DISQUS

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

Yep, a whack job that got picked as a VP candidate by another whack job presidential candidate. Soul mates not so much now huh?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Everything I have seen and heard on Palin confirms the top McCain advisor's comment - she is a whack job.
However, she is a whack job that's going to be in the political arena for some time to come. All those hate filled, racist, poorly educated Republicans, love her.

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

i'm taking bets that she doesn't get reelected in 2010. she and stevens have embarrassed about 300,000 of the 500,000 voters up there.

houstonray · 1 year ago

My guess is she will "decide not to run" in 2010 so as to save face for the start of the primary process for 2012. That way she can just say she didn't want to run because she wants to save America from a 2nd Obama term...

Good luck to the Republican party...

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

well the problem with her not seeking another term as gov and waiting for the 2012 run at the presidency, is that with Stevens and that network out of the picture she's going to have a hard time generating enough money to make a successful run a a primary... and I don't think after this run, that the deep pockets will be forth coming with the cash... and the religious backing she might get is of the extremist variety, which is losing support...

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

I have a highly educated and successful Ultra Conservative 'friend' who hates McCain and loves Palin. He actually was hoping that McCain would die in office so that Palin could take over--and my 'friend' is gay; he's against gay marriage and feels the economy should have just bottomed out and started all over. He's just now conceding defeat to Obama and makes all kinds of racist remarks about the new White House. I don't think it's education that's the problem, I think it's a genetic disturbance.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

OT

Whoa! This is something new about MCCain. Seems he was involved in 1964 in a fatal car crash. Could Admiral McCain have kept this buried to prevent a negative blip on McCain? From Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-o...

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

And they worry so much about Ted Kennedy's Chappaquidick adventure. I doubt that Ted Kennedy also recklessly destroyed multimillion dollar military aircraft as well.

Wh0Cares · 1 year ago

Off topic, but I am commenting on John's post yesterday:
"As always, I'll give the usual caveat. They're losing, big time. But they can steal it. Don't let them. We need massive turnout in order to guarantee that we have enough of a margin of victory to stop them from stealing the key states they need."

Considering this was such a heated issue in 2000 and 2004, why has this not been a major topic of conversation on this blog the past year or so? Why is election theft so accepted in this country when a former president devotes much of his time to overseeing the integrity of elections in foreign countries? Shouldn't our country be setting the example? Considering this hypocrisy, where is the outrage? Why must blog owners encourage large voter turnout to counteract the effect of rigged voting machines, ect. on the outcome of the election? Why not stomp the airwaves and printed media and make election theft an issue that MUST be addressed?

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

the obama campaign is much more pro-active in this area than previous Dem candidates:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/us/politics/2...

John Aravosis · 1 year ago

I've been writing about voter fraud forever, however, especially after the 2004 election, there isn't any new news, and Im not going to write about the issue every day when there's nothing new to write about. We've had other big stories to deal with , such as Iraq, such as the election. I can't just write about the issue, making stuff up, like some kind of crazy man.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

that is not true... There have been convictions of elections officials in Ohio over the 2004 election and their rigging of the "recount" ... just recently a judge lifted a stay and one of the suits is going forward...

And during this election season there have been many reports of voter suppression -- including voter roll purges, the DOJ getting involved in the vote process in Ohio, machines flipping votes in several states.... and not a peep from here... is that really old news and nothing new to report???

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Oh and John, there is a difference between "voter fraud" -- which is a person or persons attempting to illegally vote or vote multiple times, and vote suppression -- which is one of the tactics that the Republicans are really good at... several instances show up every election... from sending out "official flyers" advising Dems to vote on the day after the election, to intimidation, to not having enough equipment at the polls to cast the votes on, to voter challenges at the polls... and the final one, which is the most serious -- election fraud -- the use of voting machines that can be manipulated, hacked, and programed to flip an entire election.

There have been only a couple cases of actual "voter fraud" in the last couple of elections -- and not surprisingly Ann Coulter is one of the few that have been charged with just that.

Voter suppression and intimidation happen EVERY election, but not much is done about it... and yes, it's illegal.

Election fraud has also happened the last 2 presidential elections, but you haven't written one word about that (see Ohio 2004 and Florida 2000).

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

DAMN, Palin (on MSNBC) just levied her "Joe Mama" line again. WHEN is someone going to call her on using this subtle but clear racial line.

Indigo · 1 year ago

Could it be she feels bad about the Caribou Barbie thing and needs to retaliate?

John Aravosis · 1 year ago

What line? what is she saying?

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

that her favorite sign that she's seen on the campaign trail is one saying "Joe mama"...

Bluestocking · 1 year ago

Yet another salvo from what's turned into a circular firing squad. At this rate -- provided, of course, that you could remove such "wild cards" as homicidal skinheads and questionable voting machines from the equation -- Obama doesn't need to put forth much effort to defeat McCain when McCain's own staffers are doing it for him!

Indigo · 1 year ago

I"m sorry but I don't get the point of the comment, they're all whack jobs aren't they? That's what makes them Republicans.

nicho · 1 year ago

That is the point. When a McCain adviser -- by definition a whack job -- calls someone a whack job -- we are talking about whack job squared. That would be as if Bill Clinton called someone a skirt-chaser.

michaelt · 1 year ago

i'm too paranoid to be fully enjoying all this.

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

you have lingering 2004 trauma. maybe even 2000.

Hurrycane · 1 year ago

Ain't that the truth!

Forty2 · 1 year ago

and you don't? aaaaaaaa!!!!

They stole it twice already. what's to stop em again? fuck. OK, yeah, you're probably right.

need pills. now.

houstonray · 1 year ago

My name is Houstonray and I'm a paranoid voter...

I suffer from Post 2000/2004 Stress Syndrome... ;-)

UncleGlenny · 1 year ago

I stil have a hole in a closet door (from a kick) and some broken pots and pans from 2004.

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

I'm with you. I would love for the endorphins to be flowing, but with the electronic voting switching going on in WVa and elsewhere...there be a stealin' of the election a'comin'.

grandma · 1 year ago

from the link:

Palin to Hannity: " And I believe that yes, the wisdom of the people will prevail on Nov. 4.”

ahhh...yes it will prevail....buy bye McPalin

annatopia · 1 year ago

HAHA!

/nelson

grandma · 1 year ago

Ambinder:

Why is it, exactly, that while Sen. McCain called for Sen. Ted Stevens to resign in the wake of his corruption convictions, Gov. Palin couldn't bring herself to utter the word?

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/20...

Everyone in the GOP, contrary to some of their words, must be deeply embarrassed by her shallowness.

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

Because of the shit that Steven's has on HER and her corrupt self.

grandma · 1 year ago

I don't doubt that one bit.

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

I can't wait for the mini-series, hopefully on cable so we actually see mccain call her and Cindy the C-word out loud, you know he has done it, and probably doing it almost daily by now. LOL

woodroad34 · 1 year ago

That's why she's a whack job -- she's immensely stupid and crazy and she's put a "whack" on this campaign (well, Johnnie helped a little. It's almost a case of the pot calling the kettle black). Whatever Johnnie says, she takes the opposite approach. They deserve each other.

dad · 1 year ago

“a whack job”

that's exactly what republicans have been hoping for from her

houstonray · 1 year ago

A whack job, ha, that's what we've been calling her for about the last 8 weeks! They are a little behind the times, but hey, it's nice to see they are catching up! ;-)

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Now to be fair to Palin, it's probably really disconcerting to be "de-witched" for the first time... the aide will think she's less of a whack job once he gets used to the process....
< /snark>

It took the rest of us about a day and a half to figure that out... it takes a serious amount of blindness to have not seen that for this long...

erick28 · 1 year ago

Now we need to make sure that all of these statements about her and the facts we found out about her are all recorded to make sure it will be used when Palin runs for any office. We don't need additional hate monger in the govt.

downindixie · 1 year ago

Palin reminds me of Moonbeam Mcswine,good looking but nasty as hell!

okojo · 1 year ago

I find it ironic that the McCain campaign staffers agree with its critics: Palin isn't qualified for nationwide office.

Rufus · 1 year ago

When she first said the "Palin-McCain" campaign, they should have known they created a monster.

EmGD · 1 year ago

I clearly read that she's the new Reagan who is going to lead her party out of the wilderness after the GOP purges all the people who correctly think she's political poison. Granted she'll lead them out of the wilderness into a bigger, deeper, scarier, lonelier wilderness, but let's not quibble. She's the savior, not a whack job or diva, or she-beast electoral banshee.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

devlzadvocate · 1 year ago

over Rove's fat ass.

devlzadvocate · 1 year ago

Spontaneous combustion by Election Day. I'm counting on it.

daphnerp · 1 year ago

Palin is a "Whack Job". I have not heard one intelligent statement yet. She will not answer simplequestions put to her such as "what do you read?". John McCain used to have good sense...not anymore.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Sarah Six-Pac is not competent for high office. Period.

shaneeeza · 1 year ago

I been saying that for months.. She is really a lost soul and its a d@mm McShame he cant run a campaign much less the country.
She fighting corruption and reaching across the aisle isnt she being investigated for corruption. I dont know hat world she lives in, but she is not qualified and I am woman, THE TERM DIVA is not sexist, its just a nicer work for being an AHOLE. This woman blames everyone else for her screw-ups now Katie Couric for the questions that made her look bad, now she is working on saying the AIDES made her look stupid, wake up REPUBS she is just STUPID, and McCain is even STUPIDER for choosing her.. OBAMA BIDEN 08

JohnRJ08 · 1 year ago

On CNN, Campbell Brown says that "diva" is a sexist term. Maybe so, but I think the term is a spot-on match for Palin, who is a genuine feminist's worst nightmare. Women have been fighting for equality in this country for decades and, now, the first woman chosen to be vice president on a Republican ticket turns out to be a throwback to the 1950's. Vacuous, strident, shrill, phony, sarcastic, ignorant, and grotesquely ambitious-- that's a diva if there ever was one. Palin is a prima donna in waiting, who exudes totally unjustifiable confidence in her own abilities. Her out-sized contribution to this campaign has been her litany of misrepresentations and incendiary remarks about Barack Obama, which would have made Joe McCarthy proud. Any bias that has been shown by the "elite media" against Sarah Palin has been earned. And any pundit who continues to support this pathetically inadequate candidate does so at the risk their own credibility.

wakeupUSA · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin - butthead extraordinaire.

Go to: www.buttheadpolice.com

Vote for her, and others like her to get an ass stamped on her head. Spread the word!! Buttheads will roll!!

reggie92 · 1 year ago

That's two stories in a row by CNN using the claim that a unknown McCain advisor is saying these things about Palin. No facts to back the story. How do we even know if these comments came from the McCain camp anyway. I mean a journalist could use this strategy to create any story. What happened to journalism this year. All I see are a bunch of opinionated people throwing stories out there and seeing what will stick. What a disgrace.

Tiredofit1 · 1 year ago

Well the sleeping giants are finally awake! I am sure Sarah is an intelligent woman, although she has not shown it. That's what happens when you become a political pawn. The GOP told her who they wanted her to be and she attempted to fit the mold. Now she is attempting to break her mold. That's what happens when one attempts varify the deal one has made with the devil. Too little, too late. Now the GOP is turning in on its' self and fighting for all the world to see. If she did not attempt to fit the mold, she would not be in this mess in the first place. I am all for strong, independant women, however she is now perceived as out of control. Of course McCain and the GOP are going to blame her, they will blame everyone but themselves. It really is sad watching the GOP implode. I am not of the GOP, but it is pitiful watching the Grand Old Party fall utterly apart.