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Monday, March 12, 2012
Steve Schmidt: “I think the notion of Sarah Palin being President of the United States is something that frightens me, frankly."
An absolutely MUST SEE discussion with Steve Schmidt about movie Game Change on Morning Joe today. (Make sure to watch until the end.)
Palin was always about the money. To get to that money, she was willing to lie, cheat and prostitute herself for the Tea Baggers and the Republican Party. Little did they know that she gave a voice to the racist, delusional, angry fringe members of the party who have now come out and taken over the GOP. The GOP is dead as a party. And if it wants to take it's party back, I think it knows as Schmidt does, that it has to expose Sarah Palin. They built Frankenstein, and now they must take her down.
If it is true that the media protected her, then it is also true that those on high (except Fox news) have given the ok to destroy her now. Good riddance. I just hope Babygate comes out and puts the final nail on her political coffin.
Interesting...I wonder if taking Rush and Glenn Beck down are also part of the plan. If they are to redefine and reinvent the party, they must take out all the hatemongerers...
Ed Schultz And Guest Blame Sarah Palin’s ‘Manifest Unintelligence’ For ‘Bigoted Attacks’ On Obama
With the Southern primaries coming up tomorrow in Alabama and Mississippi came the news from Public Policy Polling that a plurality of Republican voters there think President Obama is Muslim. This news greatly concerned Ed Schultz tonight, though in a larger national lens, and he asked guest Michael Eric Dyson whether the HBO film Game Change proved that Sarah Palin was the originator of much of the hate.
“Is Sarah Palin at the root of this issue, and the McCain campaign?” Schultz asked, noting that, in watching the film this weekend, he got the sense that “that’s where it started.” “She is one of the major facilitators of this,” Dyson replied, calling her a “woman of manifest unintelligence with no historical perspective” whose rise to fame came on the back of “ceaseless assaults on the President’s morality” that make him appear to many as “the ultimate other.”
He praised Sen. McCain, however, for taking a different route, but nonetheless did see a correlation between his choice of Palin for running mate and the smearing. Asked whether “the bigoted attacks will get worse,” Dyson was optimistic, instead argument that rather than more hate, there would be a rise of “Nixon’s silent majority” of decent people who would “register their most eloquent comments” at the voting booth. While the optimism that not all Americans buy into the “othering” rhetoric that comes from some on the right, this segment lands wide of the mark for myriad reasons. For one, the impulses and ugly undertones to some of the language used on the right is not at all new, nor is it a unique invention of Sarah Palin’s.
Sarah Palin didn’t invent the “Southern Strategy;” with the exception of language that, liberally interpreted, could have served to attracted fringe voters, she wasn’t out there calling President Obama as Muslim or, as Newt Gingrich was actually doing a “Kenyan anti-colonialist.” Unlike Donald Trump, Sarah Palin’s “people in Hawaii” never claimed to find “incredible things.” Palin is worthy of many of the complaints against her and often makes comments or uses language that plays into a narrative of her as a, to use Dyson’s language, manifestly unintelligent woman, but to hoist upon her shoulders the burden of all Republican bigotry lets too many guiltier people get off the hook.
Along with the segment you've posted, he also has segment with the Widow of Harvard Professor Bell, Janet Dewart Ball on with regard to the release of the video of young Barack Obama.
$arah Palin didn’t invent the “Southern Strategy,” but she is apart of it. That bitch has helped moved this country backwards. She made "open" racism popular, again.
You make very good points. The Southern Strategy began after the civil rights and voting rights acts were passed in the mid-60s. By '68, the Silent Majority had congealed. Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, the slow but steady transformation of the South to the racist Republicans -- Sarah Palin was just the latest iteration of this hatefulness, this time in heels.
The "hate" issue without a doubt stated with Palin. Starting with the campaign, and continuing even to today, whenever someone said or did something Palin didn't like she would perceive it as a snub or a scorn against her. This is particularly the case when they said something that was true and she couldn't think of an appropriate response. In a case such as with Couric, she would always accuse that person as being a "hater" or it was because of "hate". The same type of behavior is frequently exhibited at C4P as though they are copying her behavior. I almost think they use the word "hate" in a religious connotation as a substitute of the word "evil".
The hate was always there. Palin just slapped lipstick on it and trotted it out in a sexy package in fuck me pumps. She put pretty to the ugliness and made it a-ok to be a racist, bigoted, moron. Having the usual fat, old, white farts out there didn't give the hate enough juice and fuel to become mainstream GOP. Having a "sexy" spokesperson did. She didn't start it, she gave it legs, ass, and makeup.
Wow. AMAZING interview. Schmidt is obviously concerned for his country, contrite, and honest. Three things Sarah is NOT.
And you're right, Gryph. That last minute and a half is quite a bombshell.
I can think of no other time in American history that the leader of a Presidential campaign has called a member of his ticket unfit to lead within three years of an election. Huge, huge, huge. And Sarah will never, never, never get it.
Jesse, were you referring to the "overweight date" website commercial at the end of the Mediaite clip when you recommended that we should watch it to the very end to see? That was actually pretty cute.
In any event, that was a very good interview with Steve Schmidt.
Just as telling is the question from Andrea Mitchell towards the end of the clip. She asked if Palin was qualified to be President today, since Sarah wants to play a part in a brokered convention.
Schmidt said that Palin is no more qualified today than she was four years ago. She had the chance over the last four years to learn something, and she chose not to. We can discuss whether Sarah can learn and chooses not to or if she is lazy.
I think that there is a third choice.I think that Sarah is unable to learn. She has been covering up her learning disabilities for years. We have someone in our family who could be her twin. He has ADDH and cannot learn in traditional education. He cannot read a book and process the information. But, he has incredible people skills and he can charm people into thinking that he is smarter than he really is. He is a master of telling people what they want to hear and what makes them feel good. He has not held a job in years.
In the movie, Sarah wrote everything down on note cards as if she was hearing those history lessons for the firs time. (That does not speak well of her Alaska or university education). Schmidt, in the movie, noted that Palin wrote things down but couldn't remember anything. We saw Palin exit the lecture about Paul Revere and she managed to mix up that simple story. Sarah cannot learn. She make have been able to fool people in Alaska and tell them what they wanted to hear, but she couldn't fool Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt or anyone else who had to interact with her at a serious level. What is sad is that Sarah will not recognize her problem. Anything that happened to her was the fault of other people.
Since she's incapable of learning like you said, I wonder if she was intimidated by Couric and Gibson. I'm wondering if at anytime during her interview with those two she made that face that Gryphen was referring to.
On the other hand, she can memorize (although it's obvious she doesn't understand, nor care to). Her debate with Sen. Biden was a prime example. When she was thrown a question to which she hadn't memorized an answer, she chose to "redirect" (or as the film said, "pivot" and said she'd rather talk about such and so. It drove me crazy that Gwen Ifill let her get away with it.
Reagan was a good memorizer too. Not too sure how much he, too, actually understood what he was saying.....
This made me recall that in October 2008, there was a well-attended rally held in downtown Anchorage (Alaskans for Truth) that protested Sarah's lack of accountability. One of the handmade posters read "Cram, baby, cram!" So apt.
I need to say that NOT ALL OF US PEOPLE IN ALASKA were fooled by her! I did not vote for her, because I heard her speak with both Tony Knowles and John Halcro at an event. All I could think was "this woman is dumber than a box of rocks." When I listened to all of them, I felt John Halcro was the most qualified because he knew the issues and he understood them and he suggested solutions. My sense of Tony Knowles--and I really like Tony Knowles--was that he only talked about his past record, but didn't offer anything of what he would do now. He had been governor twice and I don't think he was interested to be governor again. He was qualified and so was John Halcro, but it was very clear to me that Sarah Palin was not at all qualified to be governor of Alaska. As a result, I did not vote for her.
For that same reason, I was very disappointed that she accepted the nomination for vice president. If she wasn't qualified to be governor, she absolutely was not qualified to be vice president or the possibility of being president if it became necessary. From my perspective and my own personal experience in life as I am a senior citizen now, she is extremely immature and its that immaturity that that is her downfall. She is too lazy to do the work necessary to become qualified. A sure sign of immaturity and lack of self-discipline. She's not willing to pay her dues and work for it.
When she returned to Alaska after McCain lost the campaign, I thought I would give her the benefit of the doubt such as if she returned to Alaska, put her nose to grind stone and became the best damn governor she could, and read and became educated on the national and international issues, I could have forgave her. But she didn't! She continues to this day to be self-centered, egotistical, and remains extremely immature and not qualified to be dog catcher.
She was popular with the men who voted her into governor, but they didn't use their heads; they used their appendage that absolutely has no intelligence!
People like Colin Powell came forward before the election. People thought again about voting for the McCain Palin ticket. People I knew who got sucked into her lies refusing to check out facts came to see what a liar polariizing person she is.
I truly believe more people will come forward who have national credibility.
Her latest FB rant demonstrates she is a sick person. She would love people to believe the POTUS has not discussed nor noticed major problems. She is a destructive force and plain crazy bitch. She is escalating. She is delusional she will be asked to run for POTUS.
Why did it take him so long to see it, with his political operative experience and all? And Nicolle Wallace, crying because she couldn't vote for the ticket. Um-hmm.
Filming Julianne Moore from arty angles is great, but it just begins to hint at Palin's black hole.
I cottoned onto reality as Palin delivered her nasty RNC speech. Confirmation of the crap content was easy to come by.
During the VP debate with Biden, Palin's failure to provide answers was only part of the story. Her bland lack of affect when Biden emotionally noted the death of his wife and child, and serious injury of another child, made it evident--she was an emotional cipher, not a real person. There was more lacking there than intelligence.
Bloggers everywhere have offered opinions about narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar disorder and/or sexual abuse, etc. I wonder about an organic affliction, seizure disorder NOS, if the descriptions of eyes rolling upward and a catatonic state really occurred, but that's not my field.
I'm sincerely sorry if this miserable woman has not received appropriate medical intervention. But I'm everlastingly glad that she will never be anything more than a Fox news pimple on the ass of politics.
Sarah is not smart, but she is an excellent mimic. She can catch on to whatever another person wants to get from her in mere seconds. She is able to fit her responses to what the other person wants, hence is able to capture people off guard. My sister can do this and unless you know her, she can buffalo anyone by her personality. The second she is called on it, she does what Palin does... shut down, turn off, or go stony cold. I see so much of my sister in Palin, and other inhuman people like her.
I'm a huge fan of this site and come here every day. I think Palin is terrible. I don't think she's Trig's mother.
But I can't stand your posts. You sound so self-serving, like you are saying "Hey, look at me! Look at me! Isn't it wonderful that I'm so dedicated to this cause?" every time you do this.
I get it. You want to keep the question alive. Why in the world do you think your post does that?
Can you at least just change it to a straight forward, "Hi, Sarah. Where's Trig's birth certificate?" and stop the "too cute" stuff?
It's not your question so much as the cute stuff with it. And your apparent swell-headedness that thinks that posting that every day is doing something for the cause.
Jesse and a whole lot of other people are doing the hard work keeping the pressure on about the birth certificate.
You aren't impressing anyone by doing that post every day. Well, you're not impressing me anyway. And by the other comments to you post, that's true of others of us who are definitely not trolls.
Except you seem to be very impressed with yourself for doing it.
So go ahead. Keep doing it. Just please cut the cute stuff. It lessens your cause.
JayKen....don't let the Palin paid trolls get to ya'! Apparently your question about Trig's BC is getting on Beefy's and Baldy's nerve...keep it up and I'll join you in "your cause"!
Hi Sarah, Welcome Back!
Quick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
Oh and for you Beefy....
Why Did You Name One of Your Children After Your Daddies Prostitute?
I think the repetitive question is meant to drive Sarah Palin a bit crazy....not you. We all know that Sarah is reading this blog every day. I personally love the questions and truly hope that Sarah hates it as much as you do.
I like the question. It keeps Sarah's people on edge. One day, somehow the truth will come out. Even if it means I have to wait for Piper to grow up and write her own mommie dearest book. I am putting off dying just for that!
Another anonymous vote for reminding everyone what it is all about. Thanks and keep it up! The lies and scams of Sarah Palin. Where is that birth certificate?
I don't mind the repeated question at all. And someone else (or same person) has now started repeatedly asking Bristol why she's named her baby after her dad's prostitute. Same schtick. It's somewhat amusing because it's like needling her when she's reading this blog (which by all accounts she is.)
This questions needs to be asked until Palin answers it.
She doesn't, because she can't. She didn't physically birth the lovely boy known as Trig Palin.
Almost everyone knows the Wild Ride--as told by Sarah Palin in her own words--is absolute BS.
What do you do when your water breaks? What do you do if you have strong contractions--not just Braxton-Hicks--late in your pregnancy?
Especially, if you are carrying a special needs child and you are deep into a high-risk pregnancy because of your age, a grand-multipara, with previous spontaneous abortions?
Do you bypass world-class medical facilities with NICUs 5 minutes away (like Baylor U) and fly 4 hours to Seattle, where you bypass several state-of-the-art hospitals with NICUs, sit calmly during a two-hour lay-over, fly to Anchorage and ignore the big hospital there, and drive to Mat-Su Regional, a tiny hospital that does not even allow twin births, where you have your premature Downs baby delivered by a family practice physician?
Later, realizing the Mat-Su boo-boo has been discovered, you begin to give speeches about Trig being born in Anchorage. Of course, all mothers forget where their children have been born.
Has there ever been a politician in recent history--even with the likes of George Wallace and his wife, Lyndon LaRouche, Ross Perot--who has tried to pull off a more preposterous scam?
Yes, maybe, but they've all been more plausible than this stupid bitch. And damn her for being a woman, with the harm she has done to our brand and her cursedly cheap attempt to capitalize on journalists' fear of playing the "birth card."
So more power to Jayken. We need to keep demanding the birth certificate. Take a deep honest breath and ask why Palin has not provided it.
I like the mantra. No, I don't think JayKen is playing look at me. It's more like the water torture drip, drip, drip...it's gonna send her over the edge one day. Please continue Mr./Ms. KnotStirred. (Thanks for the apostrophe also.)
I am so tired of people making excuses for her and saying things like"well she was put in a tough position"... (Mika tries that in this clip) Of course she was put in a tough position, and she could not handle it, so therefore she is not qualified to be a leader of any sort. That is what happens when you are a leader, you get put in tough situations and you rise to the occasion. She did not rise to the occasion, she sunk.
They didn't put a gun to $arah's head to accept being McCain's running mate. She didn't even blink, she jumped at the chance. She chose own her destiny. She just doesn't accept accountability for her decisions.
Sheesh! If Palin (and Mika) thought she had it tough, what did she think Hillary Clinton was weathering?! Hillary is a proverbial warhorse compared to the pageant pony Palin. M from MD
Thank you! Well said. I really hate people coming to her defense like that. "oh, it was just the stress." If anyone thinks that a debate or an interview or a hand-held campaign is hard, wait until they are president. I don't think anyone knows or has any idea of how hard that job is. She was all about the title and attention, not the actual job.
Schmidt lets it all out EXCEPT the big one, "mentally unstable". And the interviewers are no better. Gosh, how could you let this happen, Schmidt? Well, gosh, golly, gee wilikers. It happened because the news media sucked up to the candidates instead of doing their job.
While I respect Schmidt for being so honest and accepting his responsibility for what has happened, according to his interviews today, HE DID VOTE FOR HER although he states he "voted for McCain" and then goes on to laud McCain.
Ok, that part is fine except VOTING FOR MCCAIN IS VOTING THAT IF MC CAIN DIES, THIS PERSON HE KNOWS AND HAS ALREADY REGRETTED BRINGING TO THE TABLE WOULD BE PRESIDENT.
I think Schmidt NOW has a fuller understanding of how disasterous that would have been BUT EVEN NOW he hides behind "voting for McCain" instead of being up front about the fact that as much as he knew, he still cast a vote that COULD have placed Palin as president.
He could have just NOT voted !
Still, he should be respected for confronting himself on his error. NOT an easy thing to do and something Palin has no concept of.
While I also think Palin may have real learning disabilities, let us not forget that she SIMPLY DOES NOT THINK KNOWING "STUFF" IS IMPORTANT ! Goes back to her debate with Knowles and Halcro. Her GOAL is the ultimate narcissistic supply i.e. attention and being the MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE WORLD and she simply feels SOOOO ENTITLED to that position because of her narcissism that she does not have to "do" anything to get there.
It is hard to learn anything if you inherently have no interest it the subject. Palin is simply NOT interested in ANYTHING except herself.
Hard to wrap your mind around unless you have literally EXPERIENCED a real maliginant narcissist. Kinda like buddhism/taoism. No matter how much you intellectually understand what you read, until you have literally experienced satori, you simply to not know--it must be experienced for full realization.
Sarah Palin is a very mentally unstable person no matter what other disabilities she may have or which her instability may resemble.
McCain has no choice now but to support her whether he really believes it or not. It is all on him that he put her next in line to be President and he knows it. That will be his legacy as it should be.
If it was true that he thought Palin would turn on him if he attempted to rein her in during the campaign, imagine what he's thinking now that Palin has achieved a powerful Teaparty following (small, but noisy, just like her).
Palinbots are VICIOUS and they wouldn't hesitate to stalk McCain and send him death threats or threaten Cindy and Meghan if he said what he truly thinks of Palin now.
He may be demented and a bit senile, but he's not entirely stupid. Shame on him though for yielding to his ambition to "win at all costs".
Wow, he holds nothing back. I saw Wallace on a show yesterday and she also said the portrayal of events was accurate. What say you now trolls? Two high level staffers in that campaign confirm it was an accurate portrayal of events.
My honey and I watched it last night and he really doesn't give much thought to Palin. His response was hilarious as he kept shouting out loud to tv "shit, she's a fucking IDIOT!!!"
Now he understands why I was so adamant she be defeated in 2008.
It would have been interesting had Joe been there. I'm sure he would have whined about how much abuse poor Sarah had to endure. Great interview though.
I suspect Steve Schmidt wouldn't have been booked to appear, had Joe been there.
Although it would have been interesting to hear Joe try to interrupt or talk over Steve, because from what I've seen, Steve Schmidt can hold his own even with interrupters like Chris Matthews.
I hope she says something wrong and the Feds come after her. I think they have been watching her all along hoping she would quit her hate talk. She better not push it because she could cause someone to get hurt or worse. She may decide that if she goes down, she will take those she hates with her. It is scary how she puts ideas in her followers heads. She is dangerous.
She's crawling out from under her rock, Schmidt. From her facebook post
But considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.
So, Schmidt, ready to pony up with the real problem with Sarah Palin? That she's mentally unstable. You can do it Schmidt.
A mean snarly little junior high schooler frozen in time. She's been outed as the fool and ignoramus she is and all the ammunition she has is to double down on her lies and yell louder. Get off the playground Sara, you are done and now you are only embarrassing yourself and your family. For the love of God, can someone in that family put a zipper on her mouth and shut her in the closet for a while?
Interesting the trolls are mostly absent. Did Sara call them off, or are the Palin girls surrounding mommy with attention and don't have time to write?
Hint - it's not going to stop the tsunami you created and BTW, that tsunami isn't a country you need to read up on to look more presidential
The gall of this ugly spirited woman. She has no right to address the sitting President of the United States this way. She is simply riling up her backwoods bigots in order to incite violence and hate. Please MSM, PLEASE dig into Shailey's book and get Todd and Sarah out of the public eye.
UH oh anonymous lacking in knowledge one, President Obama is NOT the one who bankrupt our country. Facts, darling, facts. Do you even know them? Obviously not.
I applaud Schmidt's retroactive honesty. But the fact that his ambition trumped his intellect (a quality he shares with Wa$chilla DeVile) during the 2008 campaign still troubles me. According to all accounts Nicole Wallace saw past the paylump facade much sooner. I wonder why Schmidt didn't.
I think it is partly because Wallace is a woman that she instantly saw through Sarah.
Sarah actually is what many men accuse more successful women like Wallace of being. Wallace probably saw through the facade within 15 minutes of being face to face. It's like gaydar but more accurate.
I'm in Alaska and saw through Palin when she ran for governor. She was inept at that time and because our state is 'red', she won! She couldn't debate and that should have gotten voters attention, but it obviously didn't. We STILL have horrible Republican government in our state...Parnell is the worst - might compete w/Palin when he is finished as to being 'Alaska's worst govenor'! Alaska has lots of money and is one fucked up government!
omomma: You can watch directly from MSNBC site (30 sec advert at beginning) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc_tv-morning_joe/
I was terrified on election day 2008 that McCain would win (agree with Schmidt). I think I would have died from anxiety if Palin were now VP.
It's easy to blame Wallace/Schmidt now, but they were incredibly busy. And I think Bill Kristol (National Review) had planted the seed of Palin as VP in 2007. So McCain was being reckless, and this is what he bequeathed to the country.
Omomma, I have the same problem (running google chrome), I usually click the upper right corner and the link opens in a new window to the mediaite site's front page, the recent clips are usually easy to find. Don't know if it works on other browsers, but I hope it helps.
You have to see Wallace on Maddow tonight! Unbelievable!!! and Palin eviscerated the Professor with President Obama in the video that's supposed to show them as radicals. She called the celebrated Professor a "racist"! The Ed show had the Prof.'s widow on his show and she couldn't have been more lovely as she spoke of her husband. Palin was shamed in TV tonight! You all have to see these two shows!
The Professor's widow was a truly lovely and well spoken person. I feel for her having to endure such attacks on her husband's character so soon after his death.
The new strategy as we come into the election cycle - every time this attack dog opens her mouth they come right back and she better get used to it because the gloves are off at the DNC and lookie here - the MSM is going along and giving them air time. She's toast and doesn't even know it.
Where are the trolls? Mass depression? Have they gone somewhere to try to beam up to the rapture?
Totally agree. Palin, unfortunately, did not know the person she was talking about. She was given her talking points by Fox. Same as in the 2008 campaign. She had no clue who Bill Ayers was either but it did not stop her from her fire breathing attacks. She is nothing more than a FOOL. A fool speaks with a multitude of words.
Both these shows are must sees. Maddow's backdrop said "I can't believe '08 The Whole Thing", and Nicholle was brutally honest.
The Ed Show went further with Game Change. He said Schmidt should have went to McCain and deep six Palin. Richard Wolfe went even further.
The Professors widow held herself with much dignity and grace. I was impressed with how she corrects all the smears Fox, Rush, Palin, Breitbart, etc have put forward about her husband and Our President. She has every right to honor her husband's good works.
Nicole Wallace said pretty much the same thing on Rachel's show tonight. Wallace admits that every now and then they politicians have to make a bold choice, but she regretted their failure to vet Palin. Nicole knows that Sarah was unfit to be President of the United States. Schmidt points out that since Sarah hasn't learned anything in the last four years, she is still unqualified.
Who is more believable? Wallace and Schmidt speak in complete sentences and convey complete thoughts. Even when Sarah has the questions and answers in advance, she still sounds frenzied when she appears on Fox. When Sarah says that our first African American president wants to go back to a period before the Civil War, when he would be a slave, Sarah continues to prove Steve Schmidt's ocmment that Sarah cannot learn anything.
Schmidt, McCain et al did a grave disservice to our country. At least Schmidt and Wallace are sharing at least part of the truth.
Sarah, may you spend your days poor and alone in Wasilla, spurned by your family and your neighbors. Sure you have money now, but what will happen when it runs out?
About f'n time someone spells it out clearly and who better than Schmidt - how ya gonna refudiate that Sarah? But Mika, my God, what a tool she is! She sighs "wow, so honest" If only the media had been honest during the campaign and beyond instead of sucking up to Sarah to win ratings instead of hammering the point home of how unqualified she was to be a heartbeat away from being President!
The bottom line for me is that our country needs serious campaign and election reforms.
Unstable candidates, Diebold voting fraud and unlimited money from SuperPacs is just an unacceptable way to choose our leaders.
Schmidt chose his words carefully, but I'm glad to see him say in so many words "the end does not justify the means".
He could have been much more damning, for example Palin is a chronic and shameless liar, and is emotionally unstable. But he pulled his punches. I think Frank Bailey pulled his punches too. If they were to tell the WHOLE TRUTH people would say "why did you enable her insanity"?
I think SP very cleverly makes sure all her aids get their hands dirty, so they are ashamed of the part they played in propping her up, and she has something she could shame or blackmail them with.
Really, it may be a decade or two before the kids grow up and can step away from her entanglements and the people now living feel the hand of mortality on their shoulder and have nothing to lose by telling all.
The story of Quittypants has many volumes yet to be written. It won't be a pretty story, but may serve as instruction to future generations.
It's understandable that they couch their comments in political-speak.
For one thing, they aren't psychiatrists nor have they had Palin seen by a psychiatrist -- it's not for them to say she's emotionally unstable or has a disorder.
For another thing, if they're already getting hacked, getting death threats or are suffering blowback from Palinbots, it might get a lot worse if they tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth (Babygate, for instance).
Some Palinbot might "act out" like Jared Loughner did with Gabby Giffords.
What strikes me is, if you didn't know better listening to the first part of the interview, you'd think he's talking about someone who is dead. Which in effect she is, politically speaking.
So what do we learn from this? That we need to vet the campaign staffs of the candidates -- their backgrounds, training, past affiliations. Who are the puppet masters? The Palin decision was many things,but it was mostly a combination of hubris and human error. Will anyone learn from this lesson? I hope the press thoroughly reports on whoever is picked as vice president by whoever is nominated by the Republicans. If they think they need a woman on the ticket to counteract Limbaugh, etc., watch out! There aren't that many decent Republican women around.
Schmidt comes very close to coming totally clean. However, I disagree with his false equivalency between Palin and John Edwards. He claims that both were unprepared for office.
Bullshit.
Edwards was prepared to be president. He had the experience, he had the skill, he had the ability, he had the knowledge, but he was also a goddamned liar and a crook. Palin was simply too fucking stupid and emotionally immature. Edwards didn’t lack ability, he lacked judgement. Palin lacks judgement AND temperament, maturity, and knowledge. Edwards could have handled the presidency. Palin could not, under ANY circumstances. EVER. Both would have been impeached, but for very different reasons.
BIG difference.
However, I think Schmidt’s admonition to the GOP to exclude Palin from ANY decision making input at all is sound advice. He pulled no punches in assessing her intellectual sloth and indifference at her stunningly expansive ignorance once it was exposed. I think that far too many people - Kristol, Schmidt, Wallace, Davis, McCain, et al. - simply assumed that since she was a popular governor that there was nothing they needed to concern themselves with in her background. They all saw what they wanted to see. NOBODY grilled her for even a nanosecond before she was picked. A cursory two minute conversation on world affairs or U.S. History would have scuttled her from the start.
Palin should serve as an object lesson in how NOT to pick mayors, governors, and presidential candidates. ANY presidential candidate should assume that their pick is a potential Palin and go about doing the research to prove that he/she is not a vindictive, petty, lying imbecile.
Well Said. I think Schmidt brought in Edwards was to try and balance the big equation but you're spot on - Edwards had all the qualifications except honesty and personal integrity. Kind of like Nixon.
BINGO!!!!! Just watched the first minute or two of this, and he said it - "a vetting process based on secrecy, that was compartmentalized".
He is trying to tell us that there were people and/or forces at work pushing this nomination through, and that his right hand did not know what this mysterious, and probably far more powerful, left hand, was doing!!!!
He is too afraid to actually come out and imply or even claim that others were truly responsible for the Sarah Palin pick! In this I can't judge him, for these background people are likely extremely scary.
I firmly believe that in spite of the Dick Cheney comment about her being a bad choice, the NeoCon/Big Oil alliance was likely the responsible group. They identified her long before 2008.
I bet some of the pressure she felt during the campaign came from her contacts within that realm. (Why in hell did this woman have 2 Blackberries again, and why, besides her concerns about her ethics problems and her personal Trig problems, was she so obsessed with protecting her email? They even put that in the Game Change script, as we all know.)
I think her inexplicable, unbelievable confidence came from more than her quasi-religious beliefs. I think it's because someone told her long ago they hoped to put her in that position. I think they probably were naive and thought she'd know that she would need to prepare herself, however - how wrongly they judged her priorities and intelligence!
Secrecy, compartmentalized...he's trying to tell us the whole truth.
What now? This movie has come and gone. Will it change anything? Will SP still maintain her political clout?
Was surprised that she wasn't on Fox News tonight. She may have been too humiliated to make an appearance, or Sean and Greta were too embarrassed for her.
Last week, she was lambasting the Dem party for not 'vetting' President Obama. It's total hypocrisy for her to claim that. Not only was she not intelligent and incurious, and did not know or care that she had too many limitations. the story of Game Change shows people how deceptive she was. Her saying she was exonerated from the Troopergate inquiry, not telling them about Bristol's pregnancy, Todd's AIP history. The campaign were constantly trying to plug the dike holes that she 'forgot' to tell them about up front.
She had no integrity and her character is out in the open now. Wonder how her Fox friends are going to handle this hot potato.
What now? This movie has come and gone. Will it change anything?
I feel it will make a difference. Maybe not that fast or dramatic, but it opens doors and changes perceptions. Her legs are cut off, it will be more difficult for her and those that feed her material. Everyone knows her moves now and she can "surprise" and go rogue but not effectively. Her game is changed significantly.
OMG - check out Palin's latest FB post. Someone really needs to take this idiot down now!!!
Let’s Talk About the Real Issues, Mr. President by Sarah Palin on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 6:41pm ·
The far Left continues to believe American voters are not smart enough to grasp the diversionary tactics it employs to distract us from the issues our President just doesn’t want to talk about – issues that affect us all every day and must be addressed.
Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)
Just off the top of my head, a few of these concerning issues include: a debt crisis that has us hurdling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.
I’m sure I missed a few things, but the list is just for starters. Along with millions of others, I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime; and I’m sure any of the four patriots currently running for the GOP nomination would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s politics. The President will dismiss all of these problems by saying, “Well, uh, ‘change isn’t easy.’” But considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.
This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.
They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro helps them out in this piece. Please read it all.
Sara better be careful what she asks for. From what I gather she's offering to debate the President of the USA? I would love that - have her throw her snarly little attack at him and watch with glee as he undresses her in public once and for all. She's also inserting herself into the primary in a defacto way - so is she now running for office? Is that what's she's saying?
And the more she yaps the more information is going to come forward on her. Watch for yet another bitch slap coming from the DNC AND the GOP. She's out of control now and needs to be shut down. She's becoming an embarrassment to everyone.
How about debating Todd Palin's Prostitution Ring and the influence on your short time as Governor. How about debating the Law Enforcement FAVORS gained by you for TRACK PALIN'S Felonies, Willow Palin's Felony Vandallisms, and Bristol Palin's ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, while Drinking Alcohol and using OXYCONTIN under age and without a Prescription? How about debating Dylan Kolvig's, Track's, and Bristol's involvement in the Yacht Fire with no arrests? Maybe this time around the Police and Press can do their job, IDIOT.
Sarah, YOU are not an ordinary American but most of the country is. And 90% of the country cannot stand you. Do you hear that finally you idiot? When will you ever shut up.
I swear, NOTHING will shut this woman up. I have to blame the media. Plus, we need to blame ourselves for continuing to talk about her. It is hard not to but it is time to do more.
We need to report her and her husband to every single crime investigating organization that we can. Forget the APD. It is time to go Federal.
Remember when Sarah had the local FBI make a statement on her behalf on a holiday weekend? One has to wonder if that guy was a client of the sex ring?
What does it mean that she is willing to come out now, days after Game Change aired and everybody everywhere is talking about how the McCain campaign failed to vet her, and ACCUSE THE MEDIA OF NOT VETTING PRESIDENT OBAMA?! Good Lord, woman, what the hell are you thinking?!
I can't believe the hubris in her Facebook post. She actually says "remember you don't need a title to make a difference?" She is SO full of her own self-importance it is pathological. You are seeing a very mentally disturbed, extremely sick person in this facebook comment.
Her real issue is the movie, not the President's ad. Her Facebook post again shows how ignorant she is and how she can't accept any ownership for her incredibly stupid gaffes.
This is a very sick woman and she needs to be stopped because she is dangerous.
Hopefully the media will start ignoring her. Maybe we should start ignoring her.
Gryphen people on some blogs say you are finished if you out babygate. I don't believe that because I read your blog before Palin. But you might want to prove it by not posting at all about Sarah anymore at least for awhile. It will drive her crazy because she is a very mentally ill woman. Please think about it.
She is so stupid that she still doesn't even know what vetting is. And neither do her incredibly dumb followers. The media's job is NOT to vet the candidates. What an idiot.
This proves that she will suck all of the oxygen out of the republican convention, and then some. She isn't leaving, and whoever her wealthy backer-puppetmasters and paymasters are, aren't leaving, either. The press will frame the Tampa event as though it were about "Mitt WHO?", and all the cameras will be on Sarah.
The republicans have always loved tar babies – when they thought the tar babies would be used to destroy someone else. But now their own tar baby, who they chose, prepared, backed, and equipped to attack others, is stuck in their own hands and won't let go – and there's not a single thing they can do about it. "Pay attention to me! Pay attention to me, dammit!!" has already come out of boot camp, and will completely take over their convention. It's time to invest in Orville Redenbacher.
You may not need a title to make a difference, Sarah Palin, but you need a brain. Since you have neither, it's time for you to leave the stage. And, by the way, stop talking about patriots, when you yourself don't know one flipping thing about American history, or our military, and your treasonous comments about our President and our foreign policy push the boundary of what is legal.
This has gone too far. She's so delusional, like she thinks she's a cartoon heroine and must battle the bad guy. I quite actually think the woman is beyond delusional, she's now acting out her delusions as well. Maybe she thinks she's married to the President, like those stalkers who believe they are married to their celebrity idols.
"but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about..."
REAL NARACISSISM AT WORK: Remember she literally CANNOT ( as opposed to WILL NOT) see reality, and look at how much ego, arrogance and CALL FOR ATTENTION SHE GIVES HERSELF with her statement intimating that she is important enough TO President Obama that 1) he even thinks of her,much less considers her an "enemy" and 2) that she is an important enough enemy that he would want/need to debate her ! !
Obama will as usually not address her remarks. This is the ONLY way to handle narcissistic mental instability as ANY response/reaction is a no win situation.
This long winded FB comment (and I have not read past the first paragraph or two yet) tells me she is really breaking down now. With a narcissist, the closer to being forced to see reality, the more threatened they feel, the harder, more desparately they push back and the more delusional their thinking becomes.
And the more potentially violent they become.
When they feel they are losing any ability to control "you" (or the situation) the higher their anxiety the more they LITERALLY feel their life--physical, not just reputation--is threatened and when you feel your life is threatened physically you have the right to defend your life physically.
Narcissist --hate to keep using the word, but it is important--LITERALLY feel they dont exist without their audience (good or bad attention) because their entire sense of self is oriented outside of themselves--they have no "center" except what they see in how the outside world reacts to them.
Better to have bad attention than none because at least that way they know they exist, even if unhappily.
Someone will end up bleeding --or worse--as Palin deteriorates.
In the meantime, her rhetoric is becoming closer and closer to legally defined treason.
I think those who protect our President are watching closely--they just know enough not to "telegraph their message."
As damaging as Palin has been and is, as with all underlying infections, they must become worse, be seen for what they are and "owned" before they can be healed. Palin's incarnation into this life, as I feel Hitler's was, is a necessary "evil" so that it can be seen for what it is and eradicated.
WHEN EVIL EXHAUSTS ITSELF, WHAT IS RIGHT PREVAILS. One of those old buddhist/taoist insights :)
Just about everything she says here is classic projection.
Unbeliveable.
Just substitute the name "Palin" wherever she mentions "Obama" or implies him and it reads clear as a bell.
My mother was a narcissist and I learned "at her knee" but sometimes, 68 years later, it is still hard--even for me---to wrap my head around what goes on in a narcissists' mind and how they hide from reality.
Their actions and words are intentional and they are fully responsible for the, but at the same time the source of their actions and words --their view of the world--is so distorted that, as dangers and therefore frightening as they are, as much as they must be stopped, it is hard to "hate" them or even have malevolent feelings toward them. I only want them restrained and contained and restricted from spreading their evilness--and it is "evilness." I do not use that word lightly.
You cannot oppose evil by hating it. You can only transcend it and that means knowing it in it's depth for what it is and how if functions.
I would "pull the lever" on her myself but only with the thought of "God have mercy for her soul" (whatever you consider God to be or not be i.e. whatever it is that is immanent in existence.)
Of course, we all believe that Idiot Sarah wrote that Facebook rant, don't we? Who's pulling her strings? The Koch brothers? Adelson? That post reminds me of John Birch Society pamphlets of 40 years ago.
Sarah's new ShePAC. (WTF sort of name is that? "She" PAC?) No trolls on here tonight? Sarah shamelessly prancing around in Las Vegas, acting like she has nothing to be ashamed of? She's following a script or up to something.
Steve Schmidt's honesty is refreshing. Can't remember when I've heard honesty from a Republican. Had Scarborough been on the show this morning, I'm sure Schmidt wouldn't have been able to talk so freely. Thanks for posting this, Gryphen.
If she starts making too much trouble for the GOP, I can see the Rove squad giving the all clear on Trig speculation. First Pimp might just get some attention too. Large donors are not parting with hundreds of millions just to have some unbalanced megalomaniac ruin everything.
Wouldn't it be funny if Obama invited her to the White House Saturday to debate her concerns. I guarantee she would suddenly have an emergency family issue to attend to. She is scared to death of unscripted public appearances. Her last one, the Paul Revere fiasco, basically ended her pretend presidential run. Sure Glen Rice was the nail in the coffin, but she was a national laughing stock after Paul Revere. It even forced her to quit her bus tour.
I'll betcha that the higher ups in the Republican party, when they meet in Florida, will be on the alert with idiot Palin!
They are not going to allow her to outshine the current candidates running in the primary. I'll betcha it's going to be much like what was shown in "Game Change" - they are going to have to tell her "NO" and to "SHUT UP" and 'SIT THE FUCK DOWN'!
"...a debt crisis that has us hurdling towards a Greek-style collapse..." Um, maybe you meant to say hurtling.
"...would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s politics." Um, maybe you meant to say policies.
Gee, maybe she really does write this crap herself.
This woman hath stupidity which defieth all understanding.
I was married to a narcissist and read countless books and articles to try and understand the total chaos that made up the relationship. Your example of putting her name in place of Obama is a fantastic example for those who have not dealt with one up close and personal. It is called gas lighting and she does this every time she opens her mouth. We think she's just a bunch of crazy making nonsense, imagine what her immediate family must deal with. I pity them all.
Hey Anon 8:47, I see there is a youtube out about Robert Kolvig, father of Dylan possibly being the father of Bristol's first child. I also see that Robert Kolvig is involved in Alaska Law Enforcement somehow and a Kim Kolvig works for State of Alaska as well.
The computer scrubbing which took place before journalists - and who knows, maybe even the vetting team itself - got up to AK after the surprise choice, was done by people with very "special" skills... They said the vetting was supposedly done in 2 weeks instead of 8, or something like that.
I don't think it's too much to speculate that a thorough investigation of this story might one day expose a tale far more like a spy thriller than anything else. I wonder if Schmidt and the film director and producers suspect as much, too. Meaning, Schmidt himself was used and duped.
In the Game Change script (I guess it's in the book too, didn't read it, myself) they talk about only a few people knowing about the Sarah pick before they told Nicole Wallace. This is an example of the secrecy Schmidt is referencing. I think it was done not to preserve some political wow factor pertaining to the announcement, but to buy time so they could be sure all their ducks were in a row and no rogue info was left to be discovered by any snooping journalists.
And what about that Rick Davis, check out his background.
This book and film are just the tip of the iceberg.
these people still pull their punches. these insiders know 10 times as much about palins mental instability and her lies and bizarre life then they will ever say over the airwaves. just to get this far not only is a first but it is with out question a pushing of the envelope towards more scrutiny of who these candidates are who want Power over the rest of us.
Schmidt clearly states how scary palin is and everyone there obviously knowing it too just agrees. no one came to her defense.
one other point about how palin helped the ticket. its true she created lots of noise and the dynamics are very different now then in the past because you have fox trumpeting her walkout under controlled theatrics at the republican convention. add in none stop hatE talk radio and the propaganda machine for a time creates the impression something big has arrived in town.
the reality is after the American people saw for themselves who anD what palin was they disapproved of her to the point where her appearances had to be scripted and controlled less she continue making a complete fool of herself trying to answer a question as simple as "what newspapers do you read".
so the myth was created and now comes full circle after 3 years with the movie Game Change demonstrating what anyone paying attention lonG age realized; palin after you get to know her leaves you wondering if she is "mentally unstable".
Sarah is trying to change the subject --it isn't going to work. She has been obsessively stalking the President for years----old game. Everyone knows she was unhinged during the campaign---and still is.
Scream, Sarah, scream---everyone is truly laughing at your crazy ass.
Mika was pitiful. Remember her anti-Palin rant last year? Boy they sure have clipped her tail on Morning Joke. She kinda was always clipped though.
I think Schmidt and Wallace were played by some GOP powers-that-be. They thought they were involved in helping an elder statesman, one who they felt was very worthy, make a "bold" move in order to be elected. They believed he should be President.
What they got was a mess, dumped in their laps and for which they have had to take much of the blame.
Hidden players are able to stay hidden, and these two are left thinking they have to explain themselves. On some level they do, but the very idea of considering this woman in the first place did not originate with them.
Very well stated . . . and those clowns behind the curtains are still pulling the strings. Why else would the petty puppet palin mention a brokered convention or allen west? That is also precisely why palin's shrewd secrets are so well-kept, for many others would take the fall with her... people who are still in positions of authority in AK.
The fact that she is kept on at FOX indicates that she has extremely powerful puppet masters. She believes she is indispensable to these people, whoever they are, but she is probably playing with fire.
If only someone would come forward with even a sliver of information indicating that this Game Change story is only part of what went on.
It seems likely that Schmidt and Wallace were told not to discuss the hoax, Todd's prostitution, and certain other subject areas. Maybe carrot (that's how Schmidt got his nice MSNBC job?) or maybe stick (if they ever want to work in MSM again).
Clearly, McCain has arranged that he is not to be implicated. At least so far that's been working for him.
Lets not forget about how Palin did an about face on her willingness to cooperate withe the original Troopergate investigation after she accepted McCain's offer and how all those attorneys from the campaign showed up in Anchorage trying to hinder the investigation and spin it in favor of Palin as a victim.
Wonder what part Schmidt or other strategist he was working with had to do with all that.
I respect Schmidt for his crisis of conscience and how he is being very truthful now re: his responsibility BUT I WONDER HOW MUCH MORE WAS DONE INITIALLY TO PROTECT THEIR CHOICE OF PALIN AND THAT IS JUST TOOOOOOO UGLY / HUMILATING TO THEM NOW TO DISCUSS.
Remember, Alaska was "invaded' by campaign operatives trying to influence Troopergate and all of that is being swept under the table.
Even "we" are not bringing it up. This is a subject that needs to be rembered and brought to light again !
I totally agree with you - they came to Alaska and did everything they could to cover up the Palin 'problems'! Levi's family was included too as to taking the computers out of their homes, etc.
I'll wager the crowd that surrounded Palin and McCain during the campaign know 'everything' about her and Todd. I hope it is leaked as time moves along. I'll bet they know she was never pregnant w/the kid and on and on. Remember how the Alaska Legislature found her unethical and how they tried to cover that up and she denied it while on the campaign. She and Todd are frauds and liars there is no doubt! Their asses need to be gone after!
Remember too how Meg Staplemouth was a part of the hollering and shouting while the McCain people were in Alaska doing the coverups? She's another one that Palin still has on the payroll to keep her mouth shut!
Schmidt's pangs of conscience and admissions of "vetting in secrecy" DURING a campaign, to win at risking catastrophe to the country are admirable, but from reading the book and watching the movie, they DID have a window of opportunity to "Slap McCain in the face and scream "Snap out of it!" ala Cher in moonlight. As catastrophic as the pick was, the secrecy was much worse.
I can't believe "the buzz" this movie has generated! Everywhere I went today, people were talking about the movie, and it's been on the radio, in print, and all television stations.
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ALL of Rush's national sponsors are suspending their ads for two weeks.
If they believe, for one second, this war on women will blow over in two weeks, they're dead wrong. We have to keep signing petitions and writing letters.
I posted reference to O'Donnell's show announcing the national suspension from the opening segment of his show, which message will show up below this as IM hasn't updated yet!!
I didn't realize of course it was only 2 weeks. I was excited just to hear all national advertisers -- Hip, Hip......hooray.
Just means continuing to spread the word and keeping the pressure on.
Tells you though -- if it was the men, they wouldn't have to double back and do it again. In our strong female fashion (together with a number of many supportive males), we will just have to continue our daily routine of multitasking!! It's not new to the ladies -- but don't ask most men to try it!!!
Sarah is so desperate for a brokered convention that she has doubled down on her hate spewing. No wonder she's looking haggard. That's what hating 24/7 does to ya. It oozes out of your skin pores and gives you a nasty maroon coloured aura. She got Glen Rice in her bed & she's just plain ole pissed off 1/2 black President Obama won't give her a phone call even. Pissed off like a 13 yr. old. Keep on hatin' and following no one's advice Sarah! lol
OMG in her facebook rant she supposes that Obama considers her the "enemy of the week" and says she wants to debate him. That woman DESPERATELY wants him to acknowledge her. She doesn't even try to explain what she meant by "take us back to pre-Civil War times". Her disconnect from reality is just scary. I am so glad O has the Secret Service at his back.
Sarah Palin needs to be put in a straight jacket and hauled off to an institute! The woman is going off her rocker there is no doubt.
She is coming unhinged due to the release of "Game Change" and all the negative that is coming at her. She deserves every bit of it based on all the crap she has dished out over the past years. What a fucking asshole!
It is very telling that Steve Schmidt in his interview mentioned only Sarah and John Edwards. He did not mention President Obama as being unprepared. That has to drive Sarah crazy, because it is true. He was far more prepared than she and he has done a very good job given all he has had to deal with.
If Sarah thinks she can deflect again off of her, she is not too bright.
I really think it is true her IQ is around 83. I didn't before, but I believe it now. Her social or emotional IQ is closer to 50.
Hi. I just looked up all the links on wikipedia about Sarah actually graduating with a degree. Someone needs to change this, I don't know how. Followed ALL the links claiming she "graduated" and I still can't find any proof that she has a degree in anything. Please someone post link proving this. Thank you.
She lied about everything else. I honestly wouldn't doubt it if never completed her coursework for a degree. Remember Christine O'Donnell lying about her degree from Farleigh Dickinson?
No one can verify she ever earned a degree. I seriously have always thought it was a phony thing that McCain put together when she was named to run w/him as VP. No one in any of the four or five colleges she attended even remember her - teachers, etc. She's not in any of the annuals either. What is new with Sarah Palin? She's a fucking liar!
Spewing Word Salad and Hatred is not a Debate. Furthermore, what is Sarah Palin an expert on? Oh, that's right Baby making, Prostitution Rings, and Faking Pregnancies. Why would President Obama Debate a NOBODY who has EMBARRASSED the Republican Party?
I'll bet the Republicans (to include John McCain - although he'd never admit it) are ready to ship her out of the United States. She's done more harm to the Republican party than any of them...President Obama will be reelected and I can hardly wait to vote for him again!
Wake up Sarah. You are never giving the President of the USA and the most powerful man in the world a blow job. No wonder you are so angry. Go blow Newt, Santorum, 1% Mittens, Beck, Tiffany Grinch, Hannity, Boner, Cock brothers or the entire GOP convention like a groupie in a locker room to try & get in the white house some way some how. You cheapen yourself. How much lower will you go? Can't wait to see. You are the best celebritician politics ever had...a strip teaser. Yeah, every high school has one.
One of her male fans at Rolling Thunder in D.C. said he'd loved to see her wearing thongs and stilettos...hahaha. She's just a political sex object for middle aged Republican men.
Yea, and the vagina piece of art work is outside of Wasilla High School that cost $100,000! They had to cover it up immedidately after it was first displayed because it was referred to as a 'vagina' and the Palins!!!! Remember, the Palins have created quite a reputation for the high school as sad as that is to say!
"I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)"
If President Obama was making an enemy of the week list, he would not start with Sarah Palin. There are a couple of dictators who are seeking nuclear power and they don't debate. Arranging a high level diplomatic meeting would be the more desirable way to go. Then, there are nations who are kind of sort of not really our friends, but we have to maintain good relations with them. They also have nuclear capabilities, harbor some of our really dangerous enemies and we take a very careful line in talking to them. The leadership in the Republican Party promises President Obama one thing, and like Lucy with the Football, full a fast one.
Sarah, you are so far down the list that it wouldn't be worth President Obama's time to even send you a post card. I saw the movie; you barely made it through 90 minutes with O'Bidden. You can't deliver a speech without reading your notes. You couldn't answer simple questions posed by Katie Couric. You haven't learned anything since-- I don't know if you ever learned anything about Paul Revere, The Civil War, The Statute of Liberty or anything else. In fact, Newt's offer to hold Lincoln/Douglas style debates with President Obama is equally ridiculous. PS Sarah, do you know what the Lincoln/Douglas debates were and who won??
Sarah Palin, President Obama would tie you in knots and spit you out verbally. There is no one you'd EVER match him in intelligence. You, Sarah, are a fucking idiot and it has been proven time and time again.
I think she honestly believes the president secretly loves her. She's like a deranged fan who talks about a celebrity like they're on intimate terms. I hope the S.S. is keeping tabs on her. Remember that woman that thought she was Dave Letterman's wife and kept sneaking into his house? Scary stuff.
The reality is NONE of the contenders (pretenders?) would give her their delegates. She seriously thinks she can do NOTHING, spend NOTHING and be given the nomination. Like her followers she lives on Gingrich's moon base
Well $arah Spotlight gets her wish having her face and name plastered everywhere today. Too bad for her it's all negative but I'm guessing her pathologies and narcissism allows that to work for her too.
In the deep dark recess of what stands in for her soul she has to know the jig is now up. What are people new to the 'story' to do? Believe her version or that of the more than 25 people who had to babysit her for ten weeks who are echoing what bloggers, authors and her former associates have revealed about her these past four years. Sucks to be Palin but thanks to GameChange it's gotten even more suck-ier.
You notice there are no legal threats from the Palin group against the people doing the film or statements being made by people involved. Sarah knows she doesn't have a leg to stand on in court. There are too many people that know the 'real' idiot during the campaign! She'd lose big time!
I just want to see her face rubbed in everything evil thing she has said and done throughout the past years. Todd too for that matter!
Say Sarah, seeing as you're so big on giving speeches, how 'bout you deliver Romney's concession speech this November? I'm sure MISTER Obama would LOVE to hear it.
Just fucking disappear already, you inbred backwoods hate-monger.
Here's a thought. Why wasn't Bill Kristol in Game Change? He was not only the first to suggest Palin as VP but as he is the Director of the Project for the New American Century he had sufficient clout to arrange her selection. She was and probably still is a Reagan-like puppet for the PTB and has thus been protected from any really serious media disclosure of her many disastrous escapades.
I always thought it was interesting that a wingnut evangelical ghostwrote her first book, but Jessica Gavora, wife of Jonah Goldberg, wrote her second. At some point I think the neocon crowd thought she might be salvageable. Well that train has done left the station.
She really is a backwards redneck racist hick who gets off on inciting violence and hatred. Pure white hilbilly trash.
McCain and his family are traitors. Their duty should be to the US not to John's legacy.
And where are the others--Mark Salter, Rick Davis, Mark Wallace, etc. Don't they care enough about the soul of this country?? I guess they are just trying to protect their careers which is despicable. I have to give Schmidt and Nicole Wallace credit for admitting their mistakes. Yes they should have done it sooner but at least they have the integrity to do it now unlike the McCains and others.
Sarah is a cancer in this country. I pray that more people have the decency to come forward.
She is like a rabid dog that needs to be put down, and no i do not mean violence.
A prostitution / sex trafficking scandal might just help.
So, confronted with then candidate Obama, knowing he was a superior candidate who McCain couldn't compete with, the campaign knew they "needed something bold" to win, some big, dramatic move. If Palin truly wasn't vetted, then it was an unforgivable gamble on the only pretty face who was anti-abortion. If she was vetted, if they knew she was ignorant, demanding, jealous, dishonest, immoral and had psychological problems, then they figured a win for McCain would justify their choice. The end would justify the means.
After the loss, after McCain's concession speech, it was easy for McCain's people to shut Palin up by pulling the plug on the mic and turning off the lights. Too bad we don't have a way to do that.
All of them went home, Schmidt and Wallace wrestled with their consciences, at least had the courage to step forward and speak up and their lives went on. Not life for everyone though - some people died as a result of Sarah Palin's voice. People lost loved ones and others were maimed because of Sarah Palin's voice. Sarah doesn't care - if more lives were lost tomorrow because of her vile rhetoric, she wouldn't care.
The Republican party owes those victims and the victims' families for what Sarah did. The Republican party owes the rest of us for the damage that's still being done to our country by that woman and the copy-cats who are trying to out-do her. The GOP needs to step up, clean up their mess and carry out the trash they left us with.
How much do you want to bet that whomever gets the Republican nomination will ignore the lesson in Game Change and pick a Right Wing religious hater as a running mate. . .you know, to "balance" the ticket.
Palin was always about the money. To get to that money, she was willing to lie, cheat and prostitute herself for the Tea Baggers and the Republican Party. Little did they know that she gave a voice to the racist, delusional, angry fringe members of the party who have now come out and taken over the GOP. The GOP is dead as a party. And if it wants to take it's party back, I think it knows as Schmidt does, that it has to expose Sarah Palin. They built Frankenstein, and now they must take her down.
ReplyDeleteIf it is true that the media protected her, then it is also true that those on high (except Fox news) have given the ok to destroy her now. Good riddance. I just hope Babygate comes out and puts the final nail on her political coffin.
Interesting...I wonder if taking Rush and Glenn Beck down are also part of the plan. If they are to redefine and reinvent the party, they must take out all the hatemongerers...
DeleteIn my opinion, Sarah Palin is treasonous. She thinks it's God plan for her to spread hate, racism, and destruction. What a waste of good Alaskan air.
ReplyDeleteThis should be a warning to all of us that when a politician says they are God's Plan, it's time to pull the plug.
DeleteGame Change certainly showed us that.
Ed Schultz And Guest Blame Sarah Palin’s ‘Manifest Unintelligence’ For ‘Bigoted Attacks’ On Obama
ReplyDeleteWith the Southern primaries coming up tomorrow in Alabama and Mississippi came the news from Public Policy Polling that a plurality of Republican voters there think President Obama is Muslim. This news greatly concerned Ed Schultz tonight, though in a larger national lens, and he asked guest Michael Eric Dyson whether the HBO film Game Change proved that Sarah Palin was the originator of much of the hate.
“Is Sarah Palin at the root of this issue, and the McCain campaign?” Schultz asked, noting that, in watching the film this weekend, he got the sense that “that’s where it started.” “She is one of the major facilitators of this,” Dyson replied, calling her a “woman of manifest unintelligence with no historical perspective” whose rise to fame came on the back of “ceaseless assaults on the President’s morality” that make him appear to many as “the ultimate other.”
He praised Sen. McCain, however, for taking a different route, but nonetheless did see a correlation between his choice of Palin for running mate and the smearing. Asked whether “the bigoted attacks will get worse,” Dyson was optimistic, instead argument that rather than more hate, there would be a rise of “Nixon’s silent majority” of decent people who would “register their most eloquent comments” at the voting booth. While the optimism that not all Americans buy into the “othering” rhetoric that comes from some on the right, this segment lands wide of the mark for myriad reasons. For one, the impulses and ugly undertones to some of the language used on the right is not at all new, nor is it a unique invention of Sarah Palin’s.
Sarah Palin didn’t invent the “Southern Strategy;” with the exception of language that, liberally interpreted, could have served to attracted fringe voters, she wasn’t out there calling President Obama as Muslim or, as Newt Gingrich was actually doing a “Kenyan anti-colonialist.” Unlike Donald Trump, Sarah Palin’s “people in Hawaii” never claimed to find “incredible things.” Palin is worthy of many of the complaints against her and often makes comments or uses language that plays into a narrative of her as a, to use Dyson’s language, manifestly unintelligent woman, but to hoist upon her shoulders the burden of all Republican bigotry lets too many guiltier people get off the hook.
The segment via MSNBC below:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ed-schultz-and-guest-blame-sarah-palins-manifest-unintelligence-for-bigoted-attacks-on-obama/
Ed's on fire today!!
DeleteAlong with the segment you've posted, he also has segment with the Widow of Harvard Professor Bell, Janet Dewart Ball on with regard to the release of the video of young Barack Obama.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755822/vp/46712767#46712767
$arah Palin didn’t invent the “Southern Strategy,” but she is apart of it. That bitch has helped moved this country backwards. She made "open" racism popular, again.
DeleteYou make very good points. The Southern Strategy began after the civil rights and voting rights acts were passed in the mid-60s. By '68, the Silent Majority had congealed. Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, the slow but steady transformation of the South to the racist Republicans -- Sarah Palin was just the latest iteration of this hatefulness, this time in heels.
DeleteThe "hate" issue without a doubt stated with Palin. Starting with the campaign, and continuing even to today, whenever someone said or did something Palin didn't like she would perceive it as a snub or a scorn against her. This is particularly the case when they said something that was true and she couldn't think of an appropriate response. In a case such as with Couric, she would always accuse that person as being a "hater" or it was because of "hate". The same type of behavior is frequently exhibited at C4P as though they are copying her behavior. I almost think they use the word "hate" in a religious connotation as a substitute of the word "evil".
DeleteShultz also has a segment with Richard Wolffe, who I like as he doesn't hold back, talking about Game Change.
DeleteHis show tonight is packed full of some good segments.
Harvard Professor Bell's Widow is on speaking out against the attacks of the stunned & stupid Hannity et al.
I saw that. Very good analysis.
DeleteThe hate was always there. Palin just slapped lipstick on it and trotted it out in a sexy package in fuck me pumps. She put pretty to the ugliness and made it a-ok to be a racist, bigoted, moron. Having the usual fat, old, white farts out there didn't give the hate enough juice and fuel to become mainstream GOP. Having a "sexy" spokesperson did. She didn't start it, she gave it legs, ass, and makeup.
DeleteTHE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT YOU BITCH. CAN YOU HEAR THEM ?
ReplyDeleteThe world also thinks the US is crazy to have let this one loose.
DeleteHard to believe what this women thinks about other women - maybe it's "I'm a miserable .... so you should be the same"
Wow. AMAZING interview. Schmidt is obviously concerned for his country, contrite, and honest. Three things Sarah is NOT.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right, Gryph. That last minute and a half is quite a bombshell.
I can think of no other time in American history that the leader of a Presidential campaign has called a member of his ticket unfit to lead within three years of an election. Huge, huge, huge. And Sarah will never, never, never get it.
Steve Schmidt is RIGHT, Sarah. Listen and weep.
Look: Ottoline got a comment on Rachel Maddow's blog: re the 3-24-08 photo and Shayley's book. Please go vote her up: maybe Rachel will decide to take this on.
ReplyDeleteNicole Wallace will be on Rachel Maddow tonight.
That link just brought me back here. Try this to get to the comment on Rachel's blog: http://on.msnbc.com/wqvGbO
DeleteIf it was on the post "Why the former half-term governor matters" on Maddow's blog, Ottoline's comment it is now gone. Totally stinks!
DeleteAnon - The comment is still there. Comments have gone to 2 pages and it is on page 2.
DeleteI couldn't get the site to open page two of the comments. Any suggestions?
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Jesse, were you referring to the "overweight date" website commercial at the end of the Mediaite clip when you recommended that we should watch it to the very end to see? That was actually pretty cute.
ReplyDeleteIn any event, that was a very good interview with Steve Schmidt.
You crack me up Lynne :) At first I thought it was parody. Yes, quite the catchy jingle they have there.
DeleteMeanwhile, Sarah continues to bash Pres. Obama on FOX News, hoping to become Newt's running mate.
ReplyDeleteThey wouldn't have a chance!!!
DeleteLike the pasty faced, fat white guy and ignorant sex kitten ticket was so successful last time....
DeleteJust as telling is the question from Andrea Mitchell towards the end of the clip. She asked if Palin was qualified to be President today, since Sarah wants to play a part in a brokered convention.
ReplyDeleteSchmidt said that Palin is no more qualified today than she was four years ago. She had the chance over the last four years to learn something, and she chose not to. We can discuss whether Sarah can learn and chooses not to or if she is lazy.
I think that there is a third choice.I think that Sarah is unable to learn. She has been covering up her learning disabilities for years. We have someone in our family who could be her twin. He has ADDH and cannot learn in traditional education. He cannot read a book and process the information. But, he has incredible people skills and he can charm people into thinking that he is smarter than he really is. He is a master of telling people what they want to hear and what makes them feel good. He has not held a job in years.
In the movie, Sarah wrote everything down on note cards as if she was hearing those history lessons for the firs time. (That does not speak well of her Alaska or university education). Schmidt, in the movie, noted that Palin wrote things down but couldn't remember anything. We saw Palin exit the lecture about Paul Revere and she managed to mix up that simple story. Sarah cannot learn. She make have been able to fool people in Alaska and tell them what they wanted to hear, but she couldn't fool Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt or anyone else who had to interact with her at a serious level. What is sad is that Sarah will not recognize her problem. Anything that happened to her was the fault of other people.
Since she's incapable of learning like you said, I wonder if she was intimidated by Couric and Gibson. I'm wondering if at anytime during her interview with those two she made that face that Gryphen was referring to.
DeleteOn the other hand, she can memorize (although it's obvious she doesn't understand, nor care to). Her debate with Sen. Biden was a prime example. When she was thrown a question to which she hadn't memorized an answer, she chose to "redirect" (or as the film said, "pivot" and said she'd rather talk about such and so. It drove me crazy that Gwen Ifill let her get away with it.
DeleteReagan was a good memorizer too. Not too sure how much he, too, actually understood what he was saying.....
This made me recall that in October 2008, there was a well-attended rally held in downtown Anchorage (Alaskans for Truth) that protested Sarah's lack of accountability. One of the handmade posters read "Cram, baby, cram!" So apt.
DeleteI need to say that NOT ALL OF US PEOPLE IN ALASKA were fooled by her! I did not vote for her, because I heard her speak with both Tony Knowles and John Halcro at an event. All I could think was "this woman is dumber than a box of rocks." When I listened to all of them, I felt John Halcro was the most qualified because he knew the issues and he understood them and he suggested solutions. My sense of Tony Knowles--and I really like Tony Knowles--was that he only talked about his past record, but didn't offer anything of what he would do now. He had been governor twice and I don't think he was interested to be governor again. He was qualified and so was John Halcro, but it was very clear to me that Sarah Palin was not at all qualified to be governor of Alaska. As a result, I did not vote for her.
DeleteFor that same reason, I was very disappointed that she accepted the nomination for vice president. If she wasn't qualified to be governor, she absolutely was not qualified to be vice president or the possibility of being president if it became necessary. From my perspective and my own personal experience in life as I am a senior citizen now, she is extremely immature and its that immaturity that that is her downfall. She is too lazy to do the work necessary to become qualified. A sure sign of immaturity and lack of self-discipline. She's not willing to pay her dues and work for it.
When she returned to Alaska after McCain lost the campaign, I thought I would give her the benefit of the doubt such as if she returned to Alaska, put her nose to grind stone and became the best damn governor she could, and read and became educated on the national and international issues, I could have forgave her. But she didn't! She continues to this day to be self-centered, egotistical, and remains extremely immature and not qualified to be dog catcher.
She was popular with the men who voted her into governor, but they didn't use their heads; they used their appendage that absolutely has no intelligence!
Amy, you are so right. It's hard for good, honest people to be prohibitive, but once we see evil we go after it without ceasing.
DeletePeople like Colin Powell came forward before the election. People thought again about voting for the McCain Palin ticket. People I knew who got sucked into her lies refusing to check out facts came to see what a liar polariizing person she is.
DeleteI truly believe more people will come forward who have national credibility.
Her latest FB rant demonstrates she is a sick person. She would love people to believe the POTUS has not discussed nor noticed major problems. She is a destructive force and plain crazy bitch. She is escalating. She is delusional she will be asked to run for POTUS.
Why did it take him so long to see it, with his political operative experience and all? And Nicolle Wallace, crying because she couldn't vote for the ticket. Um-hmm.
DeleteFilming Julianne Moore from arty angles is great, but it just begins to hint at Palin's black hole.
I cottoned onto reality as Palin delivered her nasty RNC speech. Confirmation of the crap content was easy to come by.
During the VP debate with Biden, Palin's failure to provide answers was only part of the story. Her bland lack of affect when Biden emotionally noted the death of his wife and child, and serious injury of another child, made it evident--she was an emotional cipher, not a real person. There was more lacking there than intelligence.
Bloggers everywhere have offered opinions about narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar disorder and/or sexual abuse, etc. I wonder about an organic affliction, seizure disorder NOS, if the descriptions of eyes rolling upward and a catatonic state really occurred, but that's not my field.
I'm sincerely sorry if this miserable woman has not received appropriate medical intervention. But I'm everlastingly glad that she will never be anything more than a Fox news pimple on the ass of politics.
Sarah is not smart, but she is an excellent mimic. She can catch on to whatever another person wants to get from her in mere seconds. She is able to fit her responses to what the other person wants, hence is able to capture people off guard. My sister can do this and unless you know her, she can buffalo anyone by her personality. The second she is called on it, she does what Palin does... shut down, turn off, or go stony cold. I see so much of my sister in Palin, and other inhuman people like her.
DeleteHi Sarah, Welcome Back!
ReplyDeleteQuick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
I'm a huge fan of this site and come here every day. I think Palin is terrible. I don't think she's Trig's mother.
DeleteBut I can't stand your posts. You sound so self-serving, like you are saying "Hey, look at me! Look at me! Isn't it wonderful that I'm so dedicated to this cause?" every time you do this.
I get it. You want to keep the question alive. Why in the world do you think your post does that?
Can you at least just change it to a straight forward, "Hi, Sarah. Where's Trig's birth certificate?" and stop the "too cute" stuff?
It's not your question so much as the cute stuff with it. And your apparent swell-headedness that thinks that posting that every day is doing something for the cause.
Jesse and a whole lot of other people are doing the hard work keeping the pressure on about the birth certificate.
You aren't impressing anyone by doing that post every day. Well, you're not impressing me anyway. And by the other comments to you post, that's true of others of us who are definitely not trolls.
Except you seem to be very impressed with yourself for doing it.
So go ahead. Keep doing it. Just please cut the cute stuff. It lessens your cause.
YOU ARE TOO FUNNY!! yOU ARE MY FAVE. i LOVE IT WHEN YOU ASK THIS QUESTION.
DeleteJayKen....don't let the Palin paid trolls get to ya'! Apparently your question about Trig's BC is getting on Beefy's and Baldy's nerve...keep it up and I'll join you in "your cause"!
DeleteHi Sarah, Welcome Back!
Quick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
Oh and for you Beefy....
Why Did You Name One of Your Children After Your Daddies Prostitute?
I think the repetitive question is meant to drive Sarah Palin a bit crazy....not you. We all know that Sarah is reading this blog every day. I personally love the questions and truly hope that Sarah hates it as much as you do.
DeleteI'm impressed.
DeleteHi Sarah, Welcome Back!
DeleteQuick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
H/T to JayKenKnotStirred
I like the question. It keeps Sarah's people on edge. One day, somehow the truth will come out. Even if it means I have to wait for Piper to grow up and write her own mommie dearest book. I am putting off dying just for that!
DeleteI like it. Keep it going!!
DeleteAnother anonymous vote for reminding everyone what it is all about. Thanks and keep it up! The lies and scams of Sarah Palin. Where is that birth certificate?
DeleteThe trolls of Sarah Palin? STFU!
Don't stop asking that question of Trig's birth certificate till she shows it, which we all know ain't happening.
DeleteYou go girl. That questions needs to be asked every day!
I don't mind the repeated question at all. And someone else (or same person) has now started repeatedly asking Bristol why she's named her baby after her dad's prostitute. Same schtick. It's somewhat amusing because it's like needling her when she's reading this blog (which by all accounts she is.)
DeleteJayken, do not stop!
DeleteI also like it and don't find anything in the post that is "too cute".
DeleteThis questions needs to be asked until Palin answers it.
DeleteShe doesn't, because she can't. She didn't physically birth the lovely boy known as Trig Palin.
Almost everyone knows the Wild Ride--as told by Sarah Palin in her own words--is absolute BS.
What do you do when your water breaks? What do you do if you have strong contractions--not just Braxton-Hicks--late in your pregnancy?
Especially, if you are carrying a special needs child and you are deep into a high-risk pregnancy because of your age, a grand-multipara, with previous spontaneous abortions?
Do you bypass world-class medical facilities with NICUs 5 minutes away (like Baylor U) and fly 4 hours to Seattle, where you bypass several state-of-the-art hospitals with NICUs, sit calmly during a two-hour lay-over, fly to Anchorage and ignore the big hospital there, and drive to Mat-Su Regional, a tiny hospital that does not even allow twin births, where you have your premature Downs baby delivered by a family practice physician?
Later, realizing the Mat-Su boo-boo has been discovered, you begin to give speeches about Trig being born in Anchorage. Of course, all mothers forget where their children have been born.
Has there ever been a politician in recent history--even with the likes of George Wallace and his wife, Lyndon LaRouche, Ross Perot--who has tried to pull off a more preposterous scam?
Yes, maybe, but they've all been more plausible than this stupid bitch. And damn her for being a woman, with the harm she has done to our brand and her cursedly cheap attempt to capitalize on journalists' fear of playing the "birth card."
So more power to Jayken. We need to keep demanding the birth certificate. Take a deep honest breath and ask why Palin has not provided it.
I like the mantra. No, I don't think JayKen
Deleteis playing look at me. It's more like the water torture drip, drip, drip...it's gonna send her over the edge one day. Please continue Mr./Ms. KnotStirred. (Thanks for the
apostrophe also.)
Sven
I Twitter JayKen's comments twice a day to Sarah's twitter account, as well as RAM, and Todd. Just for shits and giggles
DeleteI am so tired of people making excuses for her and saying things like"well she was put in a tough position"... (Mika tries that in this clip) Of course she was put in a tough position, and she could not handle it, so therefore she is not qualified to be a leader of any sort. That is what happens when you are a leader, you get put in tough situations and you rise to the occasion. She did not rise to the occasion, she sunk.
ReplyDeleteAlso she was not "put" into that position by anyone other than herself. It's not like she couldn't have said no.
DeleteThey didn't put a gun to $arah's head to accept being McCain's running mate. She didn't even blink, she jumped at the chance. She chose own her destiny. She just doesn't accept accountability for her decisions.
DeleteSheesh! If Palin (and Mika) thought she had it tough, what did she think Hillary Clinton was weathering?! Hillary is a proverbial warhorse compared to the pageant pony Palin.
DeleteM from MD
Hi Sarah, Welcome Back!
DeleteQuick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
Hi Sarah, Welcome Back!
Quick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
Hi Sarah, Welcome Back!
Quick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
Hi Sarah, Welcome Back!
Quick question, Where's Trig's Birth Certificate?
I LOVE it, JayKenKnotstirred!! Keep it coming!! :)
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Thank you! Well said. I really hate people coming to her defense like that. "oh, it was just the stress." If anyone thinks that a debate or an interview or a hand-held campaign is hard, wait until they are president. I don't think anyone knows or has any idea of how hard that job is. She was all about the title and attention, not the actual job.
Delete"failed... vet", "uninterested in preparing"
ReplyDeleteSchmidt lets it all out EXCEPT the big one, "mentally unstable". And the interviewers are no better. Gosh, how could you let this happen, Schmidt? Well, gosh, golly, gee wilikers. It happened because the news media sucked up to the candidates instead of doing their job.
While I respect Schmidt for being so honest and accepting his responsibility for what has happened, according to his interviews today, HE DID VOTE FOR HER although he states he "voted for McCain" and then goes on to laud McCain.
DeleteOk, that part is fine except VOTING FOR MCCAIN IS VOTING THAT IF MC CAIN DIES, THIS PERSON HE KNOWS AND HAS ALREADY REGRETTED BRINGING TO THE TABLE WOULD BE PRESIDENT.
I think Schmidt NOW has a fuller understanding of how disasterous that would have been BUT EVEN NOW he hides behind "voting for McCain" instead of being up front about the fact that as much as he knew, he still cast a vote that COULD have placed Palin as president.
He could have just NOT voted !
Still, he should be respected for confronting himself on his error. NOT an easy thing to do and something Palin has no concept of.
While I also think Palin may have real learning disabilities, let us not forget that she SIMPLY DOES NOT THINK KNOWING "STUFF" IS IMPORTANT ! Goes back to her debate with Knowles and Halcro. Her GOAL is the ultimate narcissistic supply i.e. attention and being the MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE WORLD and she simply feels SOOOO ENTITLED to that position because of her narcissism that she does not have to "do" anything to get there.
It is hard to learn anything if you inherently have no interest it the subject. Palin is simply NOT interested in ANYTHING except herself.
Hard to wrap your mind around unless you have literally EXPERIENCED a real maliginant narcissist. Kinda like buddhism/taoism. No matter how much you intellectually understand what you read, until you have literally experienced satori, you simply to not know--it must be experienced for full realization.
Sarah Palin is a very mentally unstable person no matter what other disabilities she may have or which her instability may resemble.
So was Adolf Hitler.
DeleteI saw that, great. The pitiful thing is even now on tv, McCain denies everything. This will be his legacy.
ReplyDeleteMcCain has no choice now but to support her whether he really believes it or not. It is all on him that he put her next in line to be President and he knows it. That will be his legacy as it should be.
DeleteAll aboard the sinking ship Palin. Fame, fortune,shame,exposure, ruin, testifying under oath, perhaps jailtime.
DeleteWhere will the voyage end? Just as in the past, it never ends happily.
For John McCain it ends in the shame of repeating that she was qualified and he is humbled at her feet.
If it was true that he thought Palin would turn on him if he attempted to rein her in during the campaign, imagine what he's thinking now that Palin has achieved a powerful Teaparty following (small, but noisy, just like her).
DeletePalinbots are VICIOUS and they wouldn't hesitate to stalk McCain and send him death threats or threaten Cindy and Meghan if he said what he truly thinks of Palin now.
He may be demented and a bit senile, but he's not entirely stupid. Shame on him though for yielding to his ambition to "win at all costs".
Wow, he holds nothing back. I saw Wallace on a show yesterday and she also said the portrayal of events was accurate. What say you now trolls? Two high level staffers in that campaign confirm it was an accurate portrayal of events.
ReplyDeleteMy honey and I watched it last night and he really doesn't give much thought to Palin. His response was hilarious as he kept shouting out loud to tv "shit, she's a fucking IDIOT!!!"
Now he understands why I was so adamant she be defeated in 2008.
It would have been interesting had Joe been there. I'm sure he would have whined about how much abuse poor Sarah had to endure. Great interview though.
ReplyDeleteI suspect Steve Schmidt wouldn't have been booked to appear, had Joe been there.
DeleteAlthough it would have been interesting to hear Joe try to interrupt or talk over Steve, because from what I've seen, Steve Schmidt can hold his own even with interrupters like Chris Matthews.
Game change double whammy tonight on MSNBC. Nicole on Rachel. Steve on Lawrence. Hahaha. You know who is watching im sure.
ReplyDeleteI hope she says something wrong and the Feds come after her. I think they have been watching her all along hoping she would quit her hate talk. She better not push it because she could cause someone to get hurt or worse. She may decide that if she goes down, she will take those she hates with her. It is scary how she puts ideas in her followers heads. She is dangerous.
ReplyDeleteWhy haven't they gone after her. That is my question. Her comments go beyond "free speech" to blatant "HATE SPEECH."
DeleteI guess we could all send complaints to the FBI, secret service and anyone else we can think of.
We CERTAINLY should send Shailey's book to the Department of Justice and the FBI and say YOU BETTER INVESTIGATE THIS!
She's crawling out from under her rock, Schmidt. From her facebook post
ReplyDeleteBut considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.
So, Schmidt, ready to pony up with the real problem with Sarah Palin? That she's mentally unstable. You can do it Schmidt.
A mean snarly little junior high schooler frozen in time. She's been outed as the fool and ignoramus she is and all the ammunition she has is to double down on her lies and yell louder. Get off the playground Sara, you are done and now you are only embarrassing yourself and your family. For the love of God, can someone in that family put a zipper on her mouth and shut her in the closet for a while?
DeleteInteresting the trolls are mostly absent. Did Sara call them off, or are the Palin girls surrounding mommy with attention and don't have time to write?
Hint - it's not going to stop the tsunami you created and BTW, that tsunami isn't a country you need to read up on to look more presidential
That's PRESIDENT Obama to you, snarly lady from Wasilla.
DeleteYes, he's also a candidate, but he is first and foremost your President, and the Commander in Chief of our armed forces.
Give him the respect that he's due -- that anyone in the office received from you before he was elected over the inadequate GOP ticket of 2008.
The gall of this ugly spirited woman. She has no right to address the sitting President of the United States this way. She is simply riling up her backwoods bigots in order to incite violence and hate. Please MSM, PLEASE dig into Shailey's book and get Todd and Sarah out of the public eye.
DeleteUH oh anonymous lacking in knowledge one, President Obama is NOT the one who bankrupt our country. Facts, darling, facts. Do you even know them? Obviously not.
Deleteawesome... good conversation to start up. mighty thank you to schmidt
ReplyDeleteI applaud Schmidt's retroactive honesty. But the fact that his ambition trumped his intellect (a quality he shares with Wa$chilla DeVile) during the 2008 campaign still troubles me. According to all accounts Nicole Wallace saw past the paylump facade much sooner. I wonder why Schmidt didn't.
ReplyDeleteDid you see Game Change? Wallace was working much more closely with Palin.
DeleteI think it is partly because Wallace is a woman that she instantly saw through Sarah.
DeleteSarah actually is what many men accuse more successful women like Wallace of being. Wallace probably saw through the facade within 15 minutes of being face to face. It's like gaydar but more accurate.
I'm in Alaska and saw through Palin when she ran for governor. She was inept at that time and because our state is 'red', she won! She couldn't debate and that should have gotten voters attention, but it obviously didn't. We STILL have horrible Republican government in our state...Parnell is the worst - might compete w/Palin when he is finished as to being 'Alaska's worst govenor'! Alaska has lots of money and is one fucked up government!
DeleteWish I could get it to play...
ReplyDeleteomomma:
DeleteYou can watch directly from MSNBC site (30 sec advert at beginning)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc_tv-morning_joe/
I was terrified on election day 2008 that McCain would win (agree with Schmidt). I think I would have died from anxiety if Palin were now VP.
It's easy to blame Wallace/Schmidt now, but they were incredibly busy. And I think Bill Kristol (National Review) had planted the seed of Palin as VP in 2007. So McCain was being reckless, and this is what he bequeathed to the country.
Omomma, I have the same problem (running google chrome), I usually click the upper right corner and the link opens in a new window to the mediaite site's front page, the recent clips are usually easy to find.
DeleteDon't know if it works on other browsers, but I hope it helps.
You have to see Wallace on Maddow tonight!
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable!!!
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Palin eviscerated the Professor with President Obama in the video that's supposed to show them as radicals. She called the celebrated Professor a "racist"!
The Ed show had the Prof.'s widow on his show and she couldn't have been more lovely as she spoke of her husband. Palin was shamed in TV tonight!
You all have to see these two shows!
The Professor's widow was a truly lovely and well spoken person. I feel for her having to endure such attacks on her husband's character so soon after his death.
DeleteThe new strategy as we come into the election cycle - every time this attack dog opens her mouth they come right back and she better get used to it because the gloves are off at the DNC and lookie here - the MSM is going along and giving them air time. She's toast and doesn't even know it.
DeleteWhere are the trolls? Mass depression? Have they gone somewhere to try to beam up to the rapture?
Totally agree. Palin, unfortunately, did not know the person she was talking about. She was given her talking points by Fox. Same as in the 2008 campaign. She had no clue who Bill Ayers was either but it did not stop her from her fire breathing attacks. She is nothing more than a FOOL. A fool speaks with a multitude of words.
DeleteBoth these shows are must sees. Maddow's backdrop said "I can't believe '08 The Whole Thing", and Nicholle was brutally honest.
DeleteThe Ed Show went further with Game Change. He said Schmidt should have went to McCain and deep six Palin. Richard Wolfe went even further.
The Professors widow held herself with much dignity and grace. I was impressed with how she corrects all the smears Fox, Rush, Palin, Breitbart, etc have put forward about her husband and Our President. She has every right to honor her husband's good works.
I love Professor Bell's wife. Shame on Sarah...she's fucking EVIL to the core..
DeleteHere's the video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/46712767#46712767
Nicole Wallace said pretty much the same thing on Rachel's show tonight. Wallace admits that every now and then they politicians have to make a bold choice, but she regretted their failure to vet Palin. Nicole knows that Sarah was unfit to be President of the United States. Schmidt points out that since Sarah hasn't learned anything in the last four years, she is still unqualified.
ReplyDeleteWho is more believable? Wallace and Schmidt speak in complete sentences and convey complete thoughts. Even when Sarah has the questions and answers in advance, she still sounds frenzied when she appears on Fox. When Sarah says that our first African American president wants to go back to a period before the Civil War, when he would be a slave, Sarah continues to prove Steve Schmidt's ocmment that Sarah cannot learn anything.
Schmidt, McCain et al did a grave disservice to our country. At least Schmidt and Wallace are sharing at least part of the truth.
ReplyDeleteSarah, may you spend your days poor and alone in Wasilla, spurned by your family and your neighbors. Sure you have money now, but what will happen when it runs out?
About f'n time someone spells it out clearly and who better than Schmidt - how ya gonna refudiate that Sarah? But Mika, my God, what a tool she is! She sighs "wow, so honest" If only the media had been honest during the campaign and beyond instead of sucking up to Sarah to win ratings instead of hammering the point home of how unqualified she was to be a heartbeat away from being President!
ReplyDeleteWow, so many riches of interviews! Really looking forward to them.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom line for me is that our country needs serious campaign and election reforms.
ReplyDeleteUnstable candidates, Diebold voting fraud and unlimited money from SuperPacs is just an unacceptable way to choose our leaders.
Schmidt chose his words carefully, but I'm glad to see him say in so many words "the end does not justify the means".
He could have been much more damning, for example Palin is a chronic and shameless liar, and is emotionally unstable. But he pulled his punches. I think Frank Bailey pulled his punches too. If they were to tell the WHOLE TRUTH people would say "why did you enable her insanity"?
I think SP very cleverly makes sure all her aids get their hands dirty, so they are ashamed of the part they played in propping her up, and she has something she could shame or blackmail them with.
Really, it may be a decade or two before the kids grow up and can step away from her entanglements and the people now living feel the hand of mortality on their shoulder and have nothing to lose by telling all.
The story of Quittypants has many volumes yet to be written. It won't be a pretty story, but may serve as instruction to future generations.
It's understandable that they couch their comments in political-speak.
DeleteFor one thing, they aren't psychiatrists nor have they had Palin seen by a psychiatrist -- it's not for them to say she's emotionally unstable or has a disorder.
For another thing, if they're already getting hacked, getting death threats or are suffering blowback from Palinbots, it might get a lot worse if they tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth (Babygate, for instance).
Some Palinbot might "act out" like Jared Loughner did with Gabby Giffords.
What strikes me is, if you didn't know better listening to the first part of the interview, you'd think he's talking about someone who is dead.
ReplyDeleteWhich in effect she is, politically speaking.
So what do we learn from this?
ReplyDeleteThat we need to vet the campaign staffs of the candidates -- their backgrounds, training, past affiliations. Who are the puppet masters?
The Palin decision was many things,but it was mostly a combination of hubris and human error.
Will anyone learn from this lesson?
I hope the press thoroughly reports on whoever is picked as vice president by whoever is nominated by the Republicans. If they think they need a woman on the ticket to counteract Limbaugh, etc., watch out!
There aren't that many decent Republican women around.
There are even fewer decent GOP men these days.
DeleteSchmidt comes very close to coming totally clean. However, I disagree with his false equivalency between Palin and John Edwards. He claims that both were unprepared for office.
ReplyDeleteBullshit.
Edwards was prepared to be president. He had the experience, he had the skill, he had the ability, he had the knowledge, but he was also a goddamned liar and a crook. Palin was simply too fucking stupid and emotionally immature. Edwards didn’t lack ability, he lacked judgement. Palin lacks judgement AND temperament, maturity, and knowledge. Edwards could have handled the presidency. Palin could not, under ANY circumstances. EVER. Both would have been impeached, but for very different reasons.
BIG difference.
However, I think Schmidt’s admonition to the GOP to exclude Palin from ANY decision making input at all is sound advice. He pulled no punches in assessing her intellectual sloth and indifference at her stunningly expansive ignorance once it was exposed. I think that far too many people - Kristol, Schmidt, Wallace, Davis, McCain, et al. - simply assumed that since she was a popular governor that there was nothing they needed to concern themselves with in her background. They all saw what they wanted to see. NOBODY grilled her for even a nanosecond before she was picked. A cursory two minute conversation on world affairs or U.S. History would have scuttled her from the start.
Palin should serve as an object lesson in how NOT to pick mayors, governors, and presidential candidates. ANY presidential candidate should assume that their pick is a potential Palin and go about doing the research to prove that he/she is not a vindictive, petty, lying imbecile.
Well Said. I think Schmidt brought in Edwards was to try and balance the big equation but
Deleteyou're spot on - Edwards had all the qualifications except honesty and personal integrity. Kind of like Nixon.
BINGO!!!!! Just watched the first minute or two of this, and he said it - "a vetting process based on secrecy, that was compartmentalized".
ReplyDeleteHe is trying to tell us that there were people and/or forces at work pushing this nomination through, and that his right hand did not know what this mysterious, and probably far more powerful, left hand, was doing!!!!
He is too afraid to actually come out and imply or even claim that others were truly responsible for the Sarah Palin pick! In this I can't judge him, for these background people are likely extremely scary.
I firmly believe that in spite of the Dick Cheney comment about her being a bad choice, the NeoCon/Big Oil alliance was likely the responsible group. They identified her long before 2008.
I bet some of the pressure she felt during the campaign came from her contacts within that realm. (Why in hell did this woman have 2 Blackberries again, and why, besides her concerns about her ethics problems and her personal Trig problems, was she so obsessed with protecting her email? They even put that in the Game Change script, as we all know.)
I think her inexplicable, unbelievable confidence came from more than her quasi-religious beliefs. I think it's because someone told her long ago they hoped to put her in that position. I think they probably were naive and thought she'd know that she would need to prepare herself, however - how wrongly they judged her priorities and intelligence!
Secrecy, compartmentalized...he's trying to tell us the whole truth.
What now? This movie has come and gone. Will it change anything? Will SP still maintain her political clout?
ReplyDeleteWas surprised that she wasn't on Fox News tonight. She may have been too humiliated to make an appearance, or Sean and Greta were too embarrassed for her.
Last week, she was lambasting the Dem party for not 'vetting' President Obama. It's total hypocrisy for her to claim that. Not only was she not intelligent and incurious, and did not know or care that she had too many limitations. the story of Game Change shows people how deceptive she was. Her saying she was exonerated from the Troopergate inquiry, not telling them about Bristol's pregnancy, Todd's AIP history. The campaign were constantly trying to plug the dike holes that she 'forgot' to tell them about up front.
She had no integrity and her character is out in the open now. Wonder how her Fox friends are going to handle this hot potato.
What now? This movie has come and gone. Will it change anything?
DeleteI feel it will make a difference. Maybe not that fast or dramatic, but it opens doors and changes perceptions. Her legs are cut off, it will be more difficult for her and those that feed her material. Everyone knows her moves now and she can "surprise" and go rogue but not effectively. Her game is changed significantly.
OMG - check out Palin's latest FB post. Someone really needs to take this idiot down now!!!
ReplyDeleteLet’s Talk About the Real Issues, Mr. President
by Sarah Palin on Monday, March 12, 2012 at 6:41pm ·
The far Left continues to believe American voters are not smart enough to grasp the diversionary tactics it employs to distract us from the issues our President just doesn’t want to talk about – issues that affect us all every day and must be addressed.
Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)
Just off the top of my head, a few of these concerning issues include: a debt crisis that has us hurdling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.
I’m sure I missed a few things, but the list is just for starters. Along with millions of others, I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime; and I’m sure any of the four patriots currently running for the GOP nomination would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s politics. The President will dismiss all of these problems by saying, “Well, uh, ‘change isn’t easy.’” But considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.
This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.
They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro helps them out in this piece. Please read it all.
- Sarah Palin
Sara better be careful what she asks for. From what I gather she's offering to debate the President of the USA? I would love that - have her throw her snarly little attack at him and watch with glee as he undresses her in public once and for all. She's also inserting herself into the primary in a defacto way - so is she now running for office? Is that what's she's saying?
DeleteAnd the more she yaps the more information is going to come forward on her. Watch for yet another bitch slap coming from the DNC AND the GOP. She's out of control now and needs to be shut down. She's becoming an embarrassment to everyone.
And it's still all about her isn't it?
DeleteHow about debating Todd Palin's Prostitution Ring and the influence on your short time as Governor. How about debating the Law Enforcement FAVORS gained by you for TRACK PALIN'S Felonies, Willow Palin's Felony Vandallisms, and Bristol Palin's ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, while Drinking Alcohol and using OXYCONTIN under age and without a Prescription?
DeleteHow about debating Dylan Kolvig's, Track's, and Bristol's involvement in the Yacht Fire with no arrests? Maybe this time around the Police and Press can do their job, IDIOT.
LOL ALSO TOO, she actually gives an invitation to the President to discuss issues with her ?
DeleteBWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! BWHAHAHAHA! WHY on earth Sarah would ANYONE of ANY intelligence discuss any issue of importance with you.
Get off your damn Facebook page you teenager. You are such a frigging idiot!
FUCK Sarah Palin and her "ordinary Americans."
DeleteSarah, YOU are not an ordinary American but most of the country is. And 90% of the country cannot stand you. Do you hear that finally you idiot? When will you ever shut up.
I swear, NOTHING will shut this woman up. I have to blame the media. Plus, we need to blame ourselves for continuing to talk about her. It is hard not to but it is time to do more.
We need to report her and her husband to every single crime investigating organization that we can. Forget the APD. It is time to go Federal.
Remember when Sarah had the local FBI make a statement on her behalf on a holiday weekend? One has to wonder if that guy was a client of the sex ring?
What does it mean that she is willing to come out now, days after Game Change aired and everybody everywhere is talking about how the McCain campaign failed to vet her, and ACCUSE THE MEDIA OF NOT VETTING PRESIDENT OBAMA?! Good Lord, woman, what the hell are you thinking?!
DeleteI can't believe the hubris in her Facebook post. She actually says "remember you don't need a title to make a difference?" She is SO full of her own self-importance it is pathological. You are seeing a very mentally disturbed, extremely sick person in this facebook comment.
DeleteHer real issue is the movie, not the President's ad. Her Facebook post again shows how ignorant she is and how she can't accept any ownership for her incredibly stupid gaffes.
This is a very sick woman and she needs to be stopped because she is dangerous.
Hopefully the media will start ignoring her. Maybe we should start ignoring her.
Gryphen people on some blogs say you are finished if you out babygate. I don't believe that because I read your blog before Palin. But you might want to prove it by not posting at all about Sarah anymore at least for awhile. It will drive her crazy because she is a very mentally ill woman. Please think about it.
WOW! That is some truly delusional shite. Game Change must've kicked the usual paylump state of catatonic stupid into overdrive...
DeleteShe is so stupid that she still doesn't even know what vetting is. And neither do her incredibly dumb followers. The media's job is NOT to vet the candidates. What an idiot.
DeleteJesse, PLEASE shut her up!
DeleteShe's rising again and she has a platform and attention from the movie. She's as described in the movie: A Red Light Star.
DeleteShe is one scary bitch. She is Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Bunny alert!
This proves that she will suck all of the oxygen out of the republican convention, and then some. She isn't leaving, and whoever her wealthy backer-puppetmasters and paymasters are, aren't leaving, either. The press will frame the Tampa event as though it were about "Mitt WHO?", and all the cameras will be on Sarah.
DeleteThe republicans have always loved tar babies – when they thought the tar babies would be used to destroy someone else. But now their own tar baby, who they chose, prepared, backed, and equipped to attack others, is stuck in their own hands and won't let go – and there's not a single thing they can do about it. "Pay attention to me! Pay attention to me, dammit!!" has already come out of boot camp, and will completely take over their convention. It's time to invest in Orville Redenbacher.
You may not need a title to make a difference, Sarah Palin, but you need a brain.
DeleteSince you have neither, it's time for you to leave the stage.
And, by the way, stop talking about patriots, when you yourself don't know one flipping thing about American history, or our military, and your treasonous comments about our President and our foreign policy push the boundary of what is legal.
She's crazy!!!
DeleteThis has gone too far. She's so delusional, like she thinks she's a cartoon heroine and must battle the bad guy. I quite actually think the woman is beyond delusional, she's now acting out her delusions as well. Maybe she thinks she's married to the President, like those stalkers who believe they are married to their celebrity idols.
"but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about..."
DeleteREAL NARACISSISM AT WORK: Remember she literally CANNOT ( as opposed to WILL NOT) see reality, and look at how much ego, arrogance and CALL FOR ATTENTION SHE GIVES HERSELF with her statement intimating that she is important enough TO President Obama that 1) he even thinks of her,much less considers her an "enemy" and 2) that she is an important enough enemy that he would want/need to debate her ! !
Obama will as usually not address her remarks. This is the ONLY way to handle narcissistic mental instability as ANY response/reaction is a no win situation.
This long winded FB comment (and I have not read past the first paragraph or two yet) tells me she is really breaking down now. With a narcissist, the closer to being forced to see reality, the more threatened they feel, the harder, more desparately they push back and the more delusional their thinking becomes.
And the more potentially violent they become.
When they feel they are losing any ability to control "you" (or the situation) the higher their anxiety the more they LITERALLY feel their life--physical, not just reputation--is threatened and when you feel your life is threatened physically you have the right to defend your life physically.
Narcissist --hate to keep using the word, but it is important--LITERALLY feel they dont exist without their audience (good or bad attention) because their entire sense of self is oriented outside of themselves--they have no "center" except what they see in how the outside world reacts to them.
Better to have bad attention than none because at least that way they know they exist, even if unhappily.
Someone will end up bleeding --or worse--as Palin deteriorates.
In the meantime, her rhetoric is becoming closer and closer to legally defined treason.
I think those who protect our President are watching closely--they just know enough not to "telegraph their message."
As damaging as Palin has been and is, as with all underlying infections, they must become worse, be seen for what they are and "owned" before they can be healed. Palin's incarnation into this life, as I feel Hitler's was, is a necessary "evil" so that it can be seen for what it is and eradicated.
WHEN EVIL EXHAUSTS ITSELF, WHAT IS RIGHT PREVAILS. One of those old buddhist/taoist insights :)
OK I have now read her entire FB rant.
DeleteJust about everything she says here is classic projection.
Unbeliveable.
Just substitute the name "Palin" wherever she mentions "Obama" or implies him and it reads clear as a bell.
My mother was a narcissist and I learned "at her knee" but sometimes, 68 years later, it is still hard--even for me---to wrap my head around what goes on in a narcissists' mind and how they hide from reality.
Their actions and words are intentional and they are fully responsible for the, but at the same time the source of their actions and words --their view of the world--is so distorted that, as dangers and therefore frightening as they are, as much as they must be stopped, it is hard to "hate" them or even have malevolent feelings toward them. I only want them restrained and contained and restricted from spreading their evilness--and it is "evilness." I do not use that word lightly.
You cannot oppose evil by hating it. You can only transcend it and that means knowing it in it's depth for what it is and how if functions.
I would "pull the lever" on her myself but only with the thought of "God have mercy for her soul" (whatever you consider God to be or not be i.e. whatever it is that is immanent in existence.)
Of course, we all believe that Idiot Sarah wrote that Facebook rant, don't we? Who's pulling her strings? The Koch brothers? Adelson? That post reminds me of John Birch Society pamphlets of 40 years ago.
DeleteSarah's new ShePAC. (WTF sort of name is that? "She" PAC?) No trolls on here tonight? Sarah shamelessly prancing around in Las Vegas, acting like she has nothing to be ashamed of? She's following a script or up to something.
Steve Schmidt's honesty is refreshing. Can't remember when I've heard honesty from a Republican. Had Scarborough been on the show this morning, I'm sure Schmidt wouldn't have been able to talk so freely. Thanks for posting this, Gryphen.
She's come undone.
DeleteIf she starts making too much trouble for the GOP, I can see the Rove squad giving the all clear on Trig speculation. First Pimp might just get some attention too. Large donors are not parting with hundreds of millions just to have some unbalanced megalomaniac ruin everything.
DeleteWouldn't it be funny if Obama invited her to the White House Saturday to debate her concerns. I guarantee she would suddenly have an emergency family issue to attend to. She is scared to death of unscripted public appearances. Her last one, the Paul Revere fiasco, basically ended her pretend presidential run. Sure Glen Rice was the nail in the coffin, but she was a national laughing stock after Paul Revere. It even forced her to quit her bus tour.
DeleteIt's called spitting in the wind ..... somebody hand her a towel.
DeleteShe needs a straight jacket! What a fucking ego! To think she thinks she is even capable to debate him! Someone grab a gurney and cart her off!!!!
DeleteI'll betcha that the higher ups in the Republican party, when they meet in Florida, will be on the alert with idiot Palin!
DeleteThey are not going to allow her to outshine the current candidates running in the primary. I'll betcha it's going to be much like what was shown in "Game Change" - they are going to have to tell her "NO" and to "SHUT UP" and 'SIT THE FUCK DOWN'!
"...a debt crisis that has us hurdling towards a Greek-style collapse..." Um, maybe you meant to say hurtling.
Delete"...would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s politics." Um, maybe you meant to say policies.
Gee, maybe she really does write this crap herself.
This woman hath stupidity which defieth all understanding.
I was married to a narcissist and read countless books and articles to try and understand the total chaos that made up the relationship. Your example of putting her name in place of Obama is a fantastic example for those who have not dealt with one up close and personal. It is called gas lighting and she does this every time she opens her mouth. We think she's just a bunch of crazy making nonsense, imagine what her immediate family must deal with. I pity them all.
DeleteHey Anon 8:47, I see there is a youtube out about Robert Kolvig, father of Dylan possibly being the father of Bristol's first child. I also see that Robert Kolvig is involved in Alaska Law Enforcement somehow and a Kim Kolvig works for State of Alaska as well.
DeleteDoes this story have legs?
The computer scrubbing which took place before journalists - and who knows, maybe even the vetting team itself - got up to AK after the surprise choice, was done by people with very "special" skills... They said the vetting was supposedly done in 2 weeks instead of 8, or something like that.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's too much to speculate that a thorough investigation of this story might one day expose a tale far more like a spy thriller than anything else. I wonder if Schmidt and the film director and producers suspect as much, too. Meaning, Schmidt himself was used and duped.
In the Game Change script (I guess it's in the book too, didn't read it, myself) they talk about only a few people knowing about the Sarah pick before they told Nicole Wallace. This is an example of the secrecy Schmidt is referencing. I think it was done not to preserve some political wow factor pertaining to the announcement, but to buy time so they could be sure all their ducks were in a row and no rogue info was left to be discovered by any snooping journalists.
And what about that Rick Davis, check out his background.
This book and film are just the tip of the iceberg.
This interview was quite sobering . Hopefully it will help to chip away some of the illusion that the palinbots have of the Palin clan.
ReplyDeleteThe palinbots are beyond help.
Deletethese people still pull their punches.
ReplyDeletethese insiders know 10 times as much about palins mental instability and her lies and bizarre life then they will ever say over the airwaves.
just to get this far not only is a first but it is with out question a pushing of the envelope towards more scrutiny of who these candidates are who want Power over the rest of us.
Schmidt clearly states how scary palin is and everyone there obviously knowing it too just agrees.
no one came to her defense.
one other point about how palin helped the ticket.
its true she created lots of noise and the dynamics are very different now then in the past because you have fox trumpeting her walkout under controlled theatrics at the republican convention.
add in none stop hatE talk radio and the propaganda machine for a time creates the impression something big has arrived in town.
the reality is after the American people saw for themselves who anD what palin was they disapproved of her to the point where her appearances had to be scripted and controlled less she continue making a complete fool of herself trying to answer a question as simple as "what newspapers do you read".
so the myth was created and now comes full circle after 3 years with the movie Game Change demonstrating what anyone paying attention lonG age realized; palin after you get to know her leaves you wondering if she is "mentally unstable".
Sarah is trying to change the subject --it isn't going to work. She has been obsessively stalking the President for years----old game.
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows she was unhinged during the campaign---and still is.
Scream, Sarah, scream---everyone is truly laughing at your crazy ass.
Mika was pitiful. Remember her anti-Palin rant last year? Boy they sure have clipped her tail on Morning Joke. She kinda was always clipped though.
I think Schmidt and Wallace were played by some GOP powers-that-be. They thought they were involved in helping an elder statesman, one who they felt was very worthy, make a "bold" move in order to be elected. They believed he should be President.
ReplyDeleteWhat they got was a mess, dumped in their laps and for which they have had to take much of the blame.
Hidden players are able to stay hidden, and these two are left thinking they have to explain themselves. On some level they do, but the very idea of considering this woman in the first place did not originate with them.
Brilliant manipulation by people unseen.
Very well stated . . . and those clowns behind the curtains are still pulling the strings. Why else would the petty puppet palin mention a brokered convention or allen west? That is also precisely why palin's shrewd secrets are so well-kept, for many others would take the fall with her... people who are still in positions of authority in AK.
DeleteThe fact that she is kept on at FOX indicates that she has extremely powerful puppet masters. She believes she is indispensable to these people, whoever they are, but she is probably playing with fire.
DeleteIf only someone would come forward with even a sliver of information indicating that this Game Change story is only part of what went on.
It seems likely that Schmidt and Wallace were told not to discuss the hoax, Todd's prostitution, and certain other subject areas. Maybe carrot (that's how Schmidt got his nice MSNBC job?) or maybe stick (if they ever want to work in MSM again).
DeleteClearly, McCain has arranged that he is not to be implicated. At least so far that's been working for him.
The next big SP scandal: fake social media followers. The phony, it goes deeeeep.
ReplyDeleteThat's already been proven. Google it. Only 20% of her Twitter followers are real. I'm sure it's the same with FB.
DeleteThe facade is strong with this one...
DeleteLets not forget about how Palin did an about face on her willingness to cooperate withe the original Troopergate investigation after she accepted McCain's offer and how all those attorneys from the campaign showed up in Anchorage trying to hinder the investigation and spin it in favor of Palin as a victim.
ReplyDeleteWonder what part Schmidt or other strategist he was working with had to do with all that.
I respect Schmidt for his crisis of conscience and how he is being very truthful now re: his responsibility BUT I WONDER HOW MUCH MORE WAS DONE INITIALLY TO PROTECT THEIR CHOICE OF PALIN AND THAT IS JUST TOOOOOOO UGLY / HUMILATING TO THEM NOW TO DISCUSS.
Remember, Alaska was "invaded' by campaign operatives trying to influence Troopergate and all of that is being swept under the table.
Even "we" are not bringing it up. This is a subject that needs to be rembered and brought to light again !
Not to mention all the websites they scrubbed, quick, fast, and in a hurry...
DeleteI totally agree with you - they came to Alaska and did everything they could to cover up the Palin 'problems'!
DeleteLevi's family was included too as to taking the computers out of their homes, etc.
I'll wager the crowd that surrounded Palin and McCain during the campaign know 'everything' about her and Todd. I hope it is leaked as time moves along. I'll bet they know she was never pregnant w/the kid and on and on. Remember how the Alaska Legislature found her unethical and how they tried to cover that up and she denied it while on the campaign. She and Todd are frauds and liars there is no doubt! Their asses need to be gone after!
Remember too how Meg Staplemouth was a part of the hollering and shouting while the McCain people were in Alaska doing the coverups? She's another one that Palin still has on the payroll to keep her mouth shut!
DeleteSchmidt's pangs of conscience and admissions of "vetting in secrecy" DURING a campaign, to win at risking catastrophe to the country are admirable, but from reading the book and watching the movie, they DID have a window of opportunity to "Slap McCain in the face and scream "Snap out of it!" ala Cher in moonlight.
ReplyDeleteAs catastrophic as the pick was, the secrecy was much worse.
I can't believe "the buzz" this movie has generated! Everywhere I went today, people were talking about the movie, and it's been on the radio, in print, and all television stations.
OFf Topic
ALL of Rush's national sponsors are suspending their ads for two weeks.
If they believe, for one second, this war on women will blow over in two weeks, they're dead wrong. We have to keep signing petitions and writing letters.
We're not stupid, and Rush needs to go!
I posted reference to O'Donnell's show announcing the national suspension from the opening segment of his show, which message will show up below this as IM hasn't updated yet!!
DeleteI didn't realize of course it was only 2 weeks. I was excited just to hear all national advertisers -- Hip, Hip......hooray.
Just means continuing to spread the word and keeping the pressure on.
Tells you though -- if it was the men, they wouldn't have to double back and do it again. In our strong female fashion (together with a number of many supportive males), we will just have to continue our daily routine of multitasking!! It's not new to the ladies -- but don't ask most men to try it!!!
Rush and Palin need to have their faces ground in the sand somewhere. It's going to be a kick watching them being brought down!!!!!
DeleteSarah is so desperate for a brokered convention that she has doubled down on her hate spewing. No wonder she's looking haggard. That's what hating 24/7 does to ya. It oozes out of your skin pores and gives you a nasty maroon coloured aura. She got Glen Rice in her bed & she's just plain ole pissed off 1/2 black President Obama won't give her a phone call even. Pissed off like a 13 yr. old. Keep on hatin' and following no one's advice Sarah! lol
ReplyDeleteOMG in her facebook rant she supposes that Obama considers her the "enemy of the week" and says she wants to debate him. That woman DESPERATELY wants him to acknowledge her. She doesn't even try to explain what she meant by "take us back to pre-Civil War times". Her disconnect from reality is just scary. I am so glad O has the Secret Service at his back.
ReplyDeleteDebate President Obama for what? She's not running for President. She's more of an idiot than I thought!
Delete"I am so glad O has the Secret Service at his back."
DeleteAnd it would be truly gratifying to see the SS face-plant her silly arse . . . then cart her away in hand cuffs!
S T A L K E R
DeleteTime for President Obama to get a restraining order.
DeleteI think Crosshairs Sarah might need a 72 hour evaluation.
DeleteSarah Palin needs to be put in a straight jacket and hauled off to an institute! The woman is going off her rocker there is no doubt.
DeleteShe is coming unhinged due to the release of "Game Change" and all the negative that is coming at her. She deserves every bit of it based on all the crap she has dished out over the past years. What a fucking asshole!
It is very telling that Steve Schmidt in his interview mentioned only Sarah and John Edwards. He did not mention President Obama as being unprepared. That has to drive Sarah crazy, because it is true. He was far more prepared than she and he has done a very good job given all he has had to deal with.
ReplyDeleteIf Sarah thinks she can deflect again off of her, she is not too bright.
I really think it is true her IQ is around 83. I didn't before, but I believe it now. Her social or emotional IQ is closer to 50.
Hi. I just looked up all the links on wikipedia about Sarah actually graduating with a degree. Someone needs to change this, I don't know how. Followed ALL the links claiming she "graduated" and I still can't find any proof that she has a degree in anything. Please someone post link proving this. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteShe lied about everything else. I honestly wouldn't doubt it if never completed her coursework for a degree. Remember Christine O'Donnell lying about her degree from Farleigh Dickinson?
DeleteNo one can verify she ever earned a degree. I seriously have always thought it was a phony thing that McCain put together when she was named to run w/him as VP. No one in any of the four or five colleges she attended even remember her - teachers, etc. She's not in any of the annuals either. What is new with Sarah Palin? She's a fucking liar!
DeleteSpewing Word Salad and Hatred is not a Debate. Furthermore, what is Sarah Palin an expert on? Oh, that's right Baby making, Prostitution Rings, and Faking Pregnancies. Why would President Obama Debate a NOBODY who has EMBARRASSED the Republican Party?
ReplyDeleteShe's done worse than embarrass the GOP, she has destroyed the Republican Party and sane, moderate republicans will be voting for Obama in 2012.
DeleteI'll bet the Republicans (to include John McCain - although he'd never admit it) are ready to ship her out of the United States. She's done more harm to the Republican party than any of them...President Obama will be reelected and I can hardly wait to vote for him again!
DeleteLet's not forget that she already cost the Peerublicans the Senate, which was well within their grasp in 2010.
DeleteShe wants Obama worse than Glen Rice.
ReplyDeleteWake up Sarah. You are never giving the President of the USA and the most powerful man in the world a blow job. No wonder you are so angry. Go blow Newt, Santorum, 1% Mittens, Beck, Tiffany Grinch, Hannity, Boner, Cock brothers or the entire GOP convention like a groupie in a locker room to try & get in the white house some way some how. You cheapen yourself. How much lower will you go? Can't wait to see. You are the best celebritician politics ever had...a strip teaser. Yeah, every high school has one.
One of her male fans at Rolling Thunder in D.C. said he'd loved to see her wearing thongs and stilettos...hahaha. She's just a political sex object for middle aged Republican men.
DeleteYea, and the vagina piece of art work is outside of Wasilla High School that cost $100,000! They had to cover it up immedidately after it was first displayed because it was referred to as a 'vagina' and the Palins!!!! Remember, the Palins have created quite a reputation for the high school as sad as that is to say!
DeleteSomething tells me that reality might not live up to the fantasies of the guy at Rolling Thunder. Exhibit A:
Deletehttp://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-legs-of-runner.html
Do Not Want to See That in A Thong!!
The 5 Moments In 'Game Change' That Make Sarah Palin Look Like An Absolute Moron
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-5-moments-in-game-change-that-make-sarah-palin-look-like-an-absolute-moron-2012-3#foreign-policy-prep-1
BREAKING NEWS on MSNBC Lawrence O'Donnell show:
ReplyDeleteALL NATIONAL advertising has been suspended from Limpballs's radio show!!!
HIP, HIP, HOORAY!!!!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#46713460
Sarah Palin is on her way down just like Limbaugh. What fun this all is to watch!
DeleteMaybe the real majority of this country has had enough of these charlatans and finally decided to sweep out America's trash.
DeleteI despise this ignorant bitch. Sarah Racist Palin: our President will NEVER acknowledge you, you disgusting piece of trash.
ReplyDeleteThat is all.
Nichole Wallace says it best, "SARAH PALIN WAS CUCOO
ReplyDeleteFOR COCOA PUFFS."And she writes about that in her next book.
The book has been out for some time now. Her reference to Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs was made last year on Rachel's show.
Delete"I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)"
ReplyDeleteIf President Obama was making an enemy of the week list, he would not start with Sarah Palin. There are a couple of dictators who are seeking nuclear power and they don't debate. Arranging a high level diplomatic meeting would be the more desirable way to go. Then, there are nations who are kind of sort of not really our friends, but we have to maintain good relations with them. They also have nuclear capabilities, harbor some of our really dangerous enemies and we take a very careful line in talking to them. The leadership in the Republican Party promises President Obama one thing, and like Lucy with the Football, full a fast one.
Sarah, you are so far down the list that it wouldn't be worth President Obama's time to even send you a post card. I saw the movie; you barely made it through 90 minutes with O'Bidden. You can't deliver a speech without reading your notes. You couldn't answer simple questions posed by Katie Couric. You haven't learned anything since-- I don't know if you ever learned anything about Paul Revere, The Civil War, The Statute of Liberty or anything else. In fact, Newt's offer to hold Lincoln/Douglas style debates with President Obama is equally ridiculous. PS Sarah, do you know what the Lincoln/Douglas debates were and who won??
Sarah Palin, President Obama would tie you in knots and spit you out verbally. There is no one you'd EVER match him in intelligence. You, Sarah, are a fucking idiot and it has been proven time and time again.
DeleteNow she's 'throwing down the gauntlet' on THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?? Unbelievably crass!
ReplyDeleteFor the trolls:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E&feature=relmfu
Click on that link and try to tell me this person is Presidential caliber. Just try.
FRIGHTENED YOU!
ReplyDeleteIt scared the bejesus out of all of us!
Hey Sarah ya want to debate President Obama?
ReplyDeleteHow about you start off with the head of state, you know the Queen of England or your North Korea buddy?
Wow... imagine the narcissism required to elevate one's self to the status of "enemy of the week" to the most powerful man on the planet.
ReplyDeleteDesperate petty shrew. I'm stunned. The hubris... eet ees so beeeg... (in Ren Hoek voice)
Sarah Palin is public enemy number one.
ReplyDeleteTodd is number two.
She says on Rachel maddow "Coo-coo for coo cao puffs!
ReplyDeleteThat's our Sarah!
I think she honestly believes the president secretly loves her. She's like a deranged fan who talks about a celebrity like they're on intimate terms. I hope the S.S. is keeping tabs on her. Remember that woman that thought she was Dave Letterman's wife and kept sneaking into his house? Scary stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe reality is NONE of the contenders (pretenders?) would give her their delegates. She seriously thinks she can do NOTHING, spend NOTHING and be given the nomination. Like her followers she lives on Gingrich's moon base
ReplyDeleteWell $arah Spotlight gets her wish having her face and name plastered everywhere today. Too bad for her it's all negative but I'm guessing her pathologies and narcissism allows that to work for her too.
ReplyDeleteIn the deep dark recess of what stands in for her soul she has to know the jig is now up. What are people new to the 'story' to do? Believe her version or that of the more than 25 people who had to babysit her for ten weeks who are echoing what bloggers, authors and her former associates have revealed about her these past four years. Sucks to be Palin but thanks to GameChange it's gotten even more suck-ier.
You notice there are no legal threats from the Palin group against the people doing the film or statements being made by people involved. Sarah knows she doesn't have a leg to stand on in court. There are too many people that know the 'real' idiot during the campaign! She'd lose big time!
ReplyDeleteI just want to see her face rubbed in everything evil thing she has said and done throughout the past years. Todd too for that matter!
Say Sarah, seeing as you're so big on giving speeches, how 'bout you deliver Romney's concession speech this November? I'm sure MISTER Obama would LOVE to hear it.
ReplyDeleteJust fucking disappear already, you inbred backwoods hate-monger.
I like Steve Schmidt. He gets it. That's one of the most reasoned, intelligent take downs of the idiot queen I've seen yet.
ReplyDeleteHere's a thought. Why wasn't Bill Kristol in Game Change? He was not only the first to suggest Palin as VP but as he is the Director of the Project for the New American Century he had sufficient clout to arrange her selection. She was and probably still is a Reagan-like puppet for the PTB and has thus been protected from any really serious media disclosure of her many disastrous escapades.
ReplyDeleteI always thought it was interesting that a wingnut evangelical ghostwrote her first book, but Jessica Gavora, wife of Jonah Goldberg, wrote her second. At some point I think the neocon crowd thought she might be salvageable. Well that train has done left the station.
DeleteShe really is a backwards redneck racist hick who gets off on inciting violence and hatred. Pure white hilbilly trash.
ReplyDeleteMcCain and his family are traitors. Their duty should be to the US not to John's legacy.
And where are the others--Mark Salter, Rick Davis, Mark Wallace, etc.
Don't they care enough about the soul of this country?? I guess they are just trying to protect their careers which is despicable. I have to give Schmidt and Nicole Wallace credit for admitting their mistakes. Yes they should have done it sooner but at least they have the integrity to do it now unlike the McCains and others.
Sarah is a cancer in this country. I pray that more people have the decency to come forward.
She is like a rabid dog that needs to be put down, and no i do not mean violence.
A prostitution / sex trafficking scandal might just help.
Hey Sarah instead of focusing on the President shouldn't you be keeping an eye on Todd the Pimp of Wasilla?
ReplyDeleteSo, confronted with then candidate Obama, knowing he was a superior candidate who McCain couldn't compete with, the campaign knew they "needed something bold" to win, some big, dramatic move. If Palin truly wasn't vetted, then it was an unforgivable gamble on the only pretty face who was anti-abortion. If she was vetted, if they knew she was ignorant, demanding, jealous, dishonest, immoral and had psychological problems, then they figured a win for McCain would justify their choice. The end would justify the means.
ReplyDeleteAfter the loss, after McCain's concession speech, it was easy for McCain's people to shut Palin up by pulling the plug on the mic and turning off the lights. Too bad we don't have a way to do that.
All of them went home, Schmidt and Wallace wrestled with their consciences, at least had the courage to step forward and speak up and their lives went on. Not life for everyone though - some people died as a result of Sarah Palin's voice. People lost loved ones and others were maimed because of Sarah Palin's voice. Sarah doesn't care - if more lives were lost tomorrow because of her vile rhetoric, she wouldn't care.
The Republican party owes those victims and the victims' families for what Sarah did. The Republican party owes the rest of us for the damage that's still being done to our country by that woman and the copy-cats who are trying to out-do her. The GOP needs to step up, clean up their mess and carry out the trash they left us with.
How much do you want to bet that whomever gets the Republican nomination will ignore the lesson in Game Change and pick a Right Wing religious hater as a running mate. . .you know, to "balance" the ticket.
ReplyDeleteMicMac
Steve Schmidt has completely redeemed himself as far as I am concerned. He has been the most candid of the bunch of them by far.
ReplyDeleteObama Releases Another Attack Ad On Sarah Palin!
ReplyDeletehttp://richardporterwritechatmessage.blogspot.com/2012/03/sarahpalincpac2012.html
I think she's having flashbacks after watching Game Change (and we all know she watched it).
ReplyDeleteIt took her right back, delusions and all.
Sarah honey, shh now, it's getting embarrassing.
Nothing you do or say this week is going to alter what people saw in that movie.