I hope Sarah Palin’s Bus Tour Takes Her Through Babylon, Long Island

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Then she can be the media whørë of Babylon.

PAD

141 comments on “I hope Sarah Palin’s Bus Tour Takes Her Through Babylon, Long Island”

  1. Shame on you, Peter! Tarring all media whørëš with the same brush as Sarah Palin?!

    1. Yeah, and if the term was used to describe any other woman – but especially Democratic women like Hillary Clinton or Barbara Boxer – it would be denounced as sexist.
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      Just last year, Jerry Brown – or a member of his inner circle – called his opponent Meg Whitman a whørë. it was caught on tape. He won anyway and not a peep was heard from “women’s organizations”.
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      So i guess the new rule is you can use sexist comments to describe women as long as they have an “R” after their name. And of course, the old rule is everyone from opponents to the media can bash Sarah Palin in a way they wouldn’t tolerate others being bashed because, you bethcha, in their eyes she deserves it.

      1. I think the key difference here (beyond the superficial nature of which way they all lean politically) is that those two’s every action doesn’t seem to be a cynical bid for attention or fame wrapped up in patriotism. If either of them behaved like a reality TV star at every turn then the media whørë description would be very apt. Same to be said for males who do the same thing. Donald Trump is a huge media whørë. That Situation guy? Media whørë. Rob Blagojevich. I could go on.

      2. So go have a little cry with her, Jerome. Oh, wait, is that too sexist for you?
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        Meanwhile, you’ll applaud as Republicans the nation over craft policy and law that seek to attack and control women.

      3. So i guess the new rule is you can use sexist comments to describe women as long as they have an “R” after their name.
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        You have to be kidding, Jerome.
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        Hillary Clinton has been the brunt of sexist barbs, like the “Hillary Clinton nutcracker.” I also recall the so-called “MSM” scrutinizing and debating her neckline of all things during her bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination; I’ve never seen a male candidate’s attire scrutinized to such a degree.
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        Palin hasn’t faced anything any other women in politics haven’t been subjected to.

      4. Jerome, this is pathetic, even for you.
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        “Media whørë” is not gender specific. It refers to someone obsessed with getting media attention.
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        “The whørë of Babylon” is an allegorical figure from the Book of Revelation.
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        I mashed the two together with a town in Long Island to make a joke about her obsession with the media and the fact that she’s traveling around the country, and your response is to claim it’s sexist?
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        Really?
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        PAD

      5. Jerome, if it makes you feel better, I consider Donald Trump a media whørë as well. If you got too close when they had dinner in Times Square, you might’ve gotten an STD.

      6. Palin hasn’t faced anything any other women in politics haven’t been subjected to.
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        I wonder how many other female candidates had the maternity of their children questioned. I wonder how many other female candidates had their son’s enlistment in the military explained as a way to duck jail. How many other female candidates were accused of banning books; books that had not even been published at the time she was supposed to have done it.
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        Palin’s email account was hacked by the son of a Democratic congressman. Is that something other candidates have had to deal with? (Please, no Weiner jokes.)

        These lies were immediate and vitriolic after her speech at the Republican convention which boosted McCain’s poll numbers impressively. It appeared for a while that Obama might lose and bloggers with a lot of time and little integrity went to work,
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        The link to the NYT article that Bill posted is from October, two months after her introduction and well after her disappointing performance in interviews and well after the lies about here were part of the political landscape.
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        So no, I don’t think Palin has faced the kind of criticism any other women in politics have been subjected to.

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        George Haberberger: “These lies were immediate and vitriolic after her speech at the Republican convention which boosted McCain’s poll numbers impressively. It appeared for a while that Obama might lose and bloggers with a lot of time and little integrity went to work,”
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        Yeah, and those are about par for the course in politics these days. Plus garbage like that was (A) not pushed by any serious news organizations and (B) is not exclusively targeted at the Right. And while fringe bloggers were talking stuff like that up and the mainstream media was saying that it was beneath worthy discussion, Fox News and the top five talkers in conservative talk radio were peddling every lie that came down the pike about Obama and the Democrats and making a few lies of their own up as they went along.
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        Oddly, the various Democrats targeted by that garbage didn’t go into hiding or play the part of the fragile “poor little me” victim roll that Palin did. Says a lot about her that this was her reaction to things back then and as recently as earlier this year.

      8. No, I think the rule is, in all things related to Palin, play the victim.

  2. Good one!

    This is why I will never believe her seriously running for president. Her inclusion on the Republican ticket doomed McCain last time around (I know several folks that were going to vote for him UNTIL Palin). And she gets paid too much right now, and wouldn’t be able to be a shameless attention whørë if she were President.

    (PS. X-Factor this week. AMAZING. You, sir, keep outdoing yourself.)

    1. Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say she wouldn’t be able to be a media whørë if she became president (may that NEVER happen…).

      I mean, it isn’t like she would have to stop going on every talk show she possibly can. And constantly saying whatever the hëll she feels like (regardless of how disrespectful it is toward certain groups) just to keep the people liking her (or, in Palin’s case, MAKE the people like her).

    2. Not that it is any more significant, but I know several people who WEREN’T going to vote for McCain until he picked Palin.

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        “This is such absolute, non-believable, revisionist bûllšhìŧ that is only swallowed by the totally ignorant or those with amnesia of recent American history.”
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        No, it’s not. I knew people who were planning to vote McCain who chose not to do so after the Palin pick as well. They were voting for McCain because they saw him as a moderate, “sane” Republican. Then they watched him run to the fringe (and then backtrack, and then run ti the fringe, and then backtrack, and then…) and watched as his VP pick ran even harder to the fringe. They then either switched their votes to a third party vote, held their nose and voted Obama or stayed home that morning.
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        Yes, those people did exist and were out there. Now, whether or not they could have statistically been enough to tip the vote is another argument all together.

    3. “This is why I will never believe her seriously running for president. Her inclusion on the Republican ticket doomed McCain last time around (I know several folks that were going to vote for him UNTIL Palin).”
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      This is such absolute, non-believable, revisionist bûllšhìŧ that is only swallowed by the totally ignorant or those with amnesia of recent American history.
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      Fact is, Sarah Palin was and obviously still remains the first vice-presidential pic to vault their running mate from a deficit in the polls to a lead.
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      McCain doomed McCain. His snooze inducing speeches. His performance at the debates. His inability to produce a memorable campaign moment BESIDES PICKING PALIN.
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      Most of all, hie biggest “gimmick that ultimately doomed him was not picking Palin – that was smart – but “suspending his campaign so he could help solve the economic meltdown. You remember the economic meltdown? Had some people saying our entire economic system was on the verge of collapse? was blamed on Bush and ergo, McCain as the standard bearer for the incumbent’s party? Think that might have had something to do with his defeat? You actually feel Palin saying she’s read all the newspapers ut in front of her through the ears and being mocked by Tina Fey had more of a impact in the way people voted than that?
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      But back to McCain’s reaction to it. According to the excellent novel “Game Change”, McCain was ill-informed about the issues that were going to be discussed at this critical meeting he suspended his campaign for and that he demanded.
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      At one point, everyone from Barney Frank to Nancy Pelosi to John Boehner to President Bush were amazed and apalled by how unfocused an ineffectual Mccain was.
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      in one of the few times I will ever agree with Harry Reid, he angrily said publicly that McCain had not contributed to finding a solution but had simply shown up looking for credit – and he was right.
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      Then, by resuming his campaign without a deal in place, McCain looked more an indecisive an of gimmicks and stunts than a serious person running for president. In a very, very serious matter, he came off as an extremely incompetent, ineffectual leader and that is the last time he was a serious threat to win, especially after his disastrous first debate with obama, when he never looked directly at the screen.
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      But it’s easier to blame Palin I guess. Are you related to Steve Schmidt by any chance?
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      “(I know several folks that were going to vote for him UNTIL Palin).”
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      And there are people who don’t know anybody who voted for Nixon in 1972, despite him “eking” out a win by winning only 49 states.

      1. This is such absolute, non-believable, revisionist bûllšhìŧ that is only swallowed by the totally ignorant or those with amnesia of recent American history.

        Really? Then why is there statistical evidence to back up the claim that Palin hurt McCain’s presidential bid? For example, a poll that was taken in October 2008:

        http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31poll.html

        Most of all, hie biggest “gimmick that ultimately doomed him was not picking Palin – that was smart…

        I disagree. Palin may appeal to the Republican party’s hardcore base but she has little appeal to independents. The time to appeal to the base is during the primaries. During the general election, smart candidates move toward the political center to win the independent vote.

      2. Ah, the classic tactic. “Revisionist bûllšhìŧ” and throwing around the accusation of ignorance.

        While unlike Mr. Myers, I don’t have any solid data evidence, I can speak from personal experience. Many of my relatives are Republicans (or were, back in the day of Regan and Bush Sr.) and each of them fully planned to vote for McCain. But the inclusion of Palin on the ticket made them nervous and unwilling to vote for McCain. For better or worse, Palin is a VERY polarizing figure in American politics. It seems you either love her or hate her.

        Obviously, this is because she’s purposefully a very polarizing figure. She holds very extreme views, and is to the far right in terms of her place as a Republican. That sort of thing traditionally makes voters nervous, and again Mr. Myers is absolutely correct. You can only play to the hardcore groups for so long, but most American voters are not strongly in either direction. Independents are always the element that wins or loses an election. Sarah Palin has a hard road ahead if she wants to appeal to moderates and Independents.

      3. Well, as long as the resident hard-rightie says it’s fact, it MUST be…

    1. How nice! I wonder what the media reaction would have been if this had been done to Hillary’s bus during her “listening tour” or book tour?
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      One thing I do have to say. The one person who must be thrilled Sarah is getting all this attention is Romney. She is sucking all the oxygen out of the room. Santorum is announcing this week. How much coverage do you think that will get in contrast to Palin? Herman Cain was getting buzz and moving up the polls. The more people see and hear him, the more like him. How much attention and interview requests do you think he’ll get while Sarah is on her bus? Bachmann is a Tea Party darling and is actualy fighting for and against bills. The only one that could keep her in the shadows, media-wise, is Palin. Pawlenty and Huntsman are two governors that would like people to know some more about them and their records, yet they are being overshadowed by a former governor. And Gingrich would desperately like to change the subject from his recent gaffes and he can’t get MSM attention to do so.
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      meanwhile, Romney continues to build his organization and raise truckloads of cash. if he winds up winning the nomination, he owes a big than you to Sarah.

      1. How nice! I wonder what the media reaction would have been if this had been done to Hillary’s bus during her “listening tour” or book tour?
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        Probably the same.
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        Although for the record, it’s not comparable. Clinton’s listening tour as the Secretary of State is her doing her job. Going on a book tour is specifically to promote a book. In Palin’s case, you’ve got her asserting that she’s not doing anything except going on a family vacation. The media’s calling bûllšhìŧ on that because if that’s all she wanted to do, they could climb into a nondescript camper and just drive around.
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        PAD

      2. PAD,
        For the record, I was talking about Hillary’s listening tour when she was running for the Senate.

      3. Okay then. You admit she was running for something. If you’re going around running for something, then you want to do so in a way that has as much media upon you as possible because it’s a free media buy rather than having to cough up big bucks for commercials. That’s not being a media whørë. That’s being a media significant other.
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        Now if you want to say, “Sarah Palin is doing this because she’s running for President, or Senate, or whatever,” then I have no issue with that. If that’s what SHE said she was doing, I’d have no issue with that. But instead she’s saying that she’s just going on a family vacation, and that’s when you say “bûllšhìŧ” and that’s when you say “media whørë,” because a media whørë is obsessed with trying to get the spotlight 24/7. And with Palin’s bus, and her reality program, and her incessant tweets, and her videos, on and on, they could do a musical about her life called “The Best Little Media Whørëhøûšë in Alaska.”
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        None of which has a dámņëd thing to do with her gender, which is why I think your first comment was nonsense.
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        PAD

  8. Sarah Palin just purchased a house a few miles from me in Arizona. (And I live at least 20 minutes from anything. It’s really weird that she would buy a house near me. There’s nothing near here but cactus and rocks and quail.) Please keep her in New York.

    1. That is interesting.
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      I wonder if she is planning on running for either the Senate or the House, using Arizona as her home state the way Hillary did New York.
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      Theno

      1. Rumor is she’s going after Jon Kyl’s seat. My congressional district is Ben Quayle’s district, but I’m right on the border. She’s east of me by four miles and in district 5 that is. (It’s another Republican, who isn’t retiring, though.)

  9. Isn’t she still employed by Faux News? And wasn’t Faux News recently pressing both her and Huckabee about whether they were running, which is the point at which Huckabee said he wasn’t and Palin simply said “Aww shucks?”

  10. I would love to see the look on Palin’s face if she emerged from the bus and absolutely nobody was there. It’s sort of ironic that she broke bread- well, pizza- with Donald Trump yesterday; both of them are unabashed media whørëš who have no intention whatsoever of running for presideant but somehow feel that IF they did run, they would win. Normally it wouldn’t bother me at all if Palin crossed the country on her ‘Bear of Very Little Brain’ tour, but it is annoying that the story pushes more important stuff like Libya, Pakistan, the federal debt limit crisis and the poor folks of Joplin onto the back burner.

    1. “and the poor folks of Joplin onto the back burner.”
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      Speaking of which, how do you think the folks there feel about Obama hobnobbing with the royal family and drinking a pint in Ireland and taking a week before visiting them is going to play? Let them eat cake, indeed.

  11. For PAD’s post that started this: ba-DUM dum!

    And let’s be honest: Sarah Palin is not running for president. She would lose a ton of money, from both her Fox employers and her reality shows (as if the Alaska one was the final one). She’s great at firing up the Tea Party and untra-conservatives, but she wouldn’t siphon off Democrats, and she doesn’t appeal to independents who think everything other than Fox is the “lamestream media.” She was not only part of the losing ticket last time, but she also left her governorship halfway through her term. And she’s shown no grasp of policy, but rather recycles through the standard conservative talking points over and over, preaching to her converted without offering anything substantive as an alternative.

    And the more she says “maybe” she’ll run, the more press coverage she gets. If they’d ignore her, she’d just drop out and they could focus on the people who *are* running!

    1. James Lynch,
      “And let’s be honest: Sarah Palin is not running for president. She would lose a ton of money, from both her Fox employers and her reality shows (as if the Alaska one was the final one).”
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      That assumes that money drives her. Conversely, if it does she may feel if she DOESN’T run, she will eventually see her star fade. besides, if she’s thinking long-term, she might be thinking, “Ðámņ! Bill clinton gets THAT much for a speech?”
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      “She’s great at firing up the Tea Party and untra-conservatives, but she wouldn’t siphon off Democrats,”
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      Yes, she would because she’s done it before.
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      ” and she doesn’t appeal to independents who think everything other than Fox is the “lamestream media.” ”
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      Yes, she does because she has before.
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      “She was not only part of the losing ticket last time, but she also left her governorship halfway through her term. And she’s shown no grasp of policy, but rather recycles through the standard conservative talking points over and over, preaching to her converted without offering anything substantive as an alternative.”
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      Disagree. Totally. Smart conservatives i respect like Peggy Noonan and George Will agree with you. We shall see.

      “And the more she says “maybe” she’ll run, the more press coverage she gets. If they’d ignore her, she’d just drop out and they could focus on the people who *are* running!”
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      The sad fact is those candidates will likely get limited coverage in any event.

      1. What I find interesting about this whole thing is that one of the reasons the has-been media is so very annoyed with Sarah Palin right now is precisely because she is NOT acting like a media whørë. Media pundits are literally pìššìņg and moaning because the Palin camp won’t tell them where they are going and won’t provide any kind of time table to them (the way a media whørë would). Just this morning they were upset with her because she and her entourage snuck away from their correspondents in the wee hours of the morning. She’s evading their questions concerning the nature of the tour and she’s forcing them to work for a living a bit. I think it’s hilarious.

      2. That assumes that money drives her.
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        She quit on the state of Alaska for Faux News, a book deal, and a reality show. The latter 3 of which all paid a lot better than dealing with silly little things like accusations of ethics violations.

      4. “That’s assuming money drives her…”

        Really? Is there even a question about that? If public service drove her, she would have finished her term as governor rather than sell books, become a commentator of Fox News, and host her own reality show…

      5. Jerry, I was replying to Jerome. And while I’ve had my issues with him, I don’t think “Skippy the Wonder Troll” applies. 😉

      6. The left (both professional and non-professional) will always tell us who they politically “fear.” Right now, it’s self evident to those of us who pay attention who the left is most worried about when it comes to the next presidential election and that is Sarah Palin. Nothing sticks to her. She’s charismatic. She’s also smart (contrary to what the left would have you believe). She’s also an experienced government executive. The has-been media would have you believe that she’s a lost cause for their political opponents (conservatives), but since when has the has-been media ever tried to help conservatives? If ever, it’s been a very very long time. The media wing of the Democrat party would much prefer someone like Mitch Daniels to run against Obama than someone who is an unapologetic, unabashed conservative. That’s proven to be a winning scenario for them, as evidenced by the 2008 election. The mere fact that the left can’t leave Sarah Palin alone and can’t seem to allow her to fade away into the backwater of national awareness is also demonstrative of what a threat they think she poses to them. Right now, Sarah Palin isn’t just annoying the left, she’s also annoying the establishment Republicans and I’m liking it.

      7. Is that a voice that I am hearing? No, sorry, just background noise, I suppose.

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        Yeah, I can see that now, Craig. Somehow, after 12 long hours of working in the heat yesterday, I read the whole exchanged and my brain attributed the words you quoted to the wrong person.

      9. “Yes, she would because she’s done it before.”

        Ok, setting aside your absence of evidence, you seem to forget that even if that was true, it was before her 3 year media parade to prove what a dimwit she is.

      10. “She’s also smart (contrary to what the left would have you believe).”

        And contrary to her own words. Or do you actually think “What did you see at the rally” is really a gotcha question that forced her to make up some history??

        I am constantly amused by wingnuts insisting that the left is afraid of Palin. Sorry, but not me. Clowns don’t scare me, either.

  12. Thank you James, for putting into words exactly as I feel. Anybody that thinks Palin is going to give up all the perks she’s enjoying at the moment is just deluded.

      1. is it not possible she’s simply – and sincerely – making up her mind?

    1. I hope PAD’s next big gig is a movie script featuring Sheridan, Ivanova and Kosh… that way he can be the media whørë of Babylon 5.

  15. It’s my opinion that all female politicians, regardless of party affiliation, are judged more harshly than male ones.
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    Our society still has issues with women in command.

    1. I think they’re judged more harshly on things that are non-issues for men, such as clothing. I think it’s also true that character traits treasured in a man are condemned in a woman (a tough and decisive male is a man who knows his own mind; a tough and decisive woman is a bìŧçh).
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      On the other hand, way before his other problems emerged, John Edwards was getting endless crap over his hair (as does Trump), and you’d think only women would get those kinds of snarks. (I have to say, I saw Edwards in person once, and I know it cost a fortune, but that was a dámņ good looking haircut.) Also there’s some things they get a pass on that a man wouldn’t. For instance, when it was revealed that Palin’s unmarried teen daughter was pregnant, she got to play the defensive mother card and it more or less worked. The media backed off and it had no impact on her political standing (Palin managed to screw herself just fine in that regard with other things.) If during the campaign one of Obama’s daughters was a teen and was revealed to be pregnant, it’s game over. Suddenly the entire thing becomes a referendum on the problems of black youth knocking up young women, and what kind of a father lets this happen. “Obama was out campaigning when he should have been keeping an eye on his daughter.”
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      I think our society has issues about everything.
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      PAD

      2. I would take issue with your taking issue, but that issue was canceled so the line could be rebooted with #1.

      3. Rebooted? Who said anything about rebooting? We’re not rebooting.
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        We may retool, reimagine, reincarnate, reboot, reconnoiter, reduce, reuse, and recycle; but we never reshoe. That would be beneath us.

      4. The media didn’t “back off” from the Bristol pregnancy at all during the campaign and afterward. They were generating all kinds of theories that the baby was Todd Palin’s, as well as theories claiming that this was actually Bristol’s second baby and that her first was Trig, the baby Sarah had who ended up with Down syndrome. After the campaign, the media also managed to be there for Levi Johnston so his foolishness could be used in further attempts to embarrass her. (I think it was also a profound act of grace on Sarah’s part to have accepted him back into the family after that mess.) Letterman and others continued to try to make her family the butt of jokes after the election was over. So, no, the media did not “back off.” I think Palin should wear a t-shirt that says “Katie Who?”

  16. Sending Sarah Palin to ANYWHERE named Babylon will cause her to do just that. While that’d be good for the country in that it will A)likely reduce her chances of being elected to anything save Most Likely To Annoy and B) show that while political extremism makes great copy, it gets little accomplished, it’ll be bad for the country in that it’ll cause people to pay attention to her and take time away from more worthy stuff to pay attention to like the reduction of run-on sentences.

  17. Why would Palin be visiting New York when she doesn’t even consider that to be the “REAL” America?

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      “Why would Palin be visiting New York when she doesn’t even consider that to be the “REAL” America?”
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      Network executives are in New York. Major publishing houses and agents are I New York. Major publisty is to be had for her in visiting New York and some of the people there.
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      In short –
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      Money, money, money…
      $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

      1. Yeah, that must be why she’s avoiding the media… not cooperating with their coverage and taking off without telling them for her next destination without letting them in on it.

    4. There are two kinds of people when it comes to Sarah Palin: those who understand her and those who pretend they don’t (i.e. who are being deliberately obtuse). Most of you belong to the latter.

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        Sasha, seriously… Don’t even give him the time out of your day. The only reason he’s posting is to get the response. He’s not interested in discussions, debates or anything else of a constructive nature. His single purpose (to which he has admitted to before) is basically to troll to see how many responses he can get to his trolling. Shroud the worthless little prìçk. The sooner he stops getting attention the sooner he packs up his stupidity and goes elsewhere.

  18. .
    Here’s the thing about Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin…
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    IS
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    NOT
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    RUNNING.
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    Dear little Sarah is now the Rights version of Al Gore. So many on the Left were pushing to see him throw his hat into the race back in 2007 and early 2008, but he never would have. He found himself a better gig where he could play spokesman for “the cause” and get better money without the headaches.
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    That’s Palin X10.
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    Palin is almost the political equivalent of a Paris Hilton or a Vanna White. She’s become famous for basically becoming famous. She has a certain level of natural charisma and she’s a fairly attractive woman, she’s at least smart enough to know how to capitalize on those things when an entire political party was standing ready to offer her adoration and devotion. But there’s not really a lot of substance there to back anything serious up with.
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    But she sure can play up the Sarah Palin Live Show. And why would she want to give that up?
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    She gets to do with Party Politics what Gore does with the environmental movement. She doesn’t have to run the risk of losing anything or looking bad by actually having her “facts” debated. When she gets criticized for saying or doing something stupid, she has the safe havens of Fox News and its programs to run to for a shoulder to cry on or some much needed spin/PR repair.
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    And, of course, there’s the CA$H.
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    Right now she can demand six figures easy to go and “help out” a Tea Party event or candidate by talking for 20 minutes and leaving. Right now she can still demand a hefty sum for a book deal. Right now she can still (dropping ratings of her last one be dámņëd) demand a nice contract for at least one or two more ego stroking reality programs. And, of course, she’s got here Fox News contract for as long as she wants it.
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    And to keep all of that, all she has to do is show up, repeat the talking points of the moment, mention Reagan’s name from time to time, wink here and there and look pretty for the cameras. She’s not giving all of that up. She’s making mega $$$$$ right now and making it for really very little actual work. She is not now, as Gore wasn’t about to do three years ago, give up the gravy train and the ego stroking that she’s got now for a run at the Presidency.
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    Besides, she’s not completely stupid. She knows that she’s a polarizing figure in politics and she knows that, while that works for her for what she’s doing now, that won’t translate into big votes. She might actually get the nod in the Republican primaries, but even she knows that she’s burnt toast in an actual presidential election. Even against Obama in 2012, the end result for her is losing (and quite possibly losing badly.) And in the run up to the actual election she will have to answer questions, engage in debates and face challenges that she will not walk away from looking good to anyone other than her most blindly loyal supporters.
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    If she runs for POTUS, she can’t hide from the press like she did in 2008. If she runs for POTUS, she can’t get away with the pouting and the “poor little me” act she often played up during the 2008 run up and many times since then. The garbage she pulls to get sympathy and support from her hardcore fans won’t fly in a major election and won’t fly with the majority of the voters. She knows this and she knows that she really doesn’t have much else to offer.
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    And because she knows this…
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    She
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    is
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    not
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    running.
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    She is going to play this game for as long as she can string it out. Once she can’t get anything else out of it, she will declare that she’s not running, talk about the family discussions on how the race would put the family under a microscope, declare that the “lamestream” media would unfairly attack her and her family, work the narrative (while playing victim) on Fox News for a while about how the “lamestream” media attacks conservatives and makes it impossible for good people to run these days without exposing their lives and family to the horrible actions of the “lamestream” media and then cash in for a while longer on that routine before working the next angle that comes her way.
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    Sarah had big money offers being laid at her feet the day after the 2008 election and she couldn’t quit on the people of Alaska to cash in fast enough. She is not going to give up on cashing in now while the cashing in is good to go through the headache, strain and aggravation of being a failed Presidential candidate. She’s not giving up on the gravy train that she’s riding now, she’s very likely not interested in doing the hard work associated with running for POTUS and she’s not going to risk taking the hit to her “popularity” and cash in potential by becoming a failed Presidential contender.

    1. Well, there is one thing Sarah Palin is but Al Gore isn’t…
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      (And yeah, I know this phrase is going to open up another can of worms like ‘media-whørë’ has…)
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      But she’s a dìçk-tease.
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      She’s playing the far right like a fiddle and squeezing every cent out of them with no intention of running. And the far right is naive enough to enjoy every minute of it.
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      After Gore lost in 2000, he moved on. Yeah, he found his better gig, but it wasn’t in a fake run for president.

      1. Sarah Palin and the Far Right, they deserve each other.
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        What a depressing spectacle.

    1. Sarah Palin today on Paul Revere:
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      “He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and, um, making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”
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      God help us.

      2. .
        Yeah, and then he helped with that first “shot heard round the world” that helped set off the American Revolution in New Hampshire.

      4. Darin,
        She could kill kittens and you’d say how the kittens were part of the media harassing her and deserved it, wouldn’t you? (Sorry to feed the troll, but I just cant believe one man can contain so much dumb).

      5. I take it then that you think there as something wrong with her off the cuff Paul Revere remark?

      6. .
        Neil, he doesn’t “contain so much dumb” as much as he just baits people. He’s playing the part to get people to waste their time and he’s been doing it for a while now.
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        **************
        Darin says:
        March 23, 2007 at 6:41 pm
        Guys, Guys, Guys.
        Havent you figured out what I do on these political blogs yet?
        I go in every once in a great-great while, make statements that I know most of you oppose and then when you throw up little links to provide your side with support, I just repeat myself. I ignore your links and just reiterate what I’ve said. It’s what I’ve done every. Single. Time. Here. when there is a political thread.
        Sheesh.
        Darin
        http://www.peterdavid.net/index.php/2007/03/22/this-is-all-starting-to-sound-extremely-familiar/comment-page-2/#comment-31387
        **************
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        He’s not quite as much of a stupid, drooling imbecilic fool as he plays himself up to be. He wants direct responses and he’ll do anything to get it. He’s the type of troll you strictly adhere to the rule of “Don’t Feed The Troll” with.

      7. The question is, is Darin really so stupid that he doesn’t realize Paul Revere’s ride–even the idealized one from the poem which bore little resemblance to the actual one–featured exactly no bells? That the signalman was in the tower of the Old North Church, but he hung lanterns, not rang bells. Is he pretending ignorance, or is he really ignorant?
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        Don’t know. Don’t much care.
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        PAD

      8. .
        Or how about the fact that Paul Revere did very little of the actual riding? He got caught early in the night and spent the night in the less than loving care of the British. It was other people, including a very young girl, who actually did the things that Revere gets so much credit for thanks to people knowing their children’s rhymes better than than history and confusing the one for the other.
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        Still, Palin showing that she gets her nursery school rhymes confused with actual history is still better than Bachmann giving a prepared speech about our history and the Founders and getting nearly every fact in the thing wrong or talking about being in the state where the first shot heard round the world was fired from and not actually being in the state known for that distinction.
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        Palin/Bachmann for the 2012 Republican ticket! We’ve already got their bumper sticker/campaign slogan ready for them.
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        “Palin/Bachmann: Making the World Dumber Just by Opening Their Mouths!”

      9. Oh you guys are amazing. I don’t think you guys fully comprehend the extent to which Palin has reduced you here. Depravity will, of course, prevent you from ever admitting it… but she’s managed to play you, the rest of the leftwing blogosphere, as well as the media with this little sound byte. Yes, Paul Revere did also warn the British that the colonial militias were armed and waiting and, yes Peter, the story does mention bells. Specifically the line, “A townsman remembered that ‘repeated gunshots, the beating of drums and the ringing of BELLS filled the air.’…. Along the North Shore of Massachusetts, church bells began to toll and the heavy beat of drums could be heard for many miles in the night air.” (This is from “Paul Revere’s Ride” by David Hackett Fischer, Oxford University Press 1994.) Like I said, you effete snobs who purport to be so much better informed than Palin have no idea how bad she’s made you look with this. And you don’t have the humility even consider it.

      10. Y’know, in looking at this clip of how the local Boston media ran the story (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w) it’s plain as day, even for the lot of you, that the media COULDN’T WAIT for a gaff from Palin on this bus trip of hers. They were so breathlessly awaiting one that they blundered into this Paul Revere quote from her. Now, in a sane political climate, her referencing the folklore and not the “factual” accounts surrounding Paul Revere’s ride wouldn’t have been anything even remotely newsworthy. But this isn’t a sane political climate. So desperate were the media and the left that they opened themselves up to this embarrassing display. It’s further evidence of just how unhinged they are when it comes to her.

      12. And in typical liberal fashion, the liberal will rush to be first to accuse the other side of doing that which they are doing… in this case, “doubling down.” It’s obvious this was a major blunder on the part of an anxious, petty and vindictive media… and the left’s apologists dig down… because they don’t know how to say they were wrong.

      13. .
        Ouch. Even the Forbes bloggers are tearing her “knowledge” of history to shreds. Still think Bachmann looked the dumber of the two by having a prepared speech about the history of our country and the Founders that was full of factual errors about what she was professing to have such great knowledge of/on.
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        It’s getting so bad lately that the blondes out there are starting to tell Palin/Bachmann jokes.

      14. Well, Bachmann has already shown a distinct lack of grasp of the Constitution, so she had the head start when it comes to stupid.
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        But Palin is certainly trying to be her equal.

      15. The article Peter linked looks more like an opinion column than an editorial, reflecting the views of a single person rather than the entire Forbes staff (hence the byline and picture). Undoubtedly, the more mature members of their staff were busy elsewhere. Even a business magazine like Forbes is going to have a couple of leftist whackjobs on staff just to appease certain people.

      16. Of course nobody here wants to admit that the dumbest, most inarticulate and least intelligent people running in the next election are Obama and Biden… despite the ever-mounting evidence. It’s getting harder and harder for even they to ignore, though.

  20. So when are we going to get Peter David’s thoughts on John Edwards? That’s big news right now too, right?

    1. I guess since Peter is reluctant to bring it up, I might as well go ahead and mention that I think the indictment of John Edwards is pretty bogus and that he is right to challenge it. Now, don’t get me wrong… I’m no fan of John Edwards. But based upon the public information regarding the indictment, these charges shouldn’t have even been brought. I find the situation troubling.

  21. You know what’s fun, Jerry, Craig, Tim, everyone else? The Shrouded individual has yet to realize no one’s talking to him. He’s twisting around on a hook, desperately trying to get someone to engage with him, and no one will. Why talk to a self-proclaimed troll who’s made it clear he’s just going to ignore any counter argument? Watching this is like cutting out a wart and watching it shrivel without blood to feed it.
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    PAD

    1. Oh I’ve been aware of it ever since the “Cowards” comment I made in a previous thread, Peter. The reason I’m continuing to comment is because there are undoubtedly a lot of people out there who peruse your site who do not have me shrouded… I feel it’s to their benefit that they see how disinterested you are in opposing or alternative viewpoints.

      1. The reason I’m continuing to comment is because there are undoubtedly a lot of people out there who peruse your site who do not have me shrouded… I feel it’s to their benefit that they see how disinterested you are in opposing or alternative viewpoints.
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        Darin, you’re not wrong about this.

      2. Darin, you’re not wrong about this.
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        If there’s anything worse than feeding a troll by arguing with it, it’s encouraging it by saying its right.

      3. What George doesn’t get, Craig, is that when someone flat out states that he absolutely doesn’t care what you say–that he’s just here to ignore responses–the problem isn’t with the people who are ignoring him. The problem is that people don’t want to bother talking with a guy who flat out believes they’re suckers for talking to him. It’s one thing to think people are stupid, as he clearly does; it’s another to TREAT them as if they’re stupid and then cry foul when people just walk away.
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        The notion that this site isn’t interested in opposing viewpoints is completely insupportable. If that were the case, no one would have addressed him in the first place. If that were the case, I would simply delete all contrary viewpoint postings, as is the habit on any number of boards, not to mention on certain Fox News programs (because when O’Reilly shuts off people’s microphones, that’s really an indicator that he supports opposing viewpoints.)
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        He doesn’t want to discuss or debate. He just wants attention, and throws a slow motion hissy when he doesn’t get it.
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        Perhaps I should put the following disclaimer at the top: “We are not responsible for the feelings of Blogwhores.”
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        PAD

      4. When the regulars here try to back up things with more than just mainstream media articles, Huffington Post blogs, Soros-funded media watchdog analysis and the Daily Show, then I’ll read what they have to show… until then, there is no point. What they don’t realize is, when they rely on those sorts of sources, they aren’t backing anything up at all… but rather reinforcing the invalidity of said sources.

    2. Peter –

      It reminds me of the Simpson’s episode where the teachers were on strike and Lisa was going nuts.
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      “VALIDATE ME!”
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      TAC

      1. PAD,
        “not to mention on certain Fox News programs (because when O’Reilly shuts off people’s microphones, that’s really an indicator that he supports opposing viewpoints.)”
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        You bring this up pretty regularly, when the fact is that O’Reilly rarely cuts off someone’s mike. he has done it three times in the time I’ve been watching – which is about seven years now. Maybe Jerry can help with this, since i don’t watch him every night, but I doubt he saves “his cut off their mikes” for the nights I don’t watch.
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        It’s like saying Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walk off the sets of most of the guests they disagree with.

      2. .
        No, I don’t catch him every night either. I rotate CNN, Fox and MSNBC day by day unless there’s something going on on one of the channels that I want to see/hear that night.
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        I only know of O’Reilly killing a mic three or four times.

  22. .
    George Haberberger: “Darin, you’re not wrong about this.”
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    Actually, he’s 100% dead wrong about this, George.
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    Any casual readers or passers through to this site can see that there is no disinterest in opposing or alternative viewpoints or here. There are multiple regular posters here who are largely Right leaning or right of center. They post, they contribute and they’re a part of the discussion. There are also posters like myself who are closer to the center politically and can be seen as Left or Right in a conversation based on the topic.
    .
    I’ve agreed with Peter. I’ve also sharply disagreed with Peter and at least a couple of times stated that I thought the opinion he was offering was just plain nuts. Neither he nor any of the more left of center posters have shrouded me in any of those conversations/debates. Why? Because we don’t confuse opinions for facts and when facts are presented we can all reevaluate our positions. We may still not 100% agree with the other posters, but we can acknowledge when the facts we were working off of weren’t quite what we thought they were.
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    That’s not what Darin does.
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    Darin has visited this blog several times in the last five or six years. Each time he comes by here he trolls. He injects himself into politically based threads and makes stupid statements that are often times factually inaccurate. When he is presented with a link that shows his statements about facts are incorrect, he simply ignores the linked information and repeats the lie while throwing another in on top of that. He’s even stated that this is what he does on this blog before.
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    Perfect example – http://www.peterdavid.net/index.php/2011/05/16/the-bin-laden-factor/comment-page-1/#comment-372886
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    Darin made the completely unrelated to the reality based community statement that the McCain campaign had made mentioning the name Bill Ayers off limits during the campaign. I presented a video link showing that not only did they not make the name off limits (as you can easily find the name being mentioned by Palin about a thousand times back in 2008,) but they actually made a commercial focusing on Obama and Bill Ayers. Darin’s response to this? He stated it was humorous watching me and the others “desperately groping for something… anything… to use” to prove that he didn’t know what he was talking about. So, providing evidence that shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s wrong is called “desperately groping for something” and he then proceeds to continue repeating the falsehoods.
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    That’s all he does.
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    That’s not presenting “opposing or alternative viewpoints” in any way, shape or form and ignoring the posts of such an individual is not showing how “how disinterested you are in opposing or alternative viewpoints.” What he’s doing is trolling and ignoring/shrouding a troll is nothing more than showing that you have better things to do with your life and at least some level of intelligence.
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    But you feel free to keep feeding/encouraging the troll. Speaks volumes that.

    1. I suppose one could call what I do here “trolling” if one were to redefine what “trolling” is to include “presenting opposing or alternative viewpoints.” I’ve done so here in a civil manner before and for deigning to do so, I get called every homonym of “idiot” there is. As one can tell from the last two weeks or so of posting, I’ve decided to return some of that animosity in kind. Would you like me to go back to being civil, Jerry?

    2. The interesting thing about your rendition of our exchange concerning the McCain campaign was that you seemed to think that just because the McCain campaign had ran an Ayers ad, that McCain didn’t declare such ads off limits. He did, in spite of the ad being ran anyway. He wanted to run what he considered to be an “honorable campaign.” He often spoke of “reaching across the aisle.” And because of one little ad where his campaign strategist decided to reference Ayers, you try to convince me and others who know better that he someone did draw enough of a distinction between himself and Obama. He didn’t, I’m sorry to reiterate. McCain presented himself, whether he knew it or not, as “Democrat Lite.” He was so very not-conservative that he actually allowed Obama to steal the tax-cut vote away from him during the campaign. If that alone tells you anything, it’s that McCain did not present principles that were clearly defined from Obama’s. What votes McCain got were votes against Obama rather than for himself. But cling to your little Ayers ad if it keeps you from accepting the reality of things. Revisionist NYT pieces don’t work on someone who paid attention during the campaign either, which is why I don’t pay any attention to them.

      1. If he did declare it off limits, then his staff very quickly proved what a completely ineffectual, leader he is, being that they all ignored him as a matter of course.

  23. .
    What’s actually the most frustrating thing about this entire situation is watching the Republican Party’s seeming desire to give itself massive self inflicted wounds here. Right now there is a genuine opening for a moderate Republican to win in 2012. “Moderate” being someone who is a true fiscal conservative but who also isn’t dámņëd and determined to put the fringe Right’s social agenda above everything else.
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    Instead, we got the 2010 elections where we saw a crop of Republicans elected who are more interested in pushing the fringe Right’s pet social agendas under the guise of “fiscal policies” and the rise of potential Republican candidates for 2012 who are jokes at best or extremist nuts at worst. For most middle of the road and moderate Democratic voters, there’s nothing there to even considering voting for, just lots to vote against.
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    Obama was not a vote for candidate for some back in 2008. He’ll be even less of one by the time November 2012 rolls around. The Republicans could give the country a “vote for”</I. candidate, but right now they seem dámņëd and determined to paint Obama as an extremist to excuse their running to their extreme for an answer to Obama.
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    And the dámņëd Tea Party isn't helping things any. Any Republican who doesn't tow the extreme line gets threats of being "primaried" by the Tea Party leaders.
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    So we get the Dumb & Dumber shows on tour and we get a parade of candidates that poll high with the base but are considered absolute jokes by everyone else. We get a ton of candidates who may possibly face Obama in 2012 who are guaranteed to put many into the position of deciding who they most want to vote     against rather than most want to vote for.
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    The Democrats are not going to run someone against Obama in 2012. There are no independents out there right now who can get the traction and attention needed to make a run for it at that level. That leaves us only the Republicans to run a reasonably sane candidate who might be a viable option for moderate and center of the road voters and, truthfully, the core Republican base and party seems dámņëd and determined to leave sane and reasonable as far behind them as they can right now.
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    I don’t want another election year where my choice is to pick who I most want to vote against and I know a lot of other people who feel the same. Unfortunately, that seems like exactly the type of 2012 the Republicans want to give us.

    1. Republicans may want a moderate like Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich, but conservatives do not. Right now the Grand Ole Party is divided between the Washingtonian establishment Republicans and the Tea Party (most of whom are conservative) Republicans and the two are at odds with each other. Now, the Obama camp would much prefer one over the other in terms of an opponent… which one does recent history suggest is the one? The one that can be summed up as “Democrat Lite” or the one which draws a contrast? Right now, the Obama camp is a sitting duck for one, but not the other. We’ve seen how they handle opponents who do not resonate with the conservative base. Something tells me they would LOVE to run against a Romney or a Giuliani rather than a Christie, a Jindahl, a Bachman or especially a Palin.

      1. In what insane, alternate universe can Newt Gingrich be considered a ‘moderate’?
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        Gingrich can’t draw a contrast to Obama? He has compared the Obama administration to Nazi Germany, for fûçk’s sake.
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        What more do you need? Do you think a Republican candidate must pledge to assassinate the entire Obama family or else he is a RINO?

      2. .
        Rene, he doesn’t actually believe what he’s saying. He’s just says something mind numbingly stupid in hopes that someone takes the bait. He’s even admitted to just throwing stuff like that out there, refusing to acknowledge any facts presented and then deciding to just repeat the garbage over and over again to get the responses his desperate, needy, pathetic and pretty much worthless self seems to thrive on.
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        Knowing that he’s saying stuff that even he knows is full of it, why bother replying at all? You’re just going to get more of the same.

      3. “In what insane, alternate universe can Newt Gingrich be considered a ‘moderate’?”
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        Newt was a Reagan conservative back in the 1980s during the “C-SPAN Revolution” and this is where a lot of people get their view that he is one today, but the unfortunate truth is that he hasn’t been expounding the virtues and tenets of conservatism since he became Speaker almost 20 years ago. He has become precisely the Washingtonian “Democrat Lite” sort of RINO that so many conservatives are disgusted with right now. The latest example is when he came out against Paul Ryan’s health care bill and totally mischaracterized it in a way that is typical of the left… for which he did later apologize to Ryan for doing. He doesn’t seem to be bothered by the unconstitutionality of Obamacare,which is the very essence of why conservatives oppose it. Gingrich used to talk about the constitution all the time.
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        “Gingrich can’t draw a contrast to Obama?”
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        Not a big enough one to matter. Whatever contrast Newt would draw would be not much greater than that of McCain in 2008.
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        “What more do you need?”
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        I need someone who believes in limited government (i.e. far more limited than what we have now), someone who loves liberty and the founding principles of the country. I also want someone who Al Gore would call “a Global Warming denier,” who doesn’t accept the premise of it and explains the hoax-nature of the whole concept. That’s not Newt and that’s not Romney.

      4. In what insane, alternate universe can Newt Gingrich be considered a ‘moderate’?
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        What’s interesting, Rene, and supportive of what Jerry was saying, was that when Gingrich went on TV and said things that were pretty moderate, the GOP converged on him like white cells on a germ. And he had to walk it back, and then he had to run it back, and then he had to blame it all on the media.
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        The combination of how the base reacts to Gingrich and to Palin sends a commanding message: say things that make no sense, and we’ll make excuses for you and blame the press. Say things that are moderate and even DO make some sense and we will beat you into the ground and the conservative media will declare that you’re done.
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        PAD

      5. It wasn’t the GOP who converged on him so much as conservatives. Establishment Republican types largely failed to come to his defense, but it was the conservatives who converged… not that I’d expect you to see the difference.

      6. PAD,
        “What’s interesting, Rene, and supportive of what Jerry was saying, was that when Gingrich went on TV and said things that were pretty moderate, the GOP converged on him like white cells on a germ. And he had to walk it back, and then he had to run it back, and then he had to blame it all on the media.”
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        I would be interested to know what you consider so moderate that Gingrich said that elicited the response from the GOP you are claiming here

  24. Seriously, Jerome? You have to ask?
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    Well, first of all, he basically condemned extremism on both sides of the political spectrum. I don’t agree that the government should get out of the medical care business, but I myself have expressed little patience for the far left as much as the far right. Then he took issue with aspects of the Ryan plan, which the GOP seems to embrace as their centerpiece against Obamacare. This sent the GOP, particularly the fringes whom Gingrich condemned, into an absolute tizzy.
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    You may now feel free to try and spin that into saying that’s not what happened at all.
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    PAD

    1. Well, here’s the clip:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3AACNmNVVY

      Maybe I’ll “spin” it as saying that’s not what happened at all because…that’s not what happened at all.
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      “Well, first of all, he basically condemned extremism on both sides of the political spectrum. I don’t agree that the government should get out of the medical care business, but I myself have expressed little patience for the far left as much as the far right.”
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      Wonderful, he made a statement condemning both “extremes”. Except he blew it by trying to sound above it all and the smartest guy in the room – which is true if the only other person is David Gregory, but I digress – He was asked about the Ryan plan and HE is the one who cast it as “extreme”.
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      In response to David Gregory’s totally slanted question on whether the GOP should back the Ryan plan, he said “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”
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      He then went on to reinforce his point by casting Ryan as “a conservative imposing radical change.”
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      Now, Newt is a smart guy. He could have simply stated, as he also did to Gregory, that the Ryan plan is “too big a jump” and “we pay $70 to $120 billion to crooks. We can concentrate on that first.”
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      Instead, he chose the language he did, which not only distances himself from the Ryan plan and the third rail that is Medicare reform, but creates a chasm. He not only distanced himself he repudiated the plan that all but four House members voted for – and now, when those members run in 2012 (or anyone brings up the merits of the Ryan plan) every single Democratic opponent now has a ready made ad that will include, “VOTED for a plan even even conservatives like Newt Gingrich have denounced as “radical” and “right-wing social engineering.”
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      So yeah, the GOP is a BIT cheesed about that – and rightfully so.

      1. I stopped reading your comment when you got to “slanted question.”.
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        PAD

      2. “I stopped reading your comment when you got to “slanted question.”.”
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        Well, kudos to you.

      3. .
        I’m really not all that sure that the Democrats needed Newt to have the ads ready to go. The Ryan plan does not poll well with anyone but the base and we’ve already seen the Democrats using it as a talking point against the Republicans; some rather effectively.

      4. “I’m really not all that sure that the Democrats needed Newt to have the ads ready to go. The Ryan plan does not poll well with anyone but the base and we’ve already seen the Democrats using it as a talking point against the Republicans; some rather effectively.”
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        But how much more lethal, Jerry, will the ads/talking point be with such strong words from someone the average person sees as a rock-ribbed Republican like Newt? It’s like when Ann Coulter called the Birthers a bunch of extreme nuts.

      5. .
        If we were closer to Newt’s time in office and his bigger rep, I might be inclined to see it as that much bigger of a weapon. But Newt’s been out of office, out of having a real position of power in the party and been a talking head for way too long.
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        And that talking head thing matters. This was not the first time that Newt has said something that the Democrats could take and try to use as an ad. The shine may have worn off of that weapon at this point.
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        Besides, that might not be something the Democrats want to do. As I said above, the Ryan Bill isn’t a winner in the polls; even a number of polls that are usually a little more conservative friendly. Republicans who went back to their home districts to have a few town halls got an earful on the subject as well. Painting Newt as the “moderate” conservative might not be something they want to do. The bigger weapon they have is using the votes on the bill itself and playing up the firestorm by Republicans and conservatives against speaking out against the thing.
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        The bill is big with the base. Supporting the bill will play well with the base. Outside of the base, not so much. They’re not going to point to Newt and, even as a simple byproduct of their ad campaign, say that he’s the moderate, sensible one. If they play up his roll in this at all, it will be to point out how the Republicans are “cowed” by the extremists in their base and too afraid of the extremists and the Tea Party to not buck the desires of the “radicals” in their party.

  25. .
    Oh, this is just too beautiful. I just heard a clip where Palin was talking about the comment she made about Paul Revere and his ride. In typical Palin fashion, she stated that she said that it was in response to a “gotcha” question.
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    Really, Sarah? Really?!?
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    Get a new f’n playbook already, Sarah. Your last one is getting really, really old.
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    And in other news, Anthony Weiner just disappointed a lot of supporters and probably pìššëd more than a few off. Way to go, Weiner.

    1. Well, it just goes to show how bad things are for Palin right now when even Faux News is trying to replace her with Tina Fey. 😉

      1. .
        Yeah, I saw that. That was hilarious. Fox News doing a bit on Sarah Palin and using a graphic that was actually a picture of Tina Fey dressed up as Sarah Palin.
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        So she’s become such a parody of herself that even Fox News can’t tell the difference between the two of them these days? Priceless.

    2. Jerry,
      I agree with you on this one. If you want to be President of the United States, you can’t continue to blame the media for EVERYTHING.
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      At some point, you have to at least say, “Gosh darn it. I screwed up.”
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      This is why an increasing number of the GOP is hoping Palin won’t run, because if they want a controversial and possibly historic, charismatic figure to run, they prefer someone like Bachmann.
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      Though I still feel Palin will run. if she doesn’t her star could dim and she could become Geraldine Ferraro. That is, someone whose historic selection will be remembered but fade with time and with that so will her star power fade.

      1. .
        I absolutely think that Bachmann has a much better chance at the Republican nod than Palin does. But some of her recent comments meant to play to the base will hurt her with the mainstream. For her to have more than a 35% chance at it, Obama will have to screw up at dámņëd near everything for the next 16 months.
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        Strangely, based just on her ability to create a rabid following, I actually think Palin would have a better chance against Obama than Bachmann would.

      2. Someone played back the “gotcha” question it was “What have you seen and what did you learn from it?” Granted Fox never called her on it, and she’ll never speak to someone who will if she runs.

        She’s smart enough to know that if she runs she can’t do what she’s been doing in media relations and she really doesn’t want to do that.

        BTW when did mainstream become a dirty word?

      3. BTW when did mainstream become a dirty word?

        When “mainstream” began to mean “opposite of GOP interests” (see “liberal”).

    1. I don’t know. I’d gladly work for such a successful, influential organization. They are in the mix with Marvel Comics, The New York Post and acting with Mariska Hargitay as my dream jobs.
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      In all seriousness, I was told by the legendary local newscaster that taught our TV Broadcasting class in college that he was impressed by me. It’s just a tough business to break into. if anything, i would probably have a better chance of breaking into talk radio.

  27. .
    Luigi Novi,
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    If what I’m seeing and hearing about Palin’s faithful followers and the Wiki Paul Revere page are even half true…
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    Where can we send the aspirin fund money?

    1. Oh, I’ve already got my giant-mega-sized bottle of aspirin handy. And it’ll probably be empty well before the next 18 months comes and goes.
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      After all, Pawlenty has now accused Obama of being a “champion practitioner of class warfare”. Which is completely effing absurd considering what the Republicans have done over the last 30 years in dividing their rich, white áššëš from the rest of America.
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      But it just ups the ante for the next over the top piece of stupidity and insanity we’ll get before long from one of the other GOP contenders.

      1. Class warfare is indeed one of the tools of the Left. The “rich” are always impugned by them as a matter of official, public policy. You might get a conservative once in a while muttering about the freeloading generational welfare crowd in private, but the Left loudly and proudly broadcasts their disdain for “fat cats” and corporations and CEOs, and have so particularly over the last 3 years. It’s one of the biggest chapters in their playbook, vilifying the rich in the name of defending the poor and the middle class. Getting the poor and the middle class to automatically dislike those who have money above a certain threshold. The Left wants people to think of money as immoral as opposed to being merely amoral. Just about everybody, I think, has met both really great wealthy people and really šhìŧŧÿ poor people… but you’re ignore that in favor of liberal rhetoric.

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