this is easily one of the most significant blessings of the day.
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this is easily one of the most significant blessings of the day.
Do you honestly think she's going anywhere?
As we speak, (at least) one of two things is happening: a) she's negotiating a TV deal, b) she's planning her 2012 campaign strategy.
no there were two blessings.Quote:
Originally Posted by clambake
1. Hopefully I never have to hear the race card again -
2. Joe Biden as VP which is comedic gold.
Sarah Palin will not go away -- you fear her and she will still be around.
I'm sure glad she ended up empty handed.
I do hope she sticks around. Her unintelligible mutterings are amusing, and every time she opens her mouth she shaves off a couple percentage points from the Republicans.
This is exactly the kind of people Republicans need to run away from in order to rebuild the party and come back strong in a couple of years.
"you betcha" :winkQuote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
i fear her ignorance, and so did the rest of america.
Young enough to be around when the country swings back to conservatives.
If she educates herself, loses the "gotcha" and "You betcha" idiot remarks, and presents a clear and coherent governing plan (and Obama fucks up royally for the next 4 years), we might end up seeing a very strong republican ticket in 2012
Even the dumbfuck Repugs can see the huge mistake McNasty made in choosing ignorant, narrow-minded, "religious" extremist trailer park trash as Veep. Cost him millions of votes with Repug moderates and independents.
A large majority rejected her as the press uncovered her.
She has no future as national politician. She has celebrity now, but nothing else.
I'm sure the Democrats are hoping for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by CuckingFunt
Republicans are stupid enough to want her in power.
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Originally Posted by implacable44
Are you kidding me? You are going to hear it now more than you have ever heard it before in your life.
This election was a victory for the race card.
she's going to need to study the issues for the next couple of years and work on her accent and speech before she's a real threat in 2012. if she can do those things, she might get a nod for the (R) nomination. she also might have risen too far, too fast to be considered in the future for national office. time will tellQuote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
She's got a cloud of corruption hanging over her. And that's just as rinky-dink mayor and Governor of one of the easiest states in the nation to govern. She would have to bring in Osama Bin Laden from a wolf-shooting helicopter before the center will embrace her.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaNuMaNiAc
The youth vote has gone overwhelmingly to the Democratic side. By the time the Republicans regain their movement, they'll have embraced centrists to appeal to a higher educated, more ethnically diverse youth coming into their 30s. No way she survives that.
She'll be a talk show host on some Fox-affiliated news channel.
whottt came out of retirement to post in my thread. whottt an honor.
aren't you glad airhead sarah is mrs. irrelevant?
Letterman need not worry.Quote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
and new ones forming:Quote:
Originally Posted by MaryAnnKilledGinger
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_141394.html
Hence why I added the "Obama royally fucks up for the next 4 years" partQuote:
Originally Posted by MaryAnnKilledGinger
I don't. It's not good for our nation to have the Republicans run a moron like her. It would be so much better to go into 2012 with two legit choices capable of leading this nation instead of the president vs bible spice.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
:lmao did "B" girl get to vote? :lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by Viva Las Espuelas
I think the Republicans will eventually figure it out, and do run away from her. It's just that right now some of them are too in love with her, which is only good news for Democrats.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseline bum
This cunt is done. The platform of corruption and anti-intellectual, neo-con ideology is no longer viable in America. I wish her the worst in life though; more unwanted, covered-up pregnancies, more ethics investigations, a ruined family, low-approval, removal from office, depression, misery, divorce, vehicular dismemberment and/or dis-association from anybody, anywhere who credibly gives a shred of a fuck about the future of the United States. You name it, I hope that Sarah Palin rots through a torturous life before rotting in hell.
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NEWSWEEK has also learned that 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.
:lmao take the gloves off and tell us how you really feel. :ihitQuote:
Originally Posted by ballijuana
Palin is the worst candidate this nation has ever had for an office that high, and I cannot believe the Republicans would be stupid enough to throw a second election with her.
LOL, they even snubbed her in the concession speech...Quote:
Originally Posted by Article
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Originally Posted by ElNono
In a screechy annoying Fargo N. Dakota voice...... "Evwyone made a mistake.....McCain is a Mavwick" !!!
niceQuote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
I know. And then afterwards when Palin, Todd, McCain and Cindy were all on stage, Cindy McCain didn't say shit to Palin. John at least had an awkward hug and a handshake, but Cindy looked like she wanted to rip Sarah Palin's fucking head off. She walked off without saying a word.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElNono
There could be a new wrinkle in this. It looks like Ted Stevens won re-election. They were talking about how Palin could choose someone to replace him because he will be asked to step down. Someone said it's possible in a round about way for her to get the seat.
you need help. Shastafarian or Chump dumper are there to hold you.Quote:
Originally Posted by ballijuana
neo-con ideaology ? perhaps you need to google the definition of that word. Conservatives will always be here.-- look at Canada. Conservatives will take office again and fix evertything that Obama screws up
She's not done. Stupid people won't let go of her, and that's great.
Here's how it would have gone...
I tell ya Real Americans,
We cannot have a president who has Bill Ayers in his cabinet,
Who is Barack Obama?
He's not me and he's not you either.
I can see the USSR not only from my house, but now from the steps of the Capitol,
Don'cha know?
You know, right now, I cannot imagine not winning the presidency in 2012
A vote for Palin/Falwell in 2012 is a vote for Real America
Re: TPMQuote:
Originally Posted by Shastafarian
Apparently Alaska law was recently changed (after the Murkowski ridiculousness) so that a special election would have to be called. This ADN article from late October has a few more details.
First off, genius, it's not idea-ology, it's ideology. Second, is it fun knowing that you and everything your party has stood for, crumbled down to ashes in a royal beat-down last night?Quote:
Originally Posted by implacable44
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology
well actually it is idiotology when it comes to the liberal left.Quote:
Originally Posted by ballijuana
:lmao whottt sure is avoiding this topic. :lmao
Scoreboard
Not even. She will have a tv sitcom ala Roseanne, set in Alaska.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaryAnnKilledGinger
Palin says she won't participate in any negativity? She can't really be this dumb.
If the Republican Party was smart they'd run a woman on the ticket again in 2012, just so long as that woman's name is Condoleezza Rice.
No fucking way the Republican base would vote for a black president.Quote:
Originally Posted by ballijuana
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Originally Posted by baseline bum
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Originally Posted by ballijuana
Doesn't matter if the party is smart when many of the voters it depends on are racist morons.
attention posters........can we please get back to sarah's burial?
WHO'S SARAH PALIN?
Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits
Best Palin moment of the campaign
Yup, Obama did horrible in the South. Solid ruby red. I honestly thought some headway been made down there.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseline bum
romney and huckabee are the future of the RP.
-Mars
fuck yeah I would, Alan Keyes. just not a socialist president like Obama.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseline bum
-Mars
:lmao your pain is amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClingingMars
No more jack off meterial on CNN.
yeah, i don't really like socialism :/ sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by clambake
-Mars
We'll see. Romney would make a great candidate except for the fact that he firmly believes that in his afterlife, he is going to be a mormon god unto himself, ruling over his own celestial planet and family.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClingingMars
Huckabee came across as articulate and compassionate, although highly religious and conservative. He appealed to our better nature, rather than division. The problem is that he's a creationist, backwoods, squirrel-eating weirdo in the mould of Howard Dean; not in policy and ideology, but in the fact that they share a fervent and grim creepiness trait.
why does the fact that he's a mormon matter? I'm a Christian and I think he would make a great President.Quote:
Originally Posted by ballijuana
again, what's wrong with a creationist? or a backwoodsman for that matter. though the squirrel thing was weirddd but hilarious.
-Mars
If you ever get a chance to read up on what mormons actually believe, do so.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClingingMars
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Banner-H...06/ref=ed_oe_p
http://www.amazon.com/No-Man-Knows-M...5919184&sr=1-1
What their religion and culture preaches is so astoundingly selfish and delusional and requires such high levels of irrationality/self-delusion (as opposed to christian faith) that it makes you question their judgment abilities, as sane humans, on a very fundamental level and in every single matter.
All that aside, Mitt would make a decent candidate, but I don't like the idea of a brainwashed cult member being in such a powerful decision making position.
balli is a non mormon?
Seriously? Fuck. I got some re-assessments to make.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronMexican
sorry for the thread jack BTW
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Palin faces questions, different landscape when she returns to Alaska
ANCHORAGE - Can Sarah Palin go home again?
In the 68 days since Alaska's governor began her run for vice president, things have changed on the home front. Some of her former allies are fuming, and former enemies are lying in wait. Public perceptions of the governor have also changed. Has the governor changed as well?
Questions about Palin's future began to circulate at Alaska's Election Central on Tuesday night almost as soon as the national election results came in.
Palin is expected to arrive in Alaska sometime today in a campaign plane. Will she be the old Palin, a populist who worked with Democrats to achieve victories in the Legislature, or the sharp partisan from the national campaign?
At an Alaska Obama gathering Tuesday night, some celebrants said they were disappointed by the new Palin they saw in the campaign.
"All the alliances she used to get things done have been shattered," said Kate Troll, executive director of the Alaska Conservation Alliance. "She comes back to unknown territory."
But some Republican legislators who have backed Palin in the past said they thought she could resume her leadership style now that she was back to her old job. Her support was built around issues, not party loyalty, said Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer.
"If she takes the same course her next two years and picks issues with broad consensus, it won't change at all," Seaton said.
Feelings get raw in campaigns and then everyone gets back to work, said Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage, who directed the Legislature's Troopergate inquiry. He said he's more worried about Palin's future relations with the federal government, whose help is needed on loan guarantees and rights of way to get the gas pipeline built.
"I hope the new president has a magnanimous soul," French said.
Even more imponderable are questions about Palin's future priorities. Will she try to repair her old relationships, or continue as the warrior cheered by a national conservative base? Will her social-conservative allies in Alaska sit quietly on the sidelines, as they did during the first two years of her term? Will Palin be looking ahead at a national race in 2012, or at another term as governor? Or perhaps a run for U.S. Senate? And how will those ambitions affect the choices she makes in the near term?
"I hope nobody advises her to pick up the divisive issues," said state Rep. Les Gara, D-Anchorage.
"I think she just has to be Sarah," said Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage.
Palin has given no hints. Her chief spokesman in the governor's office, Bill McAllister, said her aggressive role in the presidential campaign reflected the job she was given, not a change of character.
"It's like a diamond with multiple facets," McAllister said. He predicted a return to the nonpartisan governing approach of her first two years. McAllister noted that Democrats last week came forward to defend the natural gas pipeline deal they worked out with Palin against criticism in the national press.
"We took that as an encouraging sign, that Democrats came forward after all the bad blood," McAllister said.
In Wasilla to vote on Tuesday, Palin sounded like the old governor when asked by a reporter about her future role nationally.
"You know, if there is a role in national politics it won't be so much partisan," Palin said. "My efforts have always been here in the state of Alaska to get everybody to unite and work together to progress this state ... it certainly would be a uniter type of role."
Still, there are some messes to clean up.
For starters, there's Troopergate. Palin has to be happy with the vindication from the Personnel Board investigation, which contradicted a similar investigation made by an investigator hired by lawmakers into her firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. But questions about the conflicting sworn testimonies of Palin and Monegan remain to be sorted out.
Moreover, attacks by the McCain campaign's "Truth Squad" against legislators involved in the Troopergate investigation have left a bad taste among Democrats, who were allied with Palin on important oil and gas priorities of her first two years.
Other matters have come up as well. Palin's two months in the national media spotlight raised questions about some of her activities as governor - in particular, her charging the state $17,000 in per diem payments for nights she stayed in her Wasilla home, and $21,000 for her children's travel.
No new policies have been set for those practices, McAllister said Tuesday. He stressed that the reimbursements were legal.
Other controversies lingering from the campaign include questions about gifts Palin received as governor and the use of private e-mail accounts to do state business. The state also still faces scores of time-consuming public-records requests for internal documents from media and the public.
Palin also returns to a different financial situation. The worldwide financial crash that, by some accounts, helped sink the McCain-Palin campaign has also wreaked havoc on next year's state budget outlook. The budgets of Palin's first two years were buoyed by high oil revenues and lots of money for construction projects, but oil has plummeted from a high of $144 a barrel last summer to $67.43 on Tuesday.
Last year's budget was built to break even with oil at $75 a barrel, state officials have said. If the price stays down, the state will have to dip into savings and feel new pressures to cut spending.
One question, at least, can now be answered.
When Palin was chosen to make the national run, questions arose quickly about how the state would function in her absence. The answer seems to have been: just fine. The past two months were, as administration officials predicted, the slow time of the year - with vetoes of last year's legislation over and preparation of next year's budget just starting.
Palin, her BlackBerry always at hand, stayed in almost daily contact with her chief of staff, and Kris Perry, a top aide and longtime friend, traveled with Palin to keep up with state business, McAllister said.
Modern communications technology made a big difference. Compare Palin's ties to those of Gov. Jay Hammond, who in the last two years of his term spent six weeks a year at his remote Lake Clark homestead, according to his former chief of staff, Jerry Reinwand.
Hammond kept in touch with Juneau via a radio phone that often had atmospheric interference, Reinwand said. At times, the only way to reach the governor was to call a pilot in the village of Port Alsworth, who would travel to the Hammond homestead by floatplane or boat to fetch the governor back to the phone.
wow. and I thought Scientology was nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by ballijuana
-Mars
You are really such a jealous little person. You actually wished you wereQuote:
Originally Posted by boutons_
her. Then you could flaunt it.:lol
Good fuckin riddance. Her voice was nails on a chalkboard.
I'm hoping for a reality show featuring the entire family: "Pallin' around with the Palins"
Sarah/Worzelbacher 2012! Woooo!
From what I read into her statements she made yesterday, it seems to me like she's likely to get into television once her term is up.
She made a comment about how she has a degree in journalism and has great respect for the vocation... then said something about wanting to bring credibility back to journalism.