Oh my. Jake Tapper has a fascinating post about Sarah Palin’s deleterious effects on her political allies. First he talks about how she made the shopping spree story worse by continuing to shop, and continuing to talk about shopping, then he lists all the Alaskan political figures she used and then stabbed in the back:
o Wasilla mayor John Stein mentored Palin when she ran for City Council. She repaid him by running against him two years later, defeating him with a smear campaign implying he was neither Christian nor legally married (both untrue).
o Wasilla Councilman Nick Carney, also mentored Palin in her City Council run. She froze him out after he endorsed Stein for mayor, then falsely accused him of corruption.
o State Senate President Lyda Green was an ally in the 90s, and an enemy after 2006 when she didn’t endorse Palin (or anyone) for governor. Giggled gleefully while Anchorage shock jock said horribly mean-spirited things about Green.
o Conservative talk radio host Nick Fagan went from friend to enemy after criticizing her for raising taxes on oil companies.
o Governor Frank Murkowski – Okay, I’ll give her a pass on that one.
Tapper concludes:
[S]ome McCain allies are now quite suspect of Palin and worried that Sen. McCain is going to become just the latest Palin ally whom she uses – and then discards — in her rapid ascendance to power.
Even if true, I just can’t feel sorry for McCain – he picked Palin as his running mate for the worst of reasons, and with almost no vetting beyond "Dobson likes her." Now the GOP is paying the price for his recklessness, and the rest of the world won’t.
As for "Our Sarah," I have a hard time seeing her advancing any farther than Senator no matter how many snowcoaches she throws McCain under. Granted, if George W. Bush can get elected, anything can happen, but I’m hoping that by 2012 or 2016, progressives will have a big enough megaphone to remind America what happens when you vote based on who you’d rather party with.
(h/t watertiger and DJShay)
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The Bush family wants Jeb in play starting in 2012 and seriously in 2016. Sarah’s got no chance when the crime family wants something that doesn’t include her.
Hi Eli!…
Personally,I think the way she is going, she will be lucky to get elected to dog catcher.
She is burning bridges left and right.
Of course, most Republicans seem to have the memory of a gnat so I guess it is possible she will still be around.
It just seems that she is rather self destructive whenever she opens her yap.
i blame McNasty for bringing the Pandora Palin to the world……….ugh
Is it too much to hope for that the Bush Family vs. Palin will result in their mutual assured destruction?
Don’t worry, she’ll be ok. She’ll be a spokesmodel on Fox News.
Nice lady.
This is another example of my knee jerk negative reaction to her turning out to be more than true. But I take no credit. She is soooo much worse than I could have thought. My imagination is not rich enough to figure out the Rs.
Run, Todd, run! She’s hungry!
Keep in mind that there is a significant chunk of the electorate who would happily and enthusiastically support Charles Manson for president if he came out and said he opposed abortion.
I think I called this when learning she burnt one of her mentors who appointed her to the gas & energy position and led to her “reform” position. Plus my Frist like powers of diagnosis that she has a personality disorder.
Joan Walsh:
McCain suckled a viper. Forgive the image.
707!
you are wise!
well said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..641/641080
pour toi: Palin is a HUAC job.
se my@4
the end is real ughy
:P seriously! I knew she wouldn’t be able to help herself. scorpions have to sting, ya know? It’s what they do.
“at long last, ma’am, have you no shame?”
This piece is bullshit. Obama’s been called “uppity” ‘arrogant” “elite” all that shit. Is Palin called “diva’ because she’s a woman? Well, who else ya gonna call a Diva. Whack job? Because she’s a woman? Gimme a break. If anything, the shameful thing is that too many have been too easy on her in a way they never would have been with a male candidate.
It shows how far the Republics have fallen to go along with McCain’s choice of Palin.
fwiw, I think Mitts is kinda diva like.
((sadly))
OT ~ Scientists Identify Brain’s ‘Hate Circuit’
Lemme guess……the ‘RIGHT’ side?
black widow? sure. but with the way she seems to be looking ahead to 2012, one could also invoke the post-coitally murderous praying mantis “better half”.
hi wobbygirl,this week sukks,oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I think “cocky wacko” is unisex…
Heard the funniest thing on radio this morning. They were discussing the silly things that Obama has been accused of being or doing. Then started to think up what might come next. That he probably masticates and has a sister who is a thespian. The whole thing was hilarious.
That she has ascended this far is frightening.
That she could, quite possibly, be the next Vice President of the US is shocking.
One thing about burning bridges is that you do it for a reason. If none of those people can get to her, then it doesn’t matter. What matters is that she keeps moving forward. And she’s doing it. This article defends her on feminist principles…the same ones she is working to destroy.
Unbelievable. I just don’t understand Americans, I guess.
Love it. Thanks!
That one’s awesome!
I was just going to say the same thing. She’s a praying man-tease. Her sidekick? Braying man-tits.
i thought so too!
lousy mother too…. imho
hah!
How would anyone feel sorry for McCain? He blindly pursued her and followed whatever her advocates were selling. Reminds me of favorite old adage that I first heard put forth in Italian: You tell me with whom you go, and IIIIII will tell you whooooo you are. (Just sorry I can’t come up with the emphatic Italian accent…but you get it). John + Sarah + Cindy…who would you want to be your friend?
Dear old Parah Salin is just so representative of the TheoCon GoOPers who have had a stranglehold on power over the last eight-plus years that she’s not likely to be much of a threat outside the “base”…
I think that the corporateCons who have been somewhat put off by Sarah the Impetuous might be soon joining (and pushing) the Blue Dogs as their choice for congressional lapdogs. I have my doubts that they will get in bed with the TheoCons ever again to the extent that they have up til now… especially of Sarah the Prevaricator is the TheoCon Choice for PoliBimbo…
It really does suck. I’m a mishmash of emotions with cranky leading the pack *g*
That was for sadly @ 27
OT – New Chicago Church Video released.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k5N4KrZ0pw
im gonna take mood elevators this month…cat very ill,house falling apart and this………………
hahahahahaahhahaha
thanks
awww I’m so sorry about the cat. Sending healing energy to your hosehold (it won’t do much for the house though)
Well I’m truly frightened with the polls tightening and Republican cheating kicking into overdrive….
Are there going to be traffic jams at the Canadian border November 5? My wife found this amusing video:
Digg!
I don’t disagree with you except to say that if the theocons go away, Sarah will reinvent herself all over again. she’s a shapeshifter.
at this rate, I will be an absolute mess come Monday. but I have been watching this great video
It makes me make a few more phone calls to GOTV
stop being frightened and go volunteer. We need help not fears and fretting
yah,i day at a time,sometimes its one minute at a time (smile)
If Palin is reelected in AK for anything it would be a miracle. Multiple ethics violations, questions on pipeline, two vetos on ban on shooting wolves from aircraft, all of the revelations on her religious affiliations, questions about her house, and now another ethics question
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1029.html
This whole snippet is interesting.
http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wo…..n-wasilla/
i went to FDRs house and grave site,one of my big heros ,wifey poo too
I have every confidence in Obama and his team. I think the election will be over long before they count Ca.
:)
Feels good, don’t it?
i think so very much,she can charm the dummies,smarteeees not so much
What you describe has been the fundamental basis of all politicians. Dems are just mad because their own viper a/k/a Hillary lost. Let me see…do you remember Whitewater?? How about the Whitehouse Travel Office?? and not Foster’s murder that was never solved?? I think rises to a level far beyond “back stabbing” allegations…
very much so
Isn’t the question why she has had so much appeal? (like Alex Baldwin saying how “hot” she is in person) And, why are so many folks fooled?
The prospects are good but we haver to make sure folks get out and vote. I will be relieved/elated/overjoyed if they can call the race early
hot till the evils of the world fall out of Pandoras clap trap,then stone cold
relieved/elated/overjoyed
oh yes,will throw away pills on the spot
Sounds like they were channeling a speech that George Smathers purportedly gave during a Florida senate campaign against Claude Pepper (although it appears to be an apocryphal tale):
Oh, I was just hunting around for more Palin mentors and found this. It’s mostly about Carney. The point being that she will use people who are smarter than her to get ahead and then she burns them because she hates that they are smarter…kind of a I hate that I need your help, so I’m going to prove that i don’t need your help anymore. weird. I thought that was part of the discussion.
In this same article is that Sarah makes political decisions, not evaluative ones. She also poses as an outsider, and many people relate to that.
You know, Washington ain’t Alaska. Heh.
Perhaps in Alaska, you can fuck your allies over, but when you get to “The Show” people have long memories and, well, Allen Toussaint said it best:
“Sunrise
Sunset
Since the beginning it hasn’t changed yet
People fly high begin to lose sight
You can’t see very clearly when you’re in flight
It’s high time that you found
The same people you misuse on your way up
You might meet up
On your way down
Vintage wines from the year ‘62
It’s your thing, it’s your thing
It pleases you
You got to frown when you cross town
You think it’s an honor just to have you around
It’s high time that you found
The same dudes you misuse on your way up
You might meet up
On your way down
You think the sun rises and sets for you
But the same sun rises, sets and shines
On the poor folks too
I don’t mind you turning round
I myself would even like a little higher ground
It’s high time that you found
The same people you walk on on your way up
You might meet up
On your way down
On your way down”
Obama confessed to fathering two AA children in wedlock.
The Al Smith dinner.
That’s really good. It was fun to listen to this morning and the radio host was laughing so hard he was just losing it. The callers were very clever in thinking up tons of others.
Sara’s going to get out of politics and take up teevee as a female Hannity for Fox. She’s got name recognition. It’s all she needs. Why should she go around shaking hands with rubes and eating stale rubber chicken or mooseburger when she can take down several million a year hosting a teevee show. That’s where she’s going. That’s where ‘Joe the Plumber’ wants to go. It’s their big shot, like ‘American Idol.’ It’s the American way for rubes.
What drives her is greed. Politics is simply an means of satisfying that end. She’s a grifter, just like the tele-evangilists she takes after.
Talk about scary…but I would predict that she and Sean would pretty soon “kill” each other…how would 2 such egos, sociopaths ever get along? But I do tend to underestimate…maybe they would find a way to feed off of one another. Or maybe she will disappear after her offensive splash like the skinny blonde what’sher name Coulter.
Lindsay Beyerstein is in the Campaign Silo!
Dems Set to Strip Lieberman of Chairmanship
Joan Walsh @ #11
I would agree with you except for a couple of very salient points. First, she hired a PR firm to get her name out there for the VP nomination. Which really leads to the second point. Who, better than Sarah would know that she is totally unqualified for the position? Did she not know that she lacks knowledge of foreign policy as well as serious domestic issues?
Wouldn’t she know that with a 72 year old presidential nominee with a history of several bouts with cancer there would be a good chance that she would be called upon to be Commander-In-Chief? Wouldn’t anyone with as thin a resume’ as Governor Palin know this?
I, for one, think that if she is scapegoated for this probable loss, she brought much of it upon herself. McCain was an idiot for choosing her, but she was also an idiot for taking the nomination.
“Dems are just mad because their own viper a/k/a Hillary lost. Let me see…do you remember Whitewater?? How about the Whitehouse Travel Office?? and not Foster’s murder that was never solved??”
Cheryl…Whitewater? Ultimately the Republicans own special prosecutor said he could find nothing on the Clinton’s…they lost money on the deal. Whitewater was simply an excuse to perpetually expand the investigation.
The White House Travel Office? Lemme ask you…did Bush keep on the Clinton Travel Office? Did Reagan keep on the folks in the Carter travel office? It was a “patronage” position…and the Bushies have expanded the numbers of incompetant people to fill patronage positions by an order of magnitude.
And Fosters “murder”? A suicide. His note was about Republicans like you…”the politics of personal destruction”. You folks lie about peoples religion, birthplace, who his mother had sex with, claimed Hillary had sex with Janet Reno, ad nauseum. That’s why the American people rallied around Clinton…and that’s why your candidates are going to slouch off in the worst defeat a party has had in modern memory!