No…not me. Don’t be silly.
It’s Sarah Palin.
She has, apparently, quit halfway through her “One Nation” bus tour:
Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska, where the skies are currently alight for over 19 hours a day and the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak.
The early stages of her tour resulted in two huge stories. First, her upstaging Mitt Romney—rude showmanship even by a Republican standard of nastiness. And second, her babbling, twisted rendition of Paul Revere’s midnight ride.
Ouch! She did more damage than good to herself during the early part of the tour because, you know, the “lamestream” media is so mean her and out to get her. And once again Sarah response is a triumph of narcissism over political sensibility. She takes her ball and goes home.
“I quit!”
There’s hope! Let’s say Palin becomes president by getting appointed to a minor position by a wingnut administration and then a virulent epidemic wipes out the 112 people ahead of her in line of succession … she’ll probably quit within 3 months after discovering (1) the job doesn’t pay as well as reality TV or selling books, (2) it requires showing up at an office and doing some actual work, and (3) you get criticized in that job no matter what you do (as Jimmy Carter pointed out).
Nope, she’s just not tough enough to be president.
But maybe President Michelle Bachmann would hire Sarah to make the coffee?
Prediction: Keith Olbermann starts using the expression, “Half TOUR Governor Sarah Palin….”
Seriously. A semi-illiterate ex-beauty queen contestant who couldn’t stand the ‘partisan’ attacks of Alaska and had to quit half way through one term of governor wants to be taken SERIOUSLY as a candidate for President of the United States? SERIOUSLY? Really? Come on! Every time I see Palin in some phoney photo-op “real moment” like this bus tour I keep waiting for Ashton Kutcher to bust out of the hedges and tell us we’ve been had and he was just punking America for the last 3 years. She is the least qualified least intelligent person I’ve EVER seen “run” for President. Although maybe she’s NOT really running…it could be a phoney “run” like Newt just to push a book/tour to increase her speaking fees and such.
The truth is that Palin is going on to start a socialk networking site she is calling Qwitter.
And the “bus tour” is just as phony as she is. She flies from town to town, the bus picks her up at the airport. Think of the rubes who email their friends with pictures of Sarah’s bus, thinking that she cared enough to roll through their small town.
All hat and no cattle.
She didn’t quit. Trump fired her.
And then there’s her evil spawn and her book that’s coming out.
Imagine the right’s moral outrage if Chelsea Clinton had appeared on a couple of reality TV series, moved to Hollywood along with her illegitimate child, lived with a couple of guys, and then wrote a tell-all revenge book, slamming the guy who fucked her when she was drunk. Of course there’d be outrage. But IOKIYAR, especially if you are the spawn of Palin.
I wouldn’t vote for Palin even if she got the nomination, but I don’t hate the women the way you guys obviously do. I don’t get this irrational hatred of the woman. I put that kind of hatred in the loony category along with the birthers, truthers, and other conspiracy nuts.
What did Palin actually do to each one of you to elicit such hatred?
Well, there’s some good news at least. Obama is going to start reducing the troop levels in Afghanistan. Maybe he’ll actually stop the damn mess and the one in Iraq, too!
“I don’t hate” “irrational hatred” “that kind of hatred” “such hatred”
Good grief! Lighten up. We make fun of her because she’s a stupid, foul, incompetent Republican with a fucked up family who has the gall to lecture us on morals and American history. The better and more relevant concern might be, how on fucking earth could so many people on the right view this oh-so-obvious dingbat as a potential future leader of America and the free world? Explain that one to us.
“The better and more relevant concern might be, how on fucking earth could so many people on the right view this oh-so-obvious dingbat as a potential future leader of America and the free world? Explain that one to us.”
Maybe it’s because she successfully appeals to her conservative base? Just as Hillary Clinton appeals to the feminists out there in America? Could be?
Point: the world ain’t exactly what you guys think it is.
I guess it’s par for the course. She went from one college to another, quitting each school once it became difficult for her. She managed to stick through a term of office as mayor of a (very) small town, but quite half way through her term as governor. It’s not surprising she would quit a bus tour.
Come to think of it, I’ve known a couple of guys who were very much like her, in this regard. Once of them was a fellow freshman at college, he would talk a lot about how smart he was but once a class would get difficult, he would suddenly “get sick” for the last two weeks of the semester, and then get permission to submit his term papers (or take a final) months later. It became as regular as clockwork, we all laughed as we guessed which date the magic sickness would suddenly appear.
The other guy used to make a really good first impression, but over the succeeding weeks/months you realized how shallow his understanding was of any issue – and often it was quite wrong. That didn’t stop him, however, from insisting that he was right all the time, and that anybody who didn’t agree with him was either an idiot or jealous. Within a year or two his employers would finally have him pegged, but by then he had already jumped ship to another job – with a promotion and a raise, based upon the “outstanding” job he did at his former employment. He once left a copy of his resume in the fax machine – under “skills and accomplishments” he had lifted the text from one of our brochures which described everything we did in the office, which he inserted into the resume word-for-word.
@13
You think?
Point: we’re still going to keep on making fun of her, and any of the other right wing lame asses that decide they want too run for President.
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I hardly hate Sarah Palin. I could care less about the woman, really. But, my she’s fun to mock and she provides such voluminous material for mocking. Given the amusement she provides, we really should be grateful to her.
In honor of the reveal of the KLOWN’s sock puppet in the open thread, here’s this blast from the past:
http://horsesass.org/?p=6363#comment-854038
Unfortunately Scott Walker and John Kasich and that other bastard in Michigan are NOT like Palin – they are going to keep going doing the likes of the Koch brother’s bidding until they are booted from office.
And now that Sarah appears to have taken the ball and gone home, we have another crazy to worry about:
Read the whole thing. It’s too scary:
http://www.rollingstone.com/po.....622?page=1
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I believe we’ll see a whole lot of internecine bloodshed between the GOP candidates by the time this thing is over. They’re focused on Obama for the moment, but the slights, digs, and off-the-record slurs will start to accrue. I think the GOP campaign will provide us with plenty of entertainment.
She kept saying that the bus tour was merely a family vacation.
Sounds a lot like she quit her vacation, too!
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Amazing. She can’t even successfully vacation.
Grifting is an art few Republicans understand, but those that do understand become very wealthy.
Also, too, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far is an entirely spell binding and insightful story of a 21 year old unwed mother who got pregnant due to no fault of her own at 18 and tells us of the trials and tribulations of being put upon by the ‘royalist’ daughter of the top of the ticket candidate in a national election.
The book is a fascinating ghost written story of the trials and tribulations of an “Abstinence spokesperson” who has no history of abstinence, yet amazingly became a celebrity featured on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Dancing with the Stars, and Sarah Palin’s Alaska. And THIS is only the beginning of the journey of this amazingly accomplished woman, so far, also, too.
All true red blooded Murkin conservative patriots will buy the book. Only socshulist, Bill Ayer loving, Murkin haters won’t buy this book.
Also, too… because of your ‘gotcha comments’ I quit!
@3. Darryl spews:
Prediction: Keith Olbermann starts using the expression, “Half TOUR Governor Sarah Palin….”
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Don’t count on it. Your nitwit Palin jokes are getting old even among nitwits.
Wow watching you leftists go nutzo is hilarious…
What a bunch of idiotic leftist morons who roam on this blog!
Now she’s claiming that she wants to perform her civic duty? What about the civic duty of being elected governor, then actually performing that duty for the entire term?
If it is jury duty, watch her quit halfway through the trial, especially if it gets near her July 15 movie opening.
Maybe it’s not jury duty, but the fact that she is being sued. The suit has now been moved to federal court.
http://www.adn.com/2011/06/08/.....palin.html
The very presence of Sarah Palin on the 2008 ticket shows how shallow the Republican strategy is, and how little they think of the American voter.
When Palin was nominated in August 2008, the real estate market was definately in trouble, but the collapse of the big financial firms and wall street had not yet occured. The reputation of the Republican Party was shattered, as their lies were revealed and multiple scandels erupted. Americans were no longer ready to be fooled by Republican attempts to divert our attention to terrorist threats, the “War on Christmas”, or such other cultural hot-button issues.
So how does the GOP respond? It assumes that by offering a woman as V.P. – any woman, provided she has conservative credentials – that it can capture the Hillary Clinton supporters.
And later, after the Obama/Biden election victory, the Republicans decide that having a black man lead the G.O.P. for a year or so would lure black voters away from Obama.
Notice that during this same time perior, the G.O.P. was moving far to the right as it financed and helped organize the Tea party. Yet it thought as long as it “appeared” to be a party with women and blacks in leadership positions, it really didn’t matter that their policies were discriminatory and outright racist. The American voter, they decided, was too stupid to tell the difference.
Of course, as the first Republican President (Lincoln) said, “You can fool some of the people some of the time….”
Bringing in Clinton was a dodge. Unless you’re admitting that stupid appeals to stupid, you’ve utterly failed you explain how it is that some media whore who appears to be ignorant of practically every subject has such strong appeal to the conservative mind-set that they would consider her qualified to lead America and the free world. It is my opinion that the average Republican voter is even more stupid and ignorant than Palin. In fact, they’re so stupid that they’re damned proud of it. The game plan of the GOP is to appeal to the stupid and the ignorant and to dumb them down even further. Sometimes they strike gold. Look at our own trolls. They revel in their stupidity and ignorance. They roll in like a pig in mud. That is why Palin appeals to them. They love teh stupid. They love the ignorance. Have you got a better explanation?
Good grief! Um, thanks for the sample of Randroidian condescension. Of course, that’s just another way of saying, “you are all krazy and I’m not”. heh- You do know, don’t you, that that’s not a good sign?
@25 “If it is jury duty, watch her quit halfway through the trial, especially if it gets near her July 15 movie opening.”
LMAO! The Quitta from Wasilla and her civic duty. Of course she’d bail on jury duty. It’d be a more pressing civic duty to attend her movie premier.
@13: Politically naive
I don’t hate Sarah Palin – I find her amusingly inept and pathetically stoopid.
Just as a find your attempted analogy (Palin to Hilary Clinton) as a farce of a political argument.
Umm, Palin is obciously over her head in almost any discussion about (pick one):
a. The economy
b. The constitution
c. History
d. Anything at all not related to summer fun activities in alaska.
On the other hand, I don’t think anyone questions Clinton’s intelligence.
However, I do question YOUR intelligence for trying to make that piss-poor analogy….
– Correction:
Just as I find….
Oh, and here comes Puddy – the cheerleader for the the stoopid – telling us how Palin had other obligations – I suppose those same obligations got in the way of her finishing her term as Governor?
What a total farce she and her defenders are…..
Actually, when you look at the republican “contenders” Palin is right in the thick of it for lack of intelligence and pandering.
I mean Newt can’t keep from self-destructing, Bachmann has said almost as many stoopid things as Palin, Santorum is a joke, Cain is even more of a joke and the “serious candidates” like Romney and Pawlenty have already made so many “serious” gaffes.
Romney is the king of the flip-floppers on health care and abortion and Pawlenty was too scared to confront Romney on health care – can you see the guy ever having the guts to make the call on bin Laden for instance?
What a bunch of republican midgets!
correctnutright,
Who’s defending her? You and your leftist ilk have PDS not me. I placed her own words here. If the lamestream media determine she has jury duty will you eat your words? NOPE you DOPE cuz it’s PDS, through and through!
Americafirst @ 23,
“Don’t count on it. Your nitwit Palin jokes are getting old even among nitwits.”
What…you believe I might quit because YOU don’t like ’em? (*Snicker*)
Olbermann came up with something similar this week…referring to the tour as Sarah Palin’s “
OneHalf Nation” tour:Odormann,
Yeah he’s “the ticket”!