Okay well WE'VE used the fact that after seeing Mitten's tax returns John McCain chose Sarah Palin as a dig against Romney, but to have the DNC do the same indicates that she has now simply become the MOST identifiable example of a poor choice for running mate.
Quite literally Sarah Palin has become the living example of a GOP cautionary tale. I don't even know if there is any lower that an ex-politician can go. Essentially even prison would be a step up from this, as IT would garner sympathy for her that she simply cannot attain today.
Did you see that McCain said that Sarah was a better candidate than Romney???? Bwah-hahahahabahahaha.
ReplyDeleteRomney is toast!
McCain later in the day walked that back but not everyone knows that!!!
DeleteThe only reason Romney wasn't picked is because between he and McCain - they were to, to 'elite' - too many houses owned between the two of them and way to much money.
DeletePlus, Palin (although a proven idiot and not vetted well in Alaska) had boobs (although we now know they are fake) and a pretty well uses vagina. He thought she would bring more attention to his ticket than Hillary which was a huge, huge mistake!!!
She's a fraud and McCain cannot say he did the wrong thing! Too bad he didn't pick Lieberman!
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No Sarah will get no sympathy when she's in that orange jumpsuit. And since she doesn't dare appear wigless, she won't be doing any Fox poor me interviews while she's there either. Ah, Karma.
ReplyDeleteI worry a little about people piling on too much and making a martyr out of Sarah, but I don’t think that will happen since she’s so blatantly mean.
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, DU.
DeleteSarah's perpetual victim act has become so stale and too predictable for all but her looniest bots. And those folks will never change their minds and face reality, and Sarah has certainly proven that she won't either, no matter what.
Sarah and her bots all have minds like steel traps. Nothing that's stuck in their heads already can escape, and nothing else gets in either. I guess that's why there's not much of a learning curve happening in Palin Land.
I see your point, DU, but as you say, we've had almost 4 years to experience her stupidity, her playing the victim, and her ugly meanness (and now we're in the middle of seeing her daughter display those same characteristics just to reinforce the image). I don't think she'll gain much sympathy from any thinking person. Of course, her cult followers are a different story but they seem to be dwindling in number.
DeleteI love this ad! It's so true and has a nice, hilarious zinger at the end.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I also think the #1 reason McCain chose Sarah over Romney was to try and lure in the Hillary supporters who were bummed when Obama got the party's nod.
At the time the McCain people almost said as much. Little did they understand liberal women. Sarah Palin was immediately anathema to them, to us (including me)!
DeleteGrandpa Walnuts chose Palin because he thinks we women vote with our vajayjays.... I mean, Hillary has one and Sarah has one,so what's the diff? And he probably wanted to tap that
DeleteOh. My. Goodness. Even MY refrigerator flinched when I played that.
ReplyDeleteThe DNC screwed this ad up. Here's what I would have done at the end.
ReplyDeleteInstead of just footage showing Palin coming out and waving, they should have had a clip from her Couric interview. "You know, you can actually see Russia from Alaska."
What you do you think, Gryphen?
Seriously -- the see Russia from Alaska ref.
DeleteDo some research as YOU CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM ALASKA.
The reference that went viral was from Tina Fey - of seeing Russia from her house.
If you want to add intelligence to the conversaton -- grow some. Your lack of same is showing -- 4 years later.
That would have been powerful. You are so right!
DeleteAwesome idea. I think you should call DNC headquarters to suggest this.
DeleteJohn McCain is sticking to his story that Palin was an awesome choice. His ego exceeds any concern for the country.
5:59,that was her only answer for her foreign relations experience... Ha ha nice.
DeleteTo Anonymous at 5:59
DeleteYou were talking about adding intelligence to the conversation?!
You are missing the whole entire point of that particular clip. Palin was NOT being asked about geography (how close is Russia to AK) in that interview. You can go back and check. She was being asked about her foreign policy credentials. Her answer was the jaw dropping "you can see Russia from land in AK". Well, I'm sure any 10-yr-old can see Russia from AK, but, that's not a reason to hire them as VP. She simply could not give any affirmation of her foreign policy creds and THAT was what stood out as shocking and unbelievable.
4:42
DeleteDo your own research.You will see the absurdity of her statement is not seeing land in Russia from a tiny island of of the coast of Alaska.Its that this was her response to a question about foreign policy.You do know you can see Mexico from Texas,so of course that fact gives the Governor of Texas great insight into foreign affairs with Mexico,according to her thinking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXL86v8NoGk
Correct, 4:42. If you stand on a tiny, uninhabited island that belongs to Alaska, and the weather conditions are JUST right, and you squint really, really hard, you can see off in the far-away distance a smear that's the Russian equivalent of that tiny little uninhabited Alaska island.
DeleteIn other words, you can't see into the Kremlin from Sarah Palin's bedroom window.
Yup, unfortuantely you CAN see Russia from Little Diomede Island in the Bering Sea (the Russian island is Big Diomede, so you can "see" one from the other). It's a really fascinating, remote place, populated on the side that faces mainland Alaska. I think that Stephen Colbert sent someone there shortly after SP's beeg debut and a video exists somewhere. It's a little fishing town, and if I remember correctly, NO ONE there knew who Sarah was--even though she was their Guv at the time.
DeleteWhat Dipshit McDuh should have done at the time was CLARIFY what she meant by that comment--unless the line was scribbled on her hand by the Marketing Crew, and she had no clue the island even existed. Why should she--did they film an episode of "Bridezillas" there? Bad for her--great for the classic yocks that ensued!
Look it up sometime--yes, I'm a "remote places on the map" geek!
Great photo:
http://www.pbs.org/harriman/current/profiles/diomede.html
Sure it's true. But that quote is in the context of her talking about her foreign policy experience.In a later interview, she says,
Delete..."it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state."
Personally, I always thought people should have used the quote, "as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska." to fully illustrate her stupidity. The beginning of the word salad phenomenon.
AKinPA:
DeleteThank you! You put it very well, and anonymous 5:59 is a dipshit! Palin's response to a question about her foreign policy experience was laughable and quite honestly sad and distrubing. And she's what McCain thought was the better candidate? She cost the GOP the 2008 election, pure and simple.
"If you want to add intelligence to the conversaton -- grow some. Your lack of same is showing -- 4 years later."
DeleteHey, sweet cheeks, I 'have some' but what you need to grow is some intelligence - a brain. Palin said that in response to a question about her foreign policy experience. She's a dimwit and apparently, so are you.
FINALLY!!! Even the Dim-o-rats are acknowledging the wisdom of McCain's choice of Queen Esther as the beginning of destiny's fulfillment.... You know that's how the pond is going to spin it. Gina, when will you update us?
ReplyDeleteThis ad does not leave me with the impression that Palin was a worse choice. The ad makes a point that Romney had issues so McCain chose Palin.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is true Palin was a wild card choice to run a woman and appease their base.
The Obama campaign knows full well what the President's supporters think of Palin. To me the ad implies that Romney must have been REALLY bad to be overlooked in favor of Palin.
DeleteBut check these out! Somebody is doing a great job in the DNC/OFA media department!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkcoNXMI8rM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3API5MnicU4&feature=player_embedded
They're good.
DeleteThe second one should have included the video of Mittens refering to 'blind trusts' as a ruse -- aka a scam. The video does exist as has been shown.
Should you not have seen the 'blind trust ruse' video of Mittens from 1994 -- here it is.
Delete"You can always tell a blind trust what it can and cannot do. You give a blind trust rules"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IkikKelEuQM
After a week in which Romney has struggled to counter questions about his tax records and his tenure at Bain Capital, just 38 percent of Americans in this ABC News/Washington Post poll express a favorable opinion of the way he’s running his campaign for the presidency, while 49 percent respond unfavorably – an 11-point negative margin.
ReplyDeleteSomeone said on Morning Joe that Romney will not release his tax returns unless his poll numbers go down.
DeleteNice try, Mister Fancy Pants Librul Alaska blogger! It was OFFICIALLY announced YESTERDAY that Mittens is NOT hiding anything damaging in the tax returns he won't be releasing. So that takes care of you and all your little Bolshevik blog buddies trying to discredit a great severe conservative Amercian patriot!
ReplyDeleteHA HA HA!!! IN YOUR FACE!! U! S! A! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!
(Just so we're clear, the official announcement that Mittens' tax returns contain nothing improper, illegal, embarrassing or politically detrimental was made by Good Ol' Gramps McCain. You know, the same Good Ol' Gramps McCain who announced yesterday that The Screechy Wretch(tm) was a better candidate for vice president/president than Mittens. also, too....)
You are too funny, Beldar. Although, I do hate to encourage you, so disregard this comment.
DeleteBeldar Torus Klaatu Conehead, you are the Bane of the Bolshevik BullS*it blog buddies!
DeleteHey Beldar, you idiot, why is Mittens acting like he is then? He's afraid to release the returns because he IS hiding stuff and he does need to be vetted! All other politicians are - w/the exeception of Sarah Palin in Alaska. McCain truly goofed there too!!
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Beldar Torus Klattu Conehead, Senator John McCain was using satire when he said "Screechy Wretch was a better candidate".
DeleteHe couldn't pick Mittens because nothing screams "Let them Eat Cake!!!!" more than TWO old rich white guys who have no clue how many properties they own.
Anita Winecooler -
DeleteThanks for pointing out that I missed the true meaning of Good Ol' Gramps McCain's endorsement of The Screechy One. Some people either don't "get" satire or they don't read carefully enough. But you're right, Gramps is a laugh riot.
I tend to cut these rich old white guys some slack about how many homes they have under the theory that when you reach a level of wealth where the number of homes you own is shrouded in uncertainty, you've also reached a level of wealth where you can afford to hire a professional "house wrangler" to keep track of them for you. Most will provide you an updated count of what you own with a guaranteed degree of accuracy of plus or minus 3 homes which is pretty good, when you think about it.
Like throwing monkey feces at the wall hoping that something sticks:
ReplyDeleteAnatomy Of A Flail: Romney’s Attempts To Change The Subject From Bain
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-bain-subject-change.php?ref=fpa
Charles Krauthammer To O’Reilly: If Election Were Held Tomorrow, Obama Would Win
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/charles-krauthammer-to-oreilly-if-election-were-held-tomorrow-obama-would-win/
In November, also too.
DeleteMittens should be happy that he and Bain have such deep roots with 'Staples'.
ReplyDeleteMittens, as Palin did on I believe doctors report, will be using massive amounts of 'White Out' on any tax forms released beyond the 2010 and the 2011 promised one which has been delayed by way of extension request.
All the prior tax forms will include the 'retroactive retirement' agreement payments of cash, stock, insider trading?? investments into hidden accounts by Bain as the retirement agreement was only completed in 2009.
Things he wants to remain hidden.
His campaign being so stunned and stupid will pull a document up on the screen and white out the info on the monitor!!!!
In a future presidential election, the GOP (if they haven't imploded already) can always pull the old, disgraced pit bull out of mothballs and use her like they used another old, disgraced politician, Sununu(spelling?), yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that they had to go to Sununu to regurgitate Limbaugh's talking points. Palin is so toxic, they won't even use her as a pit ball.
And using Sununu is ironic- he was born in Cuba, his father is Palestinian and his mother is from El Salvador! But he thinks Barack Obama is not American.
DeleteThe GOP is stuck with shunning Palin at the convention. Why remind voters of the GOP's epic fail at vetting her just 4 years ago?
ReplyDeleteMcCain is going to be shunting around the talk shows 'til the end of the convention. GOP can't stop him from blurting out Palin's name. McCain is doing his bit to get Obama re-elected!
These Republicans are a friggin' mess. Keep it up guys and girls - President Obama is going to be reelected in a landslide!!
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OK Dems and other President Obama supporters. Let's make sure all of the President Obama supporters are registered and ready to vote.
ReplyDeleteOBAMA/BIDEN..2012! ...LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN, PEOPLE!
I already checked my registration and I am ready to go for November 6th! I encourage everyone to go here and check their status-> http://www.canivote.org/
DeleteWe can't have anyone staying home like they did in 2010. You see what that got us.
ELECTION DAY - November 6th - a Tuesday - can hardly wait to cast my ballot! Needed ID - got it!
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I'm ready and can't wait to vote Obama Biden again.
DeleteSo Romney wants us to celebrate the success of people like him, even though their success doesn’t seem to have benefited ordinary families, and even though he stands for policies that would aggravate the gap between a fortunate few and everyone else. And then he accuses Obama of dividing America.
ReplyDeletehttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/decoupled-and-divided/
Willard sinks deeper and deeper.
ReplyDelete...Many Republicans say Romney’s refusal to release the tax returns is beginning to cost him politically. “Perception is becoming Romney’s reality, and these issues have now risen above mere distractions,” said GOP consultant John Weaver, a senior adviser for McCain’s 2000 and 2008 bids. “The president has had the worst three months of any incumbent, due to the economy, since George H.W. Bush in 1992, and yet Romney has lost traction among key demographic groups in the vital swing states. He has got to get this behind him or he’s going to face summer definition a la [Bob] Dole and [John] Kerry.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-or-without-tax-return-release-pressure-on-romney-ramps-up-from-both-sides/2012/07/17/gJQAbuuBsW_story.html
Mobutu had Swiss bank accounts. Arafat had Swiss bank accounts. An honest man running for President of the US doesn't need Swiss bank accounts or offshore accounts anywhere else. It is tax evasion.
ReplyDeleteI had a Swiss bank account too and I am an honest, hard-working, tax-paying American. I reported the income on my U.S. tax return and reported the existence of the account on the U.S. Treasury form. I'm sure Romney does the same. I don't like the man or want him to be president, but I don't care if he has a Swiss bank account.
DeleteSix More Republicans Who Want To See Romney’s Tax Returns
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nationalmemo.com/six-more-republicans-who-want-to-see-romneys-tax-returns/
Romney's adamant refusal to release his tax returns is only making him look even more like a thief and a liar.
DeleteThose tax returns must be a keg of dynamite ready to blow up big-time. Romney is in a catch-22 situation of his own making...as he sinks deeper in the lies.
He's in a no-win situation and sweating profusely. He probably needs to change his soiled magic underwear.
And this from ROSS DOUTHAT?
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney’s Long Hot Summer
...Mitt Romney hasn’t figured out an effective way to answer attacks on Bain Capital or questions about his own finances, and his campaign hasn’t figured out an effective way to change the subject.
Instead, Romney has spent the last two weeks looking shifty and hairsplitting when he’s on the defensive, and plaintive and whiny when he’s gone on the attack. His ineffective complaints about the White House’s scorched-earth strategy illustrate a solid rule of American politics: Never, ever, demand that your opponent apologize for a campaign attack unless you have some reasonable expectation that he actually might.
His allies, meanwhile, have produced one memorably foolish distraction – last week’s Condoleezza-Rice-for-vice-president balloon, pricked as soon as it was floated – and one memorably painful gaffe, in the form of Romney surrogate John Sununu’s (hastily-retracted) suggestion that President Obama should “learn how to be American.”
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/mitt-romneys-long-hot-summer/
The Republican outrage machine is in overdrive. They really must not have expected President Obama to insist upon a proper and responsible vetting of Mitt. Have you ever seen a bunch of grown men whine, complain and throw tantrums like these guys are doing? This should be a lesson to all Democrats. The GOP has been bullying you for decades. You haven't fought back. When you stand up to a bully, this is how they react. Just think, it's only the middle of July! Wait til September and October.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans are being boxed into a corner by their own Rove-ian tactics being turned against them. They are somehow surprised that the Democrats managed to learn a thing or two about how to run a campaign for-the-win. All this time and they didn't spend one second coming up with a plan to defend against it.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama camp is in the driver's seat and the Romney camp got left at the toy store trying to return their Etch-A-Sketch's.
7:28 Excellent comment!
DeleteThese greedy bastards are in a bubble & don't realize just how pissed off we are!!!
That's what they have in common with dumb Sarah Palin, they're all living in their bubble. Sarah surrounds herself with dumbos & Mitt surrounds himself with Bush 43 dumbos and they all got nothin!
Thanks to Gryphen I can come here & let off steam.
Your comment reminded me of the whole "Occupy" movement, and the role it plays in framing this argument. It was a brilliant move on Team Obama's part, without even mentioning it, they're demonstrating it's importance by defining Romney before he did.
DeleteI wish Romney would learn what it means to be an American. Why he won't release his returns is so foreign to me.
Conservative elites club Mitt Romney
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78631.html
The problem is that Romney's failure to do what Barack Obama and other recent candidates have done IS a substantive issue -- more relevant than ever because of his specific circumstances. Setting aside whatever details in his returns are more embarrassing in his returns than the tiny fraction he pays compared to most working families, Romney's economic policy is centered on additional tax cuts for a select few who, like him, already enjoy very generous tax benefits. Those benefits were placed in the code because Romney and others in the new super-rich class can afford lobbyists, campaign contributions and even media outlets that win them special influence, particularly within the GOP.
ReplyDeleteAt worst, Romney's tax returns might show sleazy and questionable dealings. At best, however, they show the real crime, the one that's legal: the naked self-interest inherent in such special influence, and the corrupting fashion in which such influence undermines America.
Yes, you got it!
DeleteMr. Romney is in a state of abject denial about his own short-comings and refusal to answer basic questions about his taxes and dealings with Bain Capital that he will say and do anything to divert attention away from himself--he is such a dishonest person that it is difficult to imagine why any American would vote for him. Go home, Mr. Romney. You are beginning to enter a phase of the campaign that may force the republicans to challenge your candidacy during the convention. And rightly so!
ReplyDeleteThey'll vote for him because the guy in the white house now doesn't look like them.
DeleteAnonymous9:08 AM
Delete'''They'll vote for him because the guy in the white house now doesn't look like them.'''
Well the white people who helped put him in office, will do it again. You guys act like Pres Obama has never won a national election. He did in 2008 REMEMBER? White people voted for him, REMEMBER?
The very same Plutocrats who were responsible for bringing down the entire world's economy as they bundled sub-prime mortgages they knew were entirely worthless and sold them to their paying customers as AAA rated, the very folks who wrongly profited by steering minority homebuyers to risky loans despite the fact they were entirely qualified for far better — are now the ones fueling Romney's campaign and feeding his Super PACS.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-10/romney-bundlers-finance-sector/56156630/1
Best tea-spit-keyboard moment ever. What can ole Johnny say? Tax returns were full of problems or Mitt wasn't hot enough?
ReplyDeleteIt was such a short time ago that Corey Booker, Ed Rendall and others were saying that the President was 'just wrong' in his campaign being focused on 'Bain'.
ReplyDeleteThe taxpayers weren't saying that!!! In fact, it was many of the Obama supporters that went after Booker when his spewed his 'in the tank' support of Bain and were driving for the campaign to tank him.
Funny how we've heard nothing from Corey for some time now. Oops!
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DeleteThere is a chance that what's in Mitt's returns would not just be embarrassing but might be illegal. Everyone assumes that the IRS would have already found illegalities if they exist but I have to wonder. The IRS is short-staffed. If they were going to skip over someone's returns, Mitt would be one that people would assume wouldn't cheat because 1) he was a missionary and a Bishop in his church, for gawds-sake and everybody knows those people are honest; and 2) he's so rich, why would he cheat on taxes? and 3) he says he's honest. So there!
ReplyDeleteThere's at least a possibility that Mitt would cheat on his taxes and count on getting away with it for the very reasons I mention above. He doesn't show a bit of embarrassment about lying - why would he be worried about cheating on taxes? Look at Bernie Madoff - who expected someone of his stature to steal billions from friends and relatives?
Whatever the reasons, Mitt's not going to release those tax returns. He doesn't care what the voting public think, he doesn't care what other people in the GOP say. He only cares what his big donors think. You know Dick Cheney's advice would be to stonewall. How many of the rich and irresponsible have we seen go before Congress and say they "don't recall". This is exactly what it will be like if Mitt's elected - he'll bygawd do whatever he wants to do.
I imagine Mitten's ass is highly chapped...
ReplyDelete... hee hee.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
ReplyDeleteRomney pwned by "the day that will live in infamy".
At first, I thought they were going to spoof "The Brady Bunch".
Romney can't quarrel with this one, it's brutally honest AND bipartisan.
Wow, they really polished Screech- time, gravity, hate, racism,and vitriol haven't been kind to the Grifter. ;o)
The White House decided to use the tools as seamlessly as possible is the best thing to handjob.
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