Posts tagged ‘Sarah Palin’

February 26th, 2011

GOP needs to stay away from the JV team

Jeffery Anderson, at Pajamas Media, makes a great point about the Republican Presidential field in 2012:

Given the extraordinary decision faced by Americans in 2012, it is the profoundest understatement that it’s time for Republicans to put the varsity on the field. The finest candidates in the Republican Party owe it to their country, and to the ideals in which they believe, to enter this race with a determination to win. And the rest of us who love our country need to do all that we can to draft them into service.

To see someone like Congressman Paul Ryan run would, at the very least, expose the current Republican field as not ready for the grownup table.  Could you imagine him debating Sarah Palin on economic policy or Mitt Romney on health care?  It would be a massacre.  Furthermore, he would represent a formidable challenge to President Obama in the General Election.  It makes so much sense that I’m positive that it will never happen.

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January 31st, 2011

Sarah Palin will be huntin’ some skunks.

So apparently God and the Tea Party advocate Sarah Palin coming down from Alaska to hunt down and imprison anyone who doesn’t agree with them.  I know I shouldn’t say the Tea Party, but instead just these buffoons.  I understand the concern about the direction of our nation, but is the answer really imprisoning dissenters?  We’ve tried that before(various Sedition Acts, Japanese Internments, etc.)  It doesn’t work, it’s Un-American, and should be against the Constitution-fetish these idiots claim to have.  Hopefully, Mama Grizzly won’t ever take power so I won’t have to do time in those FEMA Concentration Camps.

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April 13th, 2010

Sarah Palin makes $12 million since resigning as Alaskan Governor

According to ABC News, Sarap Palin has earned in excess of $12 million since leaving her post as Alaskan Governor just eight months ago.  Good for you, Mrs. Palin.  I would never begrudge anyone their right to provide for their family and themselves in the best way they see fit.

I do have one question, however.  At what point does her regular American schtick become just as transparent to her followers as it does to me?  The average American working 40 years would need to earn an average of $300,000 a year to make $12,000,000 in their lifetime.

Very few people I know make $300,000 a year.  These are people who work hard everyday to support themselves, their families, and their communities for, hopefully, a tenth of $300,000 a year.  They’ve lived their lives the right way–stayed out of trouble, gone to college if they could afford it, given back to their communities.  To me these are the “Real Americans” that Sarah Palin likes to talk about ad nauseum.

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December 12th, 2009

Don’t let your mouth write a check….

….your ass can’t cash.  Sarah, you would never debate Al Gore in anything unless he was hogtied naked in a cage with a ball gag in his mouth.  Yet, you spew this over the airwaves:

INGRAHAM: Would you agree to a debate with Al Gore on this issue?

PALIN: Oh my goodness. You know, it depends on what the venue would be, what the forum. Because Laura, as you know, if it would be some kind of conventional, traditional debate with his friends setting it up or being the commentators I’ll get clobbered because, you know, they don’t want to listen to the facts. They don’t want to listen to some reasonable voices in this. And that was proven with the publication of this op-ed, where they kind of got all we-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers of changing weather patterns and climate conditions. Trying to make the issue into something that it is not.

INGRAHAM: But what if it’s an Oxford-style, proper debate format. I mean, he’s going to chicken out. I mean, if you challenge him to a debate, do you actually think he would accept it?

PALIN: I don’t know, I don’t know. Oh, he wouldn’t want to lower himself, I think, to, you know, my level to debate little old Sarah Palin from Wasilla.

And Sarah, no, I doubt that VP Gore would want to lower himself to talk to a known liar whose concept of reality consist only of what comes into her mind in any given moment.  It’s sad, really.  I would love to see someone of reason and learning debate Gore over climate change.  I really would.  It would be fabulous for a great many ideas and concepts to debated rationally in the public arena.  However, a rational debate requires rational actors.  Sarah and most of the current “conservative” movement are not rational, but rather cynical and emotive.  They have no interest in the truth–whatever that may be in the case of climate change–but only winning the debate.

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December 8th, 2009

Sarah Palin Book Signing


Words fail me.

[hattip: BoingBoing and New Left Media]

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September 10th, 2008

Our politics is broken….

Because people, deep down in their heart, have absolutely no care for the truth.  None. Zip. Zero.  They don’t care about the truth or reality, but being “right”. Being right is not tied to the truth but rather winning an argument…a debate.  And as someone who has spent way too much time at a podium in proper, sanctioned debates, I could be right in an argument for the concept of a Flat-Earth.  Obviously, the reality and the truth point in a different direction, however, the evidence as isn’t important as how you use it and the other side’s ability to disprove your horse shit.  The Republicans agree:

John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said the campaign is entering a stage in which skirmishes over the facts are less important than the dominant themes that are forming voters’ opinions of the candidates.

“The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there’s a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she’s new, she’s popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent,” Feehery said. “As long as those are out there, these little facts don’t really matter.”

These little facts?  The fact she has lied about the “Bridge to Nowhere”, the fact she has lied about being a fiscal conservative, the fact she has lied about selling her state’s private jet on eBay for a profit?  These are just “little facts”?  Lying no longer matters to anyone.  Matter of fact, lies are more believable than the truth for most.

For example, from the same article:

A Washington Post-ABC News poll taken Sept. 5 to Sept. 7 found that 51 percent of voters think Obama would raise their taxes, even though his plan would actually cut taxes for the overwhelming majority of Americans. Obama has proposed eliminating income taxes on seniors making less than $50,000 a year, but 41 percent of those seniors say their income taxes would go up in an Obama administration.

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September 9th, 2008

Right Wing Bloggers get to decide who is Conservative…

So this guy has decided that because Andrew Sullivan supports civil liberties, low taxes, smaller government, a reality-based foreign policy, and transparency in government, that he can no longer be a conservative?  Does that mean Barry Goldwater could no longer be conservative?

So good ole Bryan pulls out the old “If you disagree AIPAC or Israel or Joe Lieberman, you are an anti-Semite” card by going after this quote of Andrew Sullivan’s:

All he writes about in this piece of propaganda is electoral strategy and the people he hates in the media. In a week, he hasn’t said a word about Sarah Palin’s foreign policy views. I know she’s being safely indoctrinated by Joe Lieberman and AIPAC as we speak, but the fact that Kristol, like the rest of us, has not yet been able to point to a single view of hers on foreign policy in her entire life, is eloquent enough. Aren’t we at war? Isn’t he supposed to care about national security? Is everything about pursuing power by any means to him?

Bryan’s response:

You liberals and your Jewish conspiracy theories crack me up. As I’ve pointed out before, any time liberals blame some nefarious plot (or preemptive war on Iraq) on evil neo-cons that is codeword for Jewish conspiracy. I swear they take this stuff right out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The idea that Palin (who I thought was a neo-Nazi because she wore a Buchanan button one time) is some how conspiring with Bill Kristol, Joe Liebermann and AIPAC is beyond hilarity.

I hate to break it to you, Bryan, but Andrew Sullivan is right.  Sarah Palin is being indoctrinated coached on foriegn policy by Joe Lieberman and AIPAC.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), in less than a month, according to officials from Sen. John McCain’s campaign.

Lieberman, who was the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee but is now an independent, has helped introduce Palin to officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby. In a meeting Tuesday, the day before she delivered her prime-time address at the Republican National Convention here, Palin assured the group of her strong support for Israel, of her desire to see the United States move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and of her opposition to Iran’s aspirations to become a nuclear power, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

It seems that Andrew was correct and the Right is still reality challenged.  Why should we expect anything else?

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September 9th, 2008

Palin First; Alaska and Country Second

You can’t just say you are a reformer and different from the rest of your party if it isn’t actually true.  Mrs. Palin, charging your state for per diems you didn’t own isn’t putting country first.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

Mrs. Palin, having the highest per capita taxes and the highest per capita spending isn’t putting country first.

Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 21/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska’s government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.

Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state’s unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can’t afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears.

Everyday, more news comes out about her that just doesn’t mesh with what she says.  To me, that seems a lot like the Bush Administration continued.  Of course, she is associated with a Domionist church so the truth to her probably comes nowhere close to reality for the rest of us.

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