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September 02, 2008

Palinmania Breaking Out in Unexpected Places
— Ace

Christopher Orr shouldn't be at TNR, and I mean that as a compliment. He's one of the few movie reviewers who seems to know his ass from his elbow.

He has a post up called "The Case Against the Case Against Palin." (No, not a typo, read it carefully.)

I'm not done reading this yet because I want to get it up quick but let me just be a hypocrite and say read the whole thing, even though I haven't, yet.

This is actually his friend's testimony-- "one of the smartest" people Orr knows. Orr himself takes Palin lightly, he admits. His friend counsels against that.

At the end of 2005, a close friend called to say that he begun writing speeches and talking points for a certain gubernatorial candidate.
"Remind me," I asked. "Who is Sarah Palin?"
I was dismayed at my friends choice of political entree. Why was he wasting his time on a relative nobody, trying to beat an incumbent governor (and former three term senator) in the Republican primary? It was utter folly. "Wait until the big money starts coming in for Murkowski," I said. "Wait until the party machinery goes to work on Palin. They will eat her for lunch."
Murkowski, for his part, expressed a similar view. "If I decide to," he said, "I will run and I will win. It's that simple."
The folly, of course, turned out to be my own (and Murkowski's), as Palin slaughtered the incumbent in the primary--posting a 30 point margin of victory--and went on to win the general (over a former Democratic governor) without seeming to break a sweat. She then quickly fulfilled an implicit campaign promise by slapping down ExxonMobil, BP, and ConocoPhillips in negotiations over a proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline, even though they, too, by all accounts, were well prepared to dine on her tender little frame. Not bad for a lightweight.
Listening to the Democratic leadership respond to John McCains selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, one hears echoes of the Alaska Republican leadership from just a few years ago. Barack Obamas spokesman, Bill Burton, put it this way: "Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency." Former mayor? If you're going to skip over her job as governor and, before that, her job heading the commission that oversees production of the largest petroleum reserves in America, why not "former high school student"? Bah, what does it matter: She's just a small town mayor, just a hockey mom, just a beauty pageant queen. Palin has never shunned these belittling monikers, in part, I imagine, because the camouflage has served her so well. Soothed by the litany, her opponents tend to sleep too late, sneer too much, and forget who it is that hires them.
Watching Palin operate over the past few years has been like witnessing a dramatic reading of All the Kings Men. In 2002, Murkowski had interviewed but passed over Palin in selecting a replacement for the senate seat he vacated to become governor. In a grand act of nepotism, he chose his own daughter instead. Palin was tossed a bone: She chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees the production of petroleum in Alaska. When she reported conflicts of interest and other ethical violations by another commissioner, she was ignored by Murkowskis chief of staff and ultimately resigned in frustration. One can imagine how the quick double dose of corruption--insiders having their way with the polity and its resources--sickened the young Palin. It also fired a savage competitiveness that is not, perhaps, apparent at first glance.

And the Good Time Charlies at Reason seem to reach out for someone to slam Palin, and fail rather spectacularly.

This guy is a Democrat... but loves her.

Let me tell you all the nice things about Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin has been a pretty freaking awesome governor. She came in saying that the entire system was corrupt, and that Republicans were evil, and she was going to just mix everything up and get us a gas pipeline and end of story. And she got to power, she was elected overwhelmingly by independents, beat Tony Knowles, who had been governor before.
The Republicans hate her. If you go and talk to the Alaska delegation here, they despise her.
Q: Really?
A: Hate her. Oh my god! This whole thing about her retarded son really being her daughter's was started by Lyda Green, who is president of the senate, a Republican. [...]
She gave a two-finger salute to Conoco Phllips and Exxon Mobile, raised their taxes on their oil, put in place a transparent way to bid for the seed money and the licenses to finally, finally, put in a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. And it was won by a Canadian company. And she went to the mat and made it happen. She has been systematically pulling the drilling licenses of Conoco Phillips and Exxon Mobile for areas that they haven't touched. I mean, they've been hoarding reserves, and she says, you know, use it or lose it, and she has been sending the attorney general time after time to revoke these things. It's absolutely fascinating.

Now, this guy seems to think there's going to be some huge scandal that will take her off the ticket. I rather doubt that. Palin is the ticket at this point.

But note his joy over her leaving the ticket. It's not for the reason you might guess:

[M]y personal prediction is that I give her two weeks... And look -- I love her so much that I'm really looking forward to having her back in 63 days. [...]
She is what McCain would like to be: She really is a maverick. In two years she stuck it to the two largest oil corporations in the United States of America. That's pretty fucking impressive, you know, that she has antagonized her party to the point that they despise her. And her ratings are still in the 80s.

She's against the Real ID act, which is something I simply do not get but I understand, of course, it's part of mainstream (or mainstreamish) Republican/libertarian/paranoid-survivalist-off-the-grid-Mad-Max thinking.

I don't know much about the socking it to the oil companies, except that their demand to build their own pipeline which they'd control was pure ass, and she said "Fuck you next question" and negotiated a proper deal to build a shorter pipe just to connect to Canada's already-existing network. Whether it was right to slap a windfall profits tax on them I don't know (she may have figured, as Alaska is leasing them their land, the state had a right to capture some of those unanticipated windfall profits), but I do know that's going to play well with the public.

I retract... My previous suggestion that she should only briefly tout her accomplishments. As her experience is being challenged, and she seems to have picked a lot of big fights with big players and won walking away, she should talk about that a lot

Hey, Barry: How many state political parties and gigantic oil companies have you challenged and whooped up on? How many international multibillion dollar pipeline deals have you negotiated?

Jesus, Barry: You can't even stand up to your own fucking pastor.

The Eagleton Scenario: Um, the trouble with that theory is that Eagleton was a sissy.

Not a Windfall Profits Tax at All: I'll leave it to Beldar to explain it properly, but apparently this isn't a tax per se but actually simply a charge for the state's oil and gas, which they sell to the oil companies. It's a "fee," really, paid for the gas and oil, but it's called a "tax."

The state gets paid for its property via "a tax," called a "severance tax" or "production tax," but it seems really to simply be an agreement as to what fee the state will charge for its oil and gas.

The scenario seems to be that the oil companies negotiated an overly-advantageous "tax" for themselves with the corrupt ruling class of Alaska (not a hard thing to manage, I'm guessing). Palin stepped in and said that previous deal wasn't fair to Alaskans, and negotiated a more favorable deal.

Rockmon--

That little old gas pipeline that Sarahcuda finally got done is the largest infrastructure project in the nation's history, and it is going to create a ton of jobs. So she has actually created jobs, unlike Barry "Oh"bama or Joe Hairplugs. I bet she mentions this tomorrow. This job of hers is a big fucking deal, and there aren't a handful of politicians in the country that could hve done what she has done.

Maybe, maybe not. But I know two politicians who coudn't, one named "Barack" and one named "Joe."

Posted by: Ace at 07:13 PM | Comments (76)
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1 Bill Scanell is a dope. Who talks like that during an interview?

This whole thing about her retarded son really being her daughter's was started by Lyda Green, who is president of the senate, a Republican.

Sure it was.

Posted by: Bart at September 02, 2008 07:19 PM (eGRG+)

2 It's not unlikely that her party apparatus doesn't like her. Look at Mccain... plenty of Morts in the GOP don't like him either.

But the Republican Party... the voters and little guys, they obviously love her. You don't become the most popular governor in the USA without pleasing your own party.

That Senator Green better not have started that rumor about Palin's new child. Palin has more clout, win or lose, and she's a fighter who knows how to use a tool like that.

Posted by: Shill at September 02, 2008 07:21 PM (8jYMc)

3 Bart, you're right, this is a Kos smear, pure and simple. I saw Alan Colmes say that 'nobody' was smearing Palin's family. Now, it's just Republicans doing it. Riiiiiiiiiight.

Posted by: Shill at September 02, 2008 07:22 PM (8jYMc)

4 "Fuck you next question"

Heh - I remember when I said that to the Iraqi generals when they surrendered. Of course, they were not anywhere near as powerful as the oil execs.

Posted by: Stormin' Norman at September 02, 2008 07:22 PM (p4YSL)

5 Whether it was right to slap a windfall profits tax on them I don't know (she may have figured, as Alaska is leasing them their land, the state had a right to capture some of those unanticipated windfall profits), but I do know that's going to play well with the public.

Jeesh! It was a severance tax -- not a windfall profits tax. Learn the difference already.

http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/08/dont-be-misled.html

Posted by: grc at September 02, 2008 07:23 PM (PF/ZE)

6 Whether it was right to slap a windfall profits tax on them I don't know (she may have figured, as Alaska is leasing them their land, the state had a right to capture some of those unanticipated windfall profits), but I do know that's going to play well with the public.

I don't think that windfall profits tax is what people think it is.

According to Beldar she negotiated a better rights fee from the oil companies for the oil they are taking from the state.

It's different than slapping an income tax on a company that is pegged to profits which is what Obama and the Democrats want to do.

At least that's the down and dirty of his reading of it.

Posted by: DrewM. at September 02, 2008 07:26 PM (hlYel)

7 Do you know why I'm skeptical to the claim Lyda Green started that rumor?

No, it's not because I'm going to into automatic Republican CYA mode. It's because it's clearly obvious that 1) it's not beyond a Democrat operative worm such as Bill Scanell to throw that out there, and 2) It benefits Bill Scanell's Democrat party to cause a rift between Republicans in his home state of Alaska.

Remember, the Dems said that Alsaka is in play this year. If they think there's a chance to win the legislature or congressional seats they will go all out and throw everything at the Republicans.

Posted by: Bart at September 02, 2008 07:26 PM (eGRG+)

8 I have been listening to Hugh Hewitt (which I haven't since he went all in to the tank for Harriet Meirs back in the day). Anyways, he's just been having only Woman callers and these women love Sarah Palin.

I hope it's significant.

Posted by: The Chewbacca Defense at September 02, 2008 07:26 PM (nuuDA)

9 ooops, grc is just a bit faster than I am. Bastard.

Posted by: DrewM. at September 02, 2008 07:26 PM (hlYel)

10 That little old gas pipeline that Sarahcuda finally got done is the largest infrastructure project in the nation's history, and it is going to create a ton of jobs. So she has actually created jobs, unlike Barry "Oh"bama or Joe Hairplugs. I bet she mentions this tomorrow. This job of hers is a big fucking deal, and there aren't a handful of politicians in the country that could hve done what she has done.

Posted by: rockmom at September 02, 2008 07:27 PM (iZqUY)

11

Sarah Jokes ...I Like Them from Fuangladas Weblog.

Follow that up with: Little Known Facts About Sarah Palin.

Little Known Fact: Sarah Palin will give birth to the man who will lead humanitys war against the machines.

Little Known Fact: Sarah Palin wears glasses lest her uncontrollable optic blasts slaughter everyone.

Posted by: Looking Glass at September 02, 2008 07:27 PM (Y8Dr/)

12 This is going to be the best administration - evah!!!!

McCain (Decent)
Palin (Effing Rock Star!!)
Bolton (The Stache)
Patraeus

Hot daughters EVERYWHERE!!! Plus one that can catch all enemies ON FIRE.

Posted by: Editor at September 02, 2008 07:27 PM (p4YSL)

13 Her speech: I want her to come out in that fur collar number. I also want her to see her hug Thompson's wife.

Those things will make me happy.

Posted by: Ray Midge at September 02, 2008 07:32 PM (R5BSx)

14 Awesome article.

Posted by: Christoph at September 02, 2008 07:32 PM (hawOV)

15 I'd love to see a comparison of contributions by major oil company executives to Obama and to Palin. Wouldn't that make a nice add?

Posted by: XBradTC at September 02, 2008 07:32 PM (soV1p)

The left wing is a gaggle of filthy animals. They havbe no moral, they have no conept of right or wrong. These jackels went for the uterus and the children of this fine woman and the attacks aren't going to stop any time soon.

The New York times ignored Johnny 400's love child, ignored the Rezko scandal, ignores Biden family gate, and runs 3 stories attacking a 17 year old girl.

These sub human maggots can only be cowed with one thing, a brutual club to the head. That's my speciality.

Posted by: Rex Zeitgeist at September 02, 2008 07:35 PM (6RF5r)

17 I think she is going to crush these idiots. I love it. She hates the Republican party for all the right reasons.

Posted by: bleh at September 02, 2008 07:35 PM (GNCy6)

18 I say she just whips her dick out and demands Barry reciprocate.

She'd win no doubt.

He's such a balless wanker, and Palin is only running for VP

She could take him running straight up for Prez

Since when do we compare the experience of the presidential candidate with the other party's VP selection?

how weak is that shit.

Posted by: mimeograph at September 02, 2008 07:36 PM (Vi1rj)

19 From what I gather, the MSM is rounding up quotes from disgruntled Alaskan Republicans who are in a tizzy because McCain's people "never asked us" about Palin.

Posted by: Bart at September 02, 2008 07:36 PM (eGRG+)

I love all of this Eagleton fantasy talk. They really think they've got her on the ropes already.

Prediction: Sarah Palin gelds a donkey with a hockey skate on center stage tomorrow night.

Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at September 02, 2008 07:37 PM (uOvAE)

21

"Terry Moran's Instantly Immortal Blooper from Denver." 10 Seconds of Video You Won't Regret Watching, from American Digest.

"Barack Obama, the son of a black man from Kenya, and a white man[sic!] from Kansas.

Posted by: Looking Glass at September 02, 2008 07:37 PM (Y8Dr/)

22 and all the dems are eating this up, they are loving to bash her. never piss off a mother about her kids, never, the claws come out. i wouldn't want to be in the shoes of whoever started the rumor about her son. she looks so meek and mild mannered, yet she is tough as nails, awesome. i hope she turns this election cycle on its ass, mccain did a hell of a job in his pick. i do wish the msm would stop their bashing of her.

Posted by: luva the scissors at September 02, 2008 07:39 PM (mQwUc)

23 I saw that Terry MORON tape. funny as hell.

Posted by: XBradTC at September 02, 2008 07:40 PM (soV1p)

24 rockmom,

That's all nice and everything but did she ever organize a community (whatever that actually means)? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Posted by: DrewM. at September 02, 2008 07:40 PM (hlYel)

25 What an ass Juan Williams is -- so in the tank - he's saying "they have people looking into to her, was she really a reformer, did she hire a lobbyist to get millions in earmarks for her little town of 9,000????" See, Democrat men just can't wrap their sexist little heads around the fact she is the GOVERNOR the the STate, not perpetually representing her little 9,000 people town only. Ugh. Juan reading Democrat party talking points verbatim as "analysis"

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 02, 2008 07:41 PM (81eVm)

Where the fuck are my car keys?

Obama!

Posted by: Community at September 02, 2008 07:42 PM (uOvAE)

27 Almost as soon as McCain became the presumptive nominee, speculation began about the VP. Someone tossed Sarah Palin out there as a dark horse. I fell in love with her almost immediately. Tough, principled, and gunning for corruption. The fact that she had the "naughty librarian" thing going on was just the icing on the cake.

Posted by: XBradTC at September 02, 2008 07:43 PM (soV1p)

Hussein is a prissy, spoiled, wanna be. You can tell that when he is cornered he will slap fight and pull hair like a bitch. I.E. trying to shut down <a href="http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/08/28/obama-campaign-tries-to-shut-down-chicago-radio-show/">Stanley Kurtz</a> .

Could you imagine President Bush saying he wanted to shut down a radio station because they were investigating a story about him?

I guess the New York Times was to busy trying to dig up dirt on republicans children.

Posted by: Rex Zeitgeist at September 02, 2008 07:43 PM (6RF5r)

<i>Um, the trouble with that theory is that Eagleton was a sissy.</i>

Andrew Sullivan sissy or John Edwards sissy?

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at September 02, 2008 07:44 PM (4ZOxD)

30 "I have been listening to Hugh Hewitt (which I haven't since he went all in to the tank for Harriet Meirs back in the day). Anyways, he's just been having only Woman callers and these women love Sarah Palin.

I hope it's significant."

It is. All the callers to Rush today except for one were women, and all love Sarah!

Posted by: newton at September 02, 2008 07:46 PM (Owu9u)

31 Eagleton had actual psychological issues, from my reading of it, and I can't find it in me to mock him. McGovern was the sissy for not standing by him. (Which McGovern admits to this day.)

Posted by: David Ross at September 02, 2008 07:48 PM (ThkMv)

32 Where the fuck are my car keys?

Obama!

Posted by: Community at September 03, 2008 12:42 AM (uOvAE)

Thread winner!

Posted by: Qwinn at September 02, 2008 07:48 PM (anXNR)

Wow, I'm sensing, seeing, smelling, feeling and tasting fear. Big time fear.

And a huge, HUGE backlash. Check out the hatchet job US magazine just did.

Then check out the tsunami of outraged comments on its web site.

The media is going balls to the wall to slam Sarah. Desperation is in the air. You're right, Ace. Everything depends on tomorrow night.

What do you bet the media does a bunch of weird shit with the picture, audio, video feed, etc.? If the speech is a barn-burner, what do you bet they cut out from it, with "technical difficulties"?

I'm sensing massive corruption, naked fear and a "no holds barred, anything goes" atmosphere.

Posted by: Dogstar at September 02, 2008 07:49 PM (6AcsH)

34 From what I gather, the MSM is rounding up quotes from disgruntled Alaskan Republicans who are in a tizzy because McCain's people "never asked us" about Palin. So they could run to the media and give it away? Can't find the link but read a story about the current mayor who says Sarah is a smart "quick study" and the McCain campaign didn't talk to her...I loved the last line -- she told reporters she would not return phone calls - long distance -- wasn't in the budget and she was going to get the budget the way it was set to be.

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 02, 2008 07:51 PM (81eVm)

35 Another problem with the Eagleton theory is that these pussies in the media think McCain, the guy who survived 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton, is going to back down on this pick.

Posted by: nightwitch at September 02, 2008 07:51 PM (dfTf5)

36 KEEP the budget the way it was set to be.

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 02, 2008 07:51 PM (81eVm)

37 Amazing how all the "Republican Alaska experts" the msm consults are people my Sarahcuda shitcanned.

Posted by: stace at September 02, 2008 07:53 PM (JO0c/)

38 The Eagleton Scenario

I'm sorry to say that the Eagleton scenario is bound to happen for a reason that became obvious after I saw the "flat busted" T-shirt picture you put up a few days ago...

There has to be a picture out there somewhere of Sarah Barracuda wearing leg warmers.

Eagleton may have been a sissy, but not that much of a sissy...

Sadly, this won't just be a problem for females of my generation. I'm sure many promising male politicians will have their careers cut short for similar reasons. Thanks a lot, Members Only!!!

Posted by: pbrown at September 02, 2008 07:53 PM (vxGjP)

39 Eagleton...snort. After McGovern replaced him with Shriver, he lost 49 FUCKING STATES! Woo-hoo, we won Massachussets! Yeah, that's a template for victory. How fucking stupid do they think McCain is?

Posted by: Jeff at September 02, 2008 07:54 PM (4Rgpl)

40 Wow, the US comments are crazy pissed. There are like 500 and I only saw 2 in favor of US. Hmmm.

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 02, 2008 07:55 PM (81eVm)

41 Dogstar, re: Us fagazine

Recently, they went out of their way to mention that Cindy McCain's estranged irrelevant half-sister will be voting for Obama, not McCain.

WHO FUCKING CARES???

Posted by: Bart at September 02, 2008 07:55 PM (eGRG+)

42 Eagleton? Honestly these asses still believe they make the news.
Get a clue assholes, who the hell even remembers Eagleton?
Ask the average American who Eagleton is and they will ask" Is that the guy who invented the little can of condensed milk?"

It makes no difference what anybody says now anyway.
It's all on her speech tomorrow. She, and McCain, will stand or fall based on it now and McCain doesn't look like the kind of guy who puts his political future in the hands of a loser.

The woman is savvy, she's earned every damn rung of that ladder and each one with a fight.

With her speech she can play nice, be humble, be a lady and fail miserably.

Or she can come out list every thing she has done, how hard it was, what she believes in and show she will go right on doing that in DC with McCain. To be honest, a real straight talking, in your face, honest broad. She ain't running for First Lady ya know?

Based on the speech she gave when McCain announced her and her record I'm betting on the later. Sarah Palin is a Broad in the best sense of the word. A true Hepburn, Davis or Becall. People love her and they hate her too, but unlike Hillary, Pelosi, etc. it's for all the right reasons.

Posted by: Rocks at September 02, 2008 07:58 PM (7rbe9)

43 There has to be a picture out there somewhere of Sarah Barracuda wearing leg warmers.

It depends, if she had the short hair cut like Pat Benatar then it might be forgiven.

Posted by: Rocks at September 02, 2008 07:59 PM (7rbe9)

44 Gov Palin has an 80% approval rating in Alaska. So what does the MSM do?

They seek out the other 20% for feedback and background on Palin.

Posted by: Bart at September 02, 2008 08:00 PM (eGRG+)

45 This article finally addresses one of main reasons she was picked: her executive experience as the Oil and Gas Commission chair. Obama will only acknowledge the Wasilly PTA and mayoralty. The rest of us talk "governor", but Oil/Gas Commission is a huge deal. The Texas commission used to have control similar to that of today's OPEC. Petroleum products have been, and still are, key to the control of power on this planet. Whether we like it or not, that's the way it is, for now.

Posted by: stace at September 02, 2008 08:01 PM (JO0c/)

Hannity had Kirsten Powers and Michael Steele on his show today. I caught the night time replay driving home from work at 2300. Kirsten sounded so pissed off that I was mentally flinching from the nails she was spitting in case they came flying out of my speakers. She stated that the attacks are totally beyond the pale. I have rarely heard someone on the radio who manifested the disdain she did with out coming across like an idiot.

Now to be clear she said she did not know if she would vote for the Republican ticket but just the fact that she's considering it is big. (Just saw my Tivo'd Special Report from last night and Brit reported that Ferraro has said that she may vote Republican.

Posted by: Have Blue at September 02, 2008 08:02 PM (WuPk/)

47 Rocks, the only thing that would be cooler is if Pat Benatar herself took the stage and belted out "Invincible".

Posted by: David Ross at September 02, 2008 08:03 PM (ThkMv)

If the teevee people blacked out teh Fred, why not black out Saracuda?

Seriously, I expect at least one of the channels to skip part or all of her remarks.

You can say you read it here first, and that you knew me back when.

Posted by: Jones at September 02, 2008 08:05 PM (KOkrW)

49 Kirsten Powers?

The hell you say!

Really?

She's a kool-aid-drunk propagandist mouthpiece robot for the DNC.

Posted by: Bart at September 02, 2008 08:05 PM (eGRG+)

50 Alpha males aren't afraid of strong females.

"Jesus, Barry: You can't even stand up to your own fucking pastor." Much less his wife.

Every time it's wonderful Kum-ba-ya Hope'n'changiness on a teleprompter, Barry wants to be the one to read it. But any time there's work to be done, it's voting "present". Any inconvenient persons, and they're "not the XXX I thought I knew" and under the bus. Any inconvenient facts, and it's off to the midnight shredder.

Family is a tool to show connection -- His kids, his wife, his grandmother, his father -- except when he's disconnected from them....the kids he was "punished" with, the wife who shouldn't be part of a campaign, his racist grandmother, his missing father.

This guy exemplifies pussification so much that he makes this blog's bunch of Borgnine'ing morons drinking Val-u-rite while YouTube'ing 80's hair-band videos look as butch as Audie Murphy.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 02, 2008 08:10 PM (yDRXW)

51 Yall don't understand how mineral rights work in a state. I grew up in Minnesota, and there the iron ore (northern MN) was taxed to support the (awesome) school system in perpetuity. In Texas, where I now reside, and New Mexico, where I am moving, the oil & gas is taxed to support the state budget, including education. There is no "windfall profits" tax involved. The tax is based upon the removal of natural resources that belong to the state, and I think it's great that Governor Palin kept the monies from the extraction for her state.

Posted by: deniraecpa at September 02, 2008 08:13 PM (angz6)

Bart

That was my point! I didn't even now who I was listening to until the first commercial break.
And after that I didn't know if it was her or me that was on peyote.

I have watched her since she started appearing on Fox news and I have never heard her go (seriously) against Dem talking points before.

If she, who is bought and paid for by the DNC is saying this then what is the prevailing mood in the rest of the country. And mind you she was not just pissed off in the, "Oh, these people are being stupid and it will damage the party," way. She really sounded like she wanted to drop a few people over the lip of the volcano.

Posted by: Have Blue at September 02, 2008 08:15 PM (WuPk/)

53 David,
Nice call, they should blare "Invincible" every stop she makes.
It's not my favorite Benatar tune but it's fits here.

Posted by: Rocks at September 02, 2008 08:16 PM (7rbe9)

I'm just saying--I'm just hoping--that the Palin Biden debate will change a lot of things.

Fact of the matter is, I hope old Slow Joe Biden looks down after the debate and wonders where his wang is.

Posted by: Michael J. Myers at September 02, 2008 08:19 PM (LZ3cP)

55 Sarah Palin - Invincible

I know the PUMAS will love it.

Posted by: Rocks at September 02, 2008 08:21 PM (7rbe9)

Bart, I bet by mid-October, the MSM will go to 100% Bumiller status.

(All fiction, w/o any link to reality.)

It's their version of DEFCON 1.

Posted by: Dogstar at September 02, 2008 08:21 PM (6AcsH)

57 I never thought I'd have anything in common with Hillary's fans, but now I finally understand their RAGE at the incredible sexism of the media, the Left and the Obama machine. Has anyone but me picked up on the not-so-subtle sexism in Obamamedia's continual harping on the "commander-in-chief" meme the last couple days? As if our Sarah doesn't have more cojones than all the lefty liberal males in this country combined!

As if we should elect as our commander-in-chief a Marx-loving, Jew-loathing, terrorist-appeasing, black-supremacist, America-hating, baby-killing Communist!

Posted by: pushy Palin Power proponent at September 02, 2008 08:25 PM (3i6ii)

58 PUMA Attack!!

Posted by: Have Blue at September 02, 2008 08:33 PM (WuPk/)

It is going to be a huge burden - so much is riding on just twenty or so minutes of airtime. Airtime that tonight we saw was slaved to the biases and goals of rabidly partisan shitheels in the media as when they refused to carry Fred Thompson's speech at all or only in part.

The MSM is making a fatal mis-step here. Although, we must remember these maggotpicking scavengers did the same before and suffered for it (Dan Rather used to be on the television once).

I can't help but think that a handful of semi-rational news editors are taking some vacation time right the hell now so that when the shit splashes they'll be out of range. The rest? I think the rest are going to be very fucking sorry. We'll see - one thing Americans can't stand is someone that cheats or ignores the rules and goes against fair play. Just ask Tojo.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at September 02, 2008 08:35 PM (BAkbH)

60

A couple of Palin Facts from The Brothers Judd.

"She's so smart she counted to infinity...twice."

"Sarah Palin is the reason compasses point North."

Posted by: Looking Glass at September 02, 2008 08:36 PM (Y8Dr/)

61 >> There has to be a picture out there somewhere of Sarah Barracuda wearing leg warmers.

> It depends, if she had the short hair cut like Pat Benatar then it might be forgiven.

Indeed. The men who were in high school in the mid-to-late 1980's have progressed from "if you're 20 and not liberal you have no heart" to "if you're 40 and not conservative you have no brain." But one thing hasn't changed: 80's chicks were smokin'. In modern parlance one might say they "claimed their femininity."

Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at September 02, 2008 08:40 PM (jx4Fv)

62 Looking Glass, Brothers Judd is one of my favorite sites. OJ is entertainingly contrarian without being an a$$#013 about it, IMHO, and sometimes he posts some of the deeper metaphysical stuff that doesn't appeal to chronic Valu-Rite swiggers.

Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at September 02, 2008 08:45 PM (jx4Fv)

63 swiggers

Racist!

Posted by: Bart Scandalicious Hussein McBush at September 02, 2008 08:47 PM (eGRG+)

64

And now, www.palinfacts.com.

"When Sarah Palin attends ritual blood orgies, she always brings the most delicious ambrosia salad."

Posted by: Looking Glass at September 02, 2008 08:47 PM (Y8Dr/)

65 More Palinfornication at American Thinker:

Why Palin is a Bee in the Dems' Bonnets by Kyle-Ann Shiver.le_ad_client = "pub-4560167926987914"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; google_ad_format = "300x250_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2006-11-22: AT - Articles - 300 by 250 google_ad_channel = "0110545599"; google_color_border = "336699"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "999966"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "003399"; //-->

So, what's clearly at the bottom of all the Democrat angst over Governor Sarah Palin?
She's not their kind of ordinary, good-old-wink-and-nod party pol.
She'll be a bee in the bonnet of every pork-laden, greedy D.C. insider the same way she has been in Alaska. I sincerely doubt that there's a good ole boy or gal this side of hell who isn't squirming, swatting and contorting every which-way to take her out before her potent stinger lands in Washington next January.
McCain and Palin are two reformers on the move.
And I'd be willing to bet my own best bonnet that American taxpayers could not be happier or more anxious to see those stingers get to work on the Hill.

Posted by: Newt Gingrich at September 02, 2008 09:08 PM (7rbe9)

66 Sorry about the mess there, vicious cut and paste accident.
And ignore the sock puppet please.

Posted by: Rock at September 02, 2008 09:10 PM (7rbe9)

>> There has to be a picture out there somewhere of Sarah Barracuda wearing leg warmers.

> It depends, if she had the short hair cut like Pat Benatar then it might be forgiven.

Leg warmers?!? You're worried about leg warmers? Well in a just and decent world, just looking like this would be enough to disqualify you from ever running for public office.

Posted by: Maetenloch at September 02, 2008 09:39 PM (N/Dcu)

68 Re the 'pipeline creating jobs': jobs are an economic cost, not a benefit.

Posted by: David Gillies at September 02, 2008 10:10 PM (9RPWx)

She's against the Real ID act, which is something I simply do not get but I understand, of course, it's part of mainstream (or mainstreamish) Republican/libertarian/paranoid-survivalist-off-the-grid-Mad-Max thinking.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: 5th Level Fighter at September 03, 2008 01:25 AM (XJvj0)

70 jobs are an economic cost, not a benefit.

???

Posted by: toby hussein 928 at September 03, 2008 04:59 AM (evdj2)

Wow. It is all clear to me now. I was a lousy mother for my son to have a child out of wedlock with his girlfiiend 4 years ago. I wish I had been there to hand them the condom they should have used. My picture should be there along with Sarah. You want me to send it? My husband has had two speeding tickets in 4 years and oh yes, my youngest son is gay. Maybe I should just shoot myself in the head!

Posted by: Terri at September 03, 2008 05:28 AM (ISOuG)

72 "Ask the average American who Eagleton is and they will ask 'Is that the guy who invented the little can of condensed milk?'"

That there is some funny stuff. Well done.

Posted by: hey, wada minnit at September 03, 2008 05:35 AM (ez7V0)

I don't think I've ever actually seen condensed milk.

Posted by: Entropy at September 03, 2008 08:40 AM (m6c4H)

When I hear Eagleton, I think of that British ski jumper from the olympics some years past...

Great post, Ace. That really is big time, reforming politics-as-usual-stuff. I hope she knocks it out of the park tonight.

Posted by: JohnW at September 03, 2008 09:07 AM (7iHfC)

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