| Please don't let me be blamed for her. |
Arizona U.S. Senator John McCain says he will not be backing any of the potential Republican presidential candidates as they look to defeat President Barack Obama in the 2012 election.
“I think I’m staying out of this for the first time in many years,” Mr. McCain told Politico on Thursday.
I have been hearing for months that the Republicans are desperate to get Palin away from their party before 2012, and may in fact be the ones behind certain information leaking to the media and bloggers.
Obviously from John McCain's reaction he does not want to be anywhere close when Palin's political Titanic finally takes on too much water and gets sucked down into the inky blackness.
The question that all of you keep asking me is about the "iceberg," so let me clear that up.
The original iceberg from back in the summer of 2009 concerns an investigation, the status of which I am not privy to. The people behind this investigation are very secretive and do not discuss an ongoing investigation with anybody. The only reason we knew anything in the beginning is because some of us were asked questions and were able to glean what it was about. (Also one of the investigators kind of slipped and confirmed what it was about. That will not happen again.) Since that initial contact we know as little about its progress as any of you.
However there are numerous bombshells coming down the pike, and in my opinion taken individually they would be very damaging, but cumulatively they are devastating.
And though the dates and ties they are to be revealed remains fluid, I am certain that most, if not all, will be revealed in 2011.
I am, of course, also working on my own even as we speak. If things go well, that should be coming out shortly.
Palin's Peyton Place offered some good photo-forensics, proving that there were two, if not three babies involved in this hoax . . .
ReplyDeleteOf course people involved with the McCain campaign know more than we do at this point and are able to tell fellow insiders working on '12 campaigns. Palin is a problem for the GOP and, for them, the best thing is for her not to be part of the equation at all.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin and her toxic record as governor of Alaska
ReplyDeleteAlaska has the highest incidence of birth defects in the whole country and a responsible governor would look at the statistics and try to find solutions for the problem. That's common sense.
Let's have look at some of her policies and what impact they had, how they helped alleviate such a serious problem affecting the people in her beautiful state of Alaska. Sarah Palin's record speaks for itself.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2011/02/sarah-palin-and-her-toxic-record-as.html
It appears that the Governor's record on environmental issues actually contribute to the higher than average incidence of birth defects and abnormal development of children in Alaska. Let me see if I have understood it correctly: Sarah Palin's actions help create a problem then she champions the cause of the people affected by that problem?
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2009/02/toxic-governor-another-gate.html
So happy about this. Palin has been very bad for this country. I am grateful for what you've done to reveal her for who she really is. Hopefully we will learn from her, and be a better, stronger nation in that we won't let greedy liars divert us bettering ourselves in truly meaningful ways.
ReplyDeleteI agree G, it's the repugs, that will do more damage and more leaking than anyone else. I believe this educationally challenged wge really thought she can control people and information in the lower 48s like she did in AK.
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Is John sniffing his fingers?
ReplyDeleteMust be sulfur smell from Sarah.
Multiple icebergs! SWEET. Thanks, G.
ReplyDeleteStill hoping to see Sarah Palin in a perp walk.
You think McCain doesn't know most of the details? I bet as soon as Bristol's pregnancy was disclosed, his campaign did the vetting it should have done in the first place. Too late! He is observing the Reagan rule--don't say anything bad about fellow Republicans.
ReplyDeleteIt's always coming. It's coming, it's coming, it's...coming.
ReplyDeleteWhen it hits the fan, I'll be back. I'll hear it from someone. But teasing readers with innuendo, hear-say and outright gossip without concrete facts is frustrating, and serves no purpose. This story has been on "continued..." for the last two years. Get on with it.
So, this is why the release date of Geoffrey Dunn's book: "The Lies of Sarah Palin" has moved up (again) to June!? :-)
ReplyDeleteAlthough, we all blame McCain for unleashing a monster, remember his advisors are the ones who suggested Palin. He wanted Lieberman. I wonder what the TX Republicans will think after their delight of having SP be the VP candidate?
Dennis Simon, co-author of Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections said that McCain "has reached beyond traditional Republican and Washington insiders, and identified a first-term female governor with an intriguing personal narrative."
"This will be an interesting experiment, and Palin may just attract disgruntled Hillary supporters," said Simon, an associate professor of political science at Southern Methodist University.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5973844.html
Gryphen, thanks so much for this update. I think it will be well received by your readership.
ReplyDeleteAnd to the impatient readers here: Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day.
I wonder if McCain knows that the info they have on her is now going to be used to torpedo her chances and that is why he does not dare mention her name and so, must pretend to want to stay out of it altogether.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the violent rhetoric hasn't helped, but it hasn't worsened anything. The feds haven't even addresses it. Where's the leadership we deserve?
ReplyDeleteI will say that if not for Sarah's voice on things like death panels, I fear that people wouldn't know the true about that atrocious bill and other horrible and distracting bills would have been passed earlier.
Again, we must ask ourselves. Why would a president, after taking control of a country with uncontrollable debt and horrid unemployment numbers even CONSIDER passing ridiculously expensive legislation that doesn't even better the country's citizens?
Instead of pitting one politician against another (that will always be done no matter who's involved) ask yourself "why?" more often. It will open your eyes to the reasons SOOOO many people quickly turn in the current president
Unless Palin declares that she is running for POTUS none, NONE, of this information will be released! The powers that be will meet with her and convince her to "spend more time with her family", and we will be denied the great pleasure to see her shamed by all of the revelations that we are aware of. Shamed, is that even a word that Sarah has ever met? The common person would be too embarassed to show his/her face after all of the lying crap this woman has fed the American people.
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To continue with the Dan Rather story, remember, the Bush family has HUGE and complicated ties to pretty much everything. Like Cheney, Rove and others, the people protecting the Bushs could destroy anyone at anytime. W and his immediate family may be nice but their enablers are nasty. It's always about the enablers, not the politicians. Money talks
ReplyDeleteIsn't dunn's book completed and in editing stages? I mean, there's already a page count for McGinniss' book.
ReplyDelete>>>It's always coming. It's coming, it's coming, it's...coming.
ReplyDelete>>>When it hits the fan, I'll be back. I'll hear it from someone. But teasing readers with innuendo, hear-say and outright gossip without concrete facts is frustrating, and serves no purpose. This story has been on "continued..." for the last two years. Get on with it.
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When you have a sinister, slippery, well-funded, victim-playing, vindictive creature like Sarah Heath Palin, it is critical to get ALL, each and every one, of your 'ducks in a row'.
This takes time. Time to develop relationships and trust, connections and facts, images and testimonials.
Every single lead has to be checked and rechecked to make sure who can be trusted, if the source is accurate, legitimate, willing to come forward. Every quote, article, photograph, tweet, facebook, book must be investigated, analyzed and then it all has to happen again...it must be IRONCLAD for there to be no room to slip out of the grip. This takes TIME and Gryphen has been putting in a substantial amount of it.
So this I say to anyone who is coming to this blog and complaining about how long it's taken and crying about their frustration or disappointment that Gryphen can't just magically snap his fingers to satisfy all your Sarah cravings.
STOP. Stop and consider that you have NO IDEA of what is going on with who behind the scenes to finally crack this one wide open for the world to view the utter depravity that fuels this dark creature.
STOP. Stop and consider that you are coming to someone's blog who is committed to Truth and getting information out in a form that is straightforward, truthful, intelligent, thoughtful, and generous of heart...and often laced with delicious humor, snark, intimacy and soul.
STOP. Stop whining like little school children that are waiting for recess or their snack, squirming and squealing their discomforts.
STOP. Stop and think about the HUGE mission and the glorious people who have been relentlessly working for YEARS to expose the lying, grifting, narcissistic, pathological personality that calls itself Sarah Heath Palin.
Gryphen is to only to be commended for what he does for us, for this country and for those of us out here that feel helpless to stop this woman. He's the one who has boots on the ground and round the clock awareness of the next piece to fall into place. You just open his blog.
STOP and thank him for all he does, if you haven't. YOU don't do it...he does. And you get to enjoy the cathartic satisfaction when the whole enchilada is laid out in the bright light of sunshine.
So, STOP BITCHING and COMPLAINING, get some patience and gratitude and then STFU.
*Unless of course you are a troll, then all of this must be scaring the holy hell out of you, or you wouldn't be here.
ps. There are a lot of people who make it a regular thing to acknowledge Gryphen and his work, so I'm not talking to you guys. You guys are always kind and thoughtful and let Gryphen know of the value he brings.
I am waiting for a McCain quote something like this as soon as the Palin Babygate hoax is exposed (but not before): "Oh my goodness gracious, I just learned about the hoax. How really distressing. Of course I had heard rumors, but who would believe such a thing? Had I known earlier, I surely would have told you immediately, my dear electorate. I guess I'm just too principled and trusting. I am shocked, just really so very shocked. Boo hoo, we have all been so deceived."
ReplyDeleteAre you getting out your hankies?
So Sarah is speaking at RR 100 event today, and I'm wondering, do the event organizers "help" write or pre-approve the speech to avoid any embarrassments? It just doesn't seem possible that they would take a chance with what she comes up with "on her own". Will this be an elite or poor-person teleprompter address? She probably would rather go with the hand-thing, but will be forced to use the one they supply!
ReplyDeleteI prefer to think mcLame is being punished for releasing the scara on us. He was told and must spin in silence.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all you do G. I wait.
Reagan's son denouces Palin.
ReplyDeletehttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/02/reagans-son-palin-is-nothing-like-my-father/1
McCain is taking the coward's way out by not endorsing ANYONE rather than owning up to Palin's incompetence.
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ReplyDeleteReally??!? Don't you people ever get off your knees long enough to stop genuflecting at your Palin alters to actually read. Sarah Palin killed sick old people in Alaska waiting for help that never came because she was an incompetent. She accuses others of things she has perpetuated herself.
Jan Brewer in Arizona is doing the same thing.
And when will you bots get it? The best investment we can make in this country is to our citizens. Health, housing, food, education. I suppose if there was another war like Sarah craves you'd be fine with that though--huh? Trillions on war, but not for the well being of the American people.
Oh yes, everyone knows Palin is a moron. The only ones truly more moronic are followers like you. John
McCain is trying to clean up his history. Too late.
Sarah is only moderately smarter than a golden retriever.
The Republicans have every reason in the world to make sure she is completely out of the political equation. If they don't take her down she's going to take the entire GOP down and they know it. Do I care about them? Nah. Good riddance. But her in particular going away is something I really want to happen. REALLY want to happen! So, to whoever does it, do it soon.
ReplyDeleteIt is just a matter of time before Palin announces that she has seen the lay of the land and she has decided she will not run for POTUS and will back someone else. The real reason she is not running is because everybody is turning on her and she needs to stop the bleeding and bow out before it gets really bad.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is mentally unstable. The people that put her in the VEEP candidate spot KNEW it.
ReplyDeleteHence a very successful cover up.
And now with the passage of time, they feel they can expose Palin without impacting their own glorious careers.
Too bad, Palin. You are now expendable.
I, too, believe the GOP leadership is behind the trickle of info and will not hesitate to open the flood gates if she does not announce she will NOT be running for office - perhaps as soon as this weekend - with some line about "it is not her time" (leaving the door open for 2016 or 2020)
ReplyDeleteThe GOP is in dire staights - financially ($23M), politically the party of NO (immigration, equal rights, DADT, job stimulation,) and they really do not have a viable candidate to win against Obama with the American Crossroads & T-Party hurting the fundraising.
John can row as hard as he wants, but HIS name will forever be linked to Palin: An American Plague.
The Death Panels Sarah Palin Doesn’t Want You To Know About
ReplyDeleteThis is the real story of Sarah Palin’s death panels; the death panels she doesn’t want anyone to know about because these death panels are real, they did kill people, and she was in charge of them as the executive of her state – in fact, these death panels did exactly what she accused Obama’s healthcare reform of doing. They killed disabled and elderly people who were waiting to be determined worthy of care.
Conservatives’ healthcare repeal efforts were predictably shut down by the Senate yesterday, so James Taranto wasted his column in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal yesterday defending Palin’s Death Panel lie. He claims she was speaking figuratively but of course, this makes her lie no less of a lie. But his anxious defense of Palin’s lie reminded me of a story that no one told in 2009, just weeks before Palin announced she “wouldn’t be running again” (aka, “quitting two years early”).
Oh, irony, thy name is Sarah Palin.
Let’s go back in time to 2009, when Palin unveiled her Death Panels lie. She said, “To me, while reading that section of the bill, it became so evident that there would be a panel of bureaucrats who would decide on levels of health care, decide on those who are worthy or not worthy of receiving some government-controlled coverage. Since health care would have to be rationed if it were promised to everyone, it would therefore lead to harm for many individuals not able to receive the government care. That leads, of course, to death.”
It sure did in Alaska.
more @
http://www.politicususa.com/en/death-panels-sarah-palin
There's a 100% chance that potential candidates aren't standing in line waiting for McCain's endorsement.
ReplyDeleteTalk about a kiss of death.
Too little too late, John McCain. Sarah Palin is your lasting legacy to this country you supposedly love. What you LOVE is saving your own political hide! And you were willing to put this nincompoop a heart attack away from the presidency if it won you the election. Millions of Americans will never, ever forget this.
ReplyDeleteBut you know what? This running away from her now makes me respect you even less, oddly. She did manage to save your hide in the 2010 elections - and you can't return the favor? You really are a worm. Not that I give a damn for Sarah Palin's sake.
John McCain's such a wishy-washy idiot. Thank goodness he showed us what a lousy decision-maker he is by selecting $arah as his running mate. Jerk!
ReplyDelete9:04 that's how I see it too. McCain is practicing his shocked face in the mirror and chuckling as much as that grouchy old guy can. "She fooled us all" will be the GOP mantra.
ReplyDeleteMcCain will NEVER be able to completely rid himself of this woman. If not for him, we would not have this nightmare in our faces constantly. Her entire family is a trainwreck. When the truth about Trig comes out, how will Grandpa Chuckles explain how he "saw it pop out" in the delivery room??? The whole family are liars.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that the trolls only come out in force on this website but not on others. It's obvious that this is where the story will be spilled when it comes out. People are being paid to cause trouble here.
ReplyDeleteFlicker disappeared photos today, FYI.
ReplyDeleteCould that be a corroboration of the media now being interested?
OT, I know ... but doesn't he have just about the yuckiest hands you ever did see? Really, McCain should do whatever he can to keep those things out of view. Nasty.
ReplyDeleteGosh, isn't that crazy old fool dead yet?
ReplyDeleteHe and pulseless Dick Cheney need to give up the ghost.Except, I suspect the afterlife doesn't want these fools either....
More commentary on the 'trademarking' effort; note that Van Fleet did not submit correct or complete documentation with the applications for both Miss Palin and Ms Palin.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/04/sarah_palin_trademark_bristol_name/index.html
Aurora
Enjay@9:39
ReplyDeletePrecisely! The question is; is SP getting the same message or is her narcissism so deep that she believes she's untouchable and will announce her run?
And as far as McCain goes; as someone else pointed out, McCain did not pick her...the operatives did and that was pretty clear from the beginning. But her name will always be linked to his and tarnish the legacy regardless of who actually placed her name on the ticket. It's obvious to me that McCain knows there's bad news afoot with SP and is taking the cowards way out of a messy revelation.
@8:58 I read an unauthorized biography of George W. Bush which described his wild life of too much alcohol and drugs. He was involved in an auto accident in Texas, and in the course of investigating the accident, drugs were found in the car (cocaine). George may or may not have been under the influence. George was sentenced to 6 months of community service in a poor section of town.
ReplyDeleteLater, when GWB wanted to run for governor, his good lawyer, Alberto Gonzalez had to erase that auto accident. The book mentioned that Bush senior once headed the CIA, so it shouldn't shock anyone what followed.
Bush was told to let his Texas drivers license lapse and expire. Then, after a short period of time when the number would vanish, George was to apply for a new license (never mentioning the previous one). In the course of background checks and investigations in the governors race, the record of the incriminating auto accident with drugs wouldn't appear, since the only connection to it, the drivers license number, had vanished.
And, given the influence and connections of both Bush's father and grandfather, they have probably been connected with much much more. Sarah is small potatoes compared with these guys.
Someone on the McCain campaign (might have been Schmidt or in the book Game Changers) said that not long after her introductory period, McCain never even spoke to Sarah and that on the campaign planes they never sat together; he was with his people discussing strategy and she was several seats back and that he didn't even acknowledge her.
ReplyDeleteI wondered then if he knew about babygate and some other details of her past but it was too late and he was stuck with her. But why the hostility? Hmmm.
R in NC
I do remember one of the McCain campaign people saying they asked her for proof of maternity and she did not cooperate.
ReplyDeleteSo, they know.
Who wouldn't show them everything? I mean, picked for VP from nowhere? I would give them anything they wanted!!
But, but, but... I thought he is so PROUD of Sarah Palin? I'm so disillusioned! LOL.
ReplyDeletePersonally I don't give a rat's ass about Bristol and nobody with a brain does, either. Hence she was dumped from her speaking gig at Washington U. in St. Louis. SO, although I put nothing past this family, that was Bristol at the speech in Texas. It was not Willow. Those two do not look that much alike. Face it, Bristol is a fatty. Or she was post-partum, maybe. Whatever the case, it was her there, not Willow.
ReplyDeleteIf a bunch of bloggers working out of their homes could come up with as much dysfunction among the Palins as you guys have, then what does that say about the money rich republicans ineptitude in not finding out the same things before they put Palin on the ticket?
ReplyDeleteTruly, McCain should apologize to the entire Republican party and the Republican party should apologize to all Americans for shoving this horrid family in our faces.
Anonymous 8:54 It is obvious that you get your news from Faux news. If you have researched and looked at all sides of the matters of which you speak and still come to the conclusions you have come to, then you are simply unbearably stupid. I would love to know why you people who are so proud of your allegiance to Sarah Palin, the worst thing that has ever happened to politics in our country, are afraid to post your names? Why are you all so "anonymous"?
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ReplyDeleteSARAH PALIN LIED ABOUT DEATH PANELS, hell, she has lied about everything.
She is un-American and a disgrace to this country.
Hey, KOA, @ 8:18AM --
ReplyDeleteDon't let the door hit your A§§ on the way out ! ! !
Buh-Bye!!!
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ReplyDeleteSorry Little Johnnie McCain, Palin is your albatross. One that will hang from your neck for the remainder of your years on this planet.
ReplyDeleteYou know your obituary will read, "McCain who brought Sarah Palin in the national mainstream and_______ _______ _______". You know those blanks will be filled with some monumental screw-up that is also pinned to you and your supposed mavericky legacy.
Take a hike McCain and take Sarah, Toddy, Bristol Stomp, Willow Foulmouth, and the rest of the clan with you.
@8:54
ReplyDeleteI bet that you are collecting Social Security and Medicare and you probably didn't pay one red cent for that mobility scooter that you're using at the Wal-Mart. It's okay that you got yours but it's just TERRIBLE that others who need healthcare just might finally be getting what you've been getting for years now!
Quit watching Fox propaganda.
Boy, McCain's hands look awful....reflective of his age no doubt.
ReplyDeleteBoy, McCain's hands look awful....reflective of his age no doubt.
ReplyDelete2:20 PM
They look great! If you happen to like Nosferatu's hands.
London Bridges @ 3:00 PM: LMFAO!
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin will be in Denver May 2, 2011.… interesting!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/04/sarah-palin-to-speak-at-p_n_819040.html#comments
OH MY, Sarah is skipping:
“2012 Primary Debate Schedule
Here is the most up-to-date and complete schedule we have for the 2011 / 2012 Republican Primary debates. These debates are between all the Republican candidates. For the schedule of debates between the Republican nominee and President Barack Obama, see the 2012 Presidential Debate schedule page.
May 2nd, 2011 – Republican Primary Debate from the Reagan Library
May 5th, 2011 – Republican Primary Debate sponsored by Fox News and South Carolina GOP from the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina”
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-debate-schedule/2011-2012-primary-debate-schedule/
Sarah is skipping the GOP presidential debate?
Ya wanna tell us something Sarah?
USA: Palin on 'road to ruin'
ReplyDeleteHey Katie Annie Oakley, 8:18 am, please dont come here and be rude to the blog owner. You do not have to read here. You are extremely rude and nasty at another blog as well with fellow commenters. If someone says something you dont like or you imagine in your warped mind that they a troll, you respond by writing "The Sky is Blye." I have seen you write this very rude dismissive comment a number of times. And sometimes the people were not trolls. What is your problem. Who made you the judge and jury over blog owners like Grypben and fellow commenters. Itz obnoxious! Please don't come here if that's your attitude. Gryphon puts himself at great risk by doing what he does. He has taken more risks then ANY other blogger. If you don't like his methods,leave! And be careful on other nligs because your brilliant deductions about who is a trill are often wrong. You are very intolerant and judgmental.
ReplyDeleteI can't decide if Sarah Palin's choice to skip the big debate on May 2nd means she's not running, or if she's loony enough to think that she doesn't have to do any debates to get elected.
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