah’s Entertainment Presents…The Seven Stars Cookbook as well as The Ultimate Beer Lover’s Cookbook (named “Best Beer Book in the U.S.” and “Best Beer Book in the World” by the international Gourmand Awards).
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Why Do They Hate Sarah So Much?
American Thinker ^ | 12-16-10 | Victor Volsky
What is the reason why the ruling class, including the GOP establishment, hates Sara Palin so passionately? The left and its propaganda machine have always looked down on conservatives, but the attacks on Sarah Palin are unprecedented for sheer malice, scope, and decibel level. Everything about her incenses the left -- her bubbly personality, her high-pitched voice, her lively manner of speech and facial expressions, her colorful biography and way of life, her large family, her unabashed loyalty to Christian and conservative values.
She is ridiculed mercilessly by hordes of comedians who, plumbing new depths of vulgarity, make a nice living exploiting the Palin Derangement Syndrome. The press watches her, eagle-eyed, and pounces at the drop of a hat, twisting the most innocuous slip of the tongue into a monstrous gaffe, almost a federal crime. For all intents and purposes, she is hounded as Public Enemy No. 1. The left views all Republicans as enemies, but Sarah Palin stands apart; she is treated like dirt, like an alien life form. Why?
And why do the feminists outdo even their male allies on the left, evincing astonishing ferocity in attacking Alaska's former governor? One would think Palin is the one person they should defend and extol as a poster child of feminism, an icon of women's liberation.
Indeed, Sarah Palin rose from humble origins eventually to win the office of governor of Alaska and take the number-two spot on the Republican presidential ticket. She overcame all obstacles without any connections, entirely by dint of talent, hard work, and perseverance. She fearlessly took on the GOP establishment and the oil interests that had dominated Alaska for decades, and she beat them all at their own game. She achieved great success and popularity in all public offices she ever held. And on top of all that, she efficiently juggled public service with homemaking duties, married an Eskimo (the left should be particularly ecstatic on this point -- a minority!), and gave her husband a hand in his business undertakings. She raised a large family and does everything a full-blooded Alaskan male is supposed to do, including killing her dinner.
A woman who can successfully challenge and beat any man, climb any mountain, ford any stream, shatter any glass ceiling -- a feminist dream come true, don't you think? And yet, the feminist leaders seethe with boundless hatred for that "upstart." Why? Granted, Palin is a conservative Republican and thus a natural enemy of the left, of which the feminist movement is an integral and prominent part. Still, this explanation somehow fails to account for the extraordinary viciousness of the feminist attitude, for the stupendous amount of vitriol the feminists spew at the mere mention of Sarah Palin's name. There has to be something else. But what is it?
For decades, the political drama in Washington followed a well-defined pattern, with the two major parties playing distinct roles. Under the conventional scenario, the Democrats, noble and high-minded, fight for the "little guy," defend the helpless minorities, feel the pain of the poor and defenseless, selflessly provide succor to the "victims of social injustice," and pursue an internationalist foreign policy. For their part, the Republicans are Wall Street stooges and loyal henchmen of Big Oil and other paragons of greedy capitalism, who rob the poor to give to the rich and follow the imperialist line in the international arena.
From time to time, the Democrats would go too far in their redistributionist schemes, throw public funds around with too much abandon, push the country too far into the morass of economic distress. Then the irate voters would throw them out and hand the reins of power to the Republicans, who would proceed to clean up the mess under withering fire of criticism and ridicule from the sidelines. Once the ship of state was put back on an even keel, the Democrats would return to power and pick up where they left off. This political two-step has continued over many decades, widely perceived as an eternal, providential order of things. To be sure, the Republicans have been contemptuously treated by their adversaries as junior partners. But the operative word is "partners." Though maligned and denigrated, Republicans' political legitimacy has never been called into question.
Then the Obama era dawned. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented itself to the revolutionary left; its political wet dream finally seemed to be within easy reach. The Democrats controlled all branches of government, and the ongoing economic crisis gave it maximum freedom of maneuver. The new president and his allies grabbed the bull by the horns and set about remaking the country on the radical blueprint. But in their zeal, Obama and the Democrats in Congress badly overreached and made a fatal mistake: they woke up the sleeping giant. The vast, hitherto-silent middle class, alarmed by the inexorable slide of the country into the abyss, woke up and rose to defend the American way of life. The resultant Tea Party movement has been the elite's nightmare come true.
The ruling class love to swear their abiding love for and eternal fealty to the people. They indeed love the "people" -- as an abstract sociological concept. But they despise the populace. Everything about the common people, the denizens of the "flyover country," is alien and offensive to the elites. They can't help contemning those thick-skulled yokels, no doubt rabid racists and homophobes all -- who cling to their religion and their guns, who crow about their stupid moral principles and reject the sacred rights of abortion and gay marriage, who are unable to appreciate the sublime beauty and poignant social message of, say, a crucifix immersed in the artist's urine or a Madonna splattered with elephant dung. So long as the knuckle-draggers stay in their caves and lairs, allowing their betters to rule unopposed, they can be safely ignored. But when they start loudly protesting, threatening the prerogatives of the ruling class, the great unwashed turn into an acute danger.
The left was fit to be tied; it sensed a mortal challenge to its dominance. But a movement is an amorphous mass, difficult to pin down and target. Somebody has to personify it, and so Sarah Palin was chosen to be the face of that horrible entity. When she emerged on the national scene, she was merely a target of widespread ridicule. But with the rise of the Tea Party, derision was augmented by dread. Sarah Palin came to be viewed as the leader of the barbarians at the gates, the commander of the vast hordes of pitchfork-brandishing peasants storming the ramparts of civilized society. In short, in the eyes of the political/cultural aristocracy, she is the embodiment of its worst nightmare: the revolt of the masses against their masters.
This is, above all, why Palin arouses such elemental fear and hatred on the left (and the moderate right, too). To be sure, part of the reason is just plain envy. The darned woman seems to have Teflon skin -- all criticism just rolls off her back without doing any damage.
Worse, everything Palin touches turns into gold. How can one preserve equanimity in the face of her astonishing popularity and jaw-dropping earnings? How can one help wondering about the injustice of it all when "that stupid and ignorant lowbrow from the boondocks" commands such attention, with media hanging on her lips and her every word, her every entry on Twitter or Facebook becomes breaking news -- so much so that she actually seems to be driving the national discourse?
And yet, I submit, the elites detest Sarah Palin primarily out of fear and loathing. They view her as a usurper, as an embodiment of a threat to deprive them of the power and privileges they regard as their God-given right.
And what happens if Sarah Palin actually decides to run for president? Katie bar the door, you ain't seen nothing yet!
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Nice try "Pea Brain 2" ::)
I spoke with Mons shortly before he quit getbig.
He quit GB because quote: "Beach Bum is a coocksuccking motherfuckking racist peice of shiit who tosses black mans salad on the island of Hawaii."
Cohibia happens to disagree with Mons.
I tell you what Mons, I will give you a little rope, but my crystal ball says your time on this board is short. :)
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I tell you what Mons, I will give you a little rope, but my crystal ball says your time on this board is short. :)
As if making up a fake war record and talking about facializing sarah's kid was not enough?
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As if making up a fake war record and talking about facializing sarah's kid was not enough?
Apparently not. Not a very convincing gimmick.
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Why Do They Hate Sarah So Much?
American Thinker ^ | 12-16-10 | Victor Volsky
What is the reason why the ruling class, including the GOP establishment, hates Sara Palin so passionately? The left and its propaganda machine have always looked down on conservatives, but the attacks on Sarah Palin are unprecedented for sheer malice, scope, and decibel level. Everything about her incenses the left -- her bubbly personality, her high-pitched voice, her lively manner of speech and facial expressions, her colorful biography and way of life, her large family, her unabashed loyalty to Christian and conservative values.
She is ridiculed mercilessly by hordes of comedians who, plumbing new depths of vulgarity, make a nice living exploiting the Palin Derangement Syndrome. The press watches her, eagle-eyed, and pounces at the drop of a hat, twisting the most innocuous slip of the tongue into a monstrous gaffe, almost a federal crime. For all intents and purposes, she is hounded as Public Enemy No. 1. The left views all Republicans as enemies, but Sarah Palin stands apart; she is treated like dirt, like an alien life form. Why?
And why do the feminists outdo even their male allies on the left, evincing astonishing ferocity in attacking Alaska's former governor? One would think Palin is the one person they should defend and extol as a poster child of feminism, an icon of women's liberation.
Indeed, Sarah Palin rose from humble origins eventually to win the office of governor of Alaska and take the number-two spot on the Republican presidential ticket. She overcame all obstacles without any connections, entirely by dint of talent, hard work, and perseverance. She fearlessly took on the GOP establishment and the oil interests that had dominated Alaska for decades, and she beat them all at their own game. She achieved great success and popularity in all public offices she ever held. And on top of all that, she efficiently juggled public service with homemaking duties, married an Eskimo (the left should be particularly ecstatic on this point -- a minority!), and gave her husband a hand in his business undertakings. She raised a large family and does everything a full-blooded Alaskan male is supposed to do, including killing her dinner.
A woman who can successfully challenge and beat any man, climb any mountain, ford any stream, shatter any glass ceiling -- a feminist dream come true, don't you think? And yet, the feminist leaders seethe with boundless hatred for that "upstart." Why? Granted, Palin is a conservative Republican and thus a natural enemy of the left, of which the feminist movement is an integral and prominent part. Still, this explanation somehow fails to account for the extraordinary viciousness of the feminist attitude, for the stupendous amount of vitriol the feminists spew at the mere mention of Sarah Palin's name. There has to be something else. But what is it?
For decades, the political drama in Washington followed a well-defined pattern, with the two major parties playing distinct roles. Under the conventional scenario, the Democrats, noble and high-minded, fight for the "little guy," defend the helpless minorities, feel the pain of the poor and defenseless, selflessly provide succor to the "victims of social injustice," and pursue an internationalist foreign policy. For their part, the Republicans are Wall Street stooges and loyal henchmen of Big Oil and other paragons of greedy capitalism, who rob the poor to give to the rich and follow the imperialist line in the international arena.
From time to time, the Democrats would go too far in their redistributionist schemes, throw public funds around with too much abandon, push the country too far into the morass of economic distress. Then the irate voters would throw them out and hand the reins of power to the Republicans, who would proceed to clean up the mess under withering fire of criticism and ridicule from the sidelines. Once the ship of state was put back on an even keel, the Democrats would return to power and pick up where they left off. This political two-step has continued over many decades, widely perceived as an eternal, providential order of things. To be sure, the Republicans have been contemptuously treated by their adversaries as junior partners. But the operative word is "partners." Though maligned and denigrated, Republicans' political legitimacy has never been called into question.
Then the Obama era dawned. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented itself to the revolutionary left; its political wet dream finally seemed to be within easy reach. The Democrats controlled all branches of government, and the ongoing economic crisis gave it maximum freedom of maneuver. The new president and his allies grabbed the bull by the horns and set about remaking the country on the radical blueprint. But in their zeal, Obama and the Democrats in Congress badly overreached and made a fatal mistake: they woke up the sleeping giant. The vast, hitherto-silent middle class, alarmed by the inexorable slide of the country into the abyss, woke up and rose to defend the American way of life. The resultant Tea Party movement has been the elite's nightmare come true.
The ruling class love to swear their abiding love for and eternal fealty to the people. They indeed love the "people" -- as an abstract sociological concept. But they despise the populace. Everything about the common people, the denizens of the "flyover country," is alien and offensive to the elites. They can't help contemning those thick-skulled yokels, no doubt rabid racists and homophobes all -- who cling to their religion and their guns, who crow about their stupid moral principles and reject the sacred rights of abortion and gay marriage, who are unable to appreciate the sublime beauty and poignant social message of, say, a crucifix immersed in the artist's urine or a Madonna splattered with elephant dung. So long as the knuckle-draggers stay in their caves and lairs, allowing their betters to rule unopposed, they can be safely ignored. But when they start loudly protesting, threatening the prerogatives of the ruling class, the great unwashed turn into an acute danger.
The left was fit to be tied; it sensed a mortal challenge to its dominance. But a movement is an amorphous mass, difficult to pin down and target. Somebody has to personify it, and so Sarah Palin was chosen to be the face of that horrible entity. When she emerged on the national scene, she was merely a target of widespread ridicule. But with the rise of the Tea Party, derision was augmented by dread. Sarah Palin came to be viewed as the leader of the barbarians at the gates, the commander of the vast hordes of pitchfork-brandishing peasants storming the ramparts of civilized society. In short, in the eyes of the political/cultural aristocracy, she is the embodiment of its worst nightmare: the revolt of the masses against their masters.
This is, above all, why Palin arouses such elemental fear and hatred on the left (and the moderate right, too). To be sure, part of the reason is just plain envy. The darned woman seems to have Teflon skin -- all criticism just rolls off her back without doing any damage.
Worse, everything Palin touches turns into gold. How can one preserve equanimity in the face of her astonishing popularity and jaw-dropping earnings? How can one help wondering about the injustice of it all when "that stupid and ignorant lowbrow from the boondocks" commands such attention, with media hanging on her lips and her every word, her every entry on Twitter or Facebook becomes breaking news -- so much so that she actually seems to be driving the national discourse?
And yet, I submit, the elites detest Sarah Palin primarily out of fear and loathing. They view her as a usurper, as an embodiment of a threat to deprive them of the power and privileges they regard as their God-given right.
And what happens if Sarah Palin actually decides to run for president? Katie bar the door, you ain't seen nothing yet!
LMAO No One Hates her... she is funny..
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LMAO No One Hates her... she is funny..
I somewhat disagree. People have attacked her, her husband, and her kids. I hear people rant about her and much of it is just irrational. Even you have posted her high school transcripts trying to show she is stupid. Most of it makes no sense.
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Funny we never have seen anything from Bama but have been asked to take it on faith that he is some type of genius that somehw has reached said status without ever trying a case, ever releasing his SAT or LSAT, never wrote anything academically or legally, etc.
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Funny we never have seen anything from Bama but have been asked to take it on faith that he is some type of genius that somehw has reached said status without ever trying a case, ever releasing his SAT or LSAT, never wrote anything academically or legally, etc.
It wouldn't matter if he released his transcripts and test scores (even though they are completely irrelevant). Do you hear any liberals calling Biden stupid because he was a lousy student?
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It wouldn't matter if he released his transcripts and test scores (even though they are completely irrelevant). Do you hear any liberals calling Biden stupid because he was a lousy student?
No, because libs think they are smart just virtue of the positions they take, as ridulous as that may seem:
Al Gore: Dropped out of law school.
Biden: caught plagiarising
Bama: Refuses to release any of his records.
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No, because libs think they are smart just virtue of the positions they take, as ridulous as that may seem:
Al Gore: Dropped out of law school.
Biden: caught plagiarising
Bama: Refuses to release any of his records.
He also had pretty bad grades. What's funny is his college and graduate school grades are more of an indicator (if any) than high school grades. I think none of them matter when we're talking about an adult.
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Palin says she couldn’t get away with crying like Boehner
Source: The Ticket (Yahoo! News Blog)
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Sarah Palin, making an appearance on "Good Morning America" as part of her new embrace of the mainstream media, says there's a double standard when it comes to politicians crying in public.
In an interview with interview with Robin Roberts of "GMA," the ex-Alaska governor was asked about incoming House Speaker John Boehner's tendency to get weepy. While Palin said she had "respect" for her fellow Republican's emotional side, she suggested he gets a "pass" because he's a man.
"I don't know if a woman would be given a pass necessarily," Palin said. "That's one of those things where a double standard is applied. I'm sure if I got up there and did a speech, and I started breaking down and cried about how important it is to me that our children and grandchildren are provided great opportunities, I'm sure I would be knocked a little bit for that."
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20101217/pl_ybl...
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Nice Vid.
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One of the daily CNN Palin stories. They just can't get enough of this woman.
Palin calls tax deal 'lousy'
By: CNN's Gabriella Schwarz
(CNN) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin voiced strong opposition to the tax cuts passed in both chambers of Congress and revealed her 2012 timeline.
"I think it's a lousy deal and we can do better for the American people," Palin said on ABC Friday.
The tax package the president will sign Friday concludes months of contentious politicking over a compromise between the White House and members of Congress, a deal Palin said is "still not good enough."
"You can term it compromise, I term it flip flop," Palin said. "I was thankful that he did but it's still not good enough."
The bill includes a two-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, a continuation of unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed for 13 months, as well as a two percentage point cut in the payroll tax and the revival of the estate tax at a lower level.
When asked about her presidential intentions, Palin said "it's a prayerful consideration," but that she won't make the decision for "some months."
A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday indicated Palin trailing President Obama by 22 points in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, yet Palin remained defiant about her chances, citing the length of the primary season.
"A poll number like that... doesn't look really pretty today, but a primary is months and months in the process," Palin said. "If I were to participate in that contested primary, I would be in it to win it."
The Fox News commentator and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee rarely takes questions from what she calls the "lamestream" media, but Friday's sit-down is the latest example that she's chipping away at her stance.
As a possible preview to a 2012 race, Palin revealed her biggest point of contention with Obama.
"My number one criticism of President Obama is he promised to and he's trying to fulfill his promise of fundamentally trying to transform America," Palin said. "We don't need a fundamental transformation, we need a renewal and a restoration of what is good about America."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/17/palin-calls-tax-deal-lousy/#more-140143
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Today's CNN Palin story. They hang on this woman's every word. :)
Palin disses Michelle Obama over 'dessert'
By: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – Sarah Palin is again taking aim at Michelle Obama over her anti-obesity campaign, taking the opportunity in Sunday's "Sarah Palin's Alaska" to land a diss against the first lady's efforts to improve nutrition.
While making s'mores at one point during Sunday's episode, the former Alaska governor proclaims the marshmallow and chocolate treat is "in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert."
It's not the first time Palin has taken a job at Mrs. Obama over her campaign to discourage fattening foods, especially from public schools. The former vice presidential nominee told conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham last month that "the first lady cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat."
Palin also hand-delivered cookies to a Pennsylvania school last month before delivering a speech there, saying: "Who should be deciding what I eat? Should it be government or should it be parents? It should be the parents."
Palin's comments Sunday appear to be in reference to a speech Michelle Obama delivered in July, during which she described her own upbringing when it came to food and exercise.
"In the afternoon, there was no way we'd be allowed to lie around the house watching TV," she told the NAACP in a Kansas City speech. "Our parents made us get up and play outside."
"As I tell my kids, dessert is not a right," she added.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/20/palin-disses-michelle-obama/#more-140388
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She should tell Mo to cut back on some of the lobsters, caviar, champagne, ice cream and booze.
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polls show she has the greatest uphill battle to winning against obama.
in other words, obama has the greatest chance of winning in 2012.
So, keep on with the Palin threads. maybe she'll run and win the nomination, and you will give the republicans a much worse chance of beating obama.
You'll blame the lib media, lib voters, lib whatever - instead of blaming yourself for simply ignoring polls saying "um, the other repubs will do a lot better against obama".
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Today from CNN's Palin watch:
Oprah talks Palin, 2012
By: CNN Political Unit
Washington (CNN) - Oprah Winfrey says America may "fall in love" with Sarah Palin as a TV star, but is dismissing the idea that the country would vote for the former Alaska governor in the future.
Asked in an interview with Parade magazine if the thought of Palin's running for office scares her, Winfrey responded, "It does not scare me because I believe in the intelligence of the American public."
Winfrey, who interviewed Palin shortly after her first book was released, said she was not sure if the former Republican vice presidential candidate would run for president in 2012.
"I don't know her so I can't speak to [whether or not she'll be a candidate]," Winfrey said in the interview.
But, Winfrey complimented Palin's new reality show and said of Palin's performance, "I would say that America's going to fall in love with her [from her reality series, Sarah Palin's Alaska.]"
"When I saw that first episode, I went, 'Whoa! She is charming and very likable.'"
Much attention was paid to Winfrey's political influence during the 2008 presidential election; she threw her support behind then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama early on in the race. Winfrey also hosted fundraisers and stumped for Obama on the campaign trail.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/22/oprah-talks-palin-2012/#more-140823
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Today from CNN's Palin watch:
Oprah talks Palin, 2012
By: CNN Political Unit
Washington (CNN) - Oprah Winfrey says America may "fall in love" with Sarah Palin as a TV star, but is dismissing the idea that the country would vote for the former Alaska governor in the future.
Asked in an interview with Parade magazine if the thought of Palin's running for office scares her, Winfrey responded, "It does not scare me because I believe in the intelligence of the American public."
Winfrey, who interviewed Palin shortly after her first book was released, said she was not sure if the former Republican vice presidential candidate would run for president in 2012.
"I don't know her so I can't speak to [whether or not she'll be a candidate]," Winfrey said in the interview.
But, Winfrey complimented Palin's new reality show and said of Palin's performance, "I would say that America's going to fall in love with her [from her reality series, Sarah Palin's Alaska.]"
"When I saw that first episode, I went, 'Whoa! She is charming and very likable.'"
Much attention was paid to Winfrey's political influence during the 2008 presidential election; she threw her support behind then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama early on in the race. Winfrey also hosted fundraisers and stumped for Obama on the campaign trail.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/22/oprah-talks-palin-2012/#more-140823
Oprah also said today she believes in "the intelligence of the American people"... ;)
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Oh, because electing the "transformational genius" who wont release his academic records, SAT, LSAT, writing, papers transcripts, etc has been so great? ::) ::)
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this is what the dems want,you guys can't see that, they keep her in the news feeding the frenzy.the dumb repubs are now thinking she can win and the dems get to run againt this dingbat,its a win win situation for them
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this is what the dems want,you guys can't see that, they keep her in the news feeding the frenzy.the dumb repubs are now thinking she can winand the dems get to run againt this dingbat,its a win win situation for them
She is not running.
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you better give her a call and tell her because she thinks she's running
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you better give her a call and tell her because she thinks she's running
I don't thnk so. Personally - I think she sees the crap obama is doing, the mess the world, the economy, the nation, will be left in afterobama is out of there and dos not want to shoulder the blame for the necessary harsh masures we will need to reverse course from this downward spiral down the toilet bama keeps flushing daily.
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She is not running.
Yep.... spending all this time in Iowa suddenly is just a coincidence.
All the times she said she's considering it... just blowing smoke.
Dude... she's running.
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Yep.... spending all this time in Iowa suddenly is just a coincidence.
All the times she said she's considering it... just blowing smoke.
Dude... she's running.
I would vote for her a million times over obama. If the last two years of daily crap sandwiches is not enough for you, well, what can I say?
And to say should would be worse? Based on what?
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Sarah Palin Takes a Gratuitous Shot at Michelle Obama’s Anti-Obesity Initiative (& makes S’mores)
Mediaite ^ | 12/21/10 | Tommy Christopher
Sarah Palin Takes a Gratuitous Shot at Michelle Obama’s Anti-Obesity Initiative
by Tommy Christopher | 10:00 am, December 21st, 2010
Just last week, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took justified exception at the media’s petty sniping over her visit to Haiti, when she was just trying to do some good. In a neat, if predictable, reversal, Sarah Palin took to sniping at First Lady Michelle Obama’s attempt to fight childhood obesity. On the latest episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Palin roots around for the three ingredients for S’mores (a list that conveniently fits on the palm of her hand), and dedicates the snack to Michelle Obama “who said the other day we should not have dessert.”
This isn’t Palin’s first foray into snacktivism, and it probably won’t be the last, but what’s the big frickin’ deal?
Here’s the clip, from TLC:
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
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because she is a retard :o
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because she is a retard :o
lmao
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Oprah also said today she believes in "the intelligence of the American people"... ;)
So do I.
She is still one of the most powerful persons in the country. :-\
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She is not running.
If that is your only defense on this idiot continously milking the lime light for all the attention she can get, then you ain't got shit.
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I don't think she is running. She is better off doing what she does now and probably realizes that the mess left by bama will be too big for anyone to tackle and she would prefer to just bank cash and piSs off the loons on the left.
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In a neat, if predictable, reversal, Sarah Palin took to sniping at First Lady Michelle Obama’s attempt to fight childhood obesity
Palin appears to eat pretty "healthy". She's an avid runner, and stays in shape. If there was ever ONE STUPID POLICY where she could find common ground with the Obama's - it's this. "Health lifestyles & Healthy Kids". But, she can't even allow herself to be reasonable for 2 minutes... so she opposes something that 90% of the country actually agree's with the Obama's on. It's going to make her look utterly foolish (yet again).
I swear to God.. if Nancy Reagan was a Democrat, I think Palin would tell kids to pick up a crack pipe and take a couple of hits before bedtime just to be "oppositional" to the war on drugs. She's that much of a fuckin' idiot.
Not my words, but funny nonetheless!
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Its bout the gubmint getting in everyones face 240.
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Sarah Palin is my Person of the Year for 2010
Irish Central ^ | December 24, 2010 | Patrick Roberts
My person of the year 2011 is Sarah Palin.
No one has played the media at their own game and defeated them as handily as the former Governor of Alaska.
She has created an alternative universe, one where she controls her own media through appearances on Fox News and her Discovery special.
What anyone else writes doesn't seem to matter anymore.
By tweeting her latest thoughts or doing a live interview she can completely dominate a news cycle.
How successful is she? Remember 'death panels'?
Her books are best sellers and she continues to attract thousands to her signings
She influenced millions of voters by her endorsements in the mid term elections and helped create the Tea Party and its resounding success.
Along the way she confounded critics time after time.
In the process she has made millions, propelled herself into the race for the Republican nomination for President of the United States and has become a household name across the western world.
Today, every mention of her name raises hackles or cheers depending on where you stand politically. She is never boring, always controversial and the press cannot get enough of her.
She has done all this despite a legislative career that consists of a short period as governor of Alaska and chaotic and failed vice presidential candidate bid to her name.
She has the virtue that everyone continues to underestimate her, believing she has no chance at the Republican nomination in 2012.
I beg to differ as I have said here on numerous occasions.
I think 2011 will be another banner year for Palin at the end of which she will be poised to win Iowa and New Hampshire and sweep the Republican nomination.
Because she is the most unlikely political story in a lifetime I think she deserves Person of the Year for 2010.
And watch this space.
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No one has played the media at their own game and defeated them as handily as the former Governor of Alaska.
He has dropped from 50% to 40% approval rating from independents.
In that whole year of "screaming as loud as possible about everything possible", the group that decides every election has grown disgusted with her.
So yes, she "used the media" to drop her approval rating to a point where the GOP is scared shitless she'll give obama 4 more years. Great work.
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If bama turns centrist and actually mans up and reverses course, he may get indes back.
However, I don't believe he will and the economy will continue to suffer.
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Its bout the gubmint getting in everyones face 240.
Damn Patriot Act
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Just brilliant mal.
Two wrongs make a right. Got it.
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Just brilliant mal.
Two wrongs make a right. Got it.
I hate em both.. but yo yell when one side does it and whimper when the other side does it.. Sheep
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Show me one post ever supporting the patriot act.
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DeMint: 'Palin's done more for the GOP than anyone since Reagan'
The PoliJAM Times / The Politico ^ | December 29, 2010 | Jake Sherman and Manu Raju
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And everyone wants to bend Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) ear, knowing that his support may not only be critical in South Carolina but also across the nation of tea party activists who see DeMint as one of their leaders.
DeMint easily won reelection this fall against obscure Democrat Alvin Greene — but that didn't stop Thune from pouring in $8,000, Palin from giving $7,500, Romney from donating $5,000, Pawlenty from dishing out $3,000 and Santorum from writing him a $1,000 check.
In an interview, DeMint made clear that he’s getting a lot of interest already.
“No one has specifically asked for my endorsement, but a lot of them are staying in touch,” DeMint said. “And I’m very interested in it, and I have a lot of good friends who might run. ... Just conversations, e-mails, number of folks who are interested in the issues, not just running for president. During this tax deal debate, earmark debate, I had a lot of support coming from Romney and others.”
DeMint backed Romney in the 2008 presidential primary — but said he’s got “an open mind” about 2012.
“He’s obviously near the top of my list, he’s a good quality candidate, and we’ve got others who are looking at it,” said DeMint, who also is getting encouragement from some conservative activists to run for president.
Palin, for one, has never talked to DeMint before, even though they hail from the same part of the ideological spectrum and are considered heroes of the tea party movement.
“We’ve never spoken, but she left me a nice message, and I believe she’s done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan,” he said.
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Full story...
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DeMint: 'Palin's done more for the GOP than anyone since Reagan'
The PoliJAM Times / The Politico ^ | December 29, 2010 | Jake Sherman and Manu Raju
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And everyone wants to bend Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) ear, knowing that his support may not only be critical in South Carolina but also across the nation of tea party activists who see DeMint as one of their leaders.
DeMint easily won reelection this fall against obscure Democrat Alvin Greene — but that didn't stop Thune from pouring in $8,000, Palin from giving $7,500, Romney from donating $5,000, Pawlenty from dishing out $3,000 and Santorum from writing him a $1,000 check.
In an interview, DeMint made clear that he’s getting a lot of interest already.
“No one has specifically asked for my endorsement, but a lot of them are staying in touch,” DeMint said. “And I’m very interested in it, and I have a lot of good friends who might run. ... Just conversations, e-mails, number of folks who are interested in the issues, not just running for president. During this tax deal debate, earmark debate, I had a lot of support coming from Romney and others.”
DeMint backed Romney in the 2008 presidential primary — but said he’s got “an open mind” about 2012.
“He’s obviously near the top of my list, he’s a good quality candidate, and we’ve got others who are looking at it,” said DeMint, who also is getting encouragement from some conservative activists to run for president.
Palin, for one, has never talked to DeMint before, even though they hail from the same part of the ideological spectrum and are considered heroes of the tea party movement.
“We’ve never spoken, but she left me a nice message, and I believe she’s done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan,” he said.
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keep dreaming buddy. ::)
http://www.politicususa.com/en/republican-sarah-palin-plunging-in-polls (http://www.politicususa.com/en/republican-sarah-palin-plunging-in-polls)
Republican Support for Sarah Palin Plunging in Polls
Happy New Year, America. Your country is recovering its sanity.
Yes, it’s true. After a rough two years of Palinitis stained by winning Politifacts’ Lie of Year award among other ignoble distinctions, it appears that even Republicans are mournfully unclenching their stubborn fists from around Palin’s star bursts. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted December 17-19 and it turns out that support for Ms Palin is nose-diving among Republicans. She has, in fact, lost 18% of her support since 2008 among Republicans. Sigh. Our country may be spared a civil war in 2012. Finally, the Republicans are doing something for America!
CNN Political Ticker reports:
“Among liberal Democrats, 85 percent say they want to see the party re-nominate Obama in 2012,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Among moderate Democrats, his support is almost that high.”
In the battle for the GOP presidential nomination, the survey suggests Palin may have some work to do if she throws her hat in the ring. Only 49 percent of Republicans say that they are likely to support Sen. John McCain’s running mate in 2008 for the Republican nomination in 2012.
“That’s a huge 18-point drop since December of 2008, when two-thirds of GOPers said they were likely to support Palin. It also puts her well behind potential rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, and a bit behind Newt Gingrich as well,” adds Holland.”
Republicans’ dreams that Ronnie had come back to them in a skirt are dying a tedious, painful death, during which we are all being subjected to Palin’s media blitz until even the sight of her makes us weary. Palin refused to do the work necessary to be taken seriously and cashed in on her fame to make money and in doing so, she mismanaged her star power if she has political ambitions.
Oh, that’s right. I left out that OTHER part of the poll. President Obama enjoys a comfy 85% support from liberal Democrats and 78% of Democrats questioned in the poll want the President to run in 2012. Only 19% would like another nominee to replace the President.
Oh, dear. I’m glad I’m not anywhere near Wasilla right now. I’m afraid I can hear tin cans hitting a refrigerator from my kitchen window. And here the Conservatives for Palin were working so hard on their talking points about how Ms Palin had held elected office longer than President Obama (if you discounted his Presidency and included the City Council for Palin), because we all know how well the talking point of “executive experience” went over in 2008, why not try it again, even after the President has been…well…like the President for two years. Yes, this makes sense.
If you have any Republican friends with a Palin 2012 bumper sticker on their car, remember to be kind today. Dreams of the faithful die hard and Palin was hailed as the God chosen candidate for the evangelical right, so this has to hurt. I just can’t imagine how God can be so wrong, can you?
However, just because Republicans don’t like her doesn’t mean she can’t utilize the Tea Party to her advantage in the primaries and Ms Palin is known for working best with strong opposition from within her own Party, so there may be some hope to cling to here for the die hard Palin fans. I do hope someone assists them in their talking points, though, as re-litigating 2008 is not bound to be effective with any but the Kool-Aid drinkers.
Happy New Year, America. Looks like you might have managed to “take your country back” after all.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/8230415/Sarah-Palins-popularity-rating-takes-a-dive.html?sms_ss=reddit&at_xt=4d1c1616865c83f9%2C0 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/8230415/Sarah-Palins-popularity-rating-takes-a-dive.html?sms_ss=reddit&at_xt=4d1c1616865c83f9%2C0)
ooooucchhhhh.... ;D
Sarah Palin's popularity rating takes a dive
In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, 49 per cent of Republicans said that they were "very" or "somewhat likely" to support a run by Mrs Palin, who shot to international prominence in 2008 when she was selected as Senator John McCain's vice-presidential running mate.
This is down sharply from the 67 per cent of Republicans who said that they were likely to support a Palin candidacy in 2012 when they were asked in a CNN poll in December 2008.
Of her main potential rivals, two thirds of Republicans questioned stated that they were somewhat or very likely to support Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, while 59 per cent said the same of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.
Surveys in battleground states carried by out by Public Policy Polling, which is affiliated to the Democratic party, also indicated Mrs Palin faces an uphill task. In Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, her overall popularity rating was below 40 per cent.
Republican strategists, however, state that the fervour of Mrs Palin's core supporters, her ability to garner news coverage and her populist appeal would make her a formidable candidate despite what pollsters term her "high negatives".
In another blow for Mrs Palin, Alaska has certified Senator Lisa Murkowski as the winner of the Alaska Senate contest. Mrs Palin has feuded with Mrs Murkowski since defeating her father Frank in the 2006 governor's race.
During the midterm elections campaign, Mrs Palin enthusiastically backed Joe Miller, the Tea Party candidate who defeated Mrs Murkowski in the Republican primary. Mrs Murkowski then ran as a "write-in" candidate in the general election and was certified as the winner with 101,091 votes compared to 90,839 for Mr Miller.
A PPP poll released this week showed that only 33 per cent of Alaskans have a favourable opinion of Mrs Palin, who resigned as the state's governor in 2009, and 58 per cent viewed her negatively. Only in the liberal bastion of Massachusetts, with 68 per cent, was she less popular.
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New Palin DVD to be released
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - Sarah Palin's hit reality show has come to an end, but the TLC network has announced the former Alaska governor's adventurous excursions will live on forever in a special DVD release.
At a cost of $19.98, fans of the nature-themed program featuring Palin will receive a two-disc set that includes all seven episodes of the popular show – constituting 387 minutes of Palin and her family amidst the Alaska backdrop.
Unfortunately for political junkies however, it appears the new DVDs will not include outtakes or other never-aired moments with the former vice presidential nominee.
The box set will be released April 5, a timing that just may coincide with a presidential campaign announcement from Palin should she decide to throw her hat in the ring.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/30/new-palin-dvd-to-be-released/#more-141311
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DeMint: 'Palin's done more for the GOP than anyone since Reagan'
The PoliJAM Times / The Politico ^ | December 29, 2010 | Jake Sherman and Manu Raju
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And everyone wants to bend Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) ear, knowing that his support may not only be critical in South Carolina but also across the nation of tea party activists who see DeMint as one of their leaders.
DeMint easily won reelection this fall against obscure Democrat Alvin Greene — but that didn't stop Thune from pouring in $8,000, Palin from giving $7,500, Romney from donating $5,000, Pawlenty from dishing out $3,000 and Santorum from writing him a $1,000 check.
In an interview, DeMint made clear that he’s getting a lot of interest already.
“No one has specifically asked for my endorsement, but a lot of them are staying in touch,” DeMint said. “And I’m very interested in it, and I have a lot of good friends who might run. ... Just conversations, e-mails, number of folks who are interested in the issues, not just running for president. During this tax deal debate, earmark debate, I had a lot of support coming from Romney and others.”
DeMint backed Romney in the 2008 presidential primary — but said he’s got “an open mind” about 2012.
“He’s obviously near the top of my list, he’s a good quality candidate, and we’ve got others who are looking at it,” said DeMint, who also is getting encouragement from some conservative activists to run for president.
Palin, for one, has never talked to DeMint before, even though they hail from the same part of the ideological spectrum and are considered heroes of the tea party movement.
“We’ve never spoken, but she left me a nice message, and I believe she’s done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan,” he said.
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Or Quit for money
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I hope you get sued for medical malpractice with no insurance and see what you are prepared to do at that point "for the money".
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I hope you get sued for medical malpractice with no insurance and see what you are prepared to do at that point "for the money".
WOW you hope i do something to someone so i can get sued so you can make a poind.. damn.. thats wild
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WOW you hope i do something to someone so i can get sued so you can make a poind.. damn.. thats wild
Funny - the idiots on the left who sued Palin personally for eqully bullshit reasons and tried to bankrupt her for no reason never saw a problem with it.
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The Laura Ingraham Show - Palin: Obama is hell bent on weakening America!
Dittos Rush! ^ | 1-7-10 | James
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Palin audio clip: "We've got to be able to respect our politicians and trust what it is they are doing. Now, I don't personally trust what comes out of the White House....[Obama] is hell bent on weakening America and he has told us back in March of 2006 that it weakens America domestically and internationally to raise the debt ceiling. And he said it is a sign of failed leadership to support raising the debt ceiling. And now he is doing exactly that. So, what Obama is doing--purposefully weakening America, because he understood that debt weakens America domestically and internationally--and yet now he supports increasing debt."
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QFT - Go Sarah!
FFFUUUBBBOOOOO! ! ! !
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yea!!!!!!!!!
palin nation rules
you betcha
:D :D :D :D :D
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Question: Will Sarah Palin run for President in 2012?
Matt Taibbi: Absolutely she is going to run for president in 2012 and... I don’t think she is going to win, but I think she is a very good bet to win the nomination. I think what we saw in the last election was the Tea Party is now in this kingmaking role and the Republican Party. I don’t think they can nominate anybody who isn’t acceptable to the Tea Party. That person is just not going to win enough primaries to get through. And Sarah Palin is a candidate who is acceptable to the Tea Party.
She is also—I've seen this personally, I've covered her in person—she is a gifted politician just in terms of getting people to connect with her on an emotional level in person. It’s something that if you’re an experienced campaign journalist you can just see these… You know it’s like watching Michael Jordon in person. You can just see that they have it and she has got it and I think she is going to win the nomination.
Question: What have you seen at Tea Party rallies?
Matt Taibbi: It was really funny. I was in a rally that Sarah Palin was holding in Kentucky and she was doing the whole Ronald Reagan business, you know: "Government is never the answer, government is always the problem, it’s never the solution." And it was a crowd of 10,000 people at a gospel-singing convention, but it was first of all, an entirely white crowd. There wasn’t a single black face there and mostly elderly.
And while she was doing this speech I suddenly looked around and I noticed that like one out of every four people in the crowd was either on an oxygen tank or in one of those scooters, those motorized wheelchairs and I asked the person, one of the reporters next to me what is the deal with the scooters and they’re like there is commercials on TV here, you get... you don’t even have to pay for them because if you have Medicare it’s for free. And so I started interviewing these people afterwards and all these people on scooters they’re all on Medicare and yet they’re railing against government spending and socialism.
And here is the thing with the Tea Party: a lot of these people have this idea of "good welfare" and "bad welfare." Like "bad welfare" is for immigrants and minorities and it’s for people who are lazy and don’t really need it. "Good welfare" is for people who are just temporarily in a jam or who have worked their whole lives and now they’re retired and now they just need a little lift. They just genuinely don’t see the problem with this kind of thinking.
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The Laura Ingraham Show - Palin: Obama is hell bent on weakening America!
Dittos Rush! ^ | 1-7-10 | James
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Palin audio clip: "We've got to be able to respect our politicians and trust what it is they are doing. Now, I don't personally trust what comes out of the White House....[Obama] is hell bent on weakening America and he has told us back in March of 2006 that it weakens America domestically and internationally to raise the debt ceiling. And he said it is a sign of failed leadership to support raising the debt ceiling. And now he is doing exactly that. So, what Obama is doing--purposefully weakening America, because he understood that debt weakens America domestically and internationally--and yet now he supports increasing debt."
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QFT - Go Sarah!
FFFUUUBBBOOOOO! ! ! !
When you lost Ted Nugent....you should see you're in real trouble. ;) and BTW he is kind enough to tell the real reason some people like 338 and others are attracted to her. " She's damn good-looking" ..in other words I wanna fuck her but she's not presidential material.
“(Palin’s) coming from the street, she’s coming from the we-the-people rank-and-file, she makes sense when she talks, she says all the right things, she’s sincere, she’s knowledgeable , she’s articulate, she’s damn good-looking, plus she kills moose, how can you go wrong?” Nugent gushed.
However, when Cooper pressed Nugent on whether Palin would make a good president, Nugent balked.
“It’s too early to tell. Right know, if we had a vote, I couldn’t vote for Sarah Palin. And I love her. I love her madly, and I respect her.”
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He said he loves her.
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He said he loves her.
soooo...?????? he also said he would not vote for her right now. stop spinning everything to fit your agenda.
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Spin what? If its her or bama - he will vote for her - same with me.
Personally - a trump christie ticket would be fine by me.
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Where did he say he would vote for her? You must be reading a completely different article.
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How America's elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin
By Tom Leonard
Last updated at 12:39 PM on 11th January 2011
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On a sunny Saturday morning outside the local Safeway in Tucson, Arizona, a man pulls out a powerful handgun, opens fire - and engulfs the U.S. in a political firestorm.
Six people were killed on Saturday, including a nine-year-old girl. But it was the fact that the target was a Democratic congresswoman - who is fighting for her life - which has sparked such a furious row, not, as one might expect, over the nature of America’s gun laws, but over the vitriolic nature of its politics.
Defenders of gun rights like to say it’s not the gun that’s dangerous, but the user. Now the argument swirling across the U.S. is whether it’s not the user but violent political rhetoric that may have ultimately pulled the trigger.
Political act: American flags fly at half mast on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington in memory of the victims of Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona
In short, did the killer Jared Loughner - who has a history of mental instability and has made a series of bizarre postings on the internet - go out looking to kill because political voices told him to?
Could the inflammatory language used by some Right-wing politicians - in particular, Sarah Palin - have encouraged the killer to act as he did?
That’s the question at the heart of a febrile political blame game that started even before the most basic details had emerged about the background and possible motivation of the gunman. Already it has drawn in politicians, commentators, police and even the families of the victims.
Gabrielle Giffords was a Democrat and much - but not all - of the badly spelt, incoherent YouTube jumble that passed for the politics of her attacker was broadly ‘Right-wing’.
As a result, many liberal commentators and establishment figures have leapt at the opportunity to blame conservative politicians.
The rush to make political capital out of a mass shooting shows just how nasty U.S. politics has become. Under Barack Obama, America is more polarised than it has been for 40 years.
Target: Republican Sarah Palin's style of politics has been the focus of much criticism by Democrats
Conservatives have come to despise liberals, and vice versa, with an intensity the like of which few can recall. Right-wing anger with the high-spending Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, a weak economy and high unemployment has prompted thousands of ordinary Americans to break away from conventional two-party politics to support the Tea Party movement with its call for small government.
As the name (a reference to the 1773 Boston Tea Party) implies, Tea Party supporters see their movement as rooted in the rebellion against George III, and the language has inevitably been full of military metaphor.
In the fractious lead-up to last November’s congressional mid-term elections - which saw a major victory for the Right - there were scuffles outside town halls, occasional brandishing of firearms at rallies and reports of rising membership of armed militias, ‘weekend warriors’ training for the day they believe will come when they will have to defend the U.S. Constitution.
More...Staring into camera with a terrifying smile, the chilling mugshot of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner
'We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living c**p out of me': Emails reveal student's fears of Jared Loughner months before shootings
'I hate violence': Palin hits back as critics blame Tea Party's 'vitriolic rhetoric' for Arizona shooting
Sarah Palin's teenage stalker 'threatening to go to Wasilla to overturn restraining order'
Execute him, says devastated father of nine-year-old girl killed by Tucson gunman
'All we can do is pray': Shot congresswoman's husband breaks his silence as Obama leads nation in mourning
'She's responding to simple commands': Giffords battles for survival after being shot in the head at point-blank range
Saviours of Tucson: White-haired heroine grabbed magazine from cannabis-smoking loner gunman linked to white supremacists
Political leaders with an ear for the populist mood harnessed that militancy.
As the temperature level in American political debate shot into the red, Washington security chiefs reported that threats against Congressmen and women had tripled in a year, many of them coming from furious opponents of the Obama health care reforms.
In Maryland, an effigy of Democrat Representative Frank Kratovil was found hanging from a mock gallows.
Gabrielle Giffords’ Tucson office had been vandalised — the door shattered, possibly by shotgun pellets — after the healthcare vote.
Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former chief of staff and a figure compared to Labour’s Alastair Campbell, once said: ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.’
Controversial: Sarah Palin's Take Back The 20 Facebook page shows a U.S. map with the cross-hairs of a gun scope imposed over 20 Democrats' districts
And those on his side of the political divide have clearly seen the Tucson tragedy as an opportunity to score points and settle scores.
None more so than with Sarah Palin, a politician who is almost as divisive as the President. The former Republican vice-presidential contender has become a spiritual figurehead for many Tea Party supporters, but is loathed by many on the Left.
So it was that within minutes of the Tucson shooting, anti-Palin internet bloggers and Twitter users were highlighting a so-called ‘target map’ Mrs Palin had posted on her Facebook page last March.
Controversially, it used gunstyle crosshair targets to flag up Democrat politicians whom Palin felt could be vulnerable at the polls: Miss Giffords was one.
Despite the lack of any evidence that the Tucson gunman had supported Mrs Palin, let alone seen the graphic, critics — including senior Democrats in Congress — have decreed she is somehow culpable.
Yet her critics choose to forget the crosshairs could be all a part of her image as a hunter of big game. (It is worth noting, too, that Miss Giffords had been photographed handling a semi-automatic weapon — no doubt aware it would appeal to a certain voting constituency.)
Palin’s favourite maxim — inherited from her father — is ‘Don’t Retreat, Reload’, a typically bullish phrase she’s been trotting out for months as an injunction on the faithful to stick to their political principles.
Since the Tucson shooting, Left-wing critics have leapt on the words as some kind of proof that she was encouraging supporters to use real weapons.
Other far more loaded Republican comments are being quoted by those keen to make a connection between the Tucson shooting and inflammatory political rhetoric.
Victim: Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (left) was gunned down in Saturday's massacre. Jared Loughner (right) appeared in court charged with the shootings yesterday
Last year, Sharron Angle, a Tea Party favourite who stood unsuccessfully for senator in Nevada, warned that people might seek ‘Second Amendment remedies’ — referring to the right to bear arms — if they didn’t get what they wanted from Congress.
Then there was a campaign poster produced by Jesse Kelly, a former marine who stood against Miss Giffords last year.
It was headlined: ‘Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly.’ It was pure Wild West hokum, but was it really incitement to violence, as is being suggested by the Left?
Liberals have made much of the words of the Tucson sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, who yesterday launched into a diatribe about the ‘vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government’.
Even the actress and activist Jane Fonda waded into the row with a succession of internet tweets blaming Mrs Palin, the Tea Party and Glenn Beck, a rabble-rousing broadcaster on Fox News, for the shooting.
The Tea Party leaders have been rushing to condemn the shooting and distance themselves from the gunman.
Whether they should really have to do so is another matter. The reality is that there is as yet no evidence that the political Right, and the Tea Party in particular, has — as its opponents say — ‘blood on its hands’ over the Tucson murders.
While some liberals have slyly implied that Loughner was a Tea Party supporter, former classmates remember him as being ‘Left-wing’ and ‘liberal’.
Another said he was ‘on his own planet’, which seems nearer the mark. No existing political organisation - including the Tea Party - comes close to championing Lough-ner’s deranged world view.
Paranoid and nihilistic (he kept a miniature altar with a replica human skull in his backyard), he had clearly surfed the wilder shores of political views on the internet, preaching about the evils of religion, and even picking up and espousing a theory that the government was using grammar as a form of mind control.
History shows how dangerous it is to try to second-guess the motives of political assassins.
John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan because he was obsessed with the actress Jodie Foster, not because he hated Right-wingers.
Likewise, Lynette Fromme tried to shoot Gerald Ford because she revered the cult killer Charles Manson.
But those lessons from history won’t stop some Democrats exploiting the shooting of a nine-year-old girl and five others at the weekend with precisely the sort of foam-flecked over-reaction for which they love to condemn their opponents on the Right.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1345952/Arizona-shooting-Americas-elite-hijacked-massacre-revenge-Sarah-Palin.html#ixzz1AjPiQlry
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Just admit 333 Palin was STUPID to put gun sights on districts. Can you admit that?
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Just admit 333 Palin was STUPID to put gun sights on districts. Can you admit that?
How about you admit that it was stupid for Democrats to do the same....in 2004. Can you admit that?
Was it stupid for Daily Kos to make their target list as well?
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How about you admit that it was stupid for Democrats to do the same....in 2004. Can you admit that?
Was it stupid for Daily Kos to make their target list as well?
WTF does this have to do with democrats? Really BF that's pretty weak. I'm pretty sure no one reads the daily kos and if they do i feel sorry for them. It seems you read it so i guess i pity you too.
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WTF does this have to do with democrats? Really BF that's pretty weak. I'm pretty sure no one reads the daily kos and if they do i feel sorry for them. It seems you read it so i guess i pity you too.
No, I don't. I became aware of their list the other day.
Again, will you admit that it was stupid for the Democrats to put bullseye targets all over vulnerable Republican areas in 2004? What if some loopy democrat took that to mean that the politicians in those areas should be assassinated?
Can you admit that it was dumb or are you too much of a hypocrite to do that?
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Just admit 333 Palin was STUPID to put gun sights on districts. Can you admit that?
Not at all. Absolutely not.
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Not at all. Absolutely not.
hahahahahaha classic 333 troll response. This is why no one takes you seriously. Except maybe your boyfriend BF.
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hahahahahaha classic 333 troll response. This is why no one takes you seriously. Except maybe your boyfriend BF.
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THERE IS ZERO CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE THINGS.
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hahahahahaha classic 333 troll response. This is why no one takes you seriously. Except maybe your boyfriend BF.
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Oh, look, a far-lefty insinuating that I'm a homosexual in an attempt to insult me. How bigoted tolerant and progressive of you!
Do you plan this stuff? I've never seen someone manage to put their foot in their mouth as often as you do. Props for continually avoiding my question.
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Where isthe connection between Palin, the Democrats in 2004, Obama's hateful rhetoric, and what this guy did?
Answer - there is none.
He seems like a nut with an obession with Giffords since 2007 and blew up due to a combo of drugs, psychosis, schizo, etc.
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the reason i dont put BF in the same batshit category as 333 is because of BF's distain for the obviously dumbshit Sarah Palin
and BF atleast uses real facts and plays it more to the middle. 333 takes opinion and tries to pass it off as fact
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the reason i dont put BF in the same batshit category as 333 is because of BF's distain for the obviously dumbshit Sarah Palin
and BF atleast uses real facts and plays it more to the middle. 333 takes opinion and tries to pass it off as fact
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"Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans."
Olbermann giving a beat down!
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awesome rebuttal
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"Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans."
Olbermann giving a beat down!
He should have identified the specific acts and things from his past they may have inadvertently encouraged violence.
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He should have identified the specific acts and things from his past they may have inadvertently encouraged violence.
hahaha yeah okay that would be a pointless addition. apology is an apology olbermann showing he is the bigger man.
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hahaha yeah okay that would be a pointless addition. apology is an apology olbermann showing he is the bigger man.
Not pointless at all. He references specific alleged inflammatory acts by Republicans. The old "I'm sorry for anything I've ever done wrong" apology in that context is pretty shallow.
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America’s Enduring Strength by Sarah Palin
Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy.
I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic mass held in honor of the victims. The mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country.
Our exceptional nation, so vibrant with ideas and the passionate exchange and debate of ideas, is a light to the rest of the world. Congresswoman Giffords and her constituents were exercising their right to exchange ideas that day, to celebrate our Republic’s core values and peacefully assemble to petition our government. It’s inexcusable and incomprehensible why a single evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day.
There is a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy. We saw that in Arizona. We saw the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman.
Like many, I’ve spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event.
President Reagan said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.
The last election was all about taking responsibility for our country’s future. President Obama and I may not agree on everything, but I know he would join me in affirming the health of our democratic process. Two years ago his party was victorious. Last November, the other party won. In both elections the will of the American people was heard, and the peaceful transition of power proved yet again the enduring strength of our Republic.
Vigorous and spirited public debates during elections are among our most cherished traditions. And after the election, we shake hands and get back to work, and often both sides find common ground back in D.C. and elsewhere. If you don’t like a person’s vision for the country, you’re free to debate that vision. If you don’t like their ideas, you’re free to propose better ideas. But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.
There are those who claim political rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. And they claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently. But when was it less heated? Back in those “calm days” when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols? In an ideal world all discourse would be civil and all disagreements cordial. But our Founding Fathers knew they weren’t designing a system for perfect men and women. If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government. Our Founders’ genius was to design a system that helped settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So, we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure.
As I said while campaigning for others last March in Arizona during a very heated primary race, “We know violence isn’t the answer. When we ‘take up our arms’, we’re talking about our vote.” Yes, our debates are full of passion, but we settle our political differences respectfully at the ballot box – as we did just two months ago, and as our Republic enables us to do again in the next election, and the next. That’s who we are as Americans and how we were meant to be. Public discourse and debate isn’t a sign of crisis, but of our enduring strength. It is part of why America is exceptional.
No one should be deterred from speaking up and speaking out in peaceful dissent, and we certainly must not be deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. And we will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults.
Just days before she was shot, Congresswoman Giffords read the First Amendment on the floor of the House. It was a beautiful moment and more than simply “symbolic,” as some claim, to have the Constitution read by our Congress. I am confident she knew that reading our sacred charter of liberty was more than just “symbolic.” But less than a week after Congresswoman Giffords reaffirmed our protected freedoms, another member of Congress announced that he would propose a law that would criminalize speech he found offensive.
It is in the hour when our values are challenged that we must remain resolved to protect those values. Recall how the events of 9-11 challenged our values and we had to fight the tendency to trade our freedoms for perceived security. And so it is today.
Let us honor those precious lives cut short in Tucson by praying for them and their families and by cherishing their memories. Let us pray for the full recovery of the wounded. And let us pray for our country. In times like this we need God’s guidance and the peace He provides. We need strength to not let the random acts of a criminal turn us against ourselves, or weaken our solid foundation, or provide a pretext to stifle debate.
America must be stronger than the evil we saw displayed last week. We are better than the mindless finger-pointing we endured in the wake of the tragedy. We will come out of this stronger and more united in our desire to peacefully engage in the great debates of our time, to respectfully embrace our differences in a positive manner, and to unite in the knowledge that, though our ideas may be different, we must all strive for a better future for our country. May God bless America.
- Sarah Palin
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America’s Enduring Strength by Sarah Palin
Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy.
I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic mass held in honor of the victims. The mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country.
Our exceptional nation, so vibrant with ideas and the passionate exchange and debate of ideas, is a light to the rest of the world. Congresswoman Giffords and her constituents were exercising their right to exchange ideas that day, to celebrate our Republic’s core values and peacefully assemble to petition our government. It’s inexcusable and incomprehensible why a single evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day.
There is a bittersweet irony that the strength of the American spirit shines brightest in times of tragedy. We saw that in Arizona. We saw the tenacity of those clinging to life, the compassion of those who kept the victims alive, and the heroism of those who overpowered a deranged gunman.
Like many, I’ve spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event.
President Reagan said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.
The last election was all about taking responsibility for our country’s future. President Obama and I may not agree on everything, but I know he would join me in affirming the health of our democratic process. Two years ago his party was victorious. Last November, the other party won. In both elections the will of the American people was heard, and the peaceful transition of power proved yet again the enduring strength of our Republic.
Vigorous and spirited public debates during elections are among our most cherished traditions. And after the election, we shake hands and get back to work, and often both sides find common ground back in D.C. and elsewhere. If you don’t like a person’s vision for the country, you’re free to debate that vision. If you don’t like their ideas, you’re free to propose better ideas. But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.
There are those who claim political rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. And they claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently. But when was it less heated? Back in those “calm days” when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols? In an ideal world all discourse would be civil and all disagreements cordial. But our Founding Fathers knew they weren’t designing a system for perfect men and women. If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government. Our Founders’ genius was to design a system that helped settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So, we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure.
As I said while campaigning for others last March in Arizona during a very heated primary race, “We know violence isn’t the answer. When we ‘take up our arms’, we’re talking about our vote.” Yes, our debates are full of passion, but we settle our political differences respectfully at the ballot box – as we did just two months ago, and as our Republic enables us to do again in the next election, and the next. That’s who we are as Americans and how we were meant to be. Public discourse and debate isn’t a sign of crisis, but of our enduring strength. It is part of why America is exceptional.
No one should be deterred from speaking up and speaking out in peaceful dissent, and we certainly must not be deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. And we will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults.
Just days before she was shot, Congresswoman Giffords read the First Amendment on the floor of the House. It was a beautiful moment and more than simply “symbolic,” as some claim, to have the Constitution read by our Congress. I am confident she knew that reading our sacred charter of liberty was more than just “symbolic.” But less than a week after Congresswoman Giffords reaffirmed our protected freedoms, another member of Congress announced that he would propose a law that would criminalize speech he found offensive.
It is in the hour when our values are challenged that we must remain resolved to protect those values. Recall how the events of 9-11 challenged our values and we had to fight the tendency to trade our freedoms for perceived security. And so it is today.
Let us honor those precious lives cut short in Tucson by praying for them and their families and by cherishing their memories. Let us pray for the full recovery of the wounded. And let us pray for our country. In times like this we need God’s guidance and the peace He provides. We need strength to not let the random acts of a criminal turn us against ourselves, or weaken our solid foundation, or provide a pretext to stifle debate.
America must be stronger than the evil we saw displayed last week. We are better than the mindless finger-pointing we endured in the wake of the tragedy. We will come out of this stronger and more united in our desire to peacefully engage in the great debates of our time, to respectfully embrace our differences in a positive manner, and to unite in the knowledge that, though our ideas may be different, we must all strive for a better future for our country. May God bless America.
- Sarah Palin
Hey we got the notes she used to write this
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At least you didnt post that fake report card you have been hocking for two years now.
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At least you didnt post that fake report card you have been hocking for two years now.
Na Obama called SWAT on me last time i did.. he used his cell
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Palins Facebook post she wrote in March last year - three days after the map was published - clarifying its message for anyone left in doubt.
"The crossfire is intense, so penetrate through enemy territory by bombing through the press, and use your strong weapons - your Big Guns - to drive to the hole," Ms Palin wrote.
"Shoot with accuracy; aim high and remember it takes blood, sweat and tears to win."
Don't retreat RELOAD!
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nauseating thread.
someone with decency remove it.
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Nice
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Palin had NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
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So, same nonsense was claimed when JFK was murdered and it turned out to be a commie like LHO.
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Americans View Sarah Palin as More Sincere and Believable After Watching Speech (Focus Group)
Mediacurves ^ | Saturday January 15, 2011
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A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed that Americans indicated that Sarah Palin was more sincere and believable after viewing her speech in response to the shootings in Tucson.
The study was conducted during January 13-14 by HCD Research and reported on its MediaCurves.com® website, to obtain Americans’ perceptions of Sarah Palin after viewing a video of a speech she gave in response to the shootings in Tucson.
Respondents were asked to rate Sarah Palin on a scale from 1-7 regarding likeability, believability and sincerity, with 1 representing “not at all strong in this attribute” and 7 representing “extremely strong in this attribute.”
With the exception of likeability among Democrats, Palin’s attribute ratings increased among all parties after viewing her speech. The most notable increase was her sincerity ratings, which increased from 2.62 to 2.69 among Democrats, from 5.25 to 5.45 among Republicans and from 3.68 to 3.85 among Independents.
Here is the raw data. 81% of Republicans and 56% of independents concluded that the speech will help her image and 78% of Republicans and 54% of independents concluded that the speech will help her in a potential presidential run.
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Americans View Sarah Palin as More Sincere and Believable After Watching Speech (Focus Group)
Mediacurves ^ | Saturday January 15, 2011
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A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed that Americans indicated that Sarah Palin was more sincere and believable after viewing her speech in response to the shootings in Tucson.
The study was conducted during January 13-14 by HCD Research and reported on its MediaCurves.com® website, to obtain Americans’ perceptions of Sarah Palin after viewing a video of a speech she gave in response to the shootings in Tucson.
Respondents were asked to rate Sarah Palin on a scale from 1-7 regarding likeability, believability and sincerity, with 1 representing “not at all strong in this attribute” and 7 representing “extremely strong in this attribute.”
With the exception of likeability among Democrats, Palin’s attribute ratings increased among all parties after viewing her speech. The most notable increase was her sincerity ratings, which increased from 2.62 to 2.69 among Democrats, from 5.25 to 5.45 among Republicans and from 3.68 to 3.85 among Independents.
Here is the raw data. 81% of Republicans and 56% of independents concluded that the speech will help her image and 78% of Republicans and 54% of independents concluded that the speech will help her in a potential presidential run.
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hahahahahahahahahahaha you keep telling yourself that,thats what i like to hear
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Governor Palin: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
conservatives4palin ^ | 1/17/11 | Sarah Palin
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is a day to reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King dedicated himself to justice and the struggles of an imperfect world. In the face of fierce opposition, he stood up for the oppressed, and he ultimately sacrificed all for equality and freedom. His was a remarkable life of love and service for all mankind. His work must continue.
With Dr. King’s faith in God and his unwavering hope in a brighter, stronger future, let us recommit today to continuing his work for a more peaceful and just nation.
- Sarah Palin
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Reflections on Sarah Palin By Ed Koch
Yonkers Tribune ^ | January 17, 2011 | Ed Koch
As I see it, in the current battle for public opinion Sarah Palin has defeated her harsh and unfair critics.
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Why do I defend Palin in this case? I don’t agree with her political philosophy: She is an arch conservative. I am a liberal with sanity. I know that I am setting myself up for attack when I ask, why did Emile Zola defend Dreyfus? Palin is no Dreyfus and I am certainly no Zola. But all of us have an obligation, particularly those in politics and public office, to denounce, when we can, the perpetrators of horrendous libels and stand up for those falsely charged. We should denounce unfair, false and wicked charges not only when they are made against ourselves, our friends or our political party but against those with whom we disagree. If we are to truly change the poisonous political atmosphere that we all complain of, including those who create it, we should speak up for fairness when we can.
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I repeat my earlier comment that she “scares the hell out of me.” Nevertheless, she is entitled to fair and respectful treatment. The fools in politics today in both parties are those who think she is dumb. I’ve never met her, but I’ve always thought that she is highly intelligent but not knowledgeable in many areas and politically uninformed. I don’t believe she will run for president in 2012 or that she would be elected if she did. But I do believe she is equal in ability to many of those in the Republican Party seeking that office.
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hahahahahaha classic 333 troll response. This is why no one takes you seriously. Except maybe your boyfriend BF.
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How very true.
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How very true.
And that is still 100% more than the number of people who think you are anything but a troll lurking aroundto toss insults at people.
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And that is still 100% more than the number of people who think you are anything but a troll lurking aroundto toss insults at people.
Too bad for you my "insults" turn out to be the God's truth about you.
Really. Don't you ever get embarrassed by the constant whining, backtracking, deflecting and out right lying you get caught in on here?
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Changing My Mind On A Sarah Palin Presidential Run
Mediaite ^ | January 18, 2011 | John Ziegler
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In a guest column, John Ziegler, radio host, Palin confidante, and the filmmaker behind Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted, offers his unique perspective on Sarah Palin’s interview with Sean Hannity, and its specific implications towards a potential presidential run in 2012. The views expressed in this guest column are those of John Ziegler alone.
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As dangerous, counterproductive, and pointless as it can be to try and predict whether Sarah Palin will run for president in 2012, I found myself changing my mind last night about what she likely will, and should, do regarding the largest political decision one can make.
As an outspoken and dedicated defender of Palin against a mountain of unfair media attacks over the past couple of years, I have often been amused that many of my detractors presume that I have been a strong proponent of a Palin candidacy. The reality is that I am probably one of the few people to tell her to her face (after our January 2009 interview) that she can’t win in 2012, and, in act of even greater stupidity, I have most certainly harmed my last movie among Palin supporters by publicly stating the same opinion.
Aside from whether it would be a good idea, when I was asked on CNN recently whether she would run, I put the odds at 60-40 that she would not make the big plunge. But, thanks to the bizarre events of the past week, I have experienced a rather strong epiphany on both fronts.
Before I explain myself, let me make it clear that I have no special information, have not had a direct conversation with Sarah Palin about this topic since she resigned as Governor, and strongly believe that anyone other than Palin’s incredibly small inner circle who pretends to know for sure what she is doing is either lying or delusional. With that said, I may have some insight here that will elude the many media watchers who simply don’t understand Palin.
During the final segment of her interview on Fox News last night with Sean Hannity, I became convinced that it is now significantly more likely that she will run than pass. I came to this conclusion based at least as much on what she didn’t say as what she did. At the center of this perception is the core conviction that being blamed by huge portions of the media for facilitating mass murder, and then being roundly scorned for just defending herself, simply has to drive a person on the verge of such a decision in one direction or the other. Based on her answer to Hannity, it very clear which way she has been pushed.
If Palin really has been playing a game in order just to keep her profile high (an article of faith among Palin critics), the insane reaction to this tragedy and the irrational implication of her in it would have provided her with the perfect out. After all, not even her most fervent supporter could possibly begrudge her the right to beg off a presidential run in the name of protecting her family from all of the lunacy (and potentially worse) which will be sure to come their way if they are all subjected to another campaign. But even after being given an opening to “go there” larger than FNC’s rating dominance over its competitors, Palin would have none of it.
Instead, she came closer than ever before to declaring that she will be a candidate, defiantly stating that, while she has no announcement to make right now, she is not going to sit down, and will not be told to shut up.
Technically, this is not a new statement from Palin, but given the timing, context and juxtaposition of her pronouncements, I think there is potentially great significance to what she said. For her to dramatically declare that she will not “sit down or shut up” immediately after the caveat that she is not yet “ready” to make an “announcement” and just after the word “but,” seemed to send a message only slightly more subtle than Ricky Gervais taking a swipe at an obnoxious celebrity.
Palin then went one giant step further by raising the flag in defense of free speech and those who strongly believe that our nation is imperiled by our current lack of regard for the founding principles. Once again, when given the perfect opportunity to seek cover and protect herself Sarah Palin has instead chosen to fight back and protect what she thinks is right.
This leads me to my second change of heart. Ever since I witnessed her 2008 convention speech in person, I have had admiration for Sarah Palin, but I had also (almost out of a desire to not see her and her family unnecessarily harassed) come to the conclusion that it was not a good idea for her to run for president in 2012. I figured that, thanks largely to the same media who has targeted her for over two years, Obama was unlikely to lose to anyone and that blowing her one chance to run wouldn’t be good for her or her cause. But now I not only think she will run, but I really hope she does.
I still believe baring a disaster Obama will be reelected, but I now see nothing to lose and lots to gain by a Palin candidacy. She is the only candidate who has the ultimate freedom of having already faced her political death head on. As Winston Churchill famously said, “There is nothing more exhilarating than being shot without result,” and while thankfully Palin only knows this truth metaphorically, all that she has endured gives her incredible independence. Everyone else will inevitably melt (like even grizzled veteran John McCain did) when they get close to the blast furnace that will be going up against the Obama juggernaut. Far more than anyone else in conservative history, Palin has been forced to prove just how fireproof her convictions are and how deep her resolve is.
Quite simply, no one else in the potential Republican field will be as trustworthy to conservatives on the issues, and less likely to back down, than Sarah Palin. She has shown beyond any doubt that she can literally handle anything that the pressure of running for president could possibly present.
Would she win? Probably not, but there is no Republican who would be close to being favored today against Obama. Instead, a Palin candidacy would guarantee, by far, the best chance to have true conservative principles articulated in a fearless fashion on the grandest of stages, which hasn’t really happened (with apologies to Ronald Reagan) since 1964.
While that losing Barry Goldwater campaign is not one which is likely to be emulated politically anytime soon, with Palin such an outcome (a spirited, non-politically correct defense of conservatism followed by likely temporary defeat) is the absolutely worst case scenario. Considering that such a campaign ended up directly leading to Republican victories in five of the next six presidential elections, such a potentiality is one that should be embraced by conservatives and not feared.
While many events can and likely will occur before we know the real landscape of the 2012 presidential campaign, as of today it appears that Sarah Palin will be a large part of that equation, and that conservatives may have much to be proud of. Hopefully, they will be smart enough to realize and appreciate it.
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that guy sounds like an obama fan.
hey repubs, let's run the candidate who is polling far lower than all other against obama.
let's run the canddiate that the majority of americans perceive as an idiot.
let's run the candidate with more gaffes and position changes and inconsistencies in the last 2 years than the other potentials combined.
Let's choose the most polarizing candidate with the greatest uphill climb. Yep. Great. Just hand 2012 over to obama so we can paint the white house red and start teaching chinese in 1st grade. jeebus help us.
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that guy sounds like an obama fan.
hey repubs, let's run the candidate who is polling far lower than all other against obama.
let's run the canddiate that the majority of americans perceive as an idiot.
let's run the candidate with more gaffes and position changes and inconsistencies in the last 2 years than the other potentials combined.
Let's choose the most polarizing candidate with the greatest uphill climb. Yep. Great. Just hand 2012 over to obama so we can paint the white house red and start teaching chinese in 1st grade. jeebus help us.
240 - if its Romney v obama - what are you doing?
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240 - if its Romney v obama - what are you doing?
romney, of course.
i've made it clear I'll support any repubs in 2012 not named Sarah Palin. It's that simple. And at least 10% (or more!) of the population feels exactly as I do.
I fear repubs will vote with their penises instead of their brains. Some MILF with a rifle and less than 2 years of experience as governor (mostly spent campaigning in lower 48)... verses Newt (who ran half the govt for a decade), Thune or Pawlenty (2 term governors and highly intelligent) or Romney (1 term governor and highly successful in business).
They'll pick the one they wanna bang. The most "normal" one. And it'll be 2008 all over again. Tina Fey skits, Palin screaming about terr'ists and how the media victimizes her... and in the end, Obama will win by a shitload (again).
I hope republicans have one candidate who - upon realizing he can't win - stops playing nice and just tells Palin during a debate that Obama will beat her, plain and simple. That she's just not presidential. But I doubt it. They'll all kiss her ass, hoping to be the VP selection. And they will give obama 4 more years@
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You know my thoughts as of now.
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Sarah Palin Crushes Oprah Winfrey in Head to Head Cable Ratings Monday Night
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | Kristinn
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Sarah Palin crushed Oprah Winfrey last night when the two went head to head at 9 p.m. EST on the Fox News Channel and CNN.
Palin appeared on Fox's Hannity to give her first interview in the wake of media attacks on her over the Arizona massacre while Winfrey was the prize guest on the debut of Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN's successor to the Larry King Show.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, New York Magazine and Broadcasting & Cable each gave Piers Morgan the headlines for their articles about the ratings battle, even though his show placed a decisive second. Palin's triumph is mentioned but played down.
The numbers according to Broadcasting & Cable:
Hannity: 2.4 million, 600,000 in 25-54demo.
Morgan: 2.1 million, 521,000 in 25-54 demo.
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC: 1.1 million, 342,000 in 25-54 demo.
Palin's audience was nearly 15 percent larger than those who tuned in to watch Oprah.
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Palin's audience was nearly 15 percent larger than those who tuned in to watch Oprah.
To look at it that way.... How much higher is Hannity usually, against his 9 pm counterpart on CNN? My guess is that he was destroying CNN by way more than 15% on a nightly basis.
If this is the case... then Ophah getting CNN within 15 percentage points could be viewed as a win for her.
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Palin's audience was nearly 15 percent larger than those who tuned in to watch Oprah.
To look at it that way.... How much higher is Hannity usually, against his 9 pm counterpart on CNN? My guess is that he was destroying CNN by way more than 15% on a nightly basis.
If this is the case... then Ophah getting CNN within 15 percentage points could be viewed as a win for her.
;D
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Hope your real proud of that one, haha.
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this one too!
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No input here?
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Lol, Putin and where's his head comes into the airspace of...
Idk why but it just makes her seem that much hotter.
Yes, I have never turned down a beatiful ditz in my life.
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But yeah, we want this as our president, she can just blow all the other heads of state, no pun intended.
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I would take her any day over obama. On the issues she is heads and shoulders above what we have now.
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I would take her any day over obama. On the issues she is heads and shoulders above what we have now.
She knows nothing about the issues so how would she govern the country? Flip a coin everytime a decision should be made?
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50 percent chance of getting it right is still better than obama getting it right 2 percent.
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50 percent chance of getting it right is still better than obama getting it right 2 percent.
;D
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50 percent chance of getting it right is still better than obama getting it right 2 percent.
let your futile racism go.
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Palin's Poll Numbers Continue To Plummet Faster Than Wile E. Coyote Falling Off of A Cliff
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Opinion of Sarah Palin: Favorable 19% / Not favorable 57% / Undecided 19% / Haven't heard enough 5% (CBS/NYT Poll)
CBS News/New York Times Poll. Jan. 15-19, 2011
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When gas prices go to the moon she will reboumd.
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Palin's Poll Numbers Continue To Plummet Faster Than Wile E. Coyote Falling Off of A Cliff
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Opinion of Sarah Palin: Favorable 19% / Not favorable 57% / Undecided 19% / Haven't heard enough 5% (CBS/NYT Poll)
CBS News/New York Times Poll. Jan. 15-19, 2011
with a rock falling on top of him.
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pathetic, no mas.
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19% favorable? Jeebus that is low. Bush never got that low, when the whole world was marching a million at a time for his elective war in iraq.
She's done nothing but complain and whine about being the victim... and 19% Jeebus help us.
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She's not running.
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She's not running.
just vacationing in iowa, makes sense.
i AM very happy to see bachmann running.
bachmann is a woman like palin... hotter... way smarter... and she's consistent on being far-right on the issues.
when palin was supporting Tarp, supporting capping emissions, agreeing with amnesty, etc - bachmann was waving the tea party flag long before it was chic to do so.
Let's face it... if the party had gone far-center in 2010, Palin would have been leading that charge too ;)
AND AND AND... bachmann has a shitload of candidates she got elected as well, who will line up and support her. And she's in iowa this week. Score.
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I might have to start a bachmann appreciation thread.
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just vacationing in iowa, makes sense.
i AM very happy to see bachmann running.
bachmann is a woman like palin... hotter... way smarter... and she's consistent on being far-right on the issues.
when palin was supporting Tarp, supporting capping emissions, agreeing with amnesty, etc - bachmann was waving the tea party flag long before it was chic to do so.
Let's face it... if the party had gone far-center in 2010, Palin would have been leading that charge too ;)
AND AND AND... bachmann has a shitload of candidates she got elected as well, who will line up and support her. And she's in iowa this week. Score.
i give you 2 days before your bashing bachmann for something ;D ;)
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i give you 2 days before your bashing bachmann for something ;D ;)
she's nutty, but i'd knock on doors for her.
she says some goofball shit, has had some gaffes, etc... but the left should be FAR more scared of her than of Palin. While palin is a lightning rod for ratings, $$$....... Bachmann would manhandle obama onstage and has some serious star power herself.
And tony... it's okay to bash a candidate and still vote for them. Hell, I don't trust someone who can't list all the flaws of their canddiate - it means they didn't research that person! When 33 voted Romney in 2008 primary - and said he had never ever heard of romneycare, it made me wonder if he was actually an educated voter.
I intend to be able to tell you 20 things that are wrong with bachmann - but 50 things she will do to fix America. An opinion like that means a lot more than the person who says their candidate is perfect and doesn't know shit about them.
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Lol.
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she's nutty, but i'd knock on doors for her.
she says some goofball shit, has had some gaffes, etc... but the left should be FAR more scared of her than of Palin. While palin is a lightning rod for ratings, $$$....... Bachmann would manhandle obama onstage and has some serious star power herself.
And tony... it's okay to bash a candidate and still vote for them. Hell, I don't trust someone who can't list all the flaws of their canddiate - it means they didn't research that person! When 33 voted Romney in 2008 primary - and said he had never ever heard of romneycare, it made me wonder if he was actually an educated voter.
I intend to be able to tell you 20 things that are wrong with bachmann - but 50 things she will do to fix America. An opinion like that means a lot more than the person who says their candidate is perfect and doesn't know shit about them.
lol thats funny coming from someone who constantly draws moral equivilants and excuses gaffes and mistakes by the current administration...
maybe youre on to something 240 bash the ppl you like and promote the ppl you dont? ;D ::) ;)
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HA HAHA - YOU GO SARAH!
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For Palin, Obama's 'Winning the Future' phrase is WTF
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By David Jackson, USA TODAY
Sarah Palin rips President Obama's new slogan, Winning the Future.
By VALERIE MACON, AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Obama's new slogan is "Winning the Future."
To Sarah Palin, it's "WTF."
Palin used the acronym at least three times last night in discussing Obama's State of the Union speech on Fox News. WTF is also a phone text-driven phrase used to avoid spelling out the f word; it stands for "what the (blank)."
"There were a lot of WTF moments through that speech," the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate told Fox's Greta Van Susteren.
Palin used the phrase in reference to Obama's discussion of the federal debt, and his claim that the U.S. faces a "Sputnik moment" when it comes to technology and innovation challenges from other countries.
Palin also discussed fellow Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann, which you can read about on our OnPolitics blog.
Obama used variations of "Winning the Future" several times throughout his speech. At one point, he said: "If we want to win the future -- if we want innovation to produce jobs in America and not overseas -- then we also have to win the race to educate our kids."
The president, by the way, isn't the first politician to use the phrase "Winning the Future."
Palin's fellow Republican Newt Gingrich entitled one of his books Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract With America.
Palin also said that rather that Sputnik, the nation should declare "a spudnut moment," referring to the name of a Washington state coffee shop: "A family-owned business not looking for government to bail them out and to make their decisions for them. It's just hard-working, patriotic Americans in this shop."
Here are some of Palin's WTF comments:
His theme last night in the State of the Union was the "WTF," you know, "Winning the Future." And I thought, "OK, that acronym, spot on." There were a lot of "WTF" moments throughout that speech, namely, when he made the statement, Greta, that he believed that we can't allow ourselves to, I guess, eventually become buried under a mountain of debt. That right there tells you he is so disconnected from reality! The problem is, we are buried under a mountain of debt, and jobs cannot be created by the private sector. We cannot grow and thrive and prosper as a nation when we are buried under this $14 trillion debt.
And, later:
That was another one of those WTF moments, when he so often repeated this Sputnik moment that he would aspire Americans to celebrate. And he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory in that race to space, yes, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union.
So I listened to that Sputnik moment talk over and over again, and I think, No, we don't need one of those. You know what we need is a "spudnut" moment. And here's where I'm going with this, Greta. And you're a good one because you're one of those reporters who actually gets out there in the communities, find these hard-working people and find solutions to the problems that Americans face.
Well, the spudnut shop in Richland, Washington -- it's a bakery, it's a little coffee shop that's so successful, 60-some years, generation to generation, a family-owned business not looking for government to bail them out and to make their decisions for them. It's just hard-working, patriotic Americans in this shop
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Yeah, baby! Run Sarah, run!
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, is kicking off what is likely to be a busy year with $1.3 million in the bank, Politico's look at the group's Federal Election Commission filings finds.
The FEC records show that Palin raised $279,000 over a five-week period at the end of the year, donations that came primarily in sums of $200 or less.
The PAC also spent nearly $230,000 during the filing period and a total of nearly $2.6 million throughout 2010, according to the report.
Perhaps the most interesting tidbit, however, is the apparent lack of any notable fundraising or staffing push from the political arm of a candidate who has been among the most talked-about potential 2012 GOP presidential contenders.
From Politico's report:
The filing shows no indication that Palin has started to ramp up for a potential presidential run, as no new staff shows up on SarahPAC's expenses -- which remain very low compared to a campaign of even moderate size. Her PAC spent nearly $230,000 for the period between the end of the campaign and end of the calendar year, and over $2.6 million in 2010.
Despite those details, a recent report from RealClearPolitics suggested that Palin's operatives are, in fact, actively developing a ground game in the key primary state of Iowa, though perhaps not in a manner that would be clear from the FEC filing.
From the RealClearPolitics report:
Palin's initial Iowa push appears to differ most clearly from that of other candidates in that no SarahPAC staffer has been assigned to work the state on the ground, and her aides are not yet making hard pushes to lock up experienced operatives.
According to RCP, Palin's pre-campaign architecture has instead been heavily constructed through third-party grassroots activists and private discussions with local Tea Party leaders.
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CNN Poll: Palin unfavorable rating at all time high
By: CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
Washington (CNN) - A new national poll indicates that 56 percent of all Americans have an unfavorable view of Sarah Palin, an all-time high for the former Alaska governor. That 56 percent unfavorable figure is up seven points from just before the midterm elections, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday morning.
Thirty-eight percent of people questioned in the poll say they have a favorable view of the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, down two points from October.
The poll was conducted following a difficult two week stretch for Palin, who is considering a run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Palin was in the spotlight following the Jan. 8 shootings at a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson, Arizona supermarket, which left six people dead and 13 wounded. Authorities believe Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously wounded as the target of the mass shootings. A 22-year-old suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody.
Following the shootings critics suggested Palin's at-times charged political rhetoric and use of a graphic featuring crosshairs may have contributed to the shooter's motivations. The graphic was part of a website that Palin put up last year, during the divisive debate over health care reform, to highlight 20 congressional districts won by Sen. John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, where Democratic representatives were voting in favor of the legislation.
According to the survey, Palin's unfavorable rating is up 10 points among women, compared to just three points among men, and among independent voters, her unfavorable rating has grown a whopping 14 points.
Does the dip in Palin's favorable ratings have anything to do with her website?
"Probably not directly, but the public may have been turned off by her reaction to the controversy surrounding that website," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Poll results released earlier this week show that most Americans do not blame her website for the shootings in Arizona. But women and independents - two groups that tend to prefer civility and bipartisanship - may have disliked her combative reaction to suggestions that the website was involved."
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted Jan. 14-16, with 1,014 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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I could care less what her favorability ratings are. Bama has a 95% approval rating amongst blacks. does that mean anything other than the obvious? So the fuck what.
Palin really knows howto get under the skin of racist liberls like yourself - "Obama WTF?"
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come on 33....
for the last week, we've been so happy about bachmann. people like hugo are open to her.
then you put on your sarah groupee pants today cause she used a teenage "LOL-ish" phrase? Come on man...
Please ignore her. Let her train wreck settle with a very profitable career in fox, and please stop selling her as anything remotely possible for the 2012 choice.
Please!
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come on 33....
for the last week, we've been so happy about bachmann. people like hugo are open to her.
then you put on your sarah groupee pants today cause she used a teenage "LOL-ish" phrase? Come on man...
Please ignore her. Let her train wreck settle with a very profitable career in fox, and please stop selling her as anything remotely possible for the 2012 choice.
Please!
Both have their role.
I like Bachmann as the tip of the spear and Palin shooting arrows from the rear.
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I could care less what her favorability ratings are. Bama has a 95% approval rating amongst blacks. does that mean anything other than the obvious? So the fuck what.
Palin really knows howto get under the skin of racist liberls like yourself - "Obama WTF?"
She's not "under anyone's skin." ::) She is just becoming increasingly irrelevant other than to right-wing chronic masturbators such as yourself.
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The Tag Team of Palin/Bachmann kicks ass against the kenyan usurpur.
Bachamann as tip of the spear and Palin firing arrows from the rear.
Sounds catchy no?
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Palin: Obama’s Message to America: The Era of Big Government is Back, Now Help Me Pay For It
Sarah Palin Facebook ^ | Thursday January 27, 2011 | Sarah Palin
The President’s state of the union address boiled down to this message: “The era of big government is here as long as I am, so help me pay for it.” He dubbed it a “Winning The Future” speech, but the title’s acronym seemed more accurate than much of the content.
Americans are growing impatient with a White House that still just doesn’t get it. The President proves he doesn’t understand that the biggest challenge facing our economy is today’s runaway debt when he states we want to make sure “we don’t get buried under a mountain a debt.” That’s the problem! We are buried under Mt. McKinley-sized debt. It’s at the heart of what is crippling our economy and taking our jobs. This is the concern that should be on every leader’s mind. Our country’s future is at stake, and we’re rapidly reaching a crisis point. Our government is spending too much, borrowing too much, and growing too much. Debt is stifling our private sector growth, and millions of Americans are desperately looking for work.
So, what was the President’s response? At a time when we need quick, decisive, and meaningful action to stop our looming debt crisis, President Obama gave us what politicians have for years: promises that more federal government “investment” (read: more government spending) is the solution.
He couched his proposals to grow government and increase spending in the language of “national greatness.” This seems to be the Obama administration’s version of American exceptionalism – an “exceptionally big government,” in which a centralized government declares that we shall be great and innovative and competitive, not by individual initiative, but by government decree. Where once he used words like “hope” and “change,” the President may now talk about “innovation” and “competition”; but the audacity of his recycled rhetoric no longer inspires hope.
Real leadership is more than just words; it’s deeds. The President’s deeds don’t lend confidence that we can trust his words spoken last night.
In the past, he promised us he’d make job creation his number one priority, while also cutting the deficit, eliminating waste, easing foreclosures in the housing markets, and making “tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.” What did we get? A record $1.5 trillion deficit, an 84% increase in federal spending, a trillion dollar stimulus that stimulated nothing but more Tea Party activism, 9+% unemployment (or 17% percent if you include those who have stopped looking for work or settled for part time jobs), 2.9 million home foreclosures last year, and a moratorium on offshore drilling that has led to more unemployment and $100 dollar a barrel oil.
The President glossed over the most important issue he needed to address last night: spending. He touched on deficit reduction, but his proposals amount to merely a quarter of the cuts in discretionary spending proposed by his own Deficit Reduction Commission, not to mention the $2.5 trillion in cuts over ten years suggested by the Republican Study Committee. And while we appreciate hearing the same President who gave us the trillion dollar Stimulus Package boondoggle finally concede that we need to cut earmarks, keep in mind that earmarks are a$16 billion drop in the $1.5 trillion ocean that is the federal deficit. Budget cuts won’t be popular, but they are vitally necessary or we will soon be a bankrupt country. It’s the responsibility of a leader to make sure the American people fully understand this.
As it is, the American people should fully understand that when the President talks about increased “investments” he’s talking about increased government spending. Cut away the rhetoric and you’ll also see that the White House’s real message on economic reform wasn’t one of substantial spending cuts, but of tax increases. When the President talks about simplifying the tax code, he’s made it clear that he’s not looking to cut your taxes; he’s looking for additional tax revenue from you. The tax “simplification” suggested by the President’s Deficit Reduction Commission would end up raising taxes by $1 trillion over the next decade. So, instead of bringing spending down in line with revenue, the President wants to raise our taxes to pay for his massive spending increases. It’s tax and spend in reverse: spend first, tax later.
And the Obama administration has a lot of half-baked ideas on where to spend our hard-earned money in pursuit of “national greatness.” These “investments,” as the President calls them, include everything from solar shingles to high speed trains. As we struggle to service our unsustainable debt, the only thing these “investments” will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.
With credit ratings agency Moody’s warning us that the federal government mustreverse the rapid growth of national debt or face losing our triple-A rating, keep in mind that a nation doesn’t look so “great” when its credit rating is in tatters.
Of course, it’s nice to give a speech calling for “investment” and “competition” in order to reach greatness. It’s quite another thing to advocate and implement policies that truly encourage such things. Growing the federal government is not the answer.
Take education for example. It’s easy to declare the need for better education, but will throwing even more money at the issue really help? As the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner notes, “the federal government has increased education spending by 188 percent in real terms since 1970 without seeing any substantial improvement in test scores.” If you want “innovation” and “competition,” then support school choice initiatives and less federal control over our state and local districts.
When it comes to energy issues, we heard more vague promises last night as the President’s rhetoric suggested an all-of-the-above solution to meeting our country’s energy needs. But again, his actions point in a different direction. He offers a vision of a future powered by what he refers to as “clean energy,” but how we will get there from here remains a mystery. In the meantime, he continues to stymie the responsible development of our own abundant conventional energy resources – the stuff we actually use right now to fuel our economy. His continued hostility towards domestic drilling means hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs will not be created and millions of Americans will end up paying more at the pump. It also means we’ll continue to transfer hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars to foreign regimes that don’t have America’s interests at heart.
On the crucial issue of entitlement reform, the President offered nothing. This is shocking, because as he himself explained back in April 2009, “if we want to get serious about fiscal discipline…we will have to get serious about entitlement reform.” Even though the Medicare Trust Fund will run out of funds a mere six years from now, and the Social Security Trust Fund is filled mainly with IOUs, the President opted to kick the can down the road yet again. And once again, he was disingenuous when he suggested that meaningful reform would automatically expose people’s Social Security savings to a possible stock market crash. As Rep. Paul Ryan showed in his proposed Roadmap, and others have explained, it’s possible to come up with meaningful reform proposals that tackle projected shortfalls and offer workers more options to invest our own savings while still guaranteeing invested funds so they won’t fall victim to sudden swings in the stock market.
And what about that crucial issue confronting so many Americans who are struggling today – the lack of jobs? The President came to office promising that his massive, multi-trillion dollar spending programs would keep unemployment below 8%; but the lack of meaningful, pro-free market reforms in yesterday’s speech means his legacy will almost certainly be four years of above 8% unemployment, regardless of how much he increases federal spending (or perhaps I should say because of how much he’s increased it).
Perhaps the most nonsensical bit of double-speak we heard last night was when the President said that hitting job-creators with a tax increase isn’t “punishing their success. It’s about promoting America’s success.” But government taking more money from the small business entrepreneurs who create up to 70% of all jobs in this country is not “promoting America’s success.” It’s a disincentive that will result in less job creation. It is, in fact, punishing the success of the very people who created the innovation that the President has supposedly been praising.
Despite the flowery rhetoric, the President doesn’t seem to understand that individuals make America great, not the federal government. American greatness lies in the courage and hard work of individual innovators and entrepreneurs. America is an exceptional nation in part because we have historically been a country that rewards and affirms individual initiative and offers people the freedom to invest and create as they see fit – not as a government bureaucrat does. Yes, government can play an appropriate role in our free market by ensuring a level playing field to encourage honest competition without picking winners and losers. But by and large, government should get out of the way. Unfortunately, under President Obama’s leadership, government growth is in our way, and his “big government greatness” will not help matters.
Consider what his “big government greatness” really amounts to. It’s basically a corporatist agenda – it’s the collaboration between big government and the big businesses that have powerful friends in D.C. and can afford to hire big lobbyists. This collaboration works in a manner that distorts and corrupts true free market capitalism. This isn’t just old-fashioned big government liberalism; this is crony capitalism on steroids. In the interests of big business, we’re “investing” in technologies and industries that venture capitalists tell us are non-starters, but which will provide lucrative returns for some corporate interests who have major investments in these areas. In the interests of big government, we’re not reducing the size of our bloated government or cutting spending, we’re told the President will freeze it – at unsustainable, historic levels! In practice, this means that public sector employees (big government’s staunchest defenders) may not lose jobs, but millions of Americans in the private sector face lay offs because the ever-expanding government has squeezed out and crippled our economy under the weight of unsustainable debt.
Ronald Reagan said, “You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.” President Obama’s proposals last night stick the little guy with the bill, while big government and its big corporate partners prosper. The plain truth is our country simply cannot afford Barack Obama’s dream of an “exceptionally big government” that may help the big guys, but sticks it to the rest of us.
- Sarah Palin
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Great post.
Obama = Kenyan Madoff
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Obama = Blac Madoff
Really?
There isn't enough to criticize Obama for... ya gotta go there?
And you wonder why people call the tea party racists? Shit like that isn't necessary. Palin did a fine job smashing obama in her ghostwritten article.
No need to interject race into it.
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Really?
There isn't enough to criticize Obama for... ya gotta go there?
And you wonder why people call the tea party racists? Shit like that isn't necessary. Palin did a fine job smashing obama in her ghostwritten article.
No need to interject race into it.
I fixed it.
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I fixed it.
:)
Hell yes!
He's as kenyan as the day is long. I no longer doubt it a bit. How many social security #s has he used in his life before?
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:)
Hell yes!
He's as kenyan as the day is long. I no longer doubt it a bit. How many social security #s has he used in his life before?
16
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Where's wikileaks on that one?
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Where's wikileaks on that one?
Don't know. But anyone with a shred of honesty knows Barry Soetoro is hiding something.
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AND YOU PEOPLE CALL ME A PALIN BOT? HA HA HA HA
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Whats the difference between Sir William Wallace & Sarah Palin?
free2think | 02/01/11 | free2think
Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:53:24 AM by Free2think
What is the difference between Sir William Wallace & Sarah Palin?
Besides, age, sex, weapon choice, hair color, etc.
Both were hated\betrayed by "The elitists on both sides of the fence"
Both were drawn & quartered in front of an audience by elitist's.
Both had the courage to risk their lives and families lives\honor for freedom from Tyranny.
Palin will be thrown under the bus by republican elitists any day now as did the (Bruce clan) throw Wallace under the horse.
The only missing similarity would be Primae Noctis which the left would passionately embrace if given the chance.
educate me how they are different please!?
I am a student.
"Pro Libertate"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2666620/posts
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AND YOU PEOPLE CALL ME A PALIN BOT? HA HA HA HA
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Whats the difference between Sir William Wallace & Sarah Palin?
free2think | 02/01/11 | free2think
Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:53:24 AM by Free2think
What is the difference between Sir William Wallace & Sarah Palin?
Besides, age, sex, weapon choice, hair color, etc.
Both were hated\betrayed by "The elitists on both sides of the fence"
Both were drawn & quartered in front of an audience by elitist's.
Both had the courage to risk their lives and families lives\honor for freedom from Tyranny.
Palin will be thrown under the bus by republican elitists any day now as did the (Bruce clan) throw Wallace under the horse.
The only missing similarity would be Primae Noctis which the left would passionately embrace if given the chance.
educate me how they are different please!?
I am a student.
"Pro Libertate"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2666620/posts
Kill yourself
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aaawweehhheeee ppooorrr bbbaaabbbyyy - whatas wrong - a lttle sore that MadoffCare is going into the trash where it belongs?
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AMAZING: Rachel Maddow Falls For False Story Calling For Sarah Palin To Invade Egypt
Glynnis MacNicol | Feb. 1, 2011, 10:45 AM | 2,410 | 31
This is pretty lamestream.
Last night on her show Rachel Maddow called attention to a story on the website Christwire that was advocating for Sarah Palin to lead an American invasion into Egypt.
Now, depending what websites or comments sections you read that story may or may not sound off to you.
However! It certainly sounds nutty enough that a quick Google was probably in order before airing it on national televsion. One that would have revealed pretty quickly that Christwire is a satirical site (and quite funny!).
Alas, apparently the story sounded solid to the Maddow team because they ran with it last night.
Maddow's people caught the mistake a short while later (as the Atlantic Wire notes, more than can be said for HuffPo). But so much for Sarah Palin making it through the month without getting connected to Egypt.
Video below courtesy of the Atlantic Wire...because MSNBC has apparently scrapped it from their website. Way to be transparent folks! Expect a 'lame' Facebook note and or tweet from Palin shortly.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/lame-rachel-maddow-slams-sarah-palin-based-on-false-story-on-satircal-website-2011-2#ixzz1CjWEq8JA
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mods, please move this entire thread to the V-board. Thanks in advance.
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mods, please move this entire thread to the V-board. Thanks in advance.
Why?
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aaawweehhheeee ppooorrr bbbaaabbbyyy - whatas wrong - a lttle sore that MadoffCare is going into the trash where it belongs?
i think it needs to be trashed too.. WTF are you talking about?
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i think it needs to be trashed too.. WTF are you talking about?
Trying to figure out your hard on for me. ;)
Maybe the shaved head?
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Im sue 240 and Blacken are lining up for this. LoL.
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A Bristol Palin Memoir?
Politico ^ | 02/07/2011 | Karin Tanabe
Bristol Palin, the 20-year-old daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, seems to have put down her dancing shoes and picked up the pen. A book listing on Amazon, under the heading "Untitled Bristol Palin Memoir,” says that the 304-page book is due to hit the shelves June 21.
Back in November, Palin family friends told PopEater that Bristol was working on a book, but the nature of it was undisclosed.
According to the Amazon listing, the memoir will be published by William Morrow & Co., an imprint of Harper Collins. Neither the publisher nor Palin's rep immediately responded to requests for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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Palin - Both Sarah and Bristol - both two stupid to realize they had to sign their names on legal documents for trademarking the names Sarah Palin and Bristol Palin.
Really, you want her to run the county and the dumbass can't even complete paperwork without fucking it up.
::)
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I don't want her running anything.
At this point she should push the pundit schtick.
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Not anymore. And only because you got stomped and laughed at from corner to corner of the internet for saying you did in the past.
::)
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Yeah, petty insults worthy of a second grader from a troll like yourself did it.
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Of course, when stating the truth about him and his bullshit his only defense is to claim you are insulting him.
Dude is so mentally unhinged and insecure in his little world of self loathing and self hatred that he fails to see why everyone on here laughs at him. Doesn't really help his case when he is proven wrong on something and immediately the only thing he can think of is to try to change the subject and topic of discussion. He will get his teeth kicked in on something and immediately start crying about Cap and Trade, KSM, White House Christmas decorations or some other unrelated bullshit on the thread.
Case closed.
If you consider the truth about you to be insulting, then that says more about yourself than anyone else.
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'Oopsies!': Us Weekly apologizes to Sarah Palin over using fake quotes
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Sarah Palin. (Reuters)
Whoops!
Us Weekly ran a story quoting Sarah Palin demanding that Christina Aguilera be “deported” over her botched performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XLV.
The only problem: It never happened.
The item “quoted” Palin trashing Aguilera as “a demanding beauty queen who’s clearly in over her head” and adding for good measure, “If I were president, I’d deport Ms. Augilera back to wherever it is she’s from and give Amy Smart a call.”
The fake quotes originated from an Onion-like satirical web site, relaying a fictional radio interview between the former Governor of Alaska and Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Other choice “quotes” from Palin that fooled Us Weekly included, “Here’s another case of an airhead diva going on TV, running her mouth off, sounding like a fool. She doesn’t understand something so basic about America, yet we’re supposed to tolerate her diva behavior?” and “Unemployment is at nine percent, yet we have to suffer through a performance by a foreigner with a poor grasp of the English language?”
Us Weekly apologized for their mistake Thursday saying, “Oopsies...our bad!”
"I had no interview with Sean [Hannity] and I have never bashed Christina," Palin told Us. "In fact, I've defended her by telling folks to back off the criticism of her mistake. I was telling my kids right after her national anthem issue blew up that people needed to lay off her mistake. And then to read to that I condemned her?"
http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/11/oopsies-us-weekly-apologizes-to-sarah-palin-over-using-fake-quotes/#?test=faces
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Coulter 'insanely jealous' of Sarah Palin
By: CNN Political Unit
Washington (CNN) - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has made some enemies in her years as a right-wing firebrand, but she's still jealous of Sarah Palin's ability to agitate the left.
"I especially love her for her enemies, I'm insanely jealous of that," Coulter said last night on MSNBC. "I love her for how she makes liberal heads explode."
Coulter said she thought Palin could win the Republican presidential nomination, but that the former Alaska governor shouldn't bother running.
"I think it would be a step down for her to run for president," Coulter said. "It's like saying Rush Limbaugh should run for president. She's huge. She has enormous power. She sends out a Twitter on death panels and everyone's talking about it. I think it would be crazy for her to run for president."
Coulter did throw her support behind one potential candidate – New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
"Christie is very articulate," Coulter said. "He has taken brave positions that no other Republican was willing to take, taking on the teachers' union. Amazingly, every once and a while a politician comes along and tells the truth, and he's one of them."
Earlier this week, Christie told an audience in Washington, D.C., that he had no intention to run for the nomination. Coulter said if Christie were to stay out of the race, she may support Mitt Romney.
"He may well be the best candidate if it's not my love Christie."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/18/coulter-insanely-jealous-of-sarah-palin/
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I still like Palin overall. I judge people by those who hate them. Palin has all the people who hate her that I too loathe.
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March 8, 2011
Could $5-Per-Gallon Gas Be What Palin Needs?
By Scott Conroy
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As gasoline prices shot up for the 13th straight day on Monday to a new national average topping $3.50 and oil prices rose to over $106 a barrel, the cost of energy seemed poised once again to rise to the forefront of the political discourse just as the 2012 presidential campaign generates steam.
Of all the prospective Republican candidates, none may have a better opportunity to benefit politically from a nominating cycle in which gas prices take center stage than former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
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election 2012 energy
Sarah Palin
Marginalized by critics in 2008 over her perceived parochialism and lack of foreign policy experience, Palin can legitimately boast of a wide breadth of knowledge and wealth of experience on energy issues. For her, high gasoline prices may be an opportunity to demonstrate her own candlepower.
Since her 2009 resignation as governor, Palin has seemed eager to show off her policy chops on the national stage, but instead has struggled to mitigate the drawbacks of her celebrity image while repeatedly finding controversies large and small.
But it would be difficult for Palin's GOP rivals, and even her Democratic critics, to deny that energy issues fall directly into the wheelhouse of the former Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner who went on to lead a state where almost 90 percent of the budget is funded by oil revenue. As Tina Fey might say, Palin can see oil pipelines from her house.
During an appearance on Fox News last weekend, Palin nodded in anticipation and smiled confidently as host Jeanine Pirro lined up a question about what the government should do about rising gas prices.
Speaking with unbridled relish, Palin replied that opening the strategic oil reserves was not the solution to the problem and reverted to her old mantra that the government should "drill here and drill now" before going into a more in-depth criticism of the Obama administration's energy policies.
"Back in '08, our U.S. crude also was trading at about $100 a barrel as it is today for about six months, and that was right before our world economy imploded," Palin said. "And now here we are back again, so [Obama's] timing - his destructive timing - of locking up 97 percent of our off-shore and not allowing ANWR to be touched, not allowing domestic drilling to take place to the degree that it should, it is terrifying where he is leading us in terms of being at the mercy of foreign regimes that would seek our demise to produce energy for us."
With analysts predicting that gas prices are likely to soar even higher amid continued unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, other prospective GOP contenders have already begun seizing on the issue, as the high energy usage summer months approach rapidly.
During an appearance at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour accused Obama of intentionally boosting energy prices to promote a progressive environmental agenda.
"This administration's policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive," Barbour said.
As the governor of a Gulf state, Barbour might also lay claim to having a special understanding of energy issues, but Palin for years has placed a particular emphasis on topic during her time in office and beyond.
The Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, which Palin signed into law in August of 2008, set the framework for a major natural pipeline proposal that would transport natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to the Lower 48.
On the vice presidential campaign trail just weeks later, Palin spoke more frequently about energy issues than any other subject, and the emotional high-point of her boisterous rallies often came when she led crowds of tens of thousands of people in chants of "drill, baby, drill!"
As Palin continues to generate criticism from those who frequently suggest that she has not demonstrated a thorough understanding of the issues facing the country, the energy topic could offer a prime opportunity for her to prove them wrong.
As she continues to mull a presidential run, Palin figures to take particular note that energy issues figure to loom especially large in the nation's first voting state of Iowa.
"The people here who are large consumers of fuel, in the trucking industry or farmers, it cuts into their profitability, and those businesses will start to ask questions about what can be done to relieve costs of high fuel," said Polk County Republican co-chairman Will Rogers, a supporter of Newt Gingrich, who is in talks to become a paid consultant to the former House speaker in the coming weeks. "Whether it's Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich or anybody else that's looking at running for president, this is a real issue for many Americans. If we see between now and January another $20 to $30 added to the price of a barrel of oil, people will be talking about it here in Iowa."
Scott Conroy covers the White House for RealClearPolitics. He can be reached at sconroy@realclearpolitics.com.
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Ca't wait till it hits $5.00 a gallon and the piece of fecalmatter in the WH i still pushing his green scas and shemes.
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i totally refudiate that
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Palin has path to win, Republican warns
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By: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – Prominent New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg says that Sarah Palin just might have a clearer path to the Republican presidential nomination next year than commonly understood – an event he warns would lead to President Obama's clear reelection.
Gregg, the former senator and governor of the Granite State, says the muddled GOP presidential field means it's more likely than ever there won't be a clear consensus candidate before the party's nominating convention in August of 2012. If that happens, says Gregg, Palin and her army of supporters might have the upper hand when it comes to settling on a presidential candidate.
"A candidate who runs second or third in a great many primaries could go into the convention with a sizable block of delegates," writes Gregg in an Op-Ed in The Hill newspaper Monday. "Who would this favor? Does Sarah Palin come to mind? Although she is not viewed by most as strong enough to win, she is viewed by many as a person worth voting for to make a statement."
While it's unlikely Palin (should she run) would win that many primary contests, placing second or third might be enough - especially this time around when delegates will be awarded a proportionate basis instead of the winner-take-all system that has previously been the rule in Republican primaries.
"Finishing second and third isn't really a big deal – until you get enough delegates to be the nominee," writes Gregg. "And picking a nominee who it seems would be easily defeated by President Obama might not be the best statement."
In 2008, Gregg was a supporter of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is all-but-certain to run again.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/14/palin-has-path-to-win-republican-warns/
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Finishing second and third isn't really a big deal – until you get enough delegates to be the nominee," writes Gregg. "And picking a nominee who it seems would be easily defeated by President Obama might not be the best statement."
Gregg is 100% right.
She will be easily defeated by obama. Polls show it'll be a close race with every major repub - except her.
She'd be selfish to run - especially because by 2016 she might be perceived MUCH differently. Hilary was in no shape to be the nominee in 2004, but was perfect for 2008. Palin is like that with 2012 and 2016. By 2016, she will look older and more distinguished, and with some ambassador experience or something like that - might actually look presidential.
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The $4-Per-Gallon President
by Sarah Palin on Tuesday
March 15, 2011 at 4:27pm
Is it really any surprise that oil and gas prices are surging toward the record highs we saw in 2008 just prior to the economic collapse? Despite the President’s strange assertions in his press conference last week, his Administration is not a passive observer to the trends that have inflated oil prices to dangerous levels. His war on domestic oil and gas exploration and production has caused us pain at the pump, endangered our already sluggish economic recovery, and threatened our national security.
The evidence of the President’s anti-drilling mentality and his culpability in the high gas prices hurting Americans is there for all to see. The following is not even an exhaustive list:
Exhibit A: His drilling moratorium. Guided by politics and pure emotion following the Gulf spill instead of peer-reviewed science or defensible law, the President used the power of his executive order to impose a deepwater drilling moratorium. The Administration even ignored a court order halting his moratorium. And what is the net result of the President’s (in)actions? A large drilling company was forced to declare bankruptcy, the economy of the region has been hobbled, and at least 7 rigs moved out of the Gulf area to other parts of the world while many others remain idle. Is it any surprise that oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to fall by 240,000 bbl/d in 2011 alone?
But that’s just the Gulf. There’s also the question of a moratorium on the development of Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf. It seems the Obama Administration can’t agree with itself on whether it imposed a moratorium there or not. The White House claims that they didn’t, but their own Department of the Interior let slip that they did. To clear up this mess, Gov. Parnell decided to sue the DOI to get a solid answer because such a federal OCS drilling moratorium would violate federal law.
Exhibit B: His 2012 budget. The President used his 2012 budget to propose the elimination of several vital oil and natural gas production tax incentives. Eliminating these incentives will discourage energy companies from completing exploratory projects, resulting in higher energy costs for all Americans – and not just at the pump. According to one study mentioned in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, eliminating the deduction for drilling costs “could increase natural gas prices by 50 cents per thousand cubic feet,” which would translate to “an increased cost to consumers of $11.5 billion per year in the form of higher natural gas prices.”
Exhibit C: His anti-drilling regulatory policies. The U.S. Geological Survey found that the area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated 90 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas, one third of which is in Alaskan territory. That’s our next Prudhoe Bay right there. According to one industry study, allowing Royal Dutch Shell to tap these reserves in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort seas would create an annual average of 54,700 jobs nationwide with a $145 billion total payroll and generate an additional $193 billion a year in total revenues to local, state, and federal governments for 50 years. This would be great news if only the federal government would allow Shell to drill there. But it won’t. It’s been five years since Shell purchased the lease to develop these fields, but it’s been mired in a regulatory funk courtesy of the Obama Administration. After investing $3.5 billion in exploration programs (a significant portion of which went to ensuring responsible spill response and prevention), Shell announced last month that it has given up hope of obtaining the required permits to conduct exploratory drilling this year. That means no jobs and no billions in oil revenue from the Arctic anytime soon thanks to this Administration. Let’s stop and think about this for a moment. Right now Beltway politicos are quibbling over cutting $61 billion from our dangerously bloated $3.7 trillion budget. Allowing drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas will enrich federal coffers by $167 billion a year without raising our taxes. If we let Harry Reid keep his “cowboy poetry,” would the White House consider letting us drill?
Taken altogether, it’s hard to deny that the Obama Administration is anti-drilling. The President may try to suggest that the rise in oil prices has nothing to do with him, but the American people won’t be fooled. Before we saw any protests in the Middle East, increased global demand led to a significant rise in oil prices; but the White House stood idly by watching the prices go up and allowing America to remain increasingly dependent on imports from foreign regimes in dangerously unstable parts of the world.
This was no accident. Through a process of what candidate Obama once called “gradual adjustment,” American consumers have seen prices at the pump rise 67 percent since he took office. Let’s not forget that in September 2008, candidate Obama’s Energy Secretary in-waiting said: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” That’s one campaign promise they’re working hard to fulfill! Last week, the British Telegraph reported that the price of petrol in the UK hit £6 a gallon – which comes to about $9.70. If you think $4 a gallon is bad now, just wait till the next crisis causes oil prices to “necessarily” skyrocket. Meanwhile, the vast undeveloped reserves that could help to keep prices at the pump affordable remain locked up because of President Obama’s deliberate unwillingness to drill here and drill now.
Hitting the American people with higher gas prices like this is essentially a hidden tax and a transfer of wealth to foreign regimes who are providing us the energy we refuse to provide for ourselves. Like inflation, higher energy prices are a hidden tax on Americans who are struggling to make ends meet. And these high gas prices will be felt in the form of higher food prices due to higher transportation costs. Energy is connected to everything in our economy. Access to affordable and secure energy is key to economic growth, which in turn is key to job growth. Energy is the building block of our economy. The President is purposely weakening that building block and weakening our country.
2012 can’t come soon enough.
- Sarah Palin
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"The $4-Per-Gallon President
by Sarah Palin on Tuesday"
So weird she didn't write a story like this about Bush's gas prices.
At least be consistent. Obama is a kneepadding tool of the saudis. So was Dubya. So was clinton.
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"The $4-Per-Gallon President
by Sarah Palin on Tuesday"
So weird she didn't write a story like this about Bush's gas prices.
At least be consistent. Obama is a kneepadding tool of the saudis. So was Dubya. So was clinton.
its only bad if a dem does it... you know that
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its only bad if a dem does it... you know that
By comparing Obama to Bush (who you guys refer to as the worst POTUS ever), you are doing the Supreme Messiah no favors.
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"The $4-Per-Gallon President
by Sarah Palin on Tuesday"
So weird she didn't write a story like this about Bush's gas prices.
At least be consistent. Obama is a kneepadding tool of the saudis. So was Dubya. So was clinton.
But, at least by the end of Bush's second term, the prices dropped to $1.30/gallon. Plus, McCain bore the brunt of Bush's less-than-stellar final 18 months in office. The Obama campaign (with healthy assists from the left-winged goofies in the media) basically stuck a George-Bush mask on McCain's head.
That dog won't hunt on 2012.
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But, at least by the end of Bush's second term, the prices dropped to $1.30/gallon. Plus, McCain bore the brunt of Bush's less-than-stellar final 18 months in office. The Obama campaign (with healthy assists from the left-winged goofies in the media) basically stuck a George-Bush mask on McCain's head.
That dog won't hunt on 2012.
when did it go to 1.30?..where
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when did it go to 1.30?..where
Tail end of 2008, particularly in the Sunshine State and the southeastern portion of the country.
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I never saw it at 1.30 anywhere in FL.
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I never saw it at 1.30 anywhere in FL.
Got down to about 1.79 in NY.
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Sarah Palin Destroyed By Conservatives
Cenk Uygur breaks down a Politico article that shows the right wing is trying to take down Sarah Palin before the 2012 Republican primaries, including a Weekly Standard writer that said she was "becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition".
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Funny - she still gets you communist little pukes in a snit.
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I bet her trip didnt cost taxpayers tens if not hundreds of millions a day.
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Palin International
The Washington Times ^ | March 17, 2011 | Jennifer Harper
Pollsters and pundits who declare Sarah Palin a political has-been and Republican irritant should curb their appetites. Mrs. Palin has bypassed localized rants and gone to the global forum. The possible presidential contender will spend her weekend in India and Israel, accompanied by powerful company and a star-struck international press - savvy strategy for someone seeking positive buzz, sensational photo-ops and foreign policy credentials.
Friday and Saturday find Mrs. Palin at the side of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; she is the keynote speaker for a massive business and culture conference studded with Bollywood stars and power players, staged at the swank Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi. Mrs. Palin’s speech is titled “My Vision of America.” And India? She has deemed it “the world’s largest democracy,” a source says.
On Sunday, she journeys to Israel, culminating in a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss “key issues facing his country, our ally Israel,” Mrs. Palin says. Critics already are dismissing the visit as a maneuver to court Jewish voters or raise campaign funds. Those conclusions are premature.
Besides, her peers have been there, done that. Mike Huckabee - in the company of actor Jon Voight - plus Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour also have made recent visits to Israel.
“The appeal of Sarah Palin as a GOP nominee is not just about domestic resentments. It is also about foreign policy revanchism. And it seems rash to dismiss the importance of this. There is something about an attractive woman wielding military force that reaches those parts of the psyche that ‘no-drama Obama‘ never will or can,” observes The Atlantic columnist Andrew Sullivan.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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Sarah Palin Says “It’s Time A Woman Became President of the United States”
gateway pundit ^ | 3/19/2011 | Jim Hoft
Sarah Palin is the first Republican leader to speak at the event in New Delhi. Sarah was invited to speak on her Vision for America.
Today’s tea party is a strong and vibrant movement in the US. The former VP candidate is emphasizing energy challenges. “We all face energy challenges in the international arena.” ENERGY is the key. My vision for a free and prosperous America involves an emphasis on energy.
On green energy– I am in favor of an “all of the above approach” to energy. Unfortunately, though some have stymied responsible drilling. It means we continue to transfer hundreds of millions of American dollars to foreign regimes. Everything is touched.
As government locks up land – they try to tell us that green jobs are our future. “A recent British study found that for every green job, 4 jobs were lost.” This is social engineering.
Americans can tap into our own natural resources. And natural gas- green and efficient. Natural gas is an ideal “bridge fuel” to the future. It’s a false fairy tale for government to interfere and for Americans to believe that we don’t need oil and gas.
“Big government ideas are once again being thrown into the ash heap of history – but they’re not going quietly.”
The future lies with us. There are few limits to what India and America can do together. We both want to expand trade and investment with allies.
It is our people who are driving this relationship.
Our ties and our bonds are deep. They’re not driven by a free people and a free markets not by conclaves.
We will lead because we are on the side of people to make decisions for themselves. We are on the side of religious tolerance and women’s rights. I admire India’s history of strong women leaders.
I supported South Carolina’s first Indian governor Nikki Haley. I support the tea party a vibrant and growing movement.
On social media- We should look at this as an opportunity to advance freedom.
This hunger for freedom is not just American. We have such a connection. Half a world apart but connected by this. We can lead by example.
On trade with India– Sarah Palin: We are thankful for the free trade agreements throughout the world.
On foreign policy- Sarah Palin: There would have been more decisiveness. We have a rich tradition on being on the side of those who seek freedom. “Less dithering and more decisiveness.”
On China- Sarah Palin: China has a choice. We need to be sure and India needs to be sure that we are clear with their expectations… We say they manipulate their currency. They accuse us of the same. …What’s with the military buildup? We have concerns… Again we look forward to see them making the right choice.
On the tea party movement- Sarah Palin: The tea party patriots just want the Constitution to be followed. It’s smaller smarter government. It’s too good to have a leader.
On campaigning for VP- Sarah Palin: You can’t really trust the media. You have to have the boldness and courage of setting the record straight. Especially when they have made their choice… I’m not just going to sit back and take it. I’ve learned you can’t just trust the media to set the record straight. Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep sometimes. I don’t play the victim card when they do choose to set the election straight.
On losing election- Sarah Palin: Obama was a change agent. Question: But so were you. Sarah Palin: But I wasn’t on the top of the ticket.
Sarah Palin: It’s time a woman became president of the United States of America. (Applause)
Sarah Palin: I am a strong supporter of peace through strength… If we want a more peaceful world India and America must work more closely together.
Her role in Republican Party- Sarah Palin: I’m pretty independent and some people don’t like that… I’m a mom and I just don’t have the time to play some of the games the guys want to play.
On reviving American economy- Sarah Palin: It’s common sense free market principles. Cutting spending.
Last question – Will you husband be called the first man? Sarah Palin: First dude.
Closing statement: When I was waiting for your speech I was talking to an official and he said he was looking forward to her speech. I asked him why and he said, “Because Sarah Palin is a a friend of India.”
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Michelle bachmann appreciates palin's endorsement.
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If Palin were president
By: CNN's Rebecca Stewart
(CNN)-Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin slammed the Obama administration for "dithering" on Libya and accused fellow Republicans of "having the fighting instinct of sheep" while speaking overseas in India on Saturday.
While Palin's prepared remarks outlined her vision for America, her sharpest comments came during a Q-and-A session where she entertained 'if you were president'-style hypotheticals.
Palin was invited to deliver the keynote address at the India Today Conclave, an annual gathering of India's elite including business leaders, politicians and academics. It is sponsored by an Indian Communications company and named for the India Today magazine.
The potential presidential candidate addressed the importance of energy and the influence of India's relationship with the United States in prepared remarks titled "My Vision of America." But when she sat down for the question-and-answer session with the editor-in-chief of India Today, Aroon Purie, her attention turned to topics of a presidential nature.
She was asked how she would respond to certain events if she were president, including financial assistance to banks and Libya. On Libya she said "It would have been different." Remarking that the U.S. has a tradition of not criticizing the president's foreign policy on "foreign soil," she continued, "Certainly, there would have been more decisiveness, more commitment to those that are freedom fighters, that they know that America is on their side.
"There would have been more decisiveness, less dithering," Palin stated.
And of financial assistance given to banks she said that she'd rather "free markets decide who the winners and who the losers would be" instead of politicians.
"I don't think it was such a tough situation that it had to lead to the bailouts that our U.S. government engaged in," she stated. "What it led to is more debt."
Calling the Tea Party "a grassroots movement from the ground up" that is a "beautiful movement" that will grow and be more influential, Palin asserted that the Tea Party movement will "hold our politicians accountable."
She also shared lessons from the 2008 campaign trail, where she learned "You can't necessarily trust the mainstream media to accurately report on your record…your values...Not when those in the media already have their chosen one...You have to have the boldness and courage to set the record yourself."
Palin remarked that her approach is different than that of her GOP peers. "Too often Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep and you know they're just going to sit back and take it…I don't have that within me…I will put my foot down and I will state the truth so that people have correct information and they can make decisions for themselves," she declared.
Palin also described herself as "independent" saying that "some Republican players within the Republican hierarchy don't really like that." And she revealed that "Todd Palin is not even registered with the Republican Party [in Alaska] because he's such an independent."
When asked why she lost the election, Palin joked that it was "because the media," but continued on to provide her insight on the views of the electorate saying "Candidate Obama had a strong campaign, he was the agent of change and though he was inexperienced and relatively unknown people so desired that change."
Purie noted that Palin "could have been a change too," and she responded, "I wasn't the top of the ticket. Remember? I'm not saying I should've been."
And when the conversation turned to the 2012 ticket, she quickly stated the she hasn't made a decision on whether to run. Observing that "there's plenty of time to deliberate," Palin affirmed that she is still thinking about a presidential candidacy.
She's also thought about Todd Palin's title if she became president. When asked if he would be called the "first man," Palin responded "Probably the first gentleman."
"Man, that's getting way ahead of ourselves, isn't it? Yes, it is," she said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/19/if-palin-were-president/#more-150854
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If Palin were president
By: CNN's Rebecca Stewart
(CNN)-Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin slammed the Obama administration for "dithering" on Libya and accused fellow Republicans of "having the fighting instinct of sheep" while speaking overseas in India on Saturday.
While Palin's prepared remarks outlined her vision for America, her sharpest comments came during a Q-and-A session where she entertained 'if you were president'-style hypotheticals.
Palin was invited to deliver the keynote address at the India Today Conclave, an annual gathering of India's elite including business leaders, politicians and academics. It is sponsored by an Indian Communications company and named for the India Today magazine.
The potential presidential candidate addressed the importance of energy and the influence of India's relationship with the United States in prepared remarks titled "My Vision of America." But when she sat down for the question-and-answer session with the editor-in-chief of India Today, Aroon Purie, her attention turned to topics of a presidential nature.
She was asked how she would respond to certain events if she were president, including financial assistance to banks and Libya. On Libya she said "It would have been different." Remarking that the U.S. has a tradition of not criticizing the president's foreign policy on "foreign soil," she continued, "Certainly, there would have been more decisiveness, more commitment to those that are freedom fighters, that they know that America is on their side.
"There would have been more decisiveness, less dithering," Palin stated.
And of financial assistance given to banks she said that she'd rather "free markets decide who the winners and who the losers would be" instead of politicians.
"I don't think it was such a tough situation that it had to lead to the bailouts that our U.S. government engaged in," she stated. "What it led to is more debt."
Calling the Tea Party "a grassroots movement from the ground up" that is a "beautiful movement" that will grow and be more influential, Palin asserted that the Tea Party movement will "hold our politicians accountable."
She also shared lessons from the 2008 campaign trail, where she learned "You can't necessarily trust the mainstream media to accurately report on your record…your values...Not when those in the media already have their chosen one...You have to have the boldness and courage to set the record yourself."
Palin remarked that her approach is different than that of her GOP peers. "Too often Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep and you know they're just going to sit back and take it…I don't have that within me…I will put my foot down and I will state the truth so that people have correct information and they can make decisions for themselves," she declared.
Palin also described herself as "independent" saying that "some Republican players within the Republican hierarchy don't really like that." And she revealed that "Todd Palin is not even registered with the Republican Party [in Alaska] because he's such an independent."
When asked why she lost the election, Palin joked that it was "because the media," but continued on to provide her insight on the views of the electorate saying "Candidate Obama had a strong campaign, he was the agent of change and though he was inexperienced and relatively unknown people so desired that change."
Purie noted that Palin "could have been a change too," and she responded, "I wasn't the top of the ticket. Remember? I'm not saying I should've been."
And when the conversation turned to the 2012 ticket, she quickly stated the she hasn't made a decision on whether to run. Observing that "there's plenty of time to deliberate," Palin affirmed that she is still thinking about a presidential candidacy.
She's also thought about Todd Palin's title if she became president. When asked if he would be called the "first man," Palin responded "Probably the first gentleman."
"Man, that's getting way ahead of ourselves, isn't it? Yes, it is," she said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/19/if-palin-were-president/#more-150854
::) I feel sorry for anyone who wasted their time reading that pablum.
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The Eagle Has Landed… SARAH PALIN Arrives in Israel – Visits Wailing Wall
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/03/the-eagle-has-landed-sarah-palin-arrives-in-israel/ ^ | 3/20/11 | Jim Hoft
Her first stop – The Wailing Wall.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin arrives at the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem’s Old City March 20, 2011. Palin began a private visit to Israel on Sunday, her first to the Jewish state, and planned to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour holy sites. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
Sarah Palin arrived in Israel today, her first trip to the Jewish state. She plans on meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and an Israeli settlement leader during her visit. The Jerusalem Post reported:
Leading US Republican Sarah Palin began a private visit to Israel on Sunday, her first to the Jewish state, and planned to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and tour holy sites.
Palin, a 2008 vice presidential candidate, is a potential White House contender in 2012 and a leading light in the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement.
“As the world confronts sweeping changes and new realities, I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss the key issues facing his country, our ally Israel,” Palin, who flew in from India, said in a statement on her website.
Israeli media described her trip as a bid to show support for Israel, whose standing is strong among US voters, and gain more experience in international affairs ahead of a possible presidential run.
Palin, who is keeping her supporters guessing on whether she will run for the presidency, made no comment to reporters on arrival at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport for the two-day visit.
Palin was scheduled to have dinner with Netanyahu and his wife on Monday after visiting holy sites in Jerusalem, including Judaism’s Western Wall.
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'Palin Asked: Why Apologize to the Muslims?'
Arutz Sheva, Israel National News ^ | March 21, 2011 / 15 AdarII, 5771 | Gil Ronen
Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 9:39:17 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Popular conservative politician Sarah Palin understands the importance of the Temple Mount to the Jewish people, according to MK Danny Danon (Likud), who accompanied her on a visit to the Kotel Sunday.
Danon told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language service: "When we toured near the Kotel and in the tunnels near the Holy of Holies, she told me clear things without hesitating. She understands the importance of the place for the Jewish People and even asked me 'Why do you keep apologizing to the Muslims all the time?'"
"I explained to her the mistakes made by [then-Defense Minister] Moshe Dayan in 1967 and our mistakes in not fulfilling our rights in the Temple Mount and the Old City," Danon said. He was referring to Dayan's decision to hand back the keys to the Temple Mount to the Muslim Waqf immediately after the liberation of the Mount in the Six-Day War.
Danon noted that Israel has large-scale support in the Christian world but "we are afraid to take advantage of it. It's as if we are ashamed about ourselves. But there is great support and I felt it in the tour yesterday."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
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Palin promises to come back for a week (Bibi refused to meet liberal group; chose Palin)
Jerusalem Post ^ | Monday March 21, 2011 | GIL HOFFMAN
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her husband Todd concluded their brief first visit to Israel on Monday by meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at his official residence in Jerusalem.
Ahead of the meeting, Netanyahu’s office checked with Palin to see whether they could expand it to a full reception for her with other politicians and aides, but she politely declined.
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In private conversations, she vowed to return soon – for a full week – and said she would meet with more politicians and the media then.
J Street officials, who are in Israel for a meeting of the Knesset Diaspora Affairs Committee, complained on Monday that Netanyahu had refused a request to meet with them but had chosen to meet with Palin.
The left-wing American lobby’s president, Jeremy Ben-Ami, said he had wanted to meet with Netanyahu “to introduce ourselves and explain how we can work together as allies.”
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Fey: Ridiculing Palin Hurt My Show's Ratings
NewsMax ^ | April 5, 2011
Tina Fey’s caricature of former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live may have caused a dip in viewership of her current show, “30 Rock,” she suggests in her new memoir.
In her book “Bossypants,” the comedian and actress refutes criticisms at the time that she was exploiting Palin to her own advantage with her Emmy-winning, winking portrayal of the ex-governor of Alaska.
“Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show, 30 Rock,” she writes. “I am proud to say you are wrong…. My TV show still enjoys low ratings. In fact, I think the Palin stuff may have hurt the TV show.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
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You cut off the rest of the quote lol.... "50% of the population already thinks we are pinko commies"
Sounds like newsmax is trying to make it sound like Fey is whining by removing that last 10 words. She's dissing the % of the population that will really scream 'commie pinko' at another american.
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Palin simply isn't intelligent enough to be POTUS.
Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't too intelligent him or herself.
End of thread.
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Palin simply isn't intelligent enough to be POTUS.
Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't too intelligent him or herself.
End of thread.
No its not the end of the thread. Those of you who foolishly, sheepishly, ignorantly, and stupidly voted for obama in 2008 put us in a situation where in 2012 we have to consider even Palin in 2012 as she is clearly more suited for the job o many levels than the communist traitor and marxist sleeper cell POTUS we have now.
Thank you for putting this piece of trash in office. Your contribution is noted.
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No its not the end of the thread. Those of you who foolishly, sheepishly, ignorantly, and stupidly voted for obama in 2008 put us in a situation where in 2012 we have to consider even Palin in 2012 as she is clearly more suited for the job o many levels than the communist traitor and marxist sleeper cell POTUS we have now.
Thank you for putting this piece of trash in office. Your contribution is noted.
Sounds like somebody needs to ease up on the Glenn Beck intake.
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Good job by Sarah. She went right into the belly of the beast and called out those union pieces of trash and shit.
Good for her.
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From 14:00 on she is totally on fire.
FUCK YOU OBAMA AND EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS YOU AND PLANS TO VOTE FOR YOU IN 2012. ROT IN HELL YOU COMMUNIST TRAITOR.
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From 14:00 on she is totally on fire.
FUCK YOU OBAMA AND EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS YOU AND PLANS TO VOTE FOR YOU IN 2012. ROT IN HELL YOU COMMUNIST TRAITOR.
really... all that
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really... all that
Yes. Fuck you obama and anyone who supports him. He is a sleeper cell all on to himself. And yes - if you stillsupport this disaster in office - FUCK YOU too. Havent you seen enough yet from these horrible policies, whether it be massive inflation, horrible economy, new wars, disastrous foreign policy, insults to our allies and home grown citizens, daily lies on every subject, etc?
Or do you support him for some other reason?
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Yes. Fuck you obama and anyone who supports him. He is a sleeper cell all on to himself. And yes - if you stillsupport this disaster in office - FUCK YOU too. Havent you seen enough yet from these horrible policies, whether it be massive inflation, horrible economy, new wars, disastrous foreign policy, insults to our allies and home grown citizens, daily lies on every subject, etc?
Or do you support him for some other reason?
Shut up bitch.. Just because i dont go all Comminist Sleeper cell terroist .. dosent make me a supporter.. i told your bitch ass what i didnt like about obama. But what im not gonna do is jump off the deep end with these comparisons and shit like your rabid, retarded, chicken shit, lying, closet racist, dick breathed, fucktarded, punk ass does. All that shit is just fucking dumn and why you are still viewed as a fuckin joke on this thread. fuckin idiot
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Shut up bitch.. Just because i dont go all Comminist Sleeper cell terroist .. dosent make me a supporter.. i told your bitch ass what i didnt like about obama. But what im not gonna do is jump off the deep end with these comparisons and shit like your rabid, retarded, chicken shit, lying, closet racist, dick breathed, fucktarded, punk ass does. All that shit is just fucking dumn and why you are still viewed as a fuckin joke on this thread board. fuckin idiot
Fixed it.
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Yawn - tell me what in her speech you disagree with?
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From 14:00 on she is totally on fire.
FUCK YOU OBAMA AND EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS YOU AND PLANS TO VOTE FOR YOU IN 2012. ROT IN HELL YOU COMMUNIST TRAITOR.
17:40 on she destroys the messiah and his traitorous, treasonous, WTF, communist, destructive, and evil agenda.
FUCK YOU OBAMA
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Wow. A tell all book. Didn't see that one coming. ::)
'Chilling expose' on Palin to be released
mug.mooney By: CNN Political Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – Simon & Schuster is set to release a tell-all book by a former aide to Sarah Palin that the mega publishing house is promising will provide an "explosive, up-close view" of the former Alaska governor.
The upcoming book, by former aide Frank Bailey, will be released May 24 and promises to be a "chilling expose," according to Howard Books, the imprint of Simon & Schuster that is publishing the book.
Called "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin," the book will detail Bailey's observations of the governor from the time he joined her political team in 2006 until she resigned her governorship three years later.
Excerpts of the preliminary draft of the book was leaked to the Anchorage Daily News in February and reportedly included charges by Bailey that Palin despised her job as governor and may have broken campaign election laws in 2006.
The 500-page manuscript also reportedly described a Palin deeply exasperated with her political opponents and the heightened attacks she faced after being tapped to be the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008. Palin resigned as governor in July of 2009.
The book is also written by Jeanne Devon, a longtime critic of the former governor who publishes the anti-Palin blog Mudflats, and California author Ken Morris, who has written anti-Palin articles on his own website
When the manuscript was first leaked, a Palin spokesperson said the former Alaska governor was not going to respond to "this kind of untruth."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/18/chilling-expose-on-palin-to-be-released/#more-155006
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Wow. A tell all book. Didn't see that one coming. ::)
People will write anything for money.
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she hasn't assembled a political team yet for 2012. fingers crossed she doesn't run!
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Palin: Fresh Breeze In Wisconsin
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=569537&p=1
Posted 04/18/2011 07:08 PM ET
Palin wows in Wisconsin.
Leadership: Sarah Palin hit it out of the park in a speech this past weekend in Wisconsin. She dazzled because, of all things, she reached out to her opponents. When was the last time we saw that coming out of the White House?
Amazingly, Palin's words offered common ground between Tea Party taxpayers and public employee union members, who've until now been at odds with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to balance the state budget.
"What I have to say today I say it to our good patriotic brothers and sisters who are in unions ... a pension is a promise that must be kept. Now, your Governor Scott Walker understands this. He understands that states must be solvent in order to keep their promise. And that's what he's trying to do. He's not trying to hurt union members. Hey, folks, he's trying to save your jobs and your pensions!"
In short, she came to save, not to cut, and in the finest example of bipartisan bridge-building since President Reagan made allies of blue-collar workers, she reached out to the very people whose hirelings tried to drown her speech out with obscenities.
Palin paid no attention to the thugs and kept her eye on the common ground. She put her finger on the two things that matter most to workers across the country — saving their jobs and their pensions — and decisively linked it with the reduction in the size of government sought by the Tea Party taxpayers.
As philosopher Eric Hoffer once noted: The elegant way to solve a problem is to take one and use it to solve the other.
Palin didn't rest there, though. She put her finger on the real problem: union bosses, who, like AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, brag about their daily contact with the White House as if to say they have President Obama in their back pocket.
And what a coincidence: That's where this sorry spectacle of rank partisanship is emanating from.
Last week, Obama invited another man from Wisconsin, Rep. Paul Ryan, to hear his budget speech from a front-row seat.
Obama used the occasion to blast Ryan's own 10-year budget, mischaracterizing it as about Scrooge-like cuts to the poor instead of saving money so that there would always be funds for the poor.
"Their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America," Obama said. And, in a stunning bit of mendacity, he warned that "children with autism or Down's syndrome" would suffer against "every millionaire and billionaire in our society."
These are divisive words, favorites of Marxist-Leninist class warfare — the kind that drove nations like the Soviet Union to the verge of bankruptcy.
That's why Palin's clarity was so welcome.
"Unfortunately, some of your bosses don't understand this," she said, "and they don't care if union members have to be laid off. No, they want to protect their own power, and if that means forcing a governor to lay off workers, then so be it. They've proven that is fine with them. But that's not real solidarity. Solidarity means coming together for the common good."
How interesting to recall that these same union leaders today work hand-in-glove with a White House that doesn't want to balance the budget.
In the end, that's what it comes down to: union leaders calling for tax hikes against an ever-dwindling number of taxpayers, as the White House demonizes any objectors as evil "millionaires and billionaires."
That's what passes for "fairness" and "unity" with this bunch. Anyone who protests can expect obscenity-hurling thugs to come after them.
That's what they sent to drown out Palin. But it didn't work. Because Palin's speech ultimately wasn't for Wisconsin. It was for YouTube and the nation watching it.
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June 2011
The Tragedy of Sarah Palin
From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. What went wrong?
By Joshua Green
Image credit: Robert Hunt
It’s hard to escape Sarah Palin. On Facebook and Twitter, cable news and reality television, she is a constant object of dispute, the target or instigator of some distressingly large proportion of the political discourse. If she runs for president—well, brace yourself! But there is one place where a kind of collective resolve has been able to push her aside, make her a less suffocating presence than almost everywhere else: Alaska.
During a week spent traveling there recently, I learned that Palin occupies a place in the minds of most Alaskans roughly like that of an ex-spouse from a stormy marriage: she’s a distant bad memory, and questions about her seem vaguely unwelcome. Visitors to Juneau, the capital and a haven for cruise-ship tourism, are hard-pressed to find signs of the state’s most famous citizen—no “Mama Grizzly” memorabilia or T-shirts bearing her spunky slogans. Although the town was buzzing with politics because the legislature was in session, talk of Palin mainly revolved around a rumored Democratic poll showing her to be less popular in Alaska right now than Barack Obama. The only tangible evidence I saw was her official portrait in the capitol and a small sign in the window of a seedy-looking gift shop advertising “Sarah Palin toilet paper.” Alaska has moved on.
So has Palin. Two years after abruptly resigning the governorship, she is a national figure, touring the country to promote her books; speaking out whenever moved to on important issues of the day; and serving, mainly through Fox News, as the guardian-enforcer of a particularly martial brand of conservatism. Though she still lives in Alaska, she has all but withdrawn from its public life, appearing only seldom and then usually to film her reality-television show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska.
But if she decides to run for the White House—and she’ll have to make up her mind soon—all of that will change. As much as Alaska might like to forget Sarah Palin, and she it, her record there, especially as governor, will take on new salience.
Palin entered the national consciousness more suddenly than most high-level politicians do, and she did it in the intense final stretch of a presidential campaign, which had a kiln-like effect of hardening the initial impression—depending on your point of view, of the provincial half-wit portrayed by Tina Fey or the plain-sense Mama Grizzly proudly leading her army of culture warriors. In modern politics, your “brand,” once established, is almost impossible to change. Only a handful of politicians have changed theirs (Hillary Clinton is one), and then only through tireless perseverance. Palin has shown little inclination to revise or deepen these impressions—she didn’t respond to my requests to discuss her record—and she hasn’t designated anyone else to do it for her. (Mama Grizzlies claw; they don’t contextualize.)
But over the past few months, Palin has begun fortifying her profile by visiting foreign countries and delivering speeches that extol her record as governor, especially on energy, as she did in March to an audience of international business leaders in India. Energy was supposed to be her big issue in the 2008 presidential campaign, but it was overshadowed by her missteps. She seems to be reintroducing herself.
And there’s plenty she could reintroduce—much more than the public, which long ago made up its mind about Palin, has any idea she actually achieved. For all the attention she gets, her claim to a role in public life is rarely the focus; more often, it’s dismissed outright. In any discussion of her candidacy, her critics’ first argument for why she couldn’t win, always slapped down like a winning poker hand, is that she quit her governorship. That’s indeed discreditable and harms her chances, but it glides right past the question of what she did before she quit, and how that has turned out for Alaska. And that’s a more interesting story than you might suppose—a story quite at odds with her popular perception today in Alaska and everywhere else.
As governor, Palin demonstrated many of the qualities we expect in our best leaders. She set aside private concerns for the greater good, forgoing a focus on social issues to confront the great problem plaguing Alaska, its corrupt oil-and-gas politics. She did this in a way that seems wildly out of character today—by cooperating with Democrats and moderate Republicans to raise taxes on Big Business. And she succeeded to a remarkable extent in settling, at least for a time, what had seemed insoluble problems, in the process putting Alaska on a trajectory to financial well-being. Since 2008, Sarah Palin has influenced her party, and the tenor of its politics, perhaps more than any other Republican, but in a way that is almost the antithesis of what she did in Alaska. Had she stayed true to her record, she might have pointed her party in a very different direction.
Inside the Alaska capitol hangs a framed copy of the front page of the Anchorage Daily News for September 11, 1969, its headline—“Alaska’s Richest Day: $900 Million!”—stretching above a picture of purposeful-looking men in suits carrying large briefcases and about to duck into a car. The briefcases contain a fortune that is being rushed to the airport and on to a bank in San Francisco, so Alaskans will not forgo a single day’s interest. This is the proceeds of the state’s first oil-lease auction since the discovery, a year earlier, of the massive oil deposit at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope, to this day the largest in North America. The headline captures the euphoria over the massive payout by the world’s leading oil companies—a windfall that transformed the state’s politics, economy, and self-image almost overnight.
Throughout most of its history as a territory and, after 1959, as a state, Alaska was a tenuous proposition, a barren outpost rich in resources yet congenitally poor because the outside interests that extracted them didn’t leave much behind. The main obstacle to statehood was convincing Congress that Alaska wouldn’t immediately go bust. It still relies heavily on aid from Washington, and that, combined with the federal government’s holding title to 60 percent of its land base (the state itself holds 28 percent more), generates a robust resentment of federal power. The colonial mind-set is reinforced by the intensity of the state’s politics, a common attribute of remote settlements like Alaska, as the historian Ken Coates has noted—think Lord of the Flies.
To suddenly strike it rich opens up all sorts of possibilities, but there can be problems too. The legislature exhausted its fortune without meeting Alaskans’ outsize expectations. And although oil brought jobs and revenue, it also ensured that a state long accustomed to economic subservience would be beholden to a powerful new interest. Oil is more important to Alaska than the movie business is to Los Angeles or the auto industry is to Michigan. Stephen Haycox, a professor at the University of Alaska at Anchorage, writes in Frigid Embrace, his history of the state’s political economy, “The oil industry is, for all practical purposes, Alaska’s only private economy.”
This binds the state’s fortunes not just to the price of oil but also to the fate of the three giants that dominate Alaska: BP, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips. Oil taxes supply almost 90 percent of the general revenue, so oil is the central arena of state politics. The industry is forever trying to coax lower taxes, lighter regulation, and greater public investment by promising jobs and riches—or, on occasion, threatening to withdraw them.
In 1978, the Democratic legislature tried to secure the state’s share of oil profits by establishing a corporate income tax over the bitter opposition of the oil companies, which sued to overturn it. They lost in every venue, including, finally, the U.S. Supreme Court. But the real battle was fought in the statehouse.
The oil industry contributed mainly to Republicans through the 1960s and ’70s, but came to realize that it needed broader alliances, and in the late ’70s began courting Democrats too. The strategy paid off. In 1981, the oil companies, through their allies in the legislature, launched a coup, ousting the speaker of the house and key committee chairmen. Then they revoked the corporate income tax. For the next 25 years, oil interests ruled the state almost uninterruptedly.
Palin’s rise began in 2002, when, term-limited as mayor of Wasilla, she ran for lieutenant governor. Little known and heavily outspent, she beat expectations, losing only narrowly and showing an exceptional ability to win fervent support. Afterward, she campaigned for Frank Murkowski, the four-term Alaska senator come home to run for governor. Palin traveled the state speaking about Murkowski, and making herself better known. When he won, she was short-listed to serve the remainder of his Senate term, and even interviewed for the job. But it went to his daughter Lisa instead. (Palin acidly recounts the patronizing interview with the new governor in her memoir, Going Rogue.) Palin got the low-profile chairmanship of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a regulatory body charged with ensuring that these resources are developed in the public interest.
By the time she arrived, the notion that Alaska’s oil-and-gas policy operated in the public interest was getting hard to maintain. The industry controlled the state, and especially the Republican Party. Other than a modest adjustment to oil taxes that squeezed through in 1989 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the hammerlock held. Alaskans were coming to regard this situation with suspicion and anxiety. The problem wasn’t just that the state was starved of revenue from its most valuable resource. It was also the failure to develop another resource to which the oil companies held title: Alaska’s bountiful supply of natural gas. It’s always been understood that North Slope oil would one day run dry. Someday, perhaps as soon as 2019, there won’t be enough oil left to push through the trans-Alaska pipeline—a catastrophe, unless the state somehow replaces the revenue. For this reason, building a gas pipeline has long been a political priority, and one the oil companies have balked at.
From her spot on the oil-and-gas commission, Palin touched off a storm over these anxieties. One glaring example of the unhealthy commingling of oil interests and Republican politics was her fellow commissioner and Murkowski appointee, Randy Ruedrich, who was also chairman of the state Republican Party. Less than a year into the job, Ruedrich got crosswise with Palin for conducting party business from his office (and, it was later revealed, giving information to a company that the commission oversaw). When he ignored her admonitions to stop, she complained to Murkowski’s staff, but still nothing happened. So Palin laid out her concerns in a letter to the governor and the story leaked to the media. In the ensuing uproar, Palin became a hero and Murkowski was left no choice but to fire Ruedrich from the commission.
Palin got strong support from an unlikely quarter: Democrats. “She had the appearance of someone who was willing to go in a different direction,” Hollis French, a Democratic state senator, told me. “We subsequently learned that she’ll throw anyone under a bus, but that wasn’t apparent at the time. It looked like real moral courage.”
Even so, Palin’s actions were presumed to have ruined her prospects. Murkowski and Ruedrich still ran the party. Breaking with them made her no longer viable as an ordinary Republican or a recipient of oil-company largesse. To continue her rise, she needed to find another path. Palin alone imagined that she could. In this and other ways, she displayed all the traits that would become famous: the intense personalization of politics, the hyper-aggressive score-settling—and the dramatic public gesture, which came next.
Palin was clearly the victor (Ruedrich paid the largest civil fine in state history), but she quit the commission anyway. In Going Rogue, she says only that as a commissioner, she was subject to a gag order that Murkowski refused to lift. But quitting didn’t void the gag order. What it did was thrust her back into the spotlight and reinforce her public image. It also gave her a rationale to challenge Murkowski.
All of this turned out to be shrewd politics, because Murkowski’s governorship proceeded to fall apart, thanks to his brazen sense of entitlement. After failing to persuade the Homeland Security Department to buy him a personal jet (to help “defend, deter or defeat opposition forces”), he ignored the legislature’s objections and bought one with state funds. But it was his handling of matters vital to the state’s future that finally threw open the door for Palin.
Murkowski made up his mind to strike a deal with the major oil producers to finally build a gas pipeline from the North Slope. He cut out the legislature and insisted on negotiating through his own team of experts, out of public sight. This rankled all sorts of people because, beyond his arrogance, Murkowski had distinct views about oil and gas that many others didn’t share.
Alaska’s parties align differently from parties elsewhere—they’re further to the right and principally concerned with resource extraction. The major philosophical divide, especially on oil and gas, is between those who view the state as beholden to the oil companies for its livelihood, and will grant them almost anything to ensure that livelihood, and those who view its position as being like the owner of a public corporation for whom the oil companies’ interests are separate from and subordinate to those of its citizen-shareholders. “Oil and gas cuts a swath right through ordinary partisan politics,” Patrick Galvin, Palin’s revenue commissioner, told me.
Murkowski’s willingness to cater to the oil producers, and his secrecy, caused tensions in his administration that burst into view when he announced his deal, in October 2005. It was a breathtaking giveaway that ceded control of the pipeline to the oil companies and retained only a small stake for Alaskans; established a 30-year regime of low taxes impossible to revoke; indemnified companies against any damages from accidents; and exempted everything from open-records laws. In exchange, the state got an increase in the oil-production tax. (Palin later released a private memo in which Murkowski’s top economic adviser complains that he has “gone completely overboard” and is treating “Alaska as a banana republic in order to secure the gas line.”) The deal conceded so much that Murkowski’s natural-resources commissioner, Tom Irwin, publicly questioned its legality—and was summarily fired. Six of Irwin’s aides quit in protest, and the “Magnificent Seven” became a cause célèbre. In the end, the legislature rejected the gas-line deal. But, in a twist, it agreed to the oil tax—which had been intended as an inducement to pass the rest of the package.
Palin came out hard on the other side of the philosophical divide from Murkowski—and made it personal. She announced she would challenge him for governor. She assailed the “secret gas line deal” and the “multinational oil companies that make mind-boggling profits off resources owned by all Alaskans.” She put an “all-Alaska” pipeline at the center of her campaign. And she declared her intention to hire Tom Irwin to negotiate the deal. “She’s what I call ‘alley-cat smart,’” Tony Knowles, the former Democratic governor, told me. “It’s not about ideology. She knows how to pick her way down the political route that she feels will be the most beneficial to what she wants to do.”
Murkowski’s tax was discredited almost immediately. Just after he signed the new Petroleum Profits Tax, the FBI raided the offices of six legislators, in what became the biggest corruption scandal in state history. During the legislative session, the FBI had hidden a video camera at the Baranof Hotel, in Juneau, in a suite that belonged to Bill Allen, a major power broker and the chief executive of Veco Corporation, an oil-services firm. The tapes showed him discussing bribes with important politicians, and revealed the existence of a group of Republican legislators who called themselves the “Corrupt Bastards Club” and took bribes from Allen and others. (Several were later sent to prison.)
In the Republican primary, Palin crushed Murkowski, delivering one of the worst defeats ever suffered by an incumbent governor anywhere. She went on to have little trouble dispatching Knowles, an oil-friendly Democrat. “A lot of people on the East Coast, when they think of Sarah Palin now,” Cliff Groh, a former state tax lobbyist, told me, “some five-letter words come to mind: Scary. Crazy. Angry. Maybe some others. But the five-letter word that people in Alaska associated with her name was clean.”
Palin has gained a reputation for being erratic, undisciplined, not up to the job. But that wasn’t how she looked as governor. She began by confronting the two biggest issues in Alaska—the gas pipeline and the oil tax—and drove the policy process on both of them.
After taking office in December 2006, she kept her word and hired Tom Irwin, and other members of the Magnificent Seven. They devised a plan to attract someone other than the oil companies to build the pipeline, and they bid out the license to move ahead with it—to the deep displeasure of the oil producers, who vowed not to participate. Palin came under serious political pressure. Although she doesn’t mention it in Going Rogue, the Associated Press discovered that Vice President Dick Cheney called her at least twice that month. According to her aides, Cheney urged her to make concessions, but she didn’t.
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That spring, the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act sailed to passage, helped along by criminal indictments in the Veco scandal, which were handed down just as the bill came up. Still, Palin was the deciding factor. A new pipeline plan had seemed unlikely when she took over, but she kept the legislature focused on the task.
She kept herself focused, too: though priding herself on her well-advertised social conservatism, she was prepared to set it aside when necessary. Rather than pick big fights about social issues, she declined to take up two abortion-restriction measures that she favored, and vetoed a bill banning benefits for same-sex partners of state workers.
Next came the oil tax. The corruption scandal had tainted Murkowski’s new law. The FBI tapes of Bill Allen revealed that it was central to the bribery. “It became clear,” Hollis French told me, “that filthy, filthy things had happened to influence that tax.” Most Alaskans were disgusted and open to revisiting, and possibly increasing, the tax. But Palin’s preferred mode of operating—charging righteously forth to attack her enemies—would make a new agreement harder, not easier, to reach. An explicit charge that the Petroleum Profits Tax was corrupt would imply, by extension, that the (unindicted) legislators who had passed it were corrupt, too—and she needed their votes.
Again Palin kept her worst impulses in check. And when she was drawn into the fight, she proved nimble and resourceful. Two things finally prompted her to move ahead: when tax season rolled around, the PPT yielded much less revenue than anticipated; and Democrats needled her incessantly about how much of a reformer she truly was. Then as now twitchingly alert to any slight, Palin loathed the implication.
In September, she released her proposal and, so no one missed the point, christened it Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share (ACES). Stronger than Murkowski’s PPT, it met a mostly hostile reception from her party. “I will stand in your way like the little man in Tiananmen Square to keep you from hurting the economy,” one Republican House member declared. Democrats, eager to capitalize on public anger, introduced several tougher alternatives that were particularly aggressive—that is, confiscatory—when oil prices rose. Palin focused on capturing more revenue when prices were low.
At first, her team tried to win the Republicans over. But it became clear this wasn’t going to happen. So Palin did something that would be hard to imagine from her today: she pivoted to the Democrats. “We sat down with her and said, ‘If you want to get something passed, it’ll have to be much stronger,’” Les Gara, a liberal House member, told me. “And to give her credit, she did what she needed to get a bill passed.”
In the end, Palin essentially grafted the Democrats’ proposal onto her own. What she signed into law went well beyond her original proposal: ACES imposes a higher base tax rate than its predecessor on oil profits. But the really significant part has been that the tax rate rises much sooner and more steeply as oil prices climb—the part Democrats pushed for. The tax is assessed monthly, rather than annually, to better capture price spikes, of which there have been many. ACES also makes it harder for companies to claim tax credits for cleaning up spills caused by their own negligence, as some had done under the old regime.
Four years later, Palin’s gas line hasn’t gotten going, but it’s not really her fault. Plunging natural-gas prices have made the project uneconomical. Her oil tax is a different story: though designed to capture more revenue under most scenarios, ACES has raised a lot more money than almost anyone imagined. That’s largely because of high oil prices. But it also shows that the law is working. ConocoPhillips, BP, and ExxonMobil have reported record profits—so it’s fitting that, in a sense, Alaska has, too. It’s no exaggeration to say that ACES has made the state one of the fiscally strongest in the union. Flush with cash, Alaska produced large capital budgets that blunted the effects of the recession. Moody’s just upped the state’s bond rating to AAA for the first time. While other states reel under staggering deficits, budget cuts, and protests, Alaska has built up a $12 billion surplus, most of it attributable to Palin’s tax. Galvin estimates that it has raised $8 billion more than Murkowski’s tax would have. But given the corruption that plagued the PPT, a better benchmark might be the tax it supplanted—the one put on the books after the Exxon Valdez spill. By that measure, Palin’s major achievement has probably meant the difference between a $12 billion surplus and a deficit.
What happened to Sarah Palin? How did someone who so effectively dealt with the two great issues vexing Alaska fall from grace so quickly? Anyone looking back at her record can’t help but wonder: How did a popular, reformist governor beloved by Democrats come to embody right-wing resentment?
A big part of the answer is that the qualities that brought her original successes—the relentlessness, the impulse to settle scores—weren’t nearly so admirable when deployed against less worthy foes than Murkowski and the oil companies. In Alaska, she applied those qualities to fulfilling the promises that got her elected, and in her first year was the most popular governor in the country. “It was very, very powerful stuff,” Anita Dunn, a Democratic strategist for Knowles, and later for Barack Obama, told me. “She was this dowdy, but very attractive, person who drew a lot of support from progressive women. She was serious business.”
But even before she left the state, she let herself be distracted by the many grievances she harbored against a wide range of enemies. When I was in Juneau, a draft memoir by one of her former aides, Frank Bailey, was leaked to a number of political insiders, and from one of them to me. The manuscript’s memorable quality is its rendering of Palin and what it was like to work with her. Bailey was cast aside after years of loyal service and has an ax to grind. But his portrait is persuasive nonetheless, because he peppers his book with internal e-mails that he kept, from Palin and her staff.
Bailey says their “enemy number one” was a local conservative radio host to whom she would listen for hours, fuming. Ugly rumors of the sort common in politics were another fixation, as this e-mail furnished by Bailey attests:
From: Sarah
To: Scott Heyworth Cc: Todd Palin
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:19 AM
Subject: Todd’s son
Scott:
Todd just told me you had spoken with him awhile back and reported that some law enforcement friends of yours claimed some dumbass lie about Track not being Todd’s son? This really, really disgusts me and ticks me off.
I want to know right now who said it, who would ever lie about such a thing this is the type of bullshit lie about family that WILL keep me from running for Governor. I hate this kind of crap. I thought it was bad enough that my kids have been lied about recently regarding illegal activities that they had NO part in whatsoever. But a stupid claim like one of our kids isn’t fathered by Todd?
I want to know NOW what this latest b.s. is all about because I want to get to the bottom of this garbage rumor mill. People who lie like this may know me well enough to KNOW THAT I WILL ALWAYS PUT FAMILY FIRST, AND IF UGLY LIES LIKE THIS ARE BELIEVED BY ANYONE AND ADVERSELY AFFECT MY HUSBAND AND KIDS I WILL PULL OUT OF THE RACE BECAUSE IT’S NOT WORTH IT—AT ALL—TO LET MY FAMILY BE VICTIMS OF DARK, UGLY POLITICS LIKE THIS.
Sarah
Palin obsessed over her image, even more than most politicians. According to Bailey, she orchestrated a campaign to inundate newspapers with phony letters praising her. This evidently became a favored tactic. Bailey even includes a letter he says she wrote under another name accusing an opponent, John Binkley, of copying her Web-site design. (Excerpt: “This may not seem like such a big deal, but not having an original idea and taking credit for someone else’s work gives us a clue of how Johne [sic] works.”) In the idiom of the Web, Palin was a troll.
Much of this was harmless (if also pointless) and would not have undermined her political career. Politicians from Nixon to Clinton have been similarly consumed and still flourished. But Palin also committed more-serious ethical breaches. The most notorious of these involved her attempts to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, and included Palin’s removal of the trooper’s boss when he didn’t comply with her wish. An investigation by the legislature found that, in some of her actions, she had abused her powers.
Palin seems to have been driven by a will to advance herself and by a virulent animus against anyone who tried to impede her. But this didn’t prevent her from being an uncommonly effective governor, while she lasted. On the big issues, at least, she chose her enemies well, and left the state in better shape than most people, herself included, seem to realize or want to credit her for. It’s odd that someone so preoccupied with her image hasn’t gotten this across better. And it raises the question of what she could have achieved.
“The thing that strikes me again and again is that she was so single-minded when she got here,” Gregg Erickson, a former senior state economist and co-founder of the Alaska Budget Report, an influential political newsletter, told me. “The problem with amateurs in politics is that they often lack that focus. She had it. She was terrible at running a staff, and given that, it’s amazing she was successful. But on the issues she made the focus of her administration—the oil tax and the gas line—she had good staff, listened to them, and backed them up. She was a transformative governor, no question. If it hadn’t been for her stunning ability to confuse personal interests and her role as governor, she could have gone on to be tremendously successful.”
John McCain’s advisers say he chose Palin because they believed that the race needed shaking up. But she must have appealed to him for reasons beyond her gender and vivacity. Palin was fresh from major, unexpected victories. She had challenged her own party’s corruption, at grave risk to her career. For this, she was wildly popular. Surely, that brought back McCain’s old battles against George W. Bush and the Republican establishment, and the glory they had won him.
But McCain and Palin didn’t run as mavericks. Instead, they turned hard right. Palin’s old colleagues were stunned. “The speech at the Republican convention that made her a star, that was just shocking,” French told me. “She could have said, ‘I’ll do for the nation what I did for Alaska: I’ll work with both sides and won’t care where the ideas come from.’ Her background supported that. Instead, they handed her a red-meat script she’s been reading from ever since.”
After the election, Palin returned to being governor, but she didn’t last long. She says unwarranted ethics investigations are what prompted her to quit. Most Alaskans seem to think she left to get rich. But she also had lost her political base. Republicans had never liked her, Democrats felt betrayed, and everyone believed she was now fixated on the presidency. Today, only about 33 percent of Alaskans hold a favorable view of her. She’s often referred to as “Sarah, Inc.”—just the latest powerful entity seeking to exploit Alaska.
Palin’s departure has had further consequences. Her successor and former lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, is in many respects her opposite: a pleasant man who makes so little impression that some Republicans call him “Captain Zero.” You don’t imagine him going rogue. But Alaskans seem relieved to have him in charge.
Parnell is also a former oil lobbyist for ConocoPhillips. While serving out Palin’s term, he was a dutiful caretaker of her legacy. But in December, having been elected in his own right, he decided to make some changes, and began by firing the remaining members of the Magnificent Seven. Then, in January, he announced that his top priority was a bill cutting ACES by $2 billion a year. Parnell claims that the tax discourages oil investments in Alaska, although there’s little evidence to back that up. The Resource Development Council for Alaska, a leading business lobbying group, has taken up this cause in earnest. Most legislators give Parnell even odds of succeeding. Everyone agrees that the oil industry is reasserting itself, now that Palin has moved on.
Let’s stop here and go back for a moment to the convention speech—the alchemic moment of excitement and fantasy when Sarah Palin became the star of national politics. Listening to it today, you can practically hear her shift registers, the state figure morphing into a national one, the old Palin becoming the new. She touches on the pipeline, the corruption, how she broke the oil companies’ “monopoly on power” and ended a “culture of self-dealing.” But all of that is overshadowed by the full-throated assault on Barack Obama, rooted in deep cultural resentment, that became the campaign’s ethos and remains Palin’s identity. What resonate are her charges that Obama wanted to “forfeit” the war in Iraq and that he condescended to “working people” with talk of “how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns.”
That didn’t carry her to Washington, but it did reshape the contours of American politics. Today, there aren’t many Republicans of the type Palin was in Alaska; but nearly every Republican seeking the White House strives to evoke the more grievance-driven themes of her convention speech. Regardless of whether she runs too, her influence will be more broadly and deeply felt than anyone else’s. But it’s hard to believe that her party, or her country, or even Palin herself, is better off for that.
What if history had written a different ending? What if she had tried to do for the nation what she did for Alaska? The possibility is tantalizing and not hard to imagine. The week after the Republican convention, Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the whole economy suddenly seemed poised to go down with it. Palin might have been the torchbearer of reform, a role that would have come naturally. Everything about her—the aggressiveness, the gift for articulating resentments, her record and even her old allies in Alaska—would once more have been channeled against a foe worth pursuing. Palin, not Obama, might ultimately have come to represent “Change We Can Believe In.” What had he done that could possibly compare with how she had faced down special interests in Alaska?
Where true Palinism could be most productively applied is on the issues consuming Washington right now: debt and deficits. Palin’s achievement was to pull Alaska out of a dire, corrupt, enduring systemic crisis and return it to fiscal health and prosperity when many people believed that such a thing was impossible. She did this not by hewing to any ideological extreme but by setting a pragmatic course, applying a rigorous practicality to a set of problems that had seemed impervious to solution. She challenged supposedly inviolable political precepts, and embraced more-nuanced realities: Republicans sometimes must confront powerful business interests; to govern effectively, you have to cooperate with the other side; you sometimes must raise taxes to balance a budget; and doing these things can actually enhance rather than destroy your career, whatever anybody says. True reform—not pandering to the base—established Palin’s broad popularity in Alaska. This approach is sorely absent from most of what happens in Washington these days.
You’d of course have to account for her flaws, already evident back home, which would undoubtedly have materialized. But had she run as a reformer, these would have amounted to a character trait—not her defining trait—and one shared by many successful politicians. It’s amazing what the media can see fit to forgive in someone who they are convinced is a true maverick. Just look at her running mate!
But Palin isn’t the type to feel regret. And her choice of a different kind of political celebrity isn’t likely to be her biggest obstacle. Rather, she’ll have to overcome a lack of experience, long odds of winning, and a Republican establishment whose leaders are deeply hostile to the idea of her candidacy. That’s why most people in Washington believe she won’t run. But in Alaska, they’re not so sure. The Palin they knew faced many of the same obstacles, and nothing about her charmed career, from mayor to governor to vice-presidential nominee and finally to global celebrity, suggests to them that she would ever be deterred.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-tragedy-of-sarah-palin/8492
Copyright © 2011 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All Rights Reserved.
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Another great post (way to leave race out of it).
You're really 'on the edge' anymore.
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I don't think she should run.
Sarah Palin has the ‘fire in my belly’ for prez run
By: CNN Political Producer Alexander Mooney
(CNN) – Sarah Palin has given few indications in recent weeks she is still actively considering a presidential run, but the former Alaska governor said Thursday she has the “fire in my belly” to mount a bid for the White House.
Appearing on Fox News, where she serves as a contributor, Palin did not rule out the possibility that she could jump into the still-undefined Republican presidential field, though offered few specifics on where she is in her thought process.
"I think my problem is that I do have the fire in my belly," said Palin. "I'm so adamantly supportive of the good traditional things about America and our free enterprise system and I want to make sure that America is put back on the right track and we only do that by defeating Obama in 2012."
The comments come after two once-potential presidential hopefuls – Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee – announced they were forgoing a presidential run because their inner yearning for the job was not strong enough to endure an 18 month campaign.
Not so when it comes to Sarah Palin. Rather, for her, the decision comes down to a series of “practical” concerns.
"It's a matter for me for some practical, pragmatic decisions that have to be made," Palin added, saying she is concerned about public scrutiny of members of her family.
"It's a matter for me for some practical, pragmatic decisions that have to be made," she said. “One is, with a large family, understanding the huge amount of scrutiny and the sacrifices that have to be made on my children’s part in order to see their mama run for president.
"But yeah, the fire in my belly, it’s there. That’s kind of my problem - it’s such a roaring fire to preserve what is good about America," she added.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/20/sarah-palin-has-the-%E2%80%98fire-in-my-belly%E2%80%99-for-prez-run/#more-160081
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she smells teh huck votes
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On the issues that matter she light years better than the piece of trash you shill for daily.
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Sarah Palin: My goal is to make sure that President Obama is not reelected in 2012 (Video)
RightScoop ^ | Saturday May 21, 2011
Posted on May 21, 2011 10:04:00 PM EDT by Bigtigermike
Sarah Palin had some very strong words for President Obama tonight in reaction to his throwing Israel under the bus this week:
America is on the wrong side on this issue and that’s what the Prime Minister on Friday tried to explain to our president even though our president tried to lecture Prime Minister Netanyahu on the meaning of importance of peace. Netanyahu does not need to be lectured by President Obama on the importance of peace. He understands it. So we’re on the wrong side of history if we continue to go down this road.
What we need to do though Judge is ‘we the people’ need to rise up saying we’ll take a stand for Israel. We’ll be on their side even if our - I’m gonna call him our temporary leader because my goal is to make sure that President Obama is not reelected in 2012 so that we don’t have to continue to go down this path of this foreign policy that really makes no sense and in this particular case is so obviously wrong because we’re telling our friends to negotiate with Hamas, with terrorists, who have already said – Hamas has said we’ll never negotiate with Israel.
So until President Obama is replaced by a president who understands the importance of treating our friends right and being strong against our enemies, until that happens it’s we the people who have to rise up and make sure Israel knows they have friends here.
It was a great interview. Enjoy!
Good for her. She will not run but help out however possible to oust this disaster at 1600 pa ave.
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5 reasons why Sarah Palin may be ready to shake up 'uninspired' race
By Mark Preston, CNN Senior Political Editor
May 26, 2011
Washington (CNN) -- Alaska's "mama grizzly" is coming to the big screen and quite possibly back to the campaign trail, a move that would shake up a GOP presidential primary field that some Republicans complain is "uninspiring."
Sarah Palin is pushing back against Beltway wisdom that she is content to sit on the sidelines in 2012 where she can safely criticize President Obama and offer her 2 cents on the handful of fellow Republicans who are seeking the GOP presidential nomination.
A feature film by a conservative filmmaker extolling the former Alaska governor's virtues will debut next month in Iowa, a critical early voting state that embraces socially conservative candidates like Palin.
Palin launches a national tour this weekend and the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee is dropping hints from the safety of her perch as a paid contributor at Fox News that she has a burning desire to step back into the arena as a candidate. Fox, however, told CNN it was "not changing Sarah Palin's status."
"I think my problem is that I do have the fire in my belly," Palin said in a recent interview on Fox. "I'm so adamantly supportive of the good traditional things about America and our free enterprise system and I want to make sure that America is put back on the right track and we only do that by defeating Obama in 2012."
It is this kind of talk that fires up a Republican base, particularly conservatives who view social issues as major themes in the 2012 presidential campaign. The Republican primary field is far from set and with the exits of Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump and Haley Barbour from the presidential race, there is renewed griping among some conservatives that no one candidate stands out.
"It really is truly an uninspiring field," said a well-known GOP consultant, who spoke freely about the state of play in the Republican primary on the condition of anonymity.
GOP 2012: Who's in, who's out
The lineup of current and likely GOP presidential candidates includes former governors, business executives, an ambassador and past and present congressional lawmakers. But people are looking for that perfect profile for a candidate to take on President Obama, which may be akin to trying to find a unicorn.
It doesn't exist.
Daniels excited the more centrist, economically focused Republicans, but he would have faced opposition from social conservatives. Huckabee appealed to those social conservatives, but he, too, decided not to jump into the race.
If Palin decides to run, she will be looking for those Huckabee supporters to move to her camp, which a prominent social conservative leader said might not happen.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said that Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, who is considering a White House bid, has caught the eye of many social conservatives and would cut into Palin's support.
"I think things have changed dramatically in the past five months," Perkins said. "I think there is less room for Sarah Palin with Michele Bachmann taking off like she has. She is the full package that a lot of folks are looking for."
Still, Palin is performing much stronger than Bachmann and just about everyone else in the early national polls such as Thursday's Gallup Poll, which said Palin, with 15% support, is just 2 percentage points behind front-runner Mitt Romney.
So, is Palin seriously considering a bid? Let's read the tea leaves:
1. A favorable movie about her life is about to be released in Iowa;
2. She reportedly has bought a house in Arizona (makes more sense to base a presidential campaign in Scottsdale than Wasilla);
3. Favorable polling could nudge her to make a run;
4. There is a perceived lack of passion about the current GOP primary field; and
5. The fact is, she won't rule out a presidential bid.
But maybe Palin is playing the media much like "The Donald" did for months as he openly toyed with the idea of running for president.
Trump ultimately decided not to run, although he assured us all he would have won had he done so. Palin could be doing the same thing by dropping hints and refusing to close the door to a presidential run, providing catnip for the media and political types who keep a close eye on Fox and Facebook -- her chosen venues to communicate with the masses.
Byron: Trump's presidential ambitions were just a lot of hot air
If she runs, it is the core group of social conservatives who Palin would be counting on, not the so-called GOP establishment types. Palin relishes being the anti-Washington politician, which is a powerful message to send to conservative voters angry at the direction President Obama has taken the country.
Yet the outsider status has its drawbacks as well, if you are seriously considering running a presidential campaign. The same "establishment" types outsider candidates condemn are also needed to run an effective national campaign. As of now, Palin has a skeleton political staff, at best, and her unconventional use of Facebook and Fox has some consultants scratching their heads.
"I don't think she has much of any political strategy," said the GOP consultant. "I don't mind her ideologically. But I think she is operationally a complete disaster."
The Iowa caucuses do not take place until early next year, plenty of time for Palin to staff up and put a political plan into place -- if, in fact, she is serious and decides to run.
For now, though, with Palin or without, Perkins said conservatives are taking a second look at the entire GOP primary.
"I would say that it is a void without form," he said. "It has the potential makings for an exciting race. People were waiting on the better known candidates, like Huckabee and the others. When they didn't see them get in, people had to reprocess. They are rebooting, thinking about who to back in the cycle.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/26/palin.preston/index.html
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Sarah Palin rolls into D.C. — on a motorcycle?
wapo ^ | 5/27/11 | Justin Jouvenal
Dontcha’ know, Sarah Palin is coming to town this weekend, and you may see her cruising the streets of D.C. on the back of a hog.
The former Alaska governor, who is the subject of a lot of overheated speculation about whether she will run for president in 2012, has accepted an invitation to participate in the annual Rolling Thunder memorial ride this Sunday, an official says.
“As far as I know, she is trying to rent a motorcycle, so she can ride with her husband,” said Nancy Regg, a spokeswoman for Rolling Thunder.
Gregg says the tentative plan is for Palin to join up with the ride at the Pentagon at 7 a.m. The ride kicks off at noon, and hundreds of bikers will snake through D.C. to the event’s main stage, which will be between the Reflecting Pool and the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the Mall. The program is scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m.
Gregg said Palin is currently not scheduled to speak at the event and watchers should not expect any type of “political statement” from Palin during Rolling Thunder.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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yeah, the founder of Rolling Thunder just tore her a new a-hole.
Seems they are a non-political organization who "doesn't endorse nobody!"
Dude was pissed that she attached herself to the event to enjoy their 500,000 attendees - and that she was trying to steal some of their thunder about their very serious cause of MIA soldiers.
This will become more and more of a story - they don't want her there.
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McCain: Palin can beat Obama
By: CNN Associate Producer Gabriella Schwarz
(CNN) - She was his running mate in the 2008 presidential election and now Sen. John McCain thinks Sarah Palin can beat President Barack Obama in 2012.
"Of course she can. She can. Now, whether she will or not, whether she'll even run or not, I don't know," the Arizona Republican said on "Fox News Sunday."
"But she certainly is a major factor and I believe she can be very competitive."
While he said she inspires "great passion, particularly among the Republican faithful," he also said her high unfavorable ratings have something to do with the attacks she's sustained in the national media.
"I've never seen anyone as mercilessly attacked and relentlessly attacked as I have seen Sarah Palin in the last couple of years," McCain said.
Palin's public flirtation with a bid for the White House reached new levels this week with the announcement of a bus tour that begins Sunday in Washington, D.C. The former Alaska governor has declared the "One Nation" trip an opportunity to "educate and energize Americans about our nation's founding principles, in order to promote the fundamental restoration of America."
But McCain acknowledged the campaign will be a "roller coaster" before the Republicans find their nominee.
When asked about the chances of his 2008 rival, Mitt Romney, winning the GOP presidential nomination, McCain said his biggest problem is "Romneycare," the health care plan Romney signed into law while he was governor of Massachusetts, and which bears resemblance to the current national law.
"I think he realizes that and is trying to address it," McCain said. "Whether he will address it successfully or not, I don't know. But he certainly has a good ground campaign in places like New Hampshire and others where he's really - you know, having been around the block once is always more helpful for next time."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/29/mccain-palin-can-beat-obama/#more-161463
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Of course she can beat him. By next year anyone will be able to beat this jerkoff.
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Of course she can beat him. By next year anyone will be able to beat this jerkoff.
I really doubt it. As with Hillary She's some what as polarizing.
Also, who in realm of corporations will be donating to Obama's campaign?
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Unlike in last election obama now has a record.
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Unlike in last election obama now has a record.
And chances are a new record will be set. The question is, who will over the "money" or better yet who sell enough of their soul?
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Not the point.
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I really doubt it. As with Hillary She's some what as polarizing.
Also, who in realm of corporations will be donating to Obama's campaign?
I thought Hillary was too polarizing to win the general. I think Palin would be in that category given the rabid attacks on her the past couple years, but Obama is just horrendous. Still a lot of time left, but as of now I don't see how he gets reelected.
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Hillary was not too polarizing. That was the msm narrative they sold to get obama through the primaries.
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Sarah Palin rolls into D.C. — on a motorcycle?
wapo ^ | 5/27/11 | Justin Jouvenal
Dontcha’ know, Sarah Palin is coming to town this weekend, and you may see her cruising the streets of D.C. on the back of a hog.
The former Alaska governor, who is the subject of a lot of overheated speculation about whether she will run for president in 2012, has accepted an invitation to participate in the annual Rolling Thunder memorial ride this Sunday, an official says.
“As far as I know, she is trying to rent a motorcycle, so she can ride with her husband,” said Nancy Regg, a spokeswoman for Rolling Thunder.
Gregg says the tentative plan is for Palin to join up with the ride at the Pentagon at 7 a.m. The ride kicks off at noon, and hundreds of bikers will snake through D.C. to the event’s main stage, which will be between the Reflecting Pool and the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the Mall. The program is scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m.
Gregg said Palin is currently not scheduled to speak at the event and watchers should not expect any type of “political statement” from Palin during Rolling Thunder.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Rollin Thunder gonna take the commie out.
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Biker Girl: Palin Sets Off On Her Road Trip (50 photos)(video)
SkyNews ^ | May 29,2011 | Greg Milam
Dressed in black jeans, leather jacket and crash helmet, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate joined tens of thousands of bikers in a rally honouring military veterans.
"It is certainly seen by those in the media as a godsend, as it will give a so far dismal Republican primary season a shot of excitement.
"However, the Republican establishment cannot be happy. They probably view her candidacy as a spoiler, as she has the potential to split their party's vote and ensure a Democratic win."
Mrs Palin is a paid contributor to Fox News and has her own reality TV show. She has written a best-selling book and draws large crowds when she appears at book stores, rallies and other events.
But establishment figures in the Republican Party believe Mrs Palin has been involved in too many political rows and soap-opera dramas to win the nomination.
Alongside Mr Romney, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and pizza entrepreneur Herman Cain lead the race.
Mrs Palin joined the riders in the Pentagon parking lot before heading to the rally on the Mall in downtown Washington.
"Nice to meet you," Mrs Palin told one fellow rider. "Thanks for doing what you're doing for the veterans."
"How do you wear all this leather and stay cool?" she asked another.
Mrs Palin's 'One Nation' road trip is the latest and biggest hint that the former governor of Alaska wants a shot at the Republican nomination to run against Barack Obama.
Scott Conroy, author of Sarah From Alaska, said: "Sarah Palin is someone who single-handedly turned the 2008 campaign on its head. She can draw a crowd of tens of thousands of people whenever and wherever she wants."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
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I have always liked her and make no apologies for it. She is far from perfect, but compared to Obama, newt, huck, Romney, pelosi, Reid, McConnell, boehner, mclame, et al, I will take her any day.
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Sarah Palin: Of the People, By the People, For the People
SarahPAC ^ | Sunday May 29, 2011 | Sarah Palin
Posted on 05/29/2011 8:12:21 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Took an incognito tour of our beautiful national monuments tonight. We met some great everyday citizens who were also "taking it all in" in honor of the greatest nation on earth. One couple we met traveled from Michigan to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary in our nation's capital, and they expressed how thankful they were to live in this land of great opportunity. We were also privileged tonight to get to thank a member of the greatest generation for his service in WWII. This fine patriot was surrounded by his large, extended family that had pooled together to send their patriarch from Oklahoma to DC this Memorial Day weekend to see the breathtaking WWII memorial built to honor that generation's tremendous sacrifice. Meeting him and his caring family made my heart soar with pride for the honor so many show our military vets.
Tonight, as the sun set and we gathered to read the eternal words of President Lincoln at the majestic memorial in his honor, we were shown more reasons why Americans can feel great pride in our exceptional nation. The Lincoln Memorial reminds us that ours is to be a government "of the people, by the people and for the people" and it's with gratefulness for past generations that we can commit ourselves to living out the promises and values etched on those memorial walls.
And that's what this tour is all about.
- Sarah Palin
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I have always liked her and make no apologies for it. She is far from perfect, but compared to Obama, newt, huck, Romney, pelosi, Reid, McConnell, boehner, mclame, et al, I will take her any day.
I thought you were a bit more intelligent than this.
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Sarah Palin Arrives in Gettysburg
Fox43.com ^ | May 30, 2011 | Nic Moye
UPDATE: Former Alaskan Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin is in Gettsyburg. Her patriotic themed bus is parked outside the Gettysburg Courtyard hotel arriving late Monday afternoon. Palin is not releasing a public schedule, but a crowd is gathering at the battlefield in anticipation she'll make a public appearance Monday evening. Palin is traveling with her husband and daughter on a "One Nation" tour which she began in Washington, D.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox43.com ...
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Sarah Palin: Greetings from the road in Maryland!
SarahPAC ^ | May 30, 2011 | Sarah Palin
Mount Vernon was amazing, really something special.
I’ve said before that George Washington is my favorite Founding Father because he was reluctant to serve, and yet he rose to the great challenges before him. I can certainly see why he dreaded leaving his home on the Potomac. His servant's heart is an inspiration to us all.
When Piper laid the wreath at George Washington's tomb this afternoon, I wished that every American school student could be here to see and feel the spirit of our nation's first father. Even Piper was able to grasp the significance of being in the presence of our first President - who had such diverse interests - when she told me later "how hard he must have worked to keep that farm going!" And then she added, "And can you believe he was a commercial fisherman, from DC?!"
There's so much to learn and absorb at Mt. Vernon. Washington was a very busy man who had a healthy reluctance to serve as President after having dedicated so many precious years in service to others while he lead the military. When he accepted the call to be our nation's first chief executive, he served for the right reasons. Though he loved his home at Mt. Vernon so much, this self-taught, "non politician" was willing to sacrifice his passion for farming, fishing, trade and commerce in order to answer another call of to lead the new nation.
Visiting Washington's home today with fellow citizens from all across the country, including Maryland, Oklahoma, Michigan, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Idaho reminds us of our common bond. That bond can be summed up in Washington's prayer that you can find at his tomb. It reads in part, "I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection...to dispose us all to do Justice, to love mercy...which were the Characteristics of the Devine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. Amen." (June 8, 1783)
And amen!
I encourage every American to travel east to Mt. Vernon. Beautiful. Educational. Inspiring. Worth it. And the caretakers and tour guides there are superb. They're so proud that the estate, museum and gardens are privately operated and funded. Their patience with visitors and care for Washington's land and possessions is a testament to their passion for restoring a part of America's strong foundation. Their conscientious work is another reason to be proud to be American!
The Archives and Mount Vernon. Can you tell I'm fired up?!
- Sarah Palin
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Sarah Palin Gets It Right
The Baltimore Sun ^ | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 | House Editorial
Just when you thought the Republican presidential field was getting set, up pops the most mischievous force in American politics, Sarah Palin. The former Alaska governor — the real deal this time, not actress Julianne Moore channeling her for the filming in Maryland of the movie "Game Change" — dropped by Ft. McHenry on Monday in a non-campaign stop in her non-campaign bus on her (wink wink) non-campaign tour of the East Coast, which ends, in what must be pure coincidence, in the first primary state, New Hampshire.
While in Baltimore, according to a Los Angeles Times reporter who was able to keep up despite the lack of a public schedule, Ms. Palin read a manuscript of the "Star Spangled Banner;" hoisted a 36-pound cannon ball; briefly upbraided President Obama for referring to the U.S. Military during a Memorial Day observance as "one of the finest fighting forces in the world," as opposed to the finest; and in a particularly mavericky touch, paid a compliment to another non-candidate governor, Rick Perry of Texas.
All this action from the Fox News commentator, plus her recent purchase of a home in Arizona, which could be a perch in the Lower 48 from which to launch a presidential run, has delighted all ends of the political spectrum. In fact, it's hard to tell who's more excited, Governor Palin's many fans or the Democrats who think she'd be easy to beat.
SNIP
It's rare that we agree with something Ms. Palin says, but she had it absolutely right when she said at Ft. McHenry "Competition breeds success. I would hope there is gonna be vigorous debate and a lot of aggressive competition even in our primary so that our voters have a good choice." We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
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Palin: Eliminate All Energy Subsidies
RealClearPolitics ^ | Tuesday May 31, 2011 | Scott Conroy
DILLSBURG, Pa. -- Asked Tuesday whether she supports the federal subsidy of ethanol, an always critical issue in the presidential nominating cycle, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went one step further and called for the elimination of all energy subsidies.
"I think that all of our energy subsidies need to be relooked at today and eliminated," Palin told RCP during a quick stop at a coffee shop in this picturesque town tucked into the south-central Pennsylvania countryside. "And we need to make sure that we're investing and allowing our businesses to invest in reliable energy products right now that aren't going to necessitate subsidies because, bottom line, we can't afford it."
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Sarah Palin's 'real Americans'
The Washington Examiner ^ | May 31. 2011 | Christopher Taylor
Not so long ago, Sarah Palin gave a speech in which she praised small towns as the "real America" and as bastions of "pro-America" attitudes. She was roundly criticized and attacked by the left for her statements, and she later issued an apology stating that if people thought she meant some parts of the nation were not "real" Americans, "I don't want that misunderstood, if that's the way it came across, I apologize."
Still, the left holds this against her, angry that she might think some parts of the country are more genuinely American than others, and that some might be more pro-American than others. Not long before Palin's speech, President George W. Bush remarked that vacationing on his ranch helped him stay in touch with real Americans, and the same sort of outrage erupted. How dare he say people in Washington DC aren't real Americans!
At the time, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman growled: "And what are those of us who live in New Jersey -- chopped liver?"
What Krugman, and most, misunderstand is that this isn't about urban versus rural or big city versus small towns. When Sarah Palin or President Bush (or your average conservative) says something like this, the point is not "Americans only live in rural areas" it is more "the lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians in Washington DC aren't real Americans."
And by "real Americans" he's not saying these folks are somehow un-American - although they might be - he was pointing out that they don't represent the country at-large. That they are out of touch and in their own little isolated world. It doesn't really matter how many people live in what part of the country. It matters that the slice of particular people that are being referred to are unrepresentative.
There are slices like that all over: Manhattan's uber-socialite set, Hollywood's trendy cliques, white supremacists in Idaho, La Raza reconquistas in Los Angeles, and so on. They are little pockets of unreality, people who are out of touch with the nation at-large.
It is particularly true that people who are insulated from the general public to the degree that politicians often are start to form their own little cultures, largely out of touch with the rest of the country - in particular the people they are supposed to represent.
So referring to the "real America" is more a compliment to the hard working regular folks in the United States, than a slam on others. Real Americans are the people who drive the country's economy, who deliver goods, work in factories, grow food, teach schools, drive cabs, raise families, and all the other millions of activities that make up the American culture.
People who don't fall under this category are people that exist outside this core of the nation, people who live isolated from the way things get produced and delivered in the country. The super rich who never have to go shopping, for whom food simply shows up on the table; the billion dollar contractor who flies around the world and lobbies Congress but who never has time to get back home to his family; the superstar actress that can't figure out how to use a credit card, to whom everything is handed as a gift.
And yes, that includes Washington, D.C.'s political class, but that group comprises only a very small portion of the city, in its pinnacle where everything is made of marble and nobody has to scrape by a living on food stamps and dodge gangs.
It isn't that these people cannot understand America or have some connection with it. Some do, but most do not, simply because they become increasingly isolated and insulated from the rest of the country the more time they spend in office.
Those of us who work out here in America - wherever that may be - are almost alien to this sort of person, and in turn, they are somewhat alien to us. They don't make up the heart of America, even though they are Americans. So, in a way, they aren't "real" Americans.
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you must be going to see her on her "please don't stop looking at me tour" :D
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She seems to be aging quickly. She needs to take a break and chill for a while - also wear sunscreen regularly.
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You guys nominate her in 2012, and you deserve all 1,440 add'l days of obama bullshit.
You'll have earned it.
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I agree with this.
Palin For President Not In The Stars
Rick Hamada
By Rick Hamada
Wednesday - June 01, 2011
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Sarah Palin presents her keynote speech May 2 during the grand opening of the Golden Eagle Arena at West Hills College Lemoore, in Lemoore, Calif. AP photo/The Fresno Bee, John Walker, File
Sarah Palin will not win the GOP nomination for president because she cannot win against President Barack Obama.
Now, for all you Palin supporters, I hope you will continue reading even though your teeth are gnashing and this column is about ready to become kitty litter liner.
First of all, I admire former Gov. Palin. I believe that she is the most compelling and influential political personality today - yes, that includes everybody. She has cultivated an impressive following from the day she was introduced as John McCain’s running mate in 2008.
Her shrewdness in remaining in the public spotlight with her books, FOX News punditry and pointed statements regarding the president has served her well. A recent poll of GOP members finds that Palin is second in support for the Oval Office slightly behind former Gov. Mitt Romney.
There is no doubt that among Republicans and, especially tea party members, she is a rock star.
But the ultimate objective is to win, to be elected. Palin simply will not be elected president.
Please, don’t insult our mutual intelligence by saying my conclusion is based on Palin being a woman. Is America ready for a female president?
I believe this nation has been ready for a woman president. I truly don’t believe gender is an issue.
It all boils down to one question: Is she the right candidate?
Supporters claim Palin’s record will resonate with the American people, and that she has a great story to tell.
I don’t disagree. People are aware of her record. Her tenacity in defeating a longtime incumbent to win the governorship is the fodder of political lore. Unfortunately, her opponents and the press will remind everybody that she also resigned from the job she so doggedly pursued.
And let’s talk about the press. There is a reality in this country that, although it may not be conspiratorial, there is a liberal, left-leaning bias in major media. If you deny it, then you are not being genuine in your commentary.
And you can count on creative hit piece ads targeting Palin that will be shrill and borderline obscene.
I am not certain that any contemporary candidate would be able to weather such an assault and survive.
Despite the machinations of present-day politicking being the cause of the demise of a Palin candidacy, her influence and stature can grow and ultimately benefit her party.
The same celebrity that would instigate such a brutish response from media and partisan operatives is the very reason why GOP and tea party loyalists love her.
Palin has an uncanny ability to infuse excitement, energy and, I daresay, a Hollywood element into a party that oftentimes comes across as stern and professorial.
Whoever Palin would ultimately endorse as the Republican presidential candidate, the chosen one will receive a huge boost toward become the Republican presidential nominee.
Combined with her unwavering conservative message, Palin’s role in the 2012 presidential election will serve the GOP best not as a star player, but as star maker.
http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/ace_article/palin_for_president_not_in_the_stars/
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Howard Dean warns Sarah Palin could beat Obama in 2012
The Hill ^ | June 4, 2011 | Alexander Bolton
Posted on June 4, 2011 4:38:35 PM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012.
Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year.
“I think she could win,” Dean told The Hill in an interview Friday. “She wouldn’t be my first choice if I were a Republican but I think she could win.”
Dean warns the sluggish economy could have more of a political impact than many Washington strategists and pundits assume.
“Any time you have a contest — particularly when unemployment is as high as it is — nobody gets a walkover,” Dean said. “Whoever the Republicans nominate, including people like Sarah Palin, whom the inside-the-Beltway crowd dismisses — my view is if you get the nomination of a major party, you can win the presidency, I don’t care what people write about you inside the Beltway,” Dean said.
Dean spoke to The Hill the same day the Labor Department revealed the national economy added only 54,000 jobs in May and the national unemployment rate had risen to 9.1 percent.
Last month the private sector created 83,000 jobs, about a third the average for the previous three months.
Dean said he doesn’t think Palin will win the GOP nomination or would have the advantage over Obama in 2012. But he warned it is dangerous for Democrats to dismiss her.
Palin said Friday that she was "still weeks away" from making a decision about a presidential campaign.
“Anybody who gets the nomination could win the presidency,” he said. “Do I think she’s going to get the nomination? No. But that process is so difficult and really tests candidates in ways that no other process can."
Dean knows the rigors of presidential primaries first hand. In 2004, his unconventional campaign briefly put him in contention for the Democratic nod before the eventual winner, Sen. John Kerry (Mass.), pulled away.
“Anybody who survives the process can win the presidency,” he added.
Dean said Republicans made the mistake of underestimating Bill Clinton in the rest of the Democratic field in 1991 when former President George H.W. Bush seemed to have a strong advantage but the economy was still mired in recession.
“I can remember Bill Clinton, I think, was one of the seven dwarfs,” Cain said. “This goes on every four years and I think it’s best not to pay attention to that kind of talk.”
Bruce Cain, a political science and public policy professor and director of the University of California Washington Center, subscribes to the prevailing view that Palin would be a weak opponent against Obama.
“I stand with conventional wisdom that she’s way too flawed,” Cain. “Polls show that many women and independent voters aren’t happy with her.”
Cain believes the national economy must sink back into recession and unemployment swell to double digits before Palin becomes dangerous to Obama.
“If unemployment soars back up to double digits, voters will tune out any personal differences and be desperate for an alternative,” Cain said.
Dean thinks former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. (R), who recently finished serving as the Obama administration’s ambassador to China, would be the president’s most dangerous general-election opponent in 2012, a view shared by many Democrats.
“He is an independent. He is a moderate on some social issues and has a strong record as a governor and also has international experience that I think is lacking in every other candidate,” Dean said, comparing Huntsman to the rest of the GOP field.
Dean, however, doubts Huntsman, who has little national name recognition, could win the GOP primary.
Cain, of the University of California, said Dean’s view of Huntsman matches up with the conventional wisdom of many Democrats.
He says Huntsman would be especially strong in the general election if unemployment and growth numbers fail to improve.
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Palin doubled down on her Paul Revere gaffe this morning.
She is a strange bird.
http://www.newser.com/story/120239/sarah-palin-i-didnt-mess-up-paul-revere-question.html
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Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Governor Palin Leads the 2012 Primary Race
Conservatives for Palin ^ | Ian Lazaran
She’s up 22-20 on Romney according to Reuters/Ipsos. Paul and Cain are tied for third at 7%. Today’s Quinnipiac poll appears to be a pretty major outlier when you consider that the Governor and Romney have been within four of each other in every other credible poll.
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she's still ten points behind romney VS OBAMA - that is what matters. Romney would probably defeat obama if the election was held today. Palin would probably not defeat obama, if the election was held today.
You tie your boat to the longer shot. You support the one who would have to overcome a 12 point deficit just to TIE obama in the presidential race. Cause she has boobies, right?
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Palin Ties Obama in Key Swing States: OH, NC, NV, MO, PA
Poll Insider ^ | June 10, 2011 | pollinsider
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In 2008, Obama won 3 swing states that George w. Bush won twice (OH, NV, NC), almost took out another (MO), and expanded margin of victory in one more (PA). Today, we briefly look at these states and their current polling status.
+ All data comes from Public Policy Polling crosstabs. Their published results show large margins of victory for Obama because they do not weight their data to reality. In each of the 5 polls below, Democrats were polled at much higher rates than in any turnout when compared to 2010, 2008, 2006, or 2004. We use 2010 turnout models as history has shown that turnout occurs in 2-3 cycle spurts.
+ In these 5 swing states, Obama leads Palin by about 3% on pure data. However, this is good news for Palin because most of the Democrats have made up their minds in the data, and 4 times as many Republicans and Independents refused to give an answer (this is a result of Incumbency vs. Primary Candidates). Incumbent parties usually have higher % of Yes/No answers because their candidate is set whereas challengers have a lower % of Yes/No answers because the candidate in question might not be their first primary choice and they choose not to answer. This leaves a pool of 10-15% of people who did not answer who are mostly Republicans, followed by some Independents, and very few Democrats. Making assumptions and factoring in these numbers would have the races flipped in many cases.
+ Forget National polls. Swing State polls is where it is at. Like in most elections, a dozen states will decide who the President is, and the rest will vote for the party they always vote for. These are 5 of those swing states, and Obama won 4 of them in 2008. In 3 of the polls, Palin takes in more Democrats than Republicans. In another 3, Palin wins more Independents than Obama (reversal vs. McCain from 2008).
+ "Personally" people like Barack Obama, but they think he is doing a crappy job. "Personally" people dislike Sarah Palin, or at least the portrayal of Sarah Palin, but rarely complain about her policy stances, probably because they are popular with the American voting public. Looking at all of this information, it is easy to see why so many are still gunning for Sarah Palin, even as the taunt her as irrelevant and unelectable. She is this close today, and she hasn't even begun campaigning, her image has been destroyed, and no one knows who she really is. In reality, they know that Palin is: Genuinely likeable; The most anti-establishment anti-Washington candidate there is; Anti-Special Interests unlike everyone who says they are but are not; Holds positions in agreement with the majority of Americans; Electrifying and can raise serious money and ground game. Most polling is left "untouched" because Democrat pollsters know that random samples heavily oversample and favor Democrats when compared to the actual voting public. But this is reality:
Nevada - Obama 46.5% Palin 43%
In 2008, Obama won Nevada by 12.5%. Today, he would lead Sarah Palin by just 3.5%, a statistical tie.
Sample: 35% D, 33% R, 32% I
Notes: PPP used a 45% D Sample which was 10 points higher than Dem turnout in 2010 and 8 points higher than in 2008. Among Independents, Palin leads Obama by 2 percent, a big swap from Obama's 14% margin over McCain in 2008 among Independents.
Ohio - Obama 46% Palin 43.5%
In 2008, Obama won Ohio by 4.5%. Today, his lead against Sarah Palin would be just 2.5%, a statistical tie.
Sample: 36% D, 36% R, 28% I
Notes: PPP used a 45% D Sample which is 9 points higher than Dem turnout in 2010 and 6 points higher than in 2008. Among Independents, Palin leads Obama by 1%, a group he won by 7% in 2008.
North Carolina - Obama 47.5% Palin 43.5%
In 2008, Obama won NC by <1%. Today, Obama would be in a statistical tie with Palin.
Sample: R 40%, D 39%, I 21%
Notes: PPP used a 48% (!) Dem sample which is 9 points higher than 2010 (est) and 6 points higher than 2008. Poll showed Obama leading among Independents, but there were too few Independents examined for positive reading. In reality, McCain and Bush both won NC independents by double digits. With more accurate Indy data, Palin would lead.
Missouri - Obama 45% Palin 44%
Sample 37% R, 34% D, 28% I
Notes: 97% of Democrats are decided. But as is common, there is 14% undecided among Republicans and 12% with Independents. The Republican undecideds would likely break Palin 8-1 and the Indepents towards Palin 3-2, or 2-2 at worst.
Pennsylvania - Obama 46% Palin 42%
Sample: 37% R, 40% D, 23% I
Notes: PPP had an amazing 51% Dem sample! This is a solid 11 points higher than 2010, 7 points higher than 2008, and 10 points higher than 2004.
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you deserve another 4 years of Obama for every post you make propping up this moron.
There are 10 capable GOp candidates running, and you're trying to sell her.
BAH!
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you deserve another 4 years of Obama for every post you make propping up this moron.
There are 10 capable GOp candidates running, and you're trying to sell her.
BAH!
I would for an HIV riddled homeless bum who bathes in the fountain in Cental Park and talks to pigeons over Obama if given the choice.
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I would for an HIV riddled homeless bum who bathes in the fountain in Cental Park and talks to pigeons over Obama if given the choice.
The HIV bum might have the self-awareness to say "I don't claim to be an expert on every issue and know it all".
Maybe he could teach "baby girl" this skill. Her willingness to bullshit her way thru anything is disgusting and embarassing to repubs.
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The HIV bum might have the self-awareness to say "I don't claim to be an expert on every issue and know it all".
Maybe he could teach "baby girl" this skill. Her willingness to bullshit her way thru anything is disgusting and embarassing to repubs.
;D ;D
240 - did you rejected in the past by any females resembling sarah? You seem particularly scornful towards her.
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240 - did you rejected in the past by any females resembling sarah? You seem particularly scornful towards her.
33,
Would you be sexually attracted to this, or would your disgust with the political ideal associated with it just totally kill your boner?
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Yuck. Did you date someone like that?
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Arnold did. :P
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25,000 emails dumped and the pigs in the media got not a damn thing on her.
Now - lets see obama's emails released!
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Critics Fume Over Intensity of News Coverage for Palin...(Politico Admits Double Standard for Palin)
The New York Times ^ | Friday, June 10, 2011 | Jeremy W. Peters
Posted on June 10, 2011 10:23:12 PM EDT by kristinn
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Scores of journalists descended on Juneau this week in preparation for the release of the e-mails. MSNBC.com deputized 40 volunteers, chosen with the help of the League of Women Voters and the Retired Public Employees of Alaska. They were the reinforcements for the team of two journalists from the Web site and six more from NBC News who flew to Juneau.
The New York Times and The Guardian sent reporters armed with scanners and then solicited readers’ assistance. Politico enlisted a dozen editors, reporters and interns who worked as a team from their Northern Virginia newsroom “plowing through” the documents, as one editor described it. The Washington Post initially asked for 100 volunteers to sift through the documents. They were quickly overwhelmed with too many applicants. Unable to screen all of them, the paper abandoned the plan late Thursday, opting instead to invite reader comments.
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Charles Mahtesian, national politics editor for Politico, said he was sympathetic to critics who said the news media went into unnecessary overdrive on anything Palin-related. “I think there’s some truth in what the critics on the right say about a double standard for Sarah Palin,” he said. “Having said that, she is an incredibly compelling character. And anything she says or does will have a bearing on the 2012 presidential election cycle. So it’s a pretty easy call as a news story.”
SNIP
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Sarah Palin emails provide no big bombshells
Politico ^ | 6/10/2011 | MOLLY BALL
Posted on June 10, 2011 10:31:30 PM EDT by tobyhill
Reporters lined up in Juneau and in front of computers across the country spent the afternoon poring over 24,000 newly released emails from Sarah Palin’s first year and a half as governor, hoping for a bombshell.
Many of the emails deal with the mundane business of government. Others show her corresponding with aides, admirers and members of her administration about everything from her views on dinosaurs to fisheries policy.
They show her acknowledging encouraging notes from constituents who hope John McCain will pick her as the running mate, as well as startlingly nasty hate mail and death threats. Palin herself is intensively involved in dealing with the press, monitoring her image and complaining about unfair treatment long before she became a national figure known for diatribes against the “lamestream media.”
Her tight-knight gubernatorial staff was put on the defensive when she was picked for the 2008 GOP ticket and national reporters swarmed the surprise new political celebrity, the emails show. There’s even an unsolicited note from Newt Gingrich among the flurry of email traffic between Palin and her advisers looking for ways to respond to the media inquiries that ran from the comprehensive to the unusual.
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yeah, I was actually rather impressed with her in the ones I read. Bettter mental ability than I thought. lazier and snippity at times... and why the hell her husband was CC'd on so much govt business is troubling... but thus far, they help her cause.
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yeah, I was actually rather impressed with her in the ones I read. Bettter mental ability than I thought. lazier and snippity at times... and why the hell her husband was CC'd on so much govt business is troubling... but thus far, they help her cause.
Now let's see obamas emails.
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Sarah Palin emails: Enemies sent a series of death threats
Telegraph ^ | 6/11/11 | Nick Allen
Posted on June 11, 2011 7:36:28 AM EDT by jimbo123
The release of 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails shows that she received a barrage of abusive emails including death threats in the run up to the 2008 presidential race.
One message sent by someone in Juneau, Alaska on Sept 17, 2008 said the governor should be "shot from one of the planes that shoot the very wolves that you ordered."
Five days earlier an email landed in her in-box saying she "must be killed."
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Fuxking communist liberal trash.
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http://www.therightscoop.com/cnn-finding-that-palin-was-harding-working-governor
Another left wing dirtbag lie put to bed. Now let's see Obama emails released.
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Another Embarrassment for the Legacy Media (Sarah Palin e-mails)
Power Line ^ | June 10, 2011 | John Hinderaker
Posted on June 10, 2011 9:28:59 PM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We wrote last night about the frenzy surrounding the State of Alaska's release of emails from Sarah Palin's tenure as governor. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post turned the release into a major media event, enlisting their readers to help them comb through the approximately 13,000 documents, in hopes of finding nuggets that reflect badly on Palin.
Today the hysteria kicked off in earnest in Juneau, when the state made paper copies of the emails available to reporters. Here, one group of reporters films another group of reporters hauling emails into a waiting vehicle:
(IMAGE AT LINK)
Substantively, the emails appear to contain little of interest. The Washington Post has breathless headlines including "Emails show Palin's governing style," "Palin wanted less time in state capital"--everyone wants less time in Juneau, and state government has largely moved to Anchorage--and "Palin's staff tried to balance time in state capital with time on road." No scoops, apparently.
One embarrassing aspect of this episode, among several, is that major newspapers like the Times and the Post don't seem to have the resources to review a few boxes of emails to determine whether there is anything there of interest. Otherwise, why would they solicit help from hundreds of readers? In my business, litigation, it is not unusual for parties to produce tens of millions of documents. A production of 13,000 emails would be considered miniscule. That our major newspapers evidently don't have staff to do this minimal amount of work speaks volumes about their decline.
Governor Palin, meanwhile, is engaged in much more substantial activity than the TMZ-like obsessions of the Times and the Post. On Facebook she writes, "Another "WTF" Obama Foreign Policy Moment," about the Obama administration's perverse plan to share missile defense technology with Russia:
As Governor I fought the Obama Administration's plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska. So imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately titled "Giving Away the Farm," concerning President Obama's latest bizarre actions relating to missile defense.
President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can't buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China? After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia helped Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. Or what happens if an even more hardline leader comes to power in the Kremlin?
We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That policy was a component of "detente," and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of course, didn't work out that way.
Palin has her faults, but she is a serious participant in the national dialogue on the key issues of our time. The New York Times and the Washington Post, in contrast, are frivolous rags with little or nothing of substance to offer.
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Palin/Obama Paper Trails and Media Hypocrisy
June 10, 2011 8:58 P.M.
By Stanley Kurtz
The deafening roar of nothingness emerging from the Sarah Palin email trove points up the media’s hypocritical lack of interest in Barack Obama’s pre-presidential record.
Just as Palin’s emails were released, Slate’s David Weigel pointed out that Barack Obama’s State Senate records are not available. Weigel quotes Obama’s statement to the effect that he didn’t have the staff or financial resources to preserve office paperwork. As a result, Obama claims, his State Senate records may have been thrown out.
In fact, Obama could easily have preserved his State Senate records had he wanted to. The papers of many Illinois legislators are preserved at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. I know, because I went through many a box there. The records are in various states of completeness and (dis)organization. Often, chaotic boxes of papers have been handed over to the archivists with little effort at cataloguing. Nonetheless, many records from state legislative offices are preserved.
Some of the most interesting revelations in Radical-in-Chief emerge from Jeremiah Wright’s correspondence with Howard Brookins, an Illinois State Senator who was a member of Rev. Wright’s congregation around the time Wright and Obama first connected. I found the Wright-Brookins correspondence in Brookins’ archived records at the Abraham Lincoln Library. If Brookins could preserve his records there, Obama could have preserved his as well.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made this point in 2008, saying “Our investigation suggests Senator Obama could have had his records archived so that they are available to the public, but, to this day, he does not want a complete paper trail of his time in the Illinois State Senate. Where are his office records?”
Radical-in-Chief is filled with revelations about Obama’s past dug out of archived records. Yet none of the mainstream outlets frantically searching through Palin’s emails has reported on these revelations, much less disputed my account of their significance.
The revelations in Radical-in-Chief include a reconstruction of socialist conferences Obama himself admits attending in the mid-1980′s; heretofore unknown documents from Obama’s initial stint as a community organizer in Chicago; documents closely tying Obama to a hard-left community organizer training institute; documents detailing Obama’s ties to ACORN and the ACORN-controlled New Party–and revealing his public account of those ties to be false; documents shedding new light on Obama’s foundation work and his sustained political alliances with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright; documents shedding light on Obama’s endorsement by the Democratic Socialists of America in 1996, and much more.
I’m not the only one who’s noticed Obama’s desire to hide his record, as well as the reluctance of mainstream outlets to investigate such sources as do exist. Obama fan and sympathetic Obama biographer Sasha Abramsky writes:
Much of the media, including his biographers, have concluded that the community organizing period of Obama’s life should be accorded relatively little space, assuming those years simply reflected the radical foibles of a young man trying to find himself.
Abramsky goes on to argue, in opposition to the media’s implicit judgement, that Obama’s community organizing years were actually the key to who he became. I agree. Yet the media continues to ignore important documentary revelations from a sitting president’s political past, while devoting enormous attention to the emails of an unsuccessful candidate for the vice-presidency.
Isn’t it obvious that the media’s lack of interest in Obama’s radical past–noticed even by a supporter like Abramsky–is a simple case of political protection, not to mention journalistic abdication?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269391/palinobama-paper-trails-and-media-hypocrisy-stanley-kurtz
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Sarah Palin emails: Governor stood by budget vetoes
LAT ^ | June 11, 2011 | Kim Murphy
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When she vetoed $268 million in capital projects approved by lawmakers in the $3.6 billion 2008-09 capital budget, former Gov. Sarah Palin was perplexed at the outcry up and down the state from those whose cherished projects had been cut—with backers of a number of school building projects complaining perhaps the loudest.
Fire stations, emergency services and road improvements also got the ax. One unnamed official said she was “stunned by how many school projects were actually cut,” reported Karen Rehfield, director of the Alaska Office of Management and Budget.
In a series of wounded emails, Palin administration staffers made it clear they thought they should have been congratulated for their fiscal discipline. Palin was mad that the account in the Anchorage Daily News failed to mention that some of the projects had been only partially cut, or moved up to the following year’s budget.
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Former Revenue Commissioner Patrick Galvin also made the point that the administration had skillfully steered the state into a sound financial position. "For me, the most frustrating aspect of the veto news stories is the comparison of the capital budget vetoes to the operating budget vetoes. What the public doesn’t see or understand is the budget discipline you exercise during the crafting of the operating budget," Galvin wrote. "The fact that the operating budget was not subject to public vetoes at this point in the process was in large part because the Governor kept a tight ship during the formation of her budget."
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Yeah, she would be worse than Obama. ::) ::) ::)
Whatever morons - keep believing whatever lies and crap you want.
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Palin emails: Family didn't want special treatment for son [ The Elites & DNC consider this odd ]
politico.com ^ | June 12 2011 | By LUCY MCCALMONT
Posted on June 12, 2011 5:50:55 PM EDT by NoLibZone
Emails released Friday show Sarah Palin and her family were determined not to have their oldest child singled out while he was stationed in Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska.
According to released emails, Track Palin, 22, was “deathly afraid of being given special treatment or attention,” Palin wrote, especially during the governor’s visit to the base where he and the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team were until deployed to Iraq in September 2008.
“Track is begging that, at the most, we stop by his company to say ‘what’s up’ and that he not have his shift schedule changed just to accommodate our visit,” Palin wrote in a June 11 email after Track had possibly been appointed to lead their tour.
Track, according to Palin’s emails was “nervous” and “[didn’t] want to be treated any differently than other soldiers.”
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Arnold did. :P
Doh!
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mods, please combine these other palin threads into this one.
she's a pundit on fox. she's not a candidate.
Please focus this board upon good repub candidates who will win this thing. She's an embarassment
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mods, please combine these other palin threads into this one.
she's a pundit on fox. she's not a candidate.
Please focus this board upon good repub candidates who will win this thing. She's an embarassment
Funny - I have tons of great threads going yo dont say a peep in.
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Funny - I have tons of great threads going yo dont say a peep in.
sometimes I agree and it would be nothing more than "me too bro, yeah, circle jerk time!"
If I have something new to add, I always do :)
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Palin Emails: Trig Baby Shower Gifts Donated to Military Families
Barbaric Thoughts ^ | June 16, 201 | Uffda
March 2008. Talking about throwing baby showers and donating the gifts to young Army wives and possibly a crisis pregnancy center. And, um, no. No radio microphone in the delivery room. LOL -
Palin:
[Bob] Wants KWHL to throw me a baby shower. I say “yes” , if the gifts can go to these young Army wives who don’t have much, they’re far from their families, the dads aren’t there for the newborns first months , etc. And now Ft. Wainwright ‘s aviation unit was notified of a four month extension on deployments. Would u assign someone to work with Bob on that angle? Thanks
Kris Perry:
Yes, I’ll give him a call initially and then have someone work with him on details. Love the idea about the young army wives.
Sharon Leighow:
Governor- I have been asked about a baby shower in Juneau. I have already received offers to host it. Please let me know if you would be interested in a similair event. I too think the idea of helping young Army wives is fantastic.
Palin:
I would be interested in such a thing in Juneau – perhaps a different group of recipients for this area? Maybe to benefit the local Crisis Pregnancy Center?
Kris Perry:
I spoke w/Bob. He agrees on the donation and thinks it’s great. He brought up the possibility of doing it after the baby is born so the baby would be present as well. He’s envisioning ALOT of people, i.e. Egan Center and I’m not too sure about that idea. We’ll work out details once timeframe is determined.
He also asked again about the live audio recording of the birth and what you thought. A private moment?
Palin:
Don’t want to take this too far. Kinda wish I hadnt had to tell anyone, but crazy to think it could have been hidden long. No- no Egan, and I’m not going to assume this will be as smooth and easy as the other kids’ births, so can’t imagine inviting in a rock radio microphone.
ht/Sue
Press release for the baby shower. Some edits by the Gov at the link. This is the final version:
August 15, 2008, Juneau, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today announced she will attend a baby shower in Trig Palin’s honor next week and that all gifts will be donated to help military families.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Family Ties Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit organization created to provide immediate support for the military families of wounded service members deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. The event is being hosted by local morning radio personalities Bob and Mark from 106.5 KWHL.
“My family has been so blessed by the arrival of Trig. It is my honor to share that blessing with our men and women in uniform through this event ,” Governor Palin said. “I invite all Alaskans who’d like to support our wonderful military families to participate.”
The event will take place at Romano’s restaurant, on Fireweed Lane at C Street, on Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited. Romano’s restaurant will donate a portion of the sales from the evening to the Family Ties Foundation.
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Yeah, lets all trash this fine woman. ::) ::) ::)
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Palin Emails: Trig Baby Shower Gifts Donated to Military Families
Barbaric Thoughts ^ | June 16, 201 | Uffda
March 2008. Talking about throwing baby showers and donating the gifts to young Army wives and possibly a crisis pregnancy center. And, um, no. No radio microphone in the delivery room. LOL -
Palin:
[Bob] Wants KWHL to throw me a baby shower. I say “yes” , if the gifts can go to these young Army wives who don’t have much, they’re far from their families, the dads aren’t there for the newborns first months , etc. And now Ft. Wainwright ‘s aviation unit was notified of a four month extension on deployments. Would u assign someone to work with Bob on that angle? Thanks
Kris Perry:
Yes, I’ll give him a call initially and then have someone work with him on details. Love the idea about the young army wives.
Sharon Leighow:
Governor- I have been asked about a baby shower in Juneau. I have already received offers to host it. Please let me know if you would be interested in a similair event. I too think the idea of helping young Army wives is fantastic.
Palin:
I would be interested in such a thing in Juneau – perhaps a different group of recipients for this area? Maybe to benefit the local Crisis Pregnancy Center?
Kris Perry:
I spoke w/Bob. He agrees on the donation and thinks it’s great. He brought up the possibility of doing it after the baby is born so the baby would be present as well. He’s envisioning ALOT of people, i.e. Egan Center and I’m not too sure about that idea. We’ll work out details once timeframe is determined.
He also asked again about the live audio recording of the birth and what you thought. A private moment?
Palin:
Don’t want to take this too far. Kinda wish I hadnt had to tell anyone, but crazy to think it could have been hidden long. No- no Egan, and I’m not going to assume this will be as smooth and easy as the other kids’ births, so can’t imagine inviting in a rock radio microphone.
ht/Sue
Press release for the baby shower. Some edits by the Gov at the link. This is the final version:
August 15, 2008, Juneau, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today announced she will attend a baby shower in Trig Palin’s honor next week and that all gifts will be donated to help military families.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Family Ties Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit organization created to provide immediate support for the military families of wounded service members deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom. The event is being hosted by local morning radio personalities Bob and Mark from 106.5 KWHL.
“My family has been so blessed by the arrival of Trig. It is my honor to share that blessing with our men and women in uniform through this event ,” Governor Palin said. “I invite all Alaskans who’d like to support our wonderful military families to participate.”
The event will take place at Romano’s restaurant, on Fireweed Lane at C Street, on Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited. Romano’s restaurant will donate a portion of the sales from the evening to the Family Ties Foundation.
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Yeah, lets all trash this fine woman. ::) ::) ::)
What a terrible woman.
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This is why I like her. She was doing this before she was on the national stage and subjected to the leftist mobs.
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and subjected to the leftist mobs.
victim talk right there.
Do you think Clint Eastwood would tolerate leftists complaining about him?
Shit no, man. He'd slap the shit out of them. He's come back with something strong and confident. He wouldn't cry about being a victim.
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victim talk right there.
Do you think Clint Eastwood would tolerate leftists complaining about him?
Shit no, man. He'd slap the shit out of them. He's come back with something strong and confident. He wouldn't cry about being a victim.
She had people stalking her in her woods and camping out next door to her, not to mention 24 7 msm attack machine in all forms of media.
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She had people stalking her in her woods and camping out next door to her,
Reagan would have released the hounds on their bitch asses.
Sorry, she gets pity, sure... but most people don't give her vote for president. Nobody wants a whiner in office. hilary's little tears episode before new hampshire made her look weak, and she lost a race she should have won easily.
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Sarah Palin: I don’t trust this President (Sean Hannity Show - Entire Interview)
rightscoop ^ | Wednesday July 13, 2011
Posted on July 13, 2011 10:43:49 PM EDT by Bigtigermike
Sarah Palin told Republicans that now is not the time to retreat, but instead it’s the time to reload. She said we can’t trust this President to further manipulate our economy by raising the debt limit for him.
When pressed on what deal she would accept, she indicated that she believed they would probably raise the debt limit anyway and in that case she would only accept DeMint’s plan of Cut, Cap, and Balance our budget. Hannity pressed her on if she would accept dollar for dollar debt increase to spending cuts, immediately – not down the road, and a balanced budget in a separate bill. She said no because Obama doesn’t know how to cut like that:
I don’t trust this President… He doesn’t know how to make those cuts. He’s never had to do this before. He’s always just been one to spend other people’s money even if that money is just borrowed money or printed out of thin air. He’s never had to exercise real executive authority like that.
Also she indicated if someone were to run the President, they would need to start in August and said that’s her timeline for making a decision:
(Excerpt) Read more at therightscoop.com ...
I don't trust this commie traitor disgusting Marxist piece of trash either.
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The Bizarre Palin Documentary (Director Bannon will drop a bomb 30 days before Iowa caucus)
The Daily Beast ^ | July 14, 2011 | Marlow Stern
‘The Undefeated,’ a new documentary about Sarah Palin that pays glowing tribute to the GOP pol, hits red-state theaters today. Marlow Stern reviews the film and talks with director Stephen K. Bannon about its omissions, Michele Bachmann, 2012, and the filmmaking bomb he’ll drop before the Iowa caucus.
With the exception of her recent confession to NEWSWEEK, Sarah Palin has remained coy about her 2012 plans. A new fawning documentary, however, hopes to lure the Mama Grizzly out of campaign hibernation.
Stephen K. Bannon’s film, The Undefeated, opens with a dizzying barrage of Palin insults by celebrities, ranging from Matt Damon (“a really bad Disney movie”) and Bill Maher (“dumb twat”) to, strangely enough, John Cleese. The aural and visual assault has the cumulative effect of an aerial blast from a high-powered rifle—and is just as subtle—to establish that the former governor of Alaska has been a constant magnet for trivial ad hominem attacks by what she calls the “lamestream media.” “She’s presented as a bimbo and as a Christian ideologue, and there’s nothing that could be further from the facts,” said Bannon, in an interview with THE DAILY BEAST. “She has tremendous applied intelligence, accomplished great things that were quite complicated, and did it in a very smart and savvy way.”
We are then transported to scenic Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez oil spill motivated Palin, then a married mother helping her husband on his commercial fishing vessel, to, as she says, “Work for the ordinary, hard-working people, like everyone that was part of my ordinary, hard-working world.” Here, the state of Alaska is painted as a sort of utopia where people are treated “much, much richer” than “the lower 48,” according to Palin (which wasn’t exactly the impression I got after seeing Christopher Nolan’s Insomnia). And, in a series of gradually more shocking and overt symbolic images, Bannon goes into Terrence Malick mode, showing repeated loops of plants sprouting up from the ground to represent the seeds of Palin’s raison d'etre, namely: battling corruption, fighting Big Oil, and reinvigorating the commercial economy of Alaska.
The Undefeated cleverly uses Palin’s audiobook recording of her autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, as voice-over narration, and never consulted Palin to be involved in the documentary, instead opting to place viewers “in the middle of the whirlwind,” as Bannon puts it. In Palin’s absence, a string of Palin acolytes sing her praises, including her former spokesman, Meghan Stapleton, various Palin advisers, and even her attorney. Aside from the initial onslaught, any moderate and liberal viewpoints are noticeably absent. “When Michael Moore made Fahrenheit 9/11, is the criticism of him that he didn’t include conservative voices?” asked Bannon. “It’s not that I’m not trying to add a balance, my question is: give me what’s not accurate? Is it incredibly flattering? The answer is yes.” He added, “We screened it in Phoenix, and [Palin] literally got up and said, ‘It blew me away. I loved it.’ No comments. No changes.”
This perky, small-town girl soon becomes mayor of Wasilla, where her emphasis on improving infrastructure and fiscal responsibility helped attract Walmarts and Home Depots to the town, leading to rapid job growth and a boost in the economy, all the while slashing property taxes nearly 75 percent, and coolly brushing off the tasteless jabs of her Wasilla mayoral challenger, John Stein, who compared Palin to a “Spice Girl.” About 35 minutes is then dedicated to her appointment to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where Palin goes into Erin Brockovich mode—crossing party lines to file ethics complaints against Randy Ruedrich, then a fellow commission member and high-ranking official in the Alaska GOP, and she eventually resigns from the commission in protest of Ruedrich’s alleged corrupt activities.
“She’s not in the political, cultural, or social elite of Alaska,” said Bannon. “She’s out of the loop, and as obscure as any American walking into a Walmart. It’s interesting how anti-establishment she is. She’s a true populist, and I think that’s why she’s feared so much.”
Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs trader under Hank Paulson and now film documentarian of the Tea Party movement, financed the $1 million film himself through his conservative-oriented production company Victory Film Group. He then struck an exclusive deal with a special unit of AMC Theaters that will release The Undefeated in 10 theaters in 10 Tea Party cities, and if it works, there will be a national rollout. And although he worked at Goldman and went to Harvard Business School, Bannon considers himself blue collar at heart. “My grandfather never went past the third grade, and my father’s a high-school graduate who eventually rose to a midlevel manager at the phone company after many years,” he said. “I was a naval officer, and my daughter is serving as an officer with the 101st Airborne Division. I’ve had the chance at Goldman to work with some smart people and earn some money, but I have a very strong populist background.”
Palin, meanwhile, rises to become Alaska’s first female governor, and, at 42, the youngest in state history. She places a picture of her favorite film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in her governor’s office, and continues her platform of clean government, passing a bipartisan ethics-reform bill, and going toe to toe with the Republican establishment on a number of issues. Again, Palin’s controversial incidents in and out of office—Troopergate, and later, her “blood libel” statement and public demand of Obama’s birth certificate, are omitted entirely. “Look dude, Troopergate has been talked about and kind of dismissed,” said Bannon. “In a two-hour film, there’s so much meat you need to get to. Troopergate is such a non-event. I just think it’s part of the media’s false narrative.”
When Palin is selected as John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, and the small-town girl is besieged on all sides, the film loses its grip entirely. In a classic film-propaganda tactic, personal attacks on Palin by media pundits correspond with shocking videos of avalanches, packs of lions feeding on zebras, people being buried alive in sand on the beach, and medieval knights with arrows in their backs. At times, the viewer feels like he or she is playing out the iconic scene in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, where criminal Alex DeLarge is strapped to a chair, eyes spread wide, and subjected to a series of violent images as a brainwashing technique. “I had to cut some of the profanity and violent images to get it from an R to a PG-13,” confesses Bannon. The failed campaign is largely glossed over, and her infamous Katie Couric interview isn’t included. Conservative pundit Andrew Breitbart then makes a cameo, decrying the lack of “chivalry” Palin critics displayed, and labeling the Republican establishment (namely, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell) “eunuchs” for not sticking up for her.
The film then goes on two tangents—positing Palin as a populist leader/outsider à la Ronald Reagan, and crowning her as the de facto founding mother of the revolutionary Tea Party movement in America—also chronicled by Bannon in the documentaries Generation Zero and Fire From the Heartland, the latter of which devoted a great deal of time to the rise of Michele Bachmann. When asked about the 2012 presidential election, Bannon said he believes that Bachmann and Palin can coexist as “two totally different candidates”—before hinting that he himself has something special in store: “I’ve got something that I’m working on that I think is going to be even more controversial than this film,” he said. “If everything goes according to plan, I intend to drop this exactly 30 days before the Iowa caucus. It’s definitely timed for 2012.” He pauses, before adding, “There are forces brewing right beneath the surface, that I try to show in these films, that are going to have a tectonic plate shift in the culture of American politics. I think the paradigm is shifting, and it’s going to shift dramatically.”
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Oh yeah, she would be worse than the communist traitor and incompetent welfare leech obama. ::) ::) ::)
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LOL @ "only the libs keep her relevant and in the discussion" when it's 333386 bumping a month-old thread :)
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LOL @ "only the libs keep her relevant and in the discussion" when it's 333386 bumping a month-old thread :)
Queue
::) ::)
from dude
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Sarah Palin: "Heck, If We Were Real Terrorists Obama Would Pal Around With Us"
Fox News/Hannity, via Youtube ^ | August 2, 2011 | Fox News
Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity tonight, "Heck if we were real terrorists Barack Obama would want to pal around with us."
Lmao. Truth.
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http://nation.foxnews.com/sarah-palin/2011/08/02/palin-if-we-were-really-domestic-terrorists-shoot-president-obama-would-be-wanting-pal-around-us
Good clip.
Telling like it is with this treasonous junta.
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Palin is a retard Obama should order SEAL Team to put a bullet in her head. Lets see how she feels about the way we deal with terrorists then. Lazy girl
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Palin is a retard Obama should order SEAL Team to put a bullet in her head. Lets see how she feels about the way we deal with terrorists then. Lazy #girl
Kill yourself.
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Not today
Whats the problem? She complains that Obama only talks with terrorists short time after OBL had his brain blown out.
Is she on crack ???
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Not today
Whats the problem? She complains that Obama only talks with terrorists short time after OBL had his brain blown out.
Is she on crack ???
Funny - I dont remember you far left clowns applauduing bush for getting saddam.
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You have to ask some folks on the far left i have no idea how they recieved the message regarding Saddam
I said Palin is full of shit and you know she is
She just whines and whines and doesnt have any solutions
Shut up or run for pres bitch. She is a realitystar wasting our time
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You have to ask some folks on the far left i have no idea how they recieved the message regarding Saddam
I said Palin is full of shit and you know she is
She just whines and whines and doesnt have any solutions
Shut up or run for pres bitch. She is a realitystar wasting our time
LMAO
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Dad, son arrested in Palin harassment case
Taiwan News ^ | 08/18/11 | Michael Rubinkam
Posted on August 18, 2011 8:35:24 PM EDT by freespirited
A Pennsylvania man and his son were arrested Thursday on charges of harassing Sarah Palin's family and lawyers in a case a prosecutor said went beyond "merely creepy to truly threatening."
Craig Christy, 47, and his son, Shawn Christy, 19, were placed under arrest at the FBI office in Allentown. The pair was indicted by a federal grand jury in Alaska on Wednesday.
They are accused of harassing members of the former Alaska governor's family as well as her attorneys and employees of the law firm. Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, is also a possible presidential candidate.
The Christy family, in turn, accuses Palin and a daughter of sexting with the teen-aged Christy.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Arnold Rapoport ruled Thursday that Craig Christy and his son, Shawn Christy, will be held in custody and sent to Alaska to face the charges.
The pair made hundreds of threatening calls, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gallagher.
"There's a level of obsession here that elevates the conduct from merely creepy to truly threatening," Gallagher said in arguing for their detention.
Marc Fisher, Shawn Christy's attorney, argued his client did not pose a danger to the Palin family.
"There's no indication of any threat, no indication of any violence," he said.
Rapoport declined a request by Fisher and Michael Brunnabend, Craig Christy's lawyer, that the father and son remain free and report to Alaska themselves.
A magistrate in Alaska had previously issued restraining orders against both men.
Karen Christy, Craig Christy's wife and Shawn's mother, said in an interview Thursday that the family has been persecuted by the Palins and law enforcement officials for more than two years.
They contend Sarah Palin and her daughter, Willow, sent sexually oriented text messages to the teen in 2009.
"All of these things have been happening to my family, and the police and the FBI and the federal agents don't seem to (care) ... about going after Sarah Palin because she's a big political figure," Karen Christy said.
She denied the family is a threat to Sarah Palin, and said Craig and Shawn made the recent phone calls to try to locate an original copy of a letter threatening Willow Palin that was submitted as evidence against Shawn earlier this year. Shawn Christy said he had no involvement in the letter.
"We're obsessed because we're just trying to get the truth out there, and we're just trying to defend ourselves in the only way we can," Karen Christy said.
Palin has said she feared Karen and Craig Christy because they wrongly believe she had a sexting relationship with their son two years ago. Recordings of telephone calls made to Palin's attorney by Shawn Christy are peppered with profanity-laced tirades and vows to continue calling nonstop.
Craig and Shawn were invited by the FBI for an interview Thursday morning and then taken into custody.
The family lives in McAdoo, Pennsylvania.
Palin's attorney, John Tiemessen, did not respond to an emailed request for comment.
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:o
Rove's Palin prediction
By: CNN Producer Gabriella Schwarz
(CNN) – Karl Rove predicted Sunday that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is likely to run for president and will make her decision known soon.
Rove, the former top political adviser to President George W. Bush and co-founder of American Crossroads, a conservative political action committee, said Palin's upcoming trip to Iowa and recent web video are evidence she is gearing up for a run.
"I'm not much of a gambler, but I'd put a little more money that she gets in than if she doesn't," Rove told "Fox News Sunday."
If Palin, who was the vice presidential candidate on the 2008 Republican ticket, doesn't make a decision shortly, people will assume she is not running and withhold their support, Rove said.
"You can only tease so many times in the political process, and I think she is getting to the end of that," Rove said.
Palin has flirted with a White House bid for months, even launching a bus tour in early presidential contest states.
Most recently, she attended the Iowa State Fair on the same weekend as the high stakes Ames Straw Poll. The video her political action committee released Friday showcased her trip to the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
Palin returns to Iowa to address a tea party group on September 3rd.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/21/roves-palin-prediction/#more-172053
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Her ship has sailed.
Look, I still like her a ton, and would volunteer for her in a heartbeat if she is the nominee, but I think time has past on this.
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Her ship has sailed.
Look, I still like her a ton, and would volunteer for her in a heartbeat if she is the nominee, but I think time has past on this.
I agree. I don't think she can get out of the primary.
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Funny - I dont remember you far left clowns applauduing bush for getting saddam.
you don't remember anything except when it fits your preconceived delusions
often you "remember" stuff that didn't even happen
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Palin blasts 2012 specuation but applauds...
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN) - Sarah Palin's political action committee pushed back on rumors she has made a decision about a run for the White House, but offered pointed praise to CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby for "setting the record straight."
A statement on the website of SarahPAC said predictions about her future are "intended to mislead the American people."
"These are the same tired establishment political games that fuel the 24 hour news cycle and that all Americans will hopefully reject in 2012, and this is more of the 'politics-as-usual' that Sarah Palin has fought against throughout her career," the Monday night post said.
Karl Rove, former top adviser to President George W. Bush, said Sunday that the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee was likely to run for president in the next election. Rove, who also co-founded the conservative political action committee, Crossroads GPS, cited her travel schedule and recent web video as evidence she will make a run for the White House. Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer predicted "Palin is in" during an appearance on Fox News Monday.
CNN published a story from Hamby Monday that included Palin's recent comments from Iowa, saying "I doubt it" when asked if she would be ready to join the race by Labor Day.
"Kudos to CNN for setting the record straight and including Governor Palin's own words," the SarahPAC post said.
The statement comes after Palin visited Iowa on the same weekend as the high stakes Ames Straw Poll and ahead of her scheduled visit to the first-in-the-nation caucus state September 3 to speak a tea party gathering.
Charlie Gruschow, co-founder of the Iowa-based Tea Party of America, who is sponsoring the September event, told CNN Palin's address will be longer than a typical stump speech.
"We were told a month ago that she will make a major statement at the event," Gruschow said. "Whether it be an announcement to run, not to run, or lay a marker in the sand for other candidates. That is what I am and was referring to."
– CNN Senior Producer Kevin Bohn contributed to this report.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/23/palin-blasts-2012-specuation-but-applauds/#more-172168
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Wow, Palin playing the victim.
Got any more "breaking news"?
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Hey 333 - how many more infatuation/adoration threads are you going to start
What's with all the hero worship anyway?
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Funny - I dont remember you far left clowns applauduing bush for getting saddam.
Because Bin Laden was responsible for September 11th, not Saddam. The Bush administration falsely accused him of harboring weapons of mass destruction when in fact, he didn't have shit.
I have no problem with Saddam being disposed of but at the time, he was still captured and hung for the wrong reasons. There were no nuclear weapons, no biological weapons,...nothing.
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EXCLUSIVE: Palin’s surprise visit delights bride and groom
NH Journal ^ | September 5, 2011 | Shawn Millerick
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On the eve of Sarah Palin’s speech before the Tea Party Express in New Hampshire, the former Alaska Governor shocked diners and delighted wedding guests by making an unannounced visit to The Puritan Backroom restaurant for some of their famous chicken fingers.
While some in the Republican establishment have criticized Palin for not making her political intentions known, the patrons at The Puritan Backroom were excited to shake her hand and talk politics on a late Sunday afternoon.
As word of her appearance spread throughout the restaurant, a U.S. Marine and his new bride enjoying their wedding reception in the Pappas Room asked to get some pictures. The newlyweds now had another reason to grin from ear to ear as they were overheard saying “we’ll never forget that Sarah Palin came to our wedding”.
Palin illustrated her political charm and retail campaigning by eagerly greeting Manchester locals and talking about issues ranging from the national debt to the cost of gasoline.
As Palin left the restaurant, a resident of nearby Hooksett said, “she comes across as real and just a regular lady. I hope she runs for President.”
We’ll find out soon enough as Palin has said she will make a decision in the very near future.
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She was the best of the 4 people in 2008 by far.
You obama girls rags / commies / and bed pans can eat shit for all I care for what you have done.
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I have no problem with Saddam being disposed of but at the time, he was still captured and hung for the wrong reasons. There were no nuclear weapons, no biological weapons,...nothing.
Saddam was tried by the Iraqi people for war crimes.
On 30 June 2004, Saddam Hussein, held in custody by U.S. forces at the U.S. base "Camp Cropper", along with 11 other senior Baathist leaders, were handed over legally (though not physically) to the interim Iraqi government to stand trial for crimes against humanity and other offences.
A few weeks later, he was charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal with crimes committed against residents of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt against him. Specific charges included the murder of 148 people, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#Trial
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Saddam was tried by the Iraqi people for war crimes.
On 30 June 2004, Saddam Hussein, held in custody by U.S. forces at the U.S. base "Camp Cropper", along with 11 other senior Baathist leaders, were handed over legally (though not physically) to the interim Iraqi government to stand trial for crimes against humanity and other offences.
A few weeks later, he was charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal with crimes committed against residents of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt against him. Specific charges included the murder of 148 people, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#Trial
LMAO.. you are hilarious
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Out of obama, biden, McCain and Palin - she still was the best choice by far.
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LMAO.. you are hilarious
Bro - you voted for Obama and posted pics of him like brokeback mountain - trust me - the joke is on you many times over.
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LMAO.. you are hilarious
You agree with Vince that Saddam was tried and hanged for the wrong reasons?
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(Palin) Welcome, Union Brothers and Sisters
Sarah Palin Facebook page ^ | Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 2:50am | Sarah Palin
In my speech on Saturday in Iowa, I said: “Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses’ security and ‘green energy’ giveaways, [Barack Obama] took care of his friends. And now they’re on course to raise a billion dollars for his re-election bid so that they can do it all over again.” This was shamefully on display yesterday at President Obama’s taxpayer-funded campaign rally in Detroit. In introducing the President, Teamsters President James Hoffa represented precisely what I was talking about as he declared war on concerned independent Americans and on the freshman members we sent to Congress last November by saying, “Let’s take these son-of-a-bitches out!”
What I say now, I say as a proud former union member and the wife, daughter, and sister of union members. So, as a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former Laborers, IBEW, and later USW member, please hear me out. What I have to say is for the hard working, patriotic, selfless union brothers and sisters in Michigan and throughout our country: Please don’t be taken in by union bosses’ thuggery like Jim Hoffa represented yesterday. Union bosses like this do not have your best interests at heart. What they care about is their own power and re-electing their friend Barack Obama so he will take care of them to the detriment of everyone else.
To the same degree Americans are concerned about irresponsible, greedy corporate execs who got cushy bonuses from taxpayer-funded bailouts, we should also be concerned about greedy union bosses who are willing to tank our economy just to protect their own power. As union history shows, power and greed corrupt. Just because you claim to represent union members doesn’t mean you are on the side of the angels. The greed of too many of these union bosses has all but destroyed the labor movement in this country, helped chase away our jobs, and is killing the American dream.
To see where this leads, look at what’s happening to the working class in our industrialized cities. These cities are going to hell in a hand basket thanks to corruption, crony capitalism, and the union bosses’ greed. The union bosses derive their power from your union dues and their promise to deliver your votes to whichever politician they’re in bed with. They get their power from you, and yet their actions ultimately hurt you. They’re chasing American industry offshore by making outrageous, economically illogical demands that they know will never work. And now that they’ve chased jobs out of union states, they’re trying to chase them out of right-to-work states like South Carolina, so eventually the jobs will leave America altogether. But these union bosses will still figure out a way to keep their gig, and so will their politically aligned corporate friends. As long as these big corporations have a good crony capitalist in the White House, they can rely on DC to bail them out until the whole system goes bankrupt, which, I am afraid, is not very far off. When big government, big business, and big union bosses collude together, they get government to maximize their own interests against those of the rest of the country.
So, now these union bosses are desperately trying to cast the grassroots Tea Party Movement as being “against the workingman.” How outrageously wrong this unapologetic Jim Hoffa is, for the people’s movement is the real movement for working class men and women. It’s rooted in real solidarity, and not special interests and corporate kickbacks. It represents the needed reform that will empower workers and job creators. We stand with the little guy against the corruption and influence peddling of those who collude to grease the wheels of government power.
This collusion is at the heart of Obama’s economic vision for America. In practice it is socialism for the very rich and the very poor, but a brutal form of capitalism for the rest of us. It is socialism for the very poor who are reduced to a degrading perpetual dependence on a near-bankrupt centralized government to provide their every need, while at the same time robbing them of that which brings fulfillment and success – the life-affirming pride that comes from taking responsibility for your own destiny and building a better life through self-initiative and work ethic. And Obama’s vision is socialism via crony capitalism for the very rich who continue to get bailouts, debt-ridden “stimulus” funds, and special favors that allow them to waive off or help draft the burdensome regulations that act as a boot on the neck to small business owners who don’t have the same friends in high places. And where does this collusion leave working class Americans and the small business owners who create 70% of the jobs in this country? Out in the cold. It’s you and your children who are left paying for the cronyism of Obama and our permanent political class in DC.
Ask yourself if the folks you heard demonize concerned, independent Americans yesterday really speak for the working class when they’re all too happy to burden your families with the bill to bail out the President’s friends on Wall Street.
We should not forget that for all his lofty rhetoric, President Obama is a Chicago politician. Graft, cronyism, and quid pro quo are the well-known methods of an infamous Chicago political machine, of which Barack Obama emerged. This corruption isn’t just the result of a few bad apples. It’s the nature of a skewed system that’s typical of one not allowing a level playing field. If one desires opportunity for all, then the only solution is sudden and relentless reform. I know of what I speak. I too served in public office in a state that had a corruption problem. The difference is that I fought the corrupt political machine. Barack Obama used the machine in his state to advance. He never challenged it. And he’s evidently brought the same Chicago “pay-to-play” practices to the White House.
It’s sad to see much of the labor movement fall lock step behind a President whom Hoffa calls upon to partner in “waging war” against patriotic Americans. I will never forget that as a governor, in trying to be a friend to the working men and women in our unions, I gave a speech on August 27, 2008, at the annual AFL-CIO meeting in Anchorage. There, union members humbled me with a standing ovation for fighting the corruption in Alaska and for bringing parties together for progress on energy development projects. Then just two days later I landed on the national stage as John McCain’s running mate, and the union leadership turned on me from that day forward even though I had not changed one iota in my plans, principles, vision, and commitment to jobs for working class Americans. The only difference was I was challenging the politician the union bosses were committed to electing. It was almost comical, this lesson learned with their new spots revealed so quickly.
Recently someone commented: “I’m a union member. I’ve been a Democrat all my life. Now I’ll vote for anyone with a plan to save America.” I know what that person is feeling. I want all good union brothers and sisters to know that there is an alternative. The grassroots, independent Tea Party Movement articulates a real alternative rooted in free men and free markets, not the cronyism of Barack Obama and the permanent political class in DC. Their cronyism is why we have no job growth, massive unsustainable debt, and a housing market in the tank. Too many politicians are simply addressing the economic symptoms instead of fighting the underlying disease. The path forward is through reform. On Saturday, I outlined some ideas about that reform, and I will continue to do so.
In the meantime, good union brothers and sisters, don’t let Hoffa tell you what to do. He doesn’t represent the real interests of working men and women. He’s not doing you any favors. He’s just living off your paychecks.
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FAR MORE PRESIDENTIAL THAN POTUS ZERO
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Bro - you voted for Obama and posted pics of him like brokeback mountain - trust me - the joke is on you many times over.
Palin 2012 thread...errrrrrrr Trump 2012 thread...errrrrrr Bachman 2012 errrrrrrr....
Whos next chump... keep your mouth shut
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Palin 2012 thread...errrrrrrr Trump 2012 thread...errrrrrr Bachman 2012 errrrrrrr....
Whos next chump... keep your mouth shut
All of those three would be, and could be, and will be, far better than the One Term mistake named ZERO.
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Palin 2012 thread...errrrrrrr Trump 2012 thread...errrrrrr Bachman 2012 errrrrrrr....
Whos next chump... keep your mouth shut
LMFAO.
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LMFAO.
ground breaking story
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ground breaking story
Truth - we are used to Obama's denigrating and defiling the flag.
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dude..your shit is weak
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dude..your shit is weak
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awesome
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awesome
Are you going to Flash Mob when he loses next year?
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Are you going to Flash Mob when he loses next year?
na.. i dont really give a shit.. dude im Malcolm.. i rock..
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na.. i dont really give a shit.. dude im Malcolm.. i rock..
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September 9, 2011
Some of Sarah Palin's Ideas Cross the Political Divide
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/us/10iht-currents10.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Let us begin by confessing that, if Sarah Palin surfaced to say something intelligent and wise and fresh about the present American condition, many of us would fail to hear it.
That is not how we’re primed to see Ms. Palin. A pugnacious Tea Partyer? Sure. A woman of the people? Yup. A Mama Grizzly? You betcha.
But something curious happened when Ms. Palin strode onto the stage last weekend at a Tea Party event in Indianola, Iowa. Along with her familiar and predictable swipes at President Barack Obama and the “far left,” she delivered a devastating indictment of the entire U.S. political establishment — left, right and center — and pointed toward a way of transcending the presently unbridgeable political divide.
The next day, the “lamestream” media, as she calls it, played into her fantasy of it by ignoring the ideas she unfurled and dwelling almost entirely on the will-she-won’t-she question of her presidential ambitions.
So here is something I never thought I would write: a column about Sarah Palin’s ideas.
There was plenty of the usual Palin schtick — words that make clear that she is not speaking to everyone but to a particular strain of American: “The working men and women of this country, you got up off your couch, you came down from the deer stand, you came out of the duck blind, you got off the John Deere, and we took to the streets, and we took to the town halls, and we ended up at the ballot box.”
But when her throat was cleared at last, Ms. Palin had something considerably more substantive to say.
She made three interlocking points. First, that the United States is now governed by a “permanent political class,” drawn from both parties, that is increasingly cut off from the concerns of regular people. Second, that these Republicans and Democrats have allied with big business to mutual advantage to create what she called “corporate crony capitalism.” Third, that the real political divide in the United States may no longer be between friends and foes of Big Government, but between friends and foes of vast, remote, unaccountable institutions (both public and private).
In supporting her first point, about the permanent political class, she attacked both parties’ tendency to talk of spending cuts while spending more and more; to stoke public anxiety about a credit downgrade, but take a vacation anyway; to arrive in Washington of modest means and then somehow ride the gravy train to fabulous wealth. She observed that 7 of the 10 wealthiest counties in the United States happen to be suburbs of the nation’s capital.
Her second point, about money in politics, helped to explain the first. The permanent class stays in power because it positions itself between two deep troughs: the money spent by the government and the money spent by big companies to secure decisions from government that help them make more money.
“Do you want to know why nothing ever really gets done?” she said, referring to politicians. “It’s because there’s nothing in it for them. They’ve got a lot of mouths to feed — a lot of corporate lobbyists and a lot of special interests that are counting on them to keep the good times and the money rolling along.”
Because her party has agitated for the wholesale deregulation of money in politics and the unshackling of lobbyists, these will be heard in some quarters as sacrilegious words.
Ms. Palin’s third point was more striking still: in contrast to the sweeping paeans to capitalism and the free market delivered by the Republican presidential candidates whose ranks she has yet to join, she sought to make a distinction between good capitalists and bad ones. The good ones, in her telling, are those small businesses that take risks and sink and swim in the churning market; the bad ones are well-connected megacorporations that live off bailouts, dodge taxes and profit terrifically while creating no jobs.
Strangely, she was saying things that liberals might like, if not for Ms. Palin’s having said them.
“This is not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk,” she said of the crony variety. She added: “It’s the collusion of big government and big business and big finance to the detriment of all the rest — to the little guys. It’s a slap in the face to our small business owners — the true entrepreneurs, the job creators accounting for 70 percent of the jobs in America.”
Is there a hint of a political breakthrough hiding in there?
The political conversation in the United States is paralyzed by a simplistic division of labor. Democrats protect that portion of human flourishing that is threatened by big money and enhanced by government action. Republicans protect that portion of human flourishing that is threatened by big government and enhanced by the free market.
What is seldom said is that human flourishing is a complex and delicate thing, and that we needn’t choose whether government or the market jeopardizes it more, because both can threaten it at the same time.
Ms. Palin may be hinting at a new political alignment that would pit a vigorous localism against a kind of national-global institutionalism.
On one side would be those Americans who believe in the power of vast, well-developed institutions like Goldman Sachs, the Teamsters Union, General Electric, Google and the U.S. Department of Education to make the world better. On the other side would be people who believe that power, whether public or private, becomes corrupt and unresponsive the more remote and more anonymous it becomes; they would press to live in self-contained, self-governing enclaves that bear the burden of their own prosperity.
No one knows yet whether Ms. Palin will actually run for president. But she did just get more interesting.
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Copy and past more. You are totally convincing everyone.
We read every word.
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Copy and past more. You are totally convincing everyone.
We read every word.
There is no convincing morons with TBI like yourself of the failures of your messiah.
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I thought you were moving to be a chicom.
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Oh my: Palin within five of Obama in new Marist poll
Hot Air ^ | September 20, 2011 | Allahpundit
Posted on September 20, 2011 10:34:07 PM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Palin fans on Twitter were nudging me to post this before I’d even seen it. Now I understand why. Might be the best poll she’s had since the ’08 election.
After trailing Obama by more than 20 percentage points in polls all year, the new national survey, taken Sept. 13-14, found Palin trailing the president by just 5 points, 49-44 percent. The key reason: She now leads Obama among independents, a sharp turnaround…
By a margin of 49 percent to 36 percent, voters said they definitely plan to vote against Obama, according to the poll. Independents by 53 percent to 28 percent said they definitely plan to vote against him…
Obama is neck and neck with Romney, leading by 46-44. Obama had led by 5 points in August, 4 points in June, and 1 point in April. Romney now leads among independents, 44 percent to 40 percent.
Obama leads Perry by 50 percent to 41 percent. They split independents 43-43. Obama had led Perry by 19 points in August, as Perry was joining the campaign. Some of what’s going on here, obviously, is utter public exhaustion with Hopenchange and Obamanomics. If I were David Plouffe, that 49/36 split on voters who say they’ll definitely vote against The One would make me wet myself. But some of it’s specific to Palin too:
Look no further than the fact that she now fares better against Obama than Perry does — and actually leads him among independents. That’s an astounding turnaround given the trend in her polling over the past three years and a huge boost for Palinistas vis-a-vis questions about her electability. That said, I’m not sure how to square this with other recent polls showing grimmer numbers for her. When Rasmussen polled her head to head against Obama at the start of the month, he found her trailing by 12 points among likely voters. That was a bigger margin than Romney, Perry, Paul, Cain and even Jon Huntsman faced. And the new NYT/CBS poll published last Friday showing brutal new numbers for Obama also found Palin’s favorables at an all-time low — 20/62, with even a plurality of Republicans saying they view her unfavorably (39 percent, compared to 36 who view her favorably).
Exit question: What explains the sudden surge? Did her attack on crony capitalism in her Indianola speech strike a chord with independents? Or is her amazing name recognition helping her here? The more disgusted the public is with O, the more open they are to voting on “Anybody But Obama” grounds, and thus the more it stands to reason that they’d react favorably to a Republican alternative whom they’re already very familiar with.
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Explosive Email Shows Anti-Palin Author McGinniss, Random House Likely Published Literary Hoax
by Andrew Breitbart
www.biggovernment.com
The awful launch week for the over-hyped, expected bestseller The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by controversial author Joe McGinniss, just got worse. Much worse.
After a week of universally scathing pans from the reflexively anti-Palin establishment media, McGinniss now faces the fight of his literary life: the accusation that he seems to have knowingly submitted a book to his publisher, Crown/Random House, that was filled with unproved “tawdry gossip” and rumors that lacked “factual evidence.”
In the email below, sent in January of 2011, McGinniss reveals that his manuscript, then under legal review at Crown/Random House, could not prove its most headline-grabbing allegations. And yet, many of these “salacious stories” that lacked “proof” (in McGinniss’s own words) ended up in the book, and on televisions everywhere during the author’s current media tour … without proper sourcing, and without any apparent new evidence to support them.
McGinniss’s panicked state is evidenced by the identity of the recipient to whom he sent his email of distress. Jesse Griffin was the author of an obscure, low-rent, and now-defunct anti-Palin blog that obsessed over Trig Palin’s maternity–claiming, without any evidence, that Sarah Palin was not Trig’s mother.
Was Random House aware that its prized author was making a desperate overtime bid to save face? And if so, why did it allow him to come forth with most of those tawdry accusations without proof or proper sourcing?
This would not be the first time McGinniss has found himself in trouble over accusations of unethical journalism. In 1987, McGinniss agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the convicted murderer who was the subject of McGinniss’s book Fatal Vision. He has also admitted to having surreptitiously distributed a competitor’s manuscript about Palin that was handed to him by his own publisher. The leak allegedly damaged the commercial viability of that book.
In 2003, Random House released a larger-than-life, massive bestseller by James Frey entitled A Million Little Pieces. Later, it was revealed that the book was a fantastical literary hoax that made its way past some of the highest-paid and most respected editors and lawyers in the literary world. Doubleday/Random House felt compelled to offer full refunds to those who had bought the book.
Has history repeated itself?
Mr. McGinniss has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
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From: Joe McGinniss
To: Jesse Griffin
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:15 PM
Subject: I have to ask you for help
Jesse–
Legal review of my manuscript is underway and here’s my problem: no one has ever offered documentation of any of the lurid stories about the Palins. Shailey Tripp is the latest example.
APD and Sarah have denied that Todd had any involvement with her. To my knowledge, no one has provided any evidence that he did. TheEnquirer cites AlaskaWTF, which in turn cites the Enquirer: what good is that? I’m also told that the Enquirer is preparing to back off this story and save face by denouncing Ms. Tripp as an unreliable source who promised documentation she couldn’t provide.
She may be mentally unstable and prone to fabrication, delusion, or both. Her joint may be called Blue Hands Massage (brrrrr!), but she’s no Monica Lewinsky with a blue dress with a semen stain, that’s for sure.
Do you believe that Todd paid her for sex? If so, why do you believe that, other than that you wish it were true?
A lurid, sensational, defamatory story about Todd, based only on the account of a woman charged with prostitution, who is no doubt desperate for money, and who sold her story to the Enquirer, is a gift from heaven for Sarah.
Jesse, you can ridicule Sarah for calling in to the execrable Bob & Mark, but the fact is that as far as this story goes, there’s no there there. And rumors about what might come in weeks ahead are not facts. In fact, they’re garbage.
I’ve neither seen nor heard anything that indicates that Ms. Tripp’s story has any basis in fact. None of the endless crap Patrick posted about her before getting the boot from palingates.com offers any substantiation.
And even you write frequently that you know things you can’t yet post, but that soon “all will be revealed.” This has been going on since I first became aware of your blog, but as far as I know you haven’t substantiated a single claim or provided verification for a single rumor that you’ve posted about Sarah’s personal life, or the personal lives of any Palin family members. Thus, she gets to denounce what she calls “lies.”
Neither from you, the Enquirer, AlaskaWTF, palingates.com or anyone else, have I seen a credible, identified source backing any of the salacious stories about the Palin family.
Thus–as Random House lawyers are already pointing out to me–nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. The proof is always just around the corner, but that’s a corner nobody has been able to turn. Maybe Jeff Dunn has, in which case I’ll be the first to congratulate him. But frankly, at this point, I’m tired of it, and I’ve run out of time.
No one has ever provided factual evidence that:
a) Todd had sex with a hooker, or with anyone else outside his marriage.
b) Sarah had an affair with Brad Hanson, or anyone else.
c) Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term. Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses.
d) Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes. Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that.
e) Trig is not Sarah’s natural born child.
f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth.
Jesse, you were going on and on about Bristol being pregnant while doing Dancing With The Stars. And, if I recall correctly, at the time of her brief glossy-magazine-payday “reunion” with Levi, you surmised that she was pregnant by Ben Barber, or at least by someone who wasn’t Levi. You’ve recently suggested she’s had an abortion, publishing photographs that show her chubby then and thin now. But doesn’t that seem a little “thin” to you, based on nothing besides magazine pictures?
So much has bubbled at the salacious rumor stage for more than two years, but no one has been able to take even one story further.
Jesse, if you can put me in touch with people who are willing and able to substantiate any of the above, now is the time to do so. Otherwise, I hope you won’t complain that there are no startling new revelations in my book. My publisher and I think it’s damning enough without airing the family’s dirty laundry, but because Sarah’s hypocrisy about her family is one of the things that galls me most, I’d like to be able to publish facts in regard to a) through f) above, but I emphasize facts.
Not malicious speculation or third-hand rumors relayed by those who hold a grudge.
For any or all of those who’ve told you they’ll speak out, but not yet, now is the time. My book represents the last best chance to put the truth about Sarah in front of the American people in a documented, verifiable way. But I need facts that I can rely on. I didn’t live this long and work this hard over so many decades to wind up as AlaskaWTF between hard covers.
as always, and looking forward to seeing you in spring or summer,
Joe
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Gov. Sarah Palin Warns Crown/Random House Not to Destroy Documents Ahead of Potential Defamation
Big Government ^ | 9/26/11 | Publius
Posted on September 26, 2011 8:56:49 PM EDT by Nachum
Attorneys representing former Alaska governor Sarah Palin have written to Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, serving notice of possible litigation for defamation in connection with Joe McGinniss’s recent anti-Palin biography, and warning the company not to delete or destroy relevant documents.
The letter (see below) reads, in part:
Enclosed is an e-mail by your author Joe McGinniss. In this e-mail, Mr. McGinniss admits that your own lawyers instructed him that “nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip.”….Indeed, Mr. McGinniss admits that the allegations are false unless he can find someone or something to show they are true. We know from the final book that he was unable to do so.
It is malicious for your company to publish a book wherein it, and the author, admit that they were fully aware the statements in the book were false, intended to be false, and were intended to harm…
Accordingly, since both your company, and the author, clearly knew the statements were false, admitted they had no basis in fact or reality, but decided to publish in order to harm Governor Palin’s family, you and Mr. McGinniss have defamed the Palins. This letter shall serve as written notice under AS.09.30.070 (b) that a claim may be brought against you, your company and Mr. McGinniss for knowingly publishing false statements.
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Gov. Sarah Palin Warns Crown/Random House Not to Destroy Documents Ahead of Potential Defamation
Big Government ^ | 9/26/11 | Publius
Posted on September 26, 2011 8:56:49 PM EDT by Nachum
Attorneys representing former Alaska governor Sarah Palin have written to Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, serving notice of possible litigation for defamation in connection with Joe McGinniss’s recent anti-Palin biography, and warning the company not to delete or destroy relevant documents.
The letter (see below) reads, in part:
Enclosed is an e-mail by your author Joe McGinniss. In this e-mail, Mr. McGinniss admits that your own lawyers instructed him that “nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip.”….Indeed, Mr. McGinniss admits that the allegations are false unless he can find someone or something to show they are true. We know from the final book that he was unable to do so.
It is malicious for your company to publish a book wherein it, and the author, admit that they were fully aware the statements in the book were false, intended to be false, and were intended to harm…
Accordingly, since both your company, and the author, clearly knew the statements were false, admitted they had no basis in fact or reality, but decided to publish in order to harm Governor Palin’s family, you and Mr. McGinniss have defamed the Palins. This letter shall serve as written notice under AS.09.30.070 (b) that a claim may be brought against you, your company and Mr. McGinniss for knowingly publishing false statements.
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Didn't think so.
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Dear America, Our Orwellian President Fails on Energy
Sarah Palin Facebook ^ | Tuesday April 17, 2012 | Sarah Palin
Posted on April 17, 2012 9:51:52 PM EDT by Bigtigermike
Last Friday, former energy trader and now Fox News host Eric Bolling and I hosted a Fox special called “Paying at the Pump,” which offered President Obama solutions to reduce prices at the pump and get our country on the path to real energy security.
A genuine “all of the above” approach to energy independence is, of course, a multifaceted plan. It includes conservation and sensible private sector investment in sound alternative energy, and it absolutely must involve unleashing our domestic energy production. We cannot ignore the need to drill, baby, drill; frack, baby, frack; and mine, baby, mine. Those who are concerned about the environment and our dangerous dependence on foreign oil should encourage the development of natural gas as a clean and plentiful bridge-fuel to a more renewable future. We have enough clean, green natural gas in America to be energy independent for many decades—whether we use it for natural gas cars or natural gas power plants. We also need to look at our oil refining capacity and our regulations there. We must cut the job-killing, anti-domestic energy regulations of Obama’s EPA and IRS which create such burdens and uncertainty. Finally, Eric pointed out that we must do something about the Wall Street speculators. I know this is a touchy issue, but Eric’s points are valid. Obama’s Federal Trade Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission appear to have no teeth in dealing with this because they haven’t cracked down on the president’s friends on Wall Street who are creating unnecessary oil market volatility. Eric suggested that we could reduce the problem of speculation by raising energy margin requirements.
In his press conference today, President Obama seems to have latched on to Eric’s idea of dealing with speculators. But the president proposed an outrageously expensive “fix,” claiming that he needs a boatload of tax dollars and bureaucrats to merely apply common sense to regulating oil trades and enforcing the authority the CFTC was already granted by the Dodd-Frank bill. This is ridiculous, and it’s not enough. Keep in mind that cracking down on speculation is only a small part of the solution. The key remedy is still drilling.
Basically, President Obama’s idea of an “all of the above” approach to energy is really “none-of-the-above” to the resources we use right now to power our economy. Take for instance the Obama EPA’s war against coal production (which he promised when he was a candidate), which will ultimately leave us with higher electric bills and less electricity. Because his cap and trade legislation got sidelined, Obama is now using his EPA to accomplish the same destructive goals by imposing draconian regulations aimed at crippling the coal industry. According to the Associated Press, Obama’s EPA will soon “force 32 mostly coal-fired power plants to shut down and threatens to close 36 others” and will eventually remove from our power grid enough electricity to power 11 million households. Just ask Californians how much fun “rolling blackouts” are. I suppose we can look forward to more romantic candle-lit evenings ahead as America moves backward with less energy, which must be more of Obama’s “leading from behind” strategy. I hope the folks up North have a hearty wood supply for their fireplace warmth, and that those in the Southwest don’t mind sweltering in the summer heat. Air conditioning takes up an awful lot of electricity; and in Obama’s America, energy will be scarce. As Mark Levin has pointed out numerous times, Obama’s policies will ultimately de-industrialize America.
But we don’t have to look to the future to feel the pain of Obama’s energy policies. Look at our current gas prices. The Obama administration is locking up federal lands to drilling. The EIA reports that production and sale of fossil fuels on federal lands dropped by 6% last year under Obama. Other studies show a 12% decline. When you hear the president boast of all the “new” drilling going on, he’s talking about production on private and state land that was in the works long ago and is not under his control. He doesn’t tell you how his administration has done everything in its power to strangle resource development with regulatory red tape and foot dragging on the permitting and leasing process. We hear his endless claims that we only have “2% of the world’s oil”—sometimes he adds “reserves” to that—but know that the White House is playing games with semantics. The Obama administration is using a subset of “proved oil reserves” to make it sound like America is energy poor! They’re deliberately distorting the true picture of our massive recoverable oil resources—most of which is on federal land that the government has locked up to responsible development. In short, the president is deceiving the public. As I’ve said before, the energy production “facts” and numbers President Obama repeats are skewed, deceptive and downright Orwellian.
Ironically, President Obama likes to remind us that global factors outside of our control affect the price of oil, but he never seems to make the connection that this is precisely why we should increase our domestic supply of oil by drilling here where environmental and worker safety standards are stricter than any foreign country from which we purchase oil, and that our increased domestic supply would put downward pressure on the price of oil. If Obama doesn’t think increasing the supply on the market affects the price at the pump, then why did he ask the Saudis to increase their production? And Brazil? Why did he open our Strategic Reserves last year to lower prices at the pump? Common sense tells you that, of course, increasing the supply of something has an affect on the price.
President Obama refuses to acknowledge this obvious truth because he doesn’t want to do what needs to be done. He isn’t interested in drilling, fracking or mining for the resources we actually use to power our economy. His idea of an energy plan amounts to dumping more of our tax dollars into the bankrupt green energy companies that his campaign donors invested in. It’s crony capitalism on steroids. He’s also in favor of “investing” your tax dollars into algae because he believes pond scum is the wave of the future. He also tells you to deal with gas prices by merely inflating your tires; getting a tune up; and, despite your work needs or the size of your family, ditch your larger vehicle for one he deems acceptably small. But what about the $4 per gallon gas prices that are devastating the budgets of American families, crippling our small businesses, and increasing the transportation costs of all goods shipped in America and thereby increasing the prices of everything we buy? Barack Obama’s answer to your pain is basically, “give me some flexibility here…” because “change isn’t easy.” Well, actually it is. It starts with getting rid of this energy illiterate administration.
Today, on Tax Day, our big, wasteful, and largely useless centralized government is taking hard-earned money from 85 million Americans.
The Republican Study Committee reports: “According to the non-partisan Tax Foundation, the country will work 107 days this year just to pay for federal, state, and local taxes. By their calculations, a larger share of Americans’ income will go to taxes than food, clothing & housing combined!”
And what do we get in return on our investment in big government? More marching orders from the faceless bureaucrats in D.C. More crony capitalism for the administration’s favored friends. More expensive conventions, vacations, parties (and Colombian hookers?) for the profligate Obama administration. Less energy security. Less allowance for resource development. More EPA regulations to de-industrialize our country and kill jobs. More opportunities shipped overseas as we allow others to produce for us that which our government refuses to allow us to produce for ourselves!
Aren’t we tired of this by now? Candidate Obama promised us a sensible energy plan to get us to energy independence. President Obama has failed to deliver it.
He fails to understand the fundamental truth that there is an inherent link between energy and prosperity, and energy and security. Oil prices affect everything in our lives, including where we send our sons and daughters in war. Developing resources here grows our economy, decreases our trade imbalance, creates hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs, and secures our union by eliminating our dependence on dangerous foreign regimes who use our energy insecurity as a weapon against us. Access to secure domestic energy will make us a more peaceful and prosperous nation.
Obama doesn’t understand this—just as he doesn’t understand the dangers of his wasteful spending. Our energy policy is also linked with our fiscal and monetary policies. In light of America’s unsustainable $16 trillion debt, there’s more talk about dumping the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, which is the currency used to buy and sell oil. If that happens, we’ll feel the pain of inflation everywhere—especially at the pump. That, in turn, will trickle down to everything in our economy. Those living on fixed incomes and retirement pensions and annuities will feel the pain especially hard. So, this is one more reason to get government debt under control with sound monetary policy that doesn’t try to “inflate away” our debt with currency manipulation and gimmicks like quantitative easing.
Obama fails to understand this. He’s failed us as the nation’s stakeholders, and that’s why we must replace our CEO at November’s ballot box. As one audience member in our Fox special said, “I can’t fill my gas tank with hope and change.”
Wake up, America. November is around the corner. Change is easier than you’ve been led to believe.
- Sarah Palin
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hahahahaha you think palin wrote that :D :D :D where is the you bettcha's
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i watched game changer on HBO the other day.. it was awesome
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http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-david-randall-chaney-secret-service-colombia-2012-4
She would have been a far better potus than the slum ghetto communist street thug Obama
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Palin Responds To Secret Service Agent: "Check This Out, Bodyguard -- You're Fired" (video)
RealClearPolitics ^ | April 19, 2012 | Ian Schwartz
Posted on April 19, 2012 11:01:36 PM EDT by i88schwartz
Sarah Palin joined FOX News tonight to discuss the Secret Service prostitution scandal as well as the GSA spending scandal. Palin also reacted to news that broke this afternoon about another Secret Service scandal, this time involving her.
"Well check this out, bodyguard -- you're fired. And I hope his wife sends him to the doghouse. As long as he's not eating the dog, along with his former boss. Greta, you know, a lot of people will just, I guess say that this is boys being boys. And boys will be boys, but they shouldn't be in positions of authority."
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glen rice approved
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glen rice approved
Game Over
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White House fires back on Sarah Palin’s Secret Service criticism
Yahoo! News ^ | April 20, 2012 | Olivier Knox
Sarah Palin's charge that the Secret Service prostitute scandal highlighted President Barack Obama's "poor management skills" drew a sharp rebuke Friday from the White House, where chief spokesman Jay Carney dubbed it absurd and politically motivated.
"It is preposterous to politicize the Secret Service," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing.
Palin and Republican Senator Jeff Sessions have in recent days charged that the scandal, coupled to the outrage over the General Services Administration's lavish spending on a convention in Las Vegas, reflect poorly on Obama. Those two controversies, as well as the tragic mass slaying of Afghan civilians, allegedly by an American soldier, have overshadowed much of the White House's agenda in recent weeks.
"What they're doing is trying to turn these incidents — one that's still under investigation — to political advantage," Carney charged when asked about critics who lump the three issues together. "On the face of it, it's a ridiculous assertion that trivializes both the very serious nature of the endeavor that our military is engaged in in Afghanistan and the very serious nature both of the work that the Secret Service does, the apolitical nature of the institution, and the seriousness of the investigation under way," the spokesman said.
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Give em hell Sarah. FFFUUBBBOOOO!!!
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White House fires back on Sarah Palin’s Secret Service criticism
Yahoo! News ^ | April 20, 2012 | Olivier Knox
Sarah Palin's charge that the Secret Service prostitute scandal highlighted President Barack Obama's "poor management skills" drew a sharp rebuke Friday from the White House, where chief spokesman Jay Carney dubbed it absurd and politically motivated.
"It is preposterous to politicize the Secret Service," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing.
Palin and Republican Senator Jeff Sessions have in recent days charged that the scandal, coupled to the outrage over the General Services Administration's lavish spending on a convention in Las Vegas, reflect poorly on Obama. Those two controversies, as well as the tragic mass slaying of Afghan civilians, allegedly by an American soldier, have overshadowed much of the White House's agenda in recent weeks.
"What they're doing is trying to turn these incidents — one that's still under investigation — to political advantage," Carney charged when asked about critics who lump the three issues together. "On the face of it, it's a ridiculous assertion that trivializes both the very serious nature of the endeavor that our military is engaged in in Afghanistan and the very serious nature both of the work that the Secret Service does, the apolitical nature of the institution, and the seriousness of the investigation under way," the spokesman said.
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Give em hell Sarah. FFFUUBBBOOOO!!!
Glen Rice already gave her hell... She craves for Teh Black Cock.. hahahahahahahah
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I don't think she can win, but she ought to stay involved.
Palin 'seriously interested' in 2016 run, adding another big name to growing potential field
Published January 24, 2015
FoxNews.com
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Jan. 22, 2015: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP)
Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin is saying she is “seriously interested” in running for president in 2016, injecting some intrigued into next year’s race and the already crowded field of potential GOP candidates.
Palin -- also a former vice presidential nominee and a perennial potential candidate -- has twice told reporters over the past several days that she is interested in running.
The 50-year-old Palin made her comments before speaking on Saturday at the Iowa Freedom Summit, the first big conservative gathering of potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates.
Palin first told ABC News, while serving wild boar chili on Thursday to the homeless in Las Vegas, that she is interested in the 2016 presidential election.
“Of course, when you have a servant’s heart, when you know that there is opportunity to do all you can to put yourself forward in the name of offering service, anybody would be interested,” Palin said.
On Friday, she told The Washington Post: “You can absolutely say that I am seriously interested. … As I said yesterday, I’m really interested in the opportunity to serve at some point.”
However, exactly how serious Palin is remains unclear, considering her uncanny ability to keep the media and the rest of America interested in her most every public word and movement. She also has a upcoming cable TV show.
In addition, Palin says she has yet to ramp up a national campaign, and there are no obvious signs that she is already in the process.
“It is a significant step, of course, for anyone to publicly announce that they’re interested,” Palin also told The Post. “Who wouldn’t be interested when they have been blessed with opportunities to speak about what is important to this country and for this country?”
As an ardent member of the Tea Party movement, Palin since her 2008 campaign with GOP presidential nominee John McCain has remained influential in helping conservative candidates get elected in states and in Congress.
In her remarks to ABC, Palin also suggested entering the GOP race with other potential big-name candidates -- including former presidential nominee Mitt Romney, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and a host of governors and senators -- was to perhaps help get a woman elected president.
“America has had enough of seeing that … sign on the Oval Office door saying, 'No Girls Allowed.' I know that,” she said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be me. … but happy to drive that competition because competition will make everyone better.”
The summit on Saturday will be in Des Moines and is scheduled to also include Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and conservative star Dr. Ben Carson.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/24/palin-seriously-interested-in-2016-run-adding-another-big-name-to-growing/
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She is winning in the sense that leftists everywhere are melting down - so that is a win
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She is winning in the sense that leftists everywhere are melting down - so that is a win
melting down because she lost in 2008? melting down because she's gone from next-in-line to dumped by FOX, reality tv, and at this point just a circus sideshow?
She's BAD for the GOP now. There isn't any good that comes of her getting on tv and being a face of the repub party. She's nancy grace of politics now, only without a network that wants her :(
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She is winning in the sense that leftists everywhere are melting down - so that is a win
Good point. Anytime liberals start frothing at the mouth over someone, you know that person is probably right (so to speak) on a number of issues.
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Good point. Anytime liberals start frothing at the mouth over someone, you know that person is probably right (so to speak) on a number of issues.
Repubs froth at the mouth over al sharpton and jesse jackson. which issues are they correct on?
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She is winning in the sense that leftists everywhere are melting down - so that is a win
The only thing she wins at is banging black basketball players ;D
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Good point. Anytime liberals start frothing at the mouth over someone, you know that person is probably right (so to speak) on a number of issues.
just as the Republicans have been doing with Obama for six years...good point
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just as the Republicans have been doing with Obama for six years...good point
Except Obama has been wrong. And dishonest. And incompetent.
Except in the eyes of his disciples and liberal hacks.
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Except Obama has been wrong. And dishonest. And incompetent.
Except in the eyes of his disciples and liberal hacks the GOP that keeps protecting him and covering up for him.
Fixed.
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Except Obama has been wrong. And dishonest. And incompetent.
Except in the eyes of his disciples and liberal hacks.
Obama has been the most influential president in a very long time......so he hasn'tr been inconsequential.....inco mpetnet????,,no way..I can name twenty things that he has done that have been awesome for the country
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Obama has been the most influential president in a very long time......so he hasn'tr been inconsequential.....inco mpetnet????,,no way..I can name twenty things that he has done that have been awesome for the country
I didn't call him inconsequential. If there is one thing he's not, it's inconsequential.
I don't care to read whatever crap you pull off some puff piece article or website. Anyone really paying attention that isn't a hack knows what a failure that man has been.
And whatever you post will not change the national debt that has exploded on his watch, the destabilization of the Middle East that occurred on his watch, that he has been disengaged as his own party members of said, that he skipped more than half of his daily intelligence briefings, and that he has told a plethora of lies. At what point do you people hold him accountable for repeatedly lying in your face?
He is a demagogic liar. (I got to use that phrase already. :D)
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I didn't call him inconsequential. If there is one thing he's not, it's inconsequential.
I don't care to read whatever crap you pull off some puff piece article or website. Anyone really paying attention that isn't a hack knows what a failure that man has been.
And whatever you post will not change the national debt that has exploded on his watch, the destabilization of the Middle East that occurred on his watch, that he has been disengaged as his own party members of said, that he skipped more than half of his daily intelligence briefings, and that he has told a plethora of lies. At what point do you people hold him accountable for repeatedly lying in your face?
He is a demagogic liar. (I got to use that phrase already. :D)
Destabilization of the Middle East was beginning to happen before he became prez...I think they are finally going through the systemic crisis that communism went through....however I can see the point that he has to be responsible for that.....disengaged?..I would say somewhat.....I think he has decided that he can govern on his own and why should he stoop to work with people who have always said no, never worked with him, tried to de-legitimize him as president, and tried to destroy his legacy???....It kind of unprescedented for congress to try to repeal a law which is already on the books in modern times....and the Repubs have spent a lot of time taking votes to do so.....I think Obama has realized theres no working with congress....I also think he is professorial and maybe somewhat standoffish and aloof like most professors are.......
Still he has acomplished a lot more than many other presidents have....his legacy will be amazing
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Destabilization of the Middle East was beginning to happen before he became prez...I think they are finally going through the systemic crisis that communism went through....however I can see the point that he has to be responsible for that.....disengaged?..I would say somewhat.....I think he has decided that he can govern on his own and why should he stoop to work with people who have always said no, never worked with him, tried to de-legitimize him as president, and tried to destroy his legacy???....It kind of unprescedented for congress to try to repeal a law which is already on the books in modern times....and the Repubs have spent a lot of time taking votes to do so.....I think Obama has realized theres no working with congress....I also think he is professorial and maybe somewhat standoffish and aloof like most professors are.......
Still he has acomplished a lot more than many other presidents have....his legacy will be amazing
If he had not pulled the troops in Iraq, we probably wouldn't be talking about ISIS as much right now. That is entirely on him.
He never liked governing. You should read what numerous people have said, on both sides of the aisle, including Chris Mathews. Obama likes campaigning. He doesn't like to lead. He never developed relationships with Congress. Frankly, I think he's lazy and it goes back to his college days.
His biggest accomplishment is Obamacare, which has been a disaster.
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If he had not pulled the troops in Iraq, we probably wouldn't be talking about ISIS as much right now. That is entirely on him.
lol...
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lol...
Thoughtful, substantive analysis as always. :)
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Thoughtful, substantive analysis as always. :)
I mean seriously bro... what can you say about that statement filled with qualifiers up the wazoo...
Its just silly my man...
"as much" "probably"....but end it with "its all on him"
even the promise of that extraction date had been set before he took office.
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Thoughtful, substantive analysis as always. :)
yours is nothing to be proud of either :D
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I mean seriously bro... what can you say about that statement filled with qualifiers up the wazoo...
Its just silly my man...
"as much" "probably"....but end it with "its all on him"
even the promise of that extraction date had been set before he took office.
Very good point......Obama was just fulfilling an obligation that Bush had already made..not to mention, the Iraqis got what they deserved because they basically kicked us out of the country....they wouldn't sign the status of forces agreement....
yet its "blame Obama" hysteria again
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I mean seriously bro... what can you say about that statement filled with qualifiers up the wazoo...
Its just silly my man...
"as much" "probably"....but end it with "its all on him"
even the promise of that extraction date had been set before he took office.
I see. So I should make unqualified statements when I'm expressing my opinion. Got it.
Weak.
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Very good point......Obama was just fulfilling an obligation that Bush had already made..not to mention, the Iraqis got what they deserved because they basically kicked us out of the country....they wouldn't sign the status of forces agreement....
yet its "blame Obama" hysteria again
Imam ayatollah obama supports isis eemember?
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Imam ayatollah obama supports isis eemember?
your intelligence is brutal...too much Dbol
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even the promise of that extraction date had been set before he took office.
That's not entirely true. The SOFA had an end date, but it was always supposed to renegotiated and extended.
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That's not entirely true. The SOFA had an end date, but it was always supposed to renegotiated and extended.
Link to where it said it would be renegotiated? Seems like Bush woudln't be the type to sign a deal he didn't intend the USA to keep. Do you have link to Bush saying his SOFA wouold be renegotiated by the next president? That part sounds like a liberal lie.
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Face it pussies- first female POTUS!
What year do you think she'll win the presidency, Soul Crusher 333386?
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I'm the like the tank commander in the palin panzer division.
A quote that will live in infamy.
;D
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Great episode. Kicking caribou ass and taking names.
Sounds like a great show. I'm guessing Season 6 is getting ready to begin?
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A quote that will live in infamy.
;D
Yikes :o
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A quote that will live in infamy.
;D
He's actually got about 6000 of them.. ;D
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I see. So I should make unqualified statements when I'm expressing my opinion. Got it.
Weak.
not sure i made myself clear on what i meant by qualifiers. My bad holmes
Basically you said "if he did this" and "probably" and " as much" ...all to justify why in your "if world" you could say it was all on obama. Like come on bro... what the shit is that
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not sure i made myself clear on what i meant by qualifiers. My bad holmes
Basically you said "if he did this" and "probably" and " as much" ...all to justify why in your "if world" you could say it was all on obama. Like come on bro... what the shit is that
It's me expressing my opinion. I don't know if ISIS would have run roughshod through Iraq and overrun our troops if we left one division in Iraq, but I doubt it. I can say, categorically, that they would not have, but you never know. That's why I say "probably." If he would have left small force behind, I think it would have turned out just like Germany and South Korea, where we have had a deterrent effect for decades. Am I certain? No. But that's what I believe. And I believe Obama is responsible for not handling that issue.
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Scroll to 5:25. I truly believe there is some level of disorientation there. Her fans can't argue that one.
At 7:10, her teleprompter broke. "We be bold". Yes, she said that. We be bold.
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There is not enough Crown Royal available to make sense of that crap.
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There is not enough Crown Royal available to make sense of that crap.
Specifically what do you blame for her rapid mental decline from 2008 to 2015? She's always been a bit loopy, but this new version of her... medications? deteriorating mental state?
John Fund, a commentator for the conservative magazine National Review, described the speech as “meandering and often bizarre,” and said that Palin “clearly lacks the discipline for a full-fledged campaign”.
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Scroll to 5:25. I truly believe there is some level of disorientation there. Her fans can't argue that one.
At 7:10, her teleprompter broke. "We be bold". Yes, she said that. We be bold.
WTF :o
She is even ddumber than i remember.
Coach were are you please watch your genious in action.
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WTF :o
She is even ddumber than i remember.
Coach were are you please watch your genious in action.
I give 333386 mad props because he openly says she's not that bright, he laughs at his "palin panzer division" period. That's great. funny stuff.
I have to wonder about anyone that still believes Palin is bright enough, capable enough to be president. We are seeing serious mental degradation here...
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Winning? Bah ha ha ha ha ha Kathleen Parker things otherwise
How the GOP sacrificed Sarah Palin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-parker-the-sacrifice-of-sarah-palin/2015/01/27/cfa46cc0-a65e-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?hpid=z2
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Specifically what do you blame for her rapid mental decline from 2008 to 2015? She's always been a bit loopy, but this new version of her... medications? deteriorating mental state?
John Fund, a commentator for the conservative magazine National Review, described the speech as “meandering and often bizarre,” and said that Palin “clearly lacks the discipline for a full-fledged campaign”.
John Fund is right....it does take discipline...and you can tell...she doesn't read or keep up with whats going on in the world then she talks off the cuff...like a female Soul Crusher...and gets things wrong or things just don't come out right...there does often seem to be a disconnect between her mouth and brain..sort of like Rick Perry......plus she's not sharp.....shes been doing FOX news and reality TV for so long she has become tongue-tied and unfocused...she hasn't been out there speaking to focus groups and other organizations
I also think theres some weird stuff going on with her family...getting into fights at BBQ's and standing on dogs, etc....
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John Fund is right....it does take discipline...and you can tell...she doesn't read or keep up with whats going on in the world then she talks off the cuff...like a female Soul Crusher...and gets things wrong or things just don't come out right...there does often seem to be a disconnect between her mouth and brain..sort of like Rick Perry......plus she's not sharp.....shes been doing FOX news and reality TV for so long she has become tongue-tied and unfocused...she hasn't been out there speaking to focus groups and other organizations
LMFAO - hey fagget - you are the one crying at Obama's handling of Egypt and talking about enjoying getting peed on.
Sicko - yes - and thank you for ceasing the pm's begging me for sex. That at least stopped for awhile you perv
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I give 333386 mad props because he openly says she's not that bright, he laughs at his "palin panzer division" period. That's great. funny stuff.
I have to wonder about anyone that still believes Palin is bright enough, capable enough to be president. We are seeing serious mental degradation here...
agreed....we REALLY dodged a bullet when she and McCain lost....
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agreed....we REALLY dodged a bullet when she and McCain lost....
And instead got an Twink-Imam in Chief whose "wife" smacks him around and takes selfies w fat thugs w green lips on youtube >:(
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LMFAO - hey fagget - you are the one crying at Obama's handling of Egypt and talking about enjoying getting peed on.
Sicko - yes - and thank you for ceasing the pm's begging me for sex. That at least stopped for awhile you perv
The only thing I ever begged you for was to have some critical thinking skills....but you're just not capable
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The only thing I ever begged you for was to have some critical thinking skills....but you're just not capable
Yes - im very critical of Obama and his cult of fools - correcto.
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And instead got an Twink-Imam in Chief whose "wife" smacks him around and takes selfies w fat thugs w green lips on youtube >:(
yeah and look who YOU wanted for president...an idiot who's family gets into drunken street brawls at BBQs
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And instead got an Twink-Imam in Chief whose "wife" smacks him around and takes selfies w fat thugs w green lips on youtube >:(
obama sucking doesnt mean palin sucks any less.
obama is a lame duck, empowered only because rinos lack balls. Looking fwd, Palin keeps threatening to run for president. Obama isn't running for anything.
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Specifically what do you blame for her rapid mental decline from 2008 to 2015? She's always been a bit loopy, but this new version of her... medications? deteriorating mental state?
John Fund, a commentator for the conservative magazine National Review, described the speech as “meandering and often bizarre,” and said that Palin “clearly lacks the discipline for a full-fledged campaign”.
You can't decline very far from a molehill. That was her mental capabilities in 2008. She has only become a rambling mess because she tries so hard to remain relevant when people just don't give a shit about her, other than for comedic value.
That and she no longer has a team of campaign babysitters devoted to her to make sure she is reigned in.
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That and she no longer has a team of campaign babysitters devoted to her to make sure she is reigned in.
it's really great to see highly respected repubs like Fund shitting all over her.
She really acts like an ass. it's that simple. If it was a dude saying that, he'd be considered a walking joke. if it was an old woman saying it, then she'd be mocked. but since repubs find her attractive, boom, they love what she has to say.
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If you ever supported Palin, you cannot be that bright. She is a functioning retard.
She also appears manic.
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If you ever supported Palin, you cannot be that bright. She is a functioning retard.
She also appears manic.
Obama is a muslim jihadi and a choomer twink - no difference
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You can't decline very far from a molehill. That was her mental capabilities in 2008. She has only become a rambling mess because she tries so hard to remain relevant when people just don't give a shit about her, other than for comedic value.
That and she no longer has a team of campaign babysitters devoted to her to make sure she is reigned in.
excellent points...good job
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If you ever supported Palin, you cannot be that bright. She is a functioning retard.
She also appears manic.
Birds of a feather flock together.... that is the appeal to her.
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Birds of a feather flock together.... that is the appeal to her.
would love to see a debate with just Palin and Michelle Bachmann......the crazy would be flying all over the place
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would love to see a debate with just Palin and Michelle Bachmann......the crazy would be flying all over the place
Each would be asphyxiated by the other's stupidity.
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Each would be asphyxiated by the other's stupidity.
HAHA!,,,this made me laugh out loud!!! ;D
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Sarah Palin and her onetime fans on the right: It’s so over
By Karen Tumulty
They’re over her.
Sarah Palin’s odd, rambling speech last weekend before an audience of committed conservative activists in Des Moines has many influential voices on the right saying that the time has come to acknowledge that the romance has gone cold and the marriage is dead.
This is despite the fact that the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee told reporters upon her arrival at the event that she is “seriously interested” in running for president in 2016.
Her address was a 34 1/2 -minute roller coaster ride of cliches, non sequiturs and warmed-over grievances. One line that stood out: “GOP leaders, by the way, you know, ‘The Man,’ can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then The Man can’t ride ya.”
The critiques have been devastating — and those are the ones from her friends.
“Quite petty,” wrote Byron York in the Washington Examiner. “A long and incoherent speech,” in the view of Craig Robinson of the Iowa Republican blog. “The foreordained culmination of a slow and unseemly descent into farce,” added Charles C.W. Cooke of the National Review.
Cooke’s assessment was a far cry from what National Review editor Rich Lowry had to say about Palin’s performance in the vice presidential debate, shortly after her dazzling national debut on the stage of the Republican National Convention in 2008: “It was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.”
Weekly Standard editor William Kristol was an early booster of Palin, all the way back to 2007, when she was a new governor little known outside of Alaska. Less than a year ago, he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Palin “might be kind of formidable in a Republican primary.”
“Did I say it that recently?” Kristol said Wednesday when reminded of that comment in an interview. “The name Sarah Palin hasn’t come up in the past three to six months. . . . Maybe the speech Saturday was just a confirmation of her no longer being a major player, at least in these circles.”
Still others expressed concern that the GOP is damaging its own prospects by treating Palin as though she is doing more than promoting herself and her various ventures.
“Yes, Palin is still a draw. Yes, conservatives still empathize with her over the beating she took from the media in 2008,” York wrote. “But if there is indeed nothing behind her ‘seriously interested’ talk — and it appears there is not — should she be included in events leading up to the 2016 caucuses?”
There is also a tone of soul-searching and even repentance in some of the commentary, as pundits on the right reconsider their own role in stoking the Palin phenomenon.
“In hindsight I regret contributing to the premature deification of Sarah Palin,” columnist Matt Lewis wrote Wednesday in the Daily Beast.
He added that “maybe her early critics saw some fundamental character flaw — some harbinger of things to come — that escaped me.”
Among those critics had been Washington Post op-ed columnist Kathleen Parker, who also weighed in after Palin’s speech contending that the Republicans had themselves to blame.
“In the end, the story of Palin’s rise and fall is a tragedy,” Parker wrote. “And the author wasn’t the media as accused but the Grand Old Party itself. Like worshipers of false gods throughout human history, Republicans handpicked the fair maiden Sarah and placed her on the altar of political expedience.”
Last weekend was far from the first Palin appearance that has raised eyebrows among her onetime fans. At the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2013, she said of her husband, Todd: “He’s got the rifle. I got the rack.”
“What does feel new is that she has finally gotten around to roundly losing conservative opinion leaders,” Lewis wrote.
Many seemed mystified by Palin’s unglued performance Saturday.
“Did the Teleprompter go down, did you have trouble with the copy, was there any moment in the speech where you had any difficulty because people had been so critical?” Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity asked her when she appeared on his program Tuesday night.
Palin shrugged it off. “I’m used to Teleprompters not working,” she added, and noted that had happened during her 2008 convention speech. She blamed the criticism on the “herd mentality” of the media.
As for her presidential ambitions, Palin said she was merely answering a question lodged by a “pesty reporter while I was promoting my Sportsman Channel show.” But she again said that she is “interested” in the possibility of a run.
Kristol noted that many conservative figures have maintained their credibility with the right even after their careers in elected office were over, including Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich.
In the National Review, Cooke wrote that Palin had picked another path.
“Having been mercilessly and unjustly pilloried by the media throughout the 2008 campaign, Sarah Palin had a clear choice in its aftermath: She could sober up and prove the buggers wrong, or she could collapse into ignominious pasquinade,” he wrote. “Sadly, she chose the latter. The rest of us should choose to move on.”
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She is winning in the sense that leftists everywhere are melting down - so that is a win
If I am a leftist, the only melting I am doing is that I'm dying laughing here at the thought that she or anyone else could think she has a snowball's chance in hell of winning anything, including a election to a positition on her hometown PTA.
All the clowns line up now, there must be at least one of you whose past stupidity the American public has forgotten about. Really, if this is the best the Republican's can do, God help us all.
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The only melting I see is Pole Toucher on here every day melting over his lust for Obama.
Biggest crybaby on the board.
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The only melting I see is Pole Toucher on here every day melting over his lust for Obama.
Biggest crybaby on the board.
His homosexuality is way beyond the latent stages. Borders on raging at this point. He should have Ron change his handle to "mudshark33333386"
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If I am a leftist, the only melting I am doing is that I'm dying laughing here at the thought that she or anyone else could think she has a snowball's chance in hell of winning anything, including a election to a positition on her hometown PTA.
All the clowns line up now, there must be at least one of you whose past stupidity the American public has forgotten about. Really, if this is the best the Republican's can do, God help us all.
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Lol. I think obama is a terrorist president and sleeper cell jihadis cell who is ghetto and disgusting. Anything else ?
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Lol. I think obama is a terrorist president and sleeper cell jihadis cell who is ghetto and disgusting. Anything else ?
We think you are a self loathing closet queer who can't think of anything besides Obama and gay sex. Anything else?
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Lol. I think obama is a terrorist president and sleeper cell jihadis cell who is ghetto and disgusting. Anything else ?
I feel sorry for your supposed clients....it must be tough to have a lawyer who doesn't take time to study your case and only thinks about Obama, Michelle, and gay sex
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I feel sorry for your supposed clients....it must be tough to have a lawyer who doesn't take time to study your case and only thinks about Obama, Michelle, and gay sex
as opposed to you who openly posts about getting pissed on? STFU perv
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as opposed to you who openly posts about getting pissed on? STFU perv
its not on my mind 24/7
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I feel sorry for your supposed clients....it must be tough to have a lawyer who doesn't take time to study your case and only thinks about Obama, Michelle, and gay sex
;D
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Of course. I'm the like the tank commander in the palin panzer division.
Perhaps Soul Crusher is now suffering from Palin Panzer PTSD?
I miss his posting!
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Perhaps Soul Crusher is now suffering from Palin Panzer PTSD?
I miss his posting!
You must miss him since you resurrected a thread from a year ago.
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You must miss him since you resurrected a thread from a year ago.
I do miss him. That's why I said I did. Your restating the obvious was a great use of resources.
I'd love to hear his Panzer input on the PTSD issue. Not a single palin supporter here will defend her on this. I miss the debates. Repubs, these days, are embarrassed to publicly support trump and won't even defend palin anymore.
Coach - are you prepared to say if Trump is your #1 choice for the nomination? Or do you lean toward another candidate?
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I do miss him. That's why I said I did. Your restating the obvious was a great use of resources.
I'd love to hear his Panzer input on the PTSD issue. Not a single palin supporter here will defend her on this. I miss the debates. Repubs, these days, are embarrassed to publicly support trump and won't even defend palin anymore.
Coach - are you prepared to say if Trump is your #1 choice for the nomination? Or do you lean toward another candidate?
hahhahahaha i laughed pretty hard at this
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You must miss him since you resurrected a thread from a year ago.
Well Captain Obvious reverts back to his alter ego Mister Stupid once again with the above post.
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Well Captain Obvious reverts back to his alter ego Mister Stupid once again with the above post.
You're voting Dem, right?
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You're voting Dem, right?
I didn't think Lurker was a trump supporter ???
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Jesus if you only listen to the audio I defy anyone to tell the difference between Fey and Palin
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Bristol went on GMA to say her mom was way better looking than Tina Fey. Um, no. There's a reason Palin refused to be seen in the same shot with Fey while she was doing SNL. Fey keeps doing her cardio... Palin was wearing a heavy grandmothers sweater there, with her hair turned in to his her heavier neck. She's clearly heavier than her 2008 weight.
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Jesus if you only listen to the audio I defy anyone to tell the difference between Fey and Palin
She looks and sounds just like her.....I caught a boner while watching her on SNL
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You're voting Dem, right?
You're still a birther right?
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You're still a birther right?
Hes an obama birther - not a cruz birther.
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Hes an obama birther - not a cruz birther.
Exactly.
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Exactly.
an infant that would grow up to become a republican wouldn't lie about it.
an infant that would grow up to become a democrat WOULD lie about it.
HTH
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an infant that would grow up to become a republican wouldn't lie about it.
an infant that would grow up to become a democrat WOULD lie about it.
HTH
I am not sure I can agree with this. I'm a Democrat and I have never lied about it....there is no reason to lie.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/media/sarah-palin-new-york-times-trial/index.html
Go get em Sarah!!!!!
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I am not sure I can agree with this. I'm a Democrat and I have never lied about it....there is no reason to lie.
maybe you should have especially about your dick-sucking adventures
disgusting twat
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You do know she lost?
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Mickey Rourke looking kind of rough.