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September 01, 2008

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What'll it be today? Bikini pictures? Fake pregnancy? Secret Jew? Nazi sympathizer?

(Secret-Jew Nazi sympathizer?)

This Palin thing is crazy on a lot of levels. The sheer level of hatred directed at this bright, sweet, talented woman by the left is almost unprecedented.

And the right's embrace of her, and interest in her, is almost as remarkable. I liked her from the day I heard her speak. Would have joined the "Draft Palin" bandwagon if I had any idea at all it was even possible.

How big is Palinmania? It's a phenomenon. I don't know how widespread this is, but if you ask bloggers, I suspect they'll tell you (on both right and left, and jackoffs who pretend to be "moderate" but are on the left like "Moderate Voice") that internet traffic is not merely record-breaking, it's record-shattering.

This kinda-disposable vid of Palin talking about the governor's mansion and her jogging routine will I suspect, get crushed with traffic. Why? I don't know. But I'll tell you what -- I watched it for no particularly good reason. I knew the one bit of "news" in it (the Israeli flag thing, which I'd already linked at David Ross' site) but I didn't care. Watched it anyway, knowing it would be news-free.

Biggest traffic day of this site's history? Friday. Ninety thousand plus uniques. Previous record? Somewhere around 55,000, during the Fautography feeding frenzy; maybe I hit that level a couple of other times.

Biggest traffic weekend in this site's history? This Labor Day three-day weekend. Three day holiday weekends are always bad for traffic.

This weekend I'm breaking previous records on weekend days, except for Friday's new record. I think Saturday was almost seventy thousand, and yesterday was sixty-three thousand. Typical good weekend day: 20 or 22 thousand. Frequently less.

Typical good numbers for hits in an hour during a weekday? 3,500. It's what I'm usually hoping for (and very often disappointed to not get; a lot of times traffic clocks in a 2600 per hour even during peak hours).

Now, on a weekend? I'm disappointed when the hourly hits fall below 6000.

I've been doing this for four and a half years now (going on five, I think). I've just never seen anything like this, ever.

To say the base (and the opposition) is "energized" is like saying Power Glutes Andy is "rather fond" of milky loads.

Posted by: Ace at 11:48 AM | Comments (86)
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1 How did this pile of bricks get behind me?

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 01, 2008 11:52 AM (PDeVA)

2 I vote for "Todd Palin nude photos" for the google search - that will bring in teh ghey to read about Milky Loads,

Posted by: Jim62sch at September 01, 2008 11:52 AM (ubHgw)

3 I can't get enough Palin. It is like link crack. I was supposed to be reading my library books, not surfing like a fiend. I am pretty pissed off at the left, and I can't wait to vote for McCain/Palin.
Can not wait!

I guess you binge when you have gone without hope for an actual conservative candidate that wants to fight corruption to come along on a Presidential ticket.

Exciting.

Posted by: Stormy70 at September 01, 2008 11:52 AM (Y+o71)

4 What do you expect from a bunch of loony unhinged libtards on the brink of dealing with 12 more years of a Republican in the whitehouse, 8 of which will be the first female president.

Their heads will explode. They better use the duct tape they saved for chipmunks and wrap their heads.

Posted by: BillyBob at September 01, 2008 11:58 AM (v9vTw)

5 When I want to punish my two brats, I go tell them to have sex and get pregnant. That's the enlightened, reality-based, progressive way. Excuse me now, but I have to go shopping for $600 earrings.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at September 01, 2008 12:00 PM (AZGON)

6 I am totally fired up by this...I contributed to the McCain/Palin campaign (I was going to hold me nose and vote for McC but I wasn't going to fork over my money to him). I feel a lot better because of this nomination and now I want to support it at least with some money, if not some time as well.

Posted by: Mr. Matamoros at September 01, 2008 12:01 PM (0rHy8)

7 Oh, the NRO folks seems to have heeded our advice about getting on board. There are now multiple laudatory Palin articles linked from their frontpage.

The right flank seems to be nailed down, along with at least some of the country-clubbers...time to get the libertarians back on board and we're on our way to rebuilding the Reagan coalition once again.

Posted by: Jim62sch at September 01, 2008 12:01 PM (ubHgw)

I think that Sarah Palin represents a politician that we all sort of idealized as young Reaganites.From the frontier, grounded, authentic (warts and all) inherently conservative, but not a prude.

I've known people men and women like her and they are just the type of antidote to what has passed for leadership in this country- snobbish, condesending egomaniacs (BO).

It's like she has stepped out of a time machine when this country was made of rugged individualism.

Posted by: jjshaka at September 01, 2008 12:02 PM (Rr/+R)

9 Ace -

Don't fool yourself - you're doing a lot to contribute to the increased traffic by putting up LOTS of LENGTHY posts. I tell ya, those posts where you collect some of the choicer insanity from the Nutroots are delicious morsels indeed. And Sullivan-bashing is always enjoyable fun, even when you use the wrong words and rhetorical tropes. (I stand by my belief that your arguments would be even MORE effective without them.)

But yeah...big news + lots of posts + lots of bile and filth being slung at our candidate = big traffic.

Posted by: Jeff B. at September 01, 2008 12:02 PM (BWTSB)

10 "Would have joined the "Draft Palin" bandwagon if I had any idea at all it was even possible."

I was on that bandwagon, but I really didn't actually think it'd amount to anything.

Posted by: How are you gentlemen at September 01, 2008 12:02 PM (qsGH+)

11 Cool Sarah Palin Fact #51: When you say "milky loads" to Sarah Palin, she thinks you're talking about trying to chamber dairy products into a firearm. Then she drops you with a roundhouse punch.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 01, 2008 12:05 PM (AZGON)

12 My wife thinks Palinmania will die down just as Obamania has. To a certain extent, she's right. But there's a huge difference between the two. Obama is a phoney; our Sarah is the real deal.

Posted by: Michael Laurence at September 01, 2008 12:06 PM (o10gU)

13 Just look how popular Palin is over at Digg:

http://img142.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-22369/loc939/03009_palinmania_at_digg2_122_939lo.JPG

Diggbats going crazy.

8 of the top 10 stories all related to Palin.

Posted by: gumble at September 01, 2008 12:06 PM (Dui72)

14 new theory:

Karl Rove and McBush new that since Sarah Palin was an unknown name in politics, they did what Paris Hilton's people did: create a scandal to make her (in)famous in a hurry. Instead of a sex tape (which might be on the way, wink wink), they got Sarah to have a Downs baby and had her 17 year old daughter get pregnant.

Now she's the talk-of-the-town and voila! she's a household name...just like Paris Hilton. Well done, Karl "the architect" Rove. Well done.

Posted by: stupid typical fucking moonbat at September 01, 2008 12:07 PM (eGRG+)

15 Plus your posts have been fucking awesome.

Posted by: Amused Observer at September 01, 2008 12:12 PM (Y2UKK)

16 I visit this site approximately 60,000 times each day.

Posted by: Molon Labe at September 01, 2008 12:13 PM (kYpqT)

17 Look at all that crazy blog money just rolling in.

And here's a good one for a chuckle from Mark Steyn over on The Corner: "When I heard Governor Palin had a bear hide in her office, I assumed it was Andrew Sullivan breaking in to hunt down the birth certificate."

Posted by: Andy at September 01, 2008 12:13 PM (iIvIk)

18 Rove is busy running the hurricane machine in his garage, so he probably delegated this task to one of his subordinates, like Dick Cheney.

Posted by: Z Ryan at September 01, 2008 12:14 PM (PDeVA)

19 Ace, I was visiting friends and family, and accessed AoS from two different computers. I might have slewed your 'unique visitors' count. Sorry about that. On the plus side, three new people saw AoS because of me,and atleast one found it hilarious.

Posted by: Tushar at September 01, 2008 12:14 PM (PTWes)

I just found this page. Funny what you find when you get on the web looking for sexy pictures of pregnant, Nazi-sympathizing Jewesses.

(It's my fetish, and secret shame. Please don't judge me for it!)

Posted by: Andrew X at September 01, 2008 12:14 PM (ne9bG)

21 I bet Palin can and will convince Mac to build the fence.

Posted by: eman at September 01, 2008 12:15 PM (SeMKR)

22 "Power Glutes Andy is "rather fond" of milky loads."

Both giving and receiving, don't forget!

Also, I'd like to cross-post this from the "Never Surrender" thread, if you don't mind:

"Andy Sullivans boss is James Bennet.

The switchboard number at The Atlantic is (202) 266-6000. If you spell Bennets last name in the directory youll get his voicemail."

That strikes me as a nice opportunity to calmly, politely and reasonably let Andrew's boss know how much you appreciate his efforts.

Posted by: Kensington at September 01, 2008 12:17 PM (xFNQx)

23 Hey Ace ya want I should call Johnny Salami to deal wit dis Dairy queen ?

Posted by: Frank Furter at September 01, 2008 12:17 PM (VkxlE)

24 Is it legal to hunt polar bears in Alaska? If so, is that the next "scandal"? Does Sarah have the ovaries to go hunting with Cheney?

Posted by: eman at September 01, 2008 12:18 PM (SeMKR)

25 my site? I didn't know I had a site anymore. I have various archaeological, biblical-text and D&D stuff going on but I quit the blog years ago....

Posted by: David Ross at September 01, 2008 12:19 PM (ThkMv)

26 ace, you have the Milky Loads personals, when are you going to post them?

Posted by: OregonMuse at September 01, 2008 12:20 PM (/GQkp)

27 What'll it be today? Bikini pictures? Fake pregnancy? Secret Jew? Nazi sympathizer?

My vote is for hot buttered moose nipples.

Posted by: OregonMuse at September 01, 2008 12:21 PM (/GQkp)

It's remarkable Ace, but I think it boils down to hope and fear. On the Republican side, hope we can win this, with a candidate who shares our values perhaps to a greater extent than McCain himself. We are not worried abou the inexperience factor - Johnny is the one we are electing to the big job, not Sarah, and his qualifications (career Navy man, lots of time in the Senate) have never been in doubt.

On the Democrat side, Obamamessiah and his backers/followers must be feeling like they have been outflanked. Now its the Republicans with the young, hip, appealing candidate. Perhaps the Demos are beginning to feel "a very human chill up their spine" as the narrator said in the movie "300". A fear that the Republicans might just beat them seems to be turning very quickly into rage - look how vicously they are going after Palin.

Posted by: BattleofthePyramids at September 01, 2008 12:22 PM (4w2qL)

29 The crowd at the RNC cheered louder for Palin and McCain during the roll call.

I don't think the leftards really understand what they've done.

Posted by: runninrebel at September 01, 2008 12:23 PM (qAMnO)

30 This Palin thing is crazy on a lot of levels. The sheer level of hatred directed at this bright, sweet, talented woman by the left is almost unprecedented.

You sure got that right. The garbage being put out there about Palin right now is way beyond what I can recall seeing before.

Again, I ask: why? What the hell about Palin has put the fear of Jesus into these
morons? The idiots at DU are acting like a bunch of mules turned loose into a field of
loco weed. We're talking foaming at the mouth insane.

But, for some reason, I'm smiling a lot lately. Somehow, I suspect I know why
they're all going insane, including Maximus Glutez.

Posted by: prairiemain at September 01, 2008 12:23 PM (uDqa7)

31 My stats went through the roof on Friday, too, pretty wild and crazy for my tiny blog. It was funny, because my electricity went out on Thurday night (during Obama's speech) due to a violent storm. It didn't come back on until Friday afternoon. I found out about the Palin VP pick in the car, and literally screamed with joy. When I saw my stats later that day, I was completely flabbergasted.

A normal day for me was between 2 and 3 thousandhits. On Friday it jumped to over 57,000, most of the hits going to my post from February talking up the Palin VP idea, with lots of pix.

My traffic is still high, (for me).

Posted by: Nice Deb at September 01, 2008 12:24 PM (4b22F)

32 re: 24:

The question is does Cheney have the stones to go hunting with Palin?

Hell, does ANYBODY?

Ferchrissakes, the women takes down caribou and moose!

Posted by: filbert at September 01, 2008 12:27 PM (GAGvW)

33 hey, c'mon you guys, cut it out! all of this milky load talk is getting me fabulously hawt, and all i have is this lousy beagle to sodomize. it's so unfair. but still hawt.

Posted by: andi sullivan (LGBT) at September 01, 2008 12:29 PM (AZGON)

34 I have been watching this election as a spectator, because I really didn't feel there was anything in it for me. Now, I am on fire and 100% in it. I think it is because conservatives have been so starved for leadership. The leftys wanted McCain to pick Lieberman or Ridge because they know it would not do a thing for him. It has nothing whatsoever to do with experience. (That one just keeps me laughing) The leftys are unhinged and deranged, because Sarah Palin gets people like me, who are clinging to their guns and bibles to feel like there is something in it for them.

Posted by: Julie at September 01, 2008 12:30 PM (HJm64)

35 Cool Sarah Palin Fact #26: When Barack Obama is asked about his greatest personal failing, he says it's failing to wrestle with a certain selfishness. When Sarah Palin is asked about her greatest personal failing, it's failing to wrestle a Kodiak bear and win... in less than 30 seconds.

Posted by: George Orwell at September 01, 2008 12:34 PM (AZGON)

36 All the chumps who are trashing her may just be setting her up to succeed. None of them know enough about her to have a serious opinion so they try and bullshit and say she is a gaffe machine or a ditz or a hick...

All she has to do now is calmly go about her business. Even if you do not really like the pick you can enjoy it vicariously because most of the women who have been counted out before they even had a chance to show people what they had to offer are going to be happy if Palin is treated badly, smiles back at them and then does her thing.

Posted by: bleh at September 01, 2008 12:34 PM (GNCy6)

I was at the Alaska state fair yesterday in Palmer (right next door to Wasilla), and stopped by the Alaskan Republican booth looking for Palin stickers. The women their said they had none, they all disappeared within hours of them having them printed up.

Having seen quite a few interviews with Governor Palin, I think the McCain campaign just needs to turn her loose on to the media. She can certainly handle her own, and the more exposure she gets, the more successful she will be.

I knew she was going to be the first female POTUS months ago.

I certainly hope that O'Reilly highlights the Internet smears on his next show.

Signed a former democrat in Alaska

p.s. I am waiting for a backlash against the lower 48 in Alaska from all the condescension being displayed against us.

Posted by: rory @ parentalcation at September 01, 2008 12:37 PM (oHKHf)

38 I'm one of the palinmaniacs.

I found out about Sarah before the DNC convention, thought it would be a long shot, but...after following palinforvp.blogspot.com from Thursday on, I've been GLUED to LGF, this blog, hotair, others.

I also donated, for the first time ever, to a political party.

Johnnymac running his campaign with military precision is an amazing thing to witness. Socialist hack advisors like "austan goolsbee" (WTF kind of name is that, anyway?) are nothing but lead in Obama bin Biden's leaky vessel.

Sally forth...

Posted by: kal at September 01, 2008 12:39 PM (bCB0z)

39 <I>My wife thinks Palinmania will die down just as Obamania has.</I>

Obamamania is dying down because people have discovered that he is emptier than Sullivan's head and are quietly moving away from him.

Palinmania will die down because people will discover just what a great person she is and will quietly join her team.

He offers empty rhetoric, she offers assurance.

Posted by: Rafer at September 01, 2008 12:40 PM (9v34C)

40 Whoops on teh italicy thingie.

Posted by: Rafer at September 01, 2008 12:41 PM (9v34C)

41 >>>A normal day for me was between 2 and 3 thousandhits. On Friday it jumped to over 57,000, most of the hits going to my post from February talking up the Palin VP idea, with lots of pix.

Wow, that is a frickin' spike!!!

Posted by: ace at September 01, 2008 12:41 PM (1WR4H)

42 The question is does Cheney have the stones to go hunting with Palin?

I fully expect a self-deprecating hunting joke from Cheney to Palin during this convention.

And I'm so energized by this pick I'm actually dreaming about Palin, and no not that way you pervs.

I'm also going down to my local republican headquarters tomorrow to volunteer for the first time ever.

Posted by: nightwitch at September 01, 2008 12:42 PM (dfTf5)

43 I was hoping for Governor Palin to be chosen but did not believe it would happen. I'm only in my twenties but I think I now have an idea what it was like when Reagan first came on to the national stage. I made this video in tribute to Sarah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quvBbcFDPI0

Posted by: Lance Brown at September 01, 2008 12:43 PM (fTUiv)

44 Andrew's not kidding, guys. Really. Seriously.

Help.

Posted by: Sullivan's Beagle at September 01, 2008 12:43 PM (xFNQx)

45 Whoever said that the libs are going batshit crazy was right on the money; I haven't seen this much rabid hate and frothing, seething insanity since Bush won in 2004. "Madness" just isn't a proper descriptor.

Fun Fact #65 about Palin: She once punched a hole in a caribou just to see what was on the other side.

Posted by: Jajos, FL at September 01, 2008 12:44 PM (9v34C)

46 Another first-time donor to a political campaign...the day that I heard that Palin was the VP candidate, we sent $250. I had a tepid to warm liking for McCain before, and now I wish I could vote as many times as the average Chicago graveyard inhabitant.

For me, it's the idea that she is NOT a part of the perpetually-political class. I think that the Republicans should run an ad showing the percentage of Obama and Biden's adult life spent in political office, and compare that to McCain and Palin. Palin strikes me one of the few politicians who didn't aspire to be a part of the overlord class and simply went into politics because she thought she could make a difference at whatever level. For Obama, I have a sense that he has cared about political jobs pretty much insofar as these could advance him into further, higher-ranking positions.

And, frankly, I WANT to have candidates with experiences outside of trust-fund/think-tank/political-organizer jobs. Unlike Obama and Biden, I think that Palin (and McCain!) would rather skin a moose than a taxpayer.

Posted by: philosoph0123 at September 01, 2008 12:50 PM (1Uajr)

47 However misguided their thinking may be, normal human beings tend to recoil from insane hatred. Women will sympathize with her, men will want to protect her, and large numbers of the insane, hate filled, leftist media will have revealed more of their true colors to the largely normal American public. Sarah Palin may not need sympathy or protection, but I am pretty sure she won't turn down the votes they bring.

Posted by: Lightbringer at September 01, 2008 12:50 PM (5Ym7Z)

48 The left and the right can agree on one thing: This woman could really mess up the coronation.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at September 01, 2008 12:54 PM (NV3P1)

Wow, that is a frickin' spike!!!

No shit. I can hardly believe it. I've picked up some new commenters, too. I've got my own Spurwing Plover, now.....somebody that goes by the name, "Zorilla".

Posted by: Nice Deb at September 01, 2008 12:55 PM (4b22F)

50 Cindy McCain on the tube talking now...damn, I know this is superficial, but she out-hawts Michele Obama by about 10 to 1.

That's not racist, by the way - I'm just as susceptible to jungle fever as the next guy.

Posted by: Jim62sch at September 01, 2008 01:00 PM (ubHgw)

51 It couldn't happen to a nicer moron. Congratulations from South Florida.

Posted by: dr kill at September 01, 2008 01:00 PM (JWAjn)

Jim62sch-

That was hard not to notice- she cleans up pretty well.

Posted by: jjshaka at September 01, 2008 01:03 PM (Rr/+R)

53 Thank you Lance for a great video. The State of Alaska is full of the most majestically beautiful scenery in the world, and now the State has given the rest of us a great woman to be part of the McCain Palin ticket - wow. I was struck by the images of the polar bears that you used - don't they look cute! Let's draw a little analogy with them though. They are extremely dangerous (especially when protecting their young!), I have seen a location where one had carved through 18 inches of solid ice to get to food when I was in the high arctic once. On that same trip, I learned, when leaving the sleeping huts, to always check the "wing mirrors" outside the door to the hut for polar bears - they had been known to hide outside the door, out of sight, to take down the unwary worker leaving the hut. In short, yeah, they look cute and cuddly, but they are extremely dangerous and tough. Like someone else we are all coming to know!

Posted by: Wilf Nixon at September 01, 2008 01:06 PM (aSL7x)

54 I am not that surprised by the uptick. The appeal is similar to Obama's on one level and that is because the reason the great unwashed really doesn't pay much attention or care about politics and policy because we have an almost totally professional class of politicians on the state and federal level. I know it's cynical but it's true, they really do not pay that much attention to the average Joe or Jane. Obama captured that but has been shown to be the quintessential pro pol. Gov Palin isn't and each new "knock" on her makes her more average, and more appealing. On one level she is Carter in 76 but opposite in politics. If she were to run as president and be elected it would be as big a disaster. This is the exactly best scenario. If she isn't corrupted in the next 8 years she could easily be a Reagan. Yeah, that garners interest. Unfortunately it also probably explains alot of Milky Loads', KOS and DU's behavior, they want the same hits too. But based on her performance in her first speech with Mccain I will take that chance, I think an awful lot of people are thinking the same thing.

Posted by: Rocks at September 01, 2008 01:06 PM (7rbe9)

55 Looks like someone's going for the Rick Brookhiser Paleo-Con Sexism award, but this time it's courtesy of Wlady over that the <a href="http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=14421">American Spectator</a> blog:

<i>

Of course, I suspect Obama knows the common sense of the American people will lead many to wonder why in the world Sarah Palin accepted the vice-presidential offer in such circumstances...

Game, set, match, election.
</i>

*Sniff* do you smell that? Kinda like sexist condescension, but with the stink of defeatism mixed in...

Posted by: Gran at September 01, 2008 01:21 PM (mTWN+)

56 My tags have failed me!

I'll try again:

Link to Wlady's post here

Posted by: Gran at September 01, 2008 01:23 PM (mTWN+)

57 "If she were to run as president and be elected it would be as big a disaster."

Um, why is that?

Posted by: JB at September 01, 2008 01:23 PM (qxc7J)

58 Does Sarah have the ovaries to go hunting with Cheney?

Sarah Palin hunts quail with #4 buckshot, not those pissy little-girl birdshot loads. After all, you never know when a lawyer might drop by...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at September 01, 2008 01:23 PM (e+exz)

59 Yeah, you got 90,000 hits. But over half of those were people looking for Palin Bikini shots.

Posted by: Arthur at September 01, 2008 01:28 PM (DoIJz)

60 JB, I meant if she ran now as opposed to in a few years. Why? Because her ideas and policies could be easily dismissed by the Washington establishment. She would just be ignored. Carter was a terrible president but he could have been an average one if Kennedy et al didn't hate him. Both would face not just the opposition but a significant part of their own party as opponents. With 8 years, or at least 4, as VP she would have clout along with authenticity.

Posted by: Rocks at September 01, 2008 01:38 PM (7rbe9)

61 would rather skin a moose than a taxpayer.

This should be McCain/Palin's new slogan.

Posted by: nightwitch at September 01, 2008 01:42 PM (dfTf5)

62
It was a brilliant pick by McCain. She will be the ticket to success. She will transform the Republican Party. It will once again be hip and stylish to be a Republican.

Posted by: Tommy O at September 01, 2008 01:48 PM (CDnfq)

Oh, Ace, it's because we're all having so much fun!! Major, major gossip and lots of rumors and innuendo -- COOL!! And it keeps changing, so we have to keep checking with you to see if there's something we missed while we were checking everything else.

I hope your site can handle all the traffic, bec. I think it's going to be this way all the way up and including and after the election -- in other words, no end in sight. I think it's great.

Posted by: Kay at September 01, 2008 01:48 PM (jQJYv)

64 Rocks, Carter was a pussy. A better comparison is W. before he allowed the left to wear him down.

Posted by: JB at September 01, 2008 01:54 PM (qxc7J)

65 #62. We have a generation of "Rush babies". A generation of "Palin girls" would be something.

Posted by: JB at September 01, 2008 01:57 PM (qxc7J)

66 The wet cheesy stink of left wing fear is everywhere. Heh.

Posted by: BL@KBIRD at September 01, 2008 02:05 PM (k43/k)

67 That video made me a little sad. First of all, because Palin was sort of the Moron's little secret, since we first saw her in that Craig Fergussen clip. That's all gone now, and she belongs to the world, and maybe history. And it would have been cool to do what that guy did and just drop by the governor's house, but that will never be possible again. For one thing, she's no longer there, and for another, either she (if McCain loses) or her successor (if McCain wins) will probably have to have real security going forward. Some of that small town goodness will be gone forever.

Posted by: lmg at September 01, 2008 02:31 PM (A/vgC)

68 Stormy70: So glad to see your post and find out I'm not the only link-crack addict out there! I've spent more time on the Net since noon on Friday than I have in the last three months! Today I'm paying the price with sore muscles, caffeine-stoked jangly nerves, red eyes with black circles under them, it's awful. But you hit the nail on the head---after the long, dry wilderness we've been in for so long, you can't help but get a buzz from the HOPE that Palin brings (oh, wait, wasn't it Obama who was supposed to be the "Hope" candidate?) I haven't had a champagne-and-firecrackers moment like the one at noon on Friday since April 19, 2005 (when Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope).

Posted by: Kathy from Kansas at September 01, 2008 02:32 PM (3i6ii)

I have watched Lance's video 4 times, and dammit I keep tearing up... what a wonderful thing for a wonderful country to be invigorated by such a wonderful woman.

BTW, my moonbat neighbors hate Alaska, where they used to live, and I just figured out why. Fuckers probably got deported for stupidity.

Posted by: sherlock at September 01, 2008 02:33 PM (ojW85)

70 Palin.

Andrew Sullivan.

Cocksucker.

I've done my part tonight. See y'all in the A.M.

Posted by: Tinian at September 01, 2008 02:42 PM (1Mq7K)

71 The left is going bonkers for one reason: FEAR. Obama - we got nothin' Biden - we really got nothin' McCain - uh, Hey! He's like OLD man! Palin - %$#@&$#*!!! Like I said, FEAR!

Posted by: GarandFan at September 01, 2008 02:48 PM (eJ32B)

72 They clicking on any non-Palin threads, Ace?

Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at September 01, 2008 03:03 PM (Oiq3a)

73 Welcome to the moronosphere, Kathy from Kansas.

Posted by: Nice Deb at September 01, 2008 03:06 PM (4b22F)

Sarah Palin has inspired more Google searches than I've ever seen. Even my small blog which typically gets just 300-500 hits a day, suddenly hit almost 10,000 hits on Friday because of a post I wrote about Palin back in April. And the comments from the left are venomous.

Posted by: carol at September 01, 2008 03:12 PM (TTRo4)

75 Bigfoot, rednecks, Hollywood Republicans, and Obama's birth certificate rumor are still big google searches at my site, but Sarah Palin blows them all away.

Posted by: Nice Deb at September 01, 2008 03:15 PM (4b22F)

76 I fully expect a self-deprecating hunting joke from Cheney to Palin during this convention.

Cheney, " Sarah, I hear you're a hunter....I saw the caribou picture, cute. In DC there are no caribou, only Lawyers and Politicians. I'll let you guess which are in season."

Posted by: JavaJoe at September 01, 2008 03:20 PM (Am6n/)

77 Speaking of Excitable Andy: I understand that Sullivan once wrote a post titled "Sexual McCarthyism: An Article No One Should Have to Write." I'm on a Treo and can't easily do Wayback Machine searches. Can anyone find a copy of it? I have a feeling that contrasting it with his current call for Sarah Palin's medical records might be interesting.

Posted by: Patterico at September 01, 2008 04:18 PM (9qTZs)

78 We need to ship you dry coffee grounds and tons of bacon to fuel the Ace in this time of WE NEED TO KNOW! Is alan Colmes really a part of the lizard man society? Is it true John Edwards tried ODing the other day and Kenneddy slogged his addled torso to his aid, not ot save him, but to not let the edwards bar stock go to waste... WE GOT CRISIS PEOPLE! THeres a STORM... SOMEWHERE!!! Get the alphabet soup channels mobilized!

I want more on this alaskan supah uber sekret technology crested in icecubes that the inuits perfected before even stonehenge was made a football field...

WHat do the Alaskans know about flying cars?

I heard TOdd was on a project a few years back funded through dark matter fund and Kawasaki MOtors... Just a tip... DOing the Google heavy lifting now. BEans got the bandwidth...

Posted by: BeanAz at September 01, 2008 04:26 PM (28Tcu)

79
Oh, and by the way:

Alaska - thanks! Thanks a lot!

Posted by: Brown Line at September 01, 2008 04:36 PM (OMiLl)

80 Haha, Power Glutes' various nicknames always make me laugh.

Posted by: Stankleberry at September 01, 2008 04:45 PM (5x5Ao)

81 I've been experiencing a spike, too. My traffic went up nearly 19 fold today... and I thought everyone would be out on the lake! It's incredible to watch. Real conservatives finally have something to be excited about--I know it made the difference in my vote for McCain--and the libs quickly figured out that their dreams have been crushed. Serves 'em right. That's what happens when your hope is filled with nothingness and lofty words.

Posted by: Kev at September 01, 2008 10:44 PM (uNXAx)

"...is like saying Power Glutes Andy is "rather fond" of milky loads."

i don't spend nearly enough time at this website.

Posted by: jummy at September 02, 2008 06:17 AM (SU9pv)

83 Congratulations, Ace. You are sharp and dedicated. You deserve the traffic. Everybody; tell people to vote this year. It's a kick.

Posted by: Mr._Chumpo at September 02, 2008 08:37 PM (2pOAm)

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Posted by: Ivana at May 31, 2009 01:35 AM (NNxYx)

85 Google catch what is hot, nice topic, keep sharing.

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