Well Sarah, not everyone can be fortunate enough to have the valuable life experience of a failed VP candidate who quits on her state and leaves her job as Governor to travel around the country and pop off at the mouth. Pew, pew.
The rise and fall of Sarah Palin
November 21, 2008 By View Comments
From Vice Presidential hopeful to being interviewed while turkeys are being slaughtered in the background. If it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so damn scary. The expressions on the guy slaughtering the turkeys behind her is priceless. It’s as if he’s saying, “is she serious?”
Why We Must Not Let Palin Simply Fade Away
November 12, 2008 By View Comments
Andrew Sullivan has been doing quite a number on Palin since the election, and his explanation for why he continues to do so is quite compelling:
Let’s be real in a way the national media seems incapable of: this person should never have been placed on a national ticket in a mature democracy. She was incapable of running a town in Alaska competently. The impulsive, unvetted selection of a total unknown, with no knowledge of or interest in the wider world, as a replacement president remains one of the most disturbing events in modern American history. That the press felt required to maintain a facade of normalcy for two months – and not to declare the whole thing a farce from start to finish – is a sign of their total loss of nerve. That the Palin absurdity should follow the two-term presidency of another individual utterly out of his depth in national government is particularly troubling. 46 percent of Americans voted for the possibility of this blank slate as president because she somehow echoed their own sense of religious or cultural “identity”. Until we figure out how this happened, we will not be able to prevent it from happening again. And we have to find a way to prevent this from recurring.
I couldn’t agree more.
Palin didn’t know Africa was a Continent
November 5, 2008 By View Comments
This is going to be a fun few days, McCain’s campaign is already throwing Palin to the wolves. Apparently she was basically a “hail mary” pick and McCain and his people were just as shocked as the rest of us to find out she was as dumb as a rock and nuttier than a fruit cake. You know it’s bad when it’s Fox News dishing all this.
They mention in the piece that according to polls Obama’s numbers started to rise the day after Palin’s interview with Katie Couric. Pew pew.
Sarah Palin: The Truth Behind the “Maverick”
November 5, 2008 By View Comments
I’m not sure we’ll ever know whether or not McCain, in his heart of hearts, at some point realized he had created a monster and made a huge mistake.
It’s obvious that Palin was McCain’s choice to try and do what Bush did in 2004, stir up the fundamentalists. Before Palin was selected as McCain’s running mate, James Dobson, the defacto voice for evangelicals had said publicly he would not vote for McCain. He quickly changed his stance after McCain chose Palin.
For me there is absolutely nothing in her past or present that shows Palin as anything more than a vain, power hungry, self-righteous attention seeker who is willing go to any lengths to further her career.
In an interview with evangelical whackjob James Dobson that aired today, Palin actually managed to almost renew my faith in God. At one point during the interview Palin is quoted as saying about the election that they were, “putting this in God’s hands, that the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4.”
Describing herself as a “hard-core pro-lifer,” Palin said the birth of a son with Down syndrome was “this opportunity for me to really be walking the walk and not just talking the talk. There’s purpose in this also and for a greater good to be met there.”
Maybe it’s just me but describing the birth of your son with Down Syndrome as your “opportunity to walk the walk” about your pro-life stance seems a little cold-hearted.
One thing this small town “maverick” didn’t mind doing was spending other people’s money:
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. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent “tens of thousands” more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. 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.
That was when she was running and under scrutiny. Imagine the spree she would have went on using the taxpayer’s dime had she actually managed to win the election.
I’m all about hope and moving forward, but I believe we would be doing this country a great injustice if we let this person who has continually proven that she is willing to abuse her powers go completely unchecked. I think we’ll start to see more of these truths roll out as unhappy staffers tell their stories. Let’s hope the legacy of Palin is that it was the last time that Republicans tried to use a greedy, fundamentalist hypocrite to try and sucker in votes.
