Open Thread – Sarah Palin Book Title 2nd Place Winner!
The Mudflats graphics guru, Flyinureye, has come up with the #2 Sarah Palin book title winner! Remember back when we had the Sarah Palin book naming contest? Well, this title got the second most votes, and was submitted by Mudflatter Obamanos. Enjoy!
SARINA wILLIAMS!
Thanks for the pic of the second place winner. How about a pic of the winner?
If she keeps he money from people for her supposed legal problems doesn’t she have to claim it as income.I think she saw a recall coming and if it is true that the FBI are investigating her and Todd sure hope they keep it going until the Lt Governor is out of office3 so she doesn’t get a pardon.Isn’t Poe a republican? and he has put his hat in the ring. I just hope people start to realize just what she is a liar and a fraud who misrepresents most everything,Along with being an Attack dog.And she complains about bad press if she had not attacked everyone she might have been better received
Sorry that Flyinyreye’s excellent cover is somewhat ignored this day, due to the political “I QUIT” hogging the news.
Good job…
Guess we’ll see #1’s cover soon?
I will say I’ve had delusions of being Dictator of the Universe for Life but I’ve never acted on them.
However, should you ever see my name on a ballot, I would appreciate your vote.
Perhaps now that Jon and Kate are divorcing, she and Todd have received a lucrative offer they can’t refuse? “Todd and Sarah plus 5 or 6 or 7 maybe, also too”.
She is going for the money NOW! She is going to ride the Ice berg into the bank asap. She wants to go shopping again on someones elses account. She can now accept money with no worries about being the GOV of Alaska.
She is to big for Alaska in her mind. She wants to be queen of the planet, lord of the meek, sheep, and week.
Go GINO NO MORE!!!
The next post is not available right now: will see s/b in my last comment.
bubbles: so good to see you.
This is just too much fun. And I love UK Lady’s dry humor; gino leaving is great news, but what she’s going to might be less of a laugh. Who knows?
UK lady
The iceberg is nothing that WE can see, but she’s abandoned ship. I believe that the water will clear up soon, and we can see the it for ourselves. And what a treat that will be!!!
She may have quit, but I believe that the fun in just beginning.
WOW! THE b@*&h QUIT! What will we do for fun now?
yes samper i am registered. you are in detroit? got family there.
I’m wondering did anyone ask any of the other 13 black leaders if Scarah had said this? this article just says that Stapletongue and staff denied it. this was racially charged and because Barack is black I don’t think they wanted to “use” this information. The McCain Campaign took care of this for her, but it sounds like something she would say when pressed for action, don’t you think?
Was Scarah ever asked if she said this? and what about those 13 other people.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=40916428d4942bf6e6d647cbdf31e908&from=rss
“On April 29, 2008, 14 black leaders in Alaska, including prominent ministers, NAACP officials, and community activists, met with Palin to voice their complaint over minority hiring and job opportunities. During the meeting she allegedly said that she didn’t have to hire any blacks. Even more damning, she purportedly said that she didn’t intend to hire any.
Gwen Alexander, president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska, initially reported Palin’s quip.”
I keep getting errors on the announcement thread…
bubbles, are you registered on forum?
We have Motown Records Museum here in Detroit… the J5’s first studio… same thing. Crowds just celebrating.
They are announcing no run for 2nd term… still she’s late!
uklady“`ruh roh. jeepers!
samper you have to find me. i can’t figure out how to pm you. also too nothing else IS going on this weekend except m.j. i went to 125 street with my daughter on tuesday. samper the line stretched from the apollo down to 7ave all the way to 135 street. it was a beautiful thing to see. not one argument. not one evil word spoken. old people and young ones dancing and smiling. happy to be together and being respectful to him and to each other. there was a lot of love and tenderness going on.it was not possible for everyone to go into the theatre but just being on the street was tribute enough….b
ok, 3 minutes to go, talked to my client, meeting him at the UPS Store at 1:40,
if I drive like a bat out of h*ll it’ll only take me 12 minutes to get there, there’s time unless she’s like Hillary and an hour late…..
samper your play by play is cracking me up. you are priceless 🙂
honestyinGov
I think you are going to have to turn on Faux. At least you can get others though, I only get CNN or Faux here.
JC: Just make it fast… I’ll try to transcribe it by rewinding the DVR and will post it here. I’m sure you will be up to speed quickly.
2:47EDT… MSNBC shows no signs of breaking away for the announcement. MJ is far too important.
Remote is in a shaky hand… moving to Faux News to catch it. Bleccchchh!
new thread up – re: Palin announce today
Maybe GINO got wind of a Recall and is getting the heck out of Dodge!!
Isn’t there a baseball game on at 3 pm eastern? Or NASCAR? Reminds me… Tony Stewart is probably in better shape than Sarah Palin. Don’t think I’ve heard him complain about throbbing thighs or something to that affect. Maybe her thighs are throbbing because she’s got a Sanford problem? Just askin’ 😎
jc in co
You should worry, I think UKman is planning a family intervention.
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EyeOnYou Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Okay who has an honest guess as to what she is going to announce?
She is planning on running for Gov again.
She is planning on running for Pres. in 2012
She is not planning on running for Gov again
She is not planning on running for Pres in 2012
She is pregnant
She and Todd are getting divorced
She is resigning from office of Gov effective immediately
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Heading my wish list is the last item! From your mouth to God’s ear!!
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UK Lady Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Fox just announced that Palin will announce something about her future as gov.
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Uugghh….. are you telling me I am going to have to tune in to Faux just to hear what she says..?
I’ll change the channel quickly afterward.
Of course, I don’t have wild thoughts of running the USA, either!
Maybe she’s quitting govship so she can go to a real school to get a real degree that actually has something to do with running this country?
NO offense to Journalism Degree holders… but you need a little more than that to run a country. 🙂 Truth be told, Journalism was my first major… ended up with an MBA. Go figure!
that makes sense samper, d*mnit I have to go to the UPS store & pick up a print proof at 1:00 & wait for my client to sign it, I’m sure they won’t be broadcasting it on “The Ed Show” on the progressive radio station. Drat.
I’ll be the last to know of everyone here & if I ask my 16 yo to watch this blog & call me she’ll tell her dad that I’ve finally gone completly nuts…..
The truth is coming out so fast and furious and from so many different directions that GINO and her cohorts must be dizzy trying to put out the flames. We can only hope that, since the long-awaited ‘iceberg’ appears to be still floating somewhere at sea, perhaps this multitude of smaller hits might cause an implosion that will take her out of politics for good.
Her supporters are becoming more frantic in their defense of their hero but STILL cannot provide much more than “She’s spunky and I like her”. Well, if you’re so fond of her spunk, feel free to take her to lunch or invite her to join your book club, but don’t impose this incompetent fright show on the rest of us!
JC: You make me giggle! 🙂 Her own party will tear her up if she attempts a run at the WH.
A less qualified person, there never was. My two kitties have a better handle on the issues than she does (they watch MSNBC all day long, so they have a pretty well rounded education). Mariah/Samper in 2016! Don’t want to take President Obama’s thunder away.
UK LADY: I notice that while her supporters go on terrific tirades against the author, they don’t back a single thing up as far as her qualifications. They just rant and rave without substance. Ridiculous.
Also, too: Can the most powerful country be run by a woman who’s only passion is abortion?
Or maybe the iceberg is closing in and she is geting out of the water.
If she resigned that would be some pretty mean cold turkey to deal with. I’d have to start following Bachman, wouldn’t be the same tho…
jc in co
If only. Much more likely that the deluded dingbat is gunning for 2012 and knows from internal polling that the AK gov race would be a loss or near loss.
The only hope that she is quitting politics is if Todd and the rest of the family have been screaming at her to stop.
JC: That was just my understanding from above… that it was OK’d to be petitioned to be on the ballot and SP would be the “first” to sign in support.
IOW: MY understanding is that X amount of people have to sign a petition. THEN it gets on the ballot. THEN it’s voted on. THEN it is dumped as a horrific idea, limiting the choices of those in difficult situations.
Oh, I hope you’re right samper, that would destroy any aspirations to run for
president too. If she couldn’t take the pressure now she’d fold like a cheap suit in the primaries….
I have MSNBC on right now. It’s wall to wall MJ, as if there is NOTHING else going on in this country over the Fourth of July weekend!
Dare I tune to FOX? Is there anywhere else we can go to catch the announcement?
WOULDN’T IT BE COOL IF SHE’S IMMEDIATELY RESIGNING BECAUSE THE PRESSURE OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA IS JUST TOO MUCH FOR HER “FAMILY” TO TAKE????????????
omg, UK lady maybe she’s going to resign…she finally cracked like a nut!
adn had an article today that wooley was let go because of a difference
of policy with the guv, speculation would say that it was that wooley
didn’t agree with her policy regarding parental notification. I don’t know,
I was just being snarky in my comment about sister sarah being an AK hero.
I’m sure sampers right & it will be voted on….
Bella: Yes, I knew she was a lying liar telling lies. It all came out that she WANTED that crap all over her face when Daddy started threatening whatever. It was a horrific site, though, eh? Good analogy to Palin… I was just thinking of Poor Levi’s tatoo, not Palin, but you brought it all full circle very well.
Bubbles: If we can raise $5K for CD, we can certainly bail out austintx! I want to PM you… are you on the forum? You can PM me @ samper.
Fox just announced that Palin will announce something about her future as gov.
Where do I tune in on the internet that is? Is there a way to catch a live stream? Just wondering.
About this new announcement…?
snoskred has said to not visit the Echo Chamber because it gives them more money and somebody usually hears what they say anyway but I stay away.
As far as to what GINO is about to announce… Meg and SarahPac must know what is is. What happens if this ‘ announcement news ‘ show up over there… before it is announced. Timewise….How were they able to get it…..
Evidence of someone passing some notes.
I just read that Palin’s big announcement is going to be at 11:00 AK time, 3:00 Eastern time. So does that mean it will be live on the news? Where do I tune in????
31 minutes to go!
Speculation from wag at Politico
Maybe she’ll announce that Bristol is the mother of Michael Jackson’s kids and that she and Todd are seeking custody.
She’s changing party?
From C4P:
John Gibson alerted his listeners that Governor Palin would be making an announcement today at 3:00 PM EST from her home in Wasilla.
George Stephanopoulos tweeted this:
Palin announcement this afternoon? Not running for reelection??
Okay who has an honest guess as to what she is going to announce?
She is planning on running for Gov again.
She is planning on running for Pres. in 2012
She is not planning on running for Gov again
She is not planning on running for Pres in 2012
She is pregnant
She and Todd are getting divorced
She is resigning from office of Gov effective immediately
samper please don’t encourage austin to go teabaggin. you know he is gonna be arrested and we will have to bail him out. then we will have get rex butler to defend him and then we will broke…b
Seriously? She is going to rag on Beverly, who she “fired”? Well, just a day or so ago Sharon Leighow, denied any Palin involvement in Beverly Wooley “resigning”…she said Palin did not fire her. More spin-spin-spin. Doesn’t she realize all these previous statements are out there to be retrieved? Her inner circle must just hate working for her. The neverending lies………..
Great find UK Lady. Wow. With followers like that, Palin doesn’t need any
enemies. Maybe her base will finally become her undoing.
LOL @ Wolfpack…I entertained the exact same thought!!!
Photoshop that and show her flipping the bird!
re:book cover
lol…you captured her typical “smug mug” with lipstick
quote:
Did anyone see the story of the 18YO girl who got a million star tats on her face and her dad went ballistic? The story was that she was only getting one and “fell asleep” while having it done and the artist went nuts on her face. Her dad wants to sue, blah blah blah, but she’s 18 so there isn’t much they can do. Plus, I would find it very difficult to sleep while someone is permanently engraving and dying the flesh on my face.
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But unlike Sarah Palin, the girl had to come out a week later and admit she’s a lying liar who lied and the tattoo artist had done exactly what she asked him to in the first place. She only told the falling asleep story when her father went ballistic.
As for the health dept employees – if Dept of Law is telling someone not to comment publicly, that could mean there may be a wrongful termination lawsuit in the future.
jc: seriously? I thought it was going up for a vote of the people. Certainly, one person in the administration doesn’t hold that much power over the vote of the people????
OOOOO!!!
Jonah Goldberg at the National Review has been getting very nasty mail from the Palinban – he prints some of them and replies, this is gettin’ so fun!!
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjdlZDRkNGUxOGY2NTA2NzQ0MGU1YzlmNzBhMmY0ZDU=
Jumpin’ back in to read it all.
@ 129 Callie Says: July 3rd, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Thanx. I will put popcorn on hold for 1 hour 4 minutes 10sec.
If George thinks she’s not running in 2010, that can only mean one thing… her sights are set on 2012.
Fasten your seatbelts, folks… we’re in for a bumpy ride.
Speaking of Bristol: Does being the Candie’s spokesperson for abstinence only involve one lousy appearance on the Today Show or is this an on going gig? Haven’t heard a PEEP about abstinence since her “roll out”.
just read her tweet, she’s going to rag on the lady she fired and tell everyone how their 12 year olds could go get an abortion without parental notification if she hadn’t been an Alaskan hero & fired her….
Shouldn’t austintx be pallin’ around with Joe The Plumber by now? I want to see pics of the lunatics!!!
@antiAnti
announcement said to be at 11am Alaska time
just an hour and 6 minutes to wait…
I have to agree with Todd Purdum……..it would be facinating to re-visit the last campaign and connect all the dots……..remember this? I think little miss snit was mad and purposely striking out towards the end of the campaign…….
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/palins-2012-plans-leaves-mccain-campa
Palin’s 2012 Plans Leaves McCain Campaign “Speechless”
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Oct 29, 2008 4:15pm
“It looks like someone is just putting in the motions this week, biding her time for her next chance in the spotlight. I’m sure the McCain campaign appreciates the hell out of this.
BLITZER: And this just coming into the “Situation Room,” the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin now speaking out openly about her intentions in 2012 if, if she and John McCain were to lose this contest next Tuesday. In an interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin is now saying, she would be interested in remaining a serious national political figure, going ahead to 2012. She was asked what happens in 2012 if you lose on Tuesday, would you simply go back to Alaska? Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News asked her and Palin said this, and I will read it to you verbatim according to an ABC News transcript: “Absolutely not,” Sarah Palin says. “I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we’ve taken, that … that would … bring this whole … I’m not doin’ this for naught,” and that is a direct quote from Sarah Palin. Clearly, leaving open the possibility that she would be interested in leading the Republican Party in 2012 if she and John McCain were to lose this presidential contest right now. Let’s go to Dana Bash. She has been covering the McCain campaign reaction from the rather blunt statement from Sarah Palin that she would in fact be interested in leading the Republican Party going forward after Tuesday if they lose?”
Fllyinureye.. Great job, very funny….
AKM here I am, another morning that I just can’t pull myself away….
Man I would think that Gino is spinning right now….
Mudpups you are all very entertaining…..
If she’s smart she’ll announce that she’s dropping out of politics and taking a job at Faux & Friends, but she’s not smart, so we’ll see. She’s probably filing a suit against VF or wonkette or something equally ridiculous.
@HonestyinGov: Bristol is double-iconic. She is both a Palin offspring, and she gave birth to at least one (maybe two) truly iconic-icons, the Babies! I love your suggest of Bristol’s new job; it will give her the experience that she will need for nursing school. (That is the latest plan, isn’t it?) And, when Sarah runs out of former high school friends to appoint, she can always appoint some of Bristol’s high school friends.
http://twitter.com/akgovsarahpalin
hmmm, announce is this AM so just 2hrs 23 min left!
OMG….Hilarious…Gino sooooooooo loves attention…Be careful what you wish for!!!! rUN SARAH RUN…LMAO
@113 Callie Says: July 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 AM
WOW! what a _very_ interesting tweet from Stephanopoulos. my my… guess I will start the popcorn.
Who has the link to her twitter page? I just have to watch it now.
Pac No’s $$?
Quitting? Nah!
Pregnant? Nah?
OOOOhhhh Cryptic statement!!! I LOVE them.
More twitter chatter-
@hambyp: Palin office just issued cryptic statement: “Sarah Palin will make an announcement at her Wasilla home ths morning.”
stay tuned…
Ripley in CT Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 AM
What do you want to bet that she sees the train a’comin’ and will get Trig’s birth records changed? Now that she can put anyone she wishes into the position of power in the Health Department… I don’t think fraud is beyond her.
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Maybe she will put CJB there?
I gotcha bubs! I responded.
What do you want to bet that she sees the train a’comin’ and will get Trig’s birth records changed? Now that she can put anyone she wishes into the position of power in the Health Department… I don’t think fraud is beyond her.
Tweet from George Stephanopoulos (http://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos)
“Palin announcement this afternoon? Not running for reelection??”
ripley““““`where are you? left message on forum. please check
RE: The GOP infighting about Gov. Icon……One thing that stays in my mind is the GOP really went out on a limb by nominating A WOMAN for VP. They are way behind the Democratic Party in equal representation. I just don’t see that party being behind a woman for President this soon. (maybe in 20 years…)
I think they are trying to find a way to have her “involved” but are not sure how. And then there is the Gov. – I doubt she will settle for anything less than the top job now that she’s tasted the power. Remember the “base” is just a % of a %. No way they can win an election with those #’s, no matter how loud and belligerent they are.
Golly, I just read the latest post over at Anonymousbloggers. The new guy John has PWSS (Pain Word Salad Syndrome.) Serious case of it, too. I’m afraid that means he has met the necessary qualifications: making no sense, speaking off the cuff, and just plain makin’ stuff up!
http://anonymousbloggers.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/john-moller-i-talked-to-many-many-people-over-those-two-days/
when will enough be enough?? for allot of alaskans to WAKE THE ” BLEEP ” UP??? I wont be holding my breath that’s for sure!!
honestyinGov,
Just delete your profile at ADN and sign up with new login name. You can use the same email address. This is what I do and it works.
Gindy51
I expect that if you look deeper than the Wasilla Warriors connection, you’ll likely find a Prayer Warriors connection – as you would with Bush’s appointees. It’s textbook 7 Mountains (Dominionist) Theology. There are still 150 graduates of Pat Robertson’s law school (vis a vis Monica Goodling) embedded in the US Justice Department, and evangelical ties to most of his appointments. Think back to the Muthee (Sarah’s favorite witch hunter) tape and the “infiltrating” comments – you can consider it good news if it’s only a Wasilla High connection, and incompetence the only consequence.
This group will give you some insight into the infiltration of the evangelicals into the US Military under Bush.
http://militaryreligiousfreedom.org/urgent_issues.html
Other groups actively pursuing 1st Amendment (Separation of Church/State) issues: http://www.JewsOnFirst.org, and Google:
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
I was just reading the ADN piece on Beverly Wooley.
And what kind of newspaper doesn’t look at the title to see if all the words are there. How ‘ professional ‘… NOT. Even little Piper could see THAT mistake.
The comments seem to be from lots of names you don’t normally see as the regulars. They all have a comment and it’s about 95% against GINO.
I asked ADN weeks ago why I can’t post anymore… no reply. Was I bad..?
My comment was going to be ..maybe Bristol will get the New job as health Director. She is looking for work. And is forced to agree with her Mother on all Health issues.
Gryphen (or someone else ) could do some photo shop work with an accompanying story as the new Health Director nominee, Bristol.
Put her in one of those nice white ‘ Nurse outfits ‘…and the hat with the red cross on it. More photo shop… please..?
Bristol is not ‘ Iconic ‘ is she…?
Say it ain’t so, SayNo! Dumping in lakes, streams, etc. WITHOUT strict guidelines? Makes me sick and I’m jumping over there to sign.
In MI, we are REALLY lucky to have beautiful lakes – not just the Great ones, but hundreds of really pristine inland lakes as well. It would kill me if they all started getting dumped in without pollution controls.
Fun fact: MI has more miles of coastline than any state in the Union! 🙂 Working hard to keep those miles clean for all to enjoy!!
Say NO to Palin in Politics- mission accomplished. This is important!
Martha UYS: LOL! 🙂 The really funny thing is that there’s already so much material, we don’t HAVE to make things up! 🙂
Go! Enjoy your day with your doggies! 🙂
BTW…..clean water letter dealine is July 10th, please don’t wait.
okay, now before everyone leaves for a Scarah free holiday, which we all sure as heck deserve……please sign this clean water petion. It will get her goat if we can overturn it, let’s roll. It’s our patriotic duty to keep our lakes clean and be a thorn in the side of people like Scarah. (hint: it will take the gloat out of her Kennsington mine victory)
http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/kensington_0709?qp_source=actioncenter
“Ask Obama administration officials Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator, and Nancy Sutley, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), to immediately rescind the memo written by the Bush administration in 2004 that allowed waste to be dumped directly into lakes, streams and rivers without meeting strict EPA pollution standards. Also, ask them to initiate a process to undo a 2002 rule that redefined industrial waste as “fill,” and paved the way for this “fill” to be dumped into our waters.
With swift action, President Obama’s administration can guarantee clean water protections and ensure a cleaner, safer and healthier environment. Let these officials know that clean water is important to you and your community!”
To plagiarize a line straight from Dana Carvey’s Church Lady character…
“Well, isn’t that speeecial ?”
Thanks to ” everybody ” for finding all these links that are out there… and there seem to be a LOT of them this week. Lots of good eyes and good ‘reporters’ on the job.
The Daily Dish article : He sure seems to keep coming back to Mudflats to get the scoop. Thats a h/t to AKM and glad that he acknowledges AKM’s stories. But forget about Obama and Axelrod sending a check in the mail. AKM is making it so easy for him. I hope AKM is at least on His Christmas card list now…. if he is NOT sending a check.
The Hot Air article : as saurkraut noted… careful about reading the comments. A little dose of reality is in order there. it’s like ” The Twilight Zone ” there. truly bizarre. Two guys are actually having a discussion as to which Foreign Natl. Leaders Palin (Presidents, Prime Ministers etc.. about 12 countries ) should be talking to and who she would ‘ get along with ‘ to get ready for 2012. OMG !!
First off. She wouldn’t ‘ get along with ‘ ANY of them. She could care less about anyone except HER. And second : They would never accept sitting down with Her. They would be embarrassed if they did. It would hurt their reputation.
What a perfect name for that blog though… Hot AIR.
from Huff Post, and this sentence so cracked me up, “We can just say no to the continued celebrity of Tila Tequila and Sarah Palin, and in my opinion we should.”
I love that the writer used Tila and Bible Spice in the same sentence. lol
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-devin/palin-has-bright-future-a_b_139508.html
It’s a gorgeous day, I’m outta here. Lynnrockets – great song! AIP! That’s funny! I can’t take any more Sarah for the day, so me and dogs are going out and then there is a garden / yard to attend to. To HECK with work, also, too! Carry on, and don’t forget to laugh today.
@ samper
“MarthaUYS: Do you have a link about her getting all over McCain about the emails?”
No, so I made one up! That’s what SHE does, so why not me? Comment # 5 on the Sitting Duck post. She’s teachin’ me well doncha know!
This firing crap is exactly the same garbage Bush and his cronies pulled. Get the true workers fired and put in industry hacks and lobbyists. Palin just picks some high school pal and puts them in the job, further weakening and ruining your state.
She will do the same thing if she is ever allowed to hold higher office.
“Wooley said she never had a policy discussion with Palin on any health topic, and they never met one-on-one.”
Figures. This is going to hurt her, both inside and outside AK.
Say No to PIP
They are killin’ her in those comments at ADN. The bots must be wearing their little selves out trying to delete them.
Living proof that peroxide causes brain damage………
http://saintjimmy.com/archives/31
Also in the Daily Beast:
How Vanity Fair’s Palin Profile Helps Her
by John Batchelor
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-03/how-vanity-fairs-palin-profile-helps-her/2/
“[The Vanity Fair article is] a political biography that is compelling in its improbability and breathtaking in its portrait of a young, deceitful, driven, unapologetic, spontaneous, and cunning scalawag. Purdum’s notion of a sober put-down is to quote the wooden fossil of a cigar store Indian, Governor Walter S. Hickel, who complains that after he helped Palin get elected governor, “She never called me after that.” The stories about Palin and her rambunctious daughters, her riveting special needs child, her cheerful parents, her innate affection for the strangeness of Alaska, and her magical romance with her rock-star attractive husband Todd are all a setup to learning that in the governor’s office she is Elmer Gantry in a skirt, as clannish, vengeful, petty, tireless, ill-read, pouty and manipulative as anyone Hollywood could dream up and play Mildred Pierce. The darkest revelations about Palin are that she didn’t like preparing for the tedious TV interviews; she treated the dull Biden debate as irrelevant; and she wanted to make her own concession speech on election night. In sum, the governor does not like losers, does not like to lose, and was liberated the moment she shed the burden of bootless John McCain.”
samper- good additions to the “surely qualified NOW to be POTUS” list!
MarthaUYS: Do you have a link about her getting all over McCain about the emails?
Martha: Hmmm… interesting! The same people who run the birth and death records getting fired for not being in step! Just sayin’.
closet mudpup…..spot on with the Rollingstones article.
some of the comments under the healthdept.gate are good……
” MyWayOrTheHighway wrote on 07/03/2009 07:35:36 AM:
This woman will stop at nothing to further her political agenda/career. Wooley wanted nothing more than to do her job and provide testimony of fact to lawmakers for them to make informed decisions, instead of blindly agreeing with Governor Sitting Duck’s ideological views that exist for no other reason than to promote her political career.
Palin won’t/can’t comment because she lacks the ability to speak without a script. That the termination is a “personnel matter” is a convenient excuse for this bumpkin who’s masquerading as our governor to avoid another Couric-like embarrassing interview. The only thing this narcissist can do is her theatrical martyrdom routines and cheesecake photo-ops. This is the foundation for the nitwit’s notion that she qualified for public office.”
HistoryGoddess: You forgot: Dressed like she was just washing her car to meet Foreign Dignitaries, got her passport stamped, encouraged funding vacation transportation for National Guard Troops, and tried to get a late night comedian fired. Oh, and fired scores of other people because they wouldn’t support her fanatical agenda.
Yup! She is ALL about getting prepared to be my president!
I know! While SP was gallivanting – not doing her job as our gov as usual, she was head hunting for a Snark Consultant. She found someone who has all the right tools of the trade, which include: gags and socks for the mouth, a tranquilizer gun, and a soundproof booth in which to store the Snarker until they calm down.
Finding that Snark Consultant – boy howdy – just goes to show ya that she’s SERIOUS about running for office. She’ll never make it without one. That, coupled with brow beating McCain (see Sitting Duck entry) over the leaks in the last campaign, shows her cards. She’s gotta find trusted, brainwashed, ready-to-be-bots to run her new campaign – can’t have any of those mean talkers doncha know.
Wonder if she remembered about all the cell phone pictures snapped of her and her tantrums by these folks last winter? I’d say those will be gold in their bucket if she tries to come after them! Ha!
Great cover! The hand holding the lipstick could use some more wrinkles and sun spots IMHO.
Scarah is such a piece of work! Rather than speak personally with the person to resolve conflicts before firing them, she fires away. Then has her handy excuses lined up, “it was a luxury job, trying to operate more efficiently” but to say that it “wasn’t performance-based”? I’d say it is! If she’s being fired for not “aligning with Scarah’s policies”, isn’t that “performance” on the part of the employee?
Thank goodness someone spoke up on those “darn progressive blogs” or this may not have come out. I’m glad she didn’t resign! Someone buy her a drink, cheers to you Beverly, the next Gov will bring you back on board. Scarah’s a d*mn fool.
And additional fall out? the not so smart gov drove an important brilliant Dr. from the state, he’d rather leave than bend over for her. Again, she’s hurting the state of AK for her national political gain.
(from the ADN, Lisa Demer article, link posted above)
“Hogan asked Wooley to resign on June 1, saying she wasn’t aligned with the governor on policy questions and also that the department was trying to operate more efficiently by combining her job with Butler’s. He told her it wasn’t performance-based, she said. She refused to resign and was dismissed.
“Butler was offered Wooley’s job, along with his own, but instead chose to return to the CDC for a few months as the flu vaccine is developed. He had been on loan to the state.
Wooley said her office did get direct criticism from the governor’s office regarding the wording of a press release on teen pregnancy. The governor didn’t like a quote from one of Wooley’s staff so the quote was removed.
Wooley said she never had a policy discussion with Palin on any health topic, and they never met one-on-one.”
Miss Demeanor – I think you might enjoy this article …
On the night of the RNC last September, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi wrote an article about the candidacy of Sarah Palin. I was nearly awestruck by his remarkable insights which I wasn’t hearing articulated by others yet, but which seemed me to be right on the mark. I still think he was.
Mad Dog Palin
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she’s the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin
79 Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 AM
cool! ADN is on it……..
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/852044.html
“One of the state’s top public health officials says she was forced out of office because Gov. Sarah Palin felt she wasn’t in step on social issues.”
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I found the following comment there and if true, I DO find it very interesting!
Is this true about the division? Anyone else?
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KenaiKelly wrote on 07/03/2009 01:01:20 AM:
“The division has about 550 employees and a budget of $100 million. It includes nurses and epidemiologists, health facility inspectors and keepers of birth and death records.”
Interesting
There are some that want to see Palin stay in the race. Think it’s a sure win for the Democrats in 2012. Middle of the road Republicans & Independents won’t vote for her.
@ mae lewis
Every time that they think that Sarah has been insulted… their cry is “The only way that you can fight this insult is to donate to Sarah.”
Like the comedian Ron White said:
“You just can’t fix stupid.”
Fight the battles you can win – “fools are easily parted from their money”.
samper @77 Good question. She did give a plagiarized speech, walked in a “made up holiday” parade, fly in a real military plane, and dressed like an off-duty soldier. Does that count? Someone, most likely a mudpuppy, commented that she “was put on 3rd base and thought she had hit the triple.” That is so true. Now, people are trying to convince us that with some batting practice, she could have done it- just look at her athletic prowess. Makes me sick.
cool! ADN is on it……..
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/852044.html
“One of the state’s top public health officials says she was forced out of office because Gov. Sarah Palin felt she wasn’t in step on social issues.”
flyinyoureye……..you did a great job on the pic! but letterman would like more “slutty make up” lol, just sayin,
you’re probably too nice to do that.
on the “firing” of the State health workers, she probably can justify it because they failed to show up to legislative hearings rather than lie for her. I’d say it has teeth.
Get fired because you won’t lie for the boss, who happens to be a governor, who happens to have a no abortion agenda? who just had her lt. gov put forth a abortion proposal to public vote because the legislature let her’s die in session, because they didn’t get the “facts” to back her bill from her staff? It’s all to make “platform” brownie talking points. heck, it just cost the state of AK to exceptional employees, no biggy.
yeah, I think this has teeth.
she also said in her twitter how she personally is gonna vote on it, next she’ll have commercials asking for public support for it. she’s creepy.
HistoryGoddess Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 AM
From the Daily Beast article, a disturbing quote:”Eight months after the election, the governor is as natural and gifted a presidential candidate as anyone since Huey Long.”
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What has she done in 8 months that has brought her from a miserable loser as VP candidate to a “gifted” presidential one? Has she taken a single class to prepare herself? Read a single book to get a basic knowledge of geography? What? What has she done in 8 months since the election that brings her to this point of being “gifted”?
I should have said in May 2008 . . . not last May . . . last May was May 2009 . . . oh well, you probably know what I meant.
Mudflatters, have a great holiday weekend! I appreciate reading all your comments.
a bush-palin ticket would work for the bushie boys- they would guarantee that Sarah would never be crowned to their associates. This would permit Jeb to move to the middle.
I haven’t read the Daily Dish yet…but I will. Just a note on David Frum.
David is the son of one of Canada’s most revered TV journalists…Barbara Frum. I don’t remember her as having the same right wing neo con views as her son, and I think he moved to the US in order to express those views to willing listeners.
I despise the man, as a Bush speech writer…(he was in on coining the Axis of Evil) and as Bushies apologist.
In the beginning he seemed a bit of Palin supporter…but perhaps he was only towing the party line at the time. Glad to see he is seeing the light.
67 sandra in oregon Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:14 AM
How many people are left in Alaska to be appointed to state jobs? Sure sounds as if it is difficult to work there.
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Palin went to school with a kid who had perfect attendance, never a sick day in his school experience. He’s her top choice for Public Health Dir.
On Bree Palin’s site they are saying that the same person that made the McBeth video made the crazy fake SarahPAC video.
How many people has this woman fired in the past … what? 2 years?
Does anyone have a running total? Because she seems FAR removed from the average CEO in firings.
And it seems to always come down to who supports her personal agenda and who doesn’t, not whether they are doing their jobs well.
As far as having “it” goes… Ummm…. I don’t give a crap what her “family values” are, what her stand on abortion is (because it will NEVER be overturned, anyway!), or what freak of a pastor she engages.
If she’s going to run for POTUS, she has GOT to get some actual education on what it takes to run this country! She can’t just run around thumping her Bible and spouting off about family values and think that is enough to deal with the many issues a President has to face, like the economy, foreign relations, etc.
She HAS to figure out that everything is NOT resolved with the “Smaller Gov’t, Lower Taxes, No Abortion, Family Values” mantra. God, it’s just sickening what her ilk thinks passes as competency to run this country!
A cursory and coached prep for a campaign is far removed from real understanding of what the job entails. Why does NO ONE think she needs to be truly educated? Educated so that the issues can be discussed WITHOUT prep ahead of time? Bleccchhh!
Levi’s tattoo: Did anyone see the story of the 18YO girl who got a million star tats on her face and her dad went ballistic? The story was that she was only getting one and “fell asleep” while having it done and the artist went nuts on her face. Her dad wants to sue, blah blah blah, but she’s 18 so there isn’t much they can do. Plus, I would find it very difficult to sleep while someone is permanently engraving and dying the flesh on my face.
ANYWAY, Levi has it much worse… he has the name of a PALIN who done did him WRONG on his body! He needs to use his appearance funds to get that mess off his hand!
They were going to “force” him to move to DC if they won. What a nightmare!
ooh, I just read the wikipedia entry on Huey Long. Perhaps the author was intentionally making a valid comparison! Here is a quote from Huey Long after a failed impeachment attempt. “Long became ruthless when dealing with his enemies. He fired their relatives from state jobs and supported candidates to defeat them in elections. “I used to try to get things done by saying ‘please’,” said Long. “Now…I dynamite ’em out of my path.”
There are a lot more comparisons, too. Oil revenues, infighting, supporting FDR, then “going rogue” and questionable alliances.
I can just see Palin standing around fingers in ears saying ”la la la la, la la la la.”
Either that or clicking her red naughty monkey heels together saying, ”there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.”
History Goddess, BINGO!
“Is “it” the ability to create blind followers? “
Mae Lewis……..let them waste their money, they’re delusional cult fools. Scarah is going nowhere politically.
How many people are left in Alaska to be appointed to state jobs? Sure sounds as if it is difficult to work there.
From the Daily Beast article, a disturbing quote:”Eight months after the election, the governor is as natural and gifted a presidential candidate as anyone since Huey Long.” Is the author assuming people don’t know about Huey Long? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long
He was a demagogue who was all about the “sharing the wealth” stuff! Does the author really think Huey Long was a gifted presidential candidate? If so, Palin may be the gal for him. As for the rest of us with a brain…
Last May I bet my wife a steak dinner that Palin would be nominated for vice president. The wife laughed and said sure. She lost and had to buy dinner.
I haven’t finalized my next prediction but it will probably be either:
Palin/ Bush 2012
-or-
Bush/ Palin 2012
EEK!
Todd Purdum on Hardball last night…….with Chuck Todd discussing the VF article. Singularly, McCain’s lapse in judgment on his biggest campaign decision. Basicly Todd is saying, this is why he finds it worth re-visiting, for historical value, about McCain’s “choice” of VP pick, that it was a poor choice and it backfired.
They show McCain on Jay Leno, when he leaves Scarah’s name off the list of Repub presidential candidates, that he said he’d left a name off the list and knew he’d hear about it, ouch, lol. It’s SO obvious he doesn’t endorse Scarah, and for good reason, no doubt about it, he’d know!
Talks about Toad being her adviser!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/todd-purdum-discusses-his_n_223569.html
Closet Mudpup:
I have never been a Palin supporter.
I was astounded when she was elected gov.
But it was the perfect sh%t storm, with Murkowski and all.
I was astounded when McCain nominated her for VP, with Troopergate, the Chuck Kopp fiasco, and all.
She was, and is, an embarrasment to women and Alaska.
But I, too, thought (and hoped and prayed) she would get better.
Now, I am afraid.
Afraid, because the pee- bots are single-minded and tenacious.
Afraid, because Alaskans have that “don’t tell us what to do” mentality.
Afraid because Americans are lazy and buy into the paid-for lies (Swiftboat) and anything that means they do not have to do any critical thinking on the ISSUES.
I am not a hater, as the pee-bots label anyone with a criticism of Palin.
I just want Palin to do her job, realize her limits, and NOT speak for me as a woman and an Alaskan.
Palin is not a quick learner, as so many parrots said during the election.
That, my friend, just might be the gist of it.
Do we have another abuse of power complaint with two top State Health Officers being dismissed because they wouldn’t support Sarah’s parental consent bill for medical services? It sure is sounding a lot like Troopergate.
Ha, ha, love it!! Thanks for the chuckle!!
Great graphic. Such a talent.
In light of the recent passing of Michael Jackson, I thought it would be appropriate to compose a Jackson 5 song parody. Hope you enjoy. No offense to members of the AIP, but I simply could not resist the recent email kerfuffle.
A.I.P.
(sung to the Jackson 5 song “A.B.C.”)
Todd hooked-up with this Party
As a member seven years or more…
It was the A.I.P. for Toddie P….
Secessionists to the core
When word got out to the street, too…
Street too, street too
You got out of, there…
Got out of
Poor Sarah frowned, took some heat
If this story gets out, election defeat
(chorus)
A.I.P.
Easy as …
R.I.P.
Secessionists
Todd’s Party
A.I.P., calling me, Sarah, you and me girl!
A.I.P.
Easy as …
R.I.P.
Secessionists
Todd’s Party
A.I.P., calling me, Sarah, you and me girl!
Come on Sarah Palin, make the First Dude quit!
Come on Barracuda, he’s an idiot!
Your big lipstick smile has turned into a pout!
Moron, moron, moron
The secessionists are all about!
A union of co-equal states
Is the basis of this great country
That’s something you’re not proud of every day, fool
Patriotism’s incomplete
C-C-C-Creatures from a side show
Side show, side show
Want to separate!
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!
We need you
In our zoo
Listen to me Sarah, you’ll love it, also too
A.I.P.
Easy as …
R.I.P.
Secessionists
Todd’s Party
A.I.P., calling me, Sarah, you and me girl!
A.I.P.
Easy as …
R.I.P.
Secessionists
Todd’s Party
A.I.P., calling me, Sarah, you and me girl!
Come round, girl!
Todd really loves you!
No!
Shut up, girl!
You’re a bad interview
Fake it, fake it, Palin, join us now!
Fake it, fake it, Palin, ooo oooh!
Fake it, fake it, Palin, huh
A.I.P., Sarah, oo ooh!
A.I.P., Sarah, nah, nah!
A.I.P., Sarah, huh!
Secessionists you and me
A.I.P., it’s sleazy
Soon they’ll be R.I.P.
We’ll be rid of Sarah P.
We hope it’s soon as can be
Alaskans will then be free
She’ll be a bad memory!
lynnrockets.com
”However, Hogan did talk to the Alaska Budget Report, a capital newsletter. In a story in the June 21 edition, Hogan described Wooley as having difficulty articulating the governor’s position on the abortion measure, as well as teen pregnancy prevention.”
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I’m pretty sure by ”…having difficulty articulating…” he means straight up lying.
Sarah & Sanford have just created America’s worst possible scenario! By failing to hide their insanity, Jeb bush is testing the waters for 2012. 70 years of the Bush crime family is enough!
Miss Demeanor
I think the one little quote from a campaign staffer in the VF article probably sums up the disenchantment of a lot of Republicans:
“We thought she’d get better.”
I know that we’re not supposed to write about what’s happening on pro-Sarah websites, but here’s the thing. Everytime that they think that Sarah has been insulted (Vanity Fair, Sitting Duck, David Letterman, Celtic Diva), their cry is “The only way that you can fight this insult is to donate to Sarah.” So, it is in Sarah’s best interest, financially, to always be the victim, to be outraged, to be under attack– right now that posture is attracting donations.
I read the National Review article @42. From the conservative perspective, it was a good article. What I don’t get- at all- is how some people think she has “it.” Is “it” that quality that just makes people look and not turn away? Like a dead cat on the road? Is “it” the ability to create blind followers? The author, and others, say since she has “it”, all she has to do is some studying up- like some Cliff Notes can teach her all she needs to know? What about ethics? One seems to have a truly accurate moral compass or one doesn’t. I don’t think you can study up on that. If she had been hired at Fox instead of being elected governor, would people still be seeing “it”?
She represents all that is wrong with the religious right and current Republican Party. I strongly recommend Frank’s book “What’s the Matter with Kansas.” It ends about the 2004 election. Palin is never mentioned, but seriously, it is the story of the “Makin’ of the Palin.” You all will find the book fascinating if you haven’t already read it.
The Plum LineGreg Sargent’s blog
McCain And Palin Personally Approved Internal Email Hunt For Leakers, Campaign Manager Says
John McCain and Sarah Palin both personally approved an intensive internal search of the emails of top campaign staffers in order to determine who had been leaking damaging information about Palin to reporters, McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt just told me in an interview.
time for Kristol come back, lol………isn’t this fun!
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/campaigns/mccain-and-palin-personally-approved-internal-email-hunt-for-leakers-campaign-manager-says/
“John McCain and Sarah Palin were both informed that we were doing this in an attempt to catch the person,” Schmidt told me, referring to his decision to undertake the email search, which has been the topic of fierce controversy since it was revealed yesterday.
Schmidt’s revelation sheds new light on the campaign’s internal discord and on just how frustrated McCain and Palin both were about the leaks, which portrayed Palin as a “diva” and a “whackjob” at a key moment when the campaigns were battling over her image. Schmidt’s claim will also up the stakes in the fierce infighting among top Republicans over what went wrong.”
hey dr chill. glad you are back. wow! i was worried about you. now go to the forum and see where i want take irish and ripley and all. and please make sure to set aside a few hours the first saturday in august. b
First Charles Krauthammer, and now David Frum!
Looks like prominate conservatives ARE recognizing the truth behind Palin’s shortcomings.
Great pieces on Palin in “The Daily Dish”.
#38 Wolf Pack
“It looks like a halo around her head.”
No, I don’t think so. I think it’s just her hot head blowing off steam….sort of like the geyers. Every once in awhile it has to release steam or the whole kit & caboodle will explode.
wow, a royal chew out by a repub reporter, lol…….ouch, the truth hurts. BTW, ManSOUR took the reporter to task, of course.
The reporter starts out……. Dear Governor Palin, “Your blowing it”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE1OTE3OTFhMmZkOWE5MDQ5MmZhZTFjMzE2MjcxNTM=#more
“But not anymore. Oh, you’re still taking flak, but not because you strike fear in the hearts of Democrats. You’re taking flak because you’re striking fear in the hearts of Republicans. For Democrats, fairly or not, you’ve become a laughingstock. And for some of McCain’s campaign managers, you’ve become a convenient excuse for their failures.
But while McCain’s strategists do not cover themselves in glory for scapegoating you, you are not without blame either. You do seem to think the best advice is for you to stay just the way you are. Leaders listen to the advice they don’t necessarily want to hear.”
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/852044.html
Not sure how to make that an active link….the ADN’s article on Wooley being “forced out” of her position because she was not in line with GINO’s social (read “abortion”) issues.
So GINO got rid of two people in one fell swoop–she is so talented!! It looks as though the one was told that she had to testify to GINO’s wishes on the parental consent/notification, and when it was found out that she planned also to bring up facts and statistics on why perhaps notification rather than consent would be an acceptable compromise, that GINO did not see that as toeing her line. So, Wooley was told to resign, then the other guy, Butler, was told that he had to do his own job PLUS Wooley’s, and he, too, justifiably and reasonably, declined and took a job with the CDC in Atlanta! Good for Dr. Butler!
So, the moral, once again, of the story, is that you cannot bring up facts that might tend to show that GINO’s version of reality might not be the best, and GINO doesn’t respect anyone whose opinion is not exactly the same as her own. I await with great anticipation who will be appointed to these vacant positions.
I really think AK would have been much better off if they had just gotten rid of that lady that keeps firing everyone else and in doing so, making it clear that she is quite afraid of intelligence and truth.
It turns out that she really is quite transparent, aina?
Just read Celtic Diva’s latest post. I came away with the feeling that her efforts, will bear no fruit. Maybe the next step would be to directly ask for the involvement of the FBI and/or the US Attorney’s office. How long does this charade continue?
That is already happening, phoebe. See HotAir for examples.
If I were Todd Purdum I’d be getting ready for an attack from the Crazy Lady & her disciples.
This email business needs to get more coverage, seceding is not very patriotic, eh? goes for Gov Perry too, his spew should be brought into this discussion, along with the repub party wanting another war. Very unpatriotic. Creeps.
@ 32 Aussie Blue Sky Says: July 3rd, 2009 at 5:24 AM
I think Moller is trying to save his sorry @ s s. When one reports a statistic like 50% met, one had darn well better have the data to back it up. When one reports anecdotal info, one darn well has to say “anecdotal”.
The ADN Q&A interviewer gave Moller plenty of chances to at least sound clued-in, but Moller just doesn’t seem to get how clueless he sounds. For example,
Q: “…lousy king runs all over the state except the Kuskokwim River? When you talk to people on the Kuskokwim they say they’re doing well. … Why is that?” (big hint here to Moller that his info seems WHACKO)
But, Mollers answer doesn’t even mention why just one river (which he happens to have stumbled over) is just peachy.
(I am just so tee-ed off about this Moller Q&A that I need to step away from keyboard. Happy 4th weekend to one and all.)
Ha ha ha ha! This is pretty funny and spot on.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE1OTE3OTFhMmZkOWE5MDQ5MmZhZTFjMzE2MjcxNTM=
#16 Hey Doc……nice to see you back!!
More from the newmajority website, this from a comment in response to the Frum article:
David you need to face the fact that about 75% of Republicans who represent about 20-30% of the electorate, depending on whose poll you believe, regard Palin as a serious potential presidential candidate. This means the GOP has ceased to be a serious party of governance. The fact that McCain and the higher echelons of the Republican party chose this woman with virtually no effective vetting to be only a heartbeat away from the presidency of a multiple cancer survivor and then maintained this charade when it had become abundantly clear that she was totally unfitted by intellect, character or temperament to be vp let alone president is to me a measure of the extent to which the Republican party has lost its way. I don’t want to sound like a character in Casablanca but it is truly shocking.
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Some republicans are seeing what AKM, Shannyn, Phil, Andrew, and a number of other (sometimes conservative) Alaskan bloggers have seen for many months. Looks like people are starting to catch up to the curve thanks to bloggers typing away in momma’s basement. …
SO glad this made to the main media!!! and the cult groupies said it meant nothing, lol. Accidental secessionist is never going away, it does mean something! no doubt more emails coming!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31716580
That looks like a halo around St. Sarah’s head.
From David Frum at http://www.newmajority.com: The McCain campaign is over. The duty of confidentiality has expired. The next campaign has begun. If conservatives are to avoid catastrophe, they need to hear from those inside what exactly happened. If true, the leaks constitute an urgent warning and public service. I believe they are true. For sure they confirm what I have heard during the campaign and after. Instead of complaining about these leaks, conservatives should heed them – and fast.
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Proof that intelligence does exist within conservative circles. There are some who are willing to address the issue of whether Sarah Palin truly is a dipstick with lipstick. But will their conservative brethren allow such talk or will they continue forward with their heads stuck in the lipstick?
From Hotair: We’ve been having a running debate on Twitter this afternoon about Sarahcuda and my contention that criticism of her is verboten among righty blog readers, HA’s included.
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Dissent among the palinistas is verboten? They aren’t much for certain concepts within the Constitution, are they?
Methinks austin ain’t the type to wear skirts or spandex, Aussie.
Please don’t put that type of visual into my haid… hahahahaa
Palin’s secessionista tendencies are a topic of conversation among the Gettysburg re-enactor circles (Day 2 of the Great Battle’s anniv.).
Need some help… “Accidental Secessionist” seems like a great book/poster title, just need artwork of Palin in a confederate private’s uniform… dirty, dusty, grey. Let’s wrap her in the reb flag for the rednecks.
Or maybe someone can photoshop the RW pic, sub the real flag with the reb flag and put some reb clothes on her. Get some laughs while exposing her true self.
austintx you’re a big sissy girl. 😀
@ antiAnti I had trouble understanding Moller too also. It was obvious that the only individual he could clearly recollect was the man in the video. I wonder if he thought that was Nick Tucker? Certainly Moller didn’t seem to offer any suggestion of whom these mysterious “lotsa” happy campers were.
He has apologised but he hasn’t been taken to task yet. He needs to say where the heck these satisfied customers are – if they existed at all. I’m tired of the Palinesque lying!
And I’m really curious to know if he really said “fruitation” . . . . and how that got through spellcheck. 😉
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is now returning pictures – pretty amazing!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/02/lro-first-light-images-of-the-moon/
22 tigerwine Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 AM
So, Austintx – are you going teabagging this weekend?
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Nah – they can have it………it is 80 degrees at 8:27 am though……. high expected to top a hunnert…….hope they all pass out with heat exhaustion !!
BigPete Says:
I wondered if the Vanity Fair Palin article author (that’s right I can’t remember his name!) was a Mudflats “lurker” himself
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VF have the world’s best researchers …. the thing to wonder is: when they got to Mudflats did they spend a lot of time there because they had to, or because they couldn’t leave? 😉
They are a very cool bunch.
LOL – Even the right wing loonies are fighting with each other now –
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/02/krauthammer-palin-isnt-a-serious-candidate-for-president/
Be warned -this is a repub site so most comments are unbalanced.
National Review takes aim at c4p …. 😉
A Letter to Sarah
“You are constantly taking the bait, taking up the fights your biggest fans want you to take up.
But here’s the thing: Don’t listen to your biggest fans. Don’t alienate them either, but don’t think that because the Palin4Pres crowd cheers, you’re making progress.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE1OTE3OTFhMmZkOWE5MDQ5MmZhZTFjMzE2MjcxNTM=
@ 4 Aussie Blue Sky Says: July 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Ooops, also, I added your comment to the Fishier thread.
UK Lady Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:02 AM
The Daily Beast is wondering if Scarah is a narcissist, they should ask us.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-02/is-she-a-narcissist/?cid=hp:mainpromo2
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It seems that everybody is catching up to The Mudflats! I wondered if the Vanity Fair Palin article author (that’s right I can’t remember his name!) was a Mudflats “lurker” himself
@ 4 Aussie Blue Sky Says: July 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Thnx for the Moller comment in ADN on the subsistence statistics. Moller’s answer is amazingly incompetant. Have posted comment to ADN.
Religion and personal beliefs gets in the way again. 20 years down the tube. Sarah knows no shame.
2 Aussie Blue Sky Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 AM
State public health director forced out of office
Palin declined to comment Thursday, calling the situation a personnel matter within the Department of Health and Social Services. Bill Hogan, health commissioner, also declined comment, based on advice from the Department of Law.
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/852044.html
***********************can’t speak on advice from the law dept?
So, Austintx – are you going teabagging this weekend?
great cover, she’s looking scary.
The New Republic (TNR) is looking at Sarah Palin’s Toxic Paradise
http://tinyurl.com/m66d5a
hee hee
The Republican Class of 1994: Hotbed of scandal and shame
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24435.html
(and these are the “leaders of tomorrow”?)
Oh and by the way, July 1st is the time for AK employees to file disclosures of outside employment…
Public records request anyione ?
1 Aussie Blue Sky Says:
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 AM
‘nite AKM
I was just taking the Alaska Executive Ethics Course. I dropped out at Page 60. I doubt I’ll graduate.
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You missed the part that addresses outside employment..
check out slide 81 & 82
http://www.law.state.ak.us/ppt/self-guided%20ethics%20training%20revised2.ppt#343,82,Slide 82
I have a slide I’d like to insert into the powerPoint …
The Palin exception !
FYI Andrew Sullivan/Daily Dish @ the Atlantic is nailing Palin, and today he’s highlighted AKM’s write up on $$ for ethics complaints. . .and he’s tweeted it too!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/the-odd-lies-of-sarah-palin-xxxii-the-cost-of-ethics-complaints.html
Excellent cover.
But more important, when is Obama going to flip about that desecrated photo of him and a baby and shut the site down (for national security reasons, of course)? Hmmm, hasn’t happened yet?
I thought I would p** my pants.
The Daily Beast is wondering if Scarah is a narcissist, they should ask us.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-02/is-she-a-narcissist/?cid=hp:mainpromo2
p.s. austintx – tell JTP to suck on a u-bend.
Great book cover !!
Joe the Dumber is in town today……..
http://havinganaustinteaparty.com/
Hahahahahaha! Love it!
Happy 4th of July!
Great graphic. In real life, Palin’s hands are more gnarly but you know… artistic license and all…
Thanks flyinureye! Good one!
Hillarious! And with all the brouhahaha over the Dr Chill photoshop on Celtic Diva, plus the Vanity Fair attention, it’s great to revisit the book titles.
Perfect Book Cover Preview! Great Job! Wishing you all a safe and warm holiday weekend! 🙂
Alaskans, see if you recognize any neighbors:
http://www.tagged.com/browse.html#params=_B_18_-1_US_0_Wasilla%252C%2520AK_Wasilla%2C%20AK_undefined_-1_25_0_0_0_0_0_keyword__0_-1_-1_-1_1_1
Q&A with Palin’s rural adviser, John Moller
“You know Nick Tucker and I had a number of conversations over the, over the course of a couple of the days. And I don’t know if that was Nick, if he mentioned it specifically. I know there was a fisherman, I’d have to go back and look at my notes, that mentioned it at the subsistence board meetings. And a number of folks over the course of the next day that mentioned to me that you know, quite a few of them had gotten, gotten their subsistence needs. … (Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow) mentioned it to me that Nick Tucker — was, was referenced as the source of information on that 50 percent and if … I made that assertion and that’s not correct, I’ll have to call Nick and tell him I’m sorry. But I talked to many, many people over those two days … and I heard it on numerous occasions that people were getting their needs.”
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/142167
Oh, whee – what a way to start the day!
Could have added “too” to the 2nd line to read: “In her own words, also, too” Good one, flyinureye!!!
State public health director forced out of office
Palin declined to comment Thursday, calling the situation a personnel matter within the Department of Health and Social Services. Bill Hogan, health commissioner, also declined comment, based on advice from the Department of Law.
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/852044.html
‘nite AKM 🙂
I was just taking the Alaska Executive Ethics Course. I dropped out at Page 60. I doubt I’ll graduate.
http://www.law.state.ak.us/ppt/self-guided%20ethics%20training%20revised2.ppt