dahmers love zombie: ragekage: John Dewey: Only Sarah Palin could get 100+ comments before hitting the main page.

The Caturday thread is well on it's way.

Not sure what comparison you want to draw from that.

Threads focusing on illiterate pussy tend to be really active?

Holy shiat, you win a million internets.

I actually choked on my bagel while reading this. There ought to be a warning on this post.

Bathia_Mapes: Which one?

All of them.

Who else is putting in a pre-order for "Nailin' Palin 2: Women's Prison."

museisluse: On the national level, Rangel, Franks, Murtha, Dodd etc., are STILL on the national scene. Where is the outrage?!?

Doesn't matter. If she's corrupt she needs to go even if the far more corrupt dirtballs you mention never suffer any consequences.

If that means prison, so be it. The max. Seal the farking vault.

At this point, with as much money as there is rolling into and out of DC, it's safest to assume they are all on the take until they repeatedly and regularly prove otherwise.

dorko16: Might anyone have a link to the old Palin/Biden photoshop thread? The google does nothing.



Now with more meaning

FishingWithFredo: If you want the equivalent of Palin put on Obama, first when he announced his presidential run Obama:

1. Should have been given an immediate quiz on his feelings on Uzbekistan.

Naturally. Because this is the equivalent to such hard hitting topics as "What do you read?"


2. Had stories on how Sasha and Malia may not even be his kids -- in the mainstream media; not some obscure Freep-like site.


When was this ever in the mainstream media? And how is this any different than the constant accusations that he is a Kenyan Muslim?


3.Have stories on how Sasha and/or Malia are the class slut in their elementary school. And then do mainstream media stories on the kid in class who's banging Sasha.


Sarah Palin goes to great lengths to force her bizarre "abstinence only" beliefs into public policy. Her daughter ended up pregnant at 17.


4. Have endless stories on how unqualified Obama is because he's never run a business, a city, a state. Daily stories. Non-stop stories.

First, Obama did get a healthy dose of the "unqualified" treatment from the media. Second, Sarah Palin was governor of a state with a population on par with Columbus Ohio for not even two years before being tapped for VP. She wasn't experienced. At all.


5. Have his intelligence questioned endlessly for the times he sounded dumb when his teleprompter stopped working correctly. Or when he "uuhhhhed" his way through an interminable sentence.


There's a difference between being caught off-guard by technical difficulty and a complete and total ignorance of every aspect of the job you're campaigning for. Palin pretended in front of a national audience that she played a part of US-Russian relations every time Vladimir Putin "rears his head." I mean, that's what I think she was saying since she fell to pieces talking to Katie Couric. This is who the GOP wanted to lead them, somebody who couldn't maintain her composure while talking to a vapid network news anchor.


Then you'd be getting warm.

/Palin is toast
//Don't like Palin
///The media was unfair to her, her family, McCain and Hillary Clinton, because they had an agenda.
////Mission Accomplished!


Sarah Barracuda, the mavericky bulldog with lipstick wasn't tough enough to deal with the standard media treatment. Good thing she didn't get elected to anything important.

Jakevol2: lstywnch: wejash: belonging in inernment camps.

I miss skookum

A moment of silence. please

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jules_siegel: Jakevol2: lstywnch: wejash: belonging in inernment camps.

I miss skookum

A moment of silence. please

The greatest troll of all time.

Wait! skookum was a troll?!?!

Occam's Chainsaw: Mordant: they get so used to projecting themselves as victims that they actually start to believe it.

The last decade or so has been a constant cycle of the GOP manufacturing shiny new lies, then eventually buying into their own lie. It's like watching an Ouroboros eat itself, except the Ouroboros doesn't take everything else with it in the process.

When do you think global saturation will be complete?

excuse me, but where are all the folks who keep telling me that the democrats are 'angry' with palin, because we're afraid of her..... where'd you all go?

SilentStrider: dorko16: Might anyone have a link to the old Palin/Biden photoshop thread? The google does nothing.

here you go (new window)

from that thread:

GratuityIncluded: More pointedly, you're a bigot if you don't give her the chance to prove it. On what basis do you confine her? Media??? Be open. Zealot. That type of behavior is evil and wrong. You'll be shown to be wrong when time rolls on.

yes cause if time has shown us anything conservatives are usually in the right.....

todangst: excuse me, but where are all the folks who keep telling me that the democrats are 'angry' with palin, because we're afraid of her..... where'd you all go?

No. Get it right. You hate her because you're afraid of her.

FishingWithFredo: detfrost1: Asking someone what farking magazines they read, and they can't even farking read one is a hit job!?

Palin had figured out that Couric wasn't there to do an impartial interview, and was there to play "Gotcha!" on behalf of the political party she works for.

Palin wasn't experienced enough, however, to just get up and walk out of the interview; instead she shut down, and it came off looking bad.

There was also selective editing of the interview to make her look more extreme and less informed.


Asking someone what the Bush Doctrine is, in her opinion, and she can't even bullshiat her way through that is a hit job!?

What the fark is the Bush Doctrine? Charles Krauthammer said it changed four times, and Charlie Gibson's reference wasn't the most up-to-date one. Krauthammer's only the one who invented the term and first discussed the Bush Doctrine, and is only about 1,052 times smarter than you or me.

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Right. You keep holding your liberal meme close at night. Yep, Sarah Palin's the stupidest person who ever walked the earth.

(But what about when she performed better in the debate than Joe "Gaffe-a-Minute" Biden?)

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You're farking up our politically contrived personal attacks and ridicule!

ALL she had to say regarding the Bush Doctrine, (incidentally ANY president has a "Doctrine" when they are done with office, go back to 9th grade history)....was
PREEMPTIVE STRIKES TO AVOID TERROR ON OUR HOME SOIL it wouldn't have been 100% accurate, or a complete answer, but she would have gotten a farking pass for just saying that.
She couldn't even come up with that!

SpyVsSpy: If you can find endless footage of Obama answering a question with a sentence that never ends, goes off on bizarre tangents, and makes no sense whatsoever at the end--and he does this as often as she did-- we'll get back to you.

Very good post SpyvsSpy

Salt Lick Steady: todangst: excuse me, but where are all the folks who keep telling me that the democrats are 'angry' with palin, because we're afraid of her..... where'd you all go?

No. Get it right. You hate her because you're afraid of her.

Um., that's what I just said.

oops - angry/hate.....

todangst: No. Get it right. You hate her because you're afraid of her.

Um., that's what I just said.

Anger is not the same as hate.

When she takes her clothes off those tits hit the ground.

"No, no. Don't let them out." Walter Matthau in A New Leaf

I can't seem to interpret this resignation of Palin's as "sudden" like alot of others around here.

Considering how much of a train wreck she's been for her party, for McCain, for her family, for herself the only thing that surprises me is that she waited this frigging long.

You might say, her term as governor has been...aborted?

Wake me when a credible source has this story

jcooli09: Wake me when a credible source has this story

What story? That she resigned? Here's a link to her resignation speech:

Link (new window)

elchip: GAT_00: Oh, that is hilarious.

Not as hilarious as

\from Jimmy Devil Rocket Science in the previous thread

Damn A-Rod!

Thorndyke Barnhard: I can't seem to interpret this resignation of Palin's as "sudden" like alot of others around here.

Considering how much of a train wreck she's been for her party, for McCain, for her family, for herself the only thing that surprises me is that she waited this frigging long.

It's sudden as in no one saw it coming. Neither her supporters or her detractors were dropping hints that 'something big' was on it's way concerning Palin. The rumor that there are Federal charges seems weak to me, as usually someone leaks this type of information to the press no matter how tight they try to keep a cover on it. But there hasn't been any creditable rumors floating around about a Palin Federal investigation. I am sure there have been some blogs about it, but there are nutcase blogs on both sides of the political aisle. No one with a good track record was saying anything was about to happen, so that's why it's 'sudden'.

brigid_fitch: jcooli09: Wake me when a credible source has this story

What story? That she resigned? Here's a link to her resignation speech:

Link (new window)

Jesus, the transcript was painful to read, but it was even worse coming out of someone very obviously pissed. The transcript at least seemed like they were aiming for playful, but pointed... but watching it, you could practically see the bile spewing out of her mouth.

elchip: "Wonder if Barry found some damning dirt on her. All the potential 2012 candidates for the GOP have been dropping like flies lately. Chicago thug politics at work."

Freepers don't think very much. You have to think "who benefits" and it isn't Obama, it's the Republican contenders for 2012, and the party brand as a whole since the people going down have been vocal morons. While these folks still had loud voices, it was going to be hard to get everyone other then the right-wing moron base to take the party seriously. They're not winning until they can bring the independents back. Palin and Sanford would drive them away.

I have to say it was quite entertaining to see FishingWithFredo go out of his way to say he hates Palin all the while defendinf her like he always does, as a complete and innocent victim undeserving of any criticism whatsoever.

"I don't like her, she's just my queen that I worship".

i love all the complaints about a double standard as if a double standard wouldn't be entirely justifiable when comparing someone who needed 5 colleges in 6 years for a journalism degree against the prez of the harvard law review. we're talking about completely different calibers of people here.

jules_siegel: todangst: No. Get it right. You hate her because you're afraid of her.

Um., that's what I just said.

Anger is not the same as hate.

already corrected it, and it was never made clear that 'hate' was the operative word here....

brigid_fitch: What story? That she resigned? Here's a link to her resignation speech:

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the baseless speculation that is the article linked. Nobody knows why she resigned and it was a shock to most people, so speculation is rampant. Those who support her knee-jerked into the "OMFG She's running in 2012" (myself included) and those who dislike her knee-jerked into the "OMFG SCANDAL!" corner. It was bound to happen.

As many have pointed out, this *could* be a bid for 2012 but that's fairly unlikely. This *could* be about a scandal, but that too is highly unlikely; resigning this soon before hand only draws attention to it, not help in burying it.

The most likely scenario is, as someone wiser than myself pointed out, that she's taking the Nixon route. She will sit out 2012 and instead work on other campaigns, do fund raisers for the party, travel around and collect some political favors while building contacts and getting the National Experience she truly needs to mount a successful campaign.

2016 is the far more likely date that we'll see Palin come out strong nationally imho. She's probably gambling correctly that Obama is going to be very hard to beat in 2012 so it's better to go below the radar and build strength, let other Republicans try to hammer Obama, and if, by chance, a Republican wins in 2016, she's young enough to make a viable shot at 2020 and beyond.

She's not done politically imho, but we won't be seeing much of her until shortly before Primaries where she'll just be a prominent keynote speaker for people.

senator_mendoza: i love all the complaints about a double standard as if a double standard wouldn't be entirely justifiable when comparing someone who needed 5 colleges in 6 years for a journalism degree against the prez of the harvard law review. we're talking about completely different calibers of people here.

Yea, because we know only the truly worthy people are those with enough money and 'contacts' to get into the "right" schools no?

Judging a persons capacity for intellect based only upon their choice of schooling and desired profession not only makes you an elitist prick who feels duty bound to be lead by your "betters", but an ignorant one at that. (Though one could say they are one in the same).

/Your Harvard Law Review President sure seems comfortable violating the spirit of the Constitution though so he's got that going for him.

chipspastic: jules_siegel: Jakevol2: lstywnch: wejash: belonging in inernment camps.

I miss skookum

A moment of silence. please

The greatest troll of all time.

Wait! skookum was a troll?!?!

Skookum is whidbey's alt, I recall the thread when he accidentally outed himself. I'm pretty sure libbynomore2 is danlpoon (I believe he got mixed up on his posting accts while "traveling" and outed himself.

FeedTheCollapse: brigid_fitch: jcooli09: Wake me when a credible source has this story

What story? That she resigned? Here's a link to her resignation speech:

Link (new window)

Jesus, the transcript was painful to read, but it was even worse coming out of someone very obviously pissed. The transcript at least seemed like they were aiming for playful, but pointed... but watching it, you could practically see the bile spewing out of her mouth.

Yeah, something must have happened. I read that she was talking to an AK legislator on Wed. about enacting some sort of abortion restriction and then 2 days later she announces she's quitting?

There are rumors about some fishy relationship w/a builder who may have built their house as well as a multi-million dollar sports complex in Wasilla when she was mayor, but they're just rumors right now.

It could just be that she's gearing up for the 2012 election. By leaving AK, she can concentrate on that & won't lose a day traveling to key states. However, that doesn't explain the hastily-called press conference that you watched, or why she's so obviously pissed.

But you have to love the wild animal noises in the background. :)

The Only Good Moran: I have to say it was quite entertaining to see FishingWithFredo go out of his way to say he hates Palin all the while defendinf her like he always does, as a complete and innocent victim undeserving of any criticism whatsoever.

"I don't like her, she's just my queen that I worship".

If the MSM, none of which have an army, navy, airforce, covert forces, intelligence service or secret police to direct campaigns against her or her state is capable of driving her from office, how is she supposed to stand up to Russia (I know, she can see it), China and all the other nations which might find it convenient to use all of the above services against her? Because that could include leaking bad or stupid things about her and her government to the MSM. And they already know that that hurts her feelings and makes her quit.

Bender The Offender: chipspastic: Wait! skookum was a troll?!?!

Skookum is whidbey's alt, I recall the thread when he accidentally outed himself. I'm pretty sure libbynomore2 is danlpoon (I believe he got mixed up on his posting accts while "traveling" and outed himself.

Thanks...I guess. As a token of my appreciation, let me bestow upon you this gift of a new sarcasm detector:

CanisNoir: Those who support her knee-jerked into the "OMFG She's running in 2012" (myself included) and those who dislike her knee-jerked into the "OMFG SCANDAL!" corner. It was bound to happen.

I find it so difficult to understand why you support her. I can't see anything about her that inspires confidence, and the resignation speech itself seems ... well, I can't say it's her finest hour.

Honestly, I'm not trying to troll or anything. I respect your opinions, but your support of her I simply do not get. Yes, I can see she energises the base -- but I see that as a rather different point: supporting someone who is useful, rather than someone whose views coincide with your own.

CanisNoir: brigid_fitch: What story? That she resigned? Here's a link to her resignation speech:

I'm pretty sure they were referring to the baseless speculation that is the article linked. Nobody knows why she resigned and it was a shock to most people, so speculation is rampant. Those who support her knee-jerked into the "OMFG She's running in 2012" (myself included) and those who dislike her knee-jerked into the "OMFG SCANDAL!" corner. It was bound to happen.

As many have pointed out, this *could* be a bid for 2012 but that's fairly unlikely. This *could* be about a scandal, but that too is highly unlikely; resigning this soon before hand only draws attention to it, not help in burying it.

The most likely scenario is, as someone wiser than myself pointed out, that she's taking the Nixon route. She will sit out 2012 and instead work on other campaigns, do fund raisers for the party, travel around and collect some political favors while building contacts and getting the National Experience she truly needs to mount a successful campaign.

2016 is the far more likely date that we'll see Palin come out strong nationally imho. She's probably gambling correctly that Obama is going to be very hard to beat in 2012 so it's better to go below the radar and build strength, let other Republicans try to hammer Obama, and if, by chance, a Republican wins in 2016, she's young enough to make a viable shot at 2020 and beyond.

She's not done politically imho, but we won't be seeing much of her until shortly before Primaries where she'll just be a prominent keynote speaker for people.

It didn't take you very long to go from denial to bargaining.

I actually think you are in the first stages of depression. My guess is you will be out of by the time the Repubs take another beating in 2010 and finally accept that the object of your unrequited puppy-dog love is Fertig! Verfallen! Verlumpt! Verblunget! Verkackt!

CanisNoir: I'm pretty sure they were referring to the baseless speculation that is the article linked.

Ah, thank you. Yes, I know rumors & speculation are flying right now and I'm pretty much in the "OMG SCANDAL" camp. It's just too odd to call a press conference about this so quickly that only a handful of journalists can actually make it. It also doesn't explain why she looks so pissed during it.

But if she does plan to fly under the radar as you suggest, that would be pretty interesting to see. I honestly don't think she can. Her supporters are too vocal and, quite frankly, I really don't think she's smart enough to keep her mouth shut for that long. And by quitting 2 years before her term is up, that leaves her with even LESS qualifications for president.

Again, should be interesting to see how this unfolds.

St_Francis_P: deadapostle: St_Francis_P: 2xhelix: If this is true, I'm gonna need a hell of a lot of popcorn.

Yeah, it's going to be a circus.

With a source like The Brad Blog, how could it be false?

It very well might be. It does explain the snappy resignation.

Correlation .....

brigid_fitch: Ah, thank you. Yes, I know rumors & speculation are flying right now and I'm pretty much in the "OMG SCANDAL" camp. It's just too odd to call a press conference about this so quickly that only a handful of journalists can actually make it. It also doesn't explain why she looks so pissed during it.

I don't like Palin, but I also don't like baseless rumors. IF there is something substantial to the scandal rumors then nothing has made it to semi-reputable news sources yet. Of course, MJ having died seems to have bumped almost everything else off of news services, so that may be part of the problem. But until there is some evidence to back up the claims, I won't believe them.

And she was largely the reason I voted against McCain, so I don't have any reason to support her.

Damn, I had some sort of sex scandal (someone in her family) in the pool. PLain ol' embezzlement, graft, and coverups? Bo-ring.

CanisNoir: senator_mendoza: i love all the complaints about a double standard as if a double standard wouldn't be entirely justifiable when comparing someone who needed 5 colleges in 6 years for a journalism degree against the prez of the harvard law review. we're talking about completely different calibers of people here.

Yea, because we know only the truly worthy people are those with enough money and 'contacts' to get into the "right" schools no?

Judging a persons capacity for intellect based only upon their choice of schooling and desired profession not only makes you an elitist prick who feels duty bound to be lead by your "betters", but an ignorant one at that. (Though one could say they are one in the same).

/Your Harvard Law Review President sure seems comfortable violating the spirit of the Constitution though so he's got that going for him.

Mustard.

While I won't believe it until I see something a bit more substantial than Brad's Blog, I really don't understand why you would give a resignation speech without resigning...

Like... isn't the entire point of calling a press conference and giving a speech to clarify why you're doing something, not just to announce that you're doing it?

If she just wanted out, she could have just resigned.

I are confused :L

PartTimeBuddha: I find it so difficult to understand why you support her.

To say I *support her* I think goes a bit overboard; I was always a tad wary. I liked her during the campaign because I felt the duo of McCain\Palin was a good one; McCain was an experienced moderate while Palin was an inexperienced but passionate small government type who knew a whole lot about Energy. To me I felt she could learn the ropes at McCain's feet and come out strong in four to eight years with that type of experience; I wasn't in the camp that thought McCain would stroke out the moment his hand left the bible so I never feared her actually having to be President within four years.

After the campaign I became more of an interested party; I still like her small government, fiscally conservative ideal's and she does know a shait ton about energy and environmental conservation. However, I liked her as second bannanna but still felt she lacked experience on National Issues.

So, I don't support her as much as see tremendous potential in her; it's up to her to live up to that :)

brigid_fitch: And by quitting 2 years before her term is up, that leaves her with even LESS qualifications for president.

I think Obama put the whole "Executive Experience" argument to rest; there's no way that could hit her without a boomerang effect coming back to slam the Dem who used it.

Americans have short memories and if she can go on to do great "background" things, I think quitting 2 years early is easily spinnable, especially in a few years when peoples memories are more faded and they are more susceptible to the "old news is boring" syndrome.

error 303: While I won't believe it until I see something a bit more substantial than Brad's Blog, I really don't understand why you would give a resignation speech without resigning...

Like... isn't the entire point of calling a press conference and giving a speech to clarify why you're doing something, not just to announce that you're doing it?

If she just wanted out, she could have just resigned.

I are confused :L

She did resign. She didn't use those exact words, but she said she was turning over her power to her lieutenant governor. She didn't say she was doing it temporarily, or that she would be back or anything, so that's a resignation if I ever heard one.

The Only Good Moran: Mustard.

I happily and proudly have...


/hot like a good mustard

...and only that in my fridge.

Suck it libby's ;P

CanisNoir: PartTimeBuddha: I find it so difficult to understand why you support her.

To say I *support her* I think goes a bit overboard; I was always a tad wary. I liked her during the campaign because I felt the duo of McCain\Palin was a good one; McCain was an experienced moderate while Palin was an inexperienced but passionate small government type who knew a whole lot about Energy. To me I felt she could learn the ropes at McCain's feet and come out strong in four to eight years with that type of experience; I wasn't in the camp that thought McCain would stroke out the moment his hand left the bible so I never feared her actually having to be President within four years.

After the campaign I became more of an interested party; I still like her small government, fiscally conservative ideal's and she does know a shait ton about energy and environmental conservation. However, I liked her as second bannanna but still felt she lacked experience on National Issues.

So, I don't support her as much as see tremendous potential in her; it's up to her to live up to that :)

brigid_fitch: And by quitting 2 years before her term is up, that leaves her with even LESS qualifications for president.

I think Obama put the whole "Executive Experience" argument to rest; there's no way that could hit her without a boomerang effect coming back to slam the Dem who used it.

Americans have short memories and if she can go on to do great "background" things, I think quitting 2 years early is easily spinnable, especially in a few years when peoples memories are more faded and they are more susceptible to the "old news is boring" syndrome.

Of course you think its spinnable, you'll be spinning it as the single greatest move of her life for years to come most likely, regardless of the outcome.