Sarah Palin finally speaks publicly about Bristol's hush hush marriage.

Courtesy of E Online:  

"I love having a new son-in-law!" she gushed to E! News on Match Game earlier this week. "He's a wonderful young man, Medal of Honor winner. Such a patriot! I love Dakota." 

As for the celebration itself, Sarah explained that it was very low-key. "They kept it very, very hush-hush," the politician said. "Last go around, it got very hyped and vamped up. This go around, they were just like, 'We're just going to do our thing.'" 

She continued, "It was a year after they had called off the initial celebration…but it's all good. They have a beautiful baby girl, Sailor, and it's great."

Personally I think that Bristol got him drunk in Hawaii and then dragged him to one of those little wedding chapels before he could sober up enough to realize the mistake he was about to make.

Of course there is still not actual evidence that they DID get married. 

Now the death watch begins to see how long it takes before this doomed marital union disintegrates into screaming matches, accusations of infidelity, late night 911 phone calls, and of course the inevitable splitsville.

And that might be the thing that drives Bristol over the bend so she can join her mother in looney town.

.@SarahPalinUSA: "Splodey heads keep ‘splodin” https://t.co/RX3O84DasA

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"Splodey heads keep ‘splodin?”

Okay here's a health tip from your Uncle Gryphen:

"Do NOT drink the water in Wasilla."

Seriously just don't.  

Sarah Palin blows kisses at Tea party political terrorist Ted Cruz and encourages him to keep attempting to destroy the country.

"Hey Cruz-y. Thinking of you."

Courtesy of Palin's ghostwriters and that defunct site over on the Right Wing of the internet:

Americans who are fed up with Obamacare won a victory yesterday. The House voted to defund Obamacare while still funding the federal government to avoid a “devastating” shutdown. (I shall not digress, but it’s beyond distressing to hear liberals try to convince Americans that any government slowdown is comparable to “terrorism.”) (Yes how dare the media identify terrorism as terrorism when it is not done by those brown Muslim types.)

Now the battle goes to the Senate, and we’ll find out if Harry Reid is so committed to the horrendous “Un-affordable Care Act” that he’ll be the one to shut down the government to fund the unworkable Obamacare. (This is the new Republican trope. That they are NOT the ones who will end up being blamed if the government shuts down, but that they can somehow lay the blame on Harry Reid and the President. That of course is ridiculous and in the end the Republicans will bear virtually all of the blame. Something that Sarah Palin could not possibly understand.)

Let’s be clear. Republicans in Congress aren't advocating a government shutdown. (See?) That’s why they voted in the House to fully fund our bureaucracy while defunding Obamacare. The conservatives in Congress are listening to the majority of Americans who do not want Obamacare. (The people only THINK they don't want Obamacare due to the smear tactics and ad buys used by the Koch brothers and their corporate cohorts. Once Americans start to access the ACA they will be of a much different opinion, which explains WHY the GOP is terrified to let it start implementation.)

Following the will of the people is apparently a novel idea in D.C. these days. Just ask Senator Ted Cruz and his liberty-loving posse on Capitol Hill who have led the charge to defund Obama’s train wreck. (And who better to recognize a train wreck?)

Those of us who hang in there supporting a major political party with our energy, time, and contributions would like to believe that that party would praise principled conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for following through on campaign promises. We’d like to believe that the GOP establishment would applaud the way these bold leaders have rallied the grassroots to their cause. But, no, such praise would require a commensurate level of guts and leadership, and the permanent political class in D.C. is nothing if not gutless and rudderless. (Ahh calling the seasoned Republicans "gutless." I wonder how John McCain feels about his creature these days?)

We’re now, once again, subjected to the “anonymous sources” backstabbing game. The Capitol Hill cowards are rushing to anonymously denounce Senator Cruz to any reporter with a pad and pen. (Or as they are known more widely, politically savvy insiders who know that Cruz and his pals are about to destroy the Republic party from within, while doing untold damage to the country.)

Welcome to our world, Ted. The same people have been denouncing conservatives like me for years (right after they ask for help fundraising for themselves or endorsing the latest candidate they’ve suckered into paying their exorbitant consulting fees). We can compare shiv marks next time we meet, my friend. (The only thing conservative about Sarah Palin is the number of brain cells she uses while arguing her point.)

If the Senate doesn’t get behind Ted Cruz’s efforts to defund Obamacare, it won’t be because of any failure on Ted’s part. It’ll be because there weren’t enough principled leaders to stand with him, and that would be a tragic loss, not for Ted, but for America. (Yes how will America survive having politicians do the right thing for their constituents rather than to scream "Benghazi!" and throw a two year old style tantrum until the process in Washington grinds to a halt?)

More and more Americans are waking up to the nightmare of Obamacare as its rollout continues. Hardworking families are losing their employer-provided health care coverage. Businesses are cutting back their employees’ hours to skirt Obamacare’s mandates. Americans barely scrapping (I think this was supposed to be "scraping.")  by are discovering that Obamacare has made health care completely unaffordable. Those who aren’t part of a protected special interest group have been left in the cold. (Uh yeah, none of that is exactly true and once the law goes into effect, it will lower insurance premiums, provide far better coverage, and help businesses grow. And THAT is what the Republicans are afraid of!)

When you’re living on a fixed income, having to pay hundreds of dollars more each month for health care will cut into your ability to pay for basic necessities like food, electricity, or gas (which has increased 90% under Obama). Open your eyes, America. When the full reality of Obamacare strikes home, we’ll thank God that principled leaders like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee took a stand to stop it in its tracks. (Wanna bet?)

But the permanent political class is handwringing and howling that if there’s a government shutdown the media will blame Republicans for it. Here’s a little newsflash, GOP establishment: Whenever anything bad happens, the media blames Republicans for it. That’s not an excuse to roll over and play dead. (What a great idea! The public already hates the GOP so why not keep doing things to reinforce that hate, rather than do something to earn back respect? We could call this "The Palin Doctrine.") It’s a call to follow the advice I give my daughters: Woman up, stand your ground, and fight like a girl! (Refusing to cooperate, throwing tantrums when they don't get their way, and changing the subject when they start to lose and argument. I think they already ARE fighting like a girl. No offense ladies.)

I want no pity. I need no empathy. But use me as a barometer. Over the years, the leftwing media has falsely and irrationally accused me of everything from faking a pregnancy to abetting murder. They lie. Deal with it. ("Falsely?" "Irrationally?" I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.)

Republicans in Congress support funding the government. If the Democrats block these funding measures, a government shutdown is on them. In the meantime, stop the ridiculous hysterics. Heck, about the most significant thing that happened during the last government shutdown was Clinton hooked up with Monica. (Actually it made the Republicans look like petulant children, cost them seats in the next election, and helped smooth the way for Clinton's reelection bid. So in the words of our President, "Proceed gentlemen.")

As I said in my speech at CPAC this year, it’s time for the Senate to put itself on Cruz Control. (Jesus how many SarahPAC bucks did THAT line cost her?)

Ignore the peanut gallery pundits. They’ve written my political obituary so many times, I’m practically Lazarus. (Yes, if Lazarus had never been able to crawl all the way out of his grave and simply yelled unintelligible gibberish at passerby's from his hole in the ground. Or Facebook.) Now they’re trying to destroy Ted Cruz. Good luck with that, you weasels. Texans are just as tough as Alaskans. Smaller, but just as tough. 

But here’s the important thing that none of these establishment backstabbers understand. It’s not the messenger that matters. It’s the message. You can try to take out someone like Ted Cruz, but that won’t stop the message from catching fire. (A flaming message? Isn't that a Molotov Cocktail?)

The message is liberty, and it’s been resounding ever since a band of patriots dumped tea in Boston harbor. The message only grows stronger. The grassroots is bigger than any one person. We the People will rise up, and we will make our voices heard. Right now, Ted Cruz is speaking for us in this Obamacare fight. God bless him for it. 

Hang in there, Ted and Mike. You have millions of supporters among ordinary hardworking Americans. We support you because you don’t shy away from the fray. May your colleagues in the Senate gain the wisdom to support your excellent efforts so that you can see that the view is better from inside the bus than under it. (Yeah I think that Palin has confused the homeless guy in the back arguing with the empty seat in front of him with the driver of the bus.)

Oh, and a little reminder to Republican senators up for re-election in 2014: Moose season ends soon, allowing more time on one’s hands. So, we’ll be watching your votes very carefully this week. (That sounds like a veiled threat to shoot somebody, doesn't it?)

Some days I really hate my job. And this is one one of them.

Having to spend my morning wading through that ghostwritten sewage is not a job for the timid, or for a man with only one slipper (Where is that other slipper?) and only one cup of coffee to inspire him.

However if I don't write about Sarah Palin who will? (No seriously, who will?)

I think it is perfect that the Palin albatross has landed on the Ted Cruz ship of fools, as that is a sure indication that it is about to hit a political reef and sink into the inky blackness.

Of course this was all ghostwritten for her, though there was certainly a lot of Palin in there. ("Faking a pregnancy." "Abetting murder." That last one is just her way of picking at the never quite ready to heal Gabby Giffords scab.)

However after all is said and done Obamacare WILL move forward, and like Medicare it will soon seem to be an indispensable part of American life. And Ted Cruz will join the ranks of radical firebrands like Jesse Helms, Joe McCarthy, and that famous Republican Adolph Hitler.

And Sarah Palin will be remembered, much like Lazarus, as a moldering corpse who stumbled around among the living, not realizing that they were only stinking up the place and looking more decayed with every public appearance.

Rank and file Republicans believe the party needs to shift further to the right. In other news survivors of lightning strikes believe they need to play out in the rain more.

Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee the three horsemen of the GOP Apocalypse

Courtesy of TPM:  

The findings from Pew suggested that rank-and-file Republicans agree with the national party leaders who have led an autopsy following their humbling showing in last year’s election. A huge majority of Republican voters — 67 percent — said that the party needs to “address major problems” in order to fare better in future presidential elections. Fifty-nine percent said the party “needs to reconsider some positions” if it wants to do better in presidential races. 

But when it comes to a prescription for the party’s electoral ills, a majority of GOP voters said their leaders should move further to the right, not the center. Fifty-four percent of Republicans told Pew that party leaders should move in a “more conservative direction,” while 40 percent said they should take a “moderate direction.” 

With regard to the issues dominating Washington these days, more Republicans believe that the party’s positions are not conservative enough. By a roughly two-to-one margin, more Republicans said the party’s position on immigration is not conservative enough than those who said the position is too conservative. The margin ballooned to four-to-one when it came to the party’s position on government spending. 

On gay marriage, slightly more Republicans (31 percent) said the party’s position is too conservative than the number who said it’s not conservative enough (27 percent). Gun policy was the only issue tested by Pew wherein a majority (58 percent) said the party’s position was about right.

You know from the outside looking in this seems  almost pathological. The idea that by continuing to do something which is marginalizing your party so badly that it may cease to exist is essentially political suicide, yet the majority of these people simply do not see it that way.

You know I was sitting here trying to think what this reminds me of and then it struck me. THIS is almost exactly like when very religious families refuse medical care in favor of faith healing and prayer. As their relative gets sicker and sicker, they simply pray harder and harder, without ever considering reaching out for medical assistance.

And then once the family member dies, the family chastises themselves for not having had enough faith.

Essentially that is the Republican party in a nutshell. They have faith that will win more elections if they are more conservative, and if that does not work then they need to try harder to be more conservative. And if THAT does not work, well there is always trying to be more conservative.

Actually I think this might be an insult to the Hindenburg.

Let's be honest this is giving a little too much credit to any potential Sarah Palin Senate run. In real life her trial balloon would quit halfway through and then plummet to the earth before starring in a reality show that demonstrated what a crappy balloon it was in the first place.

Today we have an MSNBC twofer. First Rachel Maddow, and then Lawrence O'Donnell, reveal devastatingly damaging videos of Mitt Romney. Get your popcorn kids!

Rachel starts off discussing the video which I posted here last month that showed Mitt Romney talking about taking over a Chinese sweatshop and bragging about the fact that there was barbed wire on the high fences to "keep workers out."  She then goes on to broadcast the newest portion of these same videos which show Mitt Romney making the unbelievably insensitive remarks about Obama supporters.

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Now right after Rachel's show, Lawrence O'Donnell came on the air, and during HIS show Mitt Romney held a very uncomfortable press conference in which he tries to explain away the videos. That debacle starts around the 2:32 mark of this segment.

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Okay now THAT is not going to help Mitt Romney one little bit. He was clearly upset, did not have a definitive response, and rushed off of the stage like his hair had just caught fire.

Folks I think we are seeing the most impressive flame out of a presidential candidate in American history.

Gee I wonder how the President feels about all of this?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

The good news: The Republican party in Alaska has been taken over. The bad news: It looks like Sarah Palin surrogate Joe Miller was behind it.

"Well we finally did it!"

This from Alaska Dispatch:

This weekend, it was the young, sometimes bedraggled but always idealstic and not always so polite, supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul who were certain that if they were in charge of the party, Alaska and the country would be a better place. 

And now they’ll get their chance to prove it. 

After at least 12 years of the Alaska GOP being run by what those party newcomers call “establishment Republicans,” a new force is taking over: Alaska Republicans voted Russ Millete as the party’s new chairman and Debbie Holland-Brown as co-chair. They are both supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Millette, 67, has lived off and on in Alaska, most recently returning to the state in 2005. He will assume chair of the state GOP at the start of 2013. But for now, he will serve as the party’s finance chairman. 

Ruedrich, an old-school Republican who had held the job of chairman since 2000, chose not to run again, leaving the field wide open.

Now as somebody who absolutely DESPISES the Republican party in Alaska, I at first welcomed this as good news.  I am NO Ron Paul supporter, but I could NOT imagine how anybody could run the party worse, or make it any more corrupt, than Randy Ruederich.

But then I read this:

... after the party delegates’ votes were tallied Saturday evening, a cheer erupted from Paul supporters on the second floor of the Hilton. Others looked crestfallen. Some blamed failed senatorial candidate Joe Miller and his wife, Kathleen, who spent much of their time Saturday huddled with Paul supporters. Miller was largely expected to jockey for a party leadership position, but it was Kathleen who, sporting a Ron Paul sticker, won a seat on Alaska’s GOP Electoral College. 

The Millers were nowhere to be found at the party afterwards at Ron Paul’s Alaska campaign headquarters in downtown Anchorage, where both Millete and Brown spoke to supporters. 

“They tried every maneuver they could, but God prevailed,” Millete told the crowd, many who were half his age or younger. 

To be sure, not all Paul supporters believe in God, but a certain alliance between the tea party and Paulites was necessary for an upset in GOP politics on the Last Frontier, as evidenced by Joe Miller backers aligning with Paul supporters at this weekend’s convention. And so, regardless of religious beliefs, they cheered for Millete.

Oh shit!

If Miller is quietly behind this pulling the strings, then you can bet your ass that Palin is behind him pulling HIS strings.  After all Palin and Miller attempted a similar coup of the Republican party back in 2008. (As a matter of fact THAT attempt was behind the scandal that helped to derail Miller's run at the Senate seat in 2010.)

Only this time they used the Ron Paul supporters in Alaska to out maneuver the established GOP players. So THAT explains why Palin has been kissing Ron Paul's ass lately!

As much as I have dreamed about the Alaska GOP being taken over, and seeing the old corrupt bastards kicked to the curb, the idea of Palin now having power over the party does NOTHING but fill me with dread.

In fact this might almost make her MORE powerful, and MORE damaging to my state, then she was even as our Governor.

Well so much for me getting a good night's sleep tonight!

Did just the suggestion that he might give Sarah Palin a "major role" in his administration doom Newt Gingrich's chances of securing the GOP nomination? What do you think?

I found this little nugget included as one of the factors that might have caused Gingrich's campaign to lose steam.

Courtesy of he Huffington Post:

The Palin Factor. Some D.C.-based establishment types were preparing to reconcile themselves to former House Speaker Gingrich, if not outright endorse him, before or after the South Carolina primary last week. But according to one such insider, who asked not to be identified because of her prominent corporate lobbying role, Gingrich fatally said on Jan. 18 -- three days before the primary -- that he would offer former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a "major role in the next administration if I'm president." That one statement scared the accept-Newt, Republican-establishment types. "That sure did it for me, and I think for a lot of other people in town," the lobbyist said. 

There are a number of factors listed, and I am sure that many of them hurt Gingrich quite a bit as well. But as most of US well know, once you invite the devil into your campaign you can just NEVER get that smell of brimstone out of your clothes.

Everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, that the Grizzled Mama touches ultimately turns to a steaming pile of moose nuggets. And by the way, she still has her hands all over his campaign.

Newt is an imperfect vessel for Tea Party support, but in South Carolina the Tea Party chose to get behind him instead of the old guard’s choice. In response, the GOP establishment voices denounced South Carolinian voters with the same vitriol we usually see from the left when they spew hatred at everyday Americans “bitterly clinging” to their faith and their Second Amendment rights. The Tea Party was once again told to sit down and shut up and listen to the “wisdom” of their betters. We were reminded of the litany of Tea Party endorsed candidates in 2010 who didn’t win. Well, here’s a little newsflash to the establishment: without the Tea Party there would have been no historic 2010 victory at all. 

Oh yeah, she's helping alright. Helping him to lose support even faster than he sheds ailing wives.