Cynicism and Greed Stand in the Way of Sarah Palin’s Political Aspirations
The hard-right loves Sarah Palin and wants her to be president, but she really just wants to cash in:
A conservative Iowa group’s effort to lure Sarah Palin to its banquet next month has had an unintended effect: Rather than exciting conservatives about the prospect of a visit from the former Alaska governor, the group’s plan to raise a six-figure sum to bring her to the state has GOP activists recoiling at the thought of paying to land a politician’s speaking appearance.
The Iowa Family Policy Center’s effort to cobble together $100,000 for Palin would represent a striking departure from customary practice in the first-in-the-nation state, these Republicans say, noting that a generation of White House hopefuls has paid their own way to boost their party and presidential ambitions.
I think the most under-discussed part of the GQR focus group on how self-identified conservative Republicans have weird ideas is the Sarah Palin stuff: “Asked what their party needs to reinvigorate itself and close the gap between its leaders and its rank and file, these conservative Republicans are almost unanimous in their solution – new leadership. And although they expressed some hope for a variety of names (Gingrich, Romney, Huckabee, Jindal), there was only one figure who truly excited them and created real passion – Sarah Palin.”
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October 29th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Starbursts.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Imagining her as vice-president or maybe even president was simply terrifying, but now Palin is the gift that keeps on giving.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
It is almost frightening how well Palin embodies all the self-destructive traits of today’s GOP–but I guess that is why they love her so (that and the starbursts).
October 29th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
It’s too bad that Orly Taitz is constitutionally ineligible to be her running mate. I’d love to see the two of them drive the Republican Party into absolute irrelevance. And to think this is the party that once brought us men like Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
If a liberal posts a picture of Sarah Palin that is sexist.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I would think that Palin’s wanting to be paid to appear would appeal to Republicans. Surely they don’t expect someone to run for president for free! If you want something done, you have to pay for it. If you want it done well, you have to pay a lot. Winning the presidency is a very difficult task. I’d think that Republicans would recognize this, and pay the candidate at least as much as an NFL quarterback. Or maybe they don’t believe in market forces.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Bah! RINOs of the worst kind.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
The Sarah Palin phenomenon is kind of amazing. Her style is so similar to George W. Bush’s, and yet the GOP professionals and assorted money men seem to be afraid of her. It’s obvious that, if she actually did threaten to attain meaningful power in any way, they could just bribe her if they’re worried about her threatening their stranglehold on Republican power.
It’s as though she’s the fevered nightmare they’ve unleashed by the empty veneration of “regular folks” against the coastal liberal elite.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Yup, ignorance just proves she’s a real American.
Rich Lowry just came in his pants.
Which, reminds me of this. What’s the difference between Sarah Palin’s mouth and Sarah Palin’s cunt. Retarded shit only came out of her cunt once.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
It’s as though she’s the fevered nightmare they’ve unleashed by the empty veneration of “regular folks” against the coastal liberal elite.
The sleep of reason produces monsters.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Is it too late for Orly “O RLY” Taitz to run in the 23rd New York?
Seriously, I wish MSNBC would give Taitz a half-hour, live, every week night in prime time. That would be teh awesum!
October 29th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Paulie Carbone: That joke is not cool.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Allow me to be the first to condemn the vile comment/joke @ #9.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Paulie, that was really ugly. I’d heard the joke before phrased so that it was merely tasteless, but referring to Trig as “retarded shit” is downright nasty and offensive.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Or not the first, whatever. I’m glad someone beat me to it.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Yeah but…it’s Sarah Palin. We’re not talking about George H.W. Bush or John McCain or somebody. This is Sarah Palin, people!
October 29th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
@9. Paulie Carbone, sometimes it’s okay to just stop typing. That “joke” was really stupid and offensive.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Wow, that’s awful.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
A couple quick hits about Palin and her followers:
1. I doubt Palin has the ambition or the drive to seek the presidency. She seems pretty lazy, she’d probably take the job if she could just have it handed to her without the grunt work of running, debating, fundraising, staying on message for months on end, et al. But life doesnt work this way so…..
2. She’s probably just trying to cash in, which if I were her, I’d totally do the same thing.
3. I truly hope I’m wrong as one who will be definitely supporting the president’s re-election and thinks he’s going to have a harder time winning re-election than the first time (hard as that is to imagine) because…
4. Palin’s supporters are a lot like Hamas. I fully expect them to be in love with the idea of her and her alone for president in 2012, and that were she to run and lose to some boring candidate like Mitt Romney, they wouldnt care less about totally not supporting him in the general election since he’s not nuts and wont pick the stay at home mom and Facebook blogger to be Vice President!!!
October 29th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Question (I’m asking because I don’t know the answer):
When Nixon was crisscrossing the country in 1966 and 1967, speaking at every rubber-chicken banquest he could find, and building up the political IOUs that would get him the 1968 nomination (and election) did he get paid?
Did he get fees or just “expenses”?
Did someone else (RNC??) foot the bills?
I mean, I hated Nixon, but compared to Sarah, he was a combo of Einstein, Ghandi and Lincoln.
[before you all jump for your keyboards, note that I said "compared to Sarah"]
October 29th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Paulie Carbone, you are the worst sort of person. You shouldn’t call people retarded. The politically correct phrase is “loids.” That shit is so cash.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Sorry for using the “R” word. “Loid” is indeed the correct term. It’s short for Lexically Or Intellectually Disabled. So, for all those I’ve offended, what I mean to say was that she only shat a mongoloid freak out of cunt once, but the dumb shit she says is lexically or intellectually disabled.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Let’s refuse to let the thread get derailed. Instead: does anyone still seriously think that Sarah Palin will ever be a candidate for President? I mean, maybe she’ll be in it for one primary, maybe, but her gubernatorial resignation shows what kind of politician she is: none. She doesn’t like it when the job gets all hard and annoying, which includes any time she gets criticized in any way. That says “talk show” more than “presidential candidate” to me. She has no intentions of running; she’s just stringing people along in bad faith.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Don’t Feed the Trolls.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
“Cynicism and Greed Stand in the Way of Sarah Palin’s Political Aspirations”
Are you kidding? These fanboys are begging to be fleeced. The entire movement is built on hagiography and fan fiction. Paying large sums of money to bask in the presence of their heroes and be flattered by them is pretty much the entire point. Palin just represents the point in the natural evolution of the fandom when the show creators realize they can increase their returns by hiring pretty girls to hang out at the convention and flirt with the geeks.
btw, Paulie, that comment was completely reprehensible.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Isn’t Levi now claiming that behind the scenes when the camera was off that Say-ruh joked about her “retarded baby”?
I think the GOP needs to just go ahead and make Sarah Palin their Pope / Patron Saint / Holy Icon / whatever, and then whether or not she runs in 2012 she can always be there for them, and sad little old GOPers can place 2 line classified ads in the backs of the remaining city papers saying “Thank YOU Saint Sarah mah prayers wuz answered”.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Tomemos,
Why the fuck are you defending Palin?
October 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Tomemos, I agree, she’s better suited for television than elected office. She could be the next octomom if she squirts out a few more loids and parades them shamelessly around as evidence that (a) she’s pro-life, (b) she shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce anymore, and (c) she’s an idiot.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
It’s kind of sad when you have a retarded kid and you know that Levi Johnston’s side of the family wasn’t the problem.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Not a problem: Michele Bachmann is ready and waiting. Palin/Bachmann 2012 — the Dream Ticket.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
She’s going to be a media-stunt candidate for president. She’s going to be at the center of a profitable, national media effort that looks like, and might even be sold as, a presidential run, but doesn’t actually try to get her elected as president – or at least, treats that as a secondary goal.
She’s going to take Stephen Colbert’s stunt from 2008 to the next level, and she’s going to get very, very rich.
Eva Gabor was famous for being famous in Hollywood, and live the life of a mega-rich superstar. Sarah Palin’s going to be like that, but from Hollywood-for-ugly-people, politics.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
As much as I love GOP diversion and fail, an actual Say-ruh campaign makes me nervous of stirring up the nastiest teapartyoid popu-fascist style movement in recent history, and in general just wouldn’t be good for the country.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Another vote for banning Paulie Carbone.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I mean, maybe she’ll be in it for one primary, maybe
Of course she will be. Think about all the money she can raise then syphon for private expenses; the free publicity and additional cash for her second book, on Jesus and Reagan; and the need to retain her gullible fan base.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
If you remember the dynamic from the 2008 GOP presidential primaries, the faithful would flit from one putative savior to the next (Grandpa Fred! Rudy! Huck! Mitt!) before realizing how ridiculous they were. In the end, they had to settle for McCain because the others were all even worse.
Palin is only surviving this long because she’s not being tested in any actual contests. Once she has to perform she will collapse.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
She is tainted. All she’s famous for is the taint brought into the last presidential election. She’s probably the most famously tainted politician in the US right now. Larry Craig is tainted but not so visible, etc. Her poon is tainted. See Trig. Taint, taint, taint.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Maybe her younger daughter can get knocked up by an orangutan, and she can go on TV and talk about how its a gift from god and how she’s so pro-life she’ll force her teenage daughter to give her a half-orangutan grandkid. Then Piper and the orangutan can hold hands at the 2012 convention to rapturous applause.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
What? They’re now in favor of human-animal hybrids?
October 29th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Better than aborting half a human soul.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Paulie Carbone, that’s a crime against god and nature. Hybrid Palin-orangutans?! How would you get the orangutan to actually mate with a Palin? They’re dumb animals, but not that dumb. It would be political suicide for the orangutan.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
The Sarah “Sallie” Palin show would pretty much suck without Levi “Brick” Johnston.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Hmmm. The Operation Rescue of the Island of Moreau.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
this is what “the american dream” looks like to this segment of our population: the ability to fleece your neighbors with no interference or regulation. if i can get you to part with your stuff then that means i’m smarter than you or higher up the evolutionary ladder than you or some damn shit and that’s your problem, not mine.
this is what they hold dear, and this is what we are fighting against.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
El Cid, at least it wouldn’t involve stem cells but pseudo god approved mating, ie, orangutan and single mother sexcapades. Kind of like that Clint Eastwood movie, Every Which Way but Lose.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Much as I enjoy watching the self-caricaturization of the GOP, I really hope Sarah Palin simply fades away. She brings out the absolute worst in everybody.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
dob, I vote we ban you you censorious freedom hating loid.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
As well as the complete rejection of any biological science and reproductive compatibility.
But you don’t have to imagine the thing actually happening, you can imagine that the Palintards would be actively debating which was worse, letting Bristol have the orangu-kid or breedin’ with the forbidden species, no matter how many doctors were telling them “look, it can’t happen, she’s not even pregnant.”
October 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
If you play Rush Limbaugh for the orangutan it’ll come all over itself like Rich Lowry at the first “you betcha.” Then it’ll fling shit at the wall and violently rape Piper Palin. Then, after they’ve stitched her bleeding vagina back together at the ER, she’ll learn the good news about the pregnancy test.
The only problem is that, after the RNC has spent $100,000 decking the orangutan out in Guicci, they won’t be able to tell the gullible idiots at home that the two are engaged. Because social conservatives don’t believe in human/orangutan marriages. Not that they have anything against interspecies couples per se, it’s just that if the allow that it’s a slippery slope towards two fags walking down the aisle.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
OK. The dude’s just a troll trying to sneak in comments on a liberal blog about rape and stuff. It wasn’t a misplaced joke.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
John I, She certainly brought out the worst in herself: her loid offspring, Trig. Poor kid. He’d be better off aborted than shoved into the national spotlight by his shameless vapid mother.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
LEAVE SARAH ALONE!
p.s. I’m a trap.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Chris Crocker, nicely done. Are you pre or post-op? a/s/l? Lulz.
El Cid, perhaps its appropriately placed? Maybe not.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Actually, as a matter of basic biology, the offspring of a human and orangutan would not exhibit the chromosomal defects seen in the Palin family. The offspring of a human and nigger, however, may well resemble Trig Palin, or perhaps John McCain’s illegitimate Indian daughter.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
This thread needs to be erased.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
This thread proves liberal bloggers are misogynist.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Tyro and Al-bot, butthurt much?
October 29th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Eva Gabor was famous for being famous in Hollywood, and live the life of a mega-rich superstar. Sarah Palin’s going to be like that, but from Hollywood-for-ugly-people, politics.
Eva Gabor meets Eva Peron.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
(This thread is what too many years of zero blog moderation gets you.)
October 29th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
pseudonymous, too many years of zero sex life led you to make that comment.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
This is the reductio ad absurdum of the hipster mentality: sex with orangutans. As St. Ambrose warned as many years ago, the natural directs us only to toward sex that is open to life. The trials and tribulations of mongoloid offspring are merely a test from G*d.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
F U! I’m saving myself for marriage!
October 29th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Pseudonymous, that figures.
Hector, how do you pass such a test? Do you just have to have to tolerate loid offspring or use the poor kid as a platform for your pro-life agenda? Do you actually have to like the loid?
October 29th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
In case people haven’t figured it out, a troll (or trolls) is/are very probably posting under the handle of existing commenters. That’s very probably not the person who frequently comments as Paulie Carbone, nor the real Steve Sailer, etc.
Well, except for Hector at 60. I’ll bet that’s really him.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Dear Iowa GOP,
You guys really need to book Sarah Palin. $100,000 is a steal, for a star as bright as hers. I bet New Hampshire would gladly pay $250,000 or even $500,000.
Sincerely,
Aatos
October 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Aatos, we call such bright stars supernova right before they collapse on themselves forming black holes. These stars are very unstable. If that’s what you meant, then I agree.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Dear New Hampshire GOP,
Iowa is about to snatch up Sarah Palin for a measly $100,000! ARE YOU GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN????? If there’s a man with a pair left among you, you’ll see their 100 and raise them $150,000 plus a new red blazer with matching diamond earrings.
Love, Aatos
October 29th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I think Palin’s a supernova like Rockstar Supernova, the reality show that turned out to be the kiss of death for Lukas Rossi’s career after he won the privilege of fronting a band with 40-something has-beens Tommy Lee and Gilby Clark.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Lol, wut?
October 29th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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October 29th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Where’s Toddo? He’s like Steadman.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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October 29th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
@71,
That’s what Lowry’s cock looked like when Palin winked at him.
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That’s the wet spot on his pants afterward.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Anyone want to go troll ObiWi?
October 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Damn, the trolls spoiled the mood, but this is still true: sex sells, and all that SP has going for her over any other upper middle class Republican is that she’s an attractive hockey mom. She took advantage of a couple of political opportunities in AK. Other than not being a major thief, she wasn’t a standout Alaskan politician. her actions as Mayor and Governor were within the normal range of tips-of-the-hat/wag-of-the-finger. The McCain thing was a utter non sequitur.
Per Terry (#19), point #2: amen. Speaking tours are the traditional 401(k) for politicians on their way out of the spotlight.
Unless the Lord reaches out and smites Huckabee and Romney, she would be a non-starter in Iowa, even if she really wanted to campaign. If she does, we’ll see in a couple of years whether she can manage unscripted policy statements.
No, I didn’t *forget* to mention Jindal.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
This thread is a manic episode.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
These sicko trolls are just afraid of the power of the term “Surf and Turf Coalition” to refer to the corporatist “centrists” like Snowe and Ben Nelson.
Well, too bad.
Surf and Turf Coalition. Surf and Turf Coalition. Surf and Turf Coalition.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
cmholm, I wasn’t aware there was a mood until the trolls got here. (lights candles for more ambiance) As far as Palin being an “attractive” hockey mom, I reject that notion. She’s ugly. She looks like she’d bite your dick off if you smacked her in the face with it.
Oh, hai, I’m Bobby Jindal. I’m ethnic, effeminate, and I’m going to save the GOP.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Surf and Turf Coalition.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
joe from Lowell, more like suck and tug coalition, amirite?
October 29th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Forced meme.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Forced mom… and it comes full circle to Bristol Palin! Ta da!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Snowe, Ben Nelson, and the rest of the “bipartisan center.”
Surf and Turf Coalition.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Fail.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Slap and tickle coalition
October 29th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Would you guys fuck the younger Palin daughters?
October 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I thought I saw Bobby Jindal behind the counter at my 7/11. He reeked like curry.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
You know, I have a pretty stressful job. Sometimes at the end of a long day, all I want to do is go home, light some candles, draw a hot bath and stick my tongue up a guy’s ass.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Terrified, they are.
Surf and Turf Coalition.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
joe from Lowell, that’s rascist. You should be ashamed of yourself!
Paulie Carbone, as an orangutan, I can say that yes, I would do the Palin daughters. At the same time. You see, I have a bifurcated penis.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Joe,
Where do Lieberman and Lincoln fit in?
October 29th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I would highly recommend that everyone check out the terminally ill children in suggestive poses thread on /b/
October 29th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
There are lobsters in Long Island Sound, cattle in Arkansas and Florida, and some Surf and Turf specials involve shrimp, which you can find off Louisiana.
Surf and Turf Coalition.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I’ll tell you where Lieberman fits–in an oven.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Actually, the fake ‘Hector” at post #90 was not me, though it was a fairly decent approximation to my style. A tipoff as to why it wasn’t me is the use of “G*d”. In deference to the Third Commandment, I use asterisks when saying things like “G*ddamnit”, but not when I am speaking in earnest about the Lord.
What I really wanted to say was this:
Re: Which, reminds me of this. What’s the difference between Sarah Palin’s mouth and Sarah Palin’s c*nt. Retarded shit only came out of her c*nt once.
What a perfect empitomization of the ultimately antihuman mentality at the heart of the culture of death. Mr. Carbone and his buddy Mr. Steve Sailor are excellent examples of the mentality that led to the Nazi death camps.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
this is such a hating site
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/10/29/sarah-palin-iowa-speaking-fee.aspx
Sarah Palin Charging $100K for Iowa Speech? Not Exactly.
Politico’s Jonathan Martin has a good story today about an Iowa conservative group’s efforts to lure Sarah Palin to a fundraising dinner in Des Moines next month. The Iowa Family Policy Center, according to J-Mart, is trying to come up with Palin’s reported $100,000 speaker’s fee in hopes of getting the former governor to headline its Nov. 21 banquet—which just so happens to be the same night Vice President Joe Biden will be in town to headline the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. But wait a minute: Paying a White House hopeful to come to Iowa? Seriously? Has anyone ever had to do that? Needless to say, the very prospect has other Iowa Republicans up in arms. “If somebody tells me they want me to pay an appearance fee, it tells me they’re not very serious about running for president,” Ed Failor Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief and an influential GOP insider, tells Politico. “I found it really, really odd.”
But hang on: did Palin actually ask the group to pay $100K for her appearance? An IFPC spokesman tells Martin he’s “not personally aware” of a speaker’s fee. “There may or may not be, I don’t know,” he tells Politico. For their part, the Palin camp tells NEWSWEEK there’s no fee. Meg Stapleton, Palin’s spokeswoman, tells your Gaggler that Palin “has not requested anything” and that she “does not charge people to campaign for them.” According to Stapleton, Palin would instead cover such travel costs through her political-action committee, SarahPAC. Of course, that doesn’t mean she’s going to Iowa. Palin’s book, Going Rogue, is due out Nov. 17, and she’s got a major publicity tour planned around that, including a Nov. 16 appearance on Oprah. “We don’t believe she will be able to attend with her tightly scheduled book tour, and the group has been told that through formal and informal channels,” Stapleton says in an e-mail this morning. “However, it appears that some enthusiastic members are willing to try anything to entice the governor as we look at her schedule.”
October 29th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
That hurts, Hector. No acknowledgment that I, too, am an excellent example of the mentality that led to the Nazi death camps? I’ll have to try harder and make less overt calls for stuffing Joe Lieberman and his fellow subhumans into ovens.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
As someone who has a daughter with Down Syndrome a month older than Trig, let me offer a hearty “fuck you” to the trolls who think it’s cute and transgressive to joke about “retards.” People with Down Syndrome face a lot of challenges, and one of them is having to put with a lot of crap from people like you.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I don’t make fun of people with Down Syndrome. I make fun of their parents who attention whore based on their child’s situation. Fuck you, too. You should’ve had an abortion. Shame on you and shame on me.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
One of the challenges they face is having the wrong number of chromosomes.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
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October 29th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Matt — it’s time to ban Paulie Carbone. it’s *time.*
October 29th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
sherrold, its time for you to suck a fucking dick! Its *time.* zzzzzip
October 29th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Waaaaah! Waaaaah! Our online community is getting trolled.
This used to be my playground. This used to be my childhood dream. This used to be the place I ran to whenever I was in need of a friend. Why did it have to end and why do they always say SUCK A FUCKING DICK AND CALL IT A NIGHT!
October 29th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Go ahead and ban Paulie. He’ll just rise like a gay-ass phoenix from the ashes of your cum drizzled hurt butt.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Ban Carbone.
It is highly dubious that he is sincere, and if he is, he is a total idiot: (a) disgusting (b) dangerous to the image of liberals (c) utterly shallow.
“Attention whoring” is the least offense on can imagine against a politician. Successful ones do it more gracefully, but this is America — no attention, no success. (Other democracy have more Byzantine party politics.)
I guess that this topic could be touched with extreme caution, like “Surely GOP members should not abort their most natural constituents”, but it beats me — why?
What I found the most fascinating about the life story of Sarah Palin is her Ahabesque pursuit of an ex-brother-in-law. I guess to be more “colorful” she should install a moonshine still in Governor’s office. Another nice angle is Wassila that with her personal contribution turned into a libertarian hellhole
But on brains and policies, I guess Sarah is at par with luminaries like McCain, Thompson (well, they were brighter before entering declining years), Huckabee etc. And let’s face it: GOP has many colorful women who could grace their ticket. How about Bachman of Minnesota?
October 29th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
RE: Matt — it’s time to ban Paulie Carbone. it’s *time.*
Excuse me. It was time to ban professional racemonger Steve Sailor and the deranged antisemite who called himself Fareed, years ago, but that never stopped Matt. Nor do I think, come to think of it, that the crypto-nazi Chris Ford ever was formally banned.
TOK,
I wish you the best, and hope that your daughter, as many challenges as her situation might bring, may be a source of joy and an inspiration to love, in your life and those of others around her. I’ve heard it said this is often true of learning disabled people, it’s certainly true of a friend of mine who happens to be learning disabled, and for the sister of another friend who has Down’s syndrome.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I find myself a bit surprised that a politician who quit her job as governor while evoking images of dead fish, whose family acts in ways contrary to the strong beliefs of “the base” (which is virulently opposed to illegitimacy, when confronted with the illegitimate child of a Spears girl), is such hot property these days.
October 30th, 2009 at 12:10 am
More fake and phony Palin-bashing, it seems, and MY bit on the Jonathan Martin bogus article implying Palin was asking for the $100K. Palin was being enticed to come because the silly fool who is now VP is giving a Jeff-Jackoff dinner the same night & the group wants the last laugh when Palin outdraws Biden [and we thought no VP could ever be stupider than Gore!]
Next, Palin will be “quoted” ala Limbaugh because “she thinks that way and might have said that…” The left is up to its old lies and this one is as funny as a DailyKos “poll” or a David Brock MediaMutters manifesto.
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It’s amazing how these creepy smears get started and passed on. It seems to me that at least some of the commenters know the story is false, but continue to pretend otherwise. Is it okay to lie when it is at the expense of Sarah Palin?