Palin Did It For The Money

Well Now Its Time To Say Goodbye To Sara And All Her Kin

TPM’s David Kurtz:

Shorter Palin: Real Winners Quit

Governor Palin is too thin-skinned for national politics. She’s from a state with a population of approximately 690,000, and a majority of them are Republicans. She was always given the benefit of the doubt in that friendly territory. The national spotlight is not for the faint of heart which Palin quickly found out during the Presidential campaign. She just wasn't prepared for the onslaught from the media once the shock of her nomination wore off. It also became apparent early on she wasn't a policy wonk (and I'm being charitable) nor had she ever shown any intellectual curiosity about policy in anything more than a superficial way. With McCain's erratic behavior--the infamous "campaign suspension" and pacing around the stage during the second debate being the most memorable--and Palin's inability to get beyond simplistic talkingpoints exposing her lack of preparation for the White House, the McCain/Palin fortunes were thus consigned to the dustbin of history.

Now that she’s signed a book deal with a $2 million advance, and rumored to be worth close to $11 million, I suspect that the Wasilla Hillbillies will be yukking it up down by the Cement Pond this Independence Day.

ZOMG! The Hippies and Angry Negroes are Coming!

Shorter Glenn Reynolds: The DFH’s iz scary.

Does the Right really want to go there? Its not just Reynolds. The Usual Suspects are all on board with this notion that people calling Obama a "terrorist", "traitor", calling for his death at public gatherings and Governor Spice being booed at a hockey game are somehow equivalent. Jesus!






BTW shouldn’t The McCain campaign know better than to send Palin to a major sporting event? EVERY politician is going to hear some boos at a sporting event. Good grief just how stupid are these people?

But, alas, it really is scary to think we might have a President who will actually listen to ALL arguments before making a decision based on FACTS. Empiricism isn’t dead but the Right spent the last eight years making sure it didn’t get any life support.

Bible Spice and the Anti-American She Sleeps With

Bible Spice (AKA Governor Palin) has spent the good part of the last couple of days attacking Barack Obama for sitting on a board with Bill Ayers. Sadly, Bible Spice has father the children of an anti-American traitor named Todd. Todd Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party a party who's platform was to secede from the Union.

"My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at
hand."

This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week.

Only one problem. The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. ("Keep up the good work," Palin told AIP members. "And God bless you.")

AIP chairwoman Lynette Clark told me recently that Sarah Palin is her kind of gal. "She's Alaskan to the bone ... she sounds just like Joe Vogler."

Impeach Governor Palin and put the father of her children in Gitmo. These filthy fuckers deserve only our scorn.

John McCain is a rat-bastard self promoting prick. He has no shame and will never be President.

Best Debate Reaction Tonight

Jill Miller Zimon:

Let me posit this: In a VP debate, but maybe especially this one? That’s not the real question - because Biden and Palin are not running against each other. They’re trying to get their head of the ticket elected.

Given that, Biden did an excellent job working to get Obama support: he showed that Obama made a good decision in choosing Biden. That support Obama as a good decision-maker.

As for Palin, she met the basement level expectations set by her own party and ticket that’s treated her with nothing but sexism since they anointed her. And that, people like Pat Buchanan and Kit Bond, are calling a slamdunk against Biden.

‘Cept they got that wrong - she isn’t up against Biden. She needs to show that McCain’s choice of her shows that he has good decision-making abilities.

This election is about judgment and having a firm grasp of the issues. Its not an either/or proposition. You have to have both. Obama will be 44.

Rock On, Governor Palin

Fasten Your Seat Belts

You know you're in trouble when ...



Katie Couric kicks your ass in an interview. Take it away Jonathan Martin:

It's bracing but it also could be spun as normal.

I think he means normal in the good way, not the bad way. Right?

UPDATE: Epic FAIL!

Man Love

The Governor Palin Euphoria Crest breaks sorrowfully upon the shores of reality. John McCain and his master now own this economy. The love that dare not speak its name is now the love former POW McCain cannot run away from. His boytoy broke the economy and now McCain must pay the price.

Life's a bitch when you get in bed with one, eh. George Bush and John McCain, the poster children for how to privatizing reward while socializing risk. Change you can believe in!

The Dirty Dozen

Andrew Sullivan makes the case that Governor Palin lied to us.

So for the record, let it be known that the candidate for vice-president for the
GOP is a compulsive, repetitive, demonstrable liar.

Had any one of these been an isolated case one could believe it was a misstatement, or misrememberance, of facts. Unfortunately it is a pattern and the certainty with which they are told that chills one to the bone. Pathological comes to mind.

So, Andrew, How Do You REALLY Feel?

Oy. Bush in drag. Heh. Watch. Filled with awesome.

McCain/Palin: Axis of Lies

Snared by the words of her mouth.

The Long Slow Backfire

Via Sullivan:

It's actually quite rare to see a politician reveal themselves as solely,
solely about the pursuit of power as McCain has this past month. Bill Clinton
was more honorable and honest.

Wow. If you have never read Sullivan then you may not know that is one hell of a shot he's taking at McCain.

The End Times Are Near

With Palin's foreign policy views now coming into focus this Chicago Tribune piece is all the more disturbing.

Rev. Tim McGraw, Palin's pastor when she became mayor of Wasilla, said believers look to Israel for signs of the coming end times and where they are in God's plan. That would undoubtedly influence Palin's approach to foreign policy, McGraw said."I believe Sarah would not live in a fragmented world," he said. "The idea that Sarah would take this huge influence of the worldview that really only the Bible and the relationship with Jesus opens up ... and suddenly marginalize it and put it over on the shelf somewhere and live apart from it—that would be entirely inconsistent."

Great, another one. Absolutely no world view. Nice. I do think she does knows the names and capitals of foreigh countries. Oh, and she did stopover in Ireland once.

The Invisible Man

Frank Rich once again guides us through the web of deceit know as the GOP. I found this little gem telling (my emphasis added):

As is nakedly evident, the speech’s central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.)

John McCain IS NOT an agent of change. Governor Palin IS NOT an agent of change. They are deeply steeped in the worst traditions of the GOP. Throwing your money away and making you feel good about! Got that? They throw your money away and make you feel good about because you don't have to pay for it today. Don't fall for it again.

Looking For More Cheney?

Vote for McCain and you will most certainly get a Cheney-like Vice President. And she'll even throw in a few racist comments just for fun! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ....

The Road Trip Endeth

We have arrived in Vermont. It was a great trip and have much to report. I am trying to get caught up on my reading now. If Palin isn't enough proof for you that the Republicans are desperate then nothing will convince. Not one person speaking at the Republican Convention can do this:



Not one. Most of them still don’t get it. The few that do are not being heard over the Poltical Masturbation going on in Minneapolis. The Obama Campaign will crush them. Save this post. Remember that today I guarantee an Obama win. It will NOT BE CLOSE. Period.

Meet the New Boss. Same As the Old Boss.

What are your thought on McCain's VP pick? A couple of things come to mind immediately:

1. When Obama ran for his Senate seat Illinois Republicans ran Alan Keyes against him. Is Palin a Alan Keyes type Hail Mary desperate attempt to sway the election in McCain's favor?

or,

2. Is Sara Palin being underestimated? Like most newcomers to the National Stage is she being dismissed by the insiders (politicos, press, etc) who often look down their noses at someone from the outside.

I think its important that number 2 be the guiding principal for those of us who wish to see Obama as our next President. It makes no sense to NOW make the experience argument when John McCain just took it off the table for this election. Thank you Senator McCain.

McCain has once again proven that he does not put his country first. He wishes to be President more than anything. Anything.

He thinks Palin will help him peel away some of those Clinton voters. Heh. Sorry John. HRC voters are some very down to earth and common sense people. They are not stupid enough to vote for a woman, based on strict identity politics, when that woman has almost no political view in common with them.

As James Fallows pointed out it is only a matter of time before the effects of the campaign and the 24/7 scrutiny by the national media make it highly probable that she will make some mistakes.

The smartest person in the world could not prepare quickly enough to know the pitfalls, and to sound confident while doing so, on all the issues she will be forced to address. This is long before she gets to a debate with Biden; it's what the press is going to start out looking for.

So the prediction is: unavoidable gaffes. The challenge for the McCain-Palin campaign is to find some way to defuse them ahead of time, since Socrates, Machiavelli, and Clausewitz reincarnated would themselves make errors in her situation. And the challenge for Democrats is to lead people to think, What if she were in charge?, without being bullies about it.

It's unnecessary to find out what kind of kitchen counters she has in her kitchen because she is going to make things difficult for herself.

Palin's propensity to use her office to settle personal and political vendettas is far too reminiscent of the current Bush administration for most independent or swing voters. That, and the above mentioned possibility for gaffes will not help McCain. She is not a reformer. She's bringing her own form of corruption to politics.