Archive for the 'Sarah Palin' Category
I Will Never Stop Being Fascinated By This Woman
Posted on January 8, 2010 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
At this point, no one could possibly make up a story about Sarah Palin I wouldn’t immediately believe:
The forthcoming book, Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, reports that McCain campaign aides had Sarah Palin refer to Joe Biden by his first name in the vice presidential debate because she had the unfortunate habit of [...]
Simple Answers To Simple Questions
Posted on July 9, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under 2012 Republican primary, Sarah Palin, wingnuts | Leave a Comment
Greg Sargent, responding to a Rasmussen poll result:
Palin is the top choice [for 2012 presidential nominee] among Republicans whose top concern is national security? I can see how folks would find Palin appealing as a folksy and combative hockey mom type, an outsider and reformer who dukes it out with coastal elites on behalf of [...]
Please Don’t Go Away
Posted on July 6, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under 2012 Republican primary, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
Why haven’t I said anything about the Palin resignation yet? Well, I’ve been in a state of mourning since Friday afternoon. I’ve been looking forward to the 2012 Palin for President campaign with just as much enthusiasm as I’ve been looking forward to the 2012 Avengers movie, and I’m absolutely horrified by the idea that [...]
The Trainwreck Continues
Posted on June 30, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
The Todd Purdum piece on Sarah Palin that is being linked across the blogosphere today is phenomenal. Go read it.
I think this is my favorite short anecdote:
When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not [...]
Damn You, Ben Smith
Posted on April 30, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Sarah Palin, Twitter | Leave a Comment
If there was one four-word phrase that could possibly get me to think, regarding Twitter, “I really ought to start using this insipid object of media obsession,” it had to be, “Sarah Palin joins Twitter.” That really sounds like way too much potential hilarity to risk being left out.
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Sarah Palin: Still Stupid
Posted on March 20, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
Ignoring the whole Special Olympics thing1, Sarah Palin’s use of the English language continues to infuriate me:
“This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world.”
That sentence is atrocious.
What Obama said was totally wrong. He and his advisers realized this was the case [...]
A New Palin For A New Year
Posted on December 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
Or a new Johnston, to be precise.
Do you think the name is just more Palin weirdness, or was it an intentional nod to the first person I thought of when I heard the name Tripp?
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They Don’t Get It
Posted on November 21, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Sarah Palin, the Republican meltdown, wingnuts | Leave a Comment
As Carol noted this morning, Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey while other turkeys were being killed right behind her. The irony should be obvious to any thinking person.
The incident doesn’t make Palin a bad person (unlike her positions on the issues and certain actions she has taken), but it does portray her as a rather [...]
Palinpalooza Continues!
Posted on November 6, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
Thank goodness; I would have been completely lost without more Palin news. Remember that time when she couldn’t name the countries in the North American Free Trade Agreement? What about when she thought “Africa” referred to a single country?
If Palin doesn’t run in 2012, I might cry.
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Joe Six-Pack Goes To Neiman Marcus
Posted on October 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, RNC, Sarah Palin | 1 Comment
Sarah Palin is just like us. Why, I spend $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue almost every week! Who doesn’t?!?
The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing [...]
Sarah Palin Is Her Own Woman, You Betcha
Posted on October 20, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, 2012 Republican primary, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
She sure does disagree with John McCain quite a bit (remember her forceful and susprisingly public opposition to the campaign’s withdrawal from Michigan a few weeks ago?). Does anyone else think she sees the writing on the wall and is positioning herself for 2012?
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Sarah Palin Bravely Talks To The Evil Press For Eight Exhaustin’ Minutes
Posted on October 17, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin | 1 Comment
Transcript.
Do Alaskans speak a version of English that uses completely different syntactical and grammatical rules from standard American English? Here’s Palin on voter fraud:
There are safeguards already that are in place but evidently they’re not being adhered to or implemented certainly in Ohio if the secretary there not seeming to desire to reassure voters that [...]
Let Me Make Sure I’ve Got This Straight
Posted on October 13, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
The teenager who got the vice presidential nominee’s daughter pregnant can be trusted to speak to the press, but the vice presidential nominee herself can not. Heckuva job, Republican Party.
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Was Sarah Palin Really A Union Member?
Posted on October 7, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Labor, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
The answer appears to be, “Kinda.” (Via)
The Las Vegas Sun appears to have spent some serious time and effort trying to find the facts of Palin’s union membership. The McCain campaign’s regional office wouldn’t respond to the paper’s inquiries. The national headquarters directed reporters back to the regional office. A spokesperson in the governor’s office [...]
All Apologies
Posted on October 3, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, George W Bush, Sarah Palin, presidential debates | Leave a Comment
I’m sorry, Governor Palin. I was being unfair when I called you “George Bush, only this time without daddy’s friends to provide at least an illusion of competence.”
Unlike George W. Bush, you have at least proven to the American people that you are not illiterate.
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This Train Wreck Didn’t Feature Enough Explosions
Posted on October 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, presidential debates | Leave a Comment
Quick (very quick) debate thoughts:
1) Did she really use Holocaust language to discuss the subprime mortgage lenders? Multiple times?
2) Doggoneitgollygeewilikers
3) I think the soundbite of the night was Sarah Palin agreeing with Dick Cheney on the Fourth Branch of Government. Any time you say you agree with Dick Cheney, you’re probably having a bad night.
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The Debate
Posted on October 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin, presidential debates | Leave a Comment
I don’t think I’ve set myself up for this much potential disappointment since the Star Wars prequels. How could anything Sarah Palin says tonight possibly be as incredible as the things we’ve already heard her say? Logically, I know that she’ll come out of the debate looking much more reasonable and prepared than the Katie [...]
Sarah Palin Doesn’t Know Anything
Posted on October 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
So, yeah, she couldn’t name a single other Supreme Court decision with which she disagreed besides Roe. That doesn’t seem quite so terrible; I was under the impression she couldn’t name any other decisions at all (which may still be the case; it’s just not the question Couric asked). I mean, I would expect someone [...]
“All Of ‘Em”
Posted on September 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
Nothing- nothing- could have done more to raise the entertainment value of the 2008 election than John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for vice presidential nominee. She has read all of the newspapers and magazines. All of them.
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Speechless
Posted on September 25, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin | Leave a Comment
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