Sarah Palin…? I think McCain would have been better off picking Michael Palin.
McCain has bet his entire campaign on his Veep pick. And the odds don’t look good.
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Goldy – get a clue
Bold, mavrick, confounds all expectations, steals Obama media.
If it is going to be close, this brings women who are independent, some leaning to Mc Cain, etc …
In all 50 states.
Smug does not win elections.
Damn, you actually beat me to a great joke.
I guess this sews up the bush pilot and gold prospector demographic for the Republicans.
Pailin’s been leading on odd crusade to deny Endangered Species Act protection to polar bears.
Why does Palin hate a symbol of America? Why does Palin hate America?
Alaska was part of Russia once.
Why did John McCain pick a running mate who lived in a former Soviet state? Why does John McCain hate America?
Fox: Alaska is Next to Russia!
“Yes she does have foreign policy experience, says Fox’s Steve Doocy. Alaska is right next to Russia!!”
Obama Regains Support of Conservative Democrats
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109.....crats.aspx
Hear! Hear!
Alaska’s governor being investigated, too
Sen. Ted Stevens isn’t the only Alaska Republican who might be in hot water. The state’s Legislative Council, a bipartisan panel made up of both state senators and state representatives, voted earlier this week to spend up to $100,000 investigating Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of the state’s former public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan. The investigation will consider whether Palin sacked Monegan because he wouldn’t fire Mike Wooten, a state trooper who’s Palin’s former brother-in-law, and whether Monegan was pressured to fire Wooten by Palin or members of her family or administration.
Wooten is currently going through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Palin’s younger sister. Monegan says he did feel pressure to fire the trooper before he himself was fired on July 11. Palin replaced Monegan with Chuck Kopp, but Kopp resigned last week over revelations of a 2005 sexual harassment complaint against him.
http://www.salon.com/politics/.....s/war_room
Ouch.
Stole the media attention on the day after the dnc.
Picked a woman.
Election over.
Unlike the democrat controlled congress, the rep veep has a 80% approval rating.
Bonus: Palin comes with her own scandal:
AK Gov. Says Staffer Pressed for Trooper’s Firing
By Kate Klonick – August 13, 2008, 9:53PM
In a press conference this afternoon, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) conceded that someone inside her administration pressured the state’s Department of Public Safety to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten, Palin’s former brother-in-law, who is now embroiled in a bitter custody battle with Palin’s sister.
Palin’s statement is the latest in what has come to be known around Alaska as “Wooten-gate.” The scandal began on July 11, when Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was fired from his post with little explanation, a move that quickly raised questions in Alaska.
A few days later, Monegan came forward, stating that he had been pressured by those around Palin to fire Wooten — but had refused to do so — a choice that he believes led to his sudden dismissal. Palin denied Monegan’s accusations, and a Legislative Council has appointed a special commission to probe the matter.
In today’s conference, Palin said that state troopers had taped a phone call from Frank Bailey, Palin’s director of boards and commissions whom she appointed last August, in which Bailey inquired about having Wooten fired.
At the press conference today, Palin distanced herself from Bailey’s actions claiming that he acted alone, but the recordings suggest that he was acting at her instigation.
“The Palins can’t figure out why nothing’s going on,” Bailey said in the recorded phone call. “So Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads saying ‘Why is this guy representing the department, he’s a horrible recruiting tool.’ You know? So from their perspective everybody’s protecting him. . . Audi probably disagrees with me, Walt [Monegan] does and I understand it’s really touchy, but I just want you to understand that cops that use excessive force or go out of the lines, they just have no tolerance, because they’ve seen the facts personally.”
Bailey has yet to comment. Calls to his phone went directly to voice mail.
Late update: Audio of Frank Bailey’s recorded phone conversation has been released on the governor’s state website, you can listen to it here.
Give McCain 10 points for political courage and a free copy of Don Quixote in the original latin.
This si what I predicted at DL months ago (close anyway). (It assures an Obama victory.
Moving on:
1. She will visit WASTATE a lot to oampaign for Dino. She is worth a few points. NOTE: Her husband is a native as is Dino’s mom.
2. She commits McC to the Snegger wing of the party, more good news for Rossi.
3. She likley shores McC up in Texas (Darryl wins) but may cost him Ohio, Georgia.
4. Her stand on polar bears will bring out the seal puppie crowd.
Also, WADR … What party would she and McC lead? This is not a Reprican ticket. Nor is it a ocnserv. Dem ticket. If elected McC only chance of governng would be to create a new coalition.
BTW .. she passed a windfall oil tax in Alaska!
@9 Stamnopqrst: Indeed it is over. McCain just proved his judgment is limited to when it’s a good idea to pull the eject hood.
There’s no way troglodyte Republicans are going to vote for this ticket with McCain one foot into death’s door. It’s essentially voting for Palin for President.
#9
I agree. The election is over. It was over last night around 10pm.
Calling Sarah Palin a political lightweight would be acknowledging she has political weight.
Aren’t you old enough to know that picking a woman just because she has a vagina is always a bad idea?
Heeeeheeeeheeeeheeee.
Is it snowing outside? because it sure feels like Christmas!
And still those hillary supporters are helping out mcsame.
Now with a woman on the rep ticket we all know, although the regulars here won’t admit it, even more of hillary supporters will be donating to mcsame.
@11 Seattlejew: Long-shot, but are you saying that this stunt was acknowledgment that McCain has no chance of winning, so they’re playing for governor and Senate/Congressional seats instead?
She is Dick Cheney in drag , the anti-dick if you will .
McCain has just abondoned the “experience” arguement about Obama.
This lady has 18 months experience as governor, and before that a part time mayor of a stub-toe town in Alaska.
She is NOT ready to lead our nation during a time of war.
John McSame lacks the judgement necessary to be Commander-in-Chief.
Gov. Palin solidifies the “Culture of Corruption” base of the Conservatives.
@18 GBS: Don’t forget PTA! And her husband is a snow machine racer.
The best quote from the obama speech-
That explains why he tried so hard to connect bush and mcsame.
Well, obama does have experience as a community organizer. Isn’t that the guy that plants flowers along the sidewalk?
Damn, we live in two different worlds. The women I know all have vaginas. How could you pick a woman that doesn’t. Oops, you were referring to hillary weren’t you.
Bush, Dick, “Cunt”, and now vagina? Where’s Freud when you need him?
Becareful of what you pray for because you just might get it.
With all the Republican numb nuts praying to God for rain during the convention this week. . . well, God is answering your prayers.
The Lord moves in mysterioius ways. I believe this time he’s moiving with Gustav and Hanna.
Good luck boys and girls, it’s tough to win when God is not on your side.
From Wikipedia:
I hear she had to make some tough calls as a city council member.
Geez, they picked a flipping city council member to be VP.
Isn’t that longer than obama before he started running for president?
And tell us about obama’s experience as mayor?
Oops, he never was a mayor of even a stub-toe town.
Exactly what is her qualifications to be Commander-in-Chief?
NRA lifetime member?
She eats moose burgers?
I know; she abuses her executive power and circumvents the rule of law like dictator George W. Bush.
Perfect fit for the unpatriotic America haters.
And tell us about obama’s experience as mayor?
Oops, he never was a mayor of even a stub-toe town.
Ummmm. . . he’s a US Senator, a state legistlator, a Constitutional Law PROFESSOR, and the number one student at the Harvard School of Law.
Wanna come again, dumb fuck.
How desperate are these wingnuts like Delbert who tout Palin’s “executive experience” as city councilman and mayor of..
a town of 6000 people?
Yep, we’ve got the next leader of the free world here for sure.
Why am I suddenly reminded of when Dukakis picked Geraldine Ferraro? I’m not terribly sure, because Ferraro was a much more experienced pol than Palin (who may be an ex-Governor by the time the election comes up, from what I hear), but I think it has to do with……..desperation. Let’s face it kids, after the Reagan Years, even with that twit Quayle as his veep for four years, given the mood of the country a dead squirrel would’ve won the White House if it was a Republican. Which is what George I always looked like to me anyway. Dukakis was bland and milquetoast, and doomed from the start, hence the selection of Ferraro.
I’ll never forget the video of the Duke riding in the turret of an Abrams tank that year, looking utterly pathetic in doing so. But I still voted for him.
Palin’s selection is the RNC’s sign of de facto surrender. Surrender to the Dobsonites, to corruption, and to Obama.
FYVM
@29 Joe: That was Mondale (/Ferraro).
Correction @ 29:
Walter Mondale picked Ferraro.
Yeah, it’s like if they picked the mayor of Sequim to be veep……
Oh, my bad. Same result, though.
But Dukakis was doomed as well.
Come to think of it, Mondale got whipped worse than Dukakis. Signs and portents, eh?
We all know how much steve likes to talk about projection. Well, here’s someone elese that sees projection.
http://sigmundcarlandalfred.wo.....dian-slip/
And what is obama’s record again??? Besides change and hope?
Thankfully, Joe Biden is the ultimate gentleman… but he’s still going to tear Palin apart at the VP debate.
#9
The reason the Democrats poll numbers are shitty is for going along with the Republicans on so many issues.
@38: +1 “Not veto-proof” is the Dems’ POW
I want to thank McSame for showing the kind of leadership and decision making skills not seen, well, since George W. Bush.
They say Democrats were clamoring for “red meat” at the convention. Well, here is the red meat we have been waiting for.
My prediction:
Within two weeks her nomination is withdrawn due to the upcoming revelations about her dealings in Alaska as chief executive of that state.
Marvin, back under your rock you ignorant fuck.
And guess what? Palin is not an ivy-league educated lawyer. A bit refreshing, eh what!
McCain’s VP pick accomplished one thing, and that’s to direct the media spotlight away from Obama and toward him. However, in the long run his VP pick will undermine one of his campaign themes that Obama is too young and too inexperienced to be President.
I give Kudos for a bold pick, but strategically I think his selection of Palin will haunt him. Just my opinion.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com.....04936.aspx
Oops Palin praises President Obama’s energy plan.
Sorry guys…but women who lived through the feminist movement will not be stirred by a candidate just because she’s female. Palin’s stand on choice (against) and the environment (people are more important than the rest of the natural world) and, it seems, family planning will not make her attractive to those women who strongly supported Hillary. If they were really going for the pumas, they would have picked Elizabeth Dole.
Progressive women are very aware that the Supreme Court and its members have a tremendous impact on them, their daughters and granddaughters—as well as their husbands, sons and grandsons. Few, if any, will vote for McCain and Palin out of spite about Hillary Clinton.
MS spews
And what is obama’s record again??? Besides change and hope?
The proven judgement to be correct on every major issue facing the Untied States of America today.
Unlike John McSame.
And guess what? Palin is not an ivy-league educated lawyer. A bit refreshing, eh what!
Just what America needs another dumb fuck in the White House.
Thanks, but no thanks!
So how’s this playin’ on the Rush Limpdick show?
You know, McShit picking a femi-nazi and all.
…sounds like marv’s got some “red micro-dot” left over from the old days…
In the McPalen v/s OBiden match set for Nov 4th 2008.
Let me predict a landslide.
I watched some tape of Palin to kind of get a feel of how she’d match up in a debate with Biden.
She kind of speaks in something of a monotone but she does speak clearly.
I think Rove would coach her to vary her tone while spouting ugly talking points.
Biden would have to find a way to succintly demonstrate his considerable foreign and national domestic policy experience while not appearing to beat up on this former mayor of a town of 5,470 people.
I don’t think it will be much of a challenge but the debate could come out to a draw which would not be good.
Now we know why Pawlenty wasn’t picked; Minnesota’s economy is in the shitter.
Chalk up those electoral votes in the Obama column.
This is going to be a landslide victory. Obama 321 electoral votes with McSHAME conceding on election night.
re 41: “…eh, what (sic.: ‘wot’)!”
Return of the Crutch (‘clever by half’).
Moronvin says:
“Unlike the democrat controlled congress, the rep veep has a 80% approval rating.”
In Alaska. Alaska =! U.S.A.
So, what’s her approval rating in the rest of the country, Moronvin? Got a clue? No, of course you don’t.
You know the more I read about Sarah, the more I find I like: she eviscerated other Republicans that embarrassed Alaska (except for Uncle Ted), you know that “testicle lock box” thing wingnuts talk about and..
she raised taxes:
I don’t get it wingnuts. Aren’t those royalty checks “redistribution” and “socialism” – doesn’t that mean oil companies have less capital to increase production and lower prices?
LMAO!!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....tax07.html
After Palin’s speech it hit me: She didn’t cry.
Unlike Biden, she gave her acceptence speech without crying. I do believe she has bigger chones than Biden.
The VEEP picks were very revealing as to the judgment and character as who’s fit to be Commander-in-Chief.
Obama picks a man with many decades of experience. Someone who is proven to be a tough leader, stares down the worlds dictators, someone who understands foreign affairs, and the military.
McSHAME picks a woman with 18 months experience as a governor, a few years experience as a mayor of teeny, tiny town of 5,740 people, and won a PTA slot.
McSHAME is 72. The average lifespan of an American male surviving cancer is 75. The odds say he will die in office during his first term if elected and certainly in his second term.
Is she really ready to deal with a new and militarily aggressive Russia?
Can she really handle Iran?
Is she ready to deal with North Korea’s nukes?
What about an unstable Pakistan?
Who can she lean on in Washington should John McSHAME die in office?
Who does she known in the corridors of power in Washington?
Untested, unproven, unknown and not ready lead.
Sen. McCain – Thanks, but no thanks.
Palin is an empty skirt.
But then again, republicans like hiding behind women’s skirts. Oh, an wearing them, too.
Marvin, he’s still hiding behind his mommy’s skirt.
Obama picks a total insider after saying he wants change.
McCain picks a total inexperienced VP after saying experience matters.
BOTH ARE IDIOTS
@53 YLB:
Yes–Just because the government social program check is used to build barges doesn’t mean it isn’t socialism. Communist countries the world-over do exactly the same thing–and with exactly the same graft paid to Politburo comrades (Here, we call them CEOs).
I can at least respect the Democrats who (1) admit freely that they are supporting government social programs, (2) spend FAR LESS on government social programs than do the “Republicans”, and (3) direct the bulk of government social programs toward ensuring a minimum “safety net” for all vs. ensuring a gold-plated crapper in the bathroom for “Republican” Politburo elites only.
This country is still under attack, and the anti-American terrorists are those who have taken control of the “Republican” party.
Thinking this through a little bit, I quickly totaled up a few things.
Obama says “change” although he is the consummate Washington insider and Biden has been in D.C. 5 years longer than McCain. Both are rated as the furthest left of their kind.
McCain’s tag is a “maverick”. Consistently voted against his party on any number of issues and picks a woman who won her governor’s seat with an anti-corruption plank. And she carried it out. She made her chops by running against the GOP establishment. She also has a larger portfolio of accomplishment than Obama.
Looks like the McCain and Palin are the real agents of change for the country.
At first I liked some of her actions, but look at this way.
If she is willing to abuse her position to fire the State Trooper, maybe the oil companies didn’t do something for her so she abused her position and punished them.
If she is petty and willing to abuse her position for small things, she will likely be petty and abuse her positions for big things.
Ask the repubs, when Hillary was accused of doing this sort of petty power trip thing, it was bad, but when Palen is accused of doing this sort of petty power trip thing, it’s dismissed?
She’s an ex-beauty queen, I wonder how long it will be until McCain hits on her?
This shows you how McCain and Co. Think about women: “Just shut up and look pretty, honey.”
McCain’s doomed.
But then again, republicans like hiding behind women’s skirts. Oh, an wearing them, too.
Yeah, here’s one from Texas:
http://www.armchairsubversive.org/sam_walls.htm
Because “Alaska! It’s the new Texas!” will be a theme among Republicans this fall, I wonder how long before the deviant Alaskan Republican set comes out of the woodwork?
Uhhh, what issues? Could you list a few? All the stuff I’ve seen that defined his maverick-ness was a matter of degrees.
Example: the RNC platform calls for a constitutional amendment on gay marriage. He’s not for the amendment. He’s not for gay marriage, and would do all in his power to block it, but he just doesn’t want the constitutional amendment. So if the RNC is 100%, he’s 90%. Yeah, that’s real maverickness.
Palen seems more likely to actually buck the republican power structure than john “Noun, Verb, I was a P.O.W.” mccain.
No he hasn’t. McCain voted with W. over 90% of the time. He played silly games with a handful of votes (most of which would go W.’s way anyway) and touted himself as a maverick. McCain is full of shit.
@58 “Marvin, he’s still hiding behind his mommy’s skirt.”
I hadn’t thought of that. I’d always assumed that the goat was the only one wearing a skirt in Marvin’s family.
It’s good to see McCain picking a candidate more qualified than the Dems top spot.
A southside of chicago signature gatherer vs. Governor of Alaska. Pretty stark experience difference eh?
@22. Dave spews: “Bush, Dick, “Cunt”, and now vagina? Where’s Freud when you need him?”
That’s a good one.
@70
Obama is one of the greatest teleprompter-reading speech-givers of our time.
Doesn’t she have young kids? Why doesn’t she stay home to raise her children? Palin is a bad mom!
The trolls’ argument against Burner just went down the drain …
I don’t think Obama is ready to have any kind of debate with McCain. He’s chicken.
Palin doesn’t hug rabbits.
Anyone who thinks Palin was a brilliant choice is also an ardent admirer of Bush’s military genius in attacking Iraq instead of the guys who attacked us.
…must be that furrowing feeling up Chris Matthews leg over at PMSNBC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9Gbb6NSwM 40 seconds in.
Geraldine Ferraro pledges support to McCain/Palin – my how the Democrat party has fallen dramatically when they start having prior nominees flock to the Republican ticket eschewing the stale, dated cesspool known as the Democratic party of 2008.
It’s a killer chess move, and the losers won’t even see where they’ve been pinned until it’s too late.
Picking Palin is starting to look just like McCain’s last combat mission over Vietman.
“I’m hit! I’m hit! I’m GOING DOWN!!”
@ 80:
More like a desperate checkers move. McCain thinks he’s about to say “King ME!”
But Obama’s about to triple jump him and take all his “men.”
Re: 75
Does anyone need any further proof of how delusional Bill Cruchon is?
Barack Obama has never run from a fight. He’ll make short work out of McSame.
If McSame’s argument is noun, verb, POW, just do the same as Bush only harder then it’s game over for the Republicans.
Sorry Bill.
@83 YLB: I think that recently, they’ve dropped the noun-verb part and are going with just POW…
Q- What happens when you broaden the definition of sectarian violence in Iraq and constrict the definition of war-related violence in Iraq.
A- You have a ‘surge’ that is a smashing success.
PR-BS = Republican Strategery.
What it seems is less important than what it is. Republicans are traitors. McCain is an old man who sees this as his last chance to be president. He will do and say ANYTHING to obtain his goal.
He can’t be trusted.
Yearns4LittleBoys squeals:
Yeah, those prep schools in Hawaii can be a rough place to have to grow up….haha
Palin will expose biden for the chauvinist ass he is during the debates, solidifying the female vote for the next president of the United States, John McCain. Get the pacifier out for the dems, they’ll be caterwauling non stop for the next 8 years.
McCain/Palin 2008
This is a political blog. What’s up with Goldy’s four sentence political “analysis” of the Palin selection?
Since when did Goldy have any kind of intelligent insight into anthing?
He’s little more than a left wing hack blogger on his best day.
That said, deep down inside he’s scared shitless about this knowing that 18M women will be flocking to the McCain/Palin ticket upending the signature gatherer from Chicago’s bid for the presidency. A beautiful moment.
@89 Rick: I think Goldy needed to catch a plane back from Denver…
Uh, YLB, McCain invited Obama to a series of town hall debates and Obama chickened out. Nuff said.
Rick at 68:
Take another hit, pal. United States Senator, top of his Harvard law class, not near the top, but the top. Professor, state legislator.
Beauty queen who shakes her ass and tits for attention, PTA member, part time mayor of a small burg in the boonies boonies, governor for 18 months.
Go on, hit that pipe again, dumbass.
What a fuckin’ Moe-ron.
@89
I’d like to see him do a piece on the pros and cons of all four candidates, and how they match-up against each other.
What, no mention of biden, his son, mbna and the bankruptcy law?
Didn’t think you could connect the dots.
@ 94 – If you want a political blog that will actually do that (discuss the pros and cons of the 4 candidates), go to Soundpolitics.
Horses ass is merely a Jr.High for adolescent left leaning lemmings that swallow DNC talking points and then get their pudgy digits exercised by punching their keyboard while regurgitating the message of the day…and David Gold stain (goldy) is the class president. =)
@ the Dumbass at 97 ~ Internet gambling is a class C felony thanks to Christine Gregoire and the Demonrats in this oligarchial state.
Tread carefully lad.
I’ve made this offer before and I’ll make it again now that the tickets are set:
Any conservative wanna place a $1,000 bet on the outcome of the election?
@93
You urban liberals scoff all you want. Babies, Guns, and Jesus resonates with much of America.
Excellent comeback for a 10 year old.
Oops, you’re over 50.
hahahahahaha
89
OK, Rick, evidence of this 18mil moving to McShameful?
Come on dipwad, you said it now back it up.
That shows how much of a coward mcsame is for not letting obama use a teleprompter.
If so, why did obama flip-flop on those debates?
Got an answer or just want to call me names instead.
Governor, for less than 2 years, of a state with a population slighly larger than Seattle – Alaska pop. 683,478 (2007 est.)
Did I mention the Legislature consists of a 20-member Senate and 40-member House?
@92 & 102: Owed in return for McCain earlier backing-down from Obama’s challenge to a 2 to 1 McBush/Bush vs. Obama debate…
Evidently, Bush & McBush insisted they would have to debate in Iraq because “that’s where the terrorists are”. Oh, and… POW!
And when things couldn’t get worse for the Democrats it appears Sarah Palin might be a better basketball player than Obama.
I love this!
Like they say, follow the money.
Here’s the beginning…
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....038;page=1
Ouch, even ABC news is forced to admit the obvious.
As the meida starts reporting the truth about obama watch the naive start insisting the media is biased right.
@ 100 – should we start with Geraldine Ferraro?
Oh, and why is Obama hiring the son of a Nazi war criminal to construct his convention stage? Wright, Ayers, Rezko and now Speers(sieg heil!)…..what a group of buddies the signature gatherer from Chicago’s south side has assembled eh?
From Nazi’s to Terrorists….it’s all covered when it comes to the chi-town assclown‘s friends.
SNL couldn’t write this script any better for the GOP.
Maybe Palin’s not so stupid after all.
She praised Obama’s energy plan earlier this month!!
What an empty skirt. She should stay at home and raise her 5 kids. Right? I mean, you know you righties, just like you say about Darcy Burner.
Lee said it best-
Because this is a partisan blog that takes on Republicans. He would be disgusted by the Democrat and what he did, but he wouldn’t write about it here.
http://www.horsesass.org/?p=5675#comment-847043
Translated that means the truth isn’t important, that he pledges his allegiance to the party first.
And the more he wrote would make party nominations look worse.
After all, there’s only so many ways to write experience when the word obama is included in the sentence.
Unlike obama’s campaign about change and then picking someone who’s been in washington l;onger than mcsame.
Obviously the polls showed his lack of experience was a major factor and he needed to pick someone that has some real experience. I mean experience besides being a community organizer.
McCain invited Obama to a series of town hall debates and Obama chickened out.
Yeah, why give a broke Republican free advertising?
We’re in this one to win Cruchon. We’ll pick the battlefields and the right time to fight – Sun Tzu would be proud.
Next?
BREAKING NEWS
Gustav is now at hurricane force again just as it enters warmer waters.
Forecats for at least at CAT 3 storm will slam into the Gulf Coast on Monday with Bush set to open the RNC convention.
Hurricane Katrina survivors still living in trailers in Mississippi are ordered to evacuate by Sunday.
GOP considers postponing the RNC convention.
Tropical storm Hanna forms in the Atlantic. Projected to reach hurricane force and make landfall on Florida.
God truly moves in mysterious ways.
The traitorous, unpatriotic and un-Christian conservative right is about to feel the wrath of God.
Get on your knees and repent you Republican sinners.
Marvin @ 110.
See my post at 97.
Otherwise, shut the fuck up. PUSSY.
PS: I got more than enough liquid cash. I’ll let Puddy hold the money or the titles to one of my two Porsches as collateral.
Ask him, he’s seen it. He knows it for REAL.
Balls in your court. Oops meant to say Vaginas in your court.
Breaking News!
The gub’ment cheese-eating, section eight-living ignorant fucks who inhabit New Orleans STILL have not learned their lesson after Katrina, and, amazingly, are staying put for Gustav.
@ 112 – displaying the sick inner mind of a twisted ideological leftist, GBS is praying for a category 5 to hit Louisiana just so his political view cannot be challenged.
A sick but accurate representation of what liberalism has become, eh? The face of the real “progressive” movement revealed in the light.
Special thanks to Goldy,HuffPo and the daily KOS, who provide the flashlight to shine on their hate site. Joseph Goebbels is looking down proudly upon you lads.
114 – Wow we got a racist here who pretends to be a “true” liberal progressive Democrat.
Only a pathetic, miserable jerk would actually hope for another hurricane disaster because they hope it would benefit them politically.
But I’m sure you’re only kidding. Right?
MS @ 110:
Puhhh-leaaaase. Do you know how to read polls?
Stop with the “National Tracking Polls” and start looking state by state. Especially NM CO NV PA IN OH MI MN NC VA FL.
Good luck.
Looks like Obama represented a district of about 218,000 people during his 8 years in the IL state senate.
(12,852,548 population/59 districts).
Most of the news shows are talking about mcsame’s veep pick.
Didn’t the democrats have a party or something last night?
Oh well. Yet another example of experience. Obama announces his veep pick at 3 in the morning. Mcsame the morning after the democrat party thing.
I haven’t seen mentioned on here the slap in the face to hillary by releasing his veep pick at 3am. We know it wasn’t hillary answering the phone at 3am like her ads said.
I don’t trust you!
You’re afraid to even post with a real name on here, chicken?
Let me translate so you can understand what I wrote…
cluck cluck cluck cluck!
Cluck’re cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck, democrat?
Good to see the bush economy is working out for you.
We all know the damage that has happened since the democrats took power. Higher gas prices, higher unemployment, dow jones dropping, consumer confidence dropping.
How much longer can the country survive the democrat controlled congress.
Hey Marvin the child molester-how do we know that is YOUR real name. How about you connect it to some proof? If not, are you chicken?
Let me translate so you can understand what I wrote…
cluck cluck cluck cluck!
Cluck’re cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck, republican?
From Borowitz:
McCain: Obama Lacks Experience Running 5,000-Person Town in Alaska
Extolls Veep Pick’s Qualifications
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz)used the announcement of his vice-presidential
pick, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, to blast the experience of his
Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill), arguing that Sen. Obama has
never been the mayor of a 5,000-person town.
“The Presidency of the United States of America is the toughest job on
the planet,” Sen. McCain said. “And my friends, the best testing ground
for that job is being the mayor of a 5,000-person town in Alaska.”
Sen. McCain unleashed a savage attack on Sen. Obama, claiming that his
Democratic opponent would be “at a loss” when faced with the challenges
of running a 5000-person municipality in Alaska.
“Let’s say a constituent calls you and says that a caribou has wandered
onto his front lawn,” he said. “My friends, Barack Obama wouldn’t know
what to do.”
He used the hypothetical situation to draw a sharp contrast with his
vice-presidential choice: “Sarah Palin would take out her gun and shoot
the caribou.”
Mr. McCain said that an understanding of foreign affairs, Congress, and
other issues that a president has to deal with is “overrated,” adding,
“That’s what Presidency for Dummies’ is for.”
While saying that her “vast experience” was the main reason he selected
Gov. Palin, Sen. McCain said that she also had the other three
qualifications he was looking for in a vice president: “She is pro-life,
pro-drilling, and willing to housesit.”
re 121: Watch out GBS. Marvin would beat you up — except he says he’s in Los Angeles.
Marvin? He’s so full of crap, he wipes his ass with a Q-Tip.
You know what,Marvin: My uncle was a captured Marine on the Bataan Death March, survived four years in a Japanese prison camp, was shot in Korea and has never tried to curry favor with anyone because of his service. He’s recently stated that his war experiences make him MORE qualified for the presidency than John McCain.
But not McCain! All his statements are a noun, a verb, and “I was a POW.”
It’s shameful and embarrassing. He’s huckstering his own war record.
Bernie wars, famous liberal talk show host is going to prison for child porn. Even had pictures of his children of his friends.
Just imagine the outrage on here and the liberal media if this was rush.
It’s not rush, it’s a liberal so it’s no big story.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/sto.....id=6342897
I was going to ask why it wasn’t mentioned here, then I remembered.
No doubt this is the kind of blog that would coverup child abuse by a democrat so not to allow the truth to be told.
Keep working the inexperience angle. It looks good on you.
Really.
Sarah Palin….because McCain needs someone to scare Vlad Putin.
Nope that is not the reason
Sarah Palin….because McCain needs a seasoned executive.
Nope, not the reason.
Sarah Palin…..because McCain needs the intellectual wattage that a journalism major from Idaho community college gives the ticket.
Nope.
Sarah Palin…because she has a vagina.
Winner!
I am saddened by the choices Geraldine Ferraro is making. It seems she would rather turn her back on progressive politics that could save the country, because john (noun, verb, I was a P.O.W.) mccain choose a woman.
That would like me choosing to support a vehement log cabin republican that wanted to ban gay marriage and negate gay adoption, just because he was a gay man.
Apparently gender is more important to Geraldine Ferraro than the course of the nation.
#126
In order to be famous, don’t people have to know who he is?
He is famous, like Sarah Palin was famous yesterday.
@ 126 – Wow! yet another liberal caught with Kiddie porn……I’d hate to see the hard drive of half of the posters on Goldy’s hate site here.
…you might find they have more in common with Bernie than Goldy.
Good to see that Ms. Ferraro is finally getting wisdom in here twilight years. She never left the Democratic party, it left her by its new misguided vision of what and how this country should look. Bravo Madame, like Zel Miller before you, you are a patriot and a “true” Democrat of the Truman colors, not the cowardly colors of the fractured Democrat party of today.
@128
And the misogyny is such a nice touch too…
When i found out that Sarah Palin, journalism major from Idaho community college was the VP nominee, I was shocked!
Idaho has a community college?
@133 LOL!
#132
Look everyone…a Republican feminist. So rare. It is as if we found out a panda was commenting on this board.
Don’t scare it away!
Mike, maybe you ought to take your next vacation exploring the rural America you seem to have a distaste for. It might prove more educational than going to San Francisco or jetting off to Paris.
Urban smarty pants liberals have no clue about most of this country. That’s why it’s likely you will lose this election.
When I saw Julia Louis Dreyfuss accepting the VP slot, I thought “Don’t they know Kramer is a racist”?
But then I remembered it was the Republican Party. He will fit right in.
“Republican feminist”…..a phrase that makes about as much sense as “Russian Peacekeeper”
@123 “Marvin the child molester”
The goatfucking is common knowledge, but child molestation? That Marvin’s a fucking freak.
Breaking news: Sean Hannity’s head blew up this morning during his morning radio broadcast as he described Gov. Palin as “the greatest state governor in American history”. Early reports indicate that specks of goat shit now cover the studio walls and ceiling. Details to come.
Ugg. That was an unpleasant link. Nobody should be doing that. It’s more fun when conservatives get caught doing it, because of the hypocrisy factor. But there is no justifying that, by anyone.
Ha! That’s sick and wrong.
Well, that explains it.
Rightwingers have been trying to demonize the word “feminist” for decades now?
Palin is a leader in a Group called “Feminists for Life”. Oy!
http://www.feministsforlife.org/index.htm
caught with Kiddie porn
How about caught with kiddies?
http://www.republicansexoffenders.com/
re 136: And thankfully rural America will have plenty of water and electricity due to the socialistic programs of FDR. The rural highways will also be in good repair thaks to tax money from King County.
It would be so instructive to go listen to the rubes malign the government that has make their lives possible.
They are holding the “Republican Feminist” convention in the middle of September.
It is going to be held at the banquet room of the Orlando Cracker Barrel.
I wonder who you leftists hate the most, a conservative african american, or a conservative woman?
#136
“Mike, maybe you ought to take your next vacation exploring the rural America”
I would, but I wouldn’t want to rub in the fact to the locals that I actually get vacations.
Back at you.
I wonder who you conservatives hate the most, a successful progressive African American, or a successful progressive woman?
I wonder what Rush Limbaugh thinks about having to shill a “feminazi” for the next 10 weeks.
I bet he has to see his “doctor” for “pain relief”.
Re: “#62. Blue John spews:
At first I liked some of her actions, but look at this way.
If she is willing to abuse her position to fire the State Trooper . . . ”
John-boy, you need to further check your facts rather than read the DNC press releases. The state Trooper who was fired was 1. Driving drunk in a squad car. 2. Tazed his 11 year old nephew and 3. Shot a bull elk out of season (very against thelaw in Alaska).
It was looking like the Alaskan Patrol wasn’t even going to repremand the guy let alone fire him. Palin stepped in and had his ass fired because he was a bum. Simple as that. She never denied not firing him nor denied the calls made by staff to find out why he wasn’t fired. It was all straight-up. More than can be said about Obama and Ayers or Obama and Rezko or Obama and the two preachers.
Here is my box diagram of whether you are qualified to be the Republican VP candidate:
Are you male? If yes, not qualified.
If qualified from above, have you PTA experience?
If yes, continue.
Have you ever had a pap smear by a qualified gynecologist?
If yes, continue.
Are you hot hot?
If yes, congratulations! You are qualified to be McCains running mate
@148. Sounds like there are competing stories, not unlike when bush did or did NOT spy on Americans or did or DID not lie us into war. I look forward to the real truth coming out.
Picking Palin has nothing to do with leadership or governing. It’s a bald attempt to steal women voters from the Democrats and prevent hemorrhaging of right-to-life voters who don’t trust McCain. If he wins, Palin’s usefulness will end the day after the election.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26458559/
More BAAAAAD news for the traitors on the right. LOTS of people saw President Obama in action last night.
But hey – DOZENS watched FlipFlop McSame on TV today so cheer up! HE HE!
#148
Why does the Republican VP candidate hate America’s heroic law enforcement officers? Why does she hate our first responders?
Why does Sara Palin hate America?
#146, “back at you I wonder who you conservatives hate the most a successful Progressive African American, or a successful progressive woman”
Why would I hate either?
Keep up the smugness. We’ll wipe that smug look off your face Nov. 4.
142. W. Klingon Skousen wrote [in part]:
…But would any of those FDR New Deal programs have been possible were it not for the Republican Congress, the Republican Senate, and the Republican President who created the federal income tax to pay for them?…
The 16th amendment [enabling the federal income tax] became law on February 3, 1913, when enough states had ratified it. It represents yet another liberal socialist (or “communist”, if you insist) nail in the coffin eroding states rights and expanding both the operating cost as well the control of the growing federal bureaucracy over our lives.
Roll back 4 years or so from that: Addressing Congress on June 16, 1909, President Taft, a Republican, proposed a constitutional amendment allowing a federal income tax on individuals (The text of this address can be found at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu.....?pid=68517 ).
The resolution for the 16th amendment was passed by the 61st Congress and submitted to the states for ratification on July 12, 1909. William Howard Taft, a Republican, was the President of the United States at the time, and both houses had an overwhelming Republican majority. In the Senate, the Republicans outnumbered Democrats by nearly 2 to 1, with 60 Republicans to 32 Democrats. In the House, the Republicans outnumbered Democrats 219 to 172.
Wow, A little digging finds all sorts of truths. Nothing in the reports makes me trust her. I still think she abused her power.
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/wh....._got_fired
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....99109.html
http://www.adn.com/front/story/471366.html
And those people actually vote.
So, how do you feel about having a woman as your veep. Is it going to bother you much?
#155
You were saying?
” NEW YORK (AP) – Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was seen by more than 38 million people.
Nielsen Media Research said more people watched Obama speak than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final “American Idol” or the Academy Awards this year.”
Game, set, match….Obama.
Even the rabbit see the upcoming disaster when obama loses.
Like clinton would say, it depends on your definition of “if.”
Never thought a partisan hack like the rabbit would ever admit to doubt. Must really be bad.
@160 Stamnopqrst: That’s “is”
#158
I like reading a woman’s perspective. That is why I read your posts.
How does it feel to have to defend a chronic pot smoker who hates police officers? Does it give you “flashbacks” to your hippie days?
@151. Roger Rabbit:
Not true: The “Republican” Politburo shoved Palin down McCain’s “maverick” throat (like he even knew she existed before this week), they’re going to drive hard to win the election, and then they’re going to arrange for McCain’s death (“heart attack” or “cancer remission”) because they don’t trust “maverick” McCain to be their loyal, reliable lap dog 100% of the time (BTW: I just love how little it takes to be termed a “maverick” in the “Republican” Politburo).
Then Cheney will have his confused, naive, unprepared, and scared-to-death puppet Palin he can control, just like the “good old days” with Gerald Ford.
Read and learn…
http://www.palinfacts.com/
My fav is-
Alaska is the 49th state solely because they knew even before she was born that Sarah Palin would never finish last.
Isn’t obama from the 50th state?
I didn’t write “like clinton DID say,” I said would say.
I’m guessing reading comprehension wasn’t one of your better subjects.
Hey, Troll,
On a thread last night you were declared by acclamation to be a dissembling, delusional racist. Congratulations. Your mama must be proud.
Here is an Alaska State Patrol investigation on Sarah Palin’s former brother-in-law, Michael Wooten:
http://media.adn.com/smedia/20.....iate.7.pdf
Maybe that’s what her sister gets for marrying a fellow six years younger than herself? I looked at the court docket for the Molly McCann-Michael Wooten divorce litigation, and it looked pretty bitter.
No wonder you have a sexual problem. You can’t even tell the difference between male and female.
But seriously, is that really the best insult you can do?
@165 Stamnopqrst: Clinton wouldn’t say “if”.
I’m sure every democrat was watching. Maybe 1 or 2 republicans.
In the last election bush got 62,040,610 votes. I hope someone that didn’t watched votes for obama or the landslide will be worse than st. helens blowing again.
@9, Marvin stammers: “Election over.”
utterly hilarious.
27.5 million saw George Bush’s RNC speech in 2004.
Sarah Palin got a $150 ticket for tinted windows on or about 11/02/2004, Alaska Case 3PA-04-11212MO. Apparently, it was called a “correctable offense” and got dismissed. Was she macho enough to scrape the illegal tinting off her car windows herself?
As a liberal/progressive, I am sickened by some of the hate-speech going on here.
“If the bitch is dumb enough to have a baby at 42, she deserves to have a retarded kid.”
Comments like this are hardly what the Democratic party is supposed to be about.
Obviously the democrats know the damage this is already doing to obama.
Otherwise what’s the point of digging up information about her sister.
If this is the best the left can do, get used to having a female veep.
Like one of hillary’s supporters said-
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/
No one on either side would disagree that hillary wants to be president and will do almost anything to get it. The only chance is for obama not get elected. If obama steals the election, like most democrat presidents would only serve one term and then be trounced in a re-election campaign. The country wouldn’t give another left-winger a chance, so they would vote for a republican. So the only hope hillary has is for a mcsame presidency. Which means, her people will help mcsame.
@173 Richard Pope: Hell yeah! Licked it off with her tongue and then wrestled a moose to the ground with her bare hands! Don’t mess with Alaska! ;-)
Obviously the democrats know the damage this is already doing to obama.
Otherwise what’s the point of digging up information about her sister.
If this is the best the left can do, get used to having a female veep.
Like one of hillary’s supporters said-
No one on either side would disagree that hillary wants to be president and will do almost anything to get it. The only chance is for obama not get elected. If obama steals the election, like most democrat presidents would only serve one term and then be trounced in a re-election campaign. The country wouldn’t give another left-winger a chance, so they would vote for a republican. So the only hope hillary has is for a mcsame presidency. Which means, her people will help mcsame.
Follow the money.
Those hillary supporters are giving their hard-earned money to help mcsame.
Like the left says, people on the right vote for a single issue, be it abortions, guns, bibles, etc. Well, so do democrats. And this issue is all about women getting to break the glass ceiling.
This is doing a great job of knocking Obama’s speech out of HA news cycle.
(sarcasm) A cute cuddly wolf? how dare he? I’m going vote for Palin just to spite him! (/sarcasm)
How sad the democrat party has fallen so quickly.
I can remember when the candidate of change and hope said he wasn’t going to resort to politics of personal destruction.
Oh well, it’s change.
I forgive you, Marvin. It must be hard to think of yourself as a conservative while defending your parties pick of a chronic pot smoking, law enforcement hating, feminazi.
Plus, you are probably having your monthly visit from Auntie Flo.
Barack Obama personally blogs at HA?
Marvin, I think you are confusing us with the president.
You gotta give mcsame credit for knowing how to run a campaign.
Compare the release of his veep on the day after obama’s speech to obama announcing his pick for veep at 3 in the morning.
I wonder if the democrats realize their mistake yet. They never should have listened to the right-wing-talkers and their pretend fears. Kudos to rush, hannity and the rest for tricking the democrats into doing exactly what they wanted. In other words, the democrats got played.
While Obama launched an all-out assault on McCain and called for change, his nearly 4,700-word speech included just 79 words that could even vaguely be construed as him pointing to a record of actually bringing about change.
I wonder where Ms Palan stands on:
Wanna bet she has any middle ground on this?
She doesn’t seem ideologically able to see the difference.
Has she shown any understanding for GLBT people?
Is it illegals or the employers of illegals?
Marvin Stamn @ 179
173. Richard Pope spews:
Sarah Palin got a $150 ticket for tinted windows
How sad the democrat party has fallen so quickly.
Sarah Palin and her family have gone after Mike Wooten for far smaller violations than the tinted windows incident. They even complained that Wooten wasn’t gracious enough when he was receiving a FIVE DOLLAR TICKET for illegal dumping!
http://media.adn.com/smedia/20.....iate.7.pdf
(see last paragraph on Page 5 of PDF)
It certainly looks like that goatfucker Marvin’s head is exploding. First Puddy, then Troll, and now Marvin. Did you hear that Sean Hannity’s head blew up earlier this morning? What a great way to finish the week.
Marvin Stamn @ 179
173. Richard Pope spews:
Sarah Palin got a $150 ticket for tinted windows
How sad the democrat party has fallen so quickly.
Sarah Palin and her family have gone after Mike Wooten for far smaller violations than the tinted windows incident. They even complained that Wooten wasn’t gracious enough when he was receiving a FIVE DOLLAR TICKET for illegal dumping! (see last paragraph on Page 5 of PDF)
I wonder whether Molly McCann is as hot of a babe as her older sister? Or is she just someone careful men should stay away from?
Will women vote for McCain just because he has a female VP? Obama slapped women in the face when he didn’t choose Clinton, much like a pimp slaps his ho in the face. So I think some women just may vote for McCain to send a message to Obama that he can’t treat women like ho’s.
Why do Democrats hate women so much?
This move pretty much nailed the democrats foot to the ground. They’re running in circles.
Let’s set the record straight, if you were on the HOA or worked as some bloated middle manager at MSFT then you’re qualified. But if you are/were a governor, you’re not.
If you were in the senate for 140 odd days then you’re experienced, but if you’ve been a governor for the better part of 2 years, preceeded by being a mayor, then you are not experienced enough.
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After reading much of the hate speech on this thread, it’s obvious the HA fringe Democrat kooks hate women…..
Way to go netroots nutjobs….
Wooten – tasered 10yr old son……nuff said.
Please bring on any argument against her quals for the job because you only highlight the same in Obama and he is on the TOP of the Dem ticket…..
out
@190
I think Goldy knows he’s running a hate blog. When some of the most vile, angry, hate-filled comments are posted here, what does Goldy do?
He remains silent.
As a native Alaskan and someone who lived several years there in adulthood, I would suggest that governing skills gained there are simply not transferable to governing in Washington, DC. The rules are different, the issues are different, the personalities are way different. Ergo, she has no relevant political experience.
Yes!
I suspect this is very bad news for Gregoire and maybe Darcy.
A rational conservative has never held a leadership psotion in the Repricans. They will not win the WH, but imagine this …
McCain/Palian/Meg Whitman/S’negger/ ..
this could be the nucleus of a movement that would do for the Reps what the Clintiona nd his buds did for the Dems.
192 – I was browsing an Alaskan blog that is critical of Palin and yes, Alaska is a strange place. Talk about Twin Peaks!
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/
The comment threads are a hoot!
No worries. Obama will win if he just keeps his eye on the ball and doesn’t get sidetracked by any BS. The Reps have such a bad history that it will take a decade to clean house over there.
Some comments about Sarah Palin:
But she has such high approval ratings around 80%. I thought Palin was well liked in her state? Will she still be allowed to be Governor while running as VP or does the Lt. Governor take over? In other words today she gave up the governorship by accepting McCains VP choice?
Saracuda? The Matsu-Barbie? LMAO!!
culture of corruption!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/t.....808998915/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/t.....808999899/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/t.....808998129/
@196
And now can you talk about the issues, instead of making personal attacks? I can call Michelle Obama an angry black nigger that hates white people and America, but what does that solve? Let’s stick to the issues, please.
Troll
You cannot comment on issues of race. Your view of Michelle Obama reveals your illness. She is great, with far more character than you could dream of having. She is the opposite of bitter. You are so off the mark that I would think you would just disappear so as to quit humiliating yourself.
@199
Homework assignment. Go back to my comment and look for my point. You missed it completely. My point had nothing to do with Michelle, it had to do with sticking to the issues.
Now go do that homework I gave you.
Re:#196–It would be nice YLB if you’d post a link to what you quote.
While she currently has an 80% approval rating, it looks like Gov. Palin’s new car smell is beginning to wear off. And the odor that’s left seems rather piquant.
I’m going with the theory that Palin got the nod because no one else wanted a spot on the ticket.
I rather imagine the McCain campaign thoroughly investigated any possible wrong doing involving her ex-brother-in-law.
But nice try.
Ugnh… She says “nucUler”…
@204
The link provided @#202 is about a possible wrongful firing by Gov. Palin.
Not sure WTF you’re talking about.
Hey kids,
Here’s a few fun Palin links:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlan.....inted.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/.....038;page=1
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/.....rspective/
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/.....continues/
Bill Cruchon @ 204
True enough, but her sister’s divorce litigation files read like a three ring circus. Two highly contentious parents fighting over their children. Read my link in 167 and 186 above, and you will see how private citizen Sarah Palin in 2005 (before she became governor) was trying to shovel all sorts of manure on her (now)ex-brother-in-law in an attempt to get him fired from the Alaska State Patrol.
Michael Wooten is certainly no saint. Seems like he should have been fired, but the Alaska State Patrol has a pretty low standard of acceptable conduct and a pretty lenient system of discipline.
As for Wooten’s personal life, he was already deeply involved with his next wife (Angela Johnson) by the time Molly McCann (Palin’s sister) filed for divorce on April 11, 2005. Wooten married Johnson soon after his divorce from McCann was finalized on January 31, 2006. And Wooten managed to file for an agreed divorce from Johnson on June 6, 2007. (Fortunately, Wooten had no children with Johnson!)
Somehow I don’t think the Republicans are going to pickup many Clinton supporters
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/.....rspective/
Alaska is small town politics. When I last lived there, in Ketchikan, I knew all the politicians that counted. Rising to the top there doesn’t mean you are cream. Hell, I wanted to move back there after law school because I knew I could have a shot at politics. My wife was less enthusiastic. Being governor of Alaska does not mean Sarah Palin–she doesn’t even have a graduate degree, does she?–is particularly gifted.
Oh no, not the Alaskan “Bible belt”. Oh please, say it isn’t true.
I guess we should be grateful she didn’t come from Alaskas “Koran belt”.
You leftists crack me up.
Here is an e-mail that private citizen Sarah Palin sent to the head of the Alaska State Patrol on August 10, 2005, really piling on the allegations against her then-brother-in-law:
http://extras.mnginteractive.c.....01_645.pdf
Palin does seem to have some valid points, however, and certainly the accusations she makes look pretty bad on paper.
This whole thing is a total soap opera. Palin’s sister was Wooten’s THIRD wife. Wooten’s then-girlfriend (and later FOURTH wife) was still married to one of her husbands, when she started hooking up with the still-married Wooten. Wooten and this girlfriend apparently had nine children between them, from their numerous marriages or liaisons with other people.
A friend of mine with connections to Alaska describes Wasilla as a veritable Peyton Place.
Michael @ 208
Wasilla part of the Bible Belt? Hell no!
RP @ 211
Typical small town Alaska. Everybody sleeps with everybody, just after ingesting huge quantities of various intoxicants. I have to wonder about McCain’s vetting process. He doesn’t seem to show much ability to pick those who would help him govern.
Richard,
From the article I linked above:
On April 23, 2008 in written testimony to the court, Palin denied ever making claims against Wooten, when in fact she had emailed a State Trooper Colonel in April of 2005 accusing Wooten of driving drunk.
So, doesn’t your link constitute evidence that Palin’s written testimony was a lie? Or, are we talking about different meanings for the word “claims” in this context?
Ugnh… She says “nucUler”…
I can live with it, just as long as she doesn’t say “increased social investment”. That is liberalese for raising your taxes to piss it away.
Somehow I don’t think the Republicans are going to pickup many Clinton supporters
The McCain camp needs to pick up Christian voters not Clinton voters. If the religious right comes out in numbers McCain wins if not he loses. I have been saying this for the last year and it is as true today as it was a year ago.
Well, lets see what democrat women are saying…
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.....post319459
The damage is donee. It’s over for obama.
I could have posted all the pages in the thread but you get the idea.
The democrats that supported hillary are going to be single issue voters, and that issue is about a woman breaking the glass ceiling.
Kudos to obama not selecting hillary.
I’m new to this computer stuff as I am an old person. The choice of Sarah Palin was an example of how out of touch these Republicans are. Feminists and women in general don’t like this type of woman. It would have been a smart move if Hillary had run, but a 24 hour counter move on Obama means nothing. Remeber that lady in Florida? “men’s women” aren’t “in” in the 21st century. And they sure as hell aren’t “in” with Hillary’s women! Sarah Palin Running Mate or Help Mate?
Don Joe @ 214
Certainly, the account in your article would be contradicted by the August 10, 2005 e-mail. Your article claims that Sarah Palin filed an affidavit with the court (presumably the McCann-Wooten post-divorce custody modification battle) on April 23, 2008, in which she denied making any claims against Mike Wooten.
However, if Sarah Palin actually told such a blatant lie in the affidavit she filed with the court, why don’t we have any highlighted PDF images of the supposedly perjured declaration? This should be all over the internet by now …
The court docket in Alaska 3AN-05-06836CI Mccann, Molly J vs. Wooten, Michael G.R. does not seem to support the allegation that Palin filed a perjured affidavit on April 23, 2008:
04/23/2008 Notice of Filing Memorandum of Custody Investigator’s Report in Support of Settlement Attorney: Erwin, Roberta C (9411101) Molly J Mccann (Plaintiff)
04/23/2008 Plaintiff’s Settlement Brief Attorney: Erwin, Roberta C (9411101) Molly J Mccann (Plaintiff)
http://www.courtrecords.alaska.....t?68657988
But you would have to look at the actual court filings to see what they contained.
Richard,
Thanks. I was fairly certain that outright perjury was too much to hope for.
On the other hand, it seems very clear that Palin was using her office inappropriately and is lying about. Josh Marshall has some details with links here.
The more I see about this, the more I becoming convinced that McCain just pulled a very impulsive and very boneheaded move–which is very much in character with how he’s behaved in general over the past month or so.
Sarah Pallin= John McCain’s Harriet Meyers
McCain did not vet Palin. He’s run a campaign with much dissension, and chaotically picked Palin. Obama has run an incredibly tight campaign, beating the Clintonites without any drama. Who can better lead is not particularly questionable. Judgment matters more than experience.
@213
I took that to mean that the blogger was calling Wasilla the reddest part of an already red state.
The spin I’m seeing on Palin is remarkable. I heard this blonde gal on CNN (admittedly attractive) declaring that Palin is the “most popular governor in the nation.” Should we evaluate that claim? Alaska has a few more people than our great city of Seattle. It has less people than does King County. Alaska is a diehard red state. I can’t remember the last time in my home state that a Democrat was elected to statewide office. So, being a popular Republican governor in Alaska (which I love, despite of its politics) somehow translates to national popularity. McCain fucked up.
Sarah Palin? She has really nice hair. Silky, manageable hair. She will be the envy of the Oval Office, unless old McCain has health problems mid-term. Imagine Palin v Putin. My gosh, Putin is a polar bear’s swim from her home state. Has the Grand Old Party lost all sense?
Did you see post #217?
Did you follow the link at #217?
How out of touch with women are you?
For the most part – McSame showed some real weakness here. The pundits pretty much agree this destroyed the only possibly legitimate argument McSame had – i.e., experience, even if all of his proved to be BAD experience.
So he’s blown that. He’s made the mistake of thinking women won’t notice she’s anti-abortion which means she’s anti-woman.
He’s pissed off the faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar right weirdos who won’t vote for ANY woman because of all that bible based bullshit about the woman’s place being in the home.
He also screwed up by picking someone with ethics problems – not that you can find a republican who is clean and honest – but in any event, she comes with her own scandal built in.
Even some of my republican acquaintances say they don’t want this cunt within a hair of the Commander and Chief’s office.
Overall this was a desperate pick that will no doubt effectively cost McSame the election. This is the turning point. The loud girly like screams of the hysterical right prove it.
As the name says – “ByeBye GOP!”
Looks like GBS is rare form over Palin.
Proud Leftist @ 225
Alaska has a few more people than our great city of Seattle. It has less people than does King County.
Alaska has grown somewhat in population since you moved away. The first statement of yours no longer is correct. 2007 U.S. Census estimates:
Seattle, WA — 594,210
Alaska — 683,478
King County, WA — 1,859,284
Victor @ 226
A good line deserves repitition:
“My gosh, Putin is a polar bear’s swim from her home state. Has the Grand Old Party lost all sense?”
Richard,
With all due respect, I think your numbers confirm what I said. Alaska’s population exceeds that of Seattle, but has less than that of King County. Are you quibbling with my reference to a “few more people”?
@227: Blatant Republican propaganda. Anyone idiot naive enough to look at that and not realize that it’s ratfucking is probably too stupid to live, let alone vote.
@228: Hey, asshole… cast dispersions on Palin’s resume all you like, but don’t call her a “cunt”. Leave that kind of language to McCain and the gutter politics of the Republicans.
Just ignore him, everyone else does.
Kudos for calling him out. I’m sure others will jump in and agree.
What? You cunt say can’t??? Cuntit be worse to call her other names??? mmmm Perhaps we need more Monty Idle/Palin et al, and less suggestions to censor one’s language???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ajZ-5kTXk
Proud Leftist @ 232
No, I am confirming an obvious attack of dyslexia! Somehow I read your post as Alaska having less people than Seattle, when you actually said Alaska had more people than Seattle. Score a gaffe for myself :)
RP,
Forgiven.
@235: Don’t think that you’re any better! In fact, the rank hypocrisy of Republican operatives passing out Clinton nutcrackers while lauding a second-stringer’s meager accomplishments is a slap in the face to women everywhere.
I just prefer to take the higher road than Republicans.
@236: Again, leave the sexist language to the Republicans. We’re better than those knuckle-dragging troglodytes.