DISQUS

bkmn · 1 year ago

Don't worry...Joe the Liebercrat will embarrass himself soon enough...screw Joe da Plumber.

henrythefifth · 1 year ago

Yes, cowardly, like running for VP and never holding a SINGLE press conference. Cowardly like that.

evan_la · 1 year ago

Yeah, what henrythefifth said. Cowardly like that - not holding a single press conference as VP candidate. I'm still a little shocked.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

Well, Joe is busy giving interviews including one where he admitted having been a welfare recipient....twice.

But see it's different if HE takes advantage of safety net but let someone else do it and it's Marxist. <cough> hypocrit <cough>

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Joe got a pass from the press when the media waited to release his welfare money information until after the election. But, I am sure he will continue to bash the "liberal" media for picking on his hero, every guy persona.

JamesR · 1 year ago

Coward? Jerk?? - I think she's being a jerk now to the entire 'Snapple Group' for making people not want diet Dr. Pepper now. also.

meganrose · 1 year ago

Wellwell, the whole world was laughing about our Sarah. Gosh, how embarrassing: www.theworldspeaks.info

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

John Maynard Keynes, as his Russian wife Lydia remarked, was "more than economist". He stood at the crossroads of the modern movement, and he moved freely among the competing worlds of Cambridge, Bloomsbury and the Treasury. Keynes was also (at various times, often simultaneously) a civil servant, a collector of paintings and books, a speculator, a farmer, the begetter of British policy towards the arts (he created the Arts Council), and editor and publisher – and of course, a thinker of great originality. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, mostly in great haste, and he was a great exponent of simple ironical prose.

In a very English way he combined a socially conservative appearance – he wore silk underwear and tailored grey suits, he sat on interminable committees and didn't care much what he ate – with the readiness to entertain any proposition. Unless they were established by him, he abhorred rules. When he died in 1946, Keynes was given full honours by the British establishment. And yet he was never really one of them: Keynes was too lacking, like Winston Churchill, in "soundness", or indeed "bottom", and much too conspicuous in his cleverness. A bizarre contribution to the debate over his reputation came from the former editor of The Times, William Rees-Mogg, who suggested that Keynes' obsession with the short-term was motivated not by humanitarian, welfarist considerations but by the fact that as a homosexual he could have no real appreciation of the passing of values (or indeed wealth) from generation to generation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/anal...

cmpnwtr · 1 year ago

I heard part of her comments to the press. She's being picked on, because she's a woman.. Oh, the humanity.. it's so hard to be a victim!

Laur · 1 year ago

But...but...but...wasn't she supposed to be the Republican's answer to Hillary Clinton?

And we know how the liberal press went easy on her for the past, oh, 16 years.

Oh, SNAP!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Palin is a joke and not ready for national office HOWEVER I do not understand the bashing she is taking from the Republicans. THEY picked her, surely they had to know she had some "holes" in her resume, including trashing members of her own party in Alaska, yet they are trying to pin McCain's defeat on her. I say bulls**t. Sure she is the least likely candidate for VP but she didn't insert herself, it was offered. Palin's ego was too great for her to refuse but still, I don't think she had a clue just how fast and how through the "big boys" could be in throwing her overboard.

McCain was the top of that ticket, his loss is the result of poor judgment in picking Palin. I watched her last interview and while I wouldn't say I felt sorry for her, I would say this bashing is going to have an opposite effect if it continues.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

they are trashing her to divert attention from their own gross failures... if they can manage to keep the spotlight on her then that's less that falls on them..

and the flip side to this is the more the McCain camp trashes her, the stronger her fundy supporters will back her... and ultimately that is precisely what those like Kristol, Scheunemann and "starburst" Lowry are after, they WANT Sarah to run again in 2012.... she's their perfect little sock-puppet.

Laur · 1 year ago

Since Palin didn't turn down the offer to be McCain's running mate, there was no reason to expect that she wouldn't be subject to scrutiny. How she handled it was amateurish. She didn't want her extremist views to be known or discussed? Then she shouldn't have accepted the candidacy.

As a campaigner, she was only successful in appealing to the lowest elements of the public, beaming as the extremists among the right wing supporters gobbled up the red meat she flung out at them.

Now she's upset that the McCain people are leaking all sorts of anecdotes about her? And defending her reputation against allegations of the "Wasilla hillbillies' shopping spree @ Neiman-Marcus from coast to coast"?

How does this make her critics cowardly?

While I'd love to forget that she ever existed, the fact remains that she will not easily relinquish her 15 minutes of national fame, and we have to keep an eye on her and the Alaska Independence Party, as she's forever their girl.

Whether she's redeemed or not, she'll surface again. We're pretty much stuck with her for now.

But the only one who doesn't seem to think she's a jerk, really, could be her "laconic" husband.

It is possible that one of them may dump the other. If she tried to pull the same crap on him that they pulled on her ex-brother-in-law, she might find that Todd's not such an easy mark.

So, she's going to try to satisfy him by continuing to pursue her political ambitions. She's very competitive (and, as we've learned, vain)--the only thing that scares her is losing--whether it's attention or elections.

"How ya gonna keep them down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?"

JamesR · 1 year ago

She just needs to, is in UFC, and most martial arts movies, good and bad, STAY DOWN. She just keeps getting up like an unwhacked whack-a-mole. She is bing "picked on" because she continues fighting.

Get down, submit, stay down, stop threatening to dominate the rest of the pack. She knows it not only as a human, but also knows as an Alaskan also because, see, a wolf will roll over and demonstrate submission to the more dominant member, see, and every body would all get along.

Unless of course you're huntin' it with a helicopter and supralupocaedo is, you betcha!

killingvector · 1 year ago

Yeah, I would give some credence to the "anonymous criticism" argument if there had been no robocalls, no e-mails about Obama being a seekrit Muslim, and no "real America" garbage.

Indigo · 1 year ago

My only regret is that we didn't make her cry in public.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

Seems only those who really have no real skills, no knowledge and no wisdom are the only ones who have the audacity to pounce on a situation (called opportunism), as Palin did, immediately accepting McBush's offer, without thought, without consideration, without self-searching.

Only her ego and ambition drove her decision; that was what tipped me off immediately to her flaws. I think most of the country has learned by now that narcissistic sociopaths do NOT make good governance. The problem is, most people don't recognize it immediately.

BorninUSA · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin was a joke. And I wouldn't trust 'first dude' as far as I could throw him. He comes off as shifty and self-serving. Why was he campaigning constantly with Sarah? And Cindy with McCain? The two candidates were never on stage without the dude and Cindy right there. And to fill up space were Lieberman and Graham. What a crew. BTW, can't first dude get a job on the Northern Slopes for plumber Joe? Joe wouldn't last two days if he actually had to do physical labor. Good riddance to all of them.

rexkc · 1 year ago

Sure they are jerks. But this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. How much courage did she have in standing up before ignorant angry Republican crowds, spewing spewing lies about Obama's "associations and that encouraged violent emotions from their mob? She is no better than anyone else associated with McCain's campaign and its great fun to see them turn on themselves after their election failure.

rexkc · 1 year ago

Alaska may have been late in joining the Union, but they make up for it by being first to the trough in terms of both public money for their state and their most powerful politicians have their hands in the till as well. Are all of them money grubbers?

jm2 · 1 year ago

maybe she can get Joe the Plumber to move to Alaska. There has to be a lot of stopped up "terlets" up there because of the cold.

how do you plunge an outhouse...?

gwpriester · 1 year ago

What a class act!

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

The truly awful part of Gov Palin is that the hardcore base of Republican voters lover her and want everyone to be just like her. Even up here in Vermont, Republican neighbors wish dreamily of voting for Palin in 2012. They say it with such sincerity that I believe them.

Palin is the Republican Party:
the obvious and blatant lying
the willful ignorance
the nastiness and hatred

Republicans love it all.

anarchy · 1 year ago

Sarah Palin hates America and everything
we stand for, plain and simple.

Aman-About-Town.com · 1 year ago

She's completely unfiltered now! It's alarming to consider how restrained she was when being in retrospect when handled by McCains people. It's like Palin Unplugged now that she's left to her own devices.