Ron Chusid: Any claims from Trump have to be taken with a grain of salt. I don’ t know if Trump is right about this being a record, but regardless of whether it is a record it does look bad...
Keith Wilson: A sitting Senator losing by 19 points? That is a record? Seems like an awfully small margin to be the worst in history.
Ron Chusid: I thought that as writing but figured that there is enough truth to the first part. Being half black and looking black are enough for such conservati ves to oppose him.
David Chess: Actually even the first part of “bla ck foreign-bo rn Muslim socialist who hangs out with terrorists ” isn’ t true; his mother was white after all. :)
Ron Chusid: The Paulbots are such fascinatin g people. I wonder if this author of this comment also claims that Paul and many of his supports are not racists. Such Paulbots definitely are disti...
Eugenick: GOP is indistingu ishable from the Democrat Party as it was during Kennedy, and the only direction both parties are going is to the left. And they are both crooks and supporters of crony...
Ron Chusid: If left and right were a simple line that would be the case. The real world is more complicate d than shown here. On economics the country has moved to the right. The Democrats have...
Fritz: If Republican s are moving the right, and Liberals to the middle, doesn̵ 7;t that mean everyone is moving to the right, since the middle is to the right of the “old ” Democ...
Gaius Sempronius Gracchus: A series of bad jokes fallen flat followed by a hilarious unbaptism ceremony.
Professor Grimm: No Surprise: Republican s Moving To Far Right While Democrats …: The Republican Party has moved to the far righ… ; http://t.c o/3KgMQfPR
Ron Chusid: Let’ s just say I posted this partially to make the point that it is the Republican s, not Democrats, who are moving to new extremes, and partially as something of interest which...
Gaius Sempronius Gracchus: Kennedy and Truman to the left of LBJ? Carter to the left of all three? Bosh.
ann sutherland: No Surprise: Republican s Moving To Far Right While Democrats Moving Towards Middle – http://t.c o/Ua0eYUai http://t.c o/Ua0eYUai
Ron Chusid: In most cases despite moving to the far right, but in some cases taking far right positions has helped them by motivating the far right base. Bush won his first term by running as a...
JUDI: No Surprise: Republican s Moving To Far Right While Democrats Moving Towards Middle – http://t.c o/7oPdZzxT (via @sociables ite)
Fritz: I assume that the purpose of a political party is to win elections. That assumption in mind, haven̵ 7;t Republican s been successful ? Is that despite or because of their move to the...
William J Reynolds: Juan Williams Exposes The Racist Euphemisms Used By Republican Candidates – http://t.c o/SvTBPHt6 (via @sociables ite)
Ron Chusid: The demand for Obama̵ 7;s birth certificat e was a witch hunt– ;especiall y as most of the demands for it came after it was actually released. The questions about Romney&...
Gaius Sempronius Gracchus: Obama was born to a single mom on food stamps. It would help him for his campaign or his supporters to remind people of that.
It sure says a lot about our current MSM when one of the only networks that is asking the questions that should be asked, and calling out the public figures that need to be called out, doesn’t even consider itself a real news network and uses comedians as “anchors”, yet the “REAL” news networks are the actual jokes.
Perfect! A tip of the hat is in order for poor old Dan Quayle. Prior to Governor Palin’s nomination as vice-presidential candidate ten months ago, he was generally regarded as the very worst choice of a running mate in living memory. All that has changed. Compared to Sarah, Danny boy is starting to look like Albert Einstein.
E=M.C. Hammer.
I guess the time has come for all of us breathe a collective sigh of relief. But for the mysterious workings of fate, President McCain would at this minute be snoozing away in the White House and this idiotic woman would be a seventy-three-year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Regardless of one’s political viewpoint or party affiliation, it must be admitted that we really dodged a bullet with the defeat of the McCain/Unable ticket last November. Had these two been inaugurated on January 20, the law of averages virtually guaranteed that at some point between the years 2009 and 2013 this country would have been stuck with President Gidget von Braun.
In his column a few days ago in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen suggested that John McCain’s judgement should be put into question for making such an abysmal choice when he chose Governor Palin. Much as I admire Cohen as a writer, his assessment isn’t quite fair. McCain’s first two choices were former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge or that doofus Joe Lieberman. It was the Right Wing extremists who control the Republican party that forced Sarah Palin down his throat.
Instead of focusing a glare of condemnation toward John McCain, the real target of our collective wrath should be aimed at the “grand old party” itself. Think about that for a minute: So far down the ideological deep end has that party fallen, the prospect of a probable Sarah Palin presidency seemed to most of them a perfectly fine and dandy idea. A new Gallup poll has just been released: Seventy-one percent of registered Republicans would be “likely” to vote for her if she runs in 2012. Medications, please.
What, you may well ask, is her motivation for committing political suicide by abandoning the office that the people of Alaska entrusted to her care two years ago? When NBC’s Andrea Mitchell suggested to her that after ten months in the national limelight, the comparative drudgery of her duties as governor might have started to seem boring, Sarah Palin responded in words that should be etched in granite at the base of Mount Rushmore:
“The nitty-gritty, like, you mean the fish slime and the dirt under the fingernails and stuff that’s me?”
Brilliant. Someone hand me my chisel.
Why did she resign? She says that as a lame duck governor she won’t be as effective as she would like to be. The fact that she expects the voters of Alaska to swallow this nonsense without a chaser shows the utter contempt she must feel toward the people she was sworn to serve.
Does she really believe that she has a shot at the nomination three years from now? The answer (unbelievably) is yes. Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News put it well: The woman has “delusions of adequacy”. The pundits (most of them anyway) are starting to compare her rambling press conference on July 3 to Dick Nixon’s infamous tirade when he lost the California governor’s race in 1962 (“You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore”). Some are even daring to suggest that, like Tricky Dick, she will ultimately be victorious. The only problem with that scenario is the fact that there are slightly over one-hundred things that separate Sarah Palin from Richard Milhaus Nixon: I.Q. points.
What else were her motivations for quitting? Money. She knows damned well that there is a nice chunk of change to be made in the lower forty-eight and that getting from there to here is an expensive and time-consuming process that infringes upon her gubernatorial responsibilities. Were you aware that the distance between Fairbanks and Washington is almost as great as the distance between Washington and London? What to do? To hell with her constituents and head off to the land of the golden goose.
When asked what her future plans were, she said that she will continue to work overtime for the people of Alaska. I’m willing to bet anyone that in the next twelve months, most – if not all of her time – will be spent in New York and Washington. Any takers?
The next three years will find her cashing in on her status as a….uhh….well, whatever her status just might be. Count on her making a national speaking tour for at least one-hundred thousand dollars a pop. A radio talk show? Probably. A gig on FOX Noise? That’s almost inevitable. There is a fortune to be made here and she’s not about to let something as trivial as her oath of office prevent her from making it.
Does she really have a shot at the nomination in three years? I sure hope so. That would be too good to be true.
Compared to Palin, Quayle is a Cambridge don. Palin is the product for the totally dumbed down right, the smug, ignorant clowns who swallow everything that Rush and FOX say while whining about the MSM.
It sure says a lot about our current MSM when one of the only networks that is asking the questions that should be asked, and calling out the public figures that need to be called out, doesn’t even consider itself a real news network and uses comedians as “anchors”, yet the “REAL” news networks are the actual jokes.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here.
Perfect! A tip of the hat is in order for poor old Dan Quayle. Prior to Governor Palin’s nomination as vice-presidential candidate ten months ago, he was generally regarded as the very worst choice of a running mate in living memory. All that has changed. Compared to Sarah, Danny boy is starting to look like Albert Einstein.
E=M.C. Hammer.
I guess the time has come for all of us breathe a collective sigh of relief. But for the mysterious workings of fate, President McCain would at this minute be snoozing away in the White House and this idiotic woman would be a seventy-three-year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Regardless of one’s political viewpoint or party affiliation, it must be admitted that we really dodged a bullet with the defeat of the McCain/Unable ticket last November. Had these two been inaugurated on January 20, the law of averages virtually guaranteed that at some point between the years 2009 and 2013 this country would have been stuck with President Gidget von Braun.
In his column a few days ago in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen suggested that John McCain’s judgement should be put into question for making such an abysmal choice when he chose Governor Palin. Much as I admire Cohen as a writer, his assessment isn’t quite fair. McCain’s first two choices were former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge or that doofus Joe Lieberman. It was the Right Wing extremists who control the Republican party that forced Sarah Palin down his throat.
Instead of focusing a glare of condemnation toward John McCain, the real target of our collective wrath should be aimed at the “grand old party” itself. Think about that for a minute: So far down the ideological deep end has that party fallen, the prospect of a probable Sarah Palin presidency seemed to most of them a perfectly fine and dandy idea. A new Gallup poll has just been released: Seventy-one percent of registered Republicans would be “likely” to vote for her if she runs in 2012. Medications, please.
What, you may well ask, is her motivation for committing political suicide by abandoning the office that the people of Alaska entrusted to her care two years ago? When NBC’s Andrea Mitchell suggested to her that after ten months in the national limelight, the comparative drudgery of her duties as governor might have started to seem boring, Sarah Palin responded in words that should be etched in granite at the base of Mount Rushmore:
“The nitty-gritty, like, you mean the fish slime and the dirt under the fingernails and stuff that’s me?”
Brilliant. Someone hand me my chisel.
Why did she resign? She says that as a lame duck governor she won’t be as effective as she would like to be. The fact that she expects the voters of Alaska to swallow this nonsense without a chaser shows the utter contempt she must feel toward the people she was sworn to serve.
Does she really believe that she has a shot at the nomination three years from now? The answer (unbelievably) is yes. Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News put it well: The woman has “delusions of adequacy”. The pundits (most of them anyway) are starting to compare her rambling press conference on July 3 to Dick Nixon’s infamous tirade when he lost the California governor’s race in 1962 (“You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore”). Some are even daring to suggest that, like Tricky Dick, she will ultimately be victorious. The only problem with that scenario is the fact that there are slightly over one-hundred things that separate Sarah Palin from Richard Milhaus Nixon: I.Q. points.
What else were her motivations for quitting? Money. She knows damned well that there is a nice chunk of change to be made in the lower forty-eight and that getting from there to here is an expensive and time-consuming process that infringes upon her gubernatorial responsibilities. Were you aware that the distance between Fairbanks and Washington is almost as great as the distance between Washington and London? What to do? To hell with her constituents and head off to the land of the golden goose.
When asked what her future plans were, she said that she will continue to work overtime for the people of Alaska. I’m willing to bet anyone that in the next twelve months, most – if not all of her time – will be spent in New York and Washington. Any takers?
The next three years will find her cashing in on her status as a….uhh….well, whatever her status just might be. Count on her making a national speaking tour for at least one-hundred thousand dollars a pop. A radio talk show? Probably. A gig on FOX Noise? That’s almost inevitable. There is a fortune to be made here and she’s not about to let something as trivial as her oath of office prevent her from making it.
Does she really have a shot at the nomination in three years? I sure hope so. That would be too good to be true.
SA-RAH! SA-RAH!
You go, girl!
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Perhaps there’s still hope, she’s probably morelikely to get mauled to death by a bear before the next election anyway.
“Perhaps there’s still hope, she’s probably morelikely to get mauled to death by a bear before the next election anyway.”
Or maybe fall out of a helicopter while hunting for wolf-patties…
We can only hope..
Compared to Palin, Quayle is a Cambridge don. Palin is the product for the totally dumbed down right, the smug, ignorant clowns who swallow everything that Rush and FOX say while whining about the MSM.