Exactly What I Was Thinking
I had been thinking about this all day but Andrew Sullivan beat me to it. By the time I got home he posted it and saved me the trouble.
Anyway, it's an excellent point. Why continue to bat around the already batty Sarah Palin when it's really John McCain's fault that most of us ever heard of her in the first place. Palin can't help it if she's not the brightest bulb.
But it's Johnny Mac who switched her on. What's his excuse?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Actually from what I can find it seems Schmidt is more the one to thank for handing the Dems the election on a silver platter by “strategizing” with the Palin pick.
Just found an interview with Schmidt and Couric from before the election and Schmidt is totally gooey and talking all the bullshit points about her “capabilities”.
Also…I am certain McCain never picked her but had her foisted upon him.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Anna, that’s been known for a long time. I remember when it was actually going on and Schmidt, like an ass, boasted about how Palin was his idea. Still, McCain was the ultimate decider and choosing Palin was a sign of weakness/senility. If he couldn’t find someone else better/stand up to Schmidt/tell what day of the week it was then he shouldn’t have run for president in the first place. Of course he wanted Lieberman in the first place, but the establishment poopooed him. He showed both decision-making prowess and real backbone by not even considering other candidates and caving to Schmidt that easily.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I don’t have time for that idiot Palin, seeing how I’m so busy celebrating the eleventy-fourteen jobs saved or created right here in the 765th District of Texas. Thank God we have smart people loke Joe Biden running the country.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:13 am
The idiot you voted for ? No I guess you don’t have any time to contemplate just how totally fucked your district would be if McCain’s “team” was running the country. That would require some honesty and reflection. Demagogue the economic debacle that started on Bush’s watch…it’s all you’ve got.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Bob – nothing embarrasses you guys, does it ?
November 18th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Incidentally, Bob, what do you think of the way Palin “displays” and uses the American flag in her cheesy magazine cover pose that Newsweek reprinted. I’ve not seen any conservative mention that it’s offensive – although if Obama had tossed the flag over the back of a chair and leaned on it while posing in a gym suit, he’d have been eviscerated.
Of course, you don’t have time for any of this because you’re focused laser-like on unemployment. I’ve noticed in all of these comment threads how that’s your singular obsession.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Of course, you don’t have time for any of this because you’re focused laser-like on unemployment. I’ve noticed in all of these comment threads how that’s your singular obsession.
Chortle. You’ve got my number, reg. Why, just this morning, at 4:36 a.m., I reminded myself to focus like a laser beam on unemployment and leave my weekly comment at Marc Cooper.
Palin’s got a great pair of stems, dontcha think?
November 18th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Bob – I’m at an age where I’m only attracted to women I would want to still be there in the morning. Palin doesn’t make the cut. Not even close.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Bob -
I’m in my 30′s and I’ll say that Palin has a great pair of gams. The rest of her body ain’t bad either. If my wife looked like that at 35, forget 45, I’d be a fool to cheat. She’s hot, there’s no denying it.
Unfortunately, that ALL Palin has going for her. If she’s the consummate dumb blond — she gets on in life because she’s attractive and men are generally sex-crazed pigs. She’s a vapid, mean spirited, vindictive narcissist who spouts proto-fascist beliefs she doesn’t fully understand.
But Marc is right — if McCain wasn’t trying to play people for chumps and actually got a real contender for VP (I don’t agree with their politics, but Romney and Huckabee were perfectly good conservative choices for VP), ’08 might have been a fight.
Instead, he went for ‘sex sales’ and release this ignorant political Typhoid Mary on the populace. And we’ve all been weeping and nashing our teeth ever since.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I find it telling that in both this thread and the prior one, the right-wing Palin supporters are focusing on her physical attributes and the opponents are focusing on her lack of substance.
Speaks volumes to me.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Frankly, we should be thanking McCain…for Palin (which caused a great number of Repubs to ditch) and for his dog and pony show over the economic bust…and the gods for timing it all so serendipitously. In fact one might be inclined to think it was more a Deus Ex Machina event to save America from its dumb ass self. McCain would have had the votes of all those who ditched because of Palin and McCain’s blunder on the economy– the ONE thing that even mostly psycho Republicans won’t be blind sided about.
Does anyone know for a fact McCain acutally chose Palin?
I am sticking to my guns. I don’t believe he did. The first time I saw them on the stage together the body language from him was pure ice…I sensed he hated her guts. And it came out that he, in fact, did.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Randy,
That’s why she has higher approval ratings with Republican men than Republican women. So much for representing the “real” women of America.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
How’s that National Health Care going?
November 18th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
You gotta love Serge’s honesty.
Screw this Palin shit. She lost, my boy won. Where’s my free stuff he promised?
November 18th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Isn’t Andrew the guy who went on and on and on and on and on … about the baby really being Palin’s kid?
And also went on and on and on and on and on and on about the Iranian “revolution?”
Why yes he is …
A good writer, but a crank.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Nope. Not that hot.
>Cappadonna Says:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Bob -
I’m in my 30’s and I’ll say that Palin has a great pair of gams. The rest of her body ain’t bad either. If my wife looked like that at 35, forget 45, I’d be a fool to cheat. She’s hot, there’s no denying it.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Screw this Palin shit. She lost, my boy won. Where’s my free stuff he promised?
JR,
It might be a good time for a little of that mirror glancing you seem so eager to demand of others.
I can’t speak for Sergio, but I can tell you this: I have a pretty good healthcare plan, but I have a number of friends who pay ridiculous amounts for their coverage or who can’t afford coverage.
If you reduce it to the baseless and asinine comment that you made, it makes it simple for the simple-minded.
We adults know that the issue is much more complex.
November 18th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Bill B – I totally agree that Sully becomes obsessive, but I still think his point about McCain has merit. I was not a fan of McCain’s but I thought the rightwing cranks who questioned his conservative credential were nutcases and he was probably the best the party had to offer. But his assenting to the Palin pick shocked me in its cynicism.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Isn’t it true that Palin tried to have books banned and removed from the Wasilla library prior to the VP nod?
Didn’t she also arrange for Alaskans to get per-capita distrubutions of oil licenses just like an arctic Hugo Chavez?
I see her as the penultimate demogogue. She resigned from being governor to persue ideology. Governance is the last thing on her mind.
That said, she is a product of her times. Governance has been delegated by elected officials. Instead of running the government, american elected officials pose.
The VP post is perfect for an ideologue like Palin. There is nothing to do and so she would do nothing well.
In terms of right-wing ideology the job is only to blame government, defund it, deregulate, for the benefit of a few, and at a cost to many.
Going Rogue?
It’s just code for incohate anti-intellectualism which predominates the american middle-class.
Thankfully her handlers on Wall Street have sufficently thinned the middle-class herd so that their brown-bloused putsch clown will have to content herself with torchlight rallies where she might caterwaul about terrorists and their pals.
A shame, really. The VP job is tailor-made for the mediocre. The mediocre never fail to be at their best.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:40 am
The Decline and Fall of Andrew Sullivan…the fall heightened by Marc agreeing with him.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’m waiting for Woody to make noise about Palin posing with the American flag tossed over a chair like a cheap towel and her leaning on it in her sweat clothes. Imagine if Michelle Obama had a picture out like that.
Of course Woody will attack everything about this Palin brouhaha except Palin’s inapproproate posing because he’s a dishonest little bastard of the worst sort.
(And don’t hit that link if you’re curious. It’s a Powerline screed – a wingnut site that’s not worth anyone’s time and powered mostly by the flatulence of idiots like Woody. I made the mistake and I regret it. I thought there might actually be some interesting take on Sullivan, who I happen not to like much – but no such luck.
November 19th, 2009 at 10:36 am
While reg applauds Obama good friend and author of Obama’s book trampling on the American Flag….
November 19th, 2009 at 11:06 am
I don’t even have to click your link to guess what a delusional and dishonest little bastard you are.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Still waiting for a word from Woody on Palin’s treating the flag like a towel. Liberal blogs have been in the forefront of criticizing Newsweek for recycling that tawdry picture Paliin used to promote herself and they are also the only places I’ve seen any criticism of her tossing the flag on a chair and leaning on it.
“Conservatives” have been reduced to terminal idiocy and cowardice in trying to rationalize the Paliin phenomenon. Keep it up. It would be harder to sink lower, but you always seem to manage.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:17 am
“I’m waiting for Woody to make noise about Palin posing with the American flag tossed over a chair like a cheap towel and her leaning on it in her sweat clothes.”
But in private he’ll go into the bathroom and masturbate to the cover…
http://jezebel.com/5162086/red-state-citizens-consume-the-most-online-porn-in-the-usa
November 19th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
There has never been a “derangement syndrome” like this totally irrational hate directed to Obama in recent American history, to my knowledge – most Republicans believe the 2008 election was “stolen.” These people have, for all intents and purpose, simply left the country and are really no longer part of our civic discourse – they’re off in the land of neo-confederacy, paranoid disinformation and the “black helicopter” militias. Total wack jobs, beyond any kind of debate. Woody is like a weathervane of the wingnuts here – I’m afraid he’s not as “marginal” as one would hope, but he in fact represents something crazier. more poisonous and more persistent than we might have imagined.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/poll-majority-of-republic_n_363984.html
November 19th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Am I missing some reason to treat posts by Woody as other than line noise?
November 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
b4: No.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Still waiting for a word from Woody on Palin’s treating the flag like a towel.
That’s gonna be a lonely lengthy vigil, sir.
November 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
It was rhetorical…
November 19th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
As much as I hate Joe Lieberman, if McCain had picked him as his VP it would have shown that his “mavericky” reputation had at least some element of substance. They’re a couple of right-wing fucks with a “centrist” cover on the issues that matter most to me, but their alliance would have made some sort of statement about them that had at least a surface coherence and it would have been the strongest ticket against Obama (although I still think he would have won.) But McCain proved he was (a) scared to death of the wingnut right despite his claims to the contrary and (b) a conventional politician listening to his handlers and willing to stretch himself to the margins of credibility if he thought there was political gain in it. American Hero to American Zero with a single decision.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
“There has never been a “derangement syndrome” like this totally irrational hate directed to Obama in recent American history, to my knowledge…”
This is really pathetic reg. Does your knowledge of history only extend back 1 year? Bush governed too far right from what he ran on to get elected. He was brutalized by the left. Obama is doing the same on the left.
It is you and the left like you that are hurting him more than those who didn’t like him and didn’t vote for him anyway. The left and right are not the voters that count, that win elections.
I don’t know why I try to give you the message when you shoot me instead with a ‘fuck you’. I guess it is because I don’t like the trouble makers, the extremes, on either side. Too much of this over-top-anger and divisiveness is not good for a republic.
Anyway, here is the message one more time. The only thing that can save President Obama, and your mental health, is the economy. The only thing that can save the economy is stopping the spending and stopping the debt spiral. It is killing confidence by investors and our debtors.
–now runs like hell before the bullets fly.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Jim – you’re spouting total horseshit. And you know it.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Oh, and when you do spend others peoples money, you have a duty to treat it like your own, not like it fucking grows on entitlement trees.
You’re making progress reg. This time you only a handful of horseshit at me. It stinks, but it’s not deadly.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
“..you only threw a handful..”
November 19th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
The conscience of a conservative – more from Sully;
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/palin-vs-reagan.html#more
November 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Please reg. Sully does not know the conscience of a conservative, since he doesn’t own one.
It is not worth clicking on, but you tell me if anywhere in this link the word RESPONSIBILITY is found, even one time.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
… Trying to win the election.
>But it’s Johnny Mac who switched her on. What’s his excuse?
November 19th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
… Sullivan, of course, went absolutely nuts over Palin’s baby.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Sorry, as an analyst, Andrew Sullivan is a crank.
From his pathetic performance over Palin’s kid to his ridiculous posturing about the non-existent “Iranian revolution.”
It’s all a ridiculous waste of time.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I guess it is because I don’t like the trouble makers, the extremes, on either side
Yet you mischaracterize Sergio’s comment regarding healthcare as a plea for “free stuff,” without considering any of the reasons behind it.
Seems to me that makes you part of the disease and certainly not the cure.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Say what?
>Does anyone know for a fact McCain acutally chose Palin?
I am sticking to my guns. I don’t believe he did. The first time I saw them on the stage together the body language from him was pure ice…I sensed he hated her guts. And it came out that he, in fact, did.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:41 am
Well, I’m going to keep beating on Palin when she says stuff like this (listen to her comments on Israel–she is a policy moron): http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Palin/sarah-palin-talks-barbara-walters-afghanistan-policy-economy/story?id=9109226
November 20th, 2009 at 6:08 am
And the Palestinian population is going to grow as more Palestinians are born in the Occupied Territories. Where does dimbulb expect them to live? Tel Aviv? Haifa?
November 21st, 2009 at 8:27 am
The flip side of the late 90′s “Get Clinton” media (Cooper
marching in lockstep) was the silly deification of John
McCain (Cooper marching in lockstep). Had Hillary
Clinton one the Democratic Nomination, Cooper would
be counting himself among the Palin voters. And yes,
he might be making excuses for her gaffs from the
VP’s Office.
McCain was always the most obvious of
opportunists, good for some things. I note Cooper’s
silence on the USA Today story about Military Lobbying,
a surprisingly good investigation about whats really
wrong with America.