Sure, Sarah knows how to play the game
She's just not very good at it.
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Mostly politics, a few current events, a squirt of seltzer down yer pants .. a little blog for my rambles and rants.
2009/2/20
2008/11/13
"Boxers, Briefs or Silks?"
Here's New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on the latest Palin nonsense. The entire column is good but I have to share this little bit:
"Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, told The Associated Press over the weekend that his daughter was “frantically” trying to sort out the clothes she got as Eliza Knowlittle so she could send them back.
“You know,” Heath said, “the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for.”
As Michael Shear reported in The Washington Post, on top of the $150,000 first cited in F.E.C. filings, Palin spent “tens of thousands of dollars” on more clothes, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for the First Dude. The campaign was charged for silk boxers, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry the designer duds, Shear reported, adding that one source said, “She was still receiving shipments of custom-designed underpinnings up to her ‘Saturday Night Live’ performance” in October. Silk boxers and custom-designed underpinnings? Sounds like Sarah and Todd were treating the vice presidential run as a second honeymoon.
Palin should follow her own reformer precedent and put the borrowed underpinnings on eBay. The windfall would undergird her new presidential bid."
2008/11/12
Dems4Palin!
I can hardly wait for more Mavericky-ness.
Wow, you'd be hard pressed to find a more oblivious and self-centered politician than Gov. Sarah Palin right now. She still thinks the election was all about her. You can't turn on TV without seeing her cooking fish for Matt Lauer, or moose chili for Greta Van Susteren...and CNN has her scheduled for The Larry King Show and Wolf Blitzer's “The Situation Room.”
No telling where else she'll turn up before grabbing the spotlight at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami on Thursday. Maybe Rachel Ray...but I'd bet not Oprah.
She's telling everyone that those leaks about whether she thought Africa was a country or a continent were all lies told by "jerks." But we learn that one of the leaks about her turned out to be true...she told Matt Lauer on the “Today” show that she arrived in Phoenix on election night ready to deliver her own concession speech. She said it was a really great speech.
She told Greta that most of her media criticism came from liberal bloggers who were in their parents’ basement "just talkin’ garbage."
Just for the record, I live in Oklahoma, don't have a basement and my parents are dead. Instead of just talkin' garbage, I actually think that most of us liberal bloggers were focused on Palin's breathtaking lack of qualifications to be the VP, and how that reflected on the judgment of John McCain.
Besides, all of the post-election trash talking about Palin came from the people within the McCain campaign. We bloggers only repeated it.
But she's certainly entitled to whatever rationalization she can come up with for why they lost...as she continues to make a right spectacle of herself with her shameless self-promotion.
So many important Republicans have publicly said that Palin was toxic for McCain's campaign. Is she so blinded by her own inflated ego that she can't see that? Does she really think she can turn them around now with her peppy folksy-ness?
The Republicans were mauled in this election mostly because this country didn't buy whatever it was she was selling...especially the hate politics.
BTW -- how long will we have to wait for Ms. Palin to acknowledge that the president-elect is not a terrorist, nor a socialist, nor treasonous, nor a Muslim? Too bad that what she views as "just politics" is seen by a staggering number of her followers as gospel truth.
I was concerned that the frenzied atmosphere at the Palin rallies would encourage some nut to do something violent toward Obama. There's a report in Newsweek about how the Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October.
Ah well...let's hope the Republicans try for an extreme make-over on Sarah Palin and DO try to run her. Her backward views will hand Democrats a victory in 2012...probably turning much of the lower 48 blue.
See, "real" America is not only small towns as far away from the coasts as possible, just as "real" Americans are not just those who did not finish high school, hunt elk, and talk in tongues in church every Sunday.
If Republicans are serious about becoming a large (and serious) party again, they will have to build a bigger tent...and this is not possible with Palin at the helm.
Want more? Here's a good article called: "Palin hopes God will 'show her the door' to the White House"
UPDATE: It seems that the guy who identified himself as an "adviser" to McCain, and the source of the story about Gov. Palin thinking Africa was a country instead of a continet, is a hoax.
Please don't be confused -- the guy is a hoax, not the story. Fox's story still stands, just the guy who said he was the one who started it is a fake.
From Yahoo news:
"NEW YORK – MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
[T]he hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.[..]"
2008/11/6
The latest dish on Palin
C'mon, you know you want to hear it.
About her being clueless enough to believe that Africa was a country and not a continent?
About how she threw temper tantrums...and showed up wearing only a towel for a campaign meeting?
About how Wasilla's first family of grifters struck the lower-forty-eights finest fashion stores?
Gee, all the votes weren't even counted before all the pent up resentment and rage from McCain staffers toward Sarah Palin started to explode.
For starters, here is John McCain's private opinion of Palin, as reported by the Guardian:
"An exasperated McCain has been telling friends in recent weeks that Palin is even more trouble than a pitbull. In one joke doing the rounds, the Republican presidential candidate has been asking friends: what is the difference between Sarah Palin and a pitbull? The friendly canine eventually lets go, is the McCain punchline."
Then Newsweek reports the McCain campaign's take on Palin's clothing extravaganza:
"Newsweek has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy.....An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books."
Here is a video of Fox's Carl Cameron telling Shep Smith how "McCain staffers" complained that Palin is not just a moron, but a bad-tempered moron:
"There was great concern in the McCain campaign that Sarah Palin lacked the degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, and a heartbeat away from the presidency.
We're told by folks that she didn't know what countries were in NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, that being Canada, the US, and Mexico.
We're told that she didn't understand that Africa was a continent rather than a country just in itself. A whole host of questions that caused serious problems about her knowledgeability.
She got very angry at staff, thought that she was mishandled, was particularly angry about the way the Katie Couric interview went. She didn't accept preparation for that interview when the aides say that that was part of the problem. And that there were times where she was hard to control emotionally. There's talk of temper tantrums at bad news clippings."
Shep Smith asked: "How could they end up with a running mate who doesn't know that Africa is a continent?" Cameron explains that the vetting process "was truncated."
Just think -- this GOP comedy act got nearly half the votes. How is that possible?
It says way more about the ruthlessness of McCain and his campaign advisors than it says about Palin. She will descend back into obscurity, to become a trivia question -- What politician claimed she had foreign policy expertise because she could see Russia from her house?
Lest we forget -- the chief cheerleaders urging McCain to pick Palin were neo-con columnist William Kristol and gasbag talk show host Rush Limbaugh, the GOP’s more radical wingnuts...who have the attitude that GOP moderates (the few that remain), can go hang.
Well, guess who's now twisting slowly, slowly in the wind ...
2008/9/19
Well, what did you expect? She's used to speaking in "tongues"
Listening to Sarah Palin speak without a TelePrompter is like listening to George Bush try to speak Inuit.
A couple of days ago Palin was at a friendly town hall meeting and gave an interesting answer about...well, I'm not sure what it's about. But it has something to do with energy:
"Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvUsdmqGYV8
Make sure to click on the video to see the whole thing. It's fun seeing Wolf Blitzer puzzled.
She sounds very much like a student who crammed all night and now has everything all mixed up. I think she's saying that we're going to plant our flag on molecular fungi and hold back bags of it so it doesn't get exported except according to the bans we allow or don't allow to feed our hungry by degrees...oh, I give up.
Hey, maybe that's her debate strategy -- make every answer so completely incoherent that Joe Biden's head explodes.
We can mock her all we want...but those who see her as a Mommy who'll save all the unborn babies, those who see her as a Hot Mama, those who'll vote with the reptilian brain, are going to give her a 50 percent chance of being our President.
