DISQUS

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

The Alaska Dingbat knows what's best for everybody.

mk2001 · 1 year ago

I read the entire transcript and I am feeling a bit dizzy from the blizzard of words. When she opens her mouth, I feel like she is speaking another language that I am just barely fluent in.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

I feel that way also too. That the language I am hear-een there is not quite what I am used too and also that the words are different than what happens on the tee-vee in the pro-America parts of , um, America.

mk2001 · 1 year ago

Yeah, and, um, in those parts of America, also. There are, as I've said, many people who are just tryin' to make a livin', being that they are part of this great country and part of a bigger country in this world as we know it, as well. And that's what this is all about, it's about reform and rufflin' feathers and gettin' in there and makin' policy changes so that we, as Americans, can really know that this is why we do what we do, and also, who we are as Americans and John and I are workin' hard for you to make that happen.

truebluecoondog · 1 year ago

PERFECT!!!

Can you tell me where those un-american parts of America are? I wanna go THERE.

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

Her blubbering is as bad as Wolf Blitzers 500 word questions. Can you imaging him interviewing HER. They would have time for 2 questions and 2 answers for the whole hour. geez

ProgressiveTroll · 1 year ago

That's what fascists do. String together a bunch of crap that doesn't make sense. You will notice that in her Gov.'s debate, just like Dumbya's debate with Ann Richards, she doesn't talk like that at all. In those debates, they both spoke pretty intelligently. This lady isn't as stupid as she's pretending. It's all an act.

devlzadvocate · 1 year ago

demagogue - a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power. (per Merriam-Webster Online)

In this context, "leader" is used in a sense of the fantastic or simply wishful thinking.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Moose Farts

Indigo · 1 year ago

Caribou Barbie, just pull the string to hear the recorded nonsense.

BarbaraGordon · 1 year ago

I wonder if this is Palin (and Dobson) trying to push McCain into formally endorsing their crazy positions?

scottinsf · 1 year ago

In answer to your first question: all of the above.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

This has gone from some kind of idiotic political decision to a really awful joke with a groaning punchline. What the fuck are they thinking? That their tiny base is gonna go out and vote for her? Well that's a given. Swing voters? Mmmm not so much, girlfriend. It's almost like someone is sabotaging the campaign to pave the road in 2012 for Mitty or Rudy or Huckleberry Finn or someone. I find this somewhat baffling given there are two weeks left and some of us have already voted or will in the next few days. Someone, quick, get a gag ball for Missy Caribou Barbie.

lilybart · 1 year ago

Peggy Noonan said it best, Palin, "just, says things"

shrrrr · 1 year ago

"Is she a blithering idiot, a liar, or informing us that now McCain has ditched his earlier positions on abortion (and gays)? You decide."
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I'm going to go with 'blithering idiot'.

truebluecoondog · 1 year ago

"...Republican platform's planks on life and marriage." What's wrong - REALLY wrong - with that quote? If I was looking for someone's insight on life and marriage, it would mean that I was looking for a pastor or church to belong to, or someone to spend the rest of my life with. If I'm looking for someone to be President, I want to know their platform on health care, foreign affairs and free speech.

How did we get so far from sanity? This tide MUST be turned. Dobson is no authority on ANYTHING.

ProgressiveTroll · 1 year ago

Anyone that believes the world was created in 6 days, 6,000 years ago shouldn't have a say about anything in my opinion. And my apologies to any religious person reading this, but seriousy, get a science book and read it will ya? My religion states that God gave us a brain and we are to use it and move with the times.

bdhp · 1 year ago

I am sure going to miss her.

ProgressiveTroll · 1 year ago

I don't think you have to worry about that. She's the darling of the wingnuts. She ain't going anywhere.

scottinsf · 1 year ago

I'm not so sure I agree. When we send her packing back to Alaska there are a LOT of unresolved issues that we can destroy her with.

I'll help with that any way I can.

Apphouse50 · 1 year ago

Yeah, I wanna see her after the election: in an orange jump suit.

scottinsf · 1 year ago

You got it.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

devlz...you got it exactly right. Palin is a demagogue who's determined to foist her beliefs on everyone in this country, and she will walk over McBush to get her way, no doubt about it. A modern day female Huey Long, a populist fascist.

I said at the start she was a dangerous, ignorant woman, and I believe that even more strongly now.

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

This is why McShank is going to loose. He's a walking dead man.

For all you younger people who drop by, consider this statement made by McShank sometime earlier today regarding Biden's statement that Obama would be tested in his first year, and I quote (very close):

"...how would Obama known how to handle a crisis, the Cuban-Missile crisis was a crisis and I was there."

That's all you need to know (plus the fact he graduated 894th out of 900 at the Naval Academy.

McShank is a loser - he's always been a loser, and he's a loser now. Moving on....

I just saw some lady on the tube trying to handcuff Herr Karl Rove. Somebody give that woman a job!

ProgressiveTroll · 1 year ago

He's made comments like that before about stuff that happened really long ago. That just reminds people how old he is. You would think his advisors would be telling him not to say that kind of shit, but when your advisors are idiot lobbyists, that's the campaign you get. Just ask Hillary.

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

I didn't think of that angle, how stupid it was to say it. Stupid is as stupid does.

powwow500 · 1 year ago

Thanks for highlighting this, John! Just ONE QUIBBLE with language. Instead of "the mother" we should always refer to "the girl/woman." By using the term "mother" we are implying that the embryo/fetus is a "baby." This just feeds into the anti-choice language. Also, a girl/woman is not a mother until (if) she gives birth. Thanks for your consideration.

ProgressiveTroll · 1 year ago

Good point!

GrMtGirl3 · 1 year ago

Palin represents Stupidity Personified.

If Alaskans have any intelligence at all, they will initiate impeachment when she returns to Alaska.

ProgressiveTroll · 1 year ago

You would think her charging them for her kid's to travel with her when they weren't invited would do the trick. But then again, those people keep electing Ted the Tubes so what do I know!

Mike · 1 year ago

My quibble is with Ambinder repeating the lie that McSame doesn't support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage -- he does!

What he has said, repeatedly, is that he voted against it because it wasn't necessary -- but that if more states did what Mass. did or if DOMA was overturned, then we would need to amend the Constitution.... and he has repeatedly supported every state constitutional amendment.

[getting down off my soapbox]

BeardyMan · 1 year ago

Doesn't Palin "believe from the bottom of her heart" that the earth is 6000 years old and that man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time?

Apphouse50 · 1 year ago

Oh, please God, can we keep her? Just 'till the election, that's all I want. Obama oughta be paying her for the damage she's doing.

okojo · 1 year ago

There has to be a method to her madness.. Either the McCain campaign are worried that the Social Conservatives won't turn out in big numbers for the election...

or

My opinion, Governor Palin is getting ready to run for President in 2012, and she is shoring up as much as possible her support with the far right before she heads back to Alaska.

Palin's comments in the past couple days have been perplexing, (well when she is coherent) because she is should be keeping to her talking points when she was first selected in Sept., glass ceiling, Hillary supporters, political outsider, blah, blah, blah..

Now, she is coming off as a Michelle Bachmann clone, very hard right views, trigger happy in solving complex issues like Venezuela-US relatons, etc. rigid answers that show no critical thinking outside what she is told by her staff.

Her negatives are going to go up, way up if she continues to give interviews to Right Wing hacks and Conservative patsies who give softball questions, and drool over answers that they may like, but Independent voters abhor.

I don't understand why she is doing this, but she is hurting McCain by doing this, and the McCain Campaign should put a stop to this... unless they are feel it doesn't matter at this point and they know they are going to lose.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

Come on, okojo, you don't think the Bachmann version of Palin is the REAL Palin? The glass ceiling Palin was the cooked-up version of the Rethugs, mere talking points.

Turned loose, Palin is a fascist, no doubt in my mind.

okojo · 1 year ago

I think the real Sarah Palin is a very ambitious, say anything, do anything to get to her goal. How she treats her staff as Governor, besides some heavy handness to those who either cross her or stand in her way shows what kind of person she is in real life.

Forcing her daughter to get married wasn't because of personal spiritual beliefs as much as political instinct.

I don't think she is Michelle Bachmann, I do think she is as shallow and rigid as Michelle Bachmann, just a tad bit smarter...

houstonray · 1 year ago

I love this quote from her: "...McCain believes in those strong planks and we do have good conversations about some of the details too, about the different planks and what they represent."

It sounds like a bit from TIna Fey on SNL. With just some tweaking, it could become this: "The planks, and some good conversations about the different planks and what they do...you betcha planks and the economy, because you know, planks are so important to the economy because wood is a renewable resource and that's why we must support our lumber industry so that we have the planks we need to build the foundation of our great country..."

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

OT: CNN is reporting that a "reputable" muslim internet site (wouldn't name which one) is calling for an attack on the US before Nov to alter elections - looks like, according to CNN, al-qaeda want MsShank to win. CNN's ticker said "October Surprise." Looks like the networks are digging at the bottom of the barrel to come up with this stuff.

Eyeball_Kid · 1 year ago

I just heard on KPHX, Pheonix, that McCain's numbers have advanced into a DEAD HEAT with Obama. WTF?

Are there two trends in the polling numbers? One that indicates that Obama is "pulling away", and the other, that McCain is tied with Obama? What's happening?

My suspicion is that some polling numbers are being altered by the GOP to alter the perception that McCain is losing, SO THAT when the voting machines are finally ordered to reverse the numbers for a McCain WIN, there will be a narrative based upon "data" that can be referenced in the aftermath of an outrageous upset.

okojo · 1 year ago

McCain should win Arizona, pretty handily. If there are more polls that come out showing that Arizona is soft for McCain, then that is not good news for the McCain campaign...

McCain can't do anything about Arizona right now, pretty much all their efforts are in Ohio, Pennsylvania, NH and Florida. They may try to hit hard in Nevada, where they have a fighting chance, but I don't think the McCain campaign doesn't have to worry about one poll, when suburban and rural voters should help McCain much in Arizona.

Personally, I really think the state McCain needs to keep an eye is Georgia.

unpoetaloco · 1 year ago

This may be the AP's attempt to help McCain.

unpoetaloco · 1 year ago

Someone needs to make a commercial post haste saying: "John McCain favors a constitutional amendment banning abortion, even in the case of rape and incest..." A woman's voice, serious, somber...

Make John McCain call his running mate a liar.

LeesiD · 1 year ago

Judging what McCain jokingly said during the last debate about a 'woman's health"...this doesn't come as a surprise~ McCain is nothing but a windsock....and Palin is the wind!

MNUSA · 1 year ago

Do these people even have a concept of what they're talking about? Do they have any idea of what some women go through? Do they realize that nature (and probably our exposure to toxins) can make horrible mistakes? There is no indication that they understand or have any empathy for women who desperately want a baby find out their baby not only won't survive birth, but may harm them, too. I guess they'd rather go back to the "good old days" where lots of women died in childbirth.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

Dobson is a domineering, control freak. All I can think about when I think of him is that here is the guy who beat his little Dachshund because he wanted to sleep in a warm spot in the bathroom rather than the cold cage where Dobson wanted him. That also makes him cruel and unfeeling.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

Dobby's all about those private conversations...he's happiest when he thinks he's privy to the inner workings of the GOPer plank making!

Dobson! They're still playing you, man. Pull yer head out.

FatRat · 1 year ago

I want to see a viral video created, about having to carry the rapists baby.

I can picture it now. "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka playing in the background with a three people swaying and lip synching. McCain on the right, Palin on the left and in the middle- the rapist (wearing a ski mask and a t-shirt that says "Choose Life.")