FTFA:

Kristol cited a passage in Purdum's piece in which "some top aides" were said to worry about the Alaska governor's "mental state" and the prospect that the Alaska governor may be suffering from post-partum depression following the birth of her son Trig. "In fact, one aide who raised this possibility in the course of trashing Palin's mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign was Steve Schmidt," Kristol wrote.

Asked about the accusation, Schmidt fired back in an e-mail: "I'm sure John McCain would be president today if only Bill Kristol had been in charge of the campaign."

"After all, his management of [former Vice President] Dan Quayle's public image as his chief of staff is still something that takes your breath away," Schmidt continued. "His attack on me is categorically false."

IronTony: biglot: IMVHO, Sarah Palin is highly charismatic, publicity hungry,

If I may interrupt your joke to point something out...

People like that make fine Facades for a presidential campaign. She's all folksy, a Washington outsider, and for some reason, people like her. Even if she doesn't have the political savvy to run the country, someone is likely to pick her up and use her as a puppet, like Bush.

Except that she's already demonstrated hostility towards her handlers and a fascination with doing things her own way. Bush was content to clear scrub at Crawford while the imperialists did all the heavy lifting. Palin would want to interject her shrill, brainless opinion at every meeting.

It's going to be Micheal Steel. Republicans will think his ethnicity will save them.

Sgt Otter: My favorite line in the article, Sarah blatantly lying about her husband's involvement in the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, and the goals of the AIP itself:

[Secession] is not part of their platform and he was only a 'member' bc independent alaskans too often check that 'Alaska Independent' box on voter registrations thinking it just means non partisan," Palin wrote. "He caught his error when changing our address and checked the right box. I still want it fixed."

Yeah, you might want to tell the AIP that Todd isn't a member and that secession isn't a part of their platform.

see and the truly frightening thing about this woman is, that I firmly believe that in her mind, once she's come up with a plausible explanation for an inconvenient truth, that explanation IS the truth, whether it started out that way or not. And since it is now truth, she gets very annoyed at the wicked people who point out facts (that are now by definition wrong) that contradict that truth

Sygerrik: Except that she's already demonstrated hostility towards her handlers and a fascination with doing things her own way.

Which is pretty much exactly how she works as Governor, and I'm pretty sure that's how she was as Mayor of Wasilla. At this point no one wants to be an appointee because it means in six months you won't have a job.

Nimnom: It's going to be Micheal Steel. Republicans will think his ethnicity will save them.

LOL i always laugh when i think of the leaders of the republicans atm. Michael Steel, Palin, Gringrich, Rush, these are the voices of the republicans atm

lstywnch

Oh good lord...

Nimnom: It's going to be Micheal Steel. Republicans will think his ethnicity will save them.

C'mon even the GOP wouldn't be that dumb. It'd be like running Alan Keyes against Barack Obama solely because both of them were black...

oh. wait....

Agent Nick Fury: Ikam: Agent Nick Fury: Nobody knew who Obama was three years before the last election.

Really? Nobody?

Perhaps, being from Chicago I knew about him sooner than the average joe did, but most people who were paying attention remember him from his 2004 keynote speech at the DNC (which is what really started his national political career, in my opinion).

There was a ballgame on that night so I must have missed it.

... and all of the newspapers the following day, the day after, the day after that...
Kerry was completely overshadowed by Obama's speech at the 2004 DNC. I know, I was there both nights.

Agent Nick Fury: Ikam: Agent Nick Fury: Nobody knew who Obama was three years before the last election.

Really? Nobody?

Perhaps, being from Chicago I knew about him sooner than the average joe did, but most people who were paying attention remember him from his 2004 keynote speech at the DNC (which is what really started his national political career, in my opinion).

There was a ballgame on that night so I must have missed it.

Indeed his senate campaign was overshadowed by the fact that the GOP couldn't get Mike Ditka to run, so they imported...ALAN KEYES...woot! Go GOP!

"That's not part of their platform and he was only a 'member' bc independent alaskans too often check that 'Alaska Independent' box on voter registrations thinking it just means non partisan," Palin wrote. "He caught his error when changing our address and checked the right box. I still want it fixed."

It was just a careless mistake, I want it fixed, make it go away. They're not really about secession anyway.

"Secession," he wrote. "It is their entire reason for existence. A cursory examination of the website shows that the party exists for the purpose of seceding from the union. That is the stated goal on the front page of the web site. Our records indicate that todd was a member for seven years. If this is incorrect then we need to understand the discrepancy. The statement you are suggesting be released would be innaccurate. The innaccuracy would bring greater media attention to this matter and be a distraction.

Damn, Palin got told.

I hope Palin does the only prudent thing and runs her own campaign next time around, she seems to really be on top of things.

I hope the media, now that they've been alerted, asks about Todds 7 year involvement with the Alaska Independent Party.

My favorite thing said about Sarah Palin was something someone said in a thread on another site...

"I met her last year. She's forged by the pressure, like a diamond, strong and sharp... raised well."

Yeah, uh huh... except when she's completely withering under the steely-eyed gaze of...

Katie Couric???


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y (new window)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXmuhWrlj4 (new window)


It was like yeah dude, I'm sure she's incredibly poised when surrounded by breathless admirers telling her how wonderful she is.

Lord_Baull
Palin without a firm grasp of national politics? Unpossible.

Just shows not only the magnitude of bad decision making by McCain, it shows the sheer level of stupidity the GOP base occupies by thinking Palin was a good choice, too.


McCain didn't have many options thanks to Bush's failures. Being a craps player he rolled the dice on Palin,and in the extreme short term it paid off with lots of coverage and lots of initial excitement. In terms of the campaign I can't really fault him for the decision. When you are losing something that bad there are no bad decisions except doing nothing. However, putting that woman in position to take over the presidency was irresponsible. This was the moment that I realized John McCain was not the earnest straight talker I had come to believe him to be, but a desperate cynic.

As far as the stupidity of Republicans, most of the Republicans I know would admit that they thought she was an idiot as long as it was a one on one conversation. Republicans voters are not stupid, they just know how to fall in line.

There were plenty of frothy mouthed Palin supporters, but there were likely just as many Obama supporters who literally knew nothing about him except that he was black and had heard him say that he was going to change things. There are a certain number of idiots in this country who can be swayed by repetitive slogans or race baiting insinuations, and that's just the way it is. Its not fair to take these idiots as representative of the greater body of the Republican or Democratic voters (though from my perspective it does seem the Republican party is much more active in making their appeals to the fearful).

Palin was in the Vice Presidential debate when she learned that winking at the American public may not be enough to carry the ticket.

Talk about someone not ready for national politics.

She is the Governor of a state with a population of less than 700K people.

But they did have Joe the Plumber to help them with credibility.

Occam's Chainsaw: That would be the single positive accomplishment of a Palin administ... okay, I can't get those two words out without choking back vomit.



'nuff said

I heard she has a stinky cooter.

salvador.hardin: Being a craps player he rolled the dice on Palin,and in the extreme short term it paid off with lots of coverage and lots of initial excitement.

This and his gamble on stopping his campaign to "fix" the economy showed the majority of voters that McCain was not a good choice to run the country.

McCain/Palin had no message.

Ball of Confusion:

Indeed his senate campaign was overshadowed by the fact that the GOP couldn't get Mike Ditka to run, so they imported...ALAN KEYES...woot! Go GOP!

Heh. His original opponent was ruined by Seven of Nine. Yes, the chick from Star Trek. No, I'm not kidding.

Sgt Otter: Ball of Confusion:

Indeed his senate campaign was overshadowed by the fact that the GOP couldn't get Mike Ditka to run, so they imported...ALAN KEYES...woot! Go GOP!

Heh. His original opponent was ruined by Seven of Nine. Yes, the chick from Star Trek. No, I'm not kidding.

He wouldn't sing with her.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: Her delusions and pettiness ideally would make her unfit to be the President of the Mat-Su Borough PTA.

Every office I've ever worked in has had a woman like Sarah Palin.

In the least painful cases she was just the crazy receptionist who would write two-page passive-aggressive notes because someone threw out a yogurt container instead of recycling it.

In the most painful cases she was the manager who stole everyone's good ideas, spent her entire day shopping online and threw tearful temper tantrums whenever anyone disagreed with her.

If I may offer a safety tip: if you work with a Sarah Palin no matter HOW many margaritas she inhales at Happy Hour and no matter how aggressively she "dances" with you, do not, under any circumstances, go home with her unless you've already turned in your two weeks notice OR the next day you're planning violent, gory suicide.

Most, if not all, women are useless baby-factories.

Theaetetus: Agent Nick Fury: Ikam: Agent Nick Fury: Nobody knew who Obama was three years before the last election.

Really? Nobody?

Perhaps, being from Chicago I knew about him sooner than the average joe did, but most people who were paying attention remember him from his 2004 keynote speech at the DNC (which is what really started his national political career, in my opinion).

There was a ballgame on that night so I must have missed it.

... and all of the newspapers the following day, the day after, the day after that...
Kerry was completely overshadowed by Obama's speech at the 2004 DNC. I know, I was there both nights.

speaking only for myself,I go invited by a friend to a fund-raising dinner for him when he was polling in 3rd place for the Democratic Senate primary. I left the building saying to that friend, "if we were the country we pretend to be, that man would be president someday instead of an Also-ran for the Senate"

technicolor-misfit: I think she'd be better compared to a tribble. Cute as hell, dumb as a post, reproduces like crazy, and can become a major problem in a hurry if left unsupervised.

Win

/hot like machine gun jubblies

Occam's Chainsaw: sepuku2: Ya'll keep focused on Palin. It gives you something to do between the navel gazing, fapping and outraged shrieks.
*snort*

So who do you like for 2012? Pawlenty? Mitt "Magic Underwear" Romney? Rudy "One State Strategy" 9iu11ani? Chucklebee? Jindall's not ready, Crist is too fabulous, and Sanford's gone full retard.



I see Huckleberry pulling it out over McFudge Rubber Gloves Magic Undies Romney. The Huckster is ALREADY laying down his ground game in Iowa, has been since right after the election. He has both the hardcore religious right and the goodie-two-shoes father figure angle, and he's from the South.

He comes off as a really nice guy, but when his beliefs become well known during debates (particularly that the world really is only 4000 years old), Obama will skewer him.

And Palin comedian Sarah Palin is already past parodying herself. She wont even get re-elected in Alaska.

Sygerrik: That said, I like Crist a bit; I'm a little troubled that he seems willing to compromise his integrity on some issues (environmentalism) to toe the Republican mainstream, and he's a bit more fiscally conservative than I would like, but he sees the way the wind is blowing. Plus, I'm like 90% sure he's gay, which means he's likely more socially liberal will sponsor legislation to have homosexuals rounded up and put in internment camps than most Republicans.

Fixed that for you. Have you not been paying attention? The closet cases are by far the most conservative.

Magorn: Theaetetus: Agent Nick Fury: Ikam: Agent Nick Fury: Nobody knew who Obama was three years before the last election.

Really? Nobody?

Perhaps, being from Chicago I knew about him sooner than the average joe did, but most people who were paying attention remember him from his 2004 keynote speech at the DNC (which is what really started his national political career, in my opinion).

There was a ballgame on that night so I must have missed it.

... and all of the newspapers the following day, the day after, the day after that...
Kerry was completely overshadowed by Obama's speech at the 2004 DNC. I know, I was there both nights.

speaking only for myself,I go invited by a friend to a fund-raising dinner for him when he was polling in 3rd place for the Democratic Senate primary. I left the building saying to that friend, "if we were the country we pretend to be, that man would be president someday instead of an Also-ran for the Senate"

Someday someone will write about this and you will be remembered as one of the Apostles.

JohnBigBootay: Sygerrik: That said, I like Crist a bit; I'm a little troubled that he seems willing to compromise his integrity on some issues (environmentalism) to toe the Republican mainstream, and he's a bit more fiscally conservative than I would like, but he sees the way the wind is blowing. Plus, I'm like 90% sure he's gay, which means he's likely more socially liberal will sponsor legislation to have homosexuals rounded up and put in internment camps than most Republicans.

Fixed that for you. Have you not been paying attention? The closet cases are by far the most conservative.


Yeah but he's not likely to be in the closet for long. As soon as he loses his Senate race he'll come out, switch parties and try again in 2016.

Agent Nick Fury: Magorn: Theaetetus: Agent Nick Fury: Ikam: Agent Nick Fury: Nobody knew who Obama was three years before the last election.

Really? Nobody?

Perhaps, being from Chicago I knew about him sooner than the average joe did, but most people who were paying attention remember him from his 2004 keynote speech at the DNC (which is what really started his national political career, in my opinion).

There was a ballgame on that night so I must have missed it.

... and all of the newspapers the following day, the day after, the day after that...
Kerry was completely overshadowed by Obama's speech at the 2004 DNC. I know, I was there both nights.

speaking only for myself,I go invited by a friend to a fund-raising dinner for him when he was polling in 3rd place for the Democratic Senate primary. I left the building saying to that friend, "if we were the country we pretend to be, that man would be president someday instead of an Also-ran for the Senate"

Someday someone will write about this and you will be remembered as one of the Apostles.

Don't you have a ballgame to be watching for the next 7 and a half years?

Davey Croquette: If Charlie Crist stays in the Republican party he's toast.

You're nuts. Crist is the new Republican. He's on a frontier Democrats don't want to admit exists.

If Crist can keep his foot out of his mouth for another 3 years, he just may have a chance. He really isn't all that bright, but the people love him. And given a choice between "Chain Gang Charlie" and 4 more years of Obama, conservatives will line up behind him.

Sarah Palin has moved on with her life and continues to have a positive impact on so many.

That is true. I am STILL laughing.

As opposed to nuking the Swamp Germans for fun, like we should be doing.

technicolor-misfit: Yeah, uh huh... except when she's completely withering under the steely-eyed gaze of...

Katie Couric???

i just can't watch parts of that interview w/out the payoff

Scerpes: If Crist can keep his foot a male escort's cock out of his mouth for another 3 years, he just may have a chance.

Oh come on. You were all thinking it.

heap: technicolor-misfit: Yeah, uh huh... except when she's completely withering under the steely-eyed gaze of...

Katie Couric???

i just can't watch parts of that interview w/out the payoff

It was painful to watch the first time, moreso now.

I don't know how to take this whole kerfuffle... that there were folk in the McCain campaign that weren't willing to put up with this crap, or that they're being vilified by people who actually think this woman could actually perform well at the highest levels of public office.

Both I guess, meaning that there are people who are conservative and not batshiat crazy, and those who are all to willing to follow the batshiat crazy.

technicolor-misfit: I certainly hope the faithful aren't swayed by these evil Democrat lies. If the Republican party is to have any chance in 2012, they MUST see through these crass smears by the Democrat Party. She is our last best hope.

Sarah, stay strong. My fellow Republicans, stray strong for Sarah. She is going to need our strength in order to lead us out of the woods.


I could not agree more! She is the parties last and only hope. God bless you Sarah Palin! God Bless you!

Cinaed: and those who are all to willing to follow the batshiat crazy.

I think that bothers me more. The moderates who are complaining that the nutjobs have taken over their party have a legitimate beef - but let's not forget that they allowed it happen. They were perfectly willing to put their so-called values on the back burner as long as it meant winning on election day. The crazies are at least sincere.

heap: i just can't watch parts of that interview w/out the payoff

Couldn't watch for longer than 20 seconds. Too painful.

AspectRatio: Couldn't watch for longer than 20 seconds. Too painful.

i feels ya, but...ffwd to the last 10 seconds.

heap: i feels ya, but...ffwd to the last 10 seconds.

Yeah, that was worth it!

Sarah Palin says (insert something stupid). (Insert Famous person) makes fun of her. Palin gets outraged. (Insert Famous person) apologizes. Palin accepts apology and says (something even more stupid) in the retort.

Rinse, repeat.

Media publishes the entire cluster fark.

FootInMouthDisease

Naw, Peggy and Cotton hate each other.

well, hated - he's dead now.

The Only Good Moran - FootInMouthDisease

Naw, Peggy and Cotton hate each other.

well, hated - he's dead now.


You think McCain and Palin don't hate each other?

If John McCain could dump her body in the desert, he'd be at Home Depot shopping for shovels right now.

And I'm sure she'd be more than happy to set him adrift on an ice floe.

He thinks she's a moron who went off-script and torpedoed any shot their campaign had... She thinks he tried to box her in and pigeonhole her and kept her from really shining and living up to what she imagines is her true potential.

but Sarah is SO pretty!

DFWPhotoGuy: Sygerrik: Occam's Chainsaw: sepuku2: Ya'll keep focused on Palin. It gives you something to do between the navel gazing, fapping and outraged shrieks.
*snort*

If Charlie Crist stays in the Republican party he's toast.

BTW, I have always kinda like Crist...is he a douche or is it ok to like him?

He's ok. By Florida standards he's one of the few sane politicians left.