There should be a Palin tag. Really.

I don't care what party Ted Stevens is with, it always warms my cockles to see an incumbent thrown screaming out of office.

Now, I'm not calling her retarded, but her IQ has got to be below 70.

beerrun: There should be a Palin tag. Really.

Feel free to use it.

And thus the quest to destroy all who dared to oppose the Chosen One continues.

There she goes being helpful to her party again.

randomjsa: And thus the quest to destroy all who dared to oppose the Chosen One continues.

Ted Stevens is the "Chosen One"?

All that Glenn Beck is rotting your brain, pal.

randomjsa: And thus the quest to destroy all who dared to oppose the Chosen One continues.

I was not aware that Sarah Palin was the chosen one. Well, in any case could not happen to a more ridiculous politician.

Marcus Aurelius: I don't care what party Ted Stevens is with, it always warms my cockles to see an incumbent thrown screaming out of office.



I am going to have to agree with you on this one.

Phil Herup
Marcus Aurelius: I don't care what party Ted Stevens is with, it always warms my cockles to see an incumbent thrown screaming out of office.

I am going to have to agree with you on this one.


I love it when you make sense!

Why has the Republican party become such a freak magnet?

smeegle
Why has the Republican party become such a freak magnet?

Density. So many people went to the Repub side that the freak shows pop up more regularly. Now that so many people switched to the Dems, expect to hear a bunch of similar stories (Although, there never as entertaining since they don't espouse the same 'family values' principles that make the Repubs so hypocritical, and thereby, hilarious).

dinch: never as entertaining


c'mon....





/plenty of fun on both sides

I want a pony but I don't want a pony so that I can have a pony.
-Sarah 'ZOMG!...PONIES!!' Palin


/hot like a pony with no name

Phil Herup: c'mon....

/plenty of fun on both sides

True, but the elevation to VP nominee by the national convention?!?

dinch: smeegle
Why has the Republican party become such a freak magnet?

Density. So many people went to the Repub side that the freak shows pop up more regularly. Now that so many people switched to the Dems, expect to hear a bunch of similar stories (Although, there never as entertaining since they don't espouse the same 'family values' principles that make the Repubs so hypocritical, and thereby, hilarious).


Good point. The "family values" freaks may soon be without a party. They have completely destroyed the GOP.

Just wait until the 2010 oil dividend is something like $30. Even Todd won't vote to re-elect her.

Then she'll move to LA and start her own talk show -- "You Betcha" -- for the start-up cable network Real American TV

Phil Herup: dinch: never as entertaining


c'mon....

/plenty of fun on both sides

Yes. A former congresswoman who lost her own party's primary is the same thing as the most recent vice-presidential nominee, whom many believe is the future of her party.

Exactly the same thing.

Im_Gumby: smeegle:Good point. The "family values" freaks may soon be without a party. They have completely destroyed the GOP.

One can only hope.

If only they had done it without hurting the country first.

randomjsa: And thus the quest to destroy all who dared to oppose the Chosen One continues.

No, it's the quest to embarrass the hell out of you idiots who supported this woman for VICE FREAKING PRESIDENT after seeing her in press releases for 60 days and knowing nothing about her.

Now, you get to learn more about who you almost put into power.

Bite down on that pillow. The next couple of years are gonna hurt.

EZ1923: A former congresswoman who lost her own party's primary is the same thing as the most recent vice-presidential nominee


Before this gets out of context any more I would like to point out that that the comment was initially directed at Ted Stevens, not Palin.

randomjsa: And thus the quest to destroy all who dared to oppose the Chosen One continues.

I'm not sure you can count driving a horde of moderates into the arms of Democrats as "opposition."

dinch - smeegle
Why has the Republican party become such a freak magnet?

Density. So many people went to the Repub side that the freak shows pop up more regularly. Now that so many people switched to the Dems, expect to hear a bunch of similar stories (Although, there never as entertaining since they don't espouse the same 'family values' principles that make the Repubs so hypocritical, and thereby, hilarious).


I disagree. I chalk it up to the WWE factor. Look at popular conservative commentators like Coulter, Limbaugh, Beck, and to a slightly lesser degree O'Reilly and Hannity... and look at how similar they are to wrestling.

Look at Beck's "setting my co-worker on fire" skit that's just a few links away... tell me that doesn't remind you of some between-matches theater that Vince McMahon would put on.

The GOP used these lowest common denominator proxies to draw in the dumbest people imaginable and now they're collapsing under the weight of them because they can't win an election without them.

It's not sheer numbers, it was marketing strategy... It just backfired. They deliberately sought out the crazy and stupid who normally wouldn't have had any interest in politics, and they did it by using these guys to present it in wrestling-style theatrics (complete with "heroes" and "heels",) amd banging the drum on issues they knew would rile them up like gay marriage, immigration, War on Christmas, 'Under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, "liberals want to ban the Bible," "let's make English America's official language," "liberals hate the soldiers who are fighting for our freedoms!!!"

They just mistakenly thought they could control the monster once they created it.

It's really funny to see how terrified liberals are about Palin.

Phil Herup: /plenty of fun on both sides

Both sides:

GOP and Green Party

Euell Gibbons: It's really funny to see how terrified liberals are about Palin.

Man, I really hope that's what people believe.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Just wait until the 2010 oil dividend is something like $30. Even Todd won't vote to re-elect her.

Then she'll move to LA and start her own talk show -- "You Betcha" -- for the start-up cable network Real American TV

I figured she'd just get the spot behind O'Reilly and Beck on Fox.

beerrun: There should be a Palin tag. Really.

There's enough of this inconsequential garbage to warrant her own TAB at this point.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Just wait until the 2010 oil dividend is something allotment like $30. Even Todd won't vote to re-elect her.

Speaking as someone who lives in a state with a negative federal
tax burden (we give more than we get), how is it that Alaska gets gets $1.84 for every dollar they put into the federal treasury, but still sees fit to do this oil dividend? I have ZERO issue with my state funding the education and development of other states: those in need, working for a brighter future, etc, etc, etc. Yet it seems quite asinine to me to fund a state's revenue redistribution scheme, which seems the case with Alaska. I am sure someone from Alaska would see this quite differently than I would.

Euell Gibbons: It's really funny to see how terrified liberals are about Palin.

It's funnier to see people defending a politician they know nothing about simply because some marketing firm chose her for the GOP ticket.

I'll bet you click on all those, "Free iPod!" ads....

Euell Gibbons: It's really funny to see how terrified liberals are about Palin.

Yes, my God, PLEASE DO NOT NOMINATE THIS WOMAN IN 2012!!!

Phil Herup
dinch: never as entertaining

c'mon....

/plenty of fun on both sides

True, the beauty of McKinney (sp?) is the pure, all out, craziness. What makes it not quite as entertaining is that there are much fewer people willing to step up and say 'Oh look, the republicans are scared of McKinney so they attack her'.

But yeah, that sh*t's funny.

technicolor-misfit: Look at Beck's "setting my co-worker on fire" skit that's just a few links away... tell me that doesn't remind you of some between-matches theater that Vince McMahon would put on.

Worse--Look at this

Your complacency will only aid and abet our national suicide. Remember, they wouldn't dare bomb Pearl Harbor, but they did. They wouldn't dare drive two planes into the World Trade Center, but they did. They wouldn't dare pilot a plane through the most sophisticated air defenses in the world and crash into the Pentagon, but they did. They wouldn't dare pass the largest spending bill in history, in open defiance of the will of the people, but they did!

See, it's simple. Obama and the Democrats in congress are the moral equivalent of the Tojo-era Japanese and Osama bin Laden.

Thomas Paine told me so.

/Hmm...What would a red-blooded, country-lovin' American do when Osama bin Laden is running the country? Hmm........I just wonder.

Ex Parte Gilligan: Mr. Coffee Nerves: Just wait until the 2010 oil dividend is something allotment like $30. Even Todd won't vote to re-elect her.

Speaking as someone who lives in a state with a negative federal
tax burden (we give more than we get), how is it that Alaska gets gets $1.84 for every dollar they put into the federal treasury, but still sees fit to do this oil dividend? I have ZERO issue with my state funding the education and development of other states: those in need, working for a brighter future, etc, etc, etc. Yet it seems quite asinine to me to fund a state's revenue redistribution scheme, which seems the case with Alaska. I am sure someone from Alaska would see this quite differently than I would.

A good deal of the money that comes into Alaska is to fund projects on federal land, such as military bases and wildlife refuges. A lot also goes for scientific studies, as Alaska has great opportunities for studying weather and geological phenomena.

There are only 600,000 people there. Do the math.

technicolor-misfit
I disagree. I chalk it up to the WWE factor.

Heh, good point. Still though, I think the reason it's so crazy is the sheer number of crazy involved. If there were fewer crazies we wouldn't be seeing the cream of the crop. It'd be more amateur and less entertaining.

Ex Parte Gilligan: Yes, my God, PLEASE DO NOT NOMINATE THIS WOMAN IN 2012!!!

I sit up at nights in fear that this will happen. Our savior Obama will have had to make some difficult decisions by then, and the fickle public just may abandon him for a strong, experienced leader and someone who could be the first woman president.

_/snort

Euell Gibbons: It's really funny to see how terrified liberals are about Palin.

Yeah...us liberals are so terrified of Palin that we hope...no, we PRAY that she is the GOP nominee in 2012. That's how terrified we are of her.

Lenny_da_Hog: There are only 600,000 people there. Do the math.

I have. This state, which has a population less than the number of students in the NYC school system, the island of Manhattan, or 17 cities in the lower 48, last year paid a dividend of $2,069.00 to each resident "without a felony conviction who have resided in the state for at least one calendar year preceding the date applied for a dividend and intend to remain an Alaska resident indefinitely at the time applied for a dividend". That makes the redistribution a little over one billion dollars, which is why it is a quandary to me the state has the unmitigated gall to ask for federal dollars or any state-related infrastructure, or that this Governor feels she can speak from a position of fiscal rectitude.

dinch - Heh, good point. Still though, I think the reason it's so crazy is the sheer number of crazy involved. If there were fewer crazies we wouldn't be seeing the cream of the crop. It'd be more amateur and less entertaining.


Oh, definitely... I just wanted to express that I think there's a major qualitative difference along with the quantitative.

Phil Herup:

Yeah nice comparison between Stevens and McKinney. I used to live in Atlanta when she lost her seat to some Yale lawyer. If you think she's crazy her dad is insane. Yeah plenty of crazy to go around but when will it stop?

Ex Parte Gilligan: Lenny_da_Hog: There are only 600,000 people there. Do the math.

I have. This state, which has a population less than the number of students in the NYC school system, the island of Manhattan, or 17 cities in the lower 48, last year paid a dividend of $2,069.00 to each resident "without a felony conviction who have resided in the state for at least one calendar year preceding the date applied for a dividend and intend to remain an Alaska resident indefinitely at the time applied for a dividend". That makes the redistribution a little over one billion dollars, which is why it is a quandary to me the state has the unmitigated gall to ask for federal dollars or any state-related infrastructure, or that this Governor feels she can speak from a position of fiscal rectitude.

This is a woman who used abortion issues to get elected mayor of Wassila. The concept of shame has never penetrated her skull.

Skleenar - technicolor-misfit: Look at Beck's "setting my co-worker on fire" skit that's just a few links away... tell me that doesn't remind you of some between-matches theater that Vince McMahon would put on.

Worse--Look at this

Your complacency will only aid and abet our national suicide. Remember, they wouldn't dare bomb Pearl Harbor, but they did. They wouldn't dare drive two planes into the World Trade Center, but they did. They wouldn't dare pilot a plane through the most sophisticated air defenses in the world and crash into the Pentagon, but they did. They wouldn't dare pass the largest spending bill in history, in open defiance of the will of the people, but they did!



See, it's simple. Obama and the Democrats in congress are the moral equivalent of the Tojo-era Japanese and Osama bin Laden.

Thomas Paine told me so.

/Hmm...What would a red-blooded, country-lovin' American do when Osama bin Laden is running the country? Hmm........I just wonder.


Unbelievable.

...adn disgraceful.

Ex Parte Gilligan: Lenny_da_Hog: There are only 600,000 people there. Do the math.

I have. This state, which has a population less than the number of students in the NYC school system, the island of Manhattan, or 17 cities in the lower 48, last year paid a dividend of $2,069.00 to each resident "without a felony conviction who have resided in the state for at least one calendar year preceding the date applied for a dividend and intend to remain an Alaska resident indefinitely at the time applied for a dividend". That makes the redistribution a little over one billion dollars, which is why it is a quandary to me the state has the unmitigated gall to ask for federal dollars or any state-related infrastructure, or that this Governor feels she can speak from a position of fiscal rectitude.

Again, you're missing the point. The money comes in for *federal* projects. The state's residents are largely employed by the government, doing the work of the government over an area better than twice the size of Texas.

Do you expect a state government to pay for federal projects?

Alaska has its own capital budget, and spends quite a bit on its own projects.

I'm not saying it's just an accounting trick and Alaskans don't get more than they put in -- that comes from having a congressional delegation with a LOT of seniority, which they've just about lost now. It's just that it's not as much of a welfare state as you're trying to make it sound.

Ex Parte Gilligan: intend to remain an Alaska resident indefinitely at the time applied for a dividend

I had no idea residents had to proactively apply for the dividend. That makes her rhetoric especially hypocritical. If she or her family members apply for the dividend over the next three years it will no doubt be used against her by her own party if she tries to run for president in 2012.

Palin scares women. Except for a few (Teabaggers) all of the women I know find her condescending and nasty. They know there's nothing behind those dead eyes but hate and an unending lust for power, for power's sake. My wife nailed it, "She's like that teacher we had all of those problems with last year, remember? She didn't have a clue about what she was doing, but loved to show you that SHE was in charge." Bingo.

Power for Power's sake is dangerous. This woman has zero clue about policy, the use of power in actualizing policy or history even. She only knows she wants power, all of it, forever.

This evil coont would make Bush look like a Rhodes scholar.

Vapid.

Vacuous.

Vain.

Euell Gibbons: It's really funny to see how terrified liberals are about Palin.

Actually any conservative worth his or her salt should be terrified of Palin. See, the idea behind a two party system should be that the opposition party would come up with a different set of solutions to the problems of the day. That way, the voters have a choice on election day as to which party has better ideas in regards to governance.

Instead, the Republican movers and shakers have decided to go completely insane. Instead of a real alternative to the ARRA, we get the silly-ass tea party movement and a call to cut the estate tax.

Once it was clear (and it was clear to anyone who was paying attention) that the Democrats were going to pick up seats in the house and take control of the Senate, we could have heard a campaign about the upside of divided government. Instead we ended up hearing about Bill Ayers and "palling around with terrorists".

Instead of coming up with a leaner budget, we get Bobby Jindal talking about wasteful spending like making sure we know if Mt ReDedoubt is foung to explode, and we get John McCain twittering about all the line items in the budget that he doesn't understand.

But hey, as long as it pisses "libs" off, you may as well keep at it, amirite? And when the republican party is limited to the 25% of the country who calls everyone a socialist, you can all sit around and try to convince yourselves that the only reason you're losing is that you aren't right-wing enough.

I'm not a "liberal", though I'm sure you would classify as such because you're an imbecile, but the Palins and the Becks and the Bachmanns *do* terrify me. Why? Because this is roughly how our political discourse is going:

Country: "Hey, we have a problem with X."

Democrats: "Here's a solution we think will work!"

Republicans: "Wrong! Now watch us beat our testicles with meat cleavers to show how strongly we oppose this plan!"

Country: "Ummm....So, I guess we go with the Dem's plan then?"

Fark: "Holy crap! Did you see what the Republicans are doing? That looks painful and stupid. Let's mock it!"

You: "Ha ha. The libs are scared. Look at my yambag, libs. *Pound* *Pound* *Pound*"

House of Tards: Instead we ended up hearing about Bill Ayers and "palling around with terrorists".

Also kinda funny when you learn that Palin is palling around with Hugo Chavez -- for the 3rd year in a row, Chavez and Citgo are providing fuel subsidies to Alaskan villagers so the state doesn't have to.

But she still wants a new election? This isn't farking 'Nam. There are rules.

This woman's a train wreck.