‘Unnamed Sources’ The Lowest Form Of Human Life
Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, November 6th, 2008
On the Republican side we seem to have a lower from of human life among us than Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Dick Durbin, and that Murtha tool. At least when they slip in the shiv it’s not from behind.
Whoever this right-wing character assassin is **cough**Nicole Wallace**cough-cough** leaking these stories to the press with respect to Sarah Palin, s/he needs to be run out of Republican politics on a rail.
Even if the stories are true, and they don’t pass the smell test, so what? Good gawd, Palin called Africa a country! Answering the door in a bathrobe? What a who-werrrr…
These leaks only serve to underline what a lousy, sloppy campaign John McCain ran, and that he’s a terrible judge of character without a firm grip on the wheel of his ship. With two days notice Sarah Palin stepped fearlessly from the wilds of Alaska into the harsh glare of presidential politics and a rabid left-wing media. She did a marvelous job under any circumstance. Her poise, optimism, and guts under intense pressure while being completely mishandled showed a grit and character few possess. And in a just world her few mistakes stacked against Biden’s many would acquit her nicely.
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Kiton 06 Nov 2008 at 8:56 am 1Answering a door in her bathrobe?
And that is bad for America?
akatoshon 06 Nov 2008 at 8:59 am 2I tried not to comment here during the election, because that would have been silly, but if she really didn’t know Africa was a continent and not just one big country, that seems like a really big problem. Just because she lives in Alaska doesn’t mean there are no books, tv, internet, or, you know, common knowledge there.
Anyway, glad to see you’re back to the movies (mostly) Harry!
PerfectTommyon 06 Nov 2008 at 8:59 am 3I think it was Rich Lowry at NRO that had one of the best examinations of Palin’s value to the campaign. McCain didn’t have the support of the Republican base at the end of the primaries.
He was wise to pick Palin to provide base support, which she did. But the libelous attacks from the press kept to a minimum the support from outside of the base.
But Obama had the support of the base coming out of the campaign. The pick of Biden could help expand to independents who might be lured by the “elder statesman” (actually his appeal was to the senile and gaffe lovers).
Sharon Fergusonon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:01 am 4Another bitter jealous loser bimbo who saw Sarah Palin and measured herself against a Real Woman…and came up lacking the boobs. Im telling you, its all about the boobs.
Nicole, to quote a favorite GenX film - “I hope they shrivel up and fall off.”
Bennett Marcoon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:02 am 5Kit:
It’s not quite LBJ holding cabinet meetings while seated on the throne, but HORRIFYING, none the less.
PerfectTommyon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:02 am 6And I don’t believe Palin thought Africa was a country anymore than Obama thought there were 57 states.
When Democrats have a slip of the tongue, it’s called just that. When a Republican has a slip of the tongue, it is a sign of ignorance.
Sharon Fergusonon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:06 am 7I think Sarah Palin was correct, actually - if you listen to the afrocentrists who claim that even Egyptians were/are black (despite contrary evidence, both archaeological and present day biology) - Africa WAS one great big country, until the Colonials from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, and England came in and started imposing political boundaries.
John C.on 06 Nov 2008 at 9:07 am 8I’m sorry- if I was sent to pick her up and she answered the door fresh from the shower in her bathrobe I would be down on my knees thanking the sweet good Lord for my job.
Lexingtonon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:08 am 9“Even if the stories are true, and they don’t pass the smell test, so what? Good gawd, Palin called Africa a country!”
This is silly - if what’s being said is true, it was not some sort of off-the-cuff verbal flub. From the article, she was confused as to how South Africa was a separate country, if there was no other country called ‘Africa’. If it’s true (and it may not be, of course), that’s some *stunning* ignorance right there.
Bennett Marcoon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:10 am 10John C.:
But not if she was also wearing those big, fuzzy, pink slippers — total turn-off.
John C.on 06 Nov 2008 at 9:12 am 11She could be wearing fuzzy dice around her neck and it wouldn’t matter to me.
Sharon Fergusonon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:13 am 12Hey, wasnt Ace of Spades supposed to be putting together a consortium of sorts of people who could collect “background” information on little pukes like Cameron? I say we find something about him to gossip about…
Kiton 06 Nov 2008 at 9:18 am 13Nicole Wallace?
Isn’t that she evil, Moriarty-like villainess on LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT?
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:22 am 14Anyone putting this out without NAMING names is another useful idiot.
Sarah Palin was the best thing about this campaign and the only reason John McCain did not join the ranks of Walter Mondale and George McGovern.
Go on camera and make these accusations about Palin and then you can be a simple low-life. Right now Nicole Wallace is a scummy piece of lint that will never have the stench of betrayal leave her.
CrippleHawkon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:25 am 15What does these unnamed sources that the MSM parasites keep popping up, have one thing in common with the Swiss Navy?
Kiton 06 Nov 2008 at 9:29 am 16CrippleHawk,
No idea?
Tell us.
John McClainon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:31 am 17Bennett Marco
Not HORRIFYING but VERY HOT!!
Die Hard Fan
Shawn Streeton 06 Nov 2008 at 9:32 am 18This whole things sounds like a big bunch of that stuff I try to keep my three year old from stepping in when we go to the grandparents’ farm. If you think about it for more than 2 seconds, the “unnamed sources” come out looking worse than Palin.
For example, if she really was this stupid, then the “unnamed source” was the real moron for not noticing it when she was interviewed for the gig. And she didn’t know Canada was in NAFTA? If she were the governor of one of the middle states I might believe that…but she governor of freaking Alaska. I would think she’s heard of Canada and NAFTA before.
Bottom line, someone hopes to work for one of other front runners in 2012 and therefore let’s go ahead and destroy Sarah before she becomes a threat for the big office.
And as for the bathrobe thing….thanks for the visual.
the bookkeeperon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:39 am 19And I’m not so sure they’re unnamed “republican” sources, either. Of course she knows what NAFTA is just like we down here in Tejas know. ALL border states know. And, anyone living on the income that they did wouldn’t even know HOW to shop like Bela Pelosi.
jack marinoon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:43 am 20oh my god !!! sARAH CALLED Aftica a country, make her resign, fine her, make her go back to school and take a geography class again….OH the horror of it all….
No matter what the left maggots try to do to her and McCain’s people want to blame her, Sarah Palin isn’t going away and she will be back stronger then ever, she got a taste of natioanal exposure and she is LOVED by many republicans who are fed up with the McCain types that kiss the ass of leftist democrats to get along to get along. So make fun of her all you want, you are not dealing with Dan Quale here, this is a gal who is a spitefire and the fact you mad dog animals are attacking her over the stupidest bullshit is fact that you and even the country club republicans are scared shitless of her. This is so typical of the goon squad media to attact this gal, well this one person is the wrong one you are going after, she will get in your faces and make your life miserable and she and people like Jingle will remake this weak kneed republican party this is afraid to go tell the nazi democrats to go F**k themselves in hell
So keep it up and build up her support you dumb ass jack offs
Avery Bullardon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:45 am 21These leaks only serve to underline what a lousy, sloppy campaign John McCain ran, and that he’s a terrible judge of character
Don’t be defeatist. Cowboy up! We’re gonna win this thing. I can feel it. Cowboy up!
Jonnyon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:45 am 22Hmm Sarah Palin in a bathrobe.
Mm-hmm
Ok, anyway, yeah this is pifitul. These same snarks trying to lay Gov. Palin on the altar of their failure (which we all share–no one gets out of this one) are the type to reign her in during the campaign and mold her into the same brainless gargoyles they are.
Sorry, the lady has more class than that and she’s going to be the future while these vultures will be left in the dust where they belong.
Shit, we want to clean things up right? Looks like we need to start with our own backyard first. Too much dead weight lying around stinking things up!
PS I sent an e-mail thanking her for her efforts and courage. Let her know we’ve got her back and don’t give a damn what these backstabbing animals say about her.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/govmail.php
JohnFNWayneon 06 Nov 2008 at 9:46 am 23If this is an effort to head off Palin 2012, they are doing a good job. Between the Trig-incest, the dumpster diving, trashing her oldest daughter and now this, I couldn’t blame her for resigning as Gov. and telling everyone to go to hell.
Bibion 06 Nov 2008 at 9:58 am 24Two years from now, who’s going to be the successful governor of a state, with a coast-to-coast base of supporters, a coherent campaign theme, buckets of campaign cash, a coherent message of faith, family, and service?
And, who’s going to be the campaign staffer seeking a job?
GeronimoRumplestiltskinon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:10 am 25So let me see if I get this right….
McCain picks Palin on August 30th. At this point, McCain is trailing in the polls by 6 points or so.
Palin makes her convention speech on September 3rd. She does terrifically, and combined with McCain’s speech the next night, the ticket crafts a consistent and resonant message to counter Obama’s empty rhetoric about “change”:
We’re going to put country ahead of party and reform Washington.
As of September 13, McCain takes the lead in polls. Obama’s camp and compliant media are obsessed with Palin, but can find no weapon to regain their momentum.
The mortgage/credit crisis hits, and McCain and his team are thrown off-balance. He seems to lurch in one direction, then another. He suspends his campaign, goes to Washington, and does….well, not much. He goes along with bloated and unpopular bailout bill. Instead of rightly pointing out that it was Democratic policies that caused the problem, he points to “Wall Street Greed”, playing right into the Left’s anti-capitalism message. By the end of September, Obama is up 6-8 points again, and those numbers stay consistent right through election day.
A person on McCain’s staff who had some personal integrity would focus on him/herself and what they did wrong and/or what they might have done differently. A person on McCain’s staff with little to no integrity would try to exculpate themselves from blame by pointing fingers at someone who was already a media pinata.
Is it possible that Palin really thought that Africa was a country, not a continent? About as possible that Obama really thought there were 57 states in the union. Would not a more likely scenario be that whatever her words were, they were taken out of context by the ‘leaker’ for self-serving purposes? Similarly, is it not more probable that she may have asked confirming questions about NAFTA that have been self-servingly misconstrued to “she didn’t know which counties are in NAFTA!”?
As to her “shopping”, I really wish the McCain camp folks would get their story straight. It was the RNC that paid for it and the staff that did the shopping. No, wait, it was a wealthy donor and Palin did the shopping. No, wait, it was her own handlers doing the shopping using their own credit cards. No, wait…
And as for the bath towel thing, I suppose if she made them wait in the hall while she got dressed and applied her make-up, that would be rude; if she had them sit and watch as she got dressed, that would certainly be putting them in an awkward situation. But to answer the door (I’m assuming Todd either a) in the bathroom or b) getting dressed himself) and directing them to visit with Todd while she dressed…..what’s the problem here? Seems like much to do about nothing.
Even after the election, the media can’t stop talking about her.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:10 am 26If this was not Nicole Wallace saying these things, I apologize. But the fact that no one has said it was anyone else and Wallace has not denied any of it makes me think it was her.
But ultimately this was McCain’s problem and he is responsible for letting it get to this point. Republicans remembered Mc-Feingold, Mc-Kennedy etc and Palin was the best reason to vote for McCain.
To lose 20% of Bush voters from 2004 is on McCain’s head. Without Palin it would have been 40% and McCain would have ended up wondering how even Arizona voted for Obama.
rrpjron 06 Nov 2008 at 10:12 am 27The “Bathrobe Presidency.” After four years of Armani leftists debauching liberty, America will be ready to embrace it in 2012.
Nicole Wallace. Right. I knew it. She’s the “former Bush aide, former CBS executive” (there’s a charming twofer, no?) POS wormtongue who advised Palin to take those slasher “sitdowns” with Gibson and Couric. This is my one fear about Palin: that she can’t identify establishment scum like Wallace or isn’t tough enough to cut them loose.
Stephanieon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:13 am 28Nicole Wallace vile backstabbing bitch. Hey Nicol why don’t you come here and say this sh*t? Come on what are you AFRAID? Ohhhhh wow….catty skank trashing better looking woman? Typical. Wonder why most women make me puke? Nicole Wallace is an example. She needs to have a close shave with reality and a whooping she won’t forget. I’d do it..for free even.
As far as Sarah goes, the reason why fugly skanks like this Wallace character and Smeggy Noonhead the Vichy hosbag hate her is because teh reaction of many millions of men to Sarah. This is written out of jealousy, and out of typical feminine oh all the guys like her and she has a hot hubby I MUST HATE HER! YEACH! I hate women…I really do. After reading that men most men make so much more sense. Better friends, better people.
voodooon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:13 am 29If I were Sarah Palin I would go back to Alaska and announce that the State of Alaska no longer recognizes Federal authority over ANWR (and by implication everything else). Bidding for drilling rights are open… Change we could believe in.
That would be fun! How about a Tom Clancy book and movie on that theme? Putin immediately recognizes Alaskan sovereignty and offers a defense alliance. Obama stutters and stammers. Alaskans lock and load… Americans emigrate to become Alaskans. Hugo Chavez ceases the initiative and invades Cuba, Columbia and Ecuador. Obama stutters and stammer. Terrorists hit Washington DC…
Aitch748on 06 Nov 2008 at 10:14 am 30It does seem that Sarah Palin has been very useful in smoking out a lot of the DC natives. She’s been like a ray of sunshine to the vampires that have overtaken our government.
At this point I don’t think I would grieve if some Katrina-like disaster were to submerge DC and make life extraordinarily inconvenient and burdensome for the survivors.
Mullholland Kevinon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:15 am 31My last word on the Presidential Race of 2008 and also my first word on the Presidential Race of 2012:
PEEL STEEDLESS
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:20 am 32Bibi:
To go along with your question, which candidate can spend the next two years raising money for herself and other Republican candidates piling up a big stack of IOUs.
Right now Palin is the most popular Republican the only one that can fill an arena to hear her speak. She can do fundraisers that other Republican politicians can only dream about.
The future of the Republicans are the young turks in the House (Ryan, Cantor, Putnam etc) and governors like Palin and Jindal.
Now that it has been shown that the bi-partisan path McCain took (fight your own party and make nice with Kennedy and Feingold) is the way to defeat we had better listen to the real voices for conservatives.
Mashaon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:23 am 33Sharon and Stephanie (#4 and #27) - I don’t really have anything to add, you’re both spot on. Good riddance, little cat-b1tch whoever you are. I’m 100% sure if it’s not Nicole it’s another woman.
Kyleon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:24 am 34““Even if the stories are true, and they don’t pass the smell test, so what? Good gawd, Palin called Africa a country!”
This is silly - if what’s being said is true, it was not some sort of off-the-cuff verbal flub. From the article, she was confused as to how South Africa was a separate country, if there was no other country called ‘Africa’. If it’s true (and it may not be, of course), that’s some *stunning* ignorance right there.”
Lex,
I have to disagree with you. Let’s start here, I would want to hear the audio of her “confusing” Africa and South Africa. First off, be wary of anyone reading a quote and attributing it to a politician or commentator. Always reserve any judgement until you hear the actual audio in context. She could have been trying to joke, I have seen it before.
4 months ago a show I listen to (Glenn Beck) was joking around with a guest and asking him if Obama was the Anti-Christ and making fun of people who were espousing such a belief. At the end of the conversation Beck commented that the conversation would be transcribed by MediaMatters as a serious conversation.
Lo and behold less than 48 hours later, Olberman (and I thought Chris Matthews was pompous) gave Beck the “Worst Person in the World” Award for calling Obama the Anti-Christ.
Also, all the headlines I read said that “Obama says he will bankrupt the Coal industry”. Once I got the audio I determined that this was a distortion. He did say that under his cap-n-trade that you would not be able to build a new coal plant because it would bankrupt you.
So my point is that you should always reserve any judgement until you can hear the actual clip.
Stephanieon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:28 am 35Kyle he did say in that clip he would bankrupt clean coal. You cannot deny it. Please for crying out loud don’t sit there and talk about capntrade when what I heard was WAYYY DIFFERENT!
I mean when you see your home heating price look like the naitonal debt of Lower Slobobia you come find us and tell us what an awesome dude Mr. Terrorist Hugger hate America scumbag is. ANd if you are a Republican you should be ashamed of yourself for defending this pile of human waste.
McCain, John- (R - AZ) Class III
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Call McCain and tell him nicely to make a statement about Sarah Palin, and then THANK HIM even if you don’t want to for his service and his work. Honey rather than vinegar.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:28 am 36Steph:
Greta had an interview with a woman and she mentioned how most of the backstabbers she heard from were women yet none of them did what Greta did - go to Alaska and talk to people about Palin and actually talk to Palin.
I though Wallace, being a woman, would be willing to defend a female politician from the attacks that were hurled at Palin. But every time I heard another bogus story on Palin (rape kits, book banning, travel expenses, troopergate) I kept waitng for someone from the McCain camp to defend her or let her defend herself.
Like I said, if this is not Nicole Wallce I apologize but I doubt she is innocent on this.
Stephanieon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:31 am 37Kyle he did say in that clip he would bankrupt clean coal. You cannot deny it. Please for crying out loud don’t sit there and talk about capntrade when what I heard was WAYYY DIFFERENT!
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Call McCain and tell him nicely to make a statement about Sarah Palin, and then THANK HIM even if you don’t want to for his service and his work. Honey rather than vinegar
Splashon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:40 am 38Keep it up, GOP. You just might help launch a viable third party yet. One led by Sarah Palin could actually do some damage.
Either way, don’t blame me. I voted Cressbeckler.
http://roguewavelength.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-this-is-what-happened.html
Shawn Streeton 06 Nov 2008 at 10:47 am 39Kyle, as someone who lives in the coal country and is the proud son of a coal miner and the proud grandson of coal miners, let me comment on what Obama said.
Let us say, just for argument’s sake, that he is not against clean coal. But he DID say it would bankrupt you to build new clean coal plants. So what the heck good does it do to keep mining coal if there are no plants to take it to?
That is like saying we’re gonna ban the automobile, but don’t worry that won’t hurt tire companies at all.
The reason Obama has no problem at all putting all the miners out of work is simple…he needs to get the soldiers for his new civilian army from somewhere lol.
Stephanieon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:48 am 40THanks awesome. Now we have third party voters to blame for Obama. AWESOME! Nothing pisses me off more than people adding to Obama’s vote count by not voting for the right person. McCain at least is a patriot. But thanks to so many idiotic, ILL SHOW THEM morons we get Maobama. AWESOME! Well all I can is you get what you deserve. No third party candidate will ever have a chance here and you all know it. Thats the hard sad fact. Lets fix the GOP…..not giving delusional Bob Barr freaks the idea they can smirk win. They can’t and won’t.
rrpjron 06 Nov 2008 at 10:54 am 41Elaine Lafferty, the former editor of Ms. magazine, wrote a recent profile of Palin debunking the smears.
“[She has] a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I’d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action.”
Of course she was attacked by the Left.
Jillon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:05 am 42Yeah, it’s probably a woman. Women are the worst of all.
I never trust most of them. And I am one!
EPon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:09 am 43>>The future of the Republicans are the young turks in the House (Ryan, Cantor, Putnam etc) and governors like Palin and Jindal. >>
Once my head cleared from the fog Tuesday night, JEB, almost exactly what came out of my mouth. I fully respect the service John McCain has done for our country, but it’s time for him to pull a MacArthur and do the fade away. For the most part, the old GOP lions, too. Offer advice on navigating difficult waters where necessary, but let the Reagan babies take the lead. Had a nice, albeit brief, interview with CA GOP Chairman Ron Nehring last night and guys like him, along with the folks mentioned above, are the future that quite obviously needs to start now.
Obama? Dead! Biden/Kennedy? (Almost) dead! PelosiReidFrankDodd? Dead! And we’re just the guys to do it!!!
Lexingtonon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:16 am 44Kyle,
“First off, be wary of anyone reading a quote and attributing it to a politician or commentator. Always reserve any judgement until you hear the actual audio in context. She could have been trying to joke, I have seen it before.”
Oh, I agree - it could’ve been a joke, or there could have been a miscommunication, or someone could have heard this second or third-hand, and lost or garbled some original intention. It’s all pretty vague. At the same time, I think it’s reasonable to say that the journalists passing off these quotes have reason to believe that their source was close enough to Palin to actually know these things first-hand. Of course, even if that’s true, it could all be a lie told by a petty, bitter staffer.
At the same time, if it *is* true, it’s a shock, and an amazement that Palin ever made it onto a national ticket.
What’s even more silly to me is that there’s been absolutely *no* introspection as to how ridiculous this would all be on the right. This meme going around of “well, even if it’s *true*, this is all McCain’s fault, and not beautiful, perfect Sarah’s!” is the sort of blind worshipfulness that you all were so down on Obama’s supporters for.
Stephanieon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:27 am 45Lexington how is your favorite Hamas terrorist today?
Michael Hutchisonon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:30 am 46Should’ve known it was a woman. MEN do not complain about being greeted at the door by Sarah Palin in a bathrobe!
dudesaplentyon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:35 am 47Stephanie i Believe there is a South Park website that has the Episode in question on it.In fact here it is it’s Called “About last Night” http://www.southparkstudios.com/ I also posted this in that Ebert thread
Snellville Jimon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:42 am 48If McCain doesn’t make a statement that Palin was a great asset to his ticket and has his full support, then I am glad he lost.
If he says something in support of Palin, then it shows class.
Palin kept him in the game. Period. There is no way I would have voted for McCain without Palin. I would have abstained.
aris pon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:43 am 49Yes she called Africa a country. Anyone who still thinks she’s intelligent enough to be a VP after THAT, is dumber than she is.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:45 am 50Snellville:
If McCain doesn’t come out with a statement in support of Palin, the honor which was a main point of his campaign will be diminished.
He denounced anyone that used Obama’s middle name, his real middle name, but he won’t stand up for his VP?
Something is wrong if he remains silent.
Snellville Jimon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:47 am 51Yeah, and anyone who thinks there are 57 states shouldn’t be president either. We can do that all day.
Shawn Streeton 06 Nov 2008 at 11:50 am 52aris p, you heard her say that? When? Where? What role did you have in the McCain camp that you were able to get such close access to the governor?
Let me show you how unfounded rumors work…. aris p said he saw Obama french kissing a member of Hamas. I know this to be true because an unnamed source told me.
Kiton 06 Nov 2008 at 11:56 am 53aris p,
Does Obama plan on appearing on TV to comfort America like FDR did in 1929?
Stephanieon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:56 am 54Aris P man you need a reality check. Really. You are dumber than dirt. My dog deposits things from his butt more inline with intelligence than you do.
What a stupid, retarded, uneducated bigoted and misgynistic thing for you to say. But hey your ahate filled Leftwing Fascist so it shouldn’t surprise me. Man there are so many leftists I’d love to go eye ball to eye ball with. Arifaerie Sarah Palin wears dresses that have a higher IQ than you do.
Bennett Marcoon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:00 pm 55JEB:
It certainly would cost McCain nothing to do so. I mean, he ain’t gonna run for president again — will he even run to keep his seat in ‘10 — who knows?
If I were reporting on these rumors, I certainly would try to get comment from McCain.
We have no way of knowing what’s true here. And I really don’t care about the bathrobe or the “diva” stuff (I’ve spent a lot of time with politicians and elected officials — as a rule, they are not exactly princes (or princesses) among men (I am happy to say that I have also encountered exceptions).
What we do know is true, is that certain campaign “professionals” are trying to deflect blame for the lousy job they just did. This campaign was Dole ‘96 with a better running mate.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:08 pm 56aris p:
I also read that Palin banned books in Wasilla.
And that Palin made rape victims pay for the test kits.
And that she was a member of a party that wanted to secede from the union.
And that she cheated on her taxes by charging for travel expense she wasn’t entitled to.
And that she imposed a windfall profits tax on the oil companies in Alaska.
All of those were in fact false but now we’re supposed to believe faceless staffers that won’t go on the record.
I have a bridge in New York I’ll sell you real cheap because you sound like the type to go for such a great deal.
Katoon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:25 pm 57Nicole Wallace was a CBS News producer before she joined the McCain campaign. Obviously, she leaked this pack of lies in order to smooth her path back to network news. (If she wasn’t a deliberately sabotaging mole to begin with.)
Anybody read the Newsweek postmortem article?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/2
Just as we suspected, McCain unilaterally disarmed himself in order to avoid the “racism” label:
“McCain also was reluctant to use Obama’s incendiary pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as a campaign issue. The Republican had set firm boundaries: no Jeremiah Wright; no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the military. McCain balked at an ad using images of children that suggested that Obama might not protect them from terrorism. Schmidt vetoed ads suggesting that Obama was soft on crime (no Willie Hortons). And before word even got to McCain, Schmidt and Salter scuttled a ‘celebrity’ ad of Obama dancing with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres (the sight of a black man dancing with a lesbian was deemed too provocative).”
Funny thing is, it didn’t work. The McCain campaign still got called “hateful.”
For example, this ridiculous meme will live on:
“The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. ‘Why would they try to make people hate us?’ Michelle asked a top campaign aide.”
I’m afraid we can look forward to four (eight, unless we man up) more years of this.
soulpileon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:31 pm 58You mean Africa is NOT a country?
Somebody tell all those African-Americans!
Baseless rumours. If anything, a slip of the tongue, although it’s more likely that this is a smear campaign. The media is only too willing to take part in this. They hated Palin when she was announced and they want to make sure she can’t run in 2012.
All this is just pissing me off!
Oh, the horror! A woman answers the door in her bathrobe and it’s the WORST THING EVER. At least, according to Cameron on Fox. His face was filled with glee reporting this oh SO horrible event.
As I’ve said elsewhere, what did they want? Did they expect her to magically dress herself right out of the shower?
What next, are they going to complain that she didn’t wear makeup 24/7?
StevefromMKEon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:34 pm 59Full blown CYA mode but they can’t hide the fact their campaign FUBAR’d everything positive after naming Palin the VP nominee.
And aris, Barry thinks there’s 57 states and Biden said FDR went on TV to talk about the great depression. Keep trying douche.
rrpjron 06 Nov 2008 at 1:21 pm 60Really, is there anybody more snivelingly irrelevant than backbiters from a losing campaign.
I agree, Kato. I wouldn’t doubt Wallace was a mole. As for the “post-mortem,” more confirmation we’re living in a looking-glass world now, part Carroll and part Orwell and nearly all mad. Sanctuaries of sanity — places and people — become harder to find. We trust that this world will have its moral arc, its just resolution. But be aware — Leftists are at work now planning the revamping of the basic assumptions, the cause-and-effect laws, of a sane moral world. Look for Obama in his first year to undo in a hundred unseen ways the premises of free speech and accountability that undergird this order. He instinctively understands this is necessary for him to survive his last two years.
This is not merely a partisan challenge for us, it is an existential one.
And I don’t expect that McCain will say a thing in Palin’s defense.
OldSchoolMatton 06 Nov 2008 at 1:23 pm 61“…he’s a terrible judge of character without a firm grip on the wheel of his ship…”
Uh, hadn’t the Palin pick already made that clear?
I really, REALLY hope you guys keep trying to ride this fraud to victory. Please.
G-MANon 06 Nov 2008 at 1:28 pm 62Be afraid, MSM…Be very afraid….
StevefromMKEon 06 Nov 2008 at 1:31 pm 63Uh, hadn’t the Palin pick already made that clear?
I really, REALLY hope you guys keep trying to ride this fraud to victory. Please.
Obviously you don’t care about it Matt, so why are you here now?
Once again, he would’ve gotten less than 40% without Palin. She was the ONLY reason why I voted for him at this point in time. Any so-called conservatives who blame her for the loss aren’t really or never were.
Splashon 06 Nov 2008 at 1:36 pm 64“THanks awesome. Now we have third party voters to blame for Obama.’
That was a joke, Steph. Apparently you didn’t click on the link. It’s another hilarious Onion video. Check it out!
OldSchoolMatton 06 Nov 2008 at 1:39 pm 65“Once again, he would’ve gotten less than 40% without Palin. ”
That’s completely true. But outside of the die-hard Republican base (say…30% of the electorate, at best?), she’s a joke. So, again, from my perspective, I’d love to see you pin your national office hopes on her.
Growltigeron 06 Nov 2008 at 1:56 pm 66McCain needs to:
Make a public announcement that if the “unnamed source” does not come forward within 48 hours, he will publish a list of every member of his campaign staff and ask every Republican not to hire any on the list until said “unnamed source” comes forward. That person should never work for a candidate again. S/he is not trustworthy.
That said, how do we know the media didn’t make this up?
Seems to me “unnamed sources” covers a lot of territory. Just like Woodward’s “Deep Throat”. Anybody else believe it’s Woodward himself no matter what that senile old coot claimed?
This election is the San Andreas fault of tectonic plates. It has the potential of totally reshaping the parties.
Why not Three parties: Left, Right and in the middle?
Democrats are de facto Socialists (no problem with that; just wish they’d admit it).
Republicans are too conservative on social issues for much of the country.
A third, Independent Party would offer the public a choice — socially liberal, fiscally conservative. There already are politicians in place who fit that designation:
Schwarzennegger, Lieberman, Collins, Snowe, the “blue dog” Democrats, Chuck Robb, perhaps Mark Warner…
I am a Sarah Palin fan, however, I believe the media have destroyed her just as they destroyed Dan Qayle.
I do not believe she made the gaffs attributed to her. After her successful term as Gov. of Alaska, I’d like to see her run for the Senate and spend her first six years sticking it to everyone who stuck it to her!
Growltigeron 06 Nov 2008 at 2:10 pm 67“Yes she called Africa a country. Anyone who still thinks she’s intelligent enough to be a VP after THAT, is dumber than she is.”
Maybe a president who thinks we have 57 states?
Or a vice president who has stuck his foot in his mouth so many times his tonsils have athlete’s foot?
How about a former vice president (Gore) who went to Thomas Jefferson’s home (Monticello Charlottesville, VA), pointed at the busts of former presidents and asked “who are those guys?”
Everyone has a slip of the tongue. Calling people “dumb” puts your own IQ in question.
G-MANon 06 Nov 2008 at 2:13 pm 68Growltiger-
Not a far-fetched scenario. Maybe sooner than you think.
The image made of her by the media is just that. An image. It will eventually break. So will the image they made of the paper messiah.
Ginaon 06 Nov 2008 at 2:38 pm 69Amen, G-MAN.
Bennett Marcoon 06 Nov 2008 at 2:44 pm 70You know, it’s NOT McCain’s responsibility to make a statement here.
It IS the responsibility of any journalist (and we all know how responsible they are) covering this story to ASK him about it.
Then, McCain DOES have a responsibility to answer.
G-MANon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:04 pm 71Responsible journalist…..
You know of any?
Bennett Marcoon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:12 pm 72G-MAN:
There’s the rub…
G-MANon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:18 pm 73I’m still thinking. None yet….
abeon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:26 pm 74She didn’t know Africa was a continent.
Talk about real embarrassment…
StevefromMKEon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:48 pm 75She didn’t know Africa was a continent.
Talk about real embarrassment…
Just like the President-elect doesn’t know how many states there are…huh abe?
G-MANon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:54 pm 76StevefromMKE,
I don’t think even abe is stupid enough to really believe she doesn’t know Africa is a continent. He’s just trying to piss people off.
Bennett Marcoon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:59 pm 77I don’t know whether Sarah Palin knows more about international power politics than Otto von Bismarck or if, on the other hand, she can’t pass a junoir high geography quiz.
But an anonymously sourced — unsourced, I would say — political gossip piece contains zero evidence for either proposition.
Buck Turgidsonon 06 Nov 2008 at 4:20 pm 78Another thing this story highlights is the distinction between the liberals of good faith (akatosh and Lexington) who haunt this site and those of bad faith (abe, aris, OldSchoolMatt). The former appear to recognize that the allegations are unlikely to be true or are at least willing to wait and see. Not so with the others. If it makes Palin look bad, it must be true!
I agree with Lexington and akatosh that if Palin really thought Africa was a country and not a continent, that’s a problem. But the allegation is so outlandish there’s almost no way in hell to convince me of it. Even if she said something along those lines, it could only have been a joke. BTW, I make jokes totally straight faced all the time and am often mistaken for being serious. (For instance, my wife recently thought I really did bring home “Teenage Playthings” from the video rental store because I played the joke totally straight. I do that all the time with everyone I know and even those I don’t.)
As for the bathrobe thing, where do I put in my job application to be Sarah’s aide? You know, it would be weird if she opened the door to a guy in her robe, but not necessarily scandalous. it doesn’t strike me as weird at all for her to open the door to another woman, however. But ironically, a guy wouldn’t likely relay the story as a scandal but a woman might, if she were catty and vindictive. So I’m in the camp with those who smell a cat-fight.
T.S.Benchon 06 Nov 2008 at 4:20 pm 79…….Answering a door in her bathrobe?
And that is bad for America?…..
Nope.
But I do think that for motorists on my street the sight of me, in my bathrobe, taking out the trash barrels everything Tuesday morning is an altogether different story.
Regards,
TSB
T.S.Benchon 06 Nov 2008 at 4:27 pm 80……Even if she said something along those lines, it could only have been a joke. BTW, I make jokes totally straight faced all the time and am often mistaken for being serious…..
Reminds me of the first time my wife and I drove to Burlington, Vermont. As we drove over the top of a hill descending into town, my wife looked out on Lake Champlain and said, “Look, there’s a ferry.”
“Not surprising, dear, I replied, “after all, this is a very liberal college town.”
Regards,
TSB
Bennett Marcoon 06 Nov 2008 at 4:34 pm 81Buck:
The thing is, the only way this story will “develop” further is if someone goes on-the-record (or I suppose, if there are additional anonymous “allegations”). Otherwise, it’s a dead-end.
And that’s the real problem: it’s out there, and you can’t “un-ring a bell.”
Stephanieon 06 Nov 2008 at 4:50 pm 82Buck that would be nice but consider this: Today I was warming up to lift weights and talked to a Republican guy I know at the Gym. We were both talking about where to go next. Anyway I was switching the elliptical machines video TV to FOX and gloomy himself Cavuto was talking about Obama’s new “cabinet”. Anyway this woman on the elliptical next to me started chattering like a friggen overweight chatty Cathy doll about how it would alright because she heard me say a profanity when they showed his worships sickening face. I looked at her, now, understand what we are dealing with: She was a frumpy brunette, 35, no wedding ring, watching Oprah with a glased expression on her plain ugly face. I was like and here is the O face. THink about it, this cow who wasn’t doing herself any good because she started at our Gym about 8 months ago and she hasn’t lost a pound is the Obama voter. Overweight, a perpetual victim, Oprah Winfrey watching dim wit. So, I asked her after taking it all in, if she read Star, People and US. She said yes. YEP THATS YOUR SINGLE AMERICAN WOMAN WHO VOTED FOR THAT THAT THAT MARXIST. I asked her ever read Obie’s book? She said no. OK I threw this quote from it at her..
“A White Man’s greed runs a world in need.” She was rather shocked and of course disbelieving, so before I put my IPOD on and cranked Appetite for Destruction I said and I guarentee you he said it. All you gotta do is read his friggen book.
Major Grahamon 06 Nov 2008 at 5:55 pm 83GREAT NEWS!! Just got this off of Townhall.com
SARAH IGNITION
Plan on seeing Sarah Palin in Washington in early 2009 after all. The defeated Republican vice-presidential candidate, we’re told, is a confirmed speaker for the Conservative Political Action Committee 2009 conference in February.
“It’s obvious that she is the Reagan heir apparent, and so it is fitting that she follow in his footsteps,” Republican activist and “Team Sarah” member LaDonna Hale Curzon said Wednesday. “At CPAC 1975, one speech initiated the conservative comeback. That speech was by Ronald Reagan. I would like to see Governor Palin do the same at CPAC 2009.”
Palin 2012
Jarodon 06 Nov 2008 at 5:57 pm 84Stephanie, you nailed it. I’m glad that I’m not the only one who notices that vapid, blank expression.
I’m fairly certain that Buck has it right. I’ve been re-reading everything that Sarah has been reported as saying. Most of what I read struck me as some of the tongue in cheek stuff I’ve said when I was replying to a dumbass question. The problem is there are so many people out there with the IQ of an amoeba.
I spoke with someone at her office this morning and I was told that the phones are ringing off the wall with well wishes from all over the US. The lady said that Mrs. Sarah is in good spirits. That was all we had time to say as she had to take some other calls. I doubt that we’ve heard the last of her.
Aitch748on 06 Nov 2008 at 5:59 pm 85You know, I absolutely do not believe that Sarah Palin “did not know that Africa was a continent.” I mean, that’s just bizarre. That’s like hearing that someone who was a mayor for eight years and governor for two years, someone who took on corrupt members of her own party and won, is someone who cannot solve simple arithmetic problems. I mean, come on. You want to make us believe a story like that, you better have pretty good evidence. Like a videotape or something. Posting “Yup, uh-huh, she really said it, believe it and weep, you wingnuts” on a comment page isn’t going to do the job here.
I did read elsewhere today that this whole stupid “Palin did not know Africa was a continent” rumor developed from a conversation where somebody mentioned South Africa and Gov. Palin asked something like, “Do you mean the southern portion of the African continent, or do you mean the actual country of South Africa?” The story got twisted from being retold several times over into “Palin thinks Africa is a country“, which was then repeated by some hyena of a McCain staffer to the jackals in the news media, and here we are discussing it.
Major Grahamon 06 Nov 2008 at 6:05 pm 86Aitch748 - very likely description of what actually happened. Amazing how this “dunce” ended up as the most popular governor in the country and drew record crowds everywhere she went. She is being attacked by these cowards precisely because they recognize they will have no seat at the table if she becomes the front-runner. These kind of attacks will just likely harden her resolve. As her opponents have said, the tundra of Alaska is riddled with the bodies of those who have tried to go after her.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 6:33 pm 87So many of the other stories about Palin were not true, why would people automatically believe these?
Because they do not like Palin or what she represents.
Does anyone believe that she was so stupid before her debate that only through the hard work of her staff she was able to get Biden to say 20 times the number of stupid things she did?
FOX should get Cameron to say how many people were his sources and where some of these things were said. To put them out there as fact without anyway for people to evaluate their veracity is not fair to Palin.
Just as the stories about book banning, rape kits etc.
Jack Marinoon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:23 pm 88You want to talk embarrassment? How about Obama saying he is campaigning in 57 states and this his uncle an American GI liberated Auschwitz in Poland. Biden says FDR speaks on TV in 1929 about the Depression. Kerry says if you don’t go to college you end up in Iraq!
The ultimate embarrassment is the entire liberal establishment that runs congress. This next 75 days are going to be funny as hell as Obama picks his retards for the cabinet. He is making RFK, JR in charge of the EPA. We will all have to buy a horse soon. they are tallking John Kerry as Sec of state! this is beautiful. What we have here is the Marx bros are running the White House, The 3 stooges are running the house and the ritz bros are running the senate. THis is going to be the funniest administration ever put together. The liberal mad dogs had the balls to call Bush dumb, wait till these idiots begin to run this country after 1-20- 09
Putin is going to see just how thick this steel is in Obama’s back.
Republicans MUST DO NOTHING …sit back and watch these retards crash and burn this country. This is going to be the best cure for this cancer called liberalism, this President will kill the cancer he is part of.
Jack Marinoon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:36 pm 89Also, the entire leftist mad dog establishment including their propaganda arm, are scared shitless of Sarah Palin, this is why they attack her with a vengeance. They will find anything to attach her on and she right now is so far superior in all ways then the Divine Emperor Obamus Erectus.
This is why they have to attack her, just to make Obama look good. She is a danger to Obama and to his re-election in 2012 if he isn’t impeach before for being a dummy
MovieBobon 07 Nov 2008 at 12:09 am 90If it wasn’t so sorry lookin’, this’d be funny.
Aw, who am I kidding - it’s STILL funny
Everything you need to know about what’s become of The Republican Party specifically and “conservatism” in general can be understood by seeing clearly who “conservatives” reacted to this ticket: When presented with a certified American War Hero with a long distinguished record of experience as an elected public servant they said “meh” because he had refused to pander to their lowest common denominator in the past. When presented a with be-lipstick’d countrified caricature, on the other hand, they went NUTS. Was it her bold policy ideas? Her articulation? Her shimmering intellect? Her experience? No… it was her apparent agreement with them on the ickiness of homosexuals and superstitions as to the personhood of the petri-dish population. So sad.
In the grand POLITICAL scheme of things, it doesn’t matter all that much whether Palin did all or none of these wacky yet strangely real-sounding things attributed to her. Neither, really, does SHE period. She’s a figurehead… a “mascot” for an element of “conservatism” that has served it’s purpose and must now be discarded if conservatism is to survive. Religiousity of the time she stands for had it’s time and it’s usefulness - both are long past their end. As political tools and ideals in general, it’s essentially the intellectual equivalent of a vestigial organ that’s become an infection and must now be removed for the good of the primary organism.
Jack Marinoon 07 Nov 2008 at 1:33 am 91Bob, you just don’t get it, either in films of politics. This gal is a major achiever and no one in the democratic party has done what she has done in the same amount of time. She is an achiever and was thrown into this arena at the level of a VP at a moment notice. She did better than Kerry did with his 35 years in office, better then Biden, better then your new President. Besides they were all hugged and kissed by the leftist media, she was attached by them and she is still being attacked. She is far from a figurehead, McCain wouldn’t have gotten half the voted he got if it wasn’t for Palin ,McCain’s people kept her in the background when they should have turned her lose. They didn’t want her to look like the top of the ticket. McCain’s people didn’t like her and it is all coming out now. McCain is done for good, he will stay a senator.
Palin on the other hand will be the new standard bearer for the conservative movement. She isn’t a liberal republican, she is a reagan republican and she will probably be on the ticket after four years of Obama, just like Reagan came out of the blue and was 20 points behind carter. There is a lot of time, yet she has had a taste of national exposure. Yesterday I met the chairman of the California Republican National committee. He told me, they are all in love with Sarah and they have four years to get her ready for the top spot.
The conservative movement is about religion, that is all they talk about. You are clueless on how this works. Conservatives are not set up like democrats which I was a part of before you were born and Kerry was running for the first time. Republicans and conservatives are not and will not be set up like democrats. Palin, Jingle are just like Reagan and conservatives don’t need any advice from a liberal kid in boston who has no experience in real street politics.
Democrats like you said the same thing about reagan in 1976 too and you kind was wrong then and will be wrong in four years. Palin is an achiever and you could only hope in your entire lifetime you do what she did in the PTA, let alone what she has done so far.
Rusty Jameson 07 Nov 2008 at 2:23 am 92@ “A third, Independent Party would offer the public a choice — socially liberal, fiscally conservative. There already are politicians in place who fit that designation:
Schwarzennegger, Lieberman, Collins, Snowe, the “blue dog” Democrats, Chuck Robb, perhaps Mark Warner…”
Socially liberal, fiscally conservative is verbatim the Libertarian Party platform.
Anyway, Lieberman is fiscally liberal and socially conservative.
Dirty Harry's Momon 07 Nov 2008 at 3:25 am 93Good grief–calling Africa a country is BAD…say again BAD for America. I am feeling generous this morning, so I will not say that Sarah Palin is an idiot, but she never was and never will be qualified to be anything but mayor of Wasilla, which she left in substantial debt, etc., etc.
You are absolutely right about the terrible McCain campaign and the decision, Palin, which must have been among the top three reasons (his own behavior and that of his supporters being the other two) that cost him the election. Republicans have no one to blame but themselves.
Buck Turgidsonon 07 Nov 2008 at 5:13 am 94DHM:
Do you harbor any skepticism at all about the veracity of this report? If you swallow it hook, line and sinker, it would seem that you do so out of spite, not an admirable quality. It is inconceivable that any sentient person with a second grade education would not know Africa is a continent. If someone said this about Dan Quayle or Nancy Pelosi (who makes Quayle look like Einstein), would you believe it? I wouldn’t. If the report were about Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, both of whom I find disgusting and vapid, and have no desire to defend, I wouldn’t believe it. It borders on impossible for anyone without a diagnosis of mental retardation or dementia not to know that Africa is a continent. The backbiters and syndicators of the McCain campaign would have been smart to make their accusations a little less outrageous. As it is, they’ve only discredited themselves, just as those who swallow this obviously bogus report do.
Have a good day.
USS Benon 07 Nov 2008 at 5:15 am 95Carl Cameron is a weaselly hyena who loves to spread unsubstantiated rumors given by an untrustworthy campaign staffer.
Unlike idiot Leftists I’m not about to believe this BS without evidence.
Of course, Leftists don’t care about the truth, obviously, and will be glad to spread smears about a great Lady that they know they’ll never measure up to, because that makes them feel better about their own sorry lives.
Yep. Envy in action, folks.
Proof once again that Leftists and the MSM (but I repeat myself) have no integrity or honor.
Have fun waitin’ for your free gas and mortgage payments you leeches.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 07 Nov 2008 at 5:18 am 96Well DHM, I heard from a source that wishes to remain anonymous that you didn’t know a dog from a cat.
That’s as much verification as you will get from reporters on Palin. And since you believe what you read about Palin, people are free to believe you aren’t smart enough to know the difference between a dog and a cat.
Gee, this is going to be fun for the next four years. Anything we can report from anonymous sources about Obama will be taken as the truth about liberals.
After all, liberals are not hypocritical enough to believe things about conservatives but not about other liberals are they?
Buck Turgidsonon 07 Nov 2008 at 5:25 am 97Oh, DHM, as for the behavior of McCain’s supporters costing him the election, I agree. McCain’s supporters didn’t submit hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations, did not kick poll watchers out of polling places, did not intimidate voters, voted only once, and voted only while actually alive. And the McCain campaign, in a stunning misstep, kept all the security features on its internet credit card processing page activated, thus losing the chance to raise millions in foreign donations and above-the-limit domestic ones, unlike McCain’s more savvy rival. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/021949.php
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20081024_9865.php
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20081031_4109.php
McCain also failed to renege on his pledge to accept public funding of his campaign, unlike his his more ethically creative opponent.
beartoothon 07 Nov 2008 at 6:10 am 98>Good grief–calling Africa a country is BAD…say again BAD for America.
And saying *President* Roosevelt addressed the country through *TV* in 1929 is GOOD … say again GOOD for America ? Campaigning in 57 states is GOOD … say again GOOD for America ? Believing US troops liberated Auschwitz is GOOD … [etc.] ?
Only differences of note are (i) she’s a Republican; (ii) we don’t know for absolutely certain that she even made the comment, whereas there’s no doubts about my examples.
Congratulations to everyone reading this who has never said something slightly foolish by accident.
OldSchoolMatton 07 Nov 2008 at 6:49 am 99“It is inconceivable that any sentient person with a second grade education would not know Africa is a continent.”
What, you’ve never seen ‘Jaywalking’ on The Tonight Show? I learned long ago never to be surprised by the ignorance of the average person.
Buck Turgidsonon 07 Nov 2008 at 7:13 am 100OldSchoolMatt,
Whatever your dislike of Palin, she is not an average person. And I doubt you’d see many average people on “Jaywalking” unfamiliar with the continent of Africa.
Stephanieon 07 Nov 2008 at 7:31 am 101Little warning..I was listening to the Mike Church show on Sirius on the way back from Starbucks and a guy at Ft. Reilly Kansas called. He had just gotten back from Iraq with his unit. He had taken a sample of what people thought of DHM’s new savior. Guess what DHM our military is scared….how do you like that? I would think twice about loving Obama. You people really screwed me and countless hundreds of thousands of your fellow country men and women over on Tuesday……you really did and I know I won’t forgive, ever. If anything happens to my husband I know who to blame.
Jack Marinoon 07 Nov 2008 at 8:08 am 102DHM, why didn’t you comment on your GOD Obama’s comments and Biden’s
How about Obama saying he is campaigning in 57 states and this his uncle an American GI liberated Auschwitz in Poland.
Then Biden said FDR was on TV in 1929 talking to Americans about the Depression. Why is it you Dems can get away with murder and Republicans say one slip of the tongue and its a war crime.
You mad dogs are nuts and the quicker your insane leaders drive this country into the ground the quicker we can fire all of them and make sure they never get near power again.
Palin isn’t going away, and you mad dogs will not turn her into a Dan Quale, she knows how to motive people and without the Democratic media in their pocket and the voter fraud, Obama wouldn’t have won, but that is OK. As the year goes on we will find out what really took place while Obama is being bullied by the Russians, North Koreans and Hamas. Maybe you can go to the White House and sing Kumbaya was we are attacked again. That will stop America’s enemies
Stephanieon 07 Nov 2008 at 8:21 am 103Amen Jack. Amen.
Stephanieon 07 Nov 2008 at 8:32 am 104Here is my thing and the leftists here are proving me right. David Horowitz, once said the left is mentally ill. Its a disease that infects all of them. The gloating, the bullying the rage, its all there. They are so empty, so devoid of humanity and soul that anything they can cling to, lncluding and empty vessal such as Obama they will use and they fill him up all the hopes and dreams they have. Its fascinating tehir sense of powerlessness, victimhood, all the while they bully (Joe Lieberman being tarred and feathered for not being part of THEIR TEAM is a fine example), and threaten. But all of this masks their insecuritys. Obama masks his in inadequacies. Ever see it? He hides it but if you look at his eyes, its there, veiled. He isn’t an actor and he can barely contain the smallness of himself. He has propped himself on a pedestal made entirely of sand. Thats what all this worship is.
He makes these empty promises and he has to know he can’t keep them. HAS TO. He says he wants to come together, yet he hires teh biggest thug in the Dem House Caucus Rahm Emmanual as his Chief of Staff. Would any of us believe a word of that if Emmanual who said and I quote the GOP can go f itself, was asking us for help or understanding? No. Hell no. Now this is just distorted. Its not the man he says he is because of his own actions. And yet people like DHM, deluded by useless words and empty hope don’t see that. I really think we are seeing a huge wave of sociopathy rippling through the country. Sure some people wanted change and were pissed at W and too stupid to see the forest for the trees, but, the real hard core Obamunists are some sick people.
They want a savior but they embrace this teeny, tiny man with no idea of who he is. I am sure when everything goes to hell in a hand basket and people lose their jobs, their homes, their cars, their pensions that most will surely realize how completely dumb they were. However the real diehards won’t. Why because like Obama they are deluded, and unstable. Most people like Obama are sociopaths. Emmanual is a sociopath as well. And the freaks are running the asylum now. Good job DHM and others. When the poo hits the fan guess who is gonna get the blame and no you won’t talk yourselves out of it. It will be at your feet.
rrpjron 07 Nov 2008 at 8:54 am 105The Left won’t discuss Elaine Lafferty’s profile of Palin because it busts the sacred “narrative” of Palin as rightwing redneck. A liberal woman admiring Sarah Palin’s thought process and accomplishments? Can’t have that. Very dangerous. The leftist fear of an actual discourse in which facts might emerge (and a person’s humanity along with it, God forbid) to challenge one of their “narratives” is raging and bottomless.
OldSchoolMatton 07 Nov 2008 at 10:21 am 106“Whatever your dislike of Palin, she is not an average person. And I doubt you’d see many average people on “Jaywalking” unfamiliar with the continent of Africa.”
HA! Watch more Jaywalking. They think way stupider stuff than that.
Aside from getting elected to governor of a state whose electorate very recently showed that it’s pretty much impossible to be too terrible to get (re)elected, there’s not much about her that stands out as extraordinary. She clearly didn’t excel in school, she underperformed every time she was taken out of a scripted situation in this campaign…she’s not exactly a leading light of conservative thought.
Look, I’m not saying the Africa thing is true. But the fact that it’s even a question, that a respected reporter could go on TV and say that with a straight face? Does not reflect well on her.
Mashaon 07 Nov 2008 at 10:40 am 107OSM - That’s because it fits the “Palin is Stupid” template, duh. They can’t get enough of that kind of stories.
CNN is now reporting that the allegations are false and shaming the McCain campaign for not defending her. It’s a sad day when we have to rely on CNN to defend our own.
Mashaon 07 Nov 2008 at 10:41 am 108So it’s not Nicole Wallace. Still think it’s a chick.
Mashaon 07 Nov 2008 at 10:42 am 109Sorry I meant a cat.
Stephanieon 07 Nov 2008 at 10:56 am 110Oldschoolmatt will you please take your drivel to Kos. Your foul words are quite sickening. Now throw me in a gulag for telling you what I think of you….bully.
Buck Turgidsonon 07 Nov 2008 at 11:10 am 111“Look, I’m not saying the Africa thing is true. But the fact that it’s even a question, that a respected reporter could go on TV and say that with a straight face? Does not reflect well on her.”
In other words, it could be totally false but the fact that someone is saying it shows her to be as stupid is if it were true. Nice logic. Don’t ever think of running for office. You’ll become a bigger target than anyone if you keep it up with such non-sequiturs.
Mashaon 07 Nov 2008 at 11:11 am 112OR…he just might win LOL.
OldSchoolMatton 07 Nov 2008 at 11:25 am 113“That’s because it fits the “Palin is Stupid” template, duh. They can’t get enough of that kind of stories.”
Right, but that template didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a direct result of her disastrous interviews with Gibson and Couric. And that template is so ingrained that stories like this seem plausible, which they wouldn’t for other politicians.
Which, Buck, is the point I tried to make above.
Greg Cableon 07 Nov 2008 at 1:01 pm 114There’s a four-part twenty-five-minute interview with Sarah from yesterday’s Bob & Mark radio show in Alaska at http://www.bobandmark.com/taxonomy/term/2. It’s wonderful to hear her speak about the campaign and McCain and her future and, especially, the “flippin’ bizarre” stuff coming out now (Africa, the towel, the wardrobe). There’s even a lovely chat with one of her Alaskan antagonists. Please give a listen. For most here (yes, I’m excluding Big Mama and The Bilious Trolls), the interview is an opportunity to fall in love all over again. (I hope that doesn’t sound too Barackish.)
T.S.Benchon 07 Nov 2008 at 1:49 pm 115……Right, but that template didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a direct result of her disastrous interviews with Gibson and Couric. And that template is so ingrained that stories like this seem plausible, which they wouldn’t for other politicians…..
But neither of those interviews showed her to be stupid, only nervous and unprepared for what was obviously going to be hatchet jobs. I could have done a better job of rolling her out, and for a lot less than they probably paid Nicole Wallace.
It actually shows her staff to be stupid, not her, for setting these up right out of the box. Those same staffers are now trying to cover up the tracks of their own ineptitude, evidently in search of their next jobs, but you don’t find it plausible that maybe they’re the ones who aren’t exactly telling the unvarnished truth.
Interestingly, Joe Biden’s 35 year record of being wrong on just about every important issue that mattered, having a direct hand in sucking whatever civility was left out of American politics, and screwing up just about every public utterance, wasn’t a sign of ’stupidity’, it was a sign of ‘experience.’
Regards,
TSB
wfon 07 Nov 2008 at 2:24 pm 116OldSchoolMatt,
“but that template didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a direct result of her disastrous interviews with Gibson and Couric”
No, there is more. There was a palpable cultural hatred that required a witch burning. It had something to do with religion and abortion. No matter where you stand, there was nothing rational about this display of hatred and bigotry. Biden did much worse than Palin and more than a few times; the man delivers a stupid gaffe a day if you let him. Biden is clearly NOT fit to be president. Yet no one cared.
And for all the hysteria we STILL do not know the real story: in the words of Victor David Hanson “how a mother of so many children gets elected councilwoman, mayor, and governor, routs an entrenched old-boy cadre, while maintaining near record levels of public support.”
Buck Turgidsonon 07 Nov 2008 at 4:28 pm 117OldSchoolMatt:
As for the “disastrous” Gibson interview, who comes across as stupid on this exchange when given complete context?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hpwM4Jjyrs
Jack Marinoon 07 Nov 2008 at 7:01 pm 118remember Palin has never been in the public eye on a national level. She was plucked from up north and thrown into our living rooms at the same time. She handle herself a lot better then half these life long boobs we call politicians. She was out there over 90 days and she kicked butt. If they had left her alone and be herself with Charlie and Couric those interview would have been fanstatic. I thought she did great everytime she spoke. The liberals have no idea how to hurt her and destroy her from day one. They sent over 400 people up to Alaska to find dirt and they found nothing… NOTHING. Her X brother in law proved to be a jack off .
Now, they say McCain’s people are attacking her ,when later today it came out that it is an outside group saying all this stuff about her about behind the scenes. Steponallofus mentioned this the night before the election. THis is democrats saying this crap to cripple Palin for 2012, because today one of the polls said, that if Palin was running on the top of the ticket, she would win. Now this is after 90 days and all this leftist heat the goons are throwing at her.
What the hell is she going to be like after 4 years all over the country and learning all about what goes on in Washington. She has Newt to teach her the ropes.
The entire DEMOCRATIC FASCIST MACHINE IS SCARED SHITLESS OF THIS HOUSEWIFE
Major Grahamon 07 Nov 2008 at 10:00 pm 119Just to add my two cents based on something Stephanie said. Yes - the military is very concerned about our soon to be commander-in-chief. Man, I can’t believe I just typed that. 70% of us voted for the other guy. The only “hope” we have is that he doesn’t lose the war in Afghanistan by doing something stupid. Iraq is pretty much done - thanks to Bush and Petraeus. As soldiers we will always respect the office of the presidency and obey the occupant’s lawful orders. But he has to earn our respect for him as a man. Something he will have to work very hard at.
Major Grahamon 07 Nov 2008 at 10:07 pm 120Oldschooltool - about your comments that Sarah is a joke.
91% of Republicans have a favorable view of her according to Rasmussen. 70% say she was a huge benefit to the ticket. Right now 64% want her as the next presidential pick. The next highest is 14% for Huckabee. She isn’t going away. She is too big for Alaska now. Not saying she isn’t going to stay in as governor. But there are some very interesting parallels between her situation right now and Ronald Reagan’s in 1976.
It must really drive you guys nuts that she has gotten more press the past couple of days than teh one. And hey, that genius screwed up his FIRST press conference and had to call and apologize to Nancy Reagan. Yeah, real start for the lil’ messiah.
I really hope the Republicans have her give every single Republican response to his State of the Union addresses for the next few years. She is going to grow bigger in office while your empty suit will continue to shrink. Just desserts baby - taste them.