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Well, it’s all over — and the Teabaggers didn’t disappoint.
“We do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country…People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House — name is Barack Hussein Obama.“
“The media, the politicians … all say, no, it’s all been settled. I say, if it’s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple,” Farah’s said, as his remarks were cheered by the roughly 600 activists gathered in Nashville for the event.
As fallible men and women, it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again.” The country, she said, needs politicians unafraid “to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness . . . to proclaim their alliance to our Creator.”
There was another who dressed in a leather veteran’s vest with medals festooned on it. He also wore a Vietnam Veteran hat.
“I just dressed this way to get attention,” the man said, halfway through a scotch at an “Irish pub” 200 feet from the ballroom where Palin will be speaking, down a casino-style carpeted hotel hallway. “I’m really a retired millionaire.” [...] He talked in detail of the Mercedes he drove here; the Rolls Royce he bought in Florida that he won’t drive on rainy days like today, and that he’s a major donor to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “Just sold my last business for $3.3 million,” he said, laughing, seemingly taking great delight in his get up and the gag he was pulling.
Cultures are not the same. Some are better. Ours is best.
I will live, I will die for the people of America.
And here’s the kicker. Wait for it…
Organizers said anyone who had shown up “looking too crazy” would have been tossed out.
Clearly, they were grading “crazy” on a curve.
[video via La Figa]
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I weep for the future.
Didn’t she also say that she thought that the GOP should absorb the Teabaggers? That must have gone over well.
Suspect by “crazy” they meant non-Caucasian.
Maybe they meant looking like a liberal. My grandmother once claimed she could tell I was a liberal by the way I walked.
They had 600 people at $500 a head. Does that mean Palin’s speaking fee ate up a third of their gross? So much for conservatives being good business people.
Palin supposedly offered to give it back… Yeah, right.
I have no idea what she meant but it’s funny.
By “giving it back”, she meant AFTER she was done with it.
“We went shopping then stopped at McDonald’s… whoopsie, all gone.”
“Slipped RIGHT through my palm!”
I was there for an hour or so on Friday, and the thing I noticed was the large number of women in their 30s and 40s.
Was that millionaire in the leather jacket festooned with medals the guy that Palin gave a shout out to during the speech? Was he really a VN vet…or just another one of those fakes? He seemed to imply so in the bar, that he wasn’t an authentic veteran.
So are the tea baggers a bunch of frauds – and encouraging it- actually just a means for the millionaire businessmen to influence the political structure yet again?
She didn’t say that she’d give it back…she said that she’d use it “for the cause”…which means her wardrobe.
If she wants to play Brunnhilde in her Wagnerian melodrama, let’s just fast-forward to measure 666 of the third act of Gotterdammerung
600 people…including the media who likely didn’t buy tickets. Of course, Roger Ailes would have paid anyways…as a means to funnel money into the movement.
Her message is clear, she is a regressive conservative. Her capacity for knowledge is vast. There is enormous room in her brain for facts. Makin’ stuff up is a perfect substitute as needed.
The Republican mantra of small govt & tax cuts flows sweetly from her lips. Her voice reminds me of an old vacuum tube radio gone bad.
A great purveyor of platitudes and panaceas.She says:, George Washington,George Bush, Constitution, Liberty, Freedom, Common sense, bust up the good ol’ boys, no business as usual backroom deals, drill, drill, drill, shill, shill, shill.
That she will live and die for America and stop this Constitutional treatment of the most supreme evil, religious murdering zealot terr’ist out to get US.
The FBI must be terrible, you know lawyering up those, undeserving of our justice, scumbags.Then convicting them in US Court. How dare they. Unions are evil
.She has been fully Ronnified. All that with a Todd and a wink.
not very fiscally prudent.
Heh – good one!
If only they would BE the actual “Twilight Of The Gods” and, yanno, go off to Valhalla and leave the rest of us alone.
I see more slaughtered turkey videos in this spatially unaware person’s future.
“Do we have to pay taxes in Valhalla?”
“GotterTurkeYammmering”
At 11 sec. of the video Palin gives a clear view of her palm as she raises it to adjust her glasses, Can anyone get a good screen-shot of that and blow it up?
How these people must scare the rest of the world. The delusional commitment that is exhibited here is jaw-dropping. I can envision people the world over seeing these clips and thinking, “Oh dear, America has lost its collective mind. What are we to do?” I’m also sure that corporate America is very happy with the mindless sheep that were bleating in Nashville this weekend. They must be toasting each other and laughing their asses off. For them, for fat-cats nationwide the lack of anything approaching intelligence among these Tea-baggers must truly give them faith that many Americans will buy any crap you care to sell.
Well, ya DO have to throw a gold ring into the Rhine….
Here.
She can just get her PAC to buy her another one.
That was only part of Wotan’s problem. Not only did he fail to pay taxes, but he financed Valhalla with a sub-prime mortgage he took out with some shady dwarves.
And his unsafe sex practices made even the Palins look like examples of prudent conduct, which is saying a lot.
laffin’ my ass CLEEEEEEAN off!!!
here – if the link works. If not - here.
I’m beginning to think the Mayans are right about 2012.
The best we can hope for is that the GOP nominates someone else, the Teabaggers rise up and run her independently. No matter what she does or Todd is found to have done (I’m still trying to figure out this whole ‘sending confidential BP financial info to some AK attorney’ thing), her base will find a way to excuse her. She’s really tapped into the ‘I’m like you – all those high fallutin’ people try to hold us down’ thing’. They will defend her to the end.
The Blue Texan’s reporting should be more diverse. How about “gay pride parades,” Daily Kos, MoveOn.org, LAMDA, NOW, Black Panthers, PINK, and other liberal get togethers around the country. Looking for wild costumes….? The Blue Texan needs to update his or her stealth press credentials.
Maybe she’s right about brilliant men and women serving in our govt Perhaps it’s time to let ordinary, uninformed, power mad, master manipulators take charge. Oh yeah, we just did that.
Never too late in a thread to play Concern Troll Bingo.
Here’s my fav Palinism of the night:
Alaska? I guess if you can see Russia from your doorstep, then the Russians must be looking back with envy! hehe
I wonder why you clueless and classless unsympathetic gutter snipes keep losing voters?
You own this page, fellow troll!
Is it out of line to ask this question?
Well after all, it’s a clueless, classless and guttersnipey country, which continues to lean a patchouli-smelling and unwashed shade of blue.
Oh do please enlighten us oh master.
Don’t weep for me Dr. Puma….can you hold your tears till November?
I guess by “keep losing voters” you mean “take over the Congress in 2006, extend the majorities and take the White House and a bunch of governor’s mansions in 2008.”
As one who professes to be one who channels satanic versus,( pun intended)
You are well schooled in the transparently ambiguous data-spin.
I’ll call your bluff and raise you. (no pun intended)
No, I mean losing Virginia, Massachusetts, N. Dakota, Illinois, Arkansas, Nevada, Missouri, and probably NY and a myriad of others.
Thanks for asking.
I notice that you have posted a nearly identical comment in at least one other thread. Clueless is as clueless does.
The Republican response by the VA Governor was read from a teleprompter. Has no one pointed that out ?
If the comment fits…where it(no pun intended) fits is irrelevant.
And that makes it all even Steven, eh?
“Probably NY.”
Good luck.
I could hear the chorus in the back of my mind from that old Roger Miller tune’whackado whackado whackado’. Palin/Bachmann 2012! glory!
Oh, come on. Let’s go have a cup of coffee together.
Dadaism involves the presentation of things that serve no useful purpose. It appears your screen name is well chosen.
Actually it was a movement that originated from the fight with hierarchical
dynasties, and the satirical revelations therein.
dadaism
da⋅da
/ˈdɑdɑ/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [dah-dah] Show IPA
–noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
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I find congruity in today’s extremist movements on both sides of the aisle.
Trying to get my fellow “teabaggers” to adopt it.
Satanic versus,
I prefer hot tea, and The Big Lebowski, dude…if you are into the whole brevity thing.
By “extremist” I gather you refer to those with opinions that differ from your own.
Do-WhackaA-Do
Exactly. Me and the majority of sane people.
I don’t know why you are confusing me with Salman Rushdie.
Nonetheless…
Thanks, I always enjoy a good laugh.
A splendid day to you, dadaist.
Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke’s Beyond the Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics hosted by Matthew Kerbel
Satanic versus,
Pardon the sarcasm…
Ich lieb’ dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht…yes yes yes…
The only reason why this Bowel movement has any flatulence associated with it is because Obamarahma & the Dinocrats in DC are fumbling the ball big time.
Sarah Palin the polluters’ friend.
So…the Teabaggers AREN’T our anti-corporate brothers in arms anymore?
I’m confused.
o.k. – I am volunteering to drive people to the polls on election day 2012 to vote for her!
anyone that goddam dumb DESERVES her.
When I was 20 in 1980, and I felt Raygun had won fair and square, and, while I despised the fascist lackey son of a bitch, those who voted for him, and those who didn’t vote – they all deserved him!
He lied, he cheated, he lied, he LIED, and the dim-o-shits got their asses swift boated into oblivion … wait … wasn’t swiftboating a different election?
ah, whatever. Does it matter? anyone incompetent enough to lose to a an idiot like bush, I mean palin – they DESERVE to lose!
rmm.
What a movement.
What a huge convention.
What a bunch of bullshit.
What a bunch of brown baggers.
600 people willing to pay to be part of the Republicans Tea Party.