However while giving a speech in Canada yesterday, Sister Sarah felt no need to hide the obvious.
First she took on a recent story in the National Examiner that she and Todd had reached a financial agreement to stay together for appearances sake:
She joked that when she told her husband that the story said he might be getting $20-million out of the settlement, he thought it sounded good.
“Write me the cheque,” she quoted him as saying.
(For the record, while I had never heard an exact dollar amount, I also heard from a number of sources that Todd had reached a lucrative deal to play house with the Grizzled Mama at least until after the 2012 elections.)
Next Palin goes on to make perhaps one of the most hypocritical statements to ever fall out of her overly botoxed lips:
“One of my favourite signs at one of the Tea Party rallies said: ‘My kid is not my ATM.’ And that’s right. What we are seeing is generational theft. It’s completely unethical.”
Unbelievable!
However it was after the speech during the $500 a pop Q&A that Palin let the cat wriggle completely out of the bag:
After her 30-minute speech, Ms. Palin agreed to take questions from audience members who paid up to $500 each to attend. Many of the queries from the floor allowed the former Republican vice-presidential candidate to tee off on the “lame stream media.” She seemed to agree with one person who suggested she allowed herself to be too programmed by Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s handlers during the pair’s bid for the White House.
“Thanks for the advice,” said Ms. Palin, at the event ostensibly to plug her book Going Rogue. “When I do run again I will be more rogue.”
So there you have it kids. There does not seem to be any equivocation there, Palin is DEFINITELY going to run.
Please keep this idiot out of my country.
ReplyDeletethe American public has seen nothing yet if /when she runs. It will be divisive and hateful more so than normal.
ReplyDeleteOOOH, I can't wait pass the popcorn.
ReplyDeleteWe can go back and forth on the "will she or won't she" business forever (and everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, of course), but the fact is that Palin MUST act as if she is running in order to stay relevant. She only has a few more months to do so. Every minute = cash money from fools, so she'll work it for all it's worth.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I believe that the most she will do is to announce a run and then quit before the heat gets too high. However, there are hoops she'd have to jump through just to announce, and we all know she's not much for hard work and scrutiny...
Did she offer any critique of Canada's health care system??
ReplyDeletewhy the hell didn't anyone ask her about Tri-G HOAX??? tHERE WRE NO SMART PEOPLE IN THAT BOOK GROUP???
ReplyDeleteFrustrating.
She's retarded.
“One of my favourite signs at one of the Tea Party rallies said: ‘My kid is not my ATM.’ And that’s right. What we are seeing is generational theft. It’s completely unethical.”
ReplyDeleteHi Kettle. I'm Teapot. You're black.
Good gosh, how can she get any more rogue without being committed? Hmmm - well, if she insists . . . .
ReplyDeleteAs to the Todd bit, there is always a grain in truth in humor so I don't doubt she is paying him off. Who in their right mind would willingly live that her? (or him?) (Poor kids, they mostly don't have a choice - but I figure they are too far gone in the Koolaid brigade to know how bad off they are.)
I am so tired of the poop Palin excretes every time she screeches. She thinks she is being cute.No way will she ever be or act cute ever again. That ship sailed years ago.
Hey - does she realize that Michelle Bachmann is out-earning her in terms of contributions? Sarah is a has-been even now. Gosh, even wacky Christine is outstripping her in donations. Poor Sarah - Left Behind on so many levels in so many ways (and deservedly so, in my opinion).
Maybe this explains why Todd is such a bully - he's not being a loving, supportive husband, he's being paid as a body guard.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense. Too bad he's not very good at either role. I'd feel sorry for him, being emasculated like he is by Sarah's public treatment of him - but he's a big boy who needs to wise up and move on while he still has some shred of manhood left.
I still don't believe she will run. She's posturing to make more money. I believe the only way she will run is if she figures sha can make a bundle by running. She has to know she has no chance of winning. And she will receive more scrutiny than ever. Scrutiny is something Sarah can't take.
ReplyDeleteRick
Gosh, do you think we could pay Canadian border guards to deny her re-entry to the states next time she crosses over? I'd contribute. No offense or ill will to Canada of course - maybe they could just ship her off to parts unknown. She could set up her own government on an ice berg while it heads south. Let her fight for survival with all the polar bears she's condemned to suffering (and if there is karmic justice, maybe a few wolves would be roaming there as well).
ReplyDeleteGryphen, you are so wrong on this one. What do you think she would do with Todd in The White House? What about her druggie kids, do you think they would fit in in D.C.? I believe she fired the chef in the Governor's mansion because she didn't want anyone privy to the real family dynamics. Not to mention that she hasn't taken anytime to study any aspects of our country's history. Why did she raise so much money last quarter? Her fans believe she will run. She has to keep up that charade to keep the money pouring in. And you know what? Those who give this idiot money to spew her hatred, deserve to be swindled.
ReplyDeleteI truly believe her definition of "more rogue" means limiting her access to Fox only and defying the establishment by saying "hell no" to debates ... as a presidential candidate. It will be a nightmare.
ReplyDeletePlease keep this idiot out of my country as well.
Oh great! Alaska already has a lot about which to be embarrassed. And now this. I look forward to the day when we as a country are no longer distracted by that whack-job Mrs. Palin and/or any of her children.
ReplyDeleteWhat next??
In that particular photo, I think she looks particularly evil!
ReplyDeleteIt was clear she was going to run all along, she has delusions of grandeur. That is the reason she put people in place to cover her butt in Alaska. She has been guided all along by her handlers. Apparently Sarah is not a very good handler herself, Joe Miller did not get any help with cover. They left him just blowing in the wind. Why? Because he was not forthright with his support of Palin. I think the real Republicans are going to come up with a candidate who has an air of sanity and competence (for the Republicans that is) to block her from winning the Republican candidacy for president. This will be a guy (most likely male) who will continue to push their same agenda, but will look good to them because he is not Sarah Palin, so they will get him nominated.
ReplyDeletePaylin is a tease. This hype is like the stripper pretending to take off the shirt, but they never really do because then the show would be over. SHe is only in it for the money.
ReplyDeleteAs for Toad. I hope the man hadthe sense get get paid for staying with her.
Polls mean nothing. In the U.S.A. you win elections via rigged eVoting machines paid for by the Koch brothers. If she get the nod, she's in.
ReplyDeleteSad to say.
There's a McCain reference in this:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/iraq-fiasco-due-bushs-lies/
McCain cancelled a stump speech for Miller?
Whooops! I don't think Palin meant to say that she will be running; I think she slipped up. She has teased everyone for ages about 2012; will she or won't she run?? Palin was likely planning to make a big announcement with lots of hoopla. She would want a stage moment with Beck and O'Reilly having wet dreams as they gushed over her on camera as she made the announcement.
ReplyDeletePalin just slipped, and now the world knows she is running in 2012.
Sarah is opening up her information pipeline more and more.... Smacks of the public's need for more information to continue their interest in her. Think about how new information just gets everyone excited. It is very sad as I feel she is being marginalized and most likely depending on the outcome of this election in 2010...put out to pasture.
ReplyDeleteI think one juicy dirty secret would put an end to this misery!
Please someone, out her or Todd.
As a Canadian, I am baffled by the idea that anyone in this country would pay any amount of money to listen to this fool. Perhaps its the Stephen Harper crowd..who knows. Sarah Palin is just laugh out loud funny to most of us.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I cannot get over the fact that her politics and her manner are tolerated by Americans on any level. For a forward moving nation, she is just a simple oxymoron.
I think all of this will she or won't she is feeding into the Grifter's game like most reasonable people know. Its never been about a serious run. It has always been about $$$$$$$$$$$. Yes, power somewhat (she only wants to smash her enemies like bugs) plays into it too; but other people's power--. It's the money and attention. She can't get enough of either---and one or both of them will be her downfall.
ReplyDeleteWhen they deemed the Alaska Fund Trust illegal . . .the next day she set up another one. All the attention, attention and money money would come to a screeching halt if she said she was not running. This woman will NEVER make a true run. Oh she'll crap out that "if the people want me to run" What people? The 20% whackjobs who lick posters of her?
So let us just say for now Sarah is on her same course--to wrest every penny she can from the dimwitted and delusional. If that involves her invoking the name Reagan till she's blue in the face and Nancy Reagan wants to throttle her, demanding she get Secret Service protection even earlier than President Obama had to and screeching at more of her notorious klan rallies--that's what she'll do.
But its all about the $$$$$$.
"Gryphen, you are so wrong on this one. What do you think she would do with Todd in The White House? What about her druggie kids, do you think they would fit in in D.C.? I believe she fired the chef in the Governor's mansion because she didn't want anyone privy to the real family dynamics. Not to mention that she hasn't taken anytime to study any aspects of our country's history. Why did she raise so much money last quarter? Her fans believe she will run. She has to keep up that charade to keep the money pouring in. And you know what? Those who give this idiot money to spew her hatred, deserve to be swindled."
ReplyDeleteShe obviously had no idea what being Vice President entailed. I have no reason to think she has any more of a clue about what being President involves. She probably thinks that she'll just be able to fire her Secret Service detail and the staff from the White House living quarters. Who knows, she might even put Air Force 1 up for sale on eBay, and just take the Samaritan's Purse plane when she travels.
lol..she is not running and regarding the money to her ex, palin ALWAYS talks and jokes about the things that piss her off and she trys to "make them right".
ReplyDeleteso anytime you hear her talking about something that leaves you scratching your head you can be assured she is trying to cover it up.
and she does it because she needs to convince herself that she has not been "caught" and exposed.
you saw a recent ex. of it when she had to go and prove she wasnt being laughed at at DWTS.
I'm actually embarrassed that there were 200 Canadians willingly paying $500 to listen to this cackling old hen rehash her family soap opera and her vague political philosophy. No doubt about it, she's just a common woman with a simple, but devious, mind.
ReplyDeleteOh . . . and the comments on that article are great. Of course Canadians wonder what the hell is going on around here. The answer. A black man is President and every whackadoodle on the right has crawled from under their crazy rock thinking they can do his job.
ReplyDeleteShe'll run in 2012 and get the stuffing knocked out of her, make some more money, then run again 2016 and 2020 and 2024. She'll keep running until she gets too old to run, even if every ugly story about her is revealed as the truth. She can't help herself. She doesn't care whether anyone thinks she has a chance of winning. She thinks she's been Chosen. She thinks she has a mandate from God to be President and bring the Apocalypse.
ReplyDeleteThere is also still the lesson that Sarah hasn't learned yet, and that is to be a team player.
ReplyDeleteAs VP candidate she had only one very simple job, support McCain's platform 24/7.
She couldn't do that.
She couldn't get along with her own Repblican controled legislature in her half terma as Gov.
Evan as POTUS you are still a part of a team, and going it along, not being in concert with your party and your electorate has, as Obama has learned, some real down side.
Ever seen what happens to a quarter back when his offensive line has lost faith in him?
This country doesn't need that kind of stuff going on in the the leadership of this country.
Palins' comments in that speech were infuriating. She talks about the "little guy" and "mama grizzlies", but also about "small government" and letting business people run the economy because "they know what they are doing." She is clearly ignorant of history and the conditions that led to the passage of things like child labor laws. Does she really want to return to a time when children are used as cheep labor because that's what the business people say is good for business and "they know what they are doing'?! Are mama grizzlies o.k. with sending their children off to work in an unregulated, wild-west, free-for-all economy. It makes me want to scream.
ReplyDeleteRunning? The Grifter's not very honest, you know!
ReplyDeleteA paid body guard would refer to his boss more formally, like Todd does. I wonder how far it extends? When there's no flight attendant, does her body guard fetch the Baileys?
ReplyDelete“One of my favourite signs at one of the Tea Party rallies said: ‘My kid is not my ATM.’ And that’s right. What we are seeing is generational theft. It’s completely unethical.”
ReplyDeletesez the lunatic who ran up $22,000,000 debt for a town of 6,500 people.
she might get away with saying that during her paid speeches, but during a campaign she would be called on that 22 million. she'll have to come up with something other than "generational theft" given that she's guilty of it.
Our country has to go back to striving for intelligence. Is she thinking Mao-rogue? It depends on the trend. She reared her rimless glasses and racists started appearing. Will the pendulum shift before they get a lock on information?
ReplyDeleteshe meant running as in jogging
ReplyDeletewhat a maroon she is.
I don't think it means anything. She said "when I do run again." That could mean next year or in ten years.
ReplyDeleteShe's such a tease...
ReplyDeleteNo way could she be anything but a noise maker/money maker. She's taunting us, wishing out loud and livin' her delusion.
My continued belief is that these nuts are burning themselves out. Not that I don't think we need to keep calling them out on their sociopathic behavior. In fact, it's probably the reason they haven't taken over the government already.
Gee, Gryphen, we here in Arizona must be getting the same crazy water you folks are! What the heck is going on up there?!
P. S. Notice that there was no mention of Trig, just poor ole Piper bending over to help with the autographs. Pitiful little "ATM."
Surely she meant to say "roguish", which means "characteristic of a dishonest or unprincipled person"...
ReplyDeleteThis woman is an ignoramus!
Yeah, because we all know how hard she's worked to increase her worldview and bonafides these past two years. . .
ReplyDeleteI came across this great gem in some Jack London references:
Edna Wyman wants a job as a newspaper reporter but has no experience. The editor of the Intelligencer tells her, "You are undrilled, undisciplined, unhammered into shape. You have received a high-school education, and possibly topped it off with normal school or college. You have stood well in English. Your friends have all told you how cleverly you write. . . .You think you can do newspaper work and you want me to put you on." He says there are no openings but he has no time to serve as an instructor in journalism. (This scenario is so ageless it remains a common editor-to-prospective-reporter even today.)
All this applies to Sarah, except that her 'normal college' wasn't normal and is still questionable. And of course, she doesn't do well with English. The bots thought her clever and ready to command as opposed to Obama, who would need instruction on how to lead.
That this woman even has a place in this world outside the Valley is beyond me. It is ludicrous. She is in league with Heidi Montag, not Margaret Thatcher.
She is proof that unimaginable wealth and support behind the scenes can't polish a turd.
Palin on projection: "My kid (Tri-G) is not my ATM!" Generational theft has been going on in the Paylin house since Track Menard was born. If Trig knew just what kind of life he was going to have by agreeing to be adopted by the grizzled witch, he would have said "teh stupid burns, thanks but no thanks to the scary lady"
ReplyDeleteMore than money, Palin loves POWER, real or imagined, it doesn't matter to her. She loves people asking her who they should vote for and those same people begging her to run for President. I imagine she will graciously succumb to their begging and run.
ReplyDeleteI'm with the "she won't run" crowd. Sarah Palin is in the business of possibly running for President. It costs her nothing to make a remark like that, but the payoff is huge.
ReplyDeleteShe'll run because she loves the idea of being president, of having the title and the power, but she certainly doesn't have the stamina (or desire) to actually do the job.
ReplyDeleteShe also doesn't have the stamina to live through another campaign unless she can somehow do it without appearing on any news shows but fox, without answering any unscripted questions, and without participating in any live debates.
As a Canadian I am deeply offended and very sad to see that some of our Provinces are inviting the lying Wasillas Witch Palin to appear at ANY event.
ReplyDeleteSorry to say...some Canadians have no taste.
A Harris-Decima survey released earlier this month suggested about 19% of Voters would join a Canadian Tea Party.
I find this very scary as a citizen in the Province of Ontario.
If Sarah wants the nomination, she has to get by Mittens (that would be Romney). And Mittens is a very smart man; no doubt he has done his homework and has multiple items that will be leaked to the press at the appropriate time.
ReplyDeleteOh good lord, that bag of crazy is trying to poison my country now too? Yuck, go home crazy moose lady.. Go home.
ReplyDeleteOk---then go, Mittens!
ReplyDeleteP.S. When is someone going to splice all of Sarah's lies together about Trig---like video footage of her saying he was born in the Valley and then in Anchorage---he was one month premature and then 1.5 months premature. That would be a good thing to get going viral. I would e-mail it around to all of those idiot Palin supporters I have to live with in Texas.
Romney is unelectable. He drove to Canada for a vacation with his dog on the roof of the car.
ReplyDelete“One of my favourite signs at one of the Tea Party rallies said: ‘My kid is not my ATM.’
ReplyDeleteAnd my kid's name is: Ching! Er, I mean Trig!
I think it shows that she plans to run for something. Might not be the presidency.
ReplyDeleterougueier!
ReplyDelete@Anon 11:09 I agree. She has to tease the run to keep relevant. Gives new meaning to "take the money and run," eh? If I had 10 million or so in the bank, I think I just might go home and watch TV and go shopping and rally 'round occasionally to "speak" when the price was right. The Peter Principle must apply here; she will reach the pinnacle of her ability and stay there. Not a bad gig, and I'll give her credit for playing it to the limit.
ReplyDeleteIf Palin isn't going to run then why did she spend $255,000 in one quarter for "consultants"? That's a lot of money especially for somebody who won't hand out a $5 tip or pay to have her hair done. (Although that expenditure does make me wonder if there's some sort of money laundering going on as Gryphen wondered about in his earlier post). Not that she's benefited from the consulting. Maybe she's using consultants to try to pick up info for her Faux gig.
ReplyDeleteIf she runs, I think the rogue-y part would be that she'd refuse press conferences, refuse debates and only talk through Faux. President Obama would tear her up in a debate but could say the same for VP Biden - except she made her own rules in that debate. I'm hoping that baggers go down in flames in November, then we may see the beginning of the end to this crapola.
Palin isn't going to go away. She's found her calling. She'll be able to rake enough $$$ in every year to stay ahead of the hounds and get attention. Unless somebody steps out of the shadows and speaks up.
As others have said, she has to act as if she will run. If she announced she would definitely not run for POTUS, her earning potential would plummet.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I suspect that well before 2012 it will be clear that she has no chance of winning. Even with support from, say, 40% of Republicans, the Republican big shots, who are good capitalists, won't be throwing millions of dollars at a loser for the sake of her supposed "principles," particularly since they know she has none. As soon as she becomes an obstacle to actually electing a Republican, the word will go out to the media herd that she is unelectable, and she will be ignored.
You Canadians who say you are ashamed that a few of your countrymen/women paid to hear her-- please! Stop rubbing our noses in our shame that she was the VP nominee of a major party and almost half of America voted for the ticket!
That's one of the best photos of Palin that I've seen. She's getting crazier and crazier and it shows.
ReplyDeleteMy 2 cents worth is that McCain cancelled his appearance with Miller because of the Palin/Miller spat. You don't go up against the family. McCain doesn't have any principles so he doesn't care if Joe is psycho RWNJ. McCain probably takes his orders from whoever pulls Palin's strings so McCain bailed on him. Independent and maverick-y, my ass.
I got yet ANOTHER email from newsmax begging me to watch the Palin interview. They even provided a link with a "free" 5 minute sneak peak and an offer for a free copy of her book. What crap.
ReplyDeleteAs far as her running, I've always said no, she won't run, but if she does run, she'll drop out quickly. I don't bother looking for clues in her comments, because she lies all the time.
If Sarah Palin ran for prez, and stuck it out longer than 15 minutes, it would be really, really good for the Democratic Party. We'd get more access to her, and more opportunity to rip her apart. She'd become the face of the GOP, along with O'Donnell and others. But the GOP is not that stupid, they're not going to let their brand be these fools. The GOP will groom a new presidential candidate out of this new batch in the midterms, and then as 2012 approaches, they'll use people like Palin to dance around like the clowns they are and point to the real candidate - look at this guy! Vote for him! He's a commonsense Conservative! That's how THAT'S going down.
"more rogue"? Ah, Sarah, dear, we won't be able to tell the difference. But you might try "more crazy". Again the difference will be barely discernable, but if you try hard enough you can let the genuine crazy off in public. The men in the white coats are waiting.
ReplyDeleteI think it's probable that many in the audience had tickets given to them. Sarah Palin's backers want her photographed giving speeches to crowds.
ReplyDeleteThe joke is Sarah Louise Heath Palin can't run alone. If she gets the nomination, she will be joined by a VEEP candidate. Karma has BIG plans for that choice.
Oh yes Biden really tore up Palin in the debate. She handled Biden just like she did Tony Knowles and Andrew Halcro up here in Alaska. Don't sell her short as she just may be our next president
ReplyDeleteSowa is not aging well. Ugliness inside does that.
ReplyDelete11:13, I think it's hilarious that Palin's measly $1 million looks pitiful against Bachmann's $14 million. Don't tell me it's because Michelle is running. The reason people are giving to Palin is because they think she's running too.
ReplyDeleteAs crazy as it sounds, I actually respect Bachmann more than Palin. On some level, I think Bachmann is sincere. Palin is pure opportunist. The only values Palin has are the price tags she places on her appearances. I figured her out real quick. She's gross and getting grosser.
I bet that Sarah has spent most of her money already.
ReplyDeleteKeeping mouths closed. Property in Montana. People to raise her children. Todd's payoff. That is a lot of money.
She needs as much money as she can get before it all blows up in her face.
Eh, it was just rhetorical ... "next time"
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 5:16 says "Don't sell her short as she just may be our next president"
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin will never be president of the United States. She can run in the primaries and she can beg for the nomination, but she can not be a candidate for president on the Republican ticket.
Why?
Because she is stupid. Her level of intelligence is insufficient. Her mental function is inadequate.
Additionally, McCain's staffers discussed whether she was "mentally unstable". Perhaps you remember:
Tom Eagleton, whom McGovern ultimately chose, with only a minimal background check. Eagleton made no mention of his earlier hospitalizations, and in fact decided with his wife to keep them secret from McGovern while he was flying to his first meeting with the Presidential nominee.
It made my Canadian heart glad to read through the first 10 or 15 comments under the linked article and not see a single pro-Palin rant.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies for having to put up with this crap.
She looks insane in this picture. I know. What else is new?
ReplyDeletePaylin explains how Bristle got on DWTS:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=74659&tsp=1
Okay, Canadians - it isn't just that a few hundred people were willing to spend the money to see her speak. Someone in Canada paid a speaking fee ($100,000?), a private jet and a couple thousand in lodging and expenses.
ReplyDeleteYou guys all have the same issues, churches, phony-baloney politicians that we do. I think it's completely creepy and bizarre that Sarah has any audience at all in Canada. Why?
This is not the first time I've pointed this out, but there are a couple of states that don't/won't support Sarah's paid gigs: Alaska and Hawaii. Take that for what it's worth. Sarah can't drive around her own home town.
5:16, I don't think Palin "handled" anybody. That's the wrong word. What Palin does is refuse to go along with the expected rules. In a debate, questions are asked and answered. That's standard. However, Palin can't do that so she refuses and instead grandstands.
ReplyDeleteI think normal people are both shocked at the hubris and yet too polite to put her in her place. She gets away with her games, first, because she's a pretty woman and, second, because even politicians are not assholes like her.
We don't need our leaders to be assholes. It just doesn't work. You need look no further than Palin's failures as mayor and governor to understand that.
So, what did she claim to have under her fingernails THIS time?
ReplyDeleteAfter "caribou blood" and "wild blueberries", I'm expecting seal blubber, polar bear grease, moose entrails, etc..
She carried that writing on the hand "joke" for months, so I'm expecting a good long run of explanations for dirty nails.
1:54 AM, You know what was said about her not being clean several years ago. What is under her nails? Dirt from not washing.
ReplyDeleteIf what she means by going "more rogue" is more of what she did to help McCain lose the election, it will do even more to ensure that she never becomes president. She does look wackier and wackier in each successive photo I've observed, and she more than proves Albert Einstein's definition of insanity. He defined it as doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The fact that anyone places any credence on one thing this cretin has to say should be a major source of embarrassment to the United States.
ReplyDeleteOn one hand, I could see why she wouldn't run, since being a grifter has been so lucrative. On the other, her ego and ambition hugely outstrip both her intellect and her knowledge of either national or international affairs. She is delusional, with equally delusional followers who have convinced her that she is equal to challenging president Obama. They have always tried to draw a non-existent equivalency between the two, in spite of his nearly 2 years in an office with responsibilities that dwarf all of hers as both mayor and governor put together.
If she ran for president, I predict that the hatred and division she currently stirs up will be nothing compared to all the vitriol she will generate if she does run. Hopefully, the results of the 2010 elections will be a far cry from what the GOP expects, in which case she will quickly become irrelevant. The day she does become irrelevant can't come too soon.