It’s official, this campaign has a lot more funny than the last one.
Posts Tagged: Sarah Palin
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Oct 08
Gov. Palin, Zamboni is not a name for a kid
Palin said if she and husband Todd had had a sixth child, they had already picked a name for a boy joining siblings Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.
“I always wanted a son named Zamboni,” she said.(WAPO)
She makes me hate breeders.
24
Sep 08
Why suspend the campaign, McCain?
I’ve been thinking about this and after reading Sen. McCain’s statements and the events of the day, I came to the decision that there’s a lot of reasons for McCain pulling this stunt:
1. Polls. As I mentioned in my previous post, nearly all the polls has Obama leading in double digits on the question (or variations) “Who is best suited to deal with the economy?”. McCain’s stunt is a way to make him look above politics, despite the fact that the House hasn’t even voted on the bailout, so the Senate has nothing to do until they do.
2. Sarah Palin. One of the oddest things was McCain’s suggestion that the VP debate also be delayed. Why? Palin isn’t based in DC and she’ll have nothing to do with the bailout bills coming to vote. But she did have an interview with Katie Couric on CBS this evening that was long on cringe-inducing responses unfettered by fact. I thought the nickname Caribou Barbie was kind of mean, but when you hear her repeat talking points that have no bearing on the question, it quite apt.
3. Money. We all know that John McCain begged Obama to do townhall meetings throughout the summer as a way of getting free publicity for his campaign. Now that McCain is severely limited in how much money he has and can spend, suspending his campaign will make that money stretch.
4. Insanity. Because none of this makes any damn sense whatsoever.
3
Sep 08
Sarah Palin’s national debut
Considering that all the speeches we saw tonight were disjointed messes, it was only natural that Palin’s speech would follow the trend.
Considering that all the speeches we saw tonight were chock full of blatant lies the records of the candidates, it was only natural that Palin’s speech would follow the trend.
Considering that Palin was a virtual unknown 5 days ago, the speech she needed to give to win over America, was not given tonight. Instead, we got a red meat speech geared toward corporate and the fringe “religious” right. In other words, tonight was another wasted night at the Republican National Convention. Palin needed to introduce herself to America and assauge our fears that she was a credible pick for the VP slot. Unfortunately, she turned herself into that friend you bring to a party who proceeds to insult everyone else at the party and their mamas.
While this made for great political theater in the Xcel Center and on TV, the reality is that instead of looking tough, she came off catty and shallow. That’s very unfortunate and as a female, it was offensive and embarrassing. Palin’s speech tonight put a very public and demeaning face on female executives across the country.
For someone with no national experience she touted what little experience she does have as more than Obama or Biden. The only problem is that McCain’s experience is similar to Biden’s only less. How do you walk that back? How does the GOP, logically, say “Well, she has more experience than the Democrats, but not enough experience to be President.”? How do you convince me that a person who left a town of 6000 with a $22M deficit is responsible? How do you convince America that she’s a “reformer” when she not only asked for, but kept the earmarks McCain deplores and she lied about denying?
I wish I could be happy that the RNC finally broke it’s own cathedral high glass ceiling by nominating a female for Vice President. But like with Hillary Clinton, it’s the wrong woman for the job. There are many female Republicans who are not only part of the mainstream, but are smart, efficient capable females who would appeal not just to the fringe “religious” base of the GOP, but to a wider swath of the electorate; moderate Democrats and Republicans and many independents.
As I looked in on blogs, twitter and friendfeed during her speech, I heard the same refrain from most of the Republicans, “This woman is scary.” They felt insulted that her speech mocking Obama also mocked them for their actions. They felt insulted that instead of telling us what they would do without lies and fear, they just repeated the GOP actions of lies and fear. They felt insulted that because they live in big cities, they seem no longer welcome in their own party.
I want to thank Gov. Palin. Tonight’s speech could have been very good and impressive. Clearly, that’s not what the GOP was going for and the speeches leading up to hers proved that. But what her speech did do was not only convince a lot of Republicans and Independents that the GOP is no longer for them, but she also energized the Democratic base.
2
Sep 08
Republican hypocrisy
And the GOP assault on my intelligence continues. The newest being this whole Palin baby drama. In a statement from Gov. Palin, she said that she outed her minor daughter’s current pregnancy to rebut rumors online that the baby born in April was really said daughter’s. I’m at a loss as to how this is a rebuttal. In my world, an adult response would have been something like, “I refuse to discuss unfounded and offensive rumors regarding my minor child.” But that’s just me.
The hypocrisy in all this is that GOPs tsk-tsking over online rumors being given credence. Nevermind that by acknowledging those rumors the McCain-Palin campaign gave them life, therefore forcing the national media to delve into them. Surely, the GOP is above spreading unfounded rumors online, right?
- This is the political party who has an operative spending almost $3M on Ayers ads.
- This is the political party who to this day still accuse Obama of being a Muslim as if there’s anything wrong with that.
- This is the political party who gave us “McCain has a black baby” (NOTE: We never see the ‘black baby’ with the McCain’s as they campaign, be we do see his biological daughter.)
- This is the political party who spent almost 6 months repeating over and over that Michelle Obama said “whitey”, without a shred of evidence and they’re still trying to force this rumor.
- This is the political party who accuses Sen. Clinton of being a murderer.
All of a sudden, these people are trying to convince me and the US that they are just shocked and amazed that online rumors are fueling our political discourse. I’d like to say the general American public isn’t that dumb, but history has proven otherwise.
29
Aug 08
Alaskan Governor chosen as McCain’s running mate
Image via Wikipedia Suh-weet.
I’m super giddy over this y’all. CNN is reporting that Sen. John McCain has pick Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. On the surface people will think it’s a cynical pick because he’s trying to catering to nutjob PUMAs. That may be the case, for those PUMAs were never Democrats in the first place, and only come off as cultish children.
But I have another theory: I think he went with an untested newbie to counteract Sen. Joe Biden. Picture Biden wiping the floor in debates with Romney, Giuliani and Pawlenty. Now imagine Biden attacking a woman. Not a pretty picture is it? No matter if Biden is factually correct, if he comes off as “attacking” Palin–and you know the kooks that make up the GOP will spin any statement as such,–he’s be painted as a misogynist.
This also puts a stop on McCain’s baseless attacks on Obama of being too young and too inexperienced. After all, Gov. Palin only has 2 years as a governor under her belt. She’s younger than Sen. Obama too. Others will go into greater detail into Palin’s experience, or lack thereof, what I just read was this:
In an interview just a month ago, she dissed the job, saying it didn’t seem “productive.”
In fact, she said she doesn’t know what the vice president does.
Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain’s ticket mate. Palin replied: “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”
And I know is that if I was Cindy McCain, I’d be watching McCain like a hawk. After all he cheated on his first wife to be with Cindy. And the silly news report in February showed that his aides were worried about his relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman, going so far as to try to stonewall Iseman when she had to work with the Senator.
