Sunday, April 27, 2014

Palin stumps for the pig mutilator in Iowa. Update!

Courtesy of Palin's Facebook page
Courtesy of The DesMoines Register:  

Sarah Palin gave GOP U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst rave reviews during a rally today in Iowa. 

"I haven't been this excited about a candidate in quite a while," Palin said. (Probably going to come as news to all the other candidates that she feigned excitement for while standing next to them on stage.)

The country needs politicians who can be counted upon to "buck the establishment" and "do what the people, in this case of Iowa, will be sending her to do for us,"  (Which apparently is to sabotage the government so it no longer functions.) Palin, a former vice presidential candidate, said during a ShePAC's "Heels On, Gloves Off!" rally in West Des Moines. 

"So just so happy that, heck yeah we found a candidate that we know we can have faith in," Palin said. "We can trust her. She has proven herself over and over again. She is the right one." 

She told the Iowa audience of about 250 on a Sunday afternoon soaked in thunderstorms that she was impressed with Ernst's "Squeal" ad. Ernst got national buzz for the campaign ad, in which she declares that she "grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm" and will "cut through the pork" in Washington. 

"It's like, 'Whoa nobody's going to push her around. She's not going to be co-opted," Palin said. (Too late for that, the Koch brothers already own her ass.)

Palin said it was up to the audience to spread word of Ernst's resume. "You will report accurately about this wonderful candidate," she said as the crowd clapped and cheered. "I won't even ad lib what I was going to say about the press because I don't want them to take it out on Joni. OK, I'll try to be nice about what I really think about the lame stream media and how they cover conservative women in politics."

Yeah right, like anything this idiot says anymore is an "ad lib."  She is tightly scripted and controlled by those who are paying her way these days.

And apparently those individuals want this lunatic in D.C..

Enrst campaign bus. It says, "Honk if you want to make DC squeal."
Ernst only has a narrow lead right now (25 to 23 percent), with forty percent still undecided, so this could certainly be another Palin flop.

The last thing this country needs is any more of these Palin backed obstructionists making it to Washington.

By the way it looks like she is still shopping for her clothes at the first Wal-Mart she sees at whichever venue she arrives at.
Update: Apparently not much of a crowd.
Oh how the not quite so mighty have fallen.

71 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:34 PM

    Ha ha! Hardly anyone showed up for her! And Todd tried to put moves on this WaPo reporter! https://twitter.com/costareports/status/460526435858251777

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  2. Anonymous4:36 PM

    https://twitter.com/costareports/status/460527519591325697 with Todd

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    1. Anonymous5:42 PM

      @costareports: I turn, ask Todd about the possibility of Palin 2016. He dips his head, smiles, and says softly, "Oh, I don't know."

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    2. Anonymous7:29 PM

      Softly, in his girly voice. Did they fly in on a heelicopter

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  3. Anonymous4:40 PM

    https://twitter.com/costareports/status/460527129340678144

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  4. Anonymous4:48 PM

    Saw an ad for a Republican woman running for Michigan Senate who brought up how there was no way she is involved in a war on women because, hey, she's a woman. This woman in Iowa will probably do the same thing. But Democrats just need to point to their records and where they stand on issues. To say they aren't involved in a war on women is like saying Clarence Thomas votes against every affirmative action law that benefited him.

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    1. Anonymous5:32 PM

      That was Terry Lynn Land, whose entire ad consisted of that statement and her drinking coffee. She has been horrible as Sec.of State. And she's using a vote from 2002 to attack her opponent, Gary Peters. God, this party is as lame as Palin's shrieking points.

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  5. Irishgirl4:49 PM

    She has gone stark raving mad.

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    1. Supporting torture is surely the supreme indication of rabid insanity. What does it take for the media to call out this excuse for a person?

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    2. Anonymous1:12 AM

      Read below..it looks like Republicans are calling her out. Sarah may have just, finally, jumped the shark. See Sarah, it is America, and you can say pretty much anything evil that you want to, but people will finally call you out for the evil being that you are...even those
      who you think are on your side of the canyon you have dug in the past 5 years. Methinks your AIP loyalty is showing.

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    3. Anonymous3:22 AM

      When $carah started her high pitched screech, I wonder how many people thought Joni was castrating a pig?? I think $carah shows up in a slutty, low cut top so the organizers GIVE her something clean to cover up with. She always leaves tops unzipped, to show her age-spot mottled chest.

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    4. Anonymous9:05 AM

      1:12 AM

      I hope it is not some half ass call out. She needs to go down in flames or the cowards fail. John McCain will want to slither out like a snake. That coward needs to make a clean break from America's #1 nut case seditionist and traitor. McCain is already famous for 'songbird' and now he will glom onto the AIP Alaskan family forever? He has work to do to rid himself of that nasty old woman he thought was sexy enough to be Veep.

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  6. Anonymous5:05 PM

    Sarah has been endorsing so many candidates lately, I've lost track of who's who. Isn't Joni Ernst the one who, in addition to castrating pigs, serves in the Iowa National Guard? In fact, I think she's the one who missed something like 117 votes in the state legislature, using the excuse that she was away serving in the National Guard.

    "Ernst has been asked to explain the missed votes following a March 5 article by The Gazette found she’d taken excused absences on 71 of 95 votes tallied in the chamber since Feb. 24.

    According to the most recent review by The Gazette, Ernst missed 117 of 197 votes, or 59 percent of the votes, in the Iowa Senate this session before the WHO-TV interview posted on April 7. This includes four days where some votes were missed, and nine days when all votes were missed.

    This week Ernst has voted in 23 of 24 roll calls.

    According to the Iowa National Guard, Ernst was on orders for training or other duty on March 10-14, on a commanders call on March 28, and had weekend drills on January 11-12, February 8-9, and March 1-2.

    Only two of those days — March 10-11 — overlapped with days the Iowa Senate held votes, accounting for 12 or about 10 percent of the 117 missed votes. Excluding the days that overlapped with Ernst’s guard duty, she’s missed 105 votes, or 57 percent of the Iowa Senate votes this session, according to the review."

    Read more: http://thegazette.com/subject/news/government/iowa/legislature/few-of-ernsts-missed-iowa-senate-votes-due-to-national-guard-duty-20140414#ixzz308f1bY4z

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    1. Anonymous5:24 PM

      She sounds like she matches retarded Palin in that she doesn't work hard. Vote her out of office, Iowa!!!! Get someone in there that is responsible.

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    2. Anonymous6:16 PM

      @5:24 It's hard work campaigning and serving in the state senate. Can't do two things at the same time. One is a job that comes with being responsible to the people who voted for you and the other is looking for a new job.

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    3. Anonymous6:20 PM

      Just another republican liar.

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  7. Caroll Thompson5:09 PM

    I could not agree more with Sarah. The Republican House has got to go. Keep the Senate in Democratic hands and our Country might just do alright.

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    1. Anonymous5:34 PM

      Exactly!! Along with the Senate obstructionists. We can save this democracy yet! And without threatening violence like some people we know.

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    2. Anonymous8:56 AM

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/24/john-mccain-to-host-hillary-clinton-in-sedona-ariz/?tid=pm_politics_pop
      This is interesting: ""From her years of service as first lady, in the U.S. Senate and the State Department, one would be hard-pressed to find a leader with Secretary Clinton's informed perspective on the many challenges facing America across the globe," McCain said."
      Serra is Toast! Burnt toast...bwhaaaha!

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  8. She really does insult those she supposedly supports in the way she dresses at their functions. Looking like your clothes were pulled from the trash is why the GOP had to spend all those $$$ on clothes

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    1. Anonymous6:14 PM

      All of the other women dressed very nicely and Sarah showed up trying to look like a college kid.

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    2. Anonymous9:34 PM

      Stripper heels in the pigpen! Mrs.Palin couldn't BUY a clue because nobody wants to even GIVE her one!
      Even the other R.'s are counting on her fizzlin' out in the next week or so! Keep up that fancy talkin', Sarah!

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  9. Anita Winecooler5:22 PM

    "I haven't been this excited about a candidate in quite a while,"
    Joni curls your toes, Sarah?

    BTW, those weren't Swedish meatballs, but they WERE free!

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    1. Anonymous5:46 PM

      LOL! Let's hear it for Rocky Mountain Oysters!

      Wild (gagging) Tortoise

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  10. Anonymous5:29 PM

    Joni Ernst -- as big a fake as Sarah Palin:

    In 2014, Ernst was criticized for missing more than half of the votes in the legislative session.[8] She responded that her National Guard duties explained many of her absences. Subsequent research showed that only 10% of her missed votes came when she was with the National Guard. Ernst has also indicated in the past that she was "juggling roles as a wife and mother, battalion commander in the Iowa Army National Guard, a state senator and a very, very tough competitive race for the United States Senate"

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  11. Anonymous5:35 PM

    I loved the tweet about the rain keeping people away from an inside venue...I thought Iowans were tough (or maybe they are just getting smarter and didn't want to listen to Motor Mouth Moron.

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    1. Anonymous6:14 PM

      Maybe they don't sell umbrellas in Iowa. You know, umbrellas prevent the rain from falling on people, which is God's way. Stopping the rain is like trying to stop sperm from fertilizing an egg. It's against God's will.

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    2. Anonymous6:18 PM

      LOL, they deal with snow all winter, a little spring rain( which the farmers love, isn't going to stop anyone from showing up. In fact, it may help pull an audience to an indoor event.

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    3. Anonymous6:26 AM

      Well you know what IOWA stands for? Idiots Out Walking Around. Apparently they don't know enough to come in out of the rain either...

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  12. Anonymous5:36 PM

    On the menu today you will have the choice of Rubber Chicken or Rancid Grizzly

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    1. Anonymous6:02 PM

      Sorry to correct you, but don't you mean Rancid Granny?

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    2. Anonymous6:12 PM

      These days, it's more like scrawny granny, a few bones and not much meat.

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  13. Anonymous5:49 PM

    Grassroots you say TP'rs? PIGSHIT is more like it.

    TeaParty is just the same as the others....big surprise, huh?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tea-party-pacs-reap-money-for-midterms-but-spend-little-on-candidates/2014/04/26/0e52919a-cbd6-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html

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  14. Anonymous6:00 PM

    "I haven't been this excited about a candidate in quite a while," Palin said.
    Not since she was gushing and literally screaming about a black man's " package" in Oklahoma on Friday.
    Her endorsement of African American TW Shannon was hysterical.
    “The Democrats accuse us of not embracing diversity?
    Oh, my goodness.
    He is it. He is the whole package. "
    Diversity to Palin equals a package.
    She was unable to think of any other qualities...
    Another tea party buffoon went down in flames yesterday.
    Tea party candidate Bob Marshall ( " Disabled children are God's vengeance to women who have had abortions " )
    lost to Establishment Republican Barbara Comstock in the Republican primary for Virginia's
    10th Congressional district.
    54/28.
    There is hope for normal Republicans
    and yet it's scary that 28%
    would consider voting for this whacko.
    FOX News of all places observed that
    Palin's lust interest TW Shannon plagiarized Rand Paul.
    Rand Paul’s website: “More money, more bureaucracy,
    and more government intervention
    have eroded educational standards.”
    Package Shannon’s website: “More money, more bureaucracy, and more government intervention have eroded educational standards.”
    4:36 is right on.
    Robert Costa formerly of right wing National Review and now at the WaPo had the moves put on him by Todd Palin.
    Robert Costa @costareports 5h
    "I'm in the back, leaning up against the wall.
    Guy comes over alone, leans next to me.
    It's Todd Palin, taking it all in."

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    1. Anonymous7:52 PM

      Oh now that is good. Any pictures for all of us fans? Todd hittin on a dude while palin endorses castrating pig gal on stage. Oh my where is the SNL folks.....script ready to go.

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  15. Anonymous6:02 PM

    lol, my guess is instead of a 100 grand an appearance she is now getting about 5 to 10 grand. Next stop, county fairs and church basements for "offerings".
    Granny Hollywood and Pimp Tawd might actually have to get "rill" jobs soon or start selling off properties.

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    1. Anonymous6:15 PM

      Sarah Palin has had rill jobs in the past but she's always hired someone else to do the work while she did the photo ops (just like standing in front of a green screen talking about shit she has never seen). She's too lazy to work, she has always been too lazy to work; she was elected to her only real jobs by people who didn't care if she worked or not.

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    2. Anonymous6:20 PM

      Palin's draw is down to 250? Pretty soon she'll have to drag along her leeching extended family members...

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    3. 6:20

      Strange, that's her viewing audience for her sorry cheesey show..

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  16. Anonymous6:09 PM

    That picture with the hooker shoes and gardening gloves is the cheesiest thing I've seen in months. Conservative women cannot think laterally. What a blessing that they're forced to gather in small groups like this one and leave normal people alone.

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    1. Anonymous7:56 PM

      I was thinking the very same thing. Don't those women look around and think? Gee am I with the real women? do I fit the sara type? wow. What woman in their right mind would compare herself with that? Seriously? its a mess. a real mess.

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  17. Anonymous6:11 PM

    The newspaper report said 250 people. The other day she played to a crowd of 300. Good times.

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  18. Anonymous6:14 PM

    I wish someone would water board her to see if we can really get out of her what her problem is....

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  19. Anonymous6:42 PM

    Iowa? Why would She-Pac have a conference on a Sunday when many Iowans attend churches and visit family? The organizer wasn't looking for a big crowd it seems. Probably a Koch affair and it didn't matter who attended, but that these gals got paid.

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  20. Anonymous6:49 PM

    Those jeans she keeps wearing must be pretty ripe by now. They'll be standing on their own if she doesn't wash them soon.

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  21. Anonymous7:39 PM

    Here's an interesting article on the little-known third Koch brother and his attempted land grab in Colorado.
    http://tinyurl.com/kz8n5tr

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  22. Anonymous7:43 PM

    Nobody in their right mind would pay palin to show up and endorse them. Its like political suicide. Good gosh that wacko post menopausal ding bat has gone off the deep end of the sewer. She cant stop. Why would she do this? is her raptured mind busy or just plain stupid? She needs to retire that broomstick and go home and take care of all those kids. And maybe for once promote education and that does not mean in a tent.

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  23. Anonymous7:54 PM

    250 Wow. That candidate herself should have been able to draw that crowd by herself with just friends and family.

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    1. Anonymous8:23 PM

      They are saying that Joni had been drawing about 500 to her big weekend events, so Sarah ran about half of them off. Just another payday for Sarah.

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  24. Anonymous7:58 PM

    Anyone else notice how the more a candidate hates America and its democratically elected representatives, the more they figure they better splash OLD GLORY liberally on their banners?

    Same thought behind saying "I hate niggraz, but I ain't no racist."

    (Well, okay then, that makes it alright.)

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  25. Anonymous8:11 PM

    Stripper heels on and work gloves off...yep, that's our Ms Palin! Prancing around, doing nothing useful...




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  26. Anonymous8:12 PM

    "The Sacrilegious Sarah Palin"

    she's being ripped apart by The American Conservative for her waterboarding/baptism comments. deservedly so.

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-sacrilegious-sarah-palin/

    "Man, the 12 minute speech Sarah Palin gave to the NRA convention is awful. It’s just witless, red-meat blathering, delivered in that nasal whine of hers that makes it sound like she’s chewing wads of tinfoil. For people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.

    Fast-forward in the video to the 6:30 mark, though, and listen to what she says about terrorists. It’s part of a long harangue about lily-livered liberals, delivered in such a way that makes Archie Bunker sound like Cicero. Money quote:

    “Oh, but you can’t offend them, can’t make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”

    OK, stop. Not only is this woman, putatively a Christian, praising torture, but she is comparing it to a holy sacrament of the Christian faith. It’s disgusting — but even more disgusting, those NRA members, many of whom are no doubt Christians, cheered wildly for her...."

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  27. Anonymous8:23 PM

    Isn't pig castration like birth control pills or abortion? How can a pro-life religiosa support castration? Next they will be calling for man husbands to be castrated. What about all those eggs that will be deprived of pig sperm? It can't be right.

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    1. Anonymous10:06 PM

      Yes, pig castration is killing off all of the sperm that poor little piggy was ever going to produce. It's going against God's will.

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  28. Anonymous9:45 PM

    Sarah is a "useful idiot." Hey Sarah, how's it feel to be a whore of Leninist Russia? Fucking moron.

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  29. Anonymous10:06 PM

    For such a Good Christian woman, she took called a holy sacrament a form of torture. Isn't that funny? At least she got the attention that she has been craving.

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  30. Anonymous10:36 PM

    Joni probably castrated pigs like Sarah field-dressed moose: never. Those conservative women like to talk a bunch of shit about how masculine they are and in the next breath they whine about sexism.

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  31. Anonymous10:49 PM

    I'm glad to see that Christians and Conservatives are finally calling Palin out on her offensive so-called-Christian propaganda.

    "Palin and all those who cheered her sacrilegious jibe ought to be ashamed of themselves. For us Christians, baptism is the entry into new life. Palin invoked it to celebrate torture. Even if you don’t believe that waterboarding is torture, surely you agree that it should not be compared to baptism, and that such a comparison should be laughed at. What does it say about the character of a person that they could make that joking comparison, and that so many people would cheer for it. Nothing good — and nothing that does honor to the cause of Jesus Christ."

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-sacrilegious-sarah-palin/

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  32. Anonymous10:52 PM

    Comments regarding "waterboarding" opinion piece.

    Squeaker Boehner says:
    April 27, 2014 at 11:00 pm

    Change a few percentage points in 2008, and this woman would have been Vice President of the United States, with only one elderly heartbeat between her and the summit of earthly power. It’s terrifying to think what could have been. She’s a symptom that something is frighteningly wrong not just within the American conservative movement, but among the GOP leadership who accepted her in 2008, the vice presidential selection system that coughed her up, and the presidentialist system that could have given her all the stakes in one fell swoop.

    She’s an excellent reminder that high politics (in any country) will always attract people who are not just ambitious but truly dangerous, and that we should all be vigilant.
    John says:
    April 27, 2014 at 11:02 pm

    I admire your statement, not least because you know that you will be one of only a very few conservative commentators making it.

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-sacrilegious-sarah-palin/

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  33. Anonymous10:59 PM

    More comments from conservatives on Palin's waterboarding comment.

    "John Blade Wiederspan says:
    April 27, 2014 at 11:48 pm

    This harkens to the Bundy episode. After all the insane, asinine, anti-U.S. statements; he is finally deserted because of blatantly racists utterances. Saw Sarah’s retirement speech from the Governors office. It was a rambling train wreak. How could anyone, ever, take her seriously? Her national attention brings to mind children falsely (or truly) praising the mentally/physically challenged classmate in the schoolyard just to hear them say something ridiculous. Of all the statements, she has made, this is the one that brings some conservatives up short? Hmm….I am tempted to say, better late than never, but that would be impolite.

    [NFR: Oh, come on, I've been criticizing Palin for years. I can't think of the last time I heard anything from her or about her -- but then, I don't watch TV, so maybe I've missed some things. Palin has no power, and is not going to get elected to anything, ever. I don't feel it necessary to put her on Google Alert, and react every time she says something dopey (and as Mollie said, Palin's critics said some pretty stupid things too, overreacting to her). If Palin hadn't brought baptism into it, I would have rolled my eyes at this and not said anything, because why bother? -- RD]
    Fulton says:
    April 27, 2014 at 11:55 pm

    A typically stupid vainglorious remark from her with an added side of ugliness with the baptism reference. When Palin first emerged with McCain’s VP pick, I actually felt she got a really raw deal on the media reception which was really disdainful simply because she was this religious woman they hadn’t really heard of from a small town in Alaska. I kind of hoped she’d turn out to be smart just to vex the bien pensant. However, unfortunately . . . .

    At this point she’s functionally equivalent to a guy who comes on and ties funny rubber balloon animals to entertain the kids, who in this case are the dimmer conservatives at these kinds of gatherings.
    JoyfulA says:
    April 27, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    I’m a liberal Christian, and I’m appalled, too. I’m happy we see this the same way.

    Though one person keeps trying to say it was a "figure of speach." He seems to want to go to war with ... I'm not sure what he's saying except to spew hate.

    "We’ve spent 13 years pussyfooting around this. “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” And those who resist and continue to fight us should receive the “baptism of terrorists” and worse."

    Palin sure knows how to bring them out of the woodwork and to froth them up, doesn't she?

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-sacrilegious-sarah-palin/

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      Sacrilegious and far, far worse.

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  34. Anonymous2:48 AM

    HOW DUMB are these voters who come to listen to Palin (and not for sport like me?). She says nothing! Just bumoer sticker phrases. Why oh why doesn't aNYONE ask her a follow up question?
    The media really is lame where she is concerned.

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  35. Anonymous3:31 AM

    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/why-sarah-palins-sacreligious-torture-nostalgia-matters/361289/

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    1. Anonymous8:35 AM

      To satisfy her base she will be urinating on stage. I hope she has her wig cleaned for that one and wears her ripe black penis pants that are such a hit.

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  36. Anonymous3:45 AM

    "I have a theory that Sarah Palin has the intent to humiliate John McCain as often as possible. Maybe it’s because McCain wouldn’t let her give her own concession speech."

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_04/palins_cosmic_torment_of_john050085.php

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  37. Anonymous4:41 AM

    Palin's achilles heel is her inability to take unscripted questions and talk in a calm manner. She'll never be more than a barking dog on crack.

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  38. Anonymous4:51 AM

    Poor Sarah. Apparently, she only owns one pair of shoes. Those "flag" monstrosities she wears in every photo op are getting old.

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  39. Anonymous5:22 AM

    Sarah Palin soldiers on as a diminished figure in the Republican Party

    When Palin took the stage at the Hy-Vee Conference Center under a banner that read “Heels On, Gloves Off” on Sunday at an event for Senate candidate Joni Ernst, the ballroom was half-full, with a couple hundred attendees scattered in clumps. Three people held signs and, while Palin was received warmly, only about 50 people stayed after to shake her hand on the rope line as Shania Twain’s “She’s Not Just a Pretty Face” blared from the speakers.

    Craig Robinson, a former political director for the Iowa GOP, said that it was Palin’s smallest in-state crowd ever. Organizers blamed the heavy rainfall.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sarah-palin-soldiers-on-as-a-diminished-figure-in-the-republican-party/2014/04/28/e7a8ab9a-ce6b-11e3-b812-0c92213941f4_story.html

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  40. Grouchodawg7:50 AM

    I don't appreciate her wearing a Cyclone Sweatshirt!! Get that bitch out of my city!!!!

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  41. Chenagrrl8:09 AM

    Damn, are those Conservative ruby slippers? If so, did the house fall on the witch?

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  42. Anonymous12:25 PM

    I think Sarah has Pimp Daddy Todd buy her upper body covering at the airport. We know she wears the same jeans.

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